1 | '''Basic Trope''': An extremist villain/or a very {{unscrupulous hero}} that earnestly believes they're doing good for the world. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob seeks to maintain order in society... [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans by installing a totalitarian dictatorship in which he is the sole ruler]]. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Bob seeks to find the meaning of [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Life, The Universe, and Everything]] by mass murder, torture and genocide. |
5 | ** Bob seeks to eliminate human suffering and bring the humanity a paradise... [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion by turning all living beings into orange juice]] [[AssimilationPlot and forcefully merging their souls]]. |
6 | ** Bob, a seemly [[GenericDoomsdayVillain generic]] SlasherFilm SerialKiller, who frequently abducts and murders people in his mansion, turn out to be holding back a race of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s from destroying the world by offering them a HumanSacrifice. |
7 | * '''Downplayed''': Bob uses {{blackmail}} and [[VoteEarlyVoteOften vote fraud]] to become StudentCouncilPresident, because he wants to improve student-faculty relations, organize a mentoring program, stop [[TheBully bullying]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking throw everyone a big pizza party.]] |
8 | * '''Justified''': |
9 | ** Bob is [[KnightTemplar deluded]]. |
10 | ** [[VillainHasAPoint He actually has a point after all]]. |
11 | ** Bob's ruthless tactics [[TheExtremistWasRight actually end up bringing a utopian state of peace and stability]]. |
12 | ** Something really [[StartOfDarkness horrible]] [[FreudianExcuse happened]] to him in the past. |
13 | * '''Inverted''': |
14 | ** NotInThisForYourRevolution |
15 | ** RightForTheWrongReasons |
16 | ** [[PragmaticVillain Bob]] has a villainous motivation for the good deeds he does. |
17 | ** Bob is a NominalHero. |
18 | * '''Subverted''': |
19 | ** Bob lied about his intentions. |
20 | ** Bob is revealed to be not that extreme. |
21 | ** NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist |
22 | ** Bob's extreme acts only began when he was brainwashed by [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]]. Once it wears off, he's well-intentioned with none of the extremism. |
23 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
24 | ** Bob claims to have lied about his intentions, because the greater good involves [[ZeroApprovalGambit him seeming like "the bad guy"]]. |
25 | ** That was a lie. |
26 | ** Bob was lying about his intentions, but winds up BecomingTheMask. |
27 | * '''Parodied''': Bob wishes to save the world... by [[PokeThePoodle ripping the tags]] [[MattressTagGag off of every mattress in the world]]. |
28 | * '''Zig Zagged''': {{Depending on the writer}}, Bob's motive for his tyranny ranges from simple lust for power to desire to create an orderly society. |
29 | * '''Averted''': |
30 | ** Bob is a CardCarryingVillain. |
31 | ** Bob is a KnightTemplar who only ''thinks'' that his goal is good. |
32 | ** Alternatively: [[IdealHero Bob]] does not resort to the extreme for the greater good. |
33 | * '''Enforced''': "If we want our show to have more depth, we should give our 'villains' an understandable motivation and at least partially sympathetic goals." |
34 | * '''Lampshaded''': "I killed millions... to save ''billions''!" |
35 | * '''Invoked''': ShootTheDog |
36 | * '''Exploited''': Turns out, [[BigBad Alice]] is using Bob's WellIntentionedExtremist tendencies and ([[AntiHero Anti-]]) [[HeroicSpirit Heroic Zeal]] to [[BatmanGambit make it easier for her to]] commit genocide. |
37 | * '''Defied''': "There are instances in which the means are too rotten to be justified by any ends." |
38 | * '''Discussed''': IDidWhatIHadToDo |
39 | * '''Conversed''': "Isn't Bob going a little too far to reach his goal?" |
40 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
41 | ** Despite his good intentions, many people turn on Bob for his actions. |
42 | ** In the end, Bob goes down in history as an evil ruler. |
43 | ** 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]]. |
44 | ** Bob's extremism ends up causing the exact thing he wished to avoid. |
45 | ** "No Bob, the world you envision will be a better place... [[ItsAllAboutMe But only for you]]!" |
46 | ** Bob's "good intentions" come from such a bizarre case of BlueAndOrangeMorality that his aims, and the world he seeks to create, are both seen as bad by everyone else, and they may have a point. |
47 | ** Bob seeks to create a utopia from his actions, but he's so [[AxCrazy driven by his madness]] that the prospect of a more peaceful, bloodless method genuinely doesn't occur to him. |
48 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
49 | ** Bob is OK with the world hating him, so long as the world he creates is a [[TheExtremistWasRight better one in the end]]. |
50 | ** Bob is initially viewed as dangerous and evil, but as time goes on people come to appreciate the results of his actions- even if the actions themselves were distasteful. |
51 | ---- |
52 | 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. |
53 | ---- |
54 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
55 | %% |
56 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
57 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
58 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/context.php
FollowingContext PlayingWith / WellIntentionedExtremist
Go To
- Show Spoilers
- Night Vision
- Sticky Header
- Wide Load