>developer throws a fit and makes the genocide ending unbeatable because players sympathised more with the based murderhobo MC than the literal vorebeast murderwhore monsters
Many such cases!
>>719949870 (OP) >Bombs a schoolhouse >Fails to kill or seriously injure any children >Swings sword once at the hero strong enough to do combat against a Monster Lord >Mortally wounds him
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>>719952091
Marcellus was not close to that level and that's made woefully clear in paradox. He was only a skilled human hero and nothing more, and thus could be felled by the most mundane of attacks if it simply caught him by surprise or he had bad luck.