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11[[caption-width-right:331:TheDevil tries his hand at theology.]]
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13->''"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."''
14-->-- '''[[Literature/TheFourGospels John 1:5]]''', Literature/TheBible (KJV)
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16The villain has developed a [[EvilPlan devious plot that is prepared for anything]] that the hero might do—except for [[SpannerInTheWorks one glaring flaw]]. For some reason, the villain has not considered the possibility of a HeroicSacrifice. After all, you'd never catch ''him'' throwing his life away to save a bunch of lazy, ungrateful civilians who don't care about anybody except themselves. Heck, even saving your TrueCompanions comes after [[ItsAllAboutMe saving your own life]]. Only an idiot would throw his life away like that—and only because he didn't realize how much more profitable saving it would be.
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18Too bad for these villains that MachiavelliWasWrong, for they cannot understand the concept of goodness or generosity because there is no guaranteed return on that investment. Why do they have so much trouble understanding good behavior?
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20[[TheHero Our Hero]] goes and makes the HeroicSacrifice anyway, thereby ruining the villain's plan with a DidntSeeThatComing that a more cunning villain really should have seen coming. This is one of the ways those with HonorBeforeReason can continue to defeat the BigBad. This is a major problem for villains who really believe they aren't so different, and think heroes [[YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood could have used their powers for Evil]], as opposed to villains who are just [[BreakThemByTalking screwing with the Hero's head]].
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22Occasionally, greater {{justifi|edTrope}}cation is provided by having a hero who the villain knows is a {{Jerkass}} and the AntiHero decide to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redeem himself]] at the critical moment, or the villain will meet a hero who decides to TurnTheOtherCheek instead of fighting back. An alternative version involves the Hero giving in to the villain's manipulative demands, agreeing that, yes, WeCanRuleTogether (usually to the "horror" of his sidekicks, LoveInterest, and TrueCompanions) [[FakeDefector as a ruse]] to defeat the villain. The villain falls for it because it's what he'd have done if the situations were reversed.
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24The inability to comprehend good altruistic behavior ([[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished especially when it results in punishment]]) is a common trait in [[TheCynic cynics]], {{Straw Nihilist}}s, {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinists]], {{Knight Templar}}s, and [[TheSociopath sociopaths]].
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26Contrast ItsAllAboutMe, when the villain expects the hero to behave not selfishly, but generously toward him. Contrast VirtueIsWeakness, which is similar in practice but different in principle: a villain ''does'' understand noble qualities like love, friendship, and altruism... but holds them in disdain, and believes themselves "stronger" by not holding onto them. When the trope is Evil Cannot Comprehend Good, the villain can't understand why the hero saved him from falling; in ItsAllAboutMe, the villain can't understand why the hero insists on arresting him after. It can get a little fuzzy when the character decides to be generous: did he murder his son's romantic rival because he didn't realize his son would hate it — this trope — or because he was so caught up in the notion of his own generosity that he didn't care what his son thought — ItsAllAboutMe?
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28A SuperTrope to BewareTheHonestOnes and SubTrope of WrongAssumption. Contrast GoodIsOldFashioned, SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids, and the InvertedTrope of GoodCannotComprehendEvil. Compare BlueAndOrangeMorality and ShallowCannotComprehendTrueLove. Often involves PsychologicalProjection. When someone evil ''is'' capable of understanding or admiring good, it may lead to SympathyForTheHero. If the villain thinks ''he'' is the good guy and is baffled at the heroes wanting to stop him, it's because he's ObliviouslyEvil. CuriousQualmsOfConscience could be similar to a milder form — characters who don't understand the good and the conscience within themselves.
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34[[index]]
35* EvilCannotComprehendGood/AnimeAndManga
36* EvilCannotComprehendGood/ComicBooks
37* EvilCannotComprehendGood/FanWorks
38* [[EvilCannotComprehendGood/AnimatedFilms Films — Animation]]
39* [[EvilCannotComprehendGood/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
40* EvilCannotComprehendGood/{{Literature}}
41* EvilCannotComprehendGood/LiveActionTV
42* EvilCannotComprehendGood/TabletopGames
43* EvilCannotComprehendGood/VideoGames
44* EvilCannotComprehendGood/{{Webcomics}}
45* EvilCannotComprehendGood/WesternAnimation
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48!!Other examples:
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53* ''Animation/RedShoesAndTheSevenDwarfs'': When a captive Merlin tries to reason that perhaps they can lend Regina the red shoes without harming Snow White, the Magic Mirror explains it's not that simple. Once they are worn by a host, they will grant said-host's desire and bond permanently. Merlin then points out that it's possible to remove the shoes, as Snow White did so in order to save him from drowning. This puzzles the Magic Mirror, who wonders why Snow White would want to save Merlin (a tiny green dwarf) more than she wanted to be beautiful. He deduces Merlin probably used a love spell on her, but Merlin figures out it means she genuinely loves him despite his appearance.
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57* PlayedForLaughs on ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'' with Creator/GregDavies who, while not evil in real life, plays the Taskmaster as a petty, evil, self-absorbed, maniacal, narcissistic control freak. He once actually ''got mad'' that the contestants on Series 12, Episode 6 weren't being mean to each other: he tasked them with buying gifts for one another, expecting them to find things to ridicule and demean one another, and was completely perplexed that they instead tried their darnedest to find nice gifts each other would enjoy. He then takes cruel pleasure in the idea that four contestants will go without when Alex points out that only ''one'' contestant gets to keep all the gifts... and then [[RousseauWasRight the contestants begin offering to let each other keep their respective gifts no matter what]]. Greg loses it.
58--> '''Greg:''' STOP BEING '''NICE!!!'''
59--> '''Guz:''' We've defeated the format of your show.
60--> '''Greg:''' [[EvilIsPetty You haven't, because I'm gonna go backstage and cut that painting up!]]
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63[[folder:Mythology & Religion]]
64* ''Literature/BookOfProverbs'': Proverbs 28:5: "Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely."
65* UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}: One parable told in homilies and other sermons recounts a man who is given a glimpse of both Heaven and Hell. He is shocked to discover that they are physically identical — an infinitely vast banquet hall, set for the most sumptuous feast imaginable, but for which all the utensils are far too long and unwieldy to ever bring food to one's own lips (and in some versions, everyone is chained to their seats and have no hands). Those in Hell go forever hungry, while those in Heaven instinctively use their utensils to feed someone else. In (but not all) some versions of this parable, this trope is what's stopping the damned from enjoying the feast.
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69* Wrestling/EddieKingston's 2007 and 2008 was spent beating up and destroying most of the young technicos on the Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} roster, breaking Wrestling/ShaneStorm's nose twice, bruising everyone from Tim Donst to [[Wrestling/TheColonyWrestling Soldier Ant]]. Along comes Lince Dorado, who was beginning to become TheScrappy and is getting roundly booed by every crowd. Eddie continues the beatings on Lince, who continues to get up and keep asking for more. Kingston announces that he will never again wrestle Lince because his tenuous grip on sanity gets confused every time Lince gets up for the people that boo him.
70* When Wrestling/TedDiBiaseJr underwent a HeelFaceTurn in 2011 (which was basically him being more friendly and no longer acting like a RichBitch), other people like then-heel Wrestling/MichaelCole and Wrestling/JinderMahal expressed confusion over why he would do this.
71* In a promo leading to Foley's first run with the WWF Championship, Wrestling/VinceMcMahon admitted that he couldn't understand why Wrestling/MickFoley sacrificed his body and stayed in cheap hotels for ''them'' (the fans).
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75* ''Radio/OldHarrysGame:'' Thomas Crimp, a man so vile he sickens even the Devil ("and it takes a lot to shock me.") A recurring plot is other characters trying to instil some basic concept of goodness in him, but it's pretty much a lost cause. Thomas can get that you're ''supposed'' to offer condolences when a loved one dies, but doesn't know why. Even when he does make the effort, he tends to ruin it moments later by doing something unspeakably selfish or crass (like boasting about how he did something good).
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80* In ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'', Creon cannot grasp that Antigone loved ''both'' her brothers unconditionally even when they [Eteocles and Polyneices] were mortal foes.
81* In ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'', The [=SQUIP=] is an incredibly advanced quantum supercomputer that is ''very'' good at engineering and executing highly favorable plans for itself and its user, but with a total LackOfEmpathy and a strong penchant for [[ManipulativeBastard manipulation]]. However, because of this, it also sees no benefit and thus no reason for anyone to behave erratically, loyally, selflessly or anything else it considers human error. [[spoiler: It doesn't even consider the idea that, even after Jeremy shut him out and insulted him courtesy of the [=SQUIP's=] influence, [[TrueCompanions Michael would still be loyal and want to help him]].]]
82* ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'': King George III is portrayed as being sincerely confused when he hears that George Washington willingly stepped down as head of state rather than becoming a monarch, and remarks that he didn't realize that was something people could do.
83* In ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'' The Musical, Veronica breaks up with JD, horrified by his murders of their classmates. J.D. however, blames the student body for their breakup [[spoiler: and resolves to blow them up during a pep rally]].
84* In Arthur Miller's play, ''The Pussycat and the Expert Plumber who Was a Man'', a talking cat starts climbing the political ladder under the alias Tom Thomas, by blackmailing anyone who could expose him. In the end, his gubernatorial campaign is thwarted by an expert plumber (who is a man), who [[HonorBeforeReason doesn't care what secrets (real or fabricated) might be exposed about him, so long as people realize they've been voting for a cat]]. The cat is one of the few examples to actually realize he misjudged humanity (well, a few of them, anyway).
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88* At the end of the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' fangame ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorneyCase5TurnaboutSubstitution'', when the [[BigBad Mysterious Bust Killer]] turned out to be a [[spoiler:[[StrawNihilist nihilistic]] SerialKiller who claimed that she murdered 12 people, ''including her own brother'', just [[ForTheEvulz for the sake of it]], it left everyone in the courtroom shocked. [[BitchInSheepsClothing Rhea Wits]] thinks murder is the highest form of living — so logically, killing as many people as she likes isn't just okay, it makes her a would-be higher life-form. [[InsaneTrollLogic And why is it okay to kill people?]] Because they're "not really living." However, Apollo, having realized the [[YouMonster insane woman]] Rhea truly is, bluntly states that she is clearly incapable of loving anything or anyone, not ''[[EmptyShell even herself]]''.]]
89* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'':
90** When everyone confronts the Mastermind, [[spoiler:Junko Enoshima, being pretty much despair personified, manages to get everyone to cross the DespairEventHorizon by revealing that the world outside the school has been destroyed, and all their efforts to escape have been for nothing, as there's no guarantee they'll even survive if they step outside. Makoto, having become Ultimate Hope at this point, manages to give everyone their HeroicSecondWind, to which Junko freaks out and screams "What the hell are you!?"]]
91** Earlier, Byakuya is utterly shocked when he [[spoiler:misses a crucial detail involving Sakura's death, while Makoto manages to discern it with ease, and completely flips when he learns the reason: he never imagined that Sakura would commit suicide in order to protect her friend]].
92** The second is [[spoiler:swapping Sakura's note, which explained her [[HeroicSuicide decision to kill herself]], with one that made it seem like she did it out of despair and hatred for the group. This goads Hina into trying to get everyone killed out of anger, which ultimately fails]]. After the trial, Monokuma reveals the ''real'' [[spoiler:suicide note]], certain that this would [[spoiler:turn the other students against Aoi for basically attempting to kill them all over nothing. Instead, realizing that Sakura killed herself for their sake inspires the remaining students to rally against him and the killing game, something he didn't even consider]].
93* Completely subverted in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' in ''Heaven's Feel''. [[spoiler:Despite trying to destroy the world in large part ForTheEvulz, the ''reason'' Kotomine would do that is he understood good perfectly well. He's just unable to actually do it and feel satisfied no matter how hard he tries. Apart from his background material, he gambles away his entire magic crest to save Sakura knowing that Shirou's righteous spirit will make him protect her from ''anything''. In fact, his XanatosSpeedChess was entirely reliant on exploiting the 'good' nature of Shirou.]]
94* Minor example in one ending of ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors''. The BigBad [[spoiler:Ace/Hongou]] tries to bribe a dying [[spoiler:Snake]] not to kill them via a murder-suicide by [[spoiler:claiming he has access to hospitals that could save the should-already-be-dead Snake]]. Indeed, [[spoiler:Hongou]] is so [[ItsAllAboutMe self-absorbed]] and [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] that they can't imagine that [[spoiler:Snake doesn't '''want''' to live after Ace killed his beloved sister, Clover, and just cares about making sure Ace pays for it -- the idea of caring about someone so much that losing them causes your own life to be meaningless is utterly alien to him]].
95** More blatant is [[spoiler:him asking why the group is so upset at him for murdering Clover, as well as engineering the Ninth Man's death and trying to kill Snake since they'd barely even known any of them for a few hours. Basic human empathy seems beyond him]].
96* ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice For All]]'': [[spoiler:Matt Engarde hires professional assassin Shelly de Killer to kill his rival, then uses a hidden camera to film the crime as insurance in case de Killer tries to blackmail him. However, de Killer places great value on the trust between himself and his clients and is outraged at this betrayal. Engarde clearly never considered that [[EvenEvilHasStandards some crooks might have higher standards than him]].]]
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100* ''WebAnimation/NomadOfNowhere'': [[TheSociopath The Undertaker]] doesn't understand why The Nomad wound seem upset about someone destroying the inanimate objects he brings to life, only assuming that he must need them for protection. [[spoiler: This turns out to be his undoing, after he smashes a music box The Nomad brought to life, leading to the normally peaceful Nomad to show The Undertaker ''why'' he's one of the most feared beings in the world.]]
101* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'':
102** ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy The Chorus Trilogy]]'' has two prominent examples:
103*** [[SociopathicSoldier Locus]] seems to have a lot of trouble with this; he wonders why Agent Washington and the Reds are so concerned about and assign meaning to the robotic [[DeadpanSnarker Lopez]] and [[TheComicallySerious Freckles]]. Later, during his fight with Washington in the finale of Season 12, he's incredibly confused as to why someone who he sees as similar to himself would try to fight for something other than orders given to him by a superior. It gets to the point where Locus stops fighting for a moment to ask Washington, prompting this TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
104--->'''Locus:''' I'm a professional, Agent Washington. I complete my--\
105'''Washington:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah, you complete your missions at all cost. You can say that as ''many'' times as you want, but I know what you '''really''' are. You're a coward!\
106'''Locus:''' ...Ridiculous.\
107'''Washington:''' [[ConsummateProfessional You keep trying to play yourself off as some sort of weapon. That you don't care about anyone or anything.]] [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype But the fact that you're trying so hard to understand me breaks your entire act!]] No matter how hard you may want to be, you're not a machine, you're a murderer. But you hide behind the idea in your head, [[SunkCostFallacy because you're too afraid to take responsibility for what you've done.]] I know I used to be a real piece of shit, [[TheAtoner but at least I'm trying to do something about it!]]\
108''[Locus [[VillainousBreakdown completely loses his cool]]]''
109*** After the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Blood Gulch Crew]] manages to stop [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive the Chairman's]]]] plans to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out the innocent people of Chorus]] and expose his corruption to [[TheFederation the UNSC]], he smugly gloats that they are now surrounded by his personnel security force and are as good as dead... only for them [[ShutUpHannibal to remind him that they also just stopped his plans]] and they then prepare for their LastStand. In response, [[spoiler: the Chairman]] can only repeatedly tell them that they are about to die, as if he does not understand that they may actually be ''okay'' with [[HeroicSacrifice dying knowing that their actions saved an entire world.]]
110** A variant occurs in [[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheShisnoTrilogy Season 15]], with it being more like "{{Revenge}} Cannot Comprehend {{Forgiveness}}: [[spoiler:[[SerialKiller Temple]], TheLeader of [[PsychoPrototype the Blues and Reds]], complains to the Blood Gulch Crew that they're not still angry with the UNSC for them having sold them all off to [[MadScientist Project Freelancer]] as nameless CannonFodder... and is completely flabbergasted when [[TVGenius Simmons]] just dismissively says that it's all "water under the bridge."]]
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114* Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom:
115** In the timeline ''Literature/RedsARevolutionaryTimeline'':
116*** A communist revolution takes place in America in 1933 as a result of the Clutch Plague. Despite some [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized dirty business]], the new leadership [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified does not sink into the depravities of the Soviet Union]], and chooses not to execute political opponents like Robert Taft; even allowing them to form political parties and participate in government. This confuses a Soviet diplomat, and ''really'' pisses off Joseph Stalin.
117*** After the American Revolution, Henry Ford flees to Nazi Germany, and becomes an active participant in the Nazi war machine, killing countless people through forced labor. When the war turns against the Nazis, Ford begs England and France for asylum, thinking they would want his services to fight against communism. He is genuinely shocked when both reject him on basis of the war crimes he participated in, and turn him over to the communist American government.
118** This pops up on several occasions in the ''Literature/ZhirinovskysRussianEmpire'', in which the balance between goodness and political reality is frequently highlighted:
119*** A standoff between the UIS and the US over Kosovo has pushed the two countries to the brink of WorldWarThree. Slobodan Milosevic fires the first punch and attacks Zhur, not thinking Bob Kerrey would care about Kosovo. It escapes him that Serbian and Russians then-recently [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide committed horrible crimes in Chechnya and Bosnia]], and that Kerrey wouldn't want another horrible attack committed against an ethnicity. When Kerrey does order an airstrike against the Serb army, Milosevic is left looking like an idiot.
120*** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Vladimir Zhirinovsky]] floods the world with fake US passports, thinking that a flood of illegal immigrants would destroy America with racial strife. It doesn't occur to him that Americans aren't as racist as he is.
121*** The UIS is able to engineer a crisis between Iran and Saudi Arabia that could [[NoBloodForPhlebotinum devastate world oil supplies]] and pushes America in either [[SadisticChoice backing down and losing credibility, or going to war with Iran, and causing a worldwide energy crisis]]. The UIS is blindsided when [[spoiler: [[TakeAThirdOption Bob Kerrey writes an apology letter to the moderate Iranian president]] ]].
122*** Whenever someone objects to or tries to prevent a war crime, expect the perpetrator to react with confusion and[=/=]or annoyance.
123** ''Literature/TheAngloAmericanNaziWar'': Among the many, many twisted schemes of the Nazis produce in the Second World War, they unleash a series of horrific biological plagues upon the Allies, believing that they wouldn't bother to vaccinate [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Indian and other non-white soldiers]], and they show little concern for their auxiliary troops.
124* Inverted in [[http://www.giantitp.com/articles/XbsQgS9YYu9g3HZBAGE.html this article]] by Rich Burlew, author of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. The players in a role-playing game he was [[GameMaster DMing]] assumed that two villains who were partnered together were [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder inevitably going to betray one another]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once they had achieved their goals]]... it honestly never occurred to the players that [[VillainousFriendship the two villains might be lifelong friends]] who, no matter what, would simply never betray each other.
125* In [[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2009/09/10/vampires-crosses/ this]] blog post, Fred Clark theorizes that this is the reason vampires fear crosses. To summarize: The vampire's philosophy on life is that the secret to immortality lies in power and predation. The cross represents the opposite idea: that immortality comes from humility and the rejection of earthly power. This idea is so contradictory to the vampire's worldview as to be physically repellent.
126* The Harmsters from ''Blog/HamstersParadise'' are brutal, bloodthirsty sapient hamster descendants who revel in war and bloodshed: indeed, it's ingrained in them even to their pre-sapient animal ancestors which were apex predators that ate their prey alive and thus were deeply psychologically geared to experience euphoric glee at inflicting pain and suffering. This, however, led them to be completely incapable of understanding benevolent concepts such as friendship and affection, to the point that kindness, altruism and love are considered almost like evils in their culture-- to the point that they wipe out several dawning sapients due to said sophonts and semi-sophonts displaying empathy and caring for their own kind: something the Harmsters found outright abhorrent. [[LaserGuidedKarma This ends up spelling death for their entire species]] as their lack of altruism meant they simply left their sick to die and never developed any real medical knowledge, so when a contagious cancer starts spreading through their populations after a massive world war they have no idea what actually causes it or how to prevent its transmission till it was already too late to do anything.
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130* In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hWTYx91z7w Hero]]'', a fan dub of the battle between Shirou Emiya and Gilgamesh in ''Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks'', Shirou says he wants to avenge Illya, whom Gilgamesh murdered. Gilgamesh yells, "I don't understand why you care!" Shirou replies, "Because somebody should!"
131* In ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'', this seems to be a factor in the MistakenForBadass situation between Sparadrap and Dark Avenger. Sparadrap considers that Dark Avenger and him are FriendlyEnemies, while Sparadrap's InvincibleIncompetent tendencies have convinced Dark Avenger that he's actually an elite player displaying ObfuscatingStupidity. Dark Avenger's standard reaction to Sparadrap's friendly lines can be summed up as "quit that little trick you use to get your opponent's guard down, it doesn't work on me."
132* PlayedForLaughs by WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick, who surmises the popularity spell in ''Film/TeenWitch'' as "having all the awesomeness of the messiah with none of that martyr shit".
133* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'':
134** PlayedForLaughs in his review of ''Film/{{Casper}}'', when the titular ghost is stunned to see Critic praising the movie and resorts to a GroinAttack.
135** This is played relatively straight in the Critic's review of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat''. Earlier, Peter Soulless, who bought the film rights to the Dr. Seuss stories, says that they needed to add extra morals to compensate for the longer running time. The Critic replies that ''Literature/ThePolarExpress'' and ''Film/MaryPoppins'' were able to keep their principal morals focused with the longer running time, but Peter dismisses those movies for not having pop-culture references. At the end, Soulless insists that he understands the source material because the Dr. Seuss stories are "just simple kids' books". In response, the Critic gives him a heartfelt speech that they are ''not'' "just simple kids' books", and why they deserve more respect; the original stories will go on being read and reread for years to come while the movie versions of those stories will be forgotten. Even [[AntiChrist Evilina]], whom he's babysitting, admits that she likes the original stories more. Unfortunately, however, all this only [[VillainousBreakdown riles]] Soulless, who yells at them that they are wrong and forces them to watch more clips of bad scenes in other Dr. Seuss movies until they have no choice but to appreciate them.
136* In ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', Ma-Ti has a meltdown when WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic closes the door on the real world and proves that he's become a true hero. Unlike most examples of this trope, Ma-Ti has known the Critic first hand as a colossal, selfish, {{Jerkass}} ManChild. His shock is more understandable under the circumstances, making it more of a case of Evil Cannot Comprehend CharacterDevelopment.
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