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• Exaggerated in Assassination Classroom. Much like how Yako learned how to use the abilities of a detective (someone who understood the darkness in the hearts of people) for to walk the path of light, Koro-sensei has been teaching the Class-E how to benefit their lives with the mindset of the assassin.
• Basilisk:
  • Gennosuke is a kind and honorable man who wants nothing more than peace, but he has a particularly horrifying and violent power. His Deadly Gaze ability fills those he's looking at with intense fear and pain, causing them to kill themselves in incredibly gorny ways. Interestingly, this power is actually well-suited to his personality rather than contrasting with it. He's a Martial Pacifist and his power involves directing others' murderous impulses against them. So, his enemies destroy themselves in the same way they wished to harm him.
  • Kagerou has a toxic body and Kiss of Death, but the series mostly depicts this as a tragedy for her because it prevents from ever having the chance to be with the man she loves, and she's depicted sympathetically rather than as an evil person.
• Berserk provides a strange example with Guts' and Casca's child. When we first see it post-timeskip, it appears to be on the evil side of things due to being corrupted by Femto's demon-rape However, it turns out to be very loyal to its parents and uses its demonic influence to shield its mother from a mass of monsters that were drawn to her brand.
• Black Bullet has the "cursed children," children that are born with the Gastrea virus in their blood and can manipulate the virus to grant themselves superhuman powers. This is the same virus that causes people to turn into Eldritch Abominations including the cursed children themselves in a much slower rate. Enju Aihara, one of the cursed children, happens to be one of the most kind-hearted characters in the series.
• Bleach:
  • Combat Tentacles is usually a villain trope for a reason. Combine it with further traditional unpleasantness such as Energy Absorption, Vampiric Draining and The Fighting Narcissist and you end up with... Yumichika, a protagonist who's hiding his Cover-Blowing Superpower because of Undying Loyalty to his division's anti-kidou Blood Knight philosophy.
  • Hollows are malevolent beings, the spirits of humans that have been consumed by base instinct and which are driven to consume other souls, be they human or other hollows. They can possess great powers, and the strongest of them can be even more powerful than Shinigami captains. However, the Vizards and Ichigo possess boosted spiritual power as a result of an inner Hollow they've learned to control. Fullbringers are born from mothers that were left spiritually tainted after surviving Hollow attacks. The taint manifests in future children as a Hollow-born power. Sado fights to protect the innocent and supports Ichigo. The feeling of the Hollow power within is unpleasant, but he only uses his power for good.
  • Quincies descend from a progenitor king who is pure evil and are the only beings capable of destroying a soul instead of sending it through the reincarnation cycle. Quincy activities threaten the Balance of Souls between worlds, endangering existence. The Shinigami have therefore been forced to try and exterminate them twice (a thousand years ago and two hundred years ago). However, the Ishida family uniquely believes in protecting lives. Souken Ishida spent his life trying to find a way to get the Quincies and Shinigami working together to protect humanity, and his grandson Uryuu Ishida usually fights by Ichigo's side against the villains. Souken's son and Uryuu's father, Ryuuken Ishida, is the story's only genuine Quincy healer, refusing to follow the Quincy path and working instead as a doctor. Also, Ichigo's surname is eventually revealed to be a Quincy family name from his mother's side. Masaki Kurosaki was Ryuuken Ishida's cousin, meaning that Zangetsu was a fake Zanpakutou; as the manifestation of Ichigo's Quincy heritage, Zangetsu was secretly controlling Ichigo's true Shinigami and Hollow heritage. Most of Ichigo's power therefore comes from 'evil' origins but is used by him for good.
• In Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense., Maple, a carefree and happy-go-lucky gamer, acquires several abilities that would normally be viewed as Antagonist Abilities or Lovecraftian Superpowers. Early on, after devouring a hydra, she is able to emit poison gas and summon said hydra to breath poison upon her enemies. Later on, after devouring a kraken, she gains the ability to turn her arms into Combat Tentacles. To say nothing of her Atrocity ability, which lets her turn into an Eldritch Abomination Kaiju.
• In Castle Town Dandelion, Aoi finds her Compelling Voice Royalty Superpower too repugnant to use. The only time she uses it intentionally was to resolve a robbery in a department store, and she decided to drop out of the royal election exactly because of this, despite being the most popular candidate (without the mind control even).
• That's the premise of Claymore. The warriornesses are mostly good or neutral (of course there are some evil warriornesses like Ophelia or Roxanne), but sooner or later their powers will turn them into monsters that feed on human guts.
• Lelouch from Code Geass has the power of absolute Mind Control, which (according to the novelization) he finds loathsome because he hates taking people's free will away from them. This serves to explain why he never really uses it to its full potential by ordering people to become his slaves until he crosses his Despair Event Horizon, and resolves to achieve his goals whether he needs to sacrifice his morals or even his own life.
  • Even after crossing the line, he prefers to use commands that have the smallest possible impact on the recipient to get the result he needs. For example, instead of rendering Guilford his mindslave when he needs his loyalty for something, he hypnotizes him to temporarily see Lelouch as Cornelia at the opportune time.
• In Darker than Black, the Contractor Shihoko has the horrible power of melting people's organs from the inside and the equally horrible Renumeration of regaining morality briefly after using it, prompting crushing guilt. She's not a bad sort, and tries to avoid using her power whenever possible.
• Light Yagami of Death Note claims to be this when the title artifact grants him the power to kill people, saying he wants to make a better world (by killing off all the bad people in it), but a combination of god complex and extreme ruthlessness send him down the slippery slope.
  • He goes mad with power pretty much the instant he accepts that the Death Note works. By the original appearance of "L", he's perfectly okay with killing people for just challenging his authority.
  • Played straight with Gelus and Rem-gods of death who are very protective of the people that have gained their love and loyalty.
  • Matsuda sort of mentions this trope, showing how confused he is. While he certainly doesn't think that Kira killing people is a good thing, he does have to admit that the results are.
• Delicious in Dungeon has Marcille, a kind and brave hero who is an expert in The Dark Arts and forbidden Blood Magic. The kind that if anyone found out she used it, being imprisoned for life would be the best she could hope for. She uses it to bring a dead friend back to life when the usual methods of resurrection are impossible.
• In The Devil is a Part-Timer!, demons typically draw strength from people's negative emotions. Whereas Lucifer's first few appearances have him causing terror to further empower himself, Maou is content to live like a human, and whenever his powers do return (usually because of something scary and/or dangerous the villains have just done), Maou draws on people's fear and panic and then uses it to save them, defeat the villain, and undo as much damage as possible.
• Devilman, especially in the anime, where Akira uses his power to protect his girlfriend. In the other adaptions, he's still this, but the world's too evil, infected, and screwed up for him to protect without making him look like a evil murderous monster himself.
  • His genderflipped version in Devilman Lady has the exact same problem.
• Durarara!!: The host of the Evil Weapon Saika is capable of turning everyone it wounds into part of its Hive Mind, but she firmly believes that anything people do for her should be paid back. She even saves the one person she absolutely loathes from what looks like a horrible death because he had helped her once before, and is taking Celty's advice to try and use Saika's power for the best to heart. This person is Anri Sonohara.
• The Duke Of Death And His Maid: The titular duke is cursed to bring death to anything his hand touches but is a nice person who's trying his best to cure the curse and avoids people to protect them
• Tsubaki in Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor. Festum. Capable of mindraping people. Could fight by generating black holes. Someone else in similar straits to her is a hate-driven madman that is the closest thing the story has to an individual villain. Instead she's among the nicest and most considerate people in the story.
• Fist of the North Star:
  • Kenshiro is the successor to the deadly martial art known as Hokuto Shinken, which relies on hitting Pressure Points to kill your enemies in very gruesome ways (usually by making their heads explode). Ken also happens to be one of the kindest people in the entire Crapsack World he inhabits, and uses the pressure point techniques of the art to heal as well as to kill.
  • This applies to his adoptive brother Toki as well, who uses the same assassin's art that Kenshiro does. He does so as a kindly, almost messianic doctor, using Hokuto Shinken to heal diseases and afflictions even though he himself is sick with terminal radiation poisoning. On the occasions when he must take a life to protect others, his techniques ensure that, even as their bodies explode, they pass on without pain.
  • Shew, a benevolent blind warrior who looks after orphans, uses the Nanto Hakuro Ken style, which involves the ability to carve people to pieces by kicking them. In one instance he performs a Hurricane Kick so potent that it cleanly decapitates everyone in a ten foot radius.
• Fullmetal Alchemist for almost all of the series, Scar's ability is to destroy things. Though alchemists don't see his power of destruction as evil, but merely as incomplete, as it is (together with understanding and reconstruction) a part of every alchemical transformation.
  • We are led to believe that he is an instance of Bad Powers, Bad People at first but it is quickly revealed that both he and his motives are more complex than they first appear. While he's not quite heroic, his murders are more a matter of When All You Have Is a Hammer… rather than evil.
• Hikitsu from Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden. One of his powers is a sort of hypnosis by which a person sees their worst memory or their greatest fear. Because he recognizes its cruelty potential (and it alienates him as well), he hides the eye with this ability under an Eyepatch of Power.
• Inuyasha: Miroku's right hand is cursed with a vacuum-like supernova black hole (dubbed "Wind Tunnel") that he can barely control and has to keep sealed with prayer beads. It has the ability to make anything disappear. Unless he defeats the demon who cursed his ancestor, it will eventually swallow him. Being a Buddhist monk, Miroku uses it as a weapon to protect the innocent and never uses it on humans. During his original meeting with Inuyasha and Kagome, Miroku picks a fight with the demonic Inuyasha before fleeing the village. Inuyasha catches up to him outside the village but is almost sucked into Miroku's Wind Tunnel until Kagome intervenes. Upon realising that Miroku fled the village to protect the innocent humans from his own power, Kagome deliberately leaps into its full force, gambling that he'll shut down the Wind Tunnel and let Inuyasha go rather than see her come to harm. She's right.
  • If a hanyou is in severe pain or in mortal danger, he will turn into a pure youkai for a short time. Then he is much stronger and more resistant than before, but then he also gets into a frenzy in which he can not distinguish between friends and enemies, and therefore attacks everyone.
• In Jigoku no Gouka de Yakare Tsuzuketa Shounen, Flare's body has been infused with all the fires of Hell, letting him scorch nearly anything with flames so hot that they'll even burn someone's soul. Luckily for normal people, Flare is a big-hearted guy who'd much rather use them to protect others.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Noriaki Kakyoin from Stardust Crusaders has the Stand, Hierophant Green, which, besides its ability to turn into tentacles and secrete a liquid that can be hardened into emeralds, it also has the traditionally evil ability to possess people by entering their body. Despite this, Kakyoin is probably the nicest of the Crusaders as well as The Heart of the team. Notably, after being freed of his brainwashing, he only uses the possession ability once and never again.
  • Golden Wind: Besides his Hair-Trigger Temper, Pannacotta Fugo is an otherwise good person for a mafioso, yet his Stand, Purple Haze, the embodiment of Fugo's rage, is one of the most dangerous Stands in the series, a barely controllable monster that unleashes a flesh-eating virus.
  • Like his Original Universe counterpart, JoJolion's Yoshikage Kira has the Stand, Killer Queen. However, this Kira is a Good Is Not Nice Anti-Hero, rather than a sociopathic Serial Killer like his counterpart.
• Kaiju No. 8: Kafka's monster form is terrifying, and he's strong enough to turn a Kaiju the size of a small building into a literal bloody pulp with one punch, but he uses his strength to protect other people and solemnly notes that his power is one that should never be used on a person.
• Lyrical Nanoha:
  • Ixpellia from StrikerS Sound Stage X, an immortal king who has the power to turn fields of corpses into armies of Mariages, which are Super-Soldier Cyborg Zombies filled with battle lust. History remembered her as a barbaric Dark King, though, in reality, she's a jaded Mysterious Waif sick of all the fighting and tried to seal herself and her army of the dead away from the world as much as possible.
  • Much earlier, Hayate from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's has a magical tome that is known to power itself by absorbing the Linker Cores of living beings for its, often planetary, destructive abilities. Hayate is so nice that she manages to separate the tome's corrupted Automatic Defense Program, and uses her power for good.
  • Thoma Avenir is infected by the Eclipse, a virus which turns the infectees into murderous killing machines who are depended to kill other people to survive. Lily Strosek, Thoma's Reactor Plug, is able to suppress the virus, so Thoma can use his powers to fight for good.
• In Medaka Box, we have Munakata. In a world of people with strange powers, Munakata was born with an abnormal desire and ability to kill. He is, in fact, a serial killer who first killed at the age of 5, and he carried more hidden weapons than anyone else, ever. Just looking at someone makes him want to kill them. Except, as it turns out, he's never actually killed anyone. His serial killer status and creepy talk of killing lives (literally, "will these kill your life?") are purely to scare people away so he doesn't kill them—the serial killer charge is all fake. As he says, his killing desire is the real deal, and he wants more than anything to kill people, but restrains himself. "Because, if you kill a person, they will die."
  • Later on we get Emukae, one of Kumagawa's Minuses. When first introduced she becomes a Stalker with a Crush for Zenkichi, but over time she becomes more sympathetic, thanks to the reveal of just how badly her powers have messed her life up: she makes anything she touches rot away, and she can't turn it off. Her seeming nuttiness over love is just her wanting to be able to form any kind of connection with another human being without killing them; the reason she's loyal to Kumagawa is because he's the only person she can touch (his own power let him undo the damage) and he treats her very nicely. Emukae suffers a crisis of conscience during the student council battle and ends up undergoing a Heel–Face Turn; Kumagawa, wanting her to be happy, uses his power to "rewrite" her own power so she has full control over it.
    • Pretty much any of the Minuses qualify; Kumagawa found several people like him who had bad powers and united them so they could show exactly what Cosmic Playthings can do when they work together. They aren't necessarily villains, they just think reality is trying to force them to be bad guys, so they decide to be the best damn bad guys they can and work to defeat Medaka, whom they consider one of life's "protagonists" thanks to her being a Born Winner.
• My Hero Academia:
  • Hitoshi Shinso's Quirk is a Compelling Voice called Brainwash. He's a bit exasperated by people noting how good that power is for a villain, despite his dream of being a Pro Hero. It's also a power that was essentially useless for the UA Entrance Exam, which involves fighting robots; fortunately for him, he gets a lot of attention from Pro Heroes after fighting Izuku in the Sports Festival, with many commenting on how incredibly useful his power would be in taking out villains without collateral damage. He gets another chance to show it off in the Joint Training arc, where he's able to help his team win the first training exercise and stop Izuku's out-of-control Black Whip.
  • The UA teacher Thirteen has this as a philosophy. Her quirk is Black Hole, which lets her produce black holes on her fingertips. Thirteen is a pacifist and only uses her power for disaster relief and capturing villains, and hopes to teach their students that any power can be used for good.
  • Other members of the academy have this to lesser degrees, such as Mina's Quirk "Acid", which lets her produce liquids of varying degrees of corrosiveness, or Tokoyami's Living Shadow quirk, or Bakugo's ability to generate nitroglycerin-fueled explosions from his hands. All of these characters are more heroic than their Quirk suggests (with the partial exception of Bakugo, who's more of a Jerkass Anti-Hero.)
  • In a variant, Gang Orca's Quirk has ranked #3 in an In-Universe list of Pro Heroes who look like villains. And despite looking like a humanoid killer whale, he's actually a fairly nice guy who's a Friend to All Children.
• Naruto:
  • Shino (and every other member of the Aburame clan) was made into a living hive for deadly insects at birth, but he's one of the good guys and a reasonably decent person (though other people do consider him weird).
  • Similarly, Shikamaru (and the rest of the Nara clan) has the ability to manipulate shadows and control other people's motions (eventually gaining the ability to stab and strangle people), and Ino (and the other Yamanakas) has the ability to fire her mind into others and possess them (with other techniques including mind reading and making your opponents attack each other). Neither of them (or their parents) are even remotely evil.
  • For that matter, the Jinchuuriki gain powerful abilities by being permanently bonded with Tailed Beasts, gigantic supernatural creatures that are largely viewed as incarnations of evil. While some have taken swan dives off the deep end, this is more the result of the All of the Other Reindeer treatment they tend to get. Most of them are actually quite nice people, with the titular character being a standout example.
  • The Mangekyo Sharingan, which can only be awakened by the trauma of losing a loved one, is one of Kakashi's most valuable abilities, and was used by Shisui in an attempt to avert a devastating conflict. Itachi's use of it also falls into this when he's resurrected and stops pretending to be evil.
    • The Sharingan in general has the potential to cast malefic, life-altering illusions. To the extreme, it can warp space-time for many evil capabilities, and even trap one inside a never-ending, repeating "reality". However such illusionary mastery, comes at a price of permanent blindness, when overused. Luckily most of the more heroic users, tend to avoid this...well...narrowly for some.
  • The Second Hokage has created a Necromancy technique which needs Human Sacrifice and rips souls out the afterlife (though he does get a few What the Hell, Hero? comments from other characters for inventing such a technique, including from the 1st Hokage). The Third and Fourth Hokages know a technique to seal souls in the belly of a Shinigami. All of them are reasonable authority figures dedicated to the Hidden Leaf Village's safety and prosperity.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion:
  • It's made clear from the start that Ayanami Rei is not a normal human, but somehow directly connected to the creation of the giant nightmare horror fighting, giant organic superweapons. Her actual purpose is to more or less extinguish all life on Earth, and her superpowers (which are not really on full display until End of Evangelion) are the same as those wielded by the giant monsters that are hell-bent on doing the same. Regardless, she is identified as one of the good guys... until she actually does use her power, but she did it for love, and mostly because Shinji told her to, so it's all okay.
  • From the same series there's also Kaworu Nagisa, who's the last of the Angels with the potential of destroying all mankind who happens to look like a human. Fortunately, Kaworu is loving and compassionate, and after a token attempt at causing the extinction of all life on Earth, he gives up and asks Shinji to kill him in order to protect humanity.
• Noragami: Kofuku is a binbougami, a god(dess) of misfortune and poverty, but she's very sweet and bubbly and a good friend to Yato, Hiyori, and Yukine. Sort of up for debate as she has moments wherein she's more chaotic doing things she knows will probably bring trouble, such as going out with a guy whose life is progressively going to the dumps or continuing to play in an amusement park when rides are falling apart around her, because she doesn't want to miss out on a good time.
• One Piece:
  • Warden Magellan is literally a Poison Man. He breathes poison, he sweats poison, he eats poison, etc. He is one of the most dangerous people in the world. What does he do with those powers? He guards the prison of Impel Down and prevents all of history's worst criminals from endangering the general public. On the other hand, he's also shown to be very apathetic about the fates of his charges and has on several occasions killed a number of them for such minor offenses as being too noisy. To say nothing of the massively inhumane state of the prison in general.
  • Brook has what he initially believes to be the power to bring himself back from the dead once—an extra life, in other words. However, it turns out that he actually has the power of spirits and the underworld. He can control the chilling winds of Hell and bring them into the mortal realm; move around souls, such as extracting them from people (including himself); and instill pure fear in others. Not to mention that he is an animated skeleton. In spite of these frightening powers, he enjoys companionship very much, is easily emotionally moved by stories people tell him, and is into planking. He was also introduced as the premier zombie exorcist. Amusingly, despite his fearsome powers, Brook is easily frightened by bizarre things that happen near him.
• Princess Mononoke: The protagonist's arm is infected with some kind of tentacle-y incarnation of hatred, which among other things, allows him to shoot arrows hard enough to decapitate people and bend swords with his bare hand. He hates fighting, and spends most of the movie trying to end the war between Iron Town and the forest.
• The main character of Psyren is the typical Hero archetype. Why is he here? His power, "Melchsee's Door", can be described as a super-destructive ball of shadow that attacks and destroys anything it sees as dangerous.
• In Sailor Moon, Sailor Pluto has power over Time and Death, to be specific, one of her basic attacks is a projectile formed from the screams of the dead. Sailor Saturn has domain over Destruction and Rebirth, and has the ability to destroy an entire planet with her powers. They are both also quite firmly on the heroic side of the spectrum.
  • The prequel manga Codename: Sailor V shows that one of Sailor Venus' abilities is to summon a cloud from Venus' atmosphere-that is, incredibly hot, high-pressure sulphuric acid, IE poison gas as became infamous in the First World War. She also has a severe case of Chronic Hero Syndrome, and the above-mentioned power appears only after she has mastered it off-page to the point she can dilute it into a stink bomb.
• In The Seven Deadly Sins, some of the good guys have powers which, typically, only baddies have.
  • Ban, the immortal thief, can use his magic to "steal" practically anything, whether a physical object or even a person's stats, like their agility or strength. It returns eventually, but he can be dangerous when combining it with his immortality, No Selling hits and secretly weakening the enemy.
  • King, a powerful fairy, has a weapon that releases spores which increase the sizes of wounds, and petrifies his enemies.
  • Gowther an androgynous human, has Mind Raping powers, from making people relive nightmares to rewriting whole sections of a person's life. He can even make people who are his enemy think he (and his comrades) are their good friends bordering on lovers. His comrades tell him to never use that on them.
  • Hendrickson, one of the Great Holy Knights, has the power of Acid, and able to dissolve any who gets in the way. He developed it from his youth where he was tasked with destroying corpses so their bodies couldn't be stolen.
  • Then there are the ones, some of the above included, who are out right persons of mass destruction and not ones you want to be on the wrong side of a blade against. One of the titular sins destroyed and entire country, as in left a great gaping hole in the ground where the country once was.
• Faust VIII in Shaman King, a necromancer descended from the original Faust, at first seems to be an example of Bad Powers, Bad People: he initially shows up as a villain (and incidentally, one of the only characters able to decisively beat Yoh), but later pulls a Heel–Face Turn after Anna brings his wife back from the dead and ends up falling into this trope instead. Later in the series, he focuses on being a superb healer rather than a strong fighter.
• A one-shot character in the manga Slayers Special was Winnie, a girl with necromantic abilities so innate she uses them reflexively. However, she is actually very shy and is at first even scared of her own creations, despite being unable to stop using her powers. She genuinely means no harm, though.
• Sung Jinwoo, the main protagonist of Solo Leveling, ends up becoming a Necromancer following a class change quest. He is able to raise the souls of defeated monsters (and even other humans) to create an army of ghosts that he can summon at his beck and call. Not to mention, but his main armament is a pair of Dual Wielding daggers, one of which is a poisonous fang he acquired from a monstrous serpent that inflicts an asphyxiating poison upon its victims.
• Soul Eater, everyone, heroes and villains alike, is either a human who can turn into a weapon and powers up by eating souls or someone who wields them (hence the title). The main difference is their choice of diet; the good weapons feed on the souls of evil people, whereas the evil characters feed on the souls of anyone they wish.
  • Some of protagonists are even still called Demon Weapons by heritage.
  • Arachne appeared to create the Weapons simply to see what would happen, and they've turned out various ways — some using their powers for good, others allying with the Big Bads, others just out for themselves. No-where does Arachne explain what she wanted the original/s for, and if its manifestation is the Nakatsukasa Purpose Tsubaki is host to, it isn't even inherently 'Bad'.
  • This trope is basically Kid's whole argument to the Witch Council as to why the DWMA and witches coexisting is possible. They have immense destructive power and a natural compulsion to use it, but it can still be channeled toward positive ends:
    Kid: All humans possess a destructive instinct in them to a greater or less extent. Yet there are many ways to exhibit this instinct... If one craves to demolish something, there are many places that need demolishing.
• Saiga, the hero of Speed Grapher is the only non-villainous Euphoric, and like the rest of them, his powers are a manifestation of his deepest (generally sexual) desire, and in his case, involves making anything he takes a picture of explode. Besides starting as a fairly good guy, an important part of his characterization is how he hates his powers and just wants to be normal. Because he was a famous war photographer and would sometimes get a Raging Stiffie when taking a particularly good photo, he's horrified by the implication that deep down he wanted to kill his subjects, and besides that, hates the fact that his powers make him unable to take a normal picture of anything.
• Toriko:
  • Coco uses poison as his main weapon, but he is one of the nicest, politest and kindest characters in the entire series.
  • Sunny has feelers — tentacles so thin that normal people can't even see them, which he uses to immobilize creatures and then cook them alive. If that doesn't seem evil enough, he later learns to control bodies by inserting his feelers into the nerve centers. And then later he learns how to channel the hunger of the Eldritch Abomination that lives inside his cells, turning his feelers into all-devouring tentacles, which, without his control, could wipe out all life on the planet. And despite all that, he's still a good guy.
• Arguably Vash the Stampede from Trigun. Not only do misfortune and mass property damage follow him like a magnet, but his arm turns into a giant gun that blows up cities and even put a giant crater in the moon. However, he is one of the most likable and peace-loving guys out there. He even claims to hate the sight of blood. He has only killed one person in the entire anime, that being Lagato Bluesummers in one of the last episodes. And even then, Legato was forcing Vash to hold the gun to his head while readying himself to kill Meryl.
• Played for Laughs in Violinist of Hameln. Hell King Bass lost his body years ago in a battle against Prince Lute, and now survives only as a head, possessing Lute's body. Bass uses some seriously evil-looking magic, such as summoning a beast from hell to devour his enemies. A flashback reveals that this isn't Bass's magic, but Lute's; he happily demonstrates his terrifying magic to his mother, almost killing his baby sister.