Hero or Villain?

[Forsaken Lover]

JKTrix, you're no fun!!!

I'll start with a couple characters whom await your judgment:
Kain

I haven't played Defiance in years (actually i think i re-played the beginning last year) but I think Kain was just a guy who got put into a smurfed up situation, he didn't necessarily ask to be a vampire, or a chosen-one vampire at that, but at the end of the day the world would have been much worse without his decisions. Kind of like Paul Muad'Dib.

That's my opinion as well. Hoorayf or agreement!

I don't want to dig up a picture, and to even mention his name will be a massive spoiler of the games. It's from the Xenosaga Series. (SPOILER)Wilhelm. He spends the whole game manipulating people, causing untold suffering to others. Though in the end you find out why it is he does it, it's his attempt to stop the world from ending. Mind you, this is by basically pushing the restart button over, and over again, all before the world can end, but regardless, his goal truly was noble, if not a bit misguided.

Ehhhh
(SPOILER)Wilhelm is an odd case. I loathe what he does to Margulis. He's also probably responsible for the deahs of hundreds of thousands or millions of people.
Of course, as you said, this was to preserve the universe and the lives of billions of people along with existence itself.
His whole anti-human speeches can be seen as him "playing the villain" like he mtniosn in Episode II.
Shion and the Database also speculate Wilhelm wanted someone to reject his way of doing things and find another path to salvation.