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* Weiss, the titular heroes of WeissKreuz, know they themselves are BloodKnight who specialize in murdering CompleteMonster in an extremely brutal fashion, and hate themselves a lot for doing it. They are also WellIntentionedExtremist.

* Weiss, the titular heroes of WeissKreuz, know they themselves are BloodKnight who specialize murdering CompleteMonster in an extremely brutal fashion, and hate themselves a lot for doing it. They also count as WellIntentionedExtremist.

* A common character type in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', especially among the Imperium of Man. [[GauntsGhosts Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt]] is perhaps the most prominent example, a genuinely selfless, courageous, and noble hero who is becoming deeply bitter and cynical towards the Imperial Guard command structure. Major Elim Rawne of the same series quite arguably worked his way into this trope from the other direction-he started as a ruthlessly cynical, self-serving bastard, and remains a ruthlessly cynical bastard-but one with a very tarnished and deeply hidden heart of gold. Comissar CiaphasCain projects this at times... because his reputation (and possibly he) would be shot if anyone knew [[DirtyCoward how he actually is]].

* Jöns from {{The Seventh Seal}}. You won't find anyone closer than him.

** At the end of the ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' DLC, if you didn't romance Liara, she will ask Shepard how s/he's doing. If you choose the right dialogue option, Shepard will vent about how tired s/he is of dealing with Cerberus and the Council treating him/her like s/he's nuts. But in the end s/he keeps going because it's the right thing to do.

* Hash from ''{{Live A Live}}''. After defeating the demon king, he was heralded as a hero, but the very nature of human beings continued to disgust him much to the extent that he faked his death and hid out in a cabin in the mountains, only being convinced to help Oersted save humanity again because despite his hatred, he knows that it's the right thing to do. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, Oersted doesn't quite respect his dying wish and goes a bit beyond being just bitter when humanity decides to betray him]]

* In ''HighNoon'', Marshall Will Kane tries to raise a posse to fight off four gunmen led by an ex-con who had previously made all their lives miserable before Kane threw him in prison. You'd think the population of an entire town would be able to take on four men. Only a fourteen year old kid agrees to help Kane. Everyone, who would rather live in fear than risk their lives to protect their own freedom, money, and dignity, tells Kane to leave town. [[{{Badass}} He ends up taking on the gunmen by himself]], then abandons the town in disgust.

** At the end of the ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' DLC, if you didn't romance Liara, she will ask Shepard how s/he's doing. If you choose the right dialogue option, Shepard will vent about how tired s/he of dealing with Cerberus and the Council treating him/her like s/he's nuts. But in the end s/he keeps going because it's the right thing to do.

** [[spoiler: Um, he acknowledged that Aang had been right at the end of that episode, at least in Katara's case...]]

* Near the end of the 1st season of Gundam00, Neil Dylandy expresses his KnightInSourArmor attitude that he has hidden deep inside with his last words, "You people, are you satisfied with this world...? I hate it...!"

* To some extent, [[GundamWing DuoMaxwell]] can be seen as one as well. In spite of his seemingly cheerful exterior, he is actually a sad, bitter boy who has witnessed the cruelty of war in front of his very eyes. It is probably the reason he aspires to become a God of Death - "It is so much better than a Hero of Destruction"

** It should, perhaps, be pointed out that Snape is almost entirely selfish in his motivations; his entire reason for signing up with the Order of the Phoenix is [[spoiler:his desperately one-sided love for Lilly]].

--->--'''Dr Occult to Tim Hunter on John Constantine''', ''"The Books of Magic"''