History NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist / AnimeAndManga

* ''Literature/DateALive'': [[OmnicidalManiac Isaac Ray Peram Westcott]] states that he wants to [[KnightTemplar purge the world]] of [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters mankind for being a cruel and failed]] race to create a new world where mages will rule in peace without wars, conflicts, and fights with humans. Curiously, over the series, Westcott showed to be even more sinister and cruel by unleashing all kinds of disgusting and brutal crimes that humans can evoke upon the world. Not to mention that Westcott is willing to use even the members of his own race as pawns just like he do to humans, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder manipulating and discarding]] them like garbage just like he always did. He also seems to be more focused on becoming an Inverse Spirit to give him powers of a [[GodhoodSeeker God]] to rule the world and change the concept of life and creation according to his own image, thus ruling over reality like its new God after unleashing chaos and destruction to wipe out all humans. To achieve his goals, Westcott caused mayhem and misery to all major races of the series: from Spirits, Quasi-Spirits, Wizards, Irregulars, Humans, Inverse Spirits, and even Mages. At the end, Westcott is not a saint who is fighting to save his own race but just a selfish bastard who thinks only of himself.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Frieza tries to invoke this trope, viewing the Saiyans as AlwaysChaoticEvil and telling Goku that he did the universe a favor wiping them out. Of course, it falls flat considering the fact that Frieza is the one who uplifted the Saiyans and turned them into the genocidal SpacePirates they were to begin with, and his killing them all was out of fear [[ShootTheDangerousMinion that they would rise up and destroy him]] rather than any sense of altruism.

* ''Literature/FixedDamage'': Valery turns on and betrays Chrome because the forbidden spell, "Chains Of Despair" has the potential to be the power they need to defeat the Devil King. While that does ultimately prove true, it isn't long before the so-called heroes she "helped" in this manner prove that they're not worthy of it. Her P.O.V. side-chapter reveals that this was just a cover story. What she really wanted was to bring [Darkness] into the world for research data, and didn't care at all about the Devil King, Chrome, Yuno, or anyone else.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** In the ''Brotherhood'', manga, and [[Film/FullmetalAlchemist2017 live-action]] versions of the story, Shou Tucker and his family were in danger of being in poverty. His "solution": turn first his wife and then his dog and daughter into pained chimeras, just for the sake of him being an alchemist, a job he's no good at. It's safe to say that by the time he does that to his dog and daughter, he has no good intentions, only caring about his paycheck. He's even worse in the live-action film where he doesn't bother to hide his ill intent anymore. In all versions, he tries to deliver a NotSoDifferentRemark to Ed (in between punches as Ed [[TalkToTheFist is beating the living hell out of him]] and yelling he's not like him), but [[NotSoSimilar the reality]] is that while Ed and Al performed Human Alchemy out of a misguided attempt to save someone they loved, Tucker turned his family into chimeras because [[EvilIsPetty he couldn't bear the thought of losing a steady paycheck.]] [[spoiler:It's no surprise [[DraggedOffToHell Tucker ends up in Hell for his actions]], if the "In Memoriam" Omakes are anything to go by.]]

** At ''[[Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa The Conqueror of Shamballa]]'''s climax, BigBad Dietlinde Eckhart claims that her desire to destroy Ed and Al's world is out of fearing their alchemic abilities and the possibility of them conquering her world. Besides her being a [[ThoseWackyNazis literal Nazi]], her intent to use mystical powers to conquer her own world only serves to make her completely and utterly hypocritical.
* ''Literature/TheGeniusPrincesGuideToRaisingANationOutOfDebtHeyHowAboutTreason'': Despite claiming that she's trying to save people by converting them to Levetia's teachings, [[SinisterMinister Caldmellia]] seems to also believe that destabilizing the continent and taking advantage of conflict is the best way to make them desperate for "salvation." When Wein offers her a solution that will both save the city of Mealtars from the feuding princes and allow the Church of Levetia to take credit for helping them, Caldmellia considers refusing because this plan wouldn't result in the bloodshed she wants. Her inner thoughts reveal that she enjoys death and chaos so much that she wouldn't mind dying in any conflict she starts. To further illustrate this, she figured out the intention of Wein's book, "The Dignity of Imperial Court," but wants to spread its message so that the masses will hate their rulers for their mismanagement, making the masses easier to convert to Levetia.
* ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'': The Guard Captain of the Desert Kingdom claims to have done what he did for the good of the country, but the more his internal monologue goes on the clearer it is that he cares about nothing but his own aggrandizement.

** PlayedWith in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack''. While Char publicly instigates the conflict in that movie under the justification of fulfilling his late father's ideals, other statements he makes and actions he takes throughout imply he just wanted one last battle against his old rival Amuro. At the same tie, other things he says in private seem to indicate he believed [[ColonyDrop dropping Axis onto Earth]] and forcing humanity to migrate into space would be better for them in the long run. At the very least, regardless of how much he personally bought into those things, his main drive seems to have been to finally settle the score with Amuro, with achieving his father's dream being second in priority.
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'': Dekim Barton banks on Treize's reputation as an extreme yet principled man to raise his army with the claim that they're following in his footsteps. Dekim, however, is just a power-hungry selfish man piggybacking on the Khushrenada legacy for his own ends.

* ''Literature/HeavyObject'' had these three people from the Legitimacy Kingdom, the protagonists' faction:
** Chancellor Flide, BigBad of Volume 2, claimed that trying to get the male protagonists, Qwenthur and Havia, killed by an [[HumongousMecha object]] and setting up the four super country alliance ([[BadBoss including his own soldiers]]) to get wiped out in a trap was for the safety of his country, but in actuality, he wanted to protect his position and preserve the power balance decided by objects with no regards to the innocent lives lost.
** Prizewell City Slicker, BigBad of Volume 3, claims to be preserving the Legitimacy Kingdom's official language, but he's really nothing more than a xenophobic hypocrite [[BadBoss who sees nothing wrong with his own men dying,]] not to mention [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil the fact he wants to reinstate slavery]].
** Flag Eggnog, BigBad of Volume 11 and the first prince of the Warta District, claimed his constant gaffes and wars were beneficial to the country, but Havia didn't buy it.

* ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'': [[SinisterMinister Archbishop De Ville]], unlike the rest of the warmongering Terraist Church, only pretends to care about their cause of making Earth prosperous and populated once again, but he's just in it for power. This is particularly demonstrated in one scene where he preaches purity, only to enjoy a bottle of whisky when no one's looking.

* ''Anime/LycorisRecoil'': Unlike Shinji, Majima's intentions are very much in the name of chaos and destruction. Being a well-known international terrorist with connections to mafia and Yakuza groups the world over, and one of the minds behind the original Skytree incident. In Episode 10, his plan to expose the public to the existence of Lycrois and the police's incompetence involves people killing each other to start a mass panic.

* In the ''Anime/MyOtome'' anime, the FauxAffablyEvil BigBad Duke Nagi's stated goal is to bring an end to the Otome system that enforces CombatByChampion and sends powerful warriors off to their deaths, also killing their leaders if they lose and potentially destabilizing nations. He enforces this by mass-depowering all of the Otomes, leaving them and the rest of the world defenseless so he and the terrorist group Schwarz can subjugate them with their extradimensional alien Slave army. And not only do his plans involve mass-murder, but he later reveals that [[spoiler:he feels it's wrong for the Otome to feel all the burdens of war because he thinks ''[[MisanthropeSupreme everyone]]'' should feel it, especially the common people since he feels they want it the most. Except he doesn't think he should suffer for desiring war]].
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** In the second ''Naruto'' film, ''Anime/NarutoTheMovieLegendOfTheStoneOfGelel'', [[BigBad Haido]] claims he wants to use the titular stone's power to create a utopia, but this turned out to be lies to attract followers. His real goal was to use it to become too powerful to stop in a bid for world conquest.
** From the main series, Danzo Shimura is an interesting case. He wants what's best for the Leaf Village... so long as it ends up with him being in charge of everything. His backstory reveal also implied that the primary motivation for his actions and deeds was a sense of inferiority and jealousy towards Hiruzen Sarutobi rather than pragmatism and patriotism like he was first portrayed as. He straddles the line between this and a proper WellIntentionedExtremist, because while he does have the strong convictions of a WellIntentionedExtremist, said convictions are built on the core of a frustrated man that could never get over the fact that he didn't measure up to his more popular friend in the eyes of the public, taking the extreme measures he did because his rival wouldn't, to show he wasn't 'soft' like Sarutobi Hiruzen, never mind the fact that in his prime, the Third Hokage was considered one of the most powerful ninja in the world, and had no qualms about sending genin aged ChildSoldiers during the Third Ninja war, as shown in Kakashi Gaiden.

* ''Anime/PokemonSecretsOfTheJungle'': Dr. Zed claims that he wants to gain access to the healing energy to help countless humans, but it's speedily made clear that he's only interested in his ego and proving himself right. The superiors he murdered to reactivate the project even told him they would restart it once they found a safe way to extract the energy without compromising the Zarude's home, but he simply couldn't wait or let go of his obsession.
* ''Anime/ProjectAKo: Uncivil Wars'': Lady Xena created a cult and told her followers that she wants to destroy all universes because they are full of suffering and corruption, and by doing so, they may create a pure universe where everyone's souls can reincarnate and live in harmony. They all believe it, except not only does she take clear pleasure in mass-murder when she does finally start blowing up planets and fleets, and [[BadBoss abandon most of her followers to die near the end]], but she reveals to A-ko and B-ko in the final battle that her ''real'' motive is to become the supreme god of her new universe, meaning all her good intentions were lies.

* ''Anime/PsychoPass'':
** [[DiabolicalMastermind Shogo Makishima]], one of the villains of Season 1, claims to be trying to dismantle the corrupt Sibyl System so that humanity can choose how to live their own lives, but in reality he just wants to see humanity give into their most primitive impulses.
** ''Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem'': In ''Case 1: Crime and Punishment'', Kyoka Tsujigai runs the rehabilitation ward Sanctuary and applies horrific BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood to reform criminals, while having anyone who knows the truth assassinated, all of which she claims is necessary to maintain order. Then it turns out she herself has been using her brainwashed slaves to carry out illegal activities like disposing of hazardous nuclear waste, and making a huge profit from it, exposing her real motive as simple {{Greed}}.

** The cause of the series conflict is an alien HiveMind in the form of the Incubators who manipulate and destroy humans, especially young girls, in order to harvest the energy of their negative emotions and use it to prevent the end of the universe. It would qualify as working for TheNeedsOfTheMany if they weren't willing to sacrifice every ''[[AliensAreBastards other]]'' living thing in the universe to do so, effectively leaving themselves as the sole beneficiaries of all their actions. And because they're a HiveMind, their whole argument boils down to "I am many, [[ItsAllAboutMe so my needs comes before everyone else's.]]" Then in ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'', [[spoiler:they try to rewrite reality once again to make all this suffering exist once more, not because of any true necessity for the survival of the universe, but merely because they see wasted potential in the energy that is used]]. Ultimately, they are mass-producers who only care about numbers as ends to themselves and are immensely greedy and impossible to satisfy. Unsurprising, considering the complete of LackOfEmpathy and lack of value towards any life other their own, which was the reason for their actions to begin with. They had cosmic powers and they could have chosen on their own to make someone wish about a better reality and yet they never looked into it, never really cared about alternate solutions.
** ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory'': Alina Gray's anime counterpart is a rare straightforward example of this in the franchise, in contrast to the genuinely well-intentioend antagonists and her game counterpart. Despite being the one who created the Doppel barrier as part of the Magius' mission to stop the Incubators' aforementioned scheme [[spoiler:for the sake of protecting her fellow Magical Girls]], she is in reality [[NotInThisForYourRevolution not a genuine believer in such goals]] and [[spoiler:in the finale has no qualms about trying to [[FinalSolution turn all humanity and Magical Girls into Witches]] for no reason other than [[{{Narcissist}} her own artistic vision]]]].

* ''Literature/ReincarnatedAsASword'': Murellia makes herself sound, and believe, that her actions are all for the best interests of the cat-kin, but all she really cares about is being in charge and ruling the world with the power of evil.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': The 90's anime gave the Black Moon Clan [[AdaptationalHeroism more sympathetic motives]] for their actions, though the same can not be said for Wiseman. Unlike the rest of the clan who wanted to rewrite time to make a world they can call home, he retained his manga counterpart's plans of manipulating them so that he could destroy all life in the universe.
* ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess'': While Steyr claims the Peacemakers are to prevent humanity from destroying itself, she is really just looking for an excuse to kill as many as she wants.
* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': Keith Kepler claims his terrorism and warmongering against Westalis is for the sake of Ostania as a country, but he doesn't care about Ostanians as people and only cares about satisfying his bloodlust towards Westalis. He doesn't care that his bombs will kill Ostanian citizens nor that a war would bring them untold suffering and death.

* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': Quinella, the BigBad of the Alicization arc's first half, claims that her turning the people of UW (including her Knights) into sword golems was for their own safety, but it's made clear that she's nothing but a {{narcissist}}ic ControlFreak who's no better than any of the other psychotic villains Kirito has faced, such as [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sugou Nobuyuki]] or [[PlayerKilling the Laughing Coffin guild]]. Quinella's refusal to allow the existence of any military force that she can't control has doomed the realm of humanity, and this realization helps Kirito [[HeelFaceTurn win Alice over to his side]].

* ''Literature/UltimateAntihero'': The United World Government plans to unite all the remaining nations under five larger ones seemingly for the sake of world peace, but it's really a power grab for the top five nations.

* ''Literature/UlyssesJeanneDArcAndTheAlchemistKnights'':
** Count La Trémoille talks a lot about how France must surrender to England if they want to survive, but it's very obvious his main concern is becoming the guy that will be remembered as "the savior of France". The final proof is that he attempts to sabotage Montmorency's efforts to liberate Órleans, which would a major victory for France, because if they win it there is no way he will get his so-called "peace talks" with England.
** Enlil claims to be exterminating humanity in order to create a peaceful utopia, but his idea of a utopia is to rule it as their leader and inhabit it with figures with no free will of their own.

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'': Enrico Pucci states that his world of Heaven would lead to the end of suffering due to humanity [[PrescienceIsPredictable experiencing the entirety of their lives]], leading to them accepting their fates and removing surprise/trauma of the unknown. Yet, all his claims of being chosen by God stems from that he's merely fulfilling the desires of [[GreaterScopeVillain DIO]], who was the one who conceived this EvilPlan when he sought to TakeOverTheWorld.Given that DIO has been constantly portrayed as a sociopath with a God complex, the ulterior motive of the plan is heavily implied to give him even more absolute authority unto himself than the actual concern for others.

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'': Enrico Pucci states that his world of Heaven would lead to the end of suffering due to humanity [[PrescienceIsPredictable experiencing the entirety of their lives]], leading to them accepting their fates and removing surprise/trauma of the unknown. Yet, all his claims of being chosen by God stems from that he's merely fulfilling the desires of [[GreaterScopeVillain DIO]], who was the one who conceived this EvilPlan when he sought to TakeOverTheWorld. While Pucci genuinely believes this will save humanity from tragedy and loss, given that DIO has been constantly portrayed as a sociopath with a God complex, the ulterior motive of the plan is heavily implied to give him even more absolute authority unto himself than the actual concern for others.

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'': Enrico Pucci states that his world of Heaven would lead to the end of suffering due to humanity [[PrescienceIsPredictable experiencing the entirety of their lives]], leading to them accepting their fates and removing surprise/trauma of the unknown. Yet, all his claims of being chosen by God stems from that he's merely fulfilling the desires of [[GreaterScopeVillain DIO]], who was the one who conceived this EvilPlan when he sought to TakeOverTheWorld. Given that DIO has been constantly portrayed as a God complex sociopath, the ulterior motive of the plan is heavily implied to give him even more absolute authority unto himself than the actual concern for others.