* FridgeLogic: Take into consideration that Gaia had to clean up every single mess humanity made they would become weak and too compliant. It's one thing to teach kids to try and fix the mess humans have made of Earth so that their future isn't a disaster, but when the world has got people like Dr. Blight, Verminous Skumm, Duke Nukem, and Zarm screwing things up for their own personal agenda or just for the hell of it, it's only natural she'd give them the tools necessary to deal with threats that are too big to be handled by just recycling and conserving energy.

*FridgeBrilliance: lots of people (mostly harping the Nostalgia Critic and Linkara) like to say that the Eco Villains were just polluting for the hell of it, but close inspection of the series shows that most had an insidious, not-entirely-insane reason for doing what they do: 
**Hoggish Greedly and Lootin Plunder were, quite literally, Gorgon Gecko Expy 1 and 2...all they cared about was their business interests (Hoggish cared about his son, but that's the sole exception). They did what they did not out of malice but bottomless greed and lust for cold hard cash. 
**Likewise, Sly Sludge was just a lazy asshole who wanted to get rich quick, and while a mad scientist and fairly brilliant, just like the others were, once again his bottomless greed and avarice drove his every thought and action. With the exception of Greedly they were all just sociopaths. 
**Dr. Blight was simply insane, the result of (no shit) botched plastic surgery--[[AllThereInTheManual she did something]] to make herself [[MostCommonSuperpower look like she does]], but complications destroyed part of her face and drove her insane--and her actions can be simply explained as "she doesn't know any better". 
**Duke Nukem and Verminus Scum both have the same purpose and, in fact, worked together in the past: they want to wipe out mankind as it exists and replace it with their own kind, and the fact they openly work together o more than one occasion shows they probably agree as to what "their own kind" is--radioactive mutants speciated from normal humanity by exposure to polution. Duke Nukem was ''vaguely'' sympathetic in that he couldn't live without radiation anymore and in many ways he HAD to do what he did to live. 
**Only Zarm, the spirit of war and hatred, wanted to destroy, despoil and kill [[ForTheEvulz just for the hell of it]]. Which makes sense--that's why he was exiled in the first place, because he wanted to conquer instead of rule peacefully.

*FridgeLogic:...with that said, one still has to wonder why ANYONE would ever buy oil from a company owned by a disfigured "pig man" named Hoggish Greedly, or buy weapons from an arms dealer named Plunder, or go within a country mile of anyone named Sly Sludge etc. Either these were their nicknames/codenames or their parents '''hated''' them.

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