History Main / ObliviouslyEvil

*** Light? Evil? "I have no idea what you're talking about."

* Many Nazis were just regular people who wanted to support their country and show patriotism. Many didn't even know that their government was... you know, murdering millions of innocent people.

* Vimes's description of Carcer from the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''[[{{Discworld/NightWatch}} Night Watch]]'' is described as behaving this way.

* ''{{Persona 4}}'': [[spoiler:Taro Namatame represents what the protagonist might have become had he given up for the easy answers in the game, and jumps to stupefying conclusions about the Midnight Channel and the TV World that lead him to kidnapping people and abandoning them in a [[DarkWorld sinister parallel world]] for their own alleged safety. Not all too unsympathetics, as he is a XanatosSucker who eventually repents when rubbed in the face with the overwhelming evidence of his wrongdoings. A tragically terminated relationship followed with heavy substance abuse might help explain his lapses in judgement, as well.]]

* The assassin Jonathan Teatime from the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''[[{{Discworld/Hogfather}} Hogfather]]'' does not seem to entirely understand that his actions (and he himself) are evil. As Susan Sto-Helit says when confronting him, "You were the little boy who didn't know the difference between throwing a stone at a cat and setting a cat on fire." Teatime is only an apprentice assassin. Not because he can't perform well, but because he is known within the Assasssin's Guild for ''lack of elegance'' on his assignments, which in his case means not only killing the target but nailing the target's head to the wall and killing his family, servants, and household pets on the way out for fun. On the other hand, he expresses a desire for friends, and seems to very sincerely wish to please his Guildmaster. As it is implied that he killed his own parents as a small child, Teatime may simply have been born without empathy and never developed the moral sense to understand what was wrong with his actions. In fact, he sometimes seems confused about why he is not liked by his companions.

*** Maybe they do. If they're so smart and kind to some, then why shouldn't they have the ability to be smart and cruel to others?

* In ''{{Warhammer40000}}'' some followers/[[TheHeartless demons]] of Nurgle are [[AffablyEvil very happy]] and just want to [[AndCallHimGeorge hug others]] and make them a part of the family of grandfather Nurgle, they don't get why being [[BodyHorror rotting zombies with gaping weeping sores]](among other things) isn't desirable to others. Nurgle is, quite literally, likened to a jovial grandfather. He's easily the nicest of the Chaos gods.

** Not quite. They understood that humans were intelligent, but assumed [[spoiler:they were also hive-minds like the Buggers were. And so vivisecting individual humans in an attempt to communicate was just the equivalent of a friendly "hello".]]

** Or her [[cross: love]] lust for [[LoveMakesYouCrazy Light distracted her.]]

* While Sid of ''ToyStory'' is a mean little brat, he does not understand that [[FantasticAesop the toys he loves to mutilate and destroy are alive]]. As far as he can tell, he's just playing games.

* MarkTwain [[http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/07/exclusive-unpublished-mark-twain-essay-concerning-the-interview.html has]] an extended analogy wherein he describes ''interviewers'' this way:

* Proof that it doesn't have to be creepy: this is the modus operandi of ''TheAddamsFamily'', who are genuinely nice people--who just happen to not quite realize that no one else shares their quasi-immortality, or finds torture, explosions, and other such morbid pasttimes amusing.

* The assassin Jonathan Teatime from the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''[[{{Discworld/Hogfather}} Hogfather]]'' does not seem to entirely understand that his actions (and he himself) are evil. As Susan Sto-Helit says when confronting him, "You were the little boy who didn't know the difference between throwing a stone at a cat and setting a cat on fire." Teatime is known within the Assasssin's Guild for overkill on his assignments, which in his case means killing not only the target but the target's family, servants, and househould pets. On the other hand, he expresses a desire for friends, and seems to very sincerely wish to please his Guildmaster. As it is implied that he killed his own parents as a small child, Teatime may simply have been born without empathy and never developed the moral sense to understand what was wrong with his actions. In fact, he sometimes seems confused about why he is not liked by his companions.

# This character has no idea they're doing ''anything'' objectionable. Contrast the KnightTemplar, WellIntentionedExtremist, and WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, who realize that others may object to their unusual methods, and the MinionWithAnFInEvil and PunchClockVillain who try to avoid KickTheDog moments.

* [[spoiler: Sohma Akito]] from ''FruitsBasket''. She does a HeelFaceTurn at the send of the series, after spending about 120 chapters ruining the other characters's lives.

* One of the killers in ''CriminalMinds'' was hallucinating that he was in a war zone and that his victims were members of the opposing army. In actuality, he was running around construction sites and his victims were innocent bystanders.