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** The spinoffs carry this theme since the new villains are often {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s and the occasional person out for {{Revenge}}.

** ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': Marlin may be overprotective, but he [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold means well]] for his son, the titular Nemo. Dory herself is an [[TheDitz airhead]], but she's a genuine NiceGirl who does her best despite her disability. Dr. Sherman took Nemo because he mistakenly believed he would not be able to survive on his own with a deformed fin, and Darla is a "fish-killer" because she is a child who doesn't know any better. The other antagonists of the film are simply mindless predators, too overtaken by their instincts to think rationally.

* All eight characters from Dear Evan Hansen fit into this. Going from Zoe and Heidi, who, despite some flaws, are mostly seen as good people, to characters like Evan who, despite original good intentions, eventually messed up an entire family's life.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' reveals that most of the villains were actually good people whose plan to make the world a better place did [[GoneHorriblyWrong horribly go wrong]]. Most events of the series were actually the villains' attempts to use whatever means necessary to correct their mistakes.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': On the "white" side, Phineas and Ferb are short on flaws, as are many of their friends. On the "gray" side, While Candace is often the antagonist, she's neither evil nor truly spiteful -- only impulsive and a bit high-strung and has shown on occasion that she genuinely cares for her brothers. Buford is a card-carrying bully but is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who is clearly friends with his "victims". Even the BigBad Doofenshmirtz is quite AffablyEvil, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes loves his daughter dearly]], and is an absurdly FriendlyEnemy to Perry. His attempts to take over the ENTIRE! TRI-STATE! AREA! come across as more pretending to be evil to get attention than the evil acts of a power-mad lunatic. Suzy Johnson appeared to be a straight {{Jerkass}} in her first appearance, but later episodes revealed that she's a sweet girl whenever Jeremy's not around. The only really unpleasant recurring characters are Doofenshmirtz's parents in his tales of his HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood.

-> ''"There really aren't that many evil men out there. It's mostly just good men working at cross purposes."''
-->-- '''Digger''', ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}''

-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}''

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* Interestingly for an AlienInvasion film, ''Film/{{Evolution}}'''s conflict is summed up as this. The heroes (a biologist professor, a woman's volleyball coach, a wanna-be fireman, and a fiery redhead) may be a RagtagBunchOfMisfits, but they're overall decent people who nonetheless saved the world from certain destruction. The military play an antagonistic role in the story, but they have good reasons to contain and study the aliens in the first place (even if their leader is a {{Jerkass}}, but that's as bad as he gets). And as for the aliens, they're just hungry and confused animals with [[NonMaliciousMonster no concept of morality]], which doesn't make them evil, but their ravenous appetite and rapid-paced [[TitleDrop evolution]] make them a serious global threat.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. There are pretty much no villains, aside from maybe, possibly Asakura Ryouko, and even then she's just a really, really, really far [[WellIntentionedExtremist extremist]]. All forces are genuinely trying to create the world they think is ideal, and only very few seem too extremist for rationality. The Data Entity wants to just "observe"; the Organization wants to maintain the world as it is; the Time Travelers want to keep a StableTimeLoop. Haruhi herself isn't evil, just a {{Jerkass}} who wants a little more excitement, and Kyon just wants his peace. Even [[spoiler:the Anti-SOS Brigade has somewhat stinted yet good intentions: Fujiwara wants to keep his race from being "slaves to time travel", Kuyou Suou just wants to communicate in the first place, Tachibana Kyouko just thinks the world is more ideal under Sasaki's influence, and Sasaki wants to figure out the truth behind ''everything''. Not to mention the fact that it might even ''be'' better for Sasaki to become God.]]
* ''LightNovel/HybridXHeartMagiasAcademyAtaraxia'' is a pretty surprising and unexpected example of this trope. [[AllLovingHero Captain Kizuna Hida]] discovers the conflict's nature after realizing that his opponents weren't as bad as he thought. [[spoiler:The conflict between Earth/Lemuria and the AU/Batlantis Empire is this. The people from Batlantis invaded because Genesis, the pillar that supports the heaven and earth in their world, is crumbling down and they need to steal lots of magic power to stop this and prevent the end of the world. Unfortunately, with few exceptions, they don't really care what happens to the world they are invading or the people that live in it. On the other hand the people from "Lemuria" just want to defend their world and rescue those that were left behind when they were invaded. At first they aren't even aware that they are fighting against other humans.]]