History DesignatedHero / AnimeAndManga

* The title character from ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'' also qualifies. She's moody, distrustful, bad-tempered, and suspicious about ''everything''. But she's also the sort of person who has never socialized with anyone before except animals. As such, she is unable to recognize how she feels about anyone. As a result of Jean's love, however, she is gradually transformed by the end of the show and [[spoiler:uses the Blue Water's power to resurrect the latter when he is killed by Gargoyle]].

* ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': Ophanimon is the BigGood, but she's so incompetent that she becomes this. Her solution to the Cherubimon and Lucemon problem boils down to sending strange SNS messages to random children and expecting them to come while putting the lives of those who don't reach the Spirits in time at risk, sends an Angemon to defend those who get stranded and never boots them out by force, and leaves her fractal key right inside her castle so the Royal Knights can freely pillage it. You'd expect her to be more prepared when the enemy threatens to wipe out the entire Digital World, but she might as well as let the Royal Knights steamroll and that wouldn't make much of a difference.

** Mineta Minoru is a perverted hero in training who lacks any of the traits that the rest of Class 1-A is praised for having; he isn't altruistic, selfless, kind, courageous, heroic, charismatic or anything of the sort, and his reason to try to become a hero is so he can be seen as cool and get girls, not to mention his beyond inappropriate treatment of his female peers. Despite these traits, he keeps being lumped together with the rest of the class as a great hero to be and is treated as one of the good guys.

* Vulcan, the main character of ''Manhwa/LetsBible'', who, within five pages of his introduction, knocks the female lead unconscious and drags her onto his boat with the intent to ''rape'' her. When the two of them get attacked, the only reason he protects her is so that he can have his way with her later. Only sheer amounts of CrazyIsCool and RuleOfFunny stop him from being completely unlikable (and the fact that he gets better eventually.)

* Naofumi in the beginning of ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero''. He may have gotten a raw deal, he may have had to make some grey choices in order to survive, but the way he trains Raphtalia in the early days of their relationship would make him a villain if he wasn't the main character. Especially since the main reason he purchased her wasn't due to her being all he could afford but more so that he could have a surrogate to take out his anger against Myne on, even hoping she gets hurt in the course of his ownership of her. There's also the fact that by purchasing Raphtalia, he's essentially doing the exact same thing the king did to him, being forced to fight against one's own will. Only when Naofumi learns the kind of hell that Raphtalia has gone through before he met her through the [[PastExperienceNightmare bad dreams]] she's having does he start treating her like an actual ally rather than a slave.

* Meliodas from ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins,'' who regularly gropes the female lead. The most infuriating example was in the first episode when [[DudeShesLikeInAComa he groped her while she was unconscious]] and didn't get in trouble for it. On a later occasion, he creates clones of himself with his EmpathicWeapon and has all of them grope her, even after she explicitly says the word "No."

* ''Anime/RedoOfHealer'': The audience is meant to sympathize with Keyaru because he was enslaved by people seen as heroes, then raped and tortured for years while used as little more than an object. When he frees himself, he proceeds to... enslave everyone he can, raping and torturing his enemies, and overall doing the exact same things that were done to him, if not worse. While most of his victims are his original tormentors, not all of them are, and even when he's not explicitly raping and torturing he's engaging in a lot of QuestionableConsent tricks and use of drugs to influence people. It's little wonder that Keyaru is near-universally considered a VillainProtagonist.

* ''Anime/RedoOfHealer'': The audience is meant to sympathize with Keyaru because he was enslaved by people seen as heroes, then raped and tortured for years while used as little more than an object. When he frees himself, he proceeds to... enslave everyone he can, raping and torturing his enemies, and overall doing the exact same things that were done to him, if not worse. While most of his victims are his original tormentors, not all of them are, and even when he's not explicitly raping and torturing he's engaging in a lot of QuestionableConsent tricks and use of drugs to influence people.

* Tohru Nishimaki does this by default with his male protagonists as they're ''supposed'' to be {{Trickster Mentor}}s helping their love interests getting over their issues, but ValuesDissonance aside they come off as rapists that're easily forgiven and in the case of ''Blue Eyes,'' which is supposed to be set in the real world (besides the giant boobs,) the [[CunningLinguist protagonist]] is shot dead at point-blank range, [[AssPull realizes]] [[EleventhHourSuperpower it was a premonition,]] [[ArtisticLicenseMartialArts knocks out the blackmailer/intended killer with a kick,]] [[DressingAsTheEnemy impersonates him,]] then forces his de facto/potential mother-in-law to have sex with him and reveals himself afterwards to which she only gives an "oh you" response since they've had sex before and will again.

* Naofumi in the beginning of ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero''. He may have gotten a raw deal, he may have had to make some grey choices in order to survive, but the way he trains Raphtalia in the early days of their relationship would make him a villain if he wasn't the main character. Especially since the main reason he purchased her wasn't due to her being all he could afford but more so that he could have a surrogate to take out his anger against Myne on, even hoping she gets hurt in the course of his ownership of her. There's also the fact that by purchasing Raphtalia, he's essentially doing the exact same thing the king did to him, being forced to fight against one's own will. Only when Naofumi learns the kind of hell that Raphtalia has gone through before he met her through the [[PastExperienceNightmare bad dreams]] she's having does he start treating her with decency.

* Naofumi in the beginning of ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero''. He may have gotten a raw deal, he may have had to make some grey choices in order to survive, but the way he trains Raphtalia in the early days of their relationship would make him a villain if he wasn't the main character. Especially since the main reason he purchased her wasn't due to her being all he could afford but more so that he could have a surrogate to take out his anger against Myne on, even hoping she gets hurt in the course of his ownership of her. There's also the fact that by purchasing Raphtalia, he's essentially doing the exact same thing the king did to him, being forced to fight against one's own will. Only when Naofumi learns the kind of hell that Raphtalia has gone through before he met her through the BadDreams she's having does he start treating her with decency.

* Naofumi in the beginning of ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero''. He may have gotten a raw deal, he may have had to make some grey choices in order to survive, but the way he trains Raphtalia in the early days of their relationship would make him a villain if he wasn't the main character. Especially since the main reason he purchased her wasn't due to her being all he could afford but more so that he could have a surrogate to take out his anger against Myne on, even hoping she gets hurt in the course of his ownership of her. There's also the fact that by purchasing Raphtalia, he's essentially doing the exact same thing the king did to him, being forced to fight against one's own will. Only when Naofumi actually learns the kind of hell that Raphtalia has gone through before he met her does he start treating her with decency.

* Naofumi in the beginning of ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero''. He may have gotten a raw deal, he may have had to make some grey choices in order to survive, but the way he trains Raphtalia in the early days of their relationship would make him a villain if he wasn't the main character. Especially since the main reason he purchased her wasn't due to her being all he could afford but more so that he could have a surrogate to take out his anger against Myne on, even hoping she gets hurt in the course of his ownership of her. There's also the fact that by purchasing Raphtalia, he's essentially doing the exact same thing the king did to him, being forced to fight against one's own will. Only when Naofumi actually learns the kind of hell that Raphtalia has gone through does he start treating her with decency.

* Naofumi in the beginning of ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero''. He may have gotten a raw deal, he may have had to make some grey choices in order to survive, but the way he trains Raphtalia in the early days of their relationship would make him a villain if he wasn't the main character. Especially since the main reason he purchased her wasn't due to her being all he could afford but more so that he could have a surrogate to take out his anger against Myne on, even hoping she gets hurt in the course of his ownership of her. There's also the fact that by purchasing Raphtalia, he's essentially doing the exact same thing the king did to him, being forced to fight against one's own will.