History WellIntentionedExtremist / WesternAnimation

* Charlie Dog from ''LooneyTunes''. Poor guy, all he wants is to be loved but he goes at it so wrong...

** ''{{WALL-E}}'''s AUTO, the autopilot of the Axiom, refuses to let the inhabitants go back to Earth, even though this directive is more than 700 years old and plant life does exist (as shown at the end). But hey, he's a computer. He can't choose ''not'' to follow his programming. He's not so much a [[AIIsACrapshoot crazy AI]] as just following an ill-considered directive by a man seven centuries dead. Besides, realistically speaking, one healthy plant does not promise enough resources for the entire population of that huge ship.

* {{Pixar}} has some examples - Pete Docter, director of ''{{Film/Up}}'' and ''MonstersInc'', even said that he thinks a true villain ("I'm gonna wake up and do evil!") is an unrealistic character.
** Waternoose from ''MonstersInc'' is a father-like figure to Sulley and, his motto "We Scare because we Care" is genuine, as he really does wish to maintain the Monster World through providing energy from children's screams. So, to this ends, he builds a horrifying machine that will suck the screams out of children and, [[EngineeredPublicConfession as he says to Sulley]], is willing to "kidnap a THOUSAND children before he lets the company die...and silence anyone who gets in my way!"

** Charles Muntz from ''{{Film/Up}}'' just wants to catch a bird and prove that he was right. Unfortunately, his methods (after going completely crazy) include killing everybody who shows up at his refuge.

* {{Word of God}} claims that this is the way the Brain from ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' should be viewed. He wants to rule the world not for the sake of being a dictator, like his rival Snowball, but because he believes that he could do a much better job of it than the people currently in charge.

*** Tarrlok, one of the leaders of Republic City, seems to be this as well. He wants to stop the Equalist threat, but he treats all non-benders as Equalists and wants to remove their rights.

* The Earl of Lemongrab of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' arguably fits this trope. Although he's a mean, sour, bitter, nasty-tempered JerkassWoobie, his intentions are pretty good. All he wants to do during his reign of the Candy Kingdom is live in a place that's quite and clean, free of pranks, trouble-makers, and anybody who bothers him. But he tries to achieve this mild goal through the worst, most extreme methods- screaming constantly and sending everybody in the Candy Kingdom to the dungeon for ONE MILLION YEARS!!!

** Not that she cares if innocent people get hurt, mind you. Considering how she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness treated her own minions]] (that she created, one of which was a copy of her successor that she [[spoiler: killed after she refused to fight the original to the death]], basically her ''children'' [[spoiler: and created an actual son strictly to use in her plans]]. It's also implied that she was behind the first season's BigBad rise to power as a part of a XanatosGambit to obtain enough power to begin her conquest which lead to civil war on Meridian for over a decade. Her ideal world [[spoiler: inside her prison at the end of Season 2]] is one where everyone loves and obeys her, possibly meaning her "perfect world" mission statement is a self-delusion to cope with her ItsAllAboutMe tendencies. Also, her StartOfDarkness was when she killed (accidentally, but still a serious loss of control) her friend after their boss gave her position to said friend. She was also petty enough to sic a animated garbage can on a vagrant just for looking at her wrong. This is ''not'' a person you want running your universe.

** Mister Freeze is introduced as one of the "Revenge at any cost" variety, out to avenge himself on the CorruptCorporateExecutive who pulled the plug on the research he hoped to use to save his wife's life and caused the resulting FreakLabAccident that made him what he is.

* ''Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic'' - Dante, before and during his time in the crusades. His unquestioning loyalty in his religious mission causes him to justify the beating of a prisoner for protecting a woman by claiming that he deserved what he got for being a heretic. He also uses his status as a soldier of god to gain comfort from the women whom the beaten prisoner was protecting, despite promising his wife that he would remain true to their marriage.

* On ''{{Gargoyles}},'' [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Demona]] has undergone so much pain over the centuries due to humans that she basically wants to wipe them out so that gargoyles can inherit the Earth.

** The SequelSeries, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', features the [[MugglePower Equalists]], who want [[{{Muggle}} non-benders]] to be treated fairly. It's just that their means to achieve this are by the removal of [[ElementalPowers bending]] from the world.

** The SequelSeries, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', features the Equalists, who want [[{{Muggle}} non-benders]] to be treated fairly. It's just that their means to achieve this are by the removal of [[ElementalPowers bending]] from the world.

** The SequelSeries, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', features the Equalists, who want non-benders to be treated fairly. It's just that their means to achieve this are by utter extermination of bending.

** Not that she cares if innocent people get hurt, mind you. Considering how she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness treated her own minions]] (that she created, one of which was a copy of her successor that she [[spoiler: killed after she refused to fight the original to the death]], basically her ''children'' [[spoiler: and created an actual son strictly to use in her plans]]. It's also implied that she was behind the first season's BigBad rise to power as a part of a XanatosGambit to obtain enough power to begin her conquest which lead to civil war on Meridian for over a decade. Her ideal world [[spoiler: inside her prison at the end of Season 2]] is one where everyone loves and obeys her, possibly meaning her "perfect world" mission statement a self-delusion to cope with her ItsAllAboutMe tendencies. Also, her StartOfDarkness was when she killed (accidentally, but still a serious loss of control) her friend after their boss gave her position to her friend. This is ''not'' a person you want running your universe.

** The SequelSeries, ''TheLegendOfKorra'', features the Equalists, who want non-benders to be treated fairly. It's just that their means to achieve this are by utter extermination of bending.

** Katara starts veering into this territory late into the series, being willing to do more and more extreme things to save the world. Not to mention her constant complaining about [[spoiler:the Gaang accepting the help of the recently {{Heel Face Turn}}ed Zuko]]. She gets better eventually, though.
** Long Feng arguably comes off as this at first, with all his talk of preserving culture and avoiding panic, but by the end of his arc, it's clear that the extremism has overshadowed the intent enough to place him firmly in the villain category ([[spoiler:The killing of Jet, ''committed by his own hands'', comes to mind]]).
** Arguably, the Fire Nation as a whole can be seen as an entire ''nation'' of these, since a vast majority of its populace are essentially {{Punch Clock Villain}}s who, while they don't hesitate to take drastic actions to achieve their goals, do not have a strictly evil agenda. [[spoiler:That is, until you take [[BigBad Firelord Ozai]] into consideration. "Well-intentioned" is a rather poor choice of words to describe someone who reveals his intention to [[KillItWithFire incinerate the entire Earth Kingdom]] just to '''[[CompleteMonster QUELL A FEW UPRISINGS!]]''']]

* From what we've seen, Amon from SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' appears to be this, or at least is trying to appear to be this. Actually, the entire Equalist Movement.

*** Pixar added the final montage because, without it, test screeners debated whether humanity actually survives or only lasts a few weeks, which would have turned WALL-E, EVE, and Captain [=McCrea=] themselves into good examples of this trope. WordOfGod established humanity's re-flowering on Earth as well as the re-flowering of Earth's ecosystem, thus averting any interpretations of the adorable WALL-E actually being a cruelly selfish individual who drives humanity to extinction just to be with his girl.

** Nerissa is...debatable. The reason she is a former good guy is that she accidentally killed her friend Cassidy when she was given the [[AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome Heart of Candracar]] after it was taken from Nerissa. It's also implied that she murdered the one person who took pity on her after escaping her prison, and impersonated her so that she could [[spoiler: have a child to lead the rebellion against Phobos so she could steal Elyon's power]]. And she killed a living clone of one of the heroes she created. And she targeted their families with a monster that feeds on the hate of his enemies [[spoiler: who was created from the boyfriend of the same heroine she cloned, who was also her successor as the Keeper of the Heart)]]. Several of her attacks on Meridian and Zambala specifically target civilians to obtain Hearts, or just because she's vindictive and/or high on her power. By the end of the series, no one is buying her sob stories and knows that, for Nerissa, ItsAllAboutMe.

** Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} probably also counts. Her goal: to collect funds for wildlife preservation. Her method for achieving this goal: dress up as a ninja kitty and raid jewelry boxes.

* ''SpongebobSquarepants'': Mr. Krabs wants to prevent [[BigBad Plankton]] from taking over the world: by driving him to suicide using his fear of whales.
** ...Actually, no, there's no indication of that. He was [[{{Flanderization}} just being]] a JerkAss DesignatedHero.

** Arguably, the Fire Nation as a whole can be seen as an entire ''nation'' of these, since a vast majority of its populace are essentially {{Punch Clock Villain}}s who, while they don't hesitate to take drastic actions to achieve their goals, do not have a strictly evil agenda. [[spoiler:That is, until you take [[BigBad Firelord Ozai]] into consideration. "Well-intentioned" is a rather poor choice of words to describe someone who reveals his intention to [[KillItWithFire incinerate the entire Earth Kingdom]] just to '''[[CompleteMonster QUELL A FEW FUCKING UPRISINGS!]]''']]

** In ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'', Megatron has a seemingly good idea, in principle. He wants to eliminate political squabbling, which results in nothing ever getting done, by uniting all machines under one mind. Of course, there are problems with this - Megatron is egomaniacal, wanting his mind to be the one in charge, sacrificing the minds of others and destroying those who would stand in his way (the Maximals). Also, he wants a purely technological world, eliminating all organic races. Which already happened on Cybertron.

** In ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'', Megatron has a seemingly good idea, in principle. He wants to eliminate political squabbling, which results in nothing ever getting done, by uniting all machines under one mind. Of course, there are problems with this - Megatron is egomaniacal, wanting his mind to be the one in charge, sacrificing the minds of others and destroying those who would stand in his way (the Maximals). Also, he wants a purely technological world, eliminating all organic races.

* From what we've seen, Amon from ''TheLegendOfKorra'' appears to be this, or at least is trying to appear to be this. Actually, the entire Equalist Movement.

* From what we've seen, Amon from [[TheLegendOfKorra]] appears to be this, or at least is trying to appear to be this. Actually, the entire Equalist Movement.

* The Earl of Lemongrab of ''AdventureTime'' arguably fits this trope. Although he's a mean, sour, bitter, nasty-tempered JerkassWoobie, his intentions are pretty good. All he wants to do during his reign of the Candy Kingdom is live in a place that's quite and clean, free of pranks, trouble-makers, and anybody who bothers him. But he tries to achieve this mild goal through the worst, most extreme methods- screaming constantly and sending everybody in the Candy Kingdom to the dungeon for ONE MILLION YEARS!!!

** Arguably, the Fire Nation as a whole can be seen as an entire ''nation'' of these, since a vast majority of its populace are essentially {{Punch Clock Villain}}s who, while they don't hesitate to take drastic actions to achieve their goals, do not have a strictly evil agenda. [[spoiler:That is, until you take [[BigBad Firelord Ozai]] into consideration. "Well-intentioned" is a [[{{Understatement}} rather poor]] choice of words to describe someone who reveals his intention to [[KillItWithFire incinerate the entire Earth Kingdom]] just to '''[[CompleteMonster QUELL A FEW FUCKING UPRISINGS!]]''']]

** Arguably, the Fire Nation as a whole can be seen as an entire ''nation'' of these, since a vast majority of its populace are essentially {{Punch Clock Villains}} who, while they don't hesitate to take drastic actions to achieve their goals, do not have a strictly evil agenda. [[spoiler:That is, until you take [[BigBad Firelord Ozai]] into consideration. "Well-intentioned" is a [[{{Understatement}} rather poor]] choice of words to describe someone who reveals his intention to [[KillItWithFire incinerate the entire Earth Kingdom]] just to '''[[CompleteMonster QUELL A FEW FUCKING UPRISINGS!]]''']]

** Arguably, the Fire Nation as a whole can be seen as an entire ''nation'' of these, since a vast majority of its populace are essentially {{PunchClockVillain}}s who, while they don't hesitate to take drastic actions to achieve their goals, do not have a strictly evil agenda. [[spoiler:That is, until you take [[BigBad Firelord Ozai]] into consideration. "Well-intentioned" is a [[{{Understatement}} rather poor]] choice of words to describe someone who reveals his intention to [[KillItWithFire incinerate the entire Earth Kingdom]] just to '''[[CompleteMonster QUELL A FEW FUCKING UPRISINGS!]]''']]

** Arguably, the Fire Nation as a whole can be seen as an entire ''nation'' of these, since a vast majority of its populace are essentially PunchClockVillains who, while they don't hesitate to take drastic actions to achieve their goals, do not have a strictly evil agenda. [[spoiler:That is, until you take [[BigBad Firelord Ozai]] into consideration. "Well-intentioned" is a [[{{Understatement}} rather poor]] choice of words to describe someone who reveals his intention to [[KillItWithFire incinerate the entire Earth Kingdom]] just to '''[[CompleteMonster QUELL A FEW FUCKING UPRISINGS!]]''']]

** Long Feng arguably comes off as this at first, with all his talk of preserving culture and avoiding panic, but by the end of his arc, it's clear that the extremism has overshadowed the intent enough to place him firmly in the villain category.