NPCs in Rifts

[Killer Cyborg]

I was looking through the other day at a few of my various Rifts books, and I started reading some NPC descriptions...does it seem to anyone else that all these goody-goodys are awfully annoying? It's always "has a high regard for life and justice". There are few tortured heroes in Rifts--every hero is always tolerant, despises the Coalition, and makes UNICEF look like the Lone Star Complex. It's the same thing with Erin Tarn--tak eup every noble cause, be tolerant and understanding on every page...how g-darned noble we all are. Where's the depth? They make all these characters completely unrealistic, personality wise. We have one or two saints a generation, not an army of them. Anyone else have this beef?

No.
Basically, people don't consider truly decent and noble people to be "realistic" because then they'd have to set their sights higher in their own life and maybe be a better person.
But there ARE plenty of truly good people in the world who DO have a high respect for life and justice
Being a good person doesn't mean lack of depth. I don't tend to think of Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King, or Mahatma Ghandi as being shallow... just for example.

[Sentinel]

People who tend to want to crusade for some cause of Justice, will tend to be more principled and selfless.
People who are selfish but essentially decent people will fight for a good cause when led to it, but their sense of self-preservation will not lend itself to them taking the first step as readily.
Besides, I've had enough tortured angst ridden heroes to last me a lifetime. Can anyone say "1980s' X-Men" ?

[RoadWarriorFWaNK]

.....and took money from Communists.

what's wrong with that?

[Dr. Doom III]

.....and took money from Communists.

what's wrong with that?

Far to Capitalistic.

[Scooter the Outlaw]

Besides, I've had enough tortured angst ridden heroes to last me a lifetime. Can anyone say "1980s' X-Men" ?

Thank you. I think the whole anti-hero angle is played-out and overused. Not everybody needs to be some kind of good guy with dark secrets or horrible past, etc. Some people are just honest, hard-working, life-loving people who want to make a positive difference. There's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't make them shallow at all, because there's far more to a person's personality than 'dark secrets' and angst.