History Main / BlackandWhiteInsanity

** [[spoiler:Nightmare Eclipse, the ''true'' BigBad of [[BadFuture Dark World]]]] has this problem. [[spoiler:She has a ''very'' good reason for hating Discord (namely she's the original Dark World Twilight Sparkle who spent a thousand years his brainwashed, murderous {{Dragon}} and he took everything from her), the problem is she's developed the mentality of 'me and everyone associated with me is good, Discord and everything associated with him is irredeemably evil.' This includes ''Dark World itself'', meaning she has absolutely no compulsions about erasing the whole thousand-year period and condemning everyone in it to Oblivion as part of her GroundhogDayLoop revenge scheme. She's this to such a degree that by the end, her and Discord's sides on the 'black and white' scale of ''flipped'' without her noticing: Discord has long since realized what a monster he was and would gladly ''stop'' being one, but Eclipse is ''forcing'' him to remain an EvilOverlord so she can keep punishing him over and over again.]]

* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': Panacea aggressively categorises capes as heroes and villains with no grey area, to the point that she continues to view Skitter as an irredeemable villain even after the other [[spoiler:breaks her back protecting a civilian shelter from Leviathan]]. Furthermore, in the Slaughterhouse Nine arc, she actively sabotages the Undersiders even though they're the main force opposing the [=SH9=] and save her life multiple times, just because they're "villains". Her adoptive sister Glory Girl and foster mother Brandish (who's the reason they are this way) are just as bad if not worse, although Brandish has a FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:She and her sister were kidnapped and held captive when they were young. Brandish succumbed to StockholmSyndrome and started seeing her kidnappers as not really that bad... which is when they announced that they were going to kill her and her sister. That betrayal caused her to [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening Trigger]] and colored her view of everyone she met later, making her absolutely incapable of trusting anyone even distantly associated with villainy (which unfortunately includes Panacea, as she's the daughter of a supervillain) because they remind her of her kidnappers.]]

* Lena Luthor in ''Series/Supergirl2015'' has this as her FatalFlaw. In Lena's eyes, you are either truly good or irredeemably bad, no middle ground. Even if someone she considers good uses less than squeaky clean methods (herself included), she will find the intentions justified. However, if anyone dares to lie to Lena or betray her trust, they will be little to no chance of RebuiltPedestal for the transgressor in question.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', most spirits have a bad case of this. They see anyone who happens to be their target as completely evil and deserving of death or some other horrific fate, no matter what the victim had actually done; all that matters is making them suffer. The most straightforward example of this is Bloody Mary, who would kill anyone with a DarkSecret that involved someone's death, but this results in her going after people who only feel responsible for a death since, in her eyes, they’re guilty (to elaborate, the man who likely killed his wife and the girl who apparently killed a child in a hit-and-run accident are just as "guilty" to Mary as the girl whose obsessive controlling boyfriend committed suicde after she left him).

** Rob Lucci philosophy of "Dark Justice" goes further in that things against the government don't need to be destroyed for the greater good, but because they are ''evil by nature of being against the government''. He doesn't just think it's inexcusable for the soldiers he killed to be so weak as to get taken hostage or that killing Robin is necessary to maintain world order, he thinks [[TheSocialDarwinist the soldiers' weakness]] and [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence Robin's existence]] are '''unforgivable sins'''.

* This is [[AntiVillain Inspector Javert's]] FatalFlaw in ''Theatre/LesMiserables.'' As an officer of the law, he views all criminals -- regardless of their crime -- as evil and all those who uphold the rules, including himself, as good. As such, he spends the better part of twenty years hunting down Jean Valjean, a man who, despite stealing a loaf of bread to save his starving sister and nephew, served his time and repeatedly proves himself just, compassionate, and caring. But Javert cannot let go of the image of Valjean as an inherently corrupt person, and so develops an unhealthy obsession with capturing Valjean and exposing him as a villain. This leads to a [[VillainousBreakdown total breakdown]] when Valjean has Javert at his mercy and chooses to set him free instead of seeking revenge. The notion that an "evil" person could do such a kind action is too much for Javert to take, and he's ultimately DrivenToSuicide as he realizes that his BlackAndWhiteMorality is, and always has been, foolish.

* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', especially in the finale, Azula [[SanitySlippage begins to adopt this mindset]], seeing everyone as being either completely for her or a complete traitor to her. Most notably, the end of the two-part episode "The Boiling Rock" [[spoiler:after Mai and Ty Lee turn on her]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': [[spoiler:Belos/Philip operates under the assumption that all witches and demons are inherently evil and [[FinalSolution must be eradicated]], and that all humans are inherently good and must be protected, but can be corrupted through association with witches, [[MurderIsTheBestSolution at which point it's best to]] MercyKill them. He's so committed to this line of thinking that on top of the genocide of the Boiling Isles he spent 400 years planning, he murdered ''[[SiblingMurder his own brother]]'' for falling in love with a witch, and was fully ready to turn 14 year-old Luz to stone for sympathizing with witches.]]

** Jasper strongly believes in Homeworld's rigid HiveCasteSystem; every Gem is built for a purpose, and anyone who can't fulfill that purpose (such as "off-color" Gems) or won't (like the Crystal Gems and other rebels) deserves to suffer. This also applies to herself; her desperation to defeat the Crystal Gems after constantly losing to them drives her to increasingly erratic behavior, to the point [[spoiler:she ends up corrupted near the end of season 3]].

** [[BigBad White Diamond]] suffers from this trope in a bad way, because in her mind, there's only one good thing in all of creation: ''herself.'' To her, anything and everything she thinks of or believes is a wonderful idea [[InsaneTrollLogic because she came up with it]], and anyone who dares to question her logic or judgment is obviously a broken, misguided idiot. White thus combines this trope with CondescendingCompassion by [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul brainwashing those who disagree with her]] into becoming [[KillAndReplace colorless extensions of herself]], with no will or personalities of their own (they even begin talking in White's voice). In her eyes, totally eradicating another sentient creature's mind is actually a ''good'' thing, because getting to be an extension of the universe's most ideal specimen is the most wonderful fate possible. [[spoiler:Once Steven and Connie manage to prove White wrong about something and thus demonstrate that she ''isn't'' perfect, she has a VillainousBreakdown that releases her victims and forces her to confront her own flaws.]]

* A significant plot point in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10448834/1/Six-Paths-of-Rebellion Six Paths of Rebellion]]'' is Suzaku's inability to understand that Britannia can do evil and the Black Knights can do good. He even goes so far as to insist that the Shinjuku and Saitama Massacres were the Black Knights' fault. Though to be fair, it's suggested that Suzaku actually ''is'' insane.

* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': When [[AntiHero Revy]] finally pushes that iota too far with her [[StrawNihilist obnoxious and belligerent cynicism and nihilism]], an annoyed Fabiola goes on a blistering TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calling out how Revy isn't actually a nihilist, just a pathetic loser who has let her DarkAndTroubledPast completely consume her life and refuses to acknowledge the obvious truth that the world outside Roanapur [[WorldHalfFull is more good then bad]], because otherwise she wouldn't have an excuse to indulge her selfish, materialistic ways.

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* Detective Gould in ''ComicBook/RedHanded'' sees all crime, regardless of the justification, as an intolerable evil. Many of the criminals in his city of Red Wheel Barrow are more sad than sinister, and in a conversation broken up among chapters of the graphic novel, another character tries to break the certainty of his worldview.
* ''ComicBook/{{Oxymoron}}'': This is how Oxymoron perceives the world, since he's obsessed with contradiction. For instance, he murders a ganglord who has some PetTheDog policies, since in Oxymoron's eyes there is no such thing as a bad man with some good in him or a good man with some bad in him. He also assassinates various public servants who were corrupt in some way.
* The one-time ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain Extremist has a black-and-white view of the world and is opposed to what he refers to as "The Grey" which tries to confuse the lines between them. He sees heroes as entirely good and critics as existential threats to the former, and so uses his powers of {{Invisibility}}, {{Intangibility}}, and AuraVision to assassinate them. He's eventually defeated when he gets a literal look in the mirror and sees with his aura reading that his motivations aren't altruistic but rather motivated by [[IJustWantToBeSpecial a selfish desire to be special]].

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': Some Stormcast Eternals can slide into this over time; unfortunately, the process that allows them to come BackFromTheDead when killed in battle has the side effect of shaving off a sliver of their humanity each time. Those who've gone through the process ''many'' times -- and that number is growing as the war against Chaos continues -- slowly lose the ability to discern shades of grey in morality, ruthlessly hunting any who stray even slightly from Sigmar's doctrine. [[GodOfGood Sigmar]] himself is quite depressed about this, but views it as a NecessaryEvil until he can figure out how to fix it.

** The FanGame ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaAnother'' has Tsurugi Kinjo, the "[[TheAce Ultimate]] [[ByTheBookCop Policeman]]" whose KnightTemplar mindset gradually has him go from TheLeader to TheFriendNobodyLikes. At the very start of the game he [[LeeroyJenkins nearly gets himself killed for attacking]] [[KillerGameMaster Monokuma]], and his attempts to prevent more [[DeadlyGame deaths]] get more and more desperate as he [[WellIntentionedExtremist enacts harsh rules to try to keep everyone out of trouble]] while alienating everyone with his WithUsOrAgainstUs attitude, labeling everyone who refuses to submit to him "potential killers". He also outright refuses to empathize with any of the killers despite the impossible situation they're in, [[spoiler:such as [[BreakTheCutie labeling Taira an attempted murderer]] for not immediately coming clean about her self-defense stabbing or lashing out at Kinji for using the same TheNeedsOfTheMany logic he does. In the fourth chapter, he's even more mentally unbalanced after Kinji pointed out his [[{{hypocrite}} hypocrisy]], and when the others point out further inconsistencies with his thought process in the next trial, he stammers like a robot that's been handed a LogicBomb & [[HeroicBSOD bluescreens so badly that he passes out and gets excused from the courtroom]]]].

* Ishida Mitsunari in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. He defines 'good' as his master, UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi. If you are a fellow servant of Hideyoshi, he will (grudgingly) tolerate you. If not, you are a vile sinner who will be beaten until you become a servant of Hideyoshi at best or killed in the most gruesome fashion imaginable for the 'sin' of disobedience. It doesn't help that he's quite a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter.

* This concept serves as a good description of the antagonists' motivations in the ''Fanfic/AvengersOfTheRing'' sequel ''The Witch, the Wizard and the Sorcerer''. [[spoiler:The former Blue Wizards of Middle-Earth have set up an elaborate digital network in Sokovia in the belief that this will allow Dormammu to take the corrupt souls of Earth and leave the pure to rebuild. However, Strange and Gandalf each acknowledge that factors such as trauma and loss could drive even good people to temporarily give into Dormammu's influence if they are caught unprepared]].

* In ''Fanfic/CrimsonRising'', while Adam Park’s police officer father isn’t outright ‘insane’, it is noted that he has very rigid views that mean he sees anyone who doesn’t obey the letter of the law as criminals, which includes the Power Rangers even though they have never hurt anyone.
* Cody in ''Fanfic/Digimon02TheStoryWeNeverTold''; even after the rest of the Digidestined accept that Ken is no longer the Digimon Emperor, he continues to insist that the Emperor is planning something and Ken's still evil, right up until [[spoiler:Ken is killed by Oikawa]].

* Goh and Parker both slide into this during the second arc of ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'':

* ''TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial'': Heroes represent the dangerous end-result of mixing this trope with AxCrazy; they are defined as [[KnightTemplar Knights Templar]] who will seek out and destroy all [[DesignatedVillain Beasts]], even those who [[PokeThePoodle choose pretty innocuous methods]] of sating their HorrorHunger. In fact, Heroes see the universe in terms of "me as good; Beast as evil" that they easily slide into delusions of ProtagonistCenteredMorality, allowing them to effortlessly justify ''anything'' they do to themselves as being ForTheGreaterGood.

** This is Zamasu's primary problem. He has a very black and white view of mortals and gods. Namely, mortals are evil and need to be cleansed, while the gods are good, if not a bit [[TheGodsMustBeLazy lazy]] for not taking care of the mortals. His inability to understand that mortals can learn and grow, and the gods themselves are also [[GodIsFlawed flawed]] and need to learn from their mistakes is a point of tension between Gowasu and him. [[spoiler: He eventually jumps off the slippery slope when Goku proves that mortals can overpower gods, and decides to murder ''everyone'' in Future Trunks' timeline to create what he sees as a truly just world. Once he's cleaved in twain by Trunks, he loses what little sanity and mind he had left and tries to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everything and everyone, everywhere]].]]

* Sensui from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''. Emphasis on "insanity". "Humans are good -- Demons are bad." Sensui existed and killed by this creed. When confronted face-to-face with atrocities committed by humans upon demons instead of the other way around, he snapped so hard he formed ''six additional personalities'' just to deal with the trauma. He eventually settles into [[spoiler: Humans are bad -- Demons are grey, as he planned to KillAllHumans and die at the hands of a demon as revenge.]]

** Rorschach was meant deliberately as a comment on Creator/SteveDitko's [[WithUsOrAgainstUs more fanatically Objectivist]] characters. This is clearly reflected in his ExpressiveMask, where the black and white never mix. [[spoiler: This also led to his death, as he refused to compromise and decided to tell the world the truth despite knowing it would [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans only make all the deaths from the plan meaningless and will put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation]]. Which is why Dr. Manhattan killed him in order to prevent him from doing so]].

* In ''Film/TheBatman2022'' ComicBook/TheRiddler is a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist, being a LoonyFan of ComicBook/{{Batman}} who wants to clean up crime [[SuperheroParadox like he does]] but is too AxCrazy to care about collateral damage. [[spoiler: In the climax he decides to destroy the city on the grounds that ItIsBeyondSaving and targets the new mayor to that end, in spite of the fact that she's a force for reform like he claims to be.]]

* In ''Literature/IronDruidChronicles'', the Hammers of God have very clear lines on what constitutes good magic (i.e. the faith type they practice) and what is evil magic (i.e. pretty much anything else). And deal with practitioners of "evil" magic AsTheGoodBookSays (i.e. Suffer not a witch to live). [[spoiler: Though in ''Staked'' it's revealed that Atticus managed to make them see the error of their zealotry and to allow some grey to creep into their worldview.]]

** Daenerys shows signs of this during her SlaveLiberation, particularly in Meereen, when she starts dealing out vengeful punishments to the ruling class with the rationale that it is justice because they deserve it because they are evil, with no thought to how much or little the individuals involved were actually responsible for. Jorah is eventually able to talk her down, reminding her that he used to be a slaver himself. More subtly, there is her mounting paranoia that has come in as a result of being betrayed and used all her life by Viserys, Illyrio Mopatis, Mirri Maz Duur, the Qartheen, and later the fact that Jorah was initially a spy, which has hardened her stance. She still persisted at first in thinking of Robert Baratheon as TheUsurper and remains in the dark about the kind of person her father truly was, believing that the people who deposed him were evil and without cause. By Season 5, however, she has come to be aware of her father's insanity, with Tyrion Lannister — now a trusted advisor — informing her of why Jaime killed her father. Now, Dany openly refers to her father as terrible. [[spoiler: By Season 8, she's slid back into this, and eventually it gets her killed because it would have turned her into almost as bad a tyrant as her father.]]

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'': Barret's worldview in a nutshell. Shinra is bad, everything they do is bad, [[HitlerAteSugar everything and everyone connected or associated to them is bad]], and everything is Shinra's fault. While it is true that a lot of Midgar's problems can be tied back to them, Barret often employs InsaneTrollLogic to explain why things are their fault. Someone works for Shinra to provide for their family? Stupid asshole. Monsters nesting in the city's train system? Shinra's fault for allowing it to happen. And of course, him bombing reactors and killing people to "stop" Shinra is good, even if it's clear to everyone else that isn't the case. Cloud even lampshades this by nearly name-dropping the trope. [[spoiler: It's implied that Barret ''forces'' himself to view things this way, because he would otherwise crumble under the weight of his actions otherwise.]]
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', This trope is a huge part of Dimitri's CharacterArc. While his moral compass can accurately distinguish what is right and just, his standards for irredeemable evil are far too strict. To him, war, self-defense, or ideology are just flimsy excuses villains use to justify murder, so there's no point in understanding or empathizing with their position. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, this outrage extends to even himself, so [[IAmAMonster he's an unforgivable bloodstained monster]] for fulfilling his princely duties and for taking joy in killing others. Only on the Azure Moon path does he come to terms with the complexity of killing and learn how to forgive both others and himself.]]

* From ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', [[spoiler: Atris has a simplistic sense of morality: everything is either completely good or completely evil. This caused her to turn on the Jedi Order, whom she previously saw as perfect and infallible, when their actions during the Mandalorian Wars and Jedi Civil War challenged these notions, leading her to secretly plot to recreate the Jedi Order according to her values -- where any Force-sensitive would be killed for showing even the slightest sign of turning to TheDarkSide. By the time of her final confrontation with [[PlayerCharacter the Exile]], it's clear that Atris' inability to reconcile morally grey actions has caused her to snap and turn to the Dark Side.]]

* While all the Monarchs have this to a certain degree, this is one of [[spoiler: Akane, the fifth Monarch]]'s flaws in ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers''. After [[spoiler: her father Zenkichi]] stopped investigating her mother's murder, [[spoiler: Akane]] began to see people in two ways: law enforcers and their supporters are evil and those who fight against law enforcers (like the Phantom Thieves) are good. There is no middle ground for her. Although, prior to [[spoiler: being brainwashed to become a Monarch]], she was at least willing to listen to Makoto's advice. However, this flaw soon became magnified to extreme degrees. She rejected [[spoiler: Zenkichi]]'s legitimate reasons for backing off the case and began acting like [[spoiler: Konoe]], down to parroting the latter's goals and exact words and refused to listen to any reasoning from the Thieves due to being influenced by [[spoiler: Konoe]] without realizing it.

* [[RogueProtagonist Angela Deth]] in ''VideoGame/Wasteland3''. She was dispatched ahead of [[PlayerCharacter Team November]] to Colorado but upon seeing how the morally gray Patriarch administrated the region she almost immediately went rogue and started plotting against him [[HonorBeforeReason despite the fact that the fate of their entire organization and community hinges on his support]]. General Woodson flat-out warns the player that she's incapable of thinking past BlackAndWhiteMorality and not to let her interfere with their mission, [[spoiler: but if you fail to get the GoldenEnding she instigates a coup that wipes out half the Rangers]]. She shows no regard whatsoever for the consequences of her actions, with her insistence on maintaining her perceived moral high ground regardless of how it affects others making her [[HeWhoFightsMonsters not much better]] than the WellIntentionedExtremist she seeks to depose.

** In ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' you have [[spoiler: Nagito Komaeda, the Ultimate Lucky Student]], who believes hope is good and despair is bad, therefore, [[WellIntentionedExtremist all actions done in the sake of hope are good.]] The problem is their [[BlueAndOrangeMorality twisted perception of hope]] that leads them to [[spoiler: create an opportunity to murder on Chapter 1 and masterminding his own death in Chapter 5 on a ThanatosGambit to kill everybody on the island.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Serini''']]:[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech And you can't keep knocking over the game board whenever your side starts losing!]]

* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': Panacea aggressively categorises capes as heroes and villains with no grey area, to the point that she continues to view Skitter as an irredeemable villain even after the other [[spoiler:breaks her back protecting a civilian shelter from Leviathan]]. Furthermore, in the Slaughterhouse Nine arc, she actively sabotages the Undersiders even though they're the main force opposing the [=SH9=] and save her life multiple times, just because they're "villains". Her adoptive sister Glory Girl and foster mother Brandish (who's the reason they are this way) are just as bad if not worse, although Brandish has a FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: She and her sister were kidnapped and held captive when they were young. Brandish succumbed to StockholmSyndrome and started seeing her kidnappers as not really that bad... which is when they announced that they were going to kill her and her sister. That betrayal caused her to [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening Trigger]] and colored her view of everyone she met later, making her absolutely incapable of trusting anyone even distantly associated with villainy (which unfortunately includes Panacea, as she's the daughter of a supervillain) because they remind her of her kidnappers.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'' has [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Jinx]]; a trauma-filled girl/woman/child that [[spoiler:turns on her sister after she discovers she's been working with an enforcer]] due to her black/white perception of allies and enemies. She also [[spoiler: turns on her adoptive father]] for this same reason.

** Jasper strongly believes in Homeworld's rigid HiveCasteSystem; every Gem is built for a purpose, and anyone who can't fulfill that purpose (such as "off-color" Gems) or won't (like the Crystal Gems and other rebels) deserves to suffer. This also applies to herself; her desperation to defeat the Crystal Gems after constantly losing to them drives her to increasingly erratic behavior, to the point [[spoiler: she ends up corrupted near the end of season 3.]]

** [[BigBad White Diamond]] suffers from this trope in a bad way, because in her mind, there's only one good thing in all of creation: ''herself.'' To her, anything and everything she thinks of or believes is a wonderful idea [[InsaneTrollLogic because she came up with it]], and anyone who dares to question her logic or judgment is obviously a broken, misguided idiot. White thus combines this trope with CondescendingCompassion by [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul brainwashing those who disagree with her]] into becoming [[KillAndReplace colorless extensions of herself]], with no will or personalities of their own (they even begin talking in White's voice). In her eyes, totally eradicating another sentient creature's mind is actually a ''good'' thing, because getting to be an extension of the universe's most ideal specimen is the most wonderful fate possible. [[spoiler: Once Steven and Connie manage to prove White wrong about something and thus demonstrate that she ''isn't'' perfect, she has a VillainousBreakdown that releases her victims and forces her to confront her own flaws.]]

* All the main antagonists in ''Anime/Danganronpa3''.

* ''LightNovel/AvestaOfBlackAndWhite'' features perhaps one of the most extreme examples in fiction. Everything in the universe is defined by their Avesta, which is basically their moral alignment of either Good or Evil and makes someone act a certain way, with both sides locked in a ForeverWar and are fundamentally incapable of reconciling or seeing the other's side. As a result, extremist black and white thinking is not only encouraged but is basically the very framework by which the universe operates.

* ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'': Atalante WouldntHurtAChild, and thus is horrified when she finds out Jack the Ripper is a little girl. To make matters worse, Jack is really an amalgamation of the souls of hundreds of unloved unborn children, driven to murder due to their hatred and rage for their lot in life. Jeanne decides the only thing that can be done is to exorcise them so they can be free from their pain and go to the afterlife. Even after Jeanne explains this, and even after Jack thanks her before passing on, Atalante condemns her and makes it her mission to kill Jeanne. As far as Atalante is concerned, even if it was a MercyKill, Jeanne killed those children, and that makes her evil. The LightNovel manages to explain this further: After the encounter with Jack, Atalante has a black material sticking to her arm, and it was actually a remnant of Jack that was composed of souls of unborn children that demanded vengeance rather than being happy for passing away. Jeanne missed exorcising that one, and Atalante let that material stick with her since she considered her failure to save the children something that needs punishment. The result is that [[BrainwashedAndCrazy her hatred to Jeanne got amplified to insane levels]].

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Oriana Thomson wants all morality to be reduced to black and white. So that nobody has conflicting ideas about what is good and evil.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'': Barret's worldview in a nutshell. Shinra is bad, everything they do is bad, [[HitlerAteSugar everything and everyone connected or associated to them is bad]], and everything is Shinra's fault. While it is true that a lot of Midgar's problems can be tied back to them, Barret often employs InsaneTrollLogic to explain why things are their fault. Someone works for Shinra to provide for their family? Stupid asshole. Monsters nesting in the city's train system? Shinra's fault for allowing it to happen. And of course, him bombing reactors and killing people to "stop" Shinra is good, even if it's clear to everyone else that isn't the case. Cloud even lampshades this by nearly name-dropping the trope.

* In ''Videogame/DragonAgeII'', as Anders becomes more and more obsessed with the Mage/Templar issue of Kirkwall and as [[FightingFromTheInside he's starting to lose the battle against Vengeance]], he becomes more and more hostile to those he perceives as pro-Templar or just generally an enemy of the mages, including those in Hawke's party.
** He seems to struggle equally with the idea that mages can do wrong. No matter how many blood mages you encounter in Kirkwall, he will always assume that accusations of blood magic or wrongdoing on the part of a mage are Templar lies until confronted with direct evidence. When you encounter the conspiracy between mages and Templars in Act III, Anders is completely shocked and disbelieving that the prime driving force for attacking Hawke was Grace, a mage they had previously rescued.
-->'''Anders:''' But Grace... we ''saved'' you.
** This is invoked directly in-game, by one of your other companions:
-->'''Merrill:''' You really do believe, don't you? In freedom, in mages... in good spirits and bad Templars, with more fire than the sun.
** Fenris, too, in the other direction, to a slightly lesser extent. Fenris believes that all mages are evil, period. Interestingly, he's actually ''aware'' that it's generally a bad idea to overgeneralize the innocent many based on the actions of a guilty few. But reminding him of that will cause him to rationalize that bad magic is so tempting that all innocent mages, with the possible exception of Mage!Hawke, will eventually become guilty. The "lesser extent" part comes in because Fenris never quite ''acts'' on his belief that all mages are the same beyond insulting the mages in the party, and Fenris will sometimes apologize for being rude if it's pointed out to him, where Anders... well, play the end of the game for details.
** Hell, Fenris will even ''help'' mages when you point out their treatment in the game could be considered a form of slavery; the one thing Fenris hates more than mages.

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': Has [[ByTheBookCop Nathaniel Barnes]] who before his transformation into the [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner executioner]] was apathetic at best to anyone who broke the law in any way; after he goes insane he turns into a maniacal KnightTemplar killing everyone he can who do literally anything he considers even slightly immoral (although he claims to only kill criminals he's quite happy to kill anyone who even speaks about him unflatteringly).

-->-- '''Garrus Vakarian''' (after realizing what he was becoming), ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''

* On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', since the [[TheExile Pogtopia arc]], when his mental health took a ''[[SanitySlippage massive]]'' hit[[note]]his [[TookALevelInCynicism mental spiral]] technically [[CynicismCatalyst kick-started]] after Eret's betrayal in the L'Manburg War for Independence, but it was heavily exacerbated by Schlatt exiling him and Tommy from the country they founded [[TyrantTakesTheHelm after becoming President]][[/note]], [[FallenHero Wilbur's]] worldview has been cleanly split in half, between "heroes" and "villains". This is most clearly shown in how he treats both Dream and himself.

** [[spoiler:After regaining Ghostbur's memories, Wilbur was initially ''furious'' at Dream because of [[WouldHurtAChild his treatment of Tommy in exile]], and even outright told Tommy that he would've murdered Dream on the spot if he'd been there instead of Ghostbur. However, after being saved from the Afterlife by Dream, he seems to disregard the horrific abuse Dream put Tommy through and outright proclaims him a hero, giving a long speech about how his quest for power wasn't for power's sake, it was to prevent the rest of the server from filling the power vacuum Wilbur left behind.]]