History Main / NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':[[Characters/GameOfThronesTywinLannister Lord Tywin Lannister]] claim that every cruel and extreme action he took was for the good of the realm and good of the Lannister family. He grew up with a kind but weak father, and others took a vantage of his father's weakness and kindness, causing him to grow up to be a cold man who would ruthlessly take down anyone whom he perceives as enemies of his family. While Tywin may have genuinely cared about his family when he was younger and generally thought that he was doing well by then, it's clear by the president's day that any good intentions he had are gone, and now all he cares about is building his power base and building a legacy and that he only cares about how he can use his children to build his legacy and his care for his family is only an extension of himself.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' both the BigBad and his [[TheDragon Dragon]] are this:
** [[spoiler: Sir Miles Axlerod pretends to be looking out for the lemon cars as their kingpin, and claims that increasing reliance on oil will make them respected. In truth, he is the inventor of Allinol, the very fuel he's using to sabotage the reputation of alternative fuels, and mainly concerned with [[{{Greed}} profiting off oil]]]].

* ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII:'' [[spoiler:King Runeard claims that the reason why he wants to conquer the Northuldra tribe is to protect the people of Arendelle. However, this argument completely falls moot as his true motive is to secure his own position as King of Arendelle because he believes that they could potentially overthrow him due to them being magic-users]]. ''Literature/DangerousSecrets'' [[spoiler: even shows that the reason why Runeard came up with this ideology is that he wanted someone to blame his own faults on instead of maturing and taking responsibility for them, meaning he just wanted the easy way out, and the war he created led to the deaths of dozens of soldiers on both sides, leaving many of the children orphaned.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Frollo claims that he wants to purge the world of vice and sin. However, his real motive seems to be [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence genocide against all those that he considers as sinful for living outside the natural order of things]] (aka his order). Later on, after a good deal of SanitySlippage, his primary goal becomes [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny satisfying his lust for Esmeralda]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': While Syndrome's EngineeredHeroics are unsavory no matter how you look at it, the second part of his plan -- [[CutLexLuthorACheck selling his inventions]] so that "everyone can be super" - doesn't sound that bad... until, of course, you remember that he's doing it simply out of a petty grudge against Mr. Incredible and superheroes in general. In short, his goal is not to uplift the common folk, but to '''drag superheroes down'''.
* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'': The Screenslaver's true plan. [[spoiler:Or rather, Evelyn's plan, as Screenslaver was a pizza guy she hypnotized into acting a villain. She claims her plan is to make Supers illegal permanently, as her father's HoldingOutForAHero got him killed by home invaders and her mother died from heartbreak soon after, seeing that Supers only cause more harm than prevent. However, her plan has endangered innocent people, including the pizza guy she framed. Also, she doesn't even suggest ''how'' to prevent crises without Supers, meaning all it turns out to be is just MisplacedRetribution.]]

* ''Animation/NextGen'': The BigBad [[spoiler:[[KillerRobot Ares']]]] plans of creating a world without conflict by [[KillAllHumans killing all humans]] rings hollow when he's shown to be a sadistic [[AGodAmI egotist]] willing to kill his own robots should they ever get in [[ItsAllAboutMe his way]].

* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'': Like any dictatorship, the Inner Party presents itself in propaganda as a benevolent force that wants to rule the citizens for their own good. [[AudienceSurrogate Winston]] initially assumes that the Party's ruling ideology is some [[GoneHorriblyWrong horribly corrupted]] attempt at the greater good mentioned in their propaganda, only for O'Brien to tell him that's all a lie and that the Party was founded solely [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans to cause as much suffering as possible to as many people as possible]] because that's the only way to keep it running perpetually. O'Brien all but says there is no point or lofty intention behind their atrocities: the Party are just power-hungry thugs running a system built on eternal subjugation. The second twist is that the Inner Party are so careful to only select the people who truly believe in the system of eternal subjugation, and who police their inner thoughts so strongly to avoid heresy, that they end up acting identical to a normal well-intentioned extremist. Such is the power of DoubleThink.

** The Free Navy is a group of [[SpacePeople Belter]] guerrillas carrying out acts of terror against "Inners" in retaliation for corporations from Earth and Mars treating Belters as cheap, disposable AsteroidMiners; and then thwarting these corporations' attempts at settling many resource-rich Earthlike planets that become easily available once a PortalNetwork connects the Sol System with them, giving them even less reasons to provide crucial support for Belters and thus leaving them to become a mere footnote in history... but over the course of ''Literature/BabylonsAshes'', it becomes apparent their leader, Marco Inaros, sees those real problems as just an excuse to establish himself as a dictator of all the outer space; he will gladly hog crucial resources for himself[[note]]He orders all the loot they plunder from the Inners' ships (supposedly to redistribute among the Belters who need them) be launched at trajectories known only to his inner circle.[[/note]], show no regard for Belters' future[[note]]He scoffs at an economic expert on his team who tells him that their monumental achievement [[spoiler:of [[ColonyDrop sending an asteroid cluster]] towards Earth]] has essentially doomed Belters by depriving them of vital resources that can be produced only on Earth, which won't be supplying with its hands tied [[spoiler:with [[StealthInSpace radar-absorbent]] asteroids that could strike any time]].[[/note]] and [[DirtyCoward throw them under the bus]][[note]]The moment he learns that they're no longer keeping Inners in check, he orders what amounts to fleeing the enemy forces while stripping all the friendly, defenseless colonies of their own vital resources[[/note]] [[WithUsOrAgainstUs while demanding their absolute loyalty]][[note]]When his [[SpacePirates acquisition officer]] grows tired of this aimless fleeing and decides to ''actually'' distribute those top secret resources among the Belters, Marco immediately declares war on her and her followers too, just for daring to disobey ''him''. Even his son says him so and he doesn't object![[/note]] so he can use them to settle petty vendettas[[note]]Near the climax he appears to plan a grand assault on a space station controlled by his enemies, only to cancel it the moment he learns his ex-girlfriend --whom he rejected for not being as manipulable as he wanted-- is somewhere else.[[/note]].
* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Umbridge tries to come off as committing her horrible deeds from a sense of loyalty to Fudge and as protecting the British Wizarding community from Dumbledore and Harry's self-serving lies when she is just doing whatever she can to grab power for herself and cheerfully serves in the Voldemort controlled Ministry in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''.

* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'': In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Literature/TheFallOfNumenor'' it is told that Sauron started off as a ControlFreak who wanted to bring order upon all of Middle-earth and thought only he had the ability to pull it off. However, as time went on, [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget his motivations devolved into something more self-serving in nature]]. By the time of the story, Sauron has lost sight of ALL his noble albeit immoral intentions and now only wants power for power's sake as the ultimate EvilOverlord. The only thing still keeping him [[ALighterShadeOfBlack somewhat better than his old boss]] Morgoth is that Sauron still wants to ''rule'' the world while Morgoth long ago wanted to just [[OmnicidalManiac destroy everything]].
* Cassius [[spoiler:the Elder]] in ''Literature/LucifersStar'' by Creator/CTPhipps is the leader of the Free Systems Alliance and claims everything he does is to bring about freedom for all the worlds conquered by the Commonwealth. [[spoiler:He actually turns the majority of his volunteer soldiers into nano-technology zombies and plans to surrender the entirety of human space to the alien Community. He plans to rule as TheQuisling and take advantage of Elder Race technology so that he can live forever to boot. All things point to him being a vain, power-hungry, psychotic hypocrite without an ounce of shame.]]

** The Nihil fight against the Republic under the claim of fighting against those who would encroach on their personal freedoms. As the Nihil are an organization of SpacePirates, the personal freedoms in question are the power to raid and pillage those they view as weak. Their leader Marchion Ro makes similar pronunciations, but in truth, he's an egomaniac that simply despises being told what to do. After the destruction of Starlight Beacon at the end of Phase I, he publicly reveals himself to the galaxy as the leader of the Nihil and claims the station's destruction as ''his'' victory (selectively not crediting the Nihil as a whole). In Phase III, he's set up an anti-hyperspace wall that has divided the galaxy in two. After the establishment of the Occlusion Zone, Marchion calls it [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny a place to be free]]...[[WithUsOrAgainstUs as long you swear loyalty to the Nihil]].

* In the backstory of ''Literature/TheSorcerersDaughter'', Brother Aloisio of the Inquisition stated that King Roberto is too good at healing for an ordinary human, therefore, he is a sorcerer, therefore, he must burn. InsaneTrollLogic, of course, but something more or less to be expected from a KnightTemplar inquisitor, right? [[spoiler:Then it's revealed Aloisio was actually involved in a political plot against the queen, and most probably was in league with the sorcery-practicing Gottwald in the latter's plan to frame Roberto]].

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': During her days as the vengeance demon Anyanka, Anya describes herself as a [[RevengeAgainstMen righteous sword]] for all WomanScorned, but her behavior is more along the lines of a JackassGenie rather than the "patron saint of scorned women" she claims to be. She essentially tricks women into inflicting DisproportionateRetribution on former loved ones, and in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E9TheWish The Wish]]", when Cordelia's wish that Buffy never came to Sunnydale (because Cordelia blames her failed romance with Xander on his association with Buffy making him marginally cool enough to date) leads her to create a CrapsackWorld where vampires rule the town with no Slayer to keep them in check, Anya takes [[ForTheEvulz open pleasure]] in the results. A cut line from the script also has Alternate Giles tell her about the fact Cordelia died because of the wish, and Anyanka shrug it off, saying, "It happens."

** The BAU chases all the {{vigilante|Man}}s regardless of whether their victims [[AssholeVictim deserved it]] because while the public may project noble desires onto them, ultimately, they are killing to make themselves feel better, and eventually suffer MotiveDecay and get someone undeserving killed.

** "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E25ToHell To Hell...]]"/"[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E26AndBack ...And Back]]": Quadriplegic Mason Turner manipulates his mentally handicapped brother to murder people, and claims he's conducting experiments to find a cure for his condition. Garcia and Rossi immediately call BS, the setup he has is nowhere near sophisticated enough to conduct ''any'' experiments, he's just a sadist who gets sexual pleasure from the suffering of others. Emphasizing this, he has a number of mirrors set up to allow him to see the murders from his bed.

* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': [[Characters/DexterDexterMorgan Dexter Morgan]] methods certainly are extreme and his target selection ensures that he's probably a net positive force in the universe, but he doesn't do it to make the world a better place, he does it because he needs to.

** In the spin-off AudioPlay/{{Big Finish|DoctorWho}} ''Unbound'' audio "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoUnboundE3FullFathomFive Full Fathom Five]]" --which depicts an alternate reality from the main series-- the alternate Doctor argues that his actions are always justified in the name of preventing scientists carrying out dangerous scientific experiments, but as a particular example of his ruthlessness, at one point this alternate Doctor [[spoiler:kills a man just on the chance that another scientist's work will be continued based on analysis of the man's condition. Considering that his victim had regained control of himself after the initial traumatic transformation and made it clear he just wanted to find a cure, it's hard not to feel that other Doctors would have been more willing to take the risk of other scientists trying to copy that research in the name of an innocent life]].

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': There are arguments on either side as to whether Scorpius genuinely believes that he has to save the rest of the galaxy from the Scarrans, or whether he's seeking selfish vengeance on them for his horrible childhood and doesn't give a crap about anyone else. Wayne Pygram, the actor, definitely thinks the latter.

* ''Film/GSaviour'': General Garneaux tried to forcibly procure a serum, supposedly to help with a food crisis. But in reality, he wanted to destroy it in order to implement a policy of selective starvation, all in the name of power.

** ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Wilson Fisk wants to destroy Hell's Kitchen so he can build over it, believing [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans he is doing the city a favor as the area is rampant with crime and poverty]], but his true motive is that he's traumatized from bad memories of growing up there and thus [[ItsAllAboutMe wants to destroy an entire town to give himself a sense of peace]]. In order to do this, he has amassed money and power by becoming a powerful crime lord and allying with violent Russian gangsters and two factions of the Hand as well as getting a full third of New York's police department to become {{dirty cop}}s on his payroll; he sets off a gang war when the Russian gangsters annoy him too much, murders everyone who crosses him [[AndYourLittleDogToo along with their friends and families]], and purposely exacerbates the crime and corruption of the Kitchen in order to justify tearing it all down, up to and including terrorising the residents and even ''bombing'' several buildings. When he is finally arrested for his crimes and on his way to court, he reluctantly admits to the armed police escorting him that he always thought of himself as the GoodSamaritan -- as in, explicitly comparing himself to the Bible parable -- but [[HeelRealization now accepts]] that he is actually [[ThenLetMeBeEvil the men of ill intent who attacked those the Samaritan saved]]...like, say, [[PrepareToDie armed police escorting a crime lord down a road that they should not have been on]].

* ''Series/TheShield'': Vic Mackey claims his corruption and involvement in Farmington's drug trade is motivated by his desire to protect innocent people, but it's clear he's motivated more by lining his own profits than anything else. However, he does show a genuine desire to help innocent people... which gradually fades as he becomes increasingly consumed by his greed and desire to avoid facing punishment for his crimes.
* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'': In Season 4, Ruon Tarka initially presents himself as a ruthless pragmatist who wants to stop the planet-destroying Dark Matter Anomaly by any means necessary. It's later revealed that his true objective is to gain control of the Anomaly so that he can use its energy to transport himself to what he believes will be a better alternate timeline, and by the end in pursuit of this objective he's repeatedly betrayed people who trusted him, nearly started an intergalactic war, endangered many billions of people, and finally attempted to commit genocide on an entire sentient species.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': The Xindi-Reptilian leader Commander Dolim is (mis)informed along with the rest of the Xindi leaders (there are five extant Xindi races: Reptilians, Primates, Arboreals, Aquatics and Insectoids) that humanity will destroy them in the future, so they engage in a pre-emptive strike against Earth in preparation for building an even stronger weapon to KillAllHumans. The Xindi are actually being manipulated by the extradimensional Sphere Builders, a shady cabal from a future timeline who want to prevent the rise of the Federation that will one day fight off the Sphere Builder invasion of the galaxy, but when Dolim learns of this, he greedily accepts their offer to [[WeCanRuleTogether make the Reptilians the dominant force of a new Xindi empire]] and turns on his allies, proving that his actions were never about protecting the Xindi, just about securing his power.

* ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead'': While Genichi Norose, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive president of NOZOMI]], claims to have good intentions, in that he wants to create a utopia by mind-controlling humanity to [[HumansAreBastards quash their primal urges]], the fact that he's a StrawNihilist pursuing his goals to horrific extremes fueled by [[AGodAmI a god complex]] make him just as bad as the humans he despises. In the end, he just wants power.
* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney:''

--->'''Athena Cykes''': They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but not yours! You never had good intentions, only lies to protect yourself with while blaming another. You, professor, are the embodiment of the dark age of the law!

* ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'': The Savior/[[spoiler:Rika/Mina]], leader of the cult Mint Eye, institutes a horrific regime of torture and brainwashing, while also having followers drink an elixir that breaks down their sanity and trying to destroy the Rika Fundraising Association. In V's route, the Savior claims, when conversing with the heroine, that this is all to create a paradise where everyone in the world can be happy and free from pain and suffering, and no one will have to suffer the [[FreudianExcuse bad childhood]] that the Savior did. However, in Ray's route, the Savior drops this rhetoric and reveals it to be a cover for being TheSocialDarwinist who believes the strong should dominate the weak. So in the end, the Savior simply wants to dominate others as payback for being dominated and abused as a child.
* In the first ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'', Eonia was exiled from the Traansbal Empire because he wanted to use the LostTechnology to expand it (read: conquer other worlds with it), claiming that he wants to increase the prosperity of the empire. But after he returns having found the Black Moon, he has no qualms about using it to destroy anyone who opposes him, even firing upon civilian ships or attacking the Fargo residential zone, resulting in countless innocent casualties. Shiva even says he's just using his "dreams" as a pretext for revenge against the empire.
* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': An implied version. The BigBad of the series [[spoiler:perceives herself as some sort of "savior" by trying to get people to "face despair before they're disappointed by hope", and seemingly thinks that she, Junko, ''is'' doing something good by saving the world from disappointing itself completely, possessing a very nihilistic viewpoint of humanity. That would be more apparent if she didn't resort to constant mass murdering and favorable manipulation of events with no way for her victims to '''hope''' to escape her grasp in the first place. She also claims that she kills and abuses her [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes loved ones]] because she wants to allow them to empathize with the despair she's felt her whole life, but the sincere apathy she demonstrates towards their lives shows that her love is superficial, and only wants to force ''her'' idea of that love onto others; that unfortunate sense of apathy she has prevents her from understanding what love actually ''is''.]]

** [[spoiler:Dr. James Sheridan exceeds Lucks in that he keeps claiming his actions will change the world, but in the end, it causes more harm than good]].
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** Blake originally believes that [[Characters/RWBYAdamTaurus Adam Taurus]] shares her idealism for a world where humans and Faunus are equal and peaceful; even after she abandons him in the Black Trailer for not caring if humans die during their train heist, Blake still assumes he's just gone too far in pursuit of a noble goal. [[spoiler:When they confront each other at the end of Volume 3, Blake understands for the first time that Adam never shared her future vision, believes peaceful equality is impossible, and instead wants to enslave humanity and destroy everyone and everything Blake loves as punishment for abandoning him. He later murders and usurps his boss, Sienna Khan, with a smile, because she isn't ruthless enough to lead the Faunus into a war they can't win against humanity. Later on, when Blake turns many Faunus against him, he tries to kill them all, and his own followers, with explosives, rather than admit defeat.]]
** The Albain brothers share many of Adam's same goals for Faunus supremacy but come off looking ''slightly'' better because they're not selfish assholes murdering people for petty spite. Much of their time is spent translating Adam's angry rants and needlessly cruel orders into something that sounds clever and pragmatic, which the rest of the White Fang will accept more readily.

** Zero from [[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueZero season 18]] talks a big game about the corruption of the Alliance of Defense and their countless "experiments and manipulations", but at the end of the day [[spoiler:he's just out for revenge because he feels cheated out of being the leader of the original Shatter Squad and is basically throwing a gigantic tantrum over it.]]

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* ''Literature/BloodAfterMidnight'': Kelvin presents himself as a benevolent {{cult}} leader who claims to be killing people in order to resurrect the demon Shadoth so that he can use the beast's power to [[EvilLuddite eradicate technology and secure jobs for his followers]]. Ultimately, this proves to be a lie, as Kelvin's nothing more than a selfish sadist who eradicates his own followers once his plans have been achieved, and is only using Shadoth to conquer the world for himself.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': Randall Boggs claims that he's going to revolutionize the scaring industry which most of the time would mean that he just wants to prevent Monstropolis from going down under due to scaring energy slowly faltering, but in fact he's only doing it for personal recognition and is more concerned with filling his pockets and getting to become the CEO of Monsters Inc than any legitimate saving as a stark contrast to [[spoiler:[[WellIntentionedExtremist Mr. Waternoose's genuine intentions of saving his company]]]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'': Kent Mansley seeks to destroy the Iron Giant, believing it to be a threat to America, but he's motivated first and foremost by furthering his own career. While he does have a point that Hogarth knows little to nothing about the Giant, like where it came from and why it's on Earth, he ruins his own case by acting so paranoid, reckless, and ruthless about the situation. His willingness to threaten to separate Hogarth from his mother, chloroform him, and potentially endanger his life by lying to General Rogard that the Giant killed him proves he'll go to any lengths to get what he wants. He finally unveils his true colors as a coward and a hypocrite to everybody when he recklessly orders a nuclear strike on the Giant, forgetting that the latter is still in town and everybody, including himself, will be caught in the blast radius. Once he fully comprehends that this will mean ''his'' death, he renounces his patriotism and tries to flee for his life.

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': The Xindi-Reptilian leader Commander Dolim is (mis)informed along with the rest of the Xindi leaders (there are five extant Xindi races: Reptilians, Primates, Arboreals, Aquatics and Insectoids) that humanity will destroy them in the future, so they engage in a pre-emptive strike against Earth in preparation for building an even stronger weapon to KillAllHumans. The Xindi are actually being manipulated by a shady cabal from a future timeline who want to prevent the rise of the Federation that will fight them off, but when Dolim learns of this, he greedily accepts their offer to [[WeCanRuleTogether make the Reptilians the dominant force of a new Xindi empire]] and turns on his allies, proving that his actions were never about protecting the Xindi, just about securing his power.

** The British Men of Letters in season 12. The original purpose of the Men of Letters was to simply research the paranormal and pass that knowledge on to hunters who would kill any threats to humanity. After the American chapter was wiped out by demons, the British Men of Letters were determined to avoid the same fate. So they made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the King of Hell]] that he could make demon deals for souls as long as demons never attacked the island and they began [[VanHelsingHateCrimes killing all monsters whether they were harming humans or not]]. 50 years later they get tired of watching the American hunters, who by now had never even heard of the Men of Letters, flounder on their own, so the British Men of Letters invaded, tried to force their system on the entire US hunter network, and when it is forcefully rebuked as far too brutal, they decide [[MurderIsTheBestSolution to eliminate the American hunters.]] Over the year the British chapter was in the US, they murdered as many, if not more, humans than the monsters, including murdering the very hunters they were meant to help!

* The Radical Destruction Bringer in ''Series/UltramanGaia'' is a cosmic entity that sent monsters and aliens to invade Earth to destroy humanity because it views them as a threat to universal peace. Come the last few remaining episodes of the series later unveils that it is nothing more but a {{hypocrite}} with a [[AGodAmI God complex]] as an excuse for their FantasticRacism against mankind, enslaving creatures and destroying planets.

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': Commander Dolim is informed along with the rest of the Xindi leaders that humanity will destroy them in the future, so they engage in a pre-emptive strike against Earth in preparation for building an even stronger weapon to KillAllHumans. The Xindi are actually being manipulated by a shady cabal from a future timeline, but when Dolim learns of this, he greedily accepts their offer to [[WeCanRuleTogether make the Reptilians the dominant force of a new Xindi empire]] and turns on his allies, proving that his actions were never about protecting the Xindi, just about securing his power.

** In the season 4 finale, as explained to Dean by the angel Zachariah, it's revealed that Heaven has allowed the Apocalypse to unfold because they desperately want to defeat Lucifer and his demons and finally create paradise on Earth. However, while Zachariah's boss the ArchangelMichael is a genuine WellIntentionedExtremist who believes it is his destiny to slay his brother and deeply regrets it, Zachariah himself doesn't give a damn about any cosmic plans and is only going along with it to further his own advancement in the angel hierarchy while ''feigning'' good intentions.
** The British Men of Letters in season 12. Their original purpose was to simply research the paranormal and pass that knowledge on to hunters who would kill any threats to humanity. After the American chapter was wiped out by demons, the British Men of Letters were determined to avoid the same fate. So they made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the King of Hell]] that he could make demon deals for souls as long as demons never attacked the island and they began [[VanHelsingHateCrimes killing all monsters whether they were harming humans or not]]. 50 years later they get tired of watching the American hunters, who by now had never even heard of the Men of Letters, flounder on their own, so the British Men of Letters invaded, tried to force their system on the entire US hunter network, and when it is forcefully rebuked as far too brutal, they decide [[MurderIsTheBestSolution to eliminate the American hunters.]] Over the year the British chapter was in the US, they murdered as many, if not more, humans than the monsters, including murdering the very hunters they were meant to help!

** During the two episodes in season 3 regarding Gorilla City, Grodd lures Team Flash to Gorilla City only for them to be captured and imprisoned with an impending death sentence on their heads. Grodd justifies himself by saying that he got Barry and friends purposefully imprisoned so he could get them to kill his hated superior Solovar, who according to Grodd is planning on invading Central City and laying waste to it out of paranoia, with his reason for helping being that he doesn't want to see his true home be destroyed. But as Barry soon finds out for himself, [[spoiler:Grodd is a liar. ''He'' is the one who wants to invade Central City, and by manipulating the Flash into fighting Solovar, he spreads fear and distrust among the apes ''and'' gets to usurp control from Solovar. After revealing his deception, Grodd goes on to try to nuke Central City, and when that fails leads an army of gorillas to assault the city, purely out of hatred and spite towards the humans living there.]]

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': There are arguments on either side as to whether Scorpius genuinely believes that he has to save the rest of the galaxy from the Scarrans, or whether he's seeking selfish vengeance on them and doesn't give a crap about anyone else. Wayne Pygram, the actor, definitely thinks the latter.
* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'': [[{{Paparazzi}} John Wheaton]] was a massive {{Jerkass}} gossip who constantly harassed the SpoiledSweet [[NiceGirl Tahani]] [[AttentionWhore Al-Jamil]] and excuses his constant mean-spirited attacks against her and the rest of the Fiction500 by claiming that he "speaking truth to power" and calling out the rich for living needlessly extravagant lifestyles. However, he eventually goes through a JerkassRealization where he confesses to Tahani that in reality, he was just a horrible gossip and he picked on Tahani in particular because [[GreenEyedMonster he was childishly jealous of her getting to live the high life]] while he had to desperately scrape a living by through running a crummy gossip blog. Him confessing this and admitting that he now feels guilty for having treated her so terribly helps him and Tahani spark an OddFriendship and inspires him to become a better person.

** In the "Armageddon" five-parter that opens Season 8, Despero shows up, intending to prevent the eponymous Armageddon from destroying Earth. [[spoiler:He genuinely does want to prevent Armageddon, but only so Earth still exists for him to ''conquer'' afterwards.]]

** [[MadScientist Davros]] claims that he's doing a service to the Kaleds by replacing them or transforming them into the Daleks, and believes that their OmnicidalManiac tendencies will bring an end to war. In reality, he's motivated by [[AGodAmI a god complex]] and [[EvilCannotComprehendGood cannot fathom an actual peaceful solution]].

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': During her days as the vengeance demon Anyanka, Anya describes herself as a [[RevengeAgainstMen righteous sword]] for all WomanScorned, but her behavior is more along the lines of a JackassGenie rather than the "patron saint of scorned women" she claims to be. She essentially tricks women into inflicting DisproportionateRetribution on former loved ones, and in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E9TheWish The Wish]]", when Cordelia's wish that Buffy never came to Sunnydale (because Cordelia blames her failed romance with Xander on his association with Buffy making him marginally cool enough to date) leads her to create a CrapsackWorld where vampires rule the town with no Slayer to keep them in check, Anya takes [[ForTheEvulz open pleasure]] in the results. A cut line from the script also has Alternate Giles tell her about the fact Cordelia died, and her shrug it off, saying, "It happens."

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': During her days as the vengeance demon Anyanka, Anya describes herself as a [[RevengeAgainstMen righteous sword]] for all WomanScorned, but her behavior is more along the lines of a JackassGenie rather than the "patron saint of scorned women" she claims to be. She essentially tricks women into inflicting DisproportionateRetribution on former loved ones, and in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E9TheWish The Wish]]", when Cordelia's wish that Buffy never came to Sunnydale leads her to create a CrapsackWorld where vampires rule the town with no Slayer to keep them in check, Anya takes [[ForTheEvulz open pleasure]] in the results. A cut line from the script also has Alternate Giles tell her about the fact Cordelia died, and her shrug it off, saying, "It happens."

** The same holds true for other vengeance demons like Anya's friend Halfrek, who grants wishes to punish parents and guardians who are disappointing, and especially the head vengeance demon D'Hoffryn.

** The same holds true for other vengeance demons like Anya's friend Halfrek, who grants wishes to punish disappointing parents and guardians, and especially the head vengeance demon D'Hoffryn.