History Main / EvilHero

* In ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'', Captain Mitsuhide Nira is an unpleasant bully who enjoys mocking the protagonist and his team (who are a group of {{Bunny Ears Lawyer}}s). It's later learnt that to reach his current rank he often took shortcuts and even committed murder. There's also the little fact that he was aware of the Roidmudes (the cybernetic villains of the story), and had been working for one for years.

* The Lovely Angels in ''Literature/DirtyPair'' are considered heroic in their own reality (and their constant claim that "It's not our fault!" is readily believed) despite the fact that they've committed ''planet-wide genocide'' multiple times. (The series CrossesTheLineTwice rather often.) Compared to most of the examples above and below them, they're not really that bad if they showed some restraint in their actions.

* In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', while there are a few in the Holy Knights who are heroic and there are those that see the group as a whole as such, many of its members are evil.
* Momon the Dark Hero in ''Literature/Overlord2012'' is hailed as the greatest warrior adventurer in the vicinity of the city of E-Rantel, and possibly the whole Re-Estize kingdom, rivaling warrior-captain Gazef Stronoff in [[OneManArmy power]] and [[KnightInShiningArmor virtue]]... And it's all a lie, as he's actually [[VillainProtagonist Ainz Ooal Gown]], [[OurLichesAreDifferent Elder Lich]] and {{Evil|Overlord}} SorcerousOverlord of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, who's using the alias as a convenient way to gather intel on the New World, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity garner glory and public trust]], getting people [[DealWithTheDevil to owe him one]], and stretch his legs, all without attracting too much attention towards his true self.
* The Lovely Angels in ''Literature/DirtyPair'' are considered heroic in their own reality (and their constant claim that "It's not our fault!" is readily believed) despite the fact that they've committed ''planet-wide genocide'' multiple times. (The series CrossesTheLineTwice rather often.) Compared to most of the examples above and below them, they're not really that bad if they showed some restraint in their actions.
* Akoya Seishu from ''Manga/KenganAshura'' is a well-respected cop, and also an extreme VigilanteMan who murders anyone he deems "evil", but cannot legally bring to justice for one reason or another. His desire to exterminate the evil often extends to the innocent relatives of those he's slain (claiming that their shared blood means that they also carry the "evil" seed despite not having done anything worthy of punishment). His definition of "evil" seems really arbitrary too, as he also considers people like Wakatsuki and Cosmo "evil", even though they are {{nice guy}}s outside of their participation in the Kengan Matches.
* ''Manga/GoGoLoserRanger'': The Dragon Keepers, a ''Franchise/PowerRangers''-esque organization of heroes who fight to repel an alien invasion. At least that’s what they’ve set things up to look like. The truth is that the Invaders were [[spoiler:supposedly]] long defeated and the Keepers are now just milking the fame by keeping the remaining and harmless Dusters as slaves for them to continue beating every Sunday and still be seen as heroes in the eyes of their fans, with the facade having been held up for over a decade. Any Duster that refuses to play along or breaks the Keepers’ rules are obliterated by their Divine Tools. The worst out of the Keepers is their leader Red, who is sociopathic enough to not be above killing even his own protégé over any kind of slight. [[spoiler:However, as time goes on, the situation is a lot more complex than initially presented; while there are quite a few heartless Rangers among the lower ranks and the top brass, there are just as many good Rangers who are only there to protect the weak or make a name for themselves. D realizing this makes him realize that he doesn't want to be on anyone's side but his own.]]

* Most of the "superheroes" in ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' are anything but heroes. The most notable are The Seven (who are [[CorruptedCharacterCopy twisted parodies]] of the ''Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}''), who are all a bunch of self-centered hedonistic assholes, with [[SupermanSubstitute Homelander]] being the worst. The Boys themselves aren't the most pleasant bunch themselves, ranging from cynical burn-outs with a score to settle to [[BloodKnight just in it because they like violence]] and want a guilt-free outlet, but are still [[BlackAndGrayMorality the closest thing the comic has to the good guys]] because the bar for "least awful people in the superheroics business" is just that low.

* The Alliance from ''ComicBook/TheRedTen'' are an expy of the ''Franchise/JusticeLeague''. In reality, barring two members, they were a bunch of murderers, a liar, a pedophile and a junkie.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The Marines are generally considered a 'good' organization, given that their job involves stopping dangerous pirates from wreaking havoc (and for every generally harmless crew like the Straw Hats, there's a dozen villainous ones), but in practice, there's a lot of them that don't live up to it, though there are also genuinely heroic marines. They are the military force of the political regime that also runs [[TheAlcatraz Impel Down]] (a prison where torturing inmates is routine) and lets [[AristocratsAreEvil the World Nobles]] do whatever they want, after all.

* ComicBook/DarkAvengers: The very premise was a team of supervillains acting as the Avengers, with many of them taking up the identities of their heroic counterparts: ComicBook/NormanOsborn as the Iron Patriot, a blend between Captain America and Iron Man; ComicBook/{{Venom}} (Mac Gargan) using the symbiote to masquerade as Black Suit Spider-Man; Moonstone as Ms. Marvel; Bullseye as Hawkeye; ComicBook/{{Daken}} as Wolverine; Marvel Boy as Captain Marvel; Ares; and the Sentry.

* ''Webcomic/ThePropertyOfHate'' has Click, a tin soldier who when first encountered is an ArcVillain who hunts down RGB and Hero in an attempt to kill them (and for vengeance against RGB for what the former did to him in the past). In a later chapter, [[spoiler: Click is the second hero after RGB himself. As a human, he was a police officer and when RGB recruits him, it's implied that Click was already on the path to destruction, being a violent sociopath who has a tendency to lose his temper.]]

* In ''VideoGame/GoldenSunTheLostAge'', it's revealed that Saturos and Menardi, the villains of [[VideoGame/GoldenSun the first game]], were actually on a quest to save not only their home town but also the entire world. The key thing that keeps them firmly as villains, even when this is revealed, is that they're such [[KickTheDog Dog-Kicking]] {{Card Carrying Villain}}s who gleefully do needlessly evil or cruel things things for no reason other than ForTheEvulz or because [[ItAmusedMe it amused them]]. Even when it would behoove them to do good they'll waste time being evil like pushing some cursed immobile humans into the river to die (and they ''do'' if you don't save them) or slaughtering helpless scholars along with soldiers in Venus Lighthouse. Even the Elder of Prox, who sent them on their journey, is completely understanding of Issac and his allies for killing them, and even implies the only reason he sent them is because they were the two most powerful warriors Prox had to offer and [[GodzillaThreshold they were the only ones who could reasonably pull it off]].

* The Lovely Angels in ''Literature/DirtyPair'' are considered heroic in their own reality (and their constant claim that [[CatchPhrase "It's not our fault!"]] is readily believed) despite the fact that they've committed ''planet-wide genocide'' multiple times. (The series CrossesTheLineTwice rather often.) Compared to most of the examples above and below them, they're not really that bad if they showed some restraint in their actions.

* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': Saber Alter is a version of Saber who has been corrupted into a ruthless and cynical tyrant by Aŋra Mainiiu's black ooze. However, in an interview Kinoko Nasu and Gen Urobuchi have stated that she's not an outright villain, but a dark hero.

* In the ''{{VideoGame/Bravoman}}'' Webcomic when our hero gets set to a reverse world where everyone's personalities are just slightly off and Anti-Bravoman never existed, leading to an apocalyptic scenario where his counterpart leads a super serious resistance. Or that's how it appears at first. What he discovers is more disturbing, [[spoiler:Reverse Anti-Bravoman, rather than being a anti-hero who's terrible at it for a lack of competence, is a heroic wannabe who's terrible at it for lack of moral fibre, having stolen the costume and name of Bravoman from Salaryman and running both sides of the war so he can act out as a hero free from meta humor.]]
* Webcomic/ThePropertyOfHate has Click, a tin soldier who when first encountered is an ArcVillain who hunts down RGB and Hero in an attempt to kill them (and for vengeance against RGB for what the former did to him in the past). In a later chapter, [[spoiler: Click is the second hero after RGB himself. As a human, he was a police officer and when RGB recruits him, it's implied that Click was already on the path to destruction, being a violent sociopath who has a tendency to lose his temper.]]

* Momon the Dark Hero in ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' is hailed as the greatest warrior adventurer in the vicinity of the city of E-Rantel, and possibly the whole Re-Estize kingdom, rivaling warrior-captain Gazef Stronoff in [[OneManArmy power]] and [[KnightInShiningArmor virtue]]... And it's all a lie, as he's actually [[VillainProtagonist Ainz Ooal Gown]], [[OurLichesAreDifferent Elder Lich]] and {{Evil|Overlord}} SorcerousOverlord of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, who's using the alias as a convenient way to gather intel on the New World, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity garner glory and public trust]], getting people [[DealWithTheDevil to owe him one]], and stretch his legs, all without attracting too much attention towards his true self.
* The Lovely Angels in ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' are considered heroic in their own reality (and their constant claim that [[CatchPhrase "It's not our fault!"]] is readily believed) despite the fact that they've committed ''planet-wide genocide'' multiple times. (The series CrossesTheLineTwice rather often.) Compared to most of the examples above and below them, they're not really that bad if they showed some restraint in their actions.