Line #21 PlayingWith/WellIntentionedExtremist


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.
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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.
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54	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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56	%%* '''Implied''': ???
57	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
58	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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