History PlayingWith / WellIntentionedExtremist

** Bob seeks to find the meaning of [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Life, The Universe, and Everything]] by mass murder, torture and genocide.

** Bob seeks to eliminate human suffering and bring the humanity a paradise... [[NeonGenesisEvangelion by turning all living beings into orange juice]] [[AssimilationPlot and forcefully merging their souls.]]

* '''Deconstructed''':
** Despite his good intentions, many people turn on Bob for his actions.
** In the end, Bob goes down in history as an evil ruler.
** After being defeated by Alice, Bob realizes all the sacrifices he made were for nothing because his plan failed, and has a VillainousBSOD as he [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone reflects on what he's done]].
** Bob's extremism ends up causing the exact thing he wished to avoid.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob is OK with the world hating him, so long as the world he creates is a [[TheExtremistWasRight better one in the end.]]

** In the end, Bob goes down in history as a CompleteMonster of a ruler.
** After being defeated by Alice, Bob realises all the sacrifices he made were for nothing because his plan failed, and has a VillainousBSOD as he [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone reflects on what he's done]].

* '''Exploited''': Turns out, [[BigBad Alice]] is a CompleteMonster, and is using Bob's WellIntentionedExtremist tendencies and ([[AntiHero Anti-]]) [[HeroicSpirit Heroic Zeal]] to [[BatmanGambit make it easier for her to]] KillEmAll.

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob seeks to find the meaning of [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Life, The Universe, and Everything]] by mass murder, torture and genocide.
* '''UpToEleven''': Bob seeks to eliminate human suffering and bring the humanity a paradise... [[NeonGenesisEvangelion by turning all living beings into orange juice]] [[AssimilationPlot and forcefully merging their souls.]]

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Justified''': Bob is deluded.

* '''Subverted''': Bob lied about his intentions.

* '''Double Subverted''': Bob claims to have lied about his intentions, because the greater good involves him seeming like "the bad guy".

* '''Deconstructed''': Despite his good intentions, many people turn on Bob for his actions.

* '''Averted''': Bob is a CardCarryingVillain.

* '''Lampshaded''': "I killed billions...to save ''millions''!"
** "Millions is less than billions, numb-nuts!"

** KnightTemplar with a point.

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Straight''': Bob seeks to maintain order in society... [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans by installing a totalitarian dictatorship in which he is the sole ruler]].

* '''Double Subverted''': Bob claims to have lied about his intentions, because the greater good must involve his seeming like "the bad guy".

* '''Parodied''': Bob wishes to save the world... by [[PokeThePoodle ripping the tags]] [[MattressTagGag off of every mattress in the world.]]

* '''Lampshaded''': "I killed billions... to save ''millions''!"

* '''Exploited''': Turns out [[BigBad Alice]] is a CompleteMonster, and was using Bob's WellIntentionedExtremist tendencies and ([[AntiHero Anti-]]) [[HeroicSpirit Heroic Zeal]] to [[BatmanGambit make it easier for her to]] KillEmAll.
* '''Defied''': "There are instances in which the means are too rotten to justify any ends."

Should you not go back to WellIntentionedExtremist, the world will no doubt suffer for it... and I shall see to it that you will not live to see such a tragedy take place.

* '''Exploited''': ???

** KnightTemplar

* '''Reconstructed''': Bob is OK with the world hating him, so long as the world he creates is a [[AndItWorked better one in the end.]]

* '''Reconstructed''': Bob is OK with the world hating him, so long as the world he creates is a better one in the end.

** Bob is a Knight Templar who only ''thinks'' that his goal is good.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Straight''': Bob seeks to maintain order in society... [[HobbesWasRight by installing a totalitarian dictatorship in which he is the sole ruler]].
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob seeks to maintain order in society by mass murder, torture and genocide.

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob seeks to maintain order in society by murder, torturing and killing babies
* '''Justified''': Bob is deluded

* '''Subverted''': Bob lied about his intentions
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob claims to have lied about his intentions, because the greater good must involve his seeming like "the bad guy"
* '''Parodied''': Bob wishes to save the world... by banning ice cream music videos starring pumpkin gangsters
* '''Deconstructed''': Despite his good intentions, many people will turn against Bob for his doings.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob is OK with the world hating him, so long as the world is a better one in the end.

** Bob is a Knight Templar who only ''thinks'' that his goal is good
* '''Enforced''': "If we want our show to have more depth, we should give our 'villains' an understandable motivation and at least partially sympathetic goals"
* '''Lampshaded''': "I killed billions... to save ''millions''"
** "Millions is less than billions, numb-nuts"

* '''Defied''': "There are instances in which the means are too rotten to justify any ends"

* '''Inverted''': Bob, the AntiHero, has a villainous/selfish reason for assisting a cause like feeding the hungry.

* '''Straight''': Bob seeks to maintain order in society... by installing a totalitarian dictatorship in which he is the sole ruler.

* '''Justified''': Bob is deluted

* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': Bob wishes to save the world... by banning ice cream music videos starring pumkin gansters

* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Defied''': ???

Back to WellIntentionedExtremist.

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob seeks to maintain order in society by murder, toruring and killing babies

* '''Deconstructed''': Despite his good intentions, many people will turn against Billy for his doings.

* '''Exaggerated''': KnightTemplar
* '''Justified''': ???

* '''Subverted''': ???

* '''Parodied''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': A villain uses evil methods as a good thing.
* '''Straight''': Billy wanted to make world peace, but is killing criminals one by one.

* '''Averted''': Maybe his methods aren't for good intentions.