History PaintHeroBlack / TropersVToZ

* Possessing one of the most feared abilities in the setting and willing to use it to suit her own ends, this innocent looking girl has invaded innocent minds and stolen closely guarded secrets. She's romantically interested in someone far younger than her [[CovertPervert to an often unhealthy degree]]. And for some reason [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she can't remember names very well]]. [[spoiler:Nodoka Miyazaki, ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'']]

* A good-for-nothing high school delinquent who from low class society cannot go far in life without relying on violence, luck, and his best friend's brilliance. He also bears irrational hatred toward his TeenGenius classmate who happens to be both taller and richer than him. [[spoiler:Katsuya Jounouchi/Joey Wheeler, Anime/YuGiOh]]

* One of the most mysterious and frightening characters in this well-known manga, she's [[ExactWords believed by several characters]] to be a famous movie monster, the leader of a gang and/or an evil witch. Able to go from sweet and charming to nightmarish at a moment's notice. Once came across a girl pining after the school's most popular boy and proceeded to steal both of them without trying. [[spoiler:Sawako Kuronuma, ''Manga/KimiNiTodoke'']]

* Obnoxious troll hunting down a group of proud warriors whose most notable crime is [[AssholeVictim murdering Nazis]]. Regularly disrespects women and cheats on his eventual wife. [[JojosBizarreAdventure Joseph Joestar]]
* One of the most mysterious and frightening characters in this well-known manga, she's [[ExactWords believed by several characters]] to be a famous movie monster, the leader of a gang and/or an evil witch. Able to go from sweet and charming to noghtmarish at a moment's notice. Once came across a girl pining after the school's most popular boy and proceeded to steal both of them. [[KimiNiTodoke Sawako Kuronuma]]

A clumsy, stupid, thoughtless oaf rejected by his own people becomes a war hero by accident and is manipulated by the leader of the galactic parliament into endorsing a bill signing away the civil rights of all the people in the galaxy, making him complicit into the galaxy's descent into decades of fascism and civil war. [[spoiler: Jar-Jar Binks, ''StarWars'']]

* She is believed to be borderline psychotic, and accusations of cannibalism have been lodged. While those are unlikely to be true, she has still fought off one of her best friends who just wanted to take her to her favorite sort of social event, and made another friend, a farmer, believe that one of the big money-making crops was changing its nature, for the lolz. Oh, and she wrote a racist ditty once. [[spoiler:Pinkamena Diane ("Pinkie") Pie, [[''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and again]].]]
* She once destroyed a public building with lightning, and a popular fan video depicts her as beating some parentally-abused people who just want some love--any of the four types would do--to death. She also [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking misdirected a]] YouMeanXmas [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking present that never reached the intended recipient in consequence]].[[spoiler:Derpy Hooves, [[''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and again]].]]

* They go into other countries and manipulate the leaders until they [the leaders] don't know which end is up. Despite practicing ThouShaltNotKill, they have been responsible for many deaths. [[spoiler:The Impossible Missions Force]]
* This man, gone back in time to an ancient civilization, participated in a riot that nearly destabilized it, and was involved in hostage taking. He has also bombarded one of his own people's colonies, and tricked a nearby country into joining his country's war, and was an accessory to the murder of a senator who knew too much. When one of his greatest personal heroes was waist-deep in carrion, he threw more onto him. [[spoiler:Captain Benjamin Sisko]]
* This prisoner, perhaps the most dangerous in the country, has the warden wrapped around his little finger. He also blackmails the head guard, a kindly ex-toymaker, into looking the other way whenever anything suspicious is going on. [[spoiler:Colonel Robert Hogan]]
* She stopped a cadre of dedicated environmentalists and sent the leaders to their likely deaths. She has also urged a close friend to go through with a genocidal mission, helped blow up a high school, and has been enlisting child soldiers in a series of guerilla strikes. [[spoiler:Sarah Jane Smith]]
* A malcontent, somewhat chauvinistic, for a long time he kept company with a man wanted in Spain as an accessory to homicide. He also helped destroy all the non-Humans on a Human colony world, and has demonstrated a reckless streak. [[spoiler:James Robert ("Jamie") [=MacCrimmon=]]]
* An honorary gang member who has been a party to genocide. [[spoiler:Melanie]]

* Had she lived, her actions would have doomed Earth to being overrun by a local evil and the galaxy to destruction by an external evil. [[spoiler:Edith Keeler]]

* Why was he promoted? Because he killed ([[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars or so he and everyone else thought]]) a mentally ill young man who had an abusive guardian. He later fought and crippled his best friend, leaving him for dead. Then he ran and hid in the shadow of one of said friend's atrocities. [[spoiler:Obi-Wan Kenobi]]
* This madwoman has thrown the whole city into chaos over a plaything, turned a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' expy to stone (he may or may not be [[AndIMustScream conscious]]; we can't tell), and nearly ''stopped all of time''. Also denounced her future sister-in-law to her face ([[spoiler:she thought it was her, anyway]]) as evil. [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle]]
* She has been seen to fill others with her own will without their consent, and disrupted a formal occasion trying to get wild animals to ignore their self-preservation instincts. She nearly denied the country the water it needed due to her wounded pride. Oh, and she also walked out on an employment contract with no explanation to her boss. [[spoiler:Fluttershy]]
* She cheered when her sister showed the early stages of a life-threatening illness, has been observed to cheat in athletics, and has been seen keeping intelligent life forms penned up with no expressed reason. [[spoiler:Applejack]]
* She is believed to be borderline psychotic, and accusations of cannibalism have been lodged. While those are unlikely to be true, she has still fought off one of her best friends who just wanted to take her to her favorite sort of social event, and made another friend, a farmer, believe that one of the big money-making crops was changing its nature, for the lolz. Oh, and she wrote a racist ditty once. [[spoiler:Pinkamena Diane ("Pinkie") Pie]]

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* A gluttonous coward who only fails to jeopardize his team's goals by sheer luck and frequently puts a dog in lethal danger. [[spoiler: Shaggy, ''ScoobyDoo'']]

A histrionic, overexcitable, possibly mentally unstable military officer who constantly draws attention to himself in any social situation he is in, strikes ridiculous poses, and got rewarded with the most prestigious command in his military for the accomplishment of having his old ship blown up by the enemy under his watch. Launched a suicide attack and only got saved because the commanding officer of another vessel intervened to rescue him. Is the third (at least) in a succession of reckless, irresponsible captains of ships with the same name. [[spoiler: Va'Kel Shon, captain of the USS Enterprise-F, ''StarTrekOnline'']]

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* A questionably sane old man, who repeatedly lies to the love of his life, as well as stealing her beloved pet, and selling him to a girl he barely knows. [[spoiler: Mr Hoppy, ''Literature/EsioTrot'']]

* A questionably sane old man, who repeatedly lies to the love of his life, as well as stealing her beloved pet, and selling him to a girl he barely knows. [[Mr Hoppy, ''Literature/EsioTrot'']]

* A dirty hippie who destroys a city, then [[spoiler: shoots his brother]]. [[spoiler:[[{{Trigun}} Vash the Stampede]]]]

An arrogant rebel who attacked his fair and benevolent boss unprovoked, constantly gloats about cheating, and is an irredeemable womanizer, flirting even when he already has a girlfriend. He also once destroyed an entire world, and tricked another world full of people out of a legendary weapon, as well as interfering heavily in the economy of said world. [[spoiler:Kirito from SwordArtOnline]]

* Why was he promoted? Because he killed ([[StarWarsTheCloneWars or so he and everyone else thought]]) a mentally ill young man who had an abusive guardian. He later fought and crippled his best friend, leaving him for dead. Then he ran and hid in the shadow of one of said friend's atrocities. [[spoiler:Obi-Wan Kenobi]]

A young man who turned against his father and his country, repeatedly lied to his friends, caused the death of a girl who loved him, and betrayed both his sister and his childhood friend. He enslaves hundreds of people to take over the world, subjects everyone to a brutal tyranny, and in the end, it all works out ''exactly as he wanted'' [[spoiler:Lelouch vi Britannia]]