History KnightTemplar / Webcomics

** Several of the Lions of Mercy are dangerous fundamentalist Ssaelit who want to slaughter Gefendur followers and see nothing wrong with raping and killing Crescian children, since they don't see them as children covered by the religious doctrine they claim to follow since they're not Ssaelit. They consider doing so only helping to undermine the Crescian queen, thus helping their own country.

** Solomon David. Despite being a universe-conquering warlord whose empire punishes having children out of wedlock with having your child taken from you and being sentences to a work camp for life, and "moral depravity" (enjoying some wine) with a twenty-five year prison sentence, he genuinely believes his Celestial Empire is a beacon of light and stability in the CrapsackWorld of the Multiverse: He is mocked by Mottom as "still believing you are the hero" during his introduction. ''King of Swords'' reveals Solomon is on some level aware that his empire-building is harmful both to his own enlightenment and to the universe at large, but he is too blinded by his pride to act otherwise and also believes he is the only one who can create a better way. [[spoiler:82 White Chain spends most of the final battle of ''King of Swords'' laying this out in detail to Solomon, who in turn dismisses her criticisms as "chaotic and bereft of purpose".]]

* Abraham from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' is a combination of Knight Templar, PunchClockVillain, NecessarilyEvil, and IdiotHero.

** [[spoiler:Jagganoth]] is revealed to be an extremely twisted case of this. [[spoiler:He believes suffering is so built into the current fabric of Creation that the only moral thing to do, in order to save all future generations from it, is to melt the Multiverse down [[InTheirOwnImage and re-forge it into a better shape, free of death and pain and suffering]]. This will of course mean the death of everyone else in the process. Once he has created a better world, he intends to kill himself as the last trace of the mistake that created him.]]

** [[spoiler:Jagganoth]] is revealed to be an extremely twisted case of this. [[spoiler:He believes suffering is so built into the current fabric of Creation that the only moral thing to do, in order to save all future generations from it, is to melt the Multiverse down [[InMyOwnImage and re-forge it into a better shape, free of death and pain and suffering]]. This will of course mean the death of everyone else in the process. Once he has created a better world, he intends to kill himself as the last trace of the mistake that created him.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Several of the Lions of Mercy are dangerous fundamentalist Ssaelit who want to slaughter Gefendur followers and see nothing wrong with raping and killing Crescian children, since they don't see them as children covered by the religious doctrine they claim to follow since they're not Ssaelit. They consider doing so only helping to undermine the Crescian queen, thus helping their own country.

* [[spoiler:Miranda West]] in ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' turns out to be an extreme but subtle and secretive case of this.
* Professor Broadshoulders from ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'' was cursed by a demon in his youth (the curse takes the form of a "yucky face" branded on his forehead), and swore to stop similar things from happening to anyone else. To this end, he tries to kill Sandra, who is a good person despite having been turned into a demon. Recently, [[spoiler:it was revealed that the yucky face was actually a demonic third eye, which Broadshoulders opened, damning himself in an attempt to drag Sandra down to hell with him.]] Ironically, [[spoiler:their fight in hell is what pushes Sandra over the edge, from [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wanting to be normal]] to [[EvilFeelsGood reveling in the infliction of pain]].]]

** One theory for why Kore didn't become a Fallen Paladin if he's violating these rules? Because in the game's setting, ''believing'' that [[IDidWhatIHadToDo you're doing the right thing]] is enough, just as [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone believing you've done wrong]] is enough. Being a KnightTemplar [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/06242016-2/ is literally the only thing preventing his fall]].

** Miko Miyazaki is a LawfulGood paladin who is played as an antagonist because of her suspicions of the Order (initially because she mistook them for the Linear Guild), and is generally a {{Jerkass}} with an uptight, self-righteous, and haughty attitude. The rest of her paladin order (the Sapphire Guard) see her as an effective agent, but they barely tolerate her behavior, and she's often sent on missions far, far away from Azure City. She becomes more radical over time because of her own paranoia and inability to put doubt on herself. This leads her to [[spoiler:execute the head of her own holy order when she learns of him [[ObfuscatingInsanity faking his senility]], going behind the Guard's back to recruit the Order, and generally being a ChaoticGood managing a country built on LawfulGood]]. Even when the [[spoiler: Twelve Gods she worships strip her of her paladin class, she still believes it is all a test from them, believing she's destined to accomplish something great. She even denies the heroes a victory by accident when she destroys the Sapphire holding the portal, despite her order's founder (back as a spirit) moments away from crushing the BigBad and TheDragon. Only in her death does she begin showing signs she screwed up.]]

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** Miko Miyazaki is a LawfulGood paladin who is played as an antagonist because of her suspicions of the Order (initially because she mistook for the Linear Guild), and is generally a {{Jerkass}} with an uptight, self-righteous, and haughty attitude. The rest of her paladin order (the Sapphire Guard) see her as an effective agent, but they barely tolerate her behavior, and she's often sent on missions far, far away from Azure City. She becomes more radical over time because of her own paranoia and inability to put doubt on herself. This leads her to [[spoiler:execute the head of her own holy order when she learns of him faking his senility, going behind the Guard's back to recruit the Order, and generally being a ChaoticGood managing a country built on LawfulGood]]. Even when the [[spoiler: Twelve Gods she worships strip her of her paladin class, she still believes it is all a test from them, believing she's destined to accomplish something great. She even denies the heroes a victory by accident when she destroys the Sapphire holding the portal, despite her order's founder (back as a spirit) moments away from crushing the BigBad and TheDragon. Only in her death does she begin showing signs she screwed up.]]

* Mister Blank of Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy is willing to go to any length to [[spoiler: make Sam the emperor and then kill him when he passes off the title]].

* ''VideoGame/YesYourGrace'': Ivo becomes more and more self-righteous while enforcing his BanOnMagic, and eventually uses it as an excuse to [[spoiler:kill his own wife, due to suspecting his father-in-law of witchcraft]].

* The Gatekeepers in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' were definitely an example of this trope, [[spoiler:cloning everyone who used the Milky Way's warp gates, and torturing the clones to death for intel, in order to suppress teraport (i.e. teleportation) technology to maintain peace with the immensely powerful Paan'uri]] before [[spoiler:[[DeusEstMachina Petey]] showed them that they were deceived all along and the Paan'uri were planning to destroy the galaxy anyway.]]
** [[spoiler:The Paan'uri are living gravity waves that 'die' in the presence of teraports. Since their very matter exists on a different spectrum from the rest of the universe's life-forms (and are really small), they are extremely tribal and seek the destruction of all normal-matter life-forms to keep their own utopia safe.]]

* Hardin from ''WebComic/BeyondTheWesternDeep''. Basically like [[ComicBook/XMen Magneto]] as an anthropomorphic weasel.
* Raf Maliksh in ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan: Oracle for Hire'': as the Champion of Law, he took it upon himself to take whatever steps necessary to ensure order -- including performing [[HumanSacrifice human (well, elf) sacrifices]] and massacring anyone even associated with the rebellion against him -- and when he fell from power, he created The Chosen, a chaos-worshiping cult that he intended to 'purify' the world with. He was so deep in this trope that when he created a personification of Justice, it refused to even listen to him. Most other villains in this comic are this as well.
** Celesto became the Champion of Chaos, but worked for a corrupted Chaos cult and refused to relinquish the power it gave him. He spent the rest of the comic fighting off an EldritchAbomination, while making 'necessary' sacrifices that numbered in the ''hundreds''. The only reason he wasn't hunted down and arrested was because the abomination had a kill count of ''thousands''.
* ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES'': Alex's captor, Ryan, in the "present", acts like a Knight Templar.
* In ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'', after a particularly painful sequence of events, Sal snaps and goes on a quest to eradicate the evil that the Martians have brought to Earth, which eventually results in her [[spoiler:coldly attempting to beat her own ''brother'' to death after he attempts to reach out to her, before deciding to wipe out everyone who was ever abducted by the Martians with an alien super-weapon - with the fact that this will also wipe out the entire continent of North America being of little concern to her]].

* Kore the dwarven paladin in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', who killed an innocent child because there was a '''slight chance''' that he might grow up evil (he was "tainted" from having associated with the so-called "monster" races). The child comes from a genuinely noble dwarven clan and was ''kidnapped'' by the monster races. That's right -- if you get kidnapped under Kore's watch, your life is over either way. In the past, Kore attempted to claim possession of a powerful axe from a good paladin. In their first encounter, the paladin was deafened; in their second encounter, Kore began by murdering the paladin's wife and ''children''.
** One theory for why Kore didn't become a Fallen Paladin if he's violating these rules? Because in the game's setting, ''believing'' that [[IDidWhatIHadToDo you're doing the right thing]] is enough, just as [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone believing you've done wrong]] is enough. Being a KnightTemplar [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/06242016-2/ is literally the only thing preventing his fall]].
--->'''Complains''': Wait, hang on. This is a bunch of crap. You weren't being evil, you were ''fighting'' evil!\\
'''Ears''': That means nothing. Many villains are convinced they're the good guys and they believe those they hurt are evil.
** As it turns out, Kore is using an aspect of [[spoiler:the curse laid on him by the Pure, which traps the souls of all his victims in his body]]. He can act in accordance with the alignment of any of his [[spoiler:captive souls]] without violating his own alignment.
* Vashiel from ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' is one of these in his {{backstory}}. Apparently, he went too far in punishing a city.
* Professor Broadshoulders from ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'' was cursed by a demon in his youth (the curse takes the form of a "yucky face" branded on his forehead), and swore to stop similar things from happening to anyone else. To this end, he tries to kill Sandra, who is a good person despite having been turned into a demon. Recently, [[spoiler:it was revealed that the yucky face was actually a demonic third eye, which Broadshoulders opened, damning himself in an attempt to drag Sandra down to hell with him.]] Ironically, [[spoiler:their fight in hell is what pushes Sandra over the edge, from [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wanting to be normal]] to [[EvilFeelsGood reveling in the infliction of pain]].]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': This is what [[spoiler:Aranea Serket]] turns out to be. She does genuinely want to stop the BigBad, Lord English, just like the protagonists do. However, she is convinced that ''she'' is the only one who can do this with her powers (which almost certainly would not work the way she plans to use them) in order to keep Lord English from ever being born. She's also willing to kill anyone who gets in her way, and directly murders three main characters and mortally wounds a fourth simply for going against her or having the potential to make her plans more difficult. Naturally, everything blows up in her face and she ends up single-handedly dooming the timeline with her attempt, and [[spoiler:John has to use his retconning abilities to make sure that her plan never has the chance to take off at all in the revived timeline]].
* [[spoiler:Miranda West]] in ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' turns out to be an extreme but subtle and secretive case of this.

* Abraham from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' is a combination of Knight Templar, PunchClockVillain, NecessarilyEvil, and IdiotHero.
* The Manumitor in ''Webcomic/CityOfReality'' is willing to kill AV rather than allow her to remain magically transformed into a computer program because of his crusade against transformation magic. [[spoiler:Fortunately, he comes around after saving the life of his protege... and being revealed as TheAtoner]].

* [[HunterOfMonsters Seymour]] from ''Webcomic/{{Nosfera}}'' fights and kills vampires and other monsters. That's fine and dandy for evil ones like [[spoiler:Brahm]], but [[VanHelsingHateCrimes he also goes after good ones too. Rather ruthlessly as well]].
* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': Doctor McNinja is typically a good guy, but he can get rather extreme when King Radical, a guy whose actions have been for the enrichment of the community, is involved. [[TheExtremistWasRight Subverted when King Radical turns out to be every bit the villain that the doctor believes him to be.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Sire}}'' features Emile who is descended from InspectorJavert and shares all of his LawfulStupid and ImplacableMan traits.
* Seymour from ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', a [[TheFundamentalist pillar of righteous Christian bigotry]], who pointedly fails to recognize Jesus whenever they encounter each other and whom even ''angels'' consider too extreme.
* In ''Webcomic/TrueVillains'', the Paladin would surely count as this. He is so dedicated to his fight against evil, he even [[spoiler:kidnaps children, and sanctions the use of torture on them.]]
* Othar Tryggvassen, GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER, of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is devoted to ridding the world of all [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder Sparks]] (super-geniuses, for lack of a better term) due to the damage and hurt that some of them bring to the world. He, however, is a Spark himself, and should he ever succeed in killing every other Spark on Earth, he intends to commit suicide. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040922 At least he's fair.]]
* Mister Blank of Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy is willing to go to any length to [[spoiler: make Sam the emperor and then kill him when he passes off the title]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'': Mention is made of the "Cousinhood of Man," a supernatural organization dedicated to hunting down monsters. Not much is known about them, other than the fact that there are not many of their prey left, and they tend to cause innocent casualties during a hunt. It is the official opinion of the Paranatural Activity Consortium that they are "icky."
-->'''Boss Leader:''' Like, really super icky.

* ''VideoGame/YesYourGrace'': Ivo become this while enforcing his BanOnMagic, and eventually uses it as an excuse to [[spoiler:kill his own wife, due to suspecting his father-in-law of witchcraft]].