

The real-life equivalent of this would be learning that Elon Musk had just killed 20 people guarding the world's oldest set of anime cat ears. These guards' only crime was holding on to the few foreign artifacts the British were yet to take for themselves. She could have bought the artifact or at least gotten the necessary permit to study it. Also, Lara is literally a world-famous millionaire archeologist. What the hell? This is the game where she's trying to prove she didn't commit a murder.

At first, she either tases or knocks down the guards, but when things go awry, she pulls out her signature pistols and shoots the shit out of them. Square Enix This is about when the devs started being honest about it.Īt some point in the game, Lara goes to the Louvre to steal an artifact. Luckily, though, it's still great for those who are into pure evil. This is finally the Tomb Raider for those who aren't into either Tombs or Raiding. Tomb Raider The Angel Of Darkness is interesting because it dares to switch things up. Lara thanks Pierre for helping her by having him fall off the ledge. He knows that even when he's holding all the cards, Lara is still the most dangerous person in the room.

At first, Pierre has Lara at gunpoint but then decides to help her to safety in exchange solely for Lara's promise of not laying a finger on him. In Tomb Raider Chronicles, the first adventure in the original chronology, Lara is caught barely holding on to a ledge by Pierre, a supposedly evil Tomb Raider. It's just all-too-common to see Lara stray away from her supposed path to engage in unnecessary acts of violence that lead us to believe she's the secret villain of her series. Still, a background check reveals further gnarly offenses that she could have at least used her millionaire aristocrat status to conceal, but she forces players to witness it all. Lara Croft's status as one of the most popular video game heroines of all time is only good for raising an interesting question regarding the concept of being a hero: just how many innocents do you get to murder before the title goes away? We know Lara's hubris got an entire village's worth of people killed just because she wanted an artifact.
