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** Henry Emily, while not a villain per se, and he certainly had good intentions, many fans often depict him as the pure hearted opposite to William while neglecting his own flawed actions, such as how he built what was essentially a torture machine to lure in his daughter and keep her contained before burning her alive, as well as sending the player to be lobotomized in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator if they find out of his true intentions.

*** Roxanne Wolf, having clearly been designed with [[PopularWithFurries furries]] in mind, was bound to get this, though it's fairly mild compared to most other examples in the series; while she isn't normally homicidal, she ''is'' a {{Narcissist}} with an InferioritySuperiorityComplex who enjoys [[TheGadfly teasing people for their insecurities]][[note]]In-game, her dialogue towards [[KidHero Gregory]] is cruel and mean-spirited, however the tie-in books indicate she isn't normally that mean when not brainwashed/corrupted, though people overlooked her insults even before the books were published[[/note]]. Fans tend to downplay or ignore these traits for one reason or another, whether it be portraying her as some kind of wholesome mother figure towards Gregory or shipping her with another Glamrock ([[LesYay usually Chica]]). All that said, even before the sequel DLC ''Ruin'' revealed that Roxanne [[spoiler:has a hidden heart of gold]], she was already a fan-favorite, with plenty of fans that liked her ''without'' giving her leather pants, leading to her being labeled as a JerkassWoobie with an AwesomeEgo (she ''does'' have a HumanizingTears scene, after all).

** Henry Emily, while not a villain per se, and he certainly had good intentions, many fans often depict him as the pure hearted opposite to William while neglecting his own flawed actions, such as how he built what was essentially a torture machine to lure in his daughter and keep her contained before burning her alive, as wellsending the player to be lobotomized in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator if they find out of his true intentions.

*** As of the 4.0 update, [[spoiler:this has been retroactively {{Justified}} in ''Heroes in Another Dimension'' with the Jambastion mages pulling a HeelFaceTurn (or at the very least, not being as hateful and vengeance-driven) with Hyness heavily implied to follow suit]].

* Vergil in the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series, although he is not as JustForFun/{{egregious}} as some other examples. His lust for power might be enough to make him villainous and the nature to excuse that because he's such an aloof badass is certainly there but his character has more nuances that skew towards AntiVillain (namely that his driving motivation is the DarkAndTroubledPast of demonic forces killing his mother, much the same as his brother, who simply chose a more heroic outlet in pursuit of the same goal of making demonkind pay for it). [[spoiler:This arguably no longer applies as of Vergil's HeelFaceTurn at the end of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5''. Though granted even in ''V'' you still people all to willingly to forgive Vergil for hurting Nero both before and after learning that's he is his son.]]

*** Roxanne Wolf, having clearly been designed with [[PopularWithFurries furries]] in mind, was bound to get this, though it's mild compared to most other examples in the series; while she isn't normally homicidal, she ''is'' a {{Narcissist}} with an InferioritySuperiorityComplex who enjoys [[TheGadfly teasing people for their insecurities]][[note]]In-game, her dialogue towards [[KidHero Gregory]] is cruel and mean-spirited, however the tie-in books indicate she isn't normally that mean when not brainwashed/corrupted, though people overlooked her insults even before the books were published[[/note]]. Fans tend to downplay or ignore these traits for one reason or another, whether it be portraying her as some kind of wholesome mother figure towards Gregory or shipping her with another Glamrock ([[LesYay usually Chica]]). All that said, even before the sequel DLC ''Ruin'' revealed that Roxanne [[spoiler:has a hidden heart of gold]], she was already a fan-favorite, with plenty of fans that liked her ''without'' giving her leather pants, leading to her being labeled as a JerkassWoobie with an AwesomeEgo (she ''does'' have a HumanizingTears scene, after all).
*** '''Montgomery. Gator.''' A number of fans find him attractive and/or badass, key motivators for some ''major'' whitewashing; on top of having the most thuggish and aggressive personality of the bunch, it's heavily implied that he not only [[spoiler:murdered Glamrock Bonnie to take his place in the band]] ''before'' being rendered BrainwashedAndCrazy like the other antagonistic Glamrock animatronics, but that he also wants to [[spoiler:kill Glamrock Freddy in order to become the face of the Pizzaplex]]. Despite this, fan portrayals often downplay Monty's anger issues, portray him and [[spoiler:Freddy]] as friends/lovers, depict [[spoiler:his decommissioning of Glamrock Bonnie as either something Vanny brainwashed him into doing or an accident that he feels guilty about]] (if he's even shown to be responsible for the incident at all), and just generally portray him as more benevolent than canon implies. Fans will look for ''any'' excuse to paint him as an innocent victim; they claim the Monty Golf cutout story in ''Ruin'' "proves" Monty's innocence, even though it's just as likely fabricated in-universe, and if they acknowledge [[spoiler:Bonnie's corpse covered in claw marks and green paint]], they will either say that [[spoiler:Vanny hacked Monty to kill Bonnie[[note]]Despite her lack of a motive to do so[[/note]]]], that [[spoiler:Monty hadn't gotten his claw upgrade yet[[note]]Even though Bonnie also appears to have been bludgeoned with a bowling ball[[/note]]]], or that [[spoiler:the Mimic killed Bonnie[[note]]Despite it being trapped underground[[/note]]]]. That's not even getting into all the fans who like the idea of Monty as an ally, sympathize with him, and wanted [[spoiler:him to get a happy ending]].

** Apart from Kratos, his father Zeus also gets some sympathy from the fans, largely from those who [[DesignatedHero found Kratos too callous to sympathise with]] by the time of the third game. Never mind the fact that he separated Kratos from his brother for years, put a curse on Kratos' mother to turn her into a monster if she ever tried to reveal his father's identity to him, or that he took his son Hephaestus' surrogate daughter Pandora prisoner and beat Hephaestus up to the point of deforming him. ''Or'' that he abandoned Athena — the mythological Zeus' favorite daughter — to die on Kratos' sword, [[UngratefulBastard despite the fact that her sacrifice saved his life]]. It doesn't help that the majority of Zeus' atrocities take place off-screen (apart from when he destroys Sparta in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII''), or that the whole reason he turned on Kratos and tried to kill him [[spoiler:was because [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Kratos infected him with Fear from Pandora's Box after opening it in the first game]]]]. Additionally, right after stripping Kratos of his divinity, Zeus gives a StrawmanHasAPoint moment to Kratos: Kratos was directly posing a danger to Olympus itself, so ''he'' was the one who would betray ''Zeus'', not the reverse.

* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': Spamton's status as a [[EnsembleDarkHorse fan-favorite]] and a JerkassWoobie meant this was a little inevitable. [[spoiler:Spamton in canon is remorseless and deranged, only fighting the player on the Weird Route for pragmatic reasons only. Many of his fans tend to not acknowledge this, making him more pathetic than he actually is and lessening his dangerous side, making him more of a quirky weirdo desperately in need for someone to take care of him. Given the multitude of Spamton/Reader fics on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn (over 500 fics and counting) it's safe to say that a lot of people outright ignore Spamton's GodhoodSeeker and conman aspects just to woobify him.]]

*** Sylvanas has also suffered from extreme MotiveDecay and {{Flanderization}} as time went on. ''Warcraft 3'' and early ''[=WoW=]'' expansions kept her fairly ambiguous, as a sympathetic if somewhat shady character who could at least be argued to have heroic motivations even if her methods were extreme, but from ''Cataclysm'' onwards, her sole motivation has been self-preservation above all else after learning she was doomed to eternal suffering if she died. This culminates in ''Battle for Azeroth'' where she orchestrates a massive world war between the Alliance and Horde, which she kicks off with an attempted genocide of the Night Elves, for the sole purpose of ''killing as many people as possible on both sides'' to increase her own power.

** Vanitas from ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' gets this treatment, despite the fact that he's sadistic and AxCrazy. And unlike the Organization, who do have the sympathetic backstories, Vanitas has none and is, quite literally, [[MadeOfEvil pure evil]]. He's claimed to be TheWoobie being manipulated by Xehanort (he's very willfully his follower), only for the twoo wuv of Aqua (a girl he's tried to kill multiple times and was willing to [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession possess if Ventus didn't work out]]]]) to redeem him. The fact that he [[spoiler:looks like Sora]] doesn't help matters. The novelization ''does'' provide fuel for him being a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds due to TrainingFromHell and [[ThenLetMeBeEvil originally being somewhat decent before Xehanort stamped that out]], but it's made clear he's still very much ''not'' the misguided being the fangirls would have one believe.

** Ada Wong, is easily one of the biggest examples of this within the franchise and in Capcom in general. She’s a stunningly beautiful and alluring mysterious Chinese American FemmeFataleSpy [[LadyInRed who wears red]] and is in a DatingCatwoman with Leon and for that fans simply adore her with plenty of fanart and cosplay devoted to her… never mind the fact she’s actually a villain with ChronicBackStabbingDisorder within story. Hell Ada’s actions in the franchise can ultimately be considered evil as by stealing viruses and selling to other employers such as Simmons she is definitely getting thousands of innocent people killed yet a lot of fans only focus on the appealing ClassyCatBurglar part of her character and just ignore the more insidious implications altogether. Just to show much people love Ada, in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' the fans had a LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt reaction to Ada seemingly being portrayed as genuine ruthless antagonist who killed Chris’s men [[spoiler:with it instead turning out to be her EvilKnockOff Carla committing the crimes, even though Ada really is no less guilty than Carla in the long run.]] Fans were also disgruntled at Ada being portrayed in a more sinister light and Leon treating her more coldly in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake RE2make]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4Remake RE4make]]'' which are more grounded, even though {{camp}} put aside it makes more sense for Leon to treat a person who manipulated and betrayed him in such a manner. The fact Ada is a morally suspect “bad girl” compared to good girls Jill, Claire and Rebecca probably helps as well.

*** Alva, the [[spoiler:vampire]] lady in Morthal. Put that one down to EvilIsSexy.

** Ganondorf is a complicated example, as he is almost always depicted as a thoroughly unrepentant and power-hungry villain, with even [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker the one exception]] that gave him [[TragicVillain remorseful and melancholic traits]] still portraying him as especially ruthless and ambitious. The typical Ganon kills innocent people, plans hostile coups, makes people suffer, and generally passes the villain test with flying colors. However, he has his fans, due to his [[EvilIsSexy rugged good looks]], [[MagnificentBastard high intelligence]], and [[EvilIsCool charisma]], though most of them don't go as far as excusing his actions. There ''are'' some online theory videos that will insist that Ganondorf may actually be ''good'', however, despite everything he's done.

** Albert Wesker, the BigBad of the franchise, himself. This is a man who has betrayed and tried to kill the main characters, subjected innocent civilians to an experimental zombie outbreak, [[spoiler:abducted and brainwashed Jill Valentine]], and tried to ''wipe out'' the majority of life on Earth via bio-terrorism so he can [[AGodAmI play God]]. But due to his intelligence and [[Creator/DCDouglas voice actor]], there are fans who legitimately think he should get to take over the world. It was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' with [[EvilIsSexy Excella]], who fetishized every screwed-up thing he did and acted like they were destined to be together. [[spoiler:Not only does Wesker not care about her advances, but [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he turns her into a monster to slow down the good guys]].]]

*** '''Montgomery. Gator.''' Like Roxanne, a number of fans find him attractive and/or badass, key motivators for some ''major'' whitewashing; on top of having the most thuggish and aggressive personality of the bunch, it's heavily implied that he not only [[spoiler:murdered Glamrock Bonnie to take his place in the band]] ''before'' being rendered BrainwashedAndCrazy like the other antagonistic Glamrock animatronics, but that he also wants to [[spoiler:kill Glamrock Freddy in order to become the face of the Pizzaplex]]. Despite this, fan portrayals often downplay Monty's anger issues, portray him and [[spoiler:Freddy]] as friends/lovers, depict [[spoiler:his decommissioning of Glamrock Bonnie as either something Vanny brainwashed him into doing or an accident that he feels guilty about]] (if he's even shown to be responsible for the incident at all), and just generally portray him as more benevolent than canon implies. Fans will look for ''any'' excuse to paint him as an innocent victim; they claim the Monty Golf cutout story in ''Ruin'' "proves" Monty's innocence, even though it's just as likely fabricated in-universe, and if they acknowledge [[spoiler:Bonnie's corpse covered in claw marks and green paint]], they will either say that [[spoiler:Vanny hacked Monty to kill Bonnie[[note]]Despite her lack of a motive to do so[[/note]]]], that [[spoiler:Monty hadn't gotten his claw upgrade yet[[note]]Even though Bonnie also appears to have been bludgeoned with a bowling ball[[/note]]]], or that [[spoiler:the Mimic killed Bonnie[[note]]Despite it being trapped underground[[/note]]]]. That's not even getting into all the fans who like the idea of Monty as an ally, sympathize with him, and wanted [[spoiler:him to get a happy ending]].

*** The biggest offender here is Montgomery Gator; he's heavily implied to have [[spoiler:murdered Glamrock Bonnie to take his place in the band]] ''before'' being rendered BrainwashedAndCrazy like the other antagonistic Glamrock animatronics and has the most thuggish and aggressive personality of the bunch. Despite this, fan portrayals often downplay Monty's anger issues, portray him as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and [[spoiler:depict his decommissioning of Glamrock Bonnie as either an accident that he feels guilty about or something Vanny brainwashed him into doing]], if he's even shown to be responsible for the incident at all. Fans also act like the Monty Golf cutout story in ''Ruin'' "proves" Monty's innocence, even though it's likely fabricated in-universe, and if they acknowledge [[spoiler:Bonnie's corpse covered in claw marks and green paint]], they will either say that [[spoiler:Vanny hacked Monty to kill Bonnie[[note]]Despite her lack of a motive to do so[[/note]]]], that [[spoiler:Monty hadn't gotten his claw upgrade yet[[note]]Even though Bonnie also appears to have been bludgeoned with a bowling ball[[/note]]]], or that [[spoiler:the Mimic killed Bonnie[[note]]Despite it being trapped underground[[/note]]]]. It's also implied that Monty [[spoiler:is plotting to kill Glamrock Freddy in order to become the face of the Pizzaplex]], and yet there are fans who ship them together. That's not even getting into all the fans who feel sorry for Monty, like the idea of him as an ally, and wanted him to [[spoiler:get a happy ending]].

* Vergil in the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series, although he is not as JustForFun/{{egregious}} as some other examples. His lust for power might be enough to make him villainous and the nature to excuse that because he's such an aloof badass is certainly there but his character has more nuances that skew towards AntiVillain (namely that his driving motivation is the DarkAndTroubledPast of demonic forces killing his mother, much the same as his brother, who simply chose a more heroic outlet in pursuit of the same goal of making demonkind pay for it). [[spoiler:This arguably no longer applies as of Vergil's HeelFaceTurn at the end of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5''.]]

** Similarly, [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Daisy Fitzroy]] from ''[[VideoGame/BioShockInfinite Infinite]]'' is turned into a martyr by people who find the game and its message of non-extremism racist, despite her having tried to [[spoiler:kill both the main characters when she no longer found any use for them and threatened her cult of personality, following it all up by trying to kill a small boy.]]

*** Roxanne Wolf, having clearly been designed with [[PopularWithFurries furries]] in mind, was bound to get this. While she isn't normally homicidal, she ''is'' a {{Narcissist}} with an InferioritySuperiorityComplex who enjoys [[TheGadfly teasing people for their insecurities]][[note]]In-game, her dialogue towards [[KidHero Gregory]] is cruel and mean-spirited, however the tie-in books indicate she isn't normally that mean when not brainwashed/corrupted, though people overlooked her insults even before the books were published[[/note]]. Fans tend to downplay or ignore these traits for one reason or another, whether it be portraying her as some kind of wholesome mother figure towards Gregory or shipping her with another Glamrock ([[LesYay usually Chica]]). All that said, even before the sequel DLC ''Ruin'' revealed that Roxanne [[spoiler:has a hidden heart of gold]], she was already a fan-favorite, with plenty of fans that liked her ''without'' giving her leather pants, leading to her being labeled as a JerkassWoobie with an AwesomeEgo (she ''does'' have a HumanizingTears scene, after all).
*** The biggest offender here is Montgomery Gator; he's heavily implied to have [[spoiler:murdered Glamrock Bonnie to take his place in the band]] ''before'' being rendered BrainwashedAndCrazy like the other antagonistic animatronics and has the most thuggish and aggressive personality of the bunch. Despite this, fan portrayals often downplay Monty's anger issues, portray him as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and [[spoiler:depict his decommissioning of Glamrock Bonnie as either an accident that he feels guilty about or something Vanny brainwashed him into doing]], if he's even shown to be responsible for the incident at all. Fans also act like the Monty Golf cutout story in ''Ruin'' "proves" Monty's innocence, even though it's likely fabricated in-universe, and if they acknowledge [[spoiler:Bonnie's corpse covered in claw marks and green paint]], they will either say that [[spoiler:Vanny hacked Monty to kill Bonnie[[note]]Despite her lack of a motive to do so[[/note]]]], that [[spoiler:Monty hadn't gotten his claw upgrade yet[[note]]Even though Bonnie also appears to have been bludgeoned with a bowling ball[[/note]]]], or that [[spoiler:the Mimic killed Bonnie[[note]]Despite it being trapped underground[[/note]]]]. It's also implied that Monty [[spoiler:is plotting to kill Glamrock Freddy in order to become the face of the Pizzaplex]], and yet there are fans who ship them together. That's not even getting into all the fans who feel sorry for Monty, like the idea of him as an ally, and wanted him to [[spoiler:get a happy ending]].

** The Glamrock Animatronics from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'' are a special case: on top of being RidiculouslyHumanRobots, they canonically are not normally murderous, and are only hostile after becoming BrainwashedAndCrazy, so overlooking their roles as antagonists is '''not''' a case of DILP. That being said, they also possess a variety of inherent personality flaws, so they are still not immune to this trope:

*** Out of all the characters in ''Security Breach'', Montgomery Gator gets this treatment the most; he's heavily implied to have [[spoiler:murdered Glamrock Bonnie to take his place in the band]] ''before'' being rendered BrainwashedAndCrazy like the other antagonistic Glamrock animatronics and has the most thuggish and aggressive personality of the bunch. Despite this, fan portrayals often downplay Monty's anger issues, portray him as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and [[spoiler:depict his decommissioning of Glamrock Bonnie as either an accident that he feels guilty about or something Vanny brainwashed him into doing]], if he's even shown to be responsible for the incident at all. Fans also act like the Monty Golf cutout story in ''Ruin'' "proves" Monty's innocence, even though it's likely fabricated in-universe, and if they acknowledge [[spoiler:Bonnie's corpse covered in claw marks and green paint]], they will either say that [[spoiler:Vanny hacked Monty to kill Bonnie [[note]]Despite her lack of a motive to do so[[/note]]]], that [[spoiler:Monty hadn't gotten his claw upgrade yet[[note]]Even though Bonnie also appears to have been bludgeoned with a bowling ball[[/note]]]], or that [[spoiler:the Mimic killed Bonnie [[note]]Despite it being trapped underground[[/note]]]]. It's also implied that Monty [[spoiler:is plotting to kill Glamrock Freddy in order to become the face of the Pizzaplex]], and yet there are fans who ship them together. That's not even getting into all the fans who feel sorry for Monty, wanted him to [[spoiler:get a happy ending]], and like the idea of him as an ally.

** Lets face it… any ''Mario'' villain gets this. Whether that be [[VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG Smithy]], [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Cackletta]], [[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor the X-Nauts, the Shadow Queen]], [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime the Shroobs]], [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Fawful, the Dark Star]], or [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam Antasma]], they've all got die hard fans who believe they're misguided/sympathetic/attractive/whatever and are willing to write fan fic and draw fan art based on that.

*** Montgomery Gator is implied to have [[spoiler:murdered Glamrock Bonnie to take his place in the band]] ''before'' being rendered BrainwashedAndCrazy like the other antagonistic Glamrock animatronics and has the most thuggish and aggressive personality of the bunch. Despite this, fan portrayals often downplay Monty's anger issues, portray him as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and [[spoiler:depict his decommissioning of Glamrock Bonnie as either an accident that he feels guilty about or something Vanny brainwashed him into doing]], if he's even shown to be responsible for the incident at all. It's also implied that Monty [[spoiler:is plotting to kill Glamrock Freddy in order to become the face of the Pizzaplex]], and yet there are fans who ship them together. That's not even getting into all the fans who feel sorry for Monty, wanted him to [[spoiler:get a happy ending]], and like the idea of him as an ally.

* M. Bison, perennial BigBad of ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', gains some of this, perhaps because of how goofy the American adaptations sometimes portray him. Never mind that he's a sadistic dictator who [[ButForMeItWasTuesday kills so many people he doesn't remember them]] ([[SelfMadeOrphan including his own parents]]) just for the fun of it, brainwashes innocent teenage girls to use them as slaves, and murders his henchmen for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing to do the job]]. Then, of course, there's his unforgettable potrayal by the dying Raul Julia in [[Film/StreetFighter the movie version]], done solely to cheer up his children, which lends [[RealitySubtext a heavy subtext of sympathy]].

* Hazama/Terumi Yuuki from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''. Being a master {{Troll}}, snazzy dresser, and having a [[FauxAffablyEvil patronisingly nasty but funny attitude]] makes some people forget that he's evil per excellence and has a habit of [[MindRape mindraping]] [[BreakTheCutie ladies]] ForTheEvulz, and also quite defines ItsAllAboutMe. There are even fans who think that he's a GuileHero who went to the extremes for a certain goal for humanity… The rest of his fans love him precisely ''[[EvilIsCool because]]'' he's a {{Reconstruction}} CardCarryingVillain, so yeah. [[spoiler:When it turns out he's deconstructing the whole GambitPileup thing by first getting some mishaps on his plans, panicking a bit, getting killed by Hakumen, and then being revealed that his boss Izanami was just playing him off and leaving him to die, some of these 'reconstruction' fans turned their backs on him. The other 'misaimed' fans instead directed their vitriol to the resident puritarian, Celica A. Mercury, for making this event possible.]]

** Kokonoe is a VillainProtagonist version. Because of her [[MsFanservice physical attractiveness]], [[DeadpanSnarker snarkiness]], being the offspring of two Six Heroes [[EnsembleDarkhorse Jubei]] and Nine, and the fact her main opposition is the vile Hazama/Terumi, many of her atrocities, including her treatment of [[TheWoobie Lambda]], [[spoiler:helping Relius Clover create Ignis]], and [[spoiler:having nukes trained on Kagutsuchi ready to fire as a plan B if her revenge gambit backfires]], are glossed over (though to be fair, she actually felt bad about those first two and wanted to atone in her own way). Since this goal was so 'important', she also usually gets excused for not helping Litchi save Arakune despite her soft spot for Litchi (and her being ForcedIntoEvil is treated like it's never Kokonoe's fault), and going every way to ensure Bullet will never get the information she wants or get near Tager (and even gave Tager the order to kill Bullet for whatever reason). The story seems to pander to it, too, as up until ''Chronophantasma'', although she received several [[WhatTheHellHero calling-outs]], the [[CrapsackWorld story]] [[BlackAndGrayMorality tailored]] [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids it]] so that no one becomes sickened enough of her to boot her from the team lest she removes the 'protagonist' part of the VillainProtagonist on her and no other 'great genius with better morals' popped up, so Kokonoe will always be protagonistic and always treated as a Face. A portion of fans finally turned against her when [[spoiler:she attempted to liberally use Celica A. Mercury, her aunt, as the [[HumanResources power source]] for a doomsday machine to destroy another doomsday machine]], but the admirers of Kokonoe's DILP still remain at large, [[spoiler:not helped with the fact that the reaction to Celica in general [[TheScrappy isn't…]] [[CreatorsPet pleasant]]]].

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':

** Foxy gets to wear the leather pants more than any of the main animatronics due to his popularity with furries, as well as the initial belief that he was the one that committed [[NoodleIncident The Bite of ‘87]] and therefore caused Pirate Cove to be closed to the public. There is even a theory that he is even a good guy ''in-universe'': according to this theory, he becomes worried about Mike if he notices his camera hasn't been checked for a while and runs to the office to make sure the guard is okay, only for a malfunctioning voicebox to trigger a heart attack which kills Mike. In fairness, he ''is'' the only robot in the original game who does not get in the player's face when attacking; instead, the Game Over is caused by him "leaning" into the office through the door, almost as if he's just popping up to pass Mike a message. Was later {{jossed}}.

* [[SerialKiller Walter Sullivan]] of ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' is most certainly [[FreudianExcuse screwed up beyond all reason]], but his fans have an unsettlingly common habit of ignoring the nearly two dozen innocent people he brutally murdered, two of them children. It's just hard to hate a guy whose dying action is to reach for the sky and sadly ask for his mother. Part of the problem probably stems from the fact that the game portrays his [[spoiler:child self and adult self]] as two separate characters. As a child, he was extremely sympathetic. He was [[spoiler:abandoned by his parents and raised by an abusive and demonic cult]]. Of course, such a messed-up childhood did not create a sane adult. It's likely that since [[spoiler:the child]] appears regularly, a lot of people are given the impression that it still represents who he is when it more accurately represents [[spoiler:who he ''thinks'' he is]].
** [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 Pyramid Head]] gets this treatment too, because he's "sexy". Even though he's a rapist and murderer. Doesn't matter, he's ''"sexy"''.

* From the Spyro franchise is Malefor, from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'', who could easily be the runner-up to Sephiroth in this department. Fans tend to interpret him any which way, despite his in-game character being ''the'' most despicable villain in the [[Franchise/SpyroTheDragon franchise]], and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Many other villains, including Ripto from the [=PS1=]/GBA games and Red from the [=PS2=]/DS games, also suffer from this, but to a far lesser extent. (None of the villains from ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' seem to have suffered from this trope, at least so far.)

* The Star Wolf mercenary group in ''VideoGame/StarFox''. Leader Wolf, while [[EvenEvilHasStandards honorable]], is a self-centered jerkass who pined at least nine to eleven years (spanning the time frame of the series) for revenge against one guy, and tried to kill him and his group for an unclear reason beforehand; Leon is [[InformedAttribute supposedly]] an AxCrazy killer, and though Panther is TheDandy and the least aggressive of the group, he still commits crimes and will kill anyone when he must. Expect all three, ''especially'' Wolf, to be painted as [[TheWoobie woobified]] [[BrokenBird Broken Birds]] who had the most brutal of backgrounds and are really innocent souls on the inside. Also expect them to find solace in a romance with another male member of the cast.

* [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] was heightened to this status by some, after ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' confirmed that he's had a crush on Peach since the series began. What seems to be conveniently overlooked in these fantasies, however, is that he's an uncompromising brute who is seemingly incapable of expressing any feelings softer than "I get what I want or I punch your nose in," which is all part of his charm, of course. Still, in some of the latest games, he has unwittingly proved to be even slightly capable of some goodness, which is a bit contradictory for an EvilOverlord, BigBad, or CardCarryingVillain. The uncompromising brute he usually is is currently more of a selfish, immature {{Jerkass}} than pure villain and might not get him what he wants anymore, just likely piss off everybody.

** At one point in the first game, he tells the player that "people believe [[NewMediaAreEvil what the media tells them to believe]]… and I tell the media what to believe". Quite fitting that this is ''exactly what happens among the fandom'' — another cutscene has Kane {{MST}} the "origin of Tiberium" scene from the GDI campaign, interrupting it at one point to explain that, as opposed to Dr. Mobius finding it and naming it after the Tiber River the first meteor crashed near, Kane himself actually discovered it first and named it after the Roman emperor Tiberius Caesar. Now, if one were to look up Tiberium on Google, almost every result except [[TheWikiRule the C&C Wiki]] won't even ''mention'' Mobius' version of its discovery and naming, much less assume that that's how it actually was discovered.

** Roxanne Wolf is an odd case for this series, as she's not really evil; she's only trying to kill the player due to being BrainwashedAndCrazy. In fact, calling her evil might be closer to RonTheDeathEater. That being said, however, even without the brainwashing, she's still a [[{{Narcissist}} narcissitic]], [[{{Jerkass}} mean-spirited]] CompetitionFreak, traits some fans tend to overlook (especially the jerkass part), likely due to her being PopularWithFurries, or because they understandably feel bad about [[spoiler:her getting damaged and having her eyes stolen]]. However, as seen on her entry on the series's [[Woobie/FiveNightsAtFreddys Woobie page]][[note]]Specifically, she is listed under the "{{Jerkass Woobie}}s" folder[[/note]], she apparently also has fans who sympathize with her InferioritySuperiorityComplex ''without'' dressing her in leather pants. The apparent implication her insults [[PsychologicalProjection are actually what she thinks about herself]] certainly helps.
** Montgomery Gator is implied to have [[spoiler:murdered Glamrock Bonnie to take his place in the band]] ''before'' being rendered BrainwashedAndCrazy like the other antagonist animatronics and has the most thuggish and aggressive personality of the bunch. Despite this, fan portrayals often downplay Monty's anger issues and [[spoiler:depict his decommissioning of Glamrock Bonnie as an accident that he feels guilty about]], if he's even shown to be responsible for the incident at all.

* ''VideoGame/BlueArchive'': With the exception of several really evil ones like Beatrice, pick any character and there's a very high chance discussions about them is going to degenerate into memes or fanservice because of how fanservicey almost everything in the game is. Even characters that are otherwise taken very seriously such as Mika, Shiroko Terror and sometimes ''Black Suit and Kaya'' are going to be played for jokes and/or fanservice. Makes you almost forget the whole thing is around as dark as something like WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} or any ''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' movie with some extremely horrible or nightmarish villains prowling around for an ostensibly light-hearted work.

* ''VideoGame/BlueArchive'': With the exception of several really evil ones like Beatrice, pick any character and there's a very high chance discussions about them is going to degenerate into memes or fanservice because of how fanservicey almost everything in the game is. Even characters that are otherwise taken very seriously such as Mika, Shiroko Terror and sometimes ''Black Suit and Kaya'' are going to be played for jokes and/or fanservice. Males you almost forget the whole thing is around as dark as something like WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} or any ''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' movie with some extremely horrible or nightmarish villains prowling around for an ostensibly light-hearted work.

* ''VideoGame/BlueArhive'': With the exception of several really evil ones like Beatrice, pick any character and there's a very high chance discussions about them is going to degenerate into memes or fanservice because of how fanservicey almost everything in the game is. Even characters that are otherwise taken very seriously such as Mika, Shiroko Terror and sometimes ''Black Suit and Kaya'' are going to be played for jokes and/or fanservice. Males you almost forget the whole thing is around as dark as something like WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} or any ''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' movie with some extremely horrible or nightmarish villains prowling around for an ostensibly light-hearted work.

* ''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'' has Vico, a violent and cruel Blackguard who works for the game's criminal organization that [[PlayerCharacter the Princess]] is forced to be a part of. Although he saves the Princess' life at the beginning of the game, he also callously informs her of [[DeadGuyOnDisplay her family's gruesome fate]], after which he rapes her as revenge for what her father did, [[PostRapeTaunt constantly mocks her later]], makes snide comments towards her, including SlutShaming her, and so on. In Part Two upon asking him why he raped her, Vico will blame ''her'' for it. Throughout the game, it's also shown that he's incapable of normal communication, hates people for any perceived weakness and inability to protect themselves and loves fighting, killing, and sex, and will enjoy doing so every time he's allowed. For some reason [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys he's apparently the most popular of the romance options]]. And while true that Vico has ''some'' good qualities and a FreudianExcuse past, he only reveals that if the Princess accepts his advances and will ''only then'' apologize for raping her, and only if she asks him about it. If rejected as a lover, even if still on friendly terms, he opts instead to turn on her, and even if romanced, at one point he shows he's willing to sacrifice the Princess if it means saving his own life. Choosing him as a lover also doesn't make any exceptional change in him. But because he treats her better when romanced, is apparently good at sex and even comes around to accepting that [[spoiler:the Princess carries his baby and refuses to abandon her even so]] (being a well known former [[TheCasanova casanova]] that refused commitment and all), apparently [[EasilyForgiven a lot of players are willing to overlook everything else]].