History EvenEvilHasStandards / AnimeAndManga

--> '''Yamu:''' ''ENOUGH'', Spopovich! '''(with a look of genuine pity and sadness for Videl):''' This isn't what we came here to do; ring-out the girl and finish this match.

--> '''Ro:'''' He's a psychopath who doesn't care if his own universe gets erased!

** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the first anime]], when [[spoiler:Dante erases Gluttony's tattoo and turns him into a mindless eating machine]], even [[JerkAss Envy]] looks a bit horrified. Keep in mind that, [[AdaptationalVillainy in this continuation,]] Envy is ''pure evil.''

* ''Manga/{{Jormungand}}'': Koko Hekmatyar may be a weapons dealer not above making a profit off of war and crime, but you do ''not'' harm her subordinates or children in her presence, despite of the fact that she has contributed to the deaths of myriads of people with some children inevitably among them (but hey, since they were not in her presence it's okay right?). And don't even ''think'' of paying her in drugs. ([[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Or credit]]).

--> '''Zabuza''': This is bullshit, I don't want to fight for someone who would stoop this low.

** Blackbeard is quickly becoming the BigBad of ''Manga/OnePiece'', having killed a crewmate for a Devil Fruit, handing in his former commander Ace and thus causing the Whitebeard War that lead to the [[EndOfAnAge end of the Great Age of Piracy]] and the [[DawnOfAnEra beginning of the lawless hell that is the New Age,]] recruited crew members by having the residents of TheAlcatraz rip each other to shreds and taking whoever was left, but even ''he'' listened to Coby's speech for them to stop fighting. He also respects the dreams of others, and would never mock them.

** Jotaro Kujo, despite being a protagonist, is openly introduced as [[JapaneseDelinquents rough delinquent]] who casually admits that he's a bad person, but even ''he'' has lines he won't cross in his fight with [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Kakyoin]]:

* ''LightNovel/BanishedFromTheHerosParty'': Godwin is the alchemist who crafted the Devil's Blessing drug and who is perfectly willing to use explosives on his own men to trap the protagonists. He openly acknowledges he's a villain by most standards. However, for precisely this reason he absolutely can not stand villains who have deluded themselves into thinking they're the good guys. Despite having been a coward when dealing with [[spoiler:the confrontation with Ares the Sage in the ancient elf ruins as he tries to force Ruti to resume her role as the Hero]], he ultimately aids the protagonists because the opponent's insistence that he's the one in the right just pisses Godwin off.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': In the light novel, Accelerator quotes this quite often when fighting other evil people, then goes to show them "what being a true villain is all about" usually ending with a swift death.
** Ironic because Accelerator himself has moments of this trope, especially when [[MoralityPet Last Order]] is around.
** Shizuri Mugino, one of the most psychotic characters in the franchise, is sickened and horrified by cannibalism.
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'': Priscilla. While she's ready to kill and eat men, women and boys, she doesn't kill girls. [[spoiler: Because helpless girls remind her of her childhood trauma: when she was a child, she watched as her father was possessed by a monster and ate the guts of her mother and siblings right before her eyes, and while he chowed down on her sister, she snuck up behind him and cut off his head with a knife.]] No wonder she has issues.

* ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'': Played for laughs when Alciel, the unrepentant right-hand servant of Satan, is horrified to discover that his temp job involves working for a company that scams people into buying worthless merchandise.
** Lucifer is a FallenAngel who, in his first appearance, went on a destructive rampage through the city [[ForTheEvulz for fun]], but when his then-partner [[SinisterMinister Olba Mayer]] tries to chew out Emi for teaming up with Maou, even Lucifer himself calls him out on the hypocrisy of his statement.

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Izaya Orihara is a supreme {{Jerkass}} and a {{Troll}}, but he [[WouldntHitAGirl won't hit women]].
** Somehow freaking ''Saika'' gets a moment of this, though only in the light novels. When Anri confronts Izaya about his involvement in making her friends suffer, Izaya in return delivers a BreakingSpeech while getting in jabs about Anri suppressing her emotions and threatens to shoot a nearby couple just prove his point. After all that, Saika realizes this is the only time she has ''ever'' been disgusted by a human being.

* ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'' sees that even the {{villain protagonist}}s of ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' and ''LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil'' are among those disturbed by the depths of [[LightNovel/KonoSuba Darkness]]'s masochism.

* ''LightNovel/MaouNoHajimekata'': Aur the VillainProtagonist, doing his part as Demon Lord, goes to a village and demands a virgin maiden as a tribute for him, to which the village chief offers him Maria, a ''[[PedoHunt little girl]]''. Aur asks if they are trying to mess with him, to which the chief responds that all maidens were taken by bandits, royalty and the like so Maria was the only virgin left. Aur decides to take Maria anyway, reasoning she could of some use one day, but unlike all the other women that Aur likes to have his way with, he pulls the break on little girls, treating Maria with some kindness even, like a mascot. [[spoiler:Aur's servant Lilu, however, starts lecturing the innocent Maria on sex education so that when she matures, she can finally start servicing Aur]].

* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'': Satoru Suzuki/Momonga/Ainz Ooal Gown, the titular character, was perfectly willing to let the village of Carne be slaughtered while he watched through a magic mirror. Understandable, as he didn't have enough information to intervene until he saw a full-grown, armed and heavily armored soldier chase down, torment, maim, and prepare to execute two helpless little girls and shows disgusts, when said soldier proves himself a DirtyCoward when he intervenes.
--> '''Momonga:''' "You can chase down women and children, but you lack the conviction to face an enemy?"
** He was truly disturbed when he saw what [[spoiler: Clementine did to Ninya]]. Let's remember that by this time Ainz had already lost all empathy towards humans and his emotions were mostly suppressed. [[spoiler: When he got his hands on Clementine, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath he made sure that she would pay.]]]]
---> '''Ainz:''' "You took your time killing her, didn't you? So I will take my time as well."
** One of Ainz's most consistent and defining redeeming qualities is that he truly cares for those who serve under him, such as Albedo and Shalltear. Messing with a citizen of Nazarick is a great way to piss him off.

* ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}} Next''. Gaav concentrates all his resources on trying to kill Lina, because he believes his archenemy Hellmaster Fibrizo will use her to destroy him. However when confronting Lina he still gives her the chance to fight back; and when she casts the Ragna Blade and Gaav ''knows'' the spell could kill him, he still gives her the chance to attack first and doesn't try to pull any dirty tricks. [[spoiler: Ultimately this leads to his demise; although the Ragna Blade doesn't kill him it weakens him enough for Fibrizo to step in and destroy him]].

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Dee Eye Ell is exceptionally cruel, even among the various forces of darkness in the Underworld, but even she's horrified when [[BigBad Emperor Vecta]] asks her to sacrifice three thousand orcs to use their life essence to fuel a powerful spell.
** Akihiko Kayaba may be amoral enough to create a death game holding thousands of people hostage, but even he is horrified when [[spoiler: Sugou uses his game (Alfheim Online is directly ported from Aincrad) to molest and nearly rape Asuna, which is why he doesn't hesitate to help Kirito to bring him down.]]

** Arlong is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] who crossed the MoralEventHorizon by killing Nami's adoptive mother, and [[WouldHurtAChild treated Nami like crap for years.]] But he treats his own men like [[AFatherToHisMen family]] and called Luffy a coward when the latter used his TrueCompanions as a shield.

*** Piccolo decides to aid Goku in fighting Raditz because he wants to TakeOverTheWorld as opposed to Raditz' plan to [[KillEmAll kill everyone on Earth]] to make way for the Galactic Frieza Empire. This and his time with Gohan are the impetus for his HeelFaceTurn. He's also pretty seriously indignant at the implication that he's going to eat Gohan when he takes him for training.

* ''Idaten Jump'': Taiga Samejima is TheDragon to his EnfanteTerrible brother Gabu, but he's a rather fair competitor and despises cheating. When Gabu [[spoiler: has [[{{ninja}} Ko]][[WorthyOpponent ei]]'s little sister [[IllGirl Kiku]] kidnapped to [[IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure force him back into his "service"]]]], [[NobleDemon Taiga]] is so disgusted that he [[spoiler: ''willingly'' tells this to Sho and his friends so they can rescue Kiku.]]

** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', when Broly is about to beat up a man in rage for picking on his newly made friend (Chirai), Paragus immediately uses the ShockCollar to painfully subdue him and force him to stand down. This horrifies all the other Frieza Force members, with one member even proclaiming him to be worse than his own father.

** Teresa from hunts yoma, who are [[ToServeMan man-eating demons]]. In an arc, she encounters a group of robbers who murder, plunder, and rape for sheer joy. While yoma are not responsible for having to eat human guts, these robbers chose their atrocities on purpose. Teresa is disgusted and tells them that they are worse than yoma. When the robbers continue to provoke her, [[AssholeVictim things happen as they must]].

** Kanon was shocked when Schneizel reveals he has no intention of rescuing [[spoiler: his own half-sister Nunnally]], since he was using her as a bait to kill Lelouch.

** Despite everything [[spoiler: AlphaBitch Minerva has done at this point even she was frightened to see her Guild Members (from Succubus Eye, not Sabertooth) turned into mere paper by Kyouka of Tartaros, but considering her possible survival and boost in power this might be nothing. Still, she also had decided not to just kill Erza when she was in her child form but Minerva replied she was just keeping her alive for her own pride.]]
** Kyouka herself qualifies as well. She may not be above torturing prisoners of war, but she is nice to her own allies, (Except Crawford) and objected to when [[spoiler: her boss, Mard Geer sacrificed so many Tartaros foot soldiers.]]
** Azuma doesn't agree to some of the orders Hades gives him, but [[MyMasterRightOrWrong due to a sense of obligation, he follows them anyway.]]

*** While his screen time is brief, of what we see of [[SmallRoleBigImpact Giorno's Hero]], he's a ruthless mafioso, but absolutely won't tolerate drug-dealing.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Despite everything [[spoiler: AlphaBitch Minerva has done at this point even she was frightened to see her Guild Members (from Succubus Eye, not Sabertooth) turned into mere paper by Kyouka of Tartaros, but considering her possible survival and boost in power this might be nothing. Still, she also had decided not to just kill Erza when she was in her child form but Minerva replied she was just keeping her alive for her own pride.]]

* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'' gives us the self-proclaimed guardian of justice, Seryu Ubiquitous, a CuteAndPsycho cop who [[SmitingEvilFeelsGood takes insane pleasure in killing those she perceives as evil]]. Of course, however, she openly and sincerely cries over the loss of her comrades, friends, and loved ones, showing that, as ruthless as she may be towards "villains", she is not a despicable monster. She also loves playing with children since [[ChildrenAreInnocent children, from her perspective, are unable to be tainted by evil]] [[spoiler:(at least except for Aria, who already died before Seryu even first appeared anyway]]). Also, even she felt that Borick was not worth the Jaegers' protection.

** Kyouka herself qualifies as well. She may not be above torturing prisoners of war, but she is nice to her own allies, (Except Crawford) and objected to when [[spoiler: her boss, Mard Geer sacrificed so many Tartaros foot soldiers.]]
** Azuma doesn't agree to some of the orders Hades gives him, but [[MyMasterRightOrWrong due to a sense of obligation, he follows them anyway.]]
** [[MadBomber Jackal]] of Tartaros is a [[AxCrazy completely batshit insane murderer,]] and is one of the vilest villains in the whole series, but he dislikes the fact that his current target, [[DirtyCoward Michello,]] [[MoralEventHorizon ran and left his granddaughter for dead to save his own stinking skin.]]

* ''Literature/TheHeroicLegendOfArslan'': In the 2015 anime, high-ranking Lusitanian officers like Guiscard and Montferrat are disgusted by Bodin's extreme and senseless murders of innocent Parsians and burning of the libraries, which are all potential assets. Other soldiers also voice their objections about Bodin's torture of the captive Shapur.

* The Kengan Association of ''Manga/KenganAshura'' is an underground fighting ring operated by all of the world's richest corporations, with {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame betting their livelihoods on potential death matches]]. However, even by their low moral standards the psychotic SerialKiller Akoya Seishu, who would go out of his way to attempt to inflict a CruelAndUnusualDeath on his opponents, was deemed too extreme and suspended from future tournaments by the time of ''Kengan Omega''.

--> '''Ainz:''' "You took your time killing her, didn't you? So I will take my time as well."

-->'''James''': Team Rocket may be rotten cheaters, but we're not in the business of destroying children's dreams![[note]]At least, not yet.[[/note]]
** This also shows in how they treat '''their''' own Pokemon with a great deal of care. They also have been shown to be disgusted by more brutal Pokemon Poachers and trainers and haven't been shown being brutal or overly mean to their captives, unlike some other more evil Team Rocket members shown in the series.

** In one scene, Dabi is seen with a group of thugs while scouting for the League of Villains. He deems them beneath the organization and incinerates all of them saying "We don't need guys like this."

* In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', [[BigBad Rex Godwin]] has nothing but disdain for Takasu, a prison warden who abuses his power, frames the inmates for rules violations (among other abuses), cheats as a duelist, and is generally a disgusting person, eventually fired him.[[note]]''After'' he loses in a duel to Yusei, ''in spite'' of all the cheating ''and'' with Yusei playing with a deck literally scrapped together from cards given by fellow inmates.[[/note]]

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'':

** In the original manga, Kaiba has this reaction when he sees Marik's duel arena for Yugi to fight the brainwashed Jounouchi — designed so that one of them will be killed in the end — believing that even at his worst, he would not have stooped so low as to create a challenge with no other alternative. Bear in mind that his worst is an AxCrazy JerkAss who spent a fortune to build an amusement park with five levels of deadly devices and games, complete with an expert torturer, two ex-military specialists, a contract killer, and a serial killer, all in the name of revenge for "the other Yugi" beating him at a Shadow Game of Duel Monsters... well, that and the [[MindRape Penalty Game]] he got as a result, which had haunted him in his nightmares since.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': Although the mysterious and beautiful criminal Vermouth has killed many people, she will not kill the protagonist or his love interest; this probably has to do with the fact that they saved her life a year ago, and [[spoiler: Conan is the son of Vermouth's friend Yukiko Kudo]]. Things get really interesting when Ran sneaks in the trunk of Jodie's car and tries to stop Vermouth; her mook immediately starts shooting, but Vermouth yells at him and tells him to stop shooting. As Ran protects Haibara, (whom Vermouth hates), Vermouth shoots ''around'' her, and tries to get her to release Haibara.
** Chianti is a psychotic DarkActionGirl and Korn is a ColdSniper, but they have quite the VillainousFriendship between themselves and with the deceased Calvados. As such, they ''really'' despise [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Vermouth]] and blame her for "letting Calvados die".