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2nd May '13 6:53:01 PM promptjump

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25th Apr '13 7:48:13 PM Dragonmouth

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** He may have stopped himself after ''realizing'' what he was doing would kill more innocent than guilty, but prior to that he pulled some pretty risky moves, including opening fire on a crowd of civilians in order to get to said [[PresidentEvil corrupt President]] which could have backfired horribly and killed someone. I'd say he qualifies.
* Regina, a.k.a. The Evil Queen, from ''Series/OnceUponATime''. She is a powerful sorceress who has murdered several innocent people, has an [[RevengeBeforeReason irrational grudge against SnowWhite]], and wipes the memories of everyone in her ''world'' because of that grudge. [[spoiler:But she was also [[FreudianExcuse raised by a literally heartless queen]] who murdered the [[InterClassRomance servant boy]] she was in love with after a young Snow was manipulated into revealing their relationship]]. Also, the adoptive son she genuinely loves is disgusted with her past and (at least at the beginning of the series) wants nothing to do with her. She tries to reform, but [[BeingGoodSucks things always seem to get worse for her when she does]]. And it helps that actress Lana Parilla is an absolute ''master'' of making kicked-puppy-dog-faces.

4th Mar '13 4:37:31 AM atheist723

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*''{{Smallville}}'' have a very large number of villains, and while many earlier ones are AxCrazy Psychopaths, middle and later seasons have introduced a lot of {{Tragic Monster}}s and these.
**''Hidden'': Gabriel Duncan's father spent a long time trying to convince people of the mutating effect of [[GreenRocks kryptonite]] but failed and ended up being a meteor freak himself, and asked his son to kill him. Feeling that the plague of the meteor infection will grow out of hand after the second, larger meteor shower, he decides to nuke the entire town. Not before warning, and when she attempts to talk him out of it, kidnapping [[VillainousCrush Chloe]], though.
**In season eight, [[spoiler:they managed to make Doomsday to be something like this because of the horrible life Davis, his human host, has had.]] He was [[ForWantOfANail abandoned as a kid]] as opposed to [[HappilyAdopted having loving]] [[MuggleFosterParents foster parents]] like Clark, and is cursed to bring nothing but death and destruction.

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7th Jan '13 12:21:07 PM MisterCPC

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* [[TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] almost winds up becoming this. Throughout the entire series he's been betrayed, used, exploited, and almost all his friends and loved ones have wound up dead. In season 8 his last potential love interest is killed and the President betrays him which proves to be the last straw, sending on him on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to expose the conspirators behind the day's events which in turn lead to his love interest dying and then mercilessly '''slaughter''' them, which turn out to be [[spoiler: former President Charles Logan and Russian President Yuri Suvarov]]. What sets him apart from most of the others is he does still have some rationality and does overall still refuse to harm any innocent life; when pressured into the fact that going down this path would lead to several casualties in the ensuing war between the United States and Russia, he realized what he was doing was in the wrong.
** He may have stopped himself after ''realizing'' what he was doing would kill more innocent than guilty, but prior to that he pulled some pretty risky moves, including opening fire on a crowd of civilians in order to get to said [[PresidentEvil corrupt President]] which could have backfired horribly and killed someone.  I'd say he qualifies.

31st Dec '12 1:03:53 PM ricjac

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* Played with in ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' episode ''Absolute Power'' with Daniel Jackson, the show's typical {{Woobie}} of various other types. [[spoiler:In the episode, Daniel is trying to sensitively obtain information about the Goa'uld from a small child, who touches his head in an apparently hostile act, as it renders him unconscious. When he awakens, he proceeds to have all of the needed knowledge revealed to him and proceeds to build the weapon that would apparently defend the Earth, but at the cost of having become at least a JerkassWoobie if not outright evil. He fantasizes about very violent things until, finally, his goal is met. He then proceeds to take over the most powerful weapon in the world from his SupervillainLair and destroy Moscow before waking up and realizing that having absolute power to defeat the Goa'uld in one fell swoop is not such a good idea after all. He wakes up to discover that it was AllJustADream, but during]] the episode, it was implied that WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds is actually simply a part of his subconscious, with or without special knowledge. Not surprising, really.

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* Played with in ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode ''Absolute Power'' with Daniel Jackson, the show's typical {{Woobie}} of various other types. [[spoiler:In the episode, Daniel is trying to sensitively obtain information about the Goa'uld from a small child, who touches his head in an apparently hostile act, as it renders him unconscious. When he awakens, he proceeds to have all of the needed knowledge revealed to him and proceeds to build the weapon that would apparently defend the Earth, but at the cost of having become at least a JerkassWoobie if not outright evil. He fantasizes about very violent things until, finally, his goal is met. He then proceeds to take over the most powerful weapon in the world from his SupervillainLair and destroy Moscow before waking up and realizing that having absolute power to defeat the Goa'uld in one fell swoop is not such a good idea after all. He wakes up to discover that it was AllJustADream, but during]] the episode, it was implied that WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds is actually simply a part of his subconscious, with or without special knowledge. Not surprising, really.

1st Dec '12 12:00:36 AM Valjean

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14th Oct '12 11:19:02 AM Mullon

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