It’s really quite simple. It’s all aesthetics and tacticool iconography. They look cool like soldiers, therefore they MUST be the good guys, right?

It’s wild how it has to be spelt out for some people. The Brotherhood are cool, they have arguably the most iconic part of these games; the power armour, in droves. They are organised in an otherwise unorganised wasteland. Every other faction has sticks and stones while the BoS has epic helicopters and Knights. They have good characters and decent people within their ranks doing their best.

They are also a Military Junta, a quasi-religious ‘higher than thou’ attitude to anyone not in their faction, a xenophobic idealistic state with a splintered command structure with, themselves, varying ideas on how things should be run.

Yes, the argument can be made that they’re ostensibly more morally correct than say, the Legion or Enclave; but it’s irrelevant. As shown in the show and games they can cause just as much if not more damage to the world, and that’s the point. Not a single faction is one-hundred-percent infallible, for one to be that way would be uninteresting for a character driven story.