Examples of Even Evil Has Loved Ones in fan works.
Crossovers
- BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant (BlazBlue & RWBY):
- Emerald shares a genuine friendship with Luna, with the two bonding over their similar circumstances and Emerald going out of her way to comfort Luna when her Trauma Button is pushed.
- Like canon, Roman genuinely cares for Neo, helping patch up her wounds after the battle at the docks and helping put her at ease when she gets scared. When he's captured by Team BRNN and Oobleck, he tells Neo to run for it and focus on saving herself. A major part of the reason he refuses to divulge any information to Ozpin is because doing so would also put her life at risk. Likewise, Neo cares for Roman just as much, initially refusing to abandon him until he convinced her to and attempted to break him out of jail, only being stopped by Cinder.
- The Boys: Real Justice: Deconstructed. Homelander's affection for Ryan may be genuine, but he still narcissistically desires to turn Ryan into a splitting image of himself to the point of isolating him from other kids.
- The Chaotic Masters:
- The titular Physical God tricksters, who spread chaos and destruction wherever they went for fun, genuinely loved each and every member of their harems, who loved them and each other in return.
- They might constantly get on each other's nerves, but the Dazzlings are still sisters and care about each other.
- While the Masters' adoptive mother Madame Mim might terrify them a bit, and she has some friction with Adagio (seeing her as a poor wife choice on the Collector's part), she genuinely cares about them in her own twisted way, along with their brides (despite her said friction with Adagio).
- A Divine (Romantic) Comedy (Hellaverse and The Owl House)
- When Lucifer notes that both Blitz and Loona travel to the human world via a Goetia Grimoire while annunciating their List of Transgressions, Blitz is quick to loudly affirm that he "stole" the grimoire, very clearly wanting to protect Stolas from Lucifer's wrath as well. In addition, when Lucifer first confronted him, the imp claims that his daughter had no idea of what he was doing there.
- Mammon's fondness for Charlie is 100% genuine, to the point that he privately admits to himself that he would have designed Loo Loo Land very differently had he known Lu Lu World was a gift for her. He rationalizes his unusual generosity and soft spot for her as being in awe in his niece's unsurpassed Want to bring paradise to Hell of all places.
- Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls (Bleach & My Little Pony: Equestria Girls):
- Hurricane still loves his late wife Pansy; hiding it behind a though facade because he presumably doesn't want to show weakness.
- Human Torch (an Espada) clearly loves his daughter Ember dearly.
- Human Starlight's entire motivation is due to this, she wants to get back at Soul Society because she believes they sent her friend Sunburst to Hell.
- The Fourth Espada might be a few eggs short of a dozen, but he cares for his adopted children dearly, to the point where he'll kill anyone who tries to hurt them.
- Human Chrysalis is Faux Affably Evil incarnate, but she does truly love her "trueborn" Arrancar children, namely Thorax, Pharynx, and Ocellus. Thorax is actually rather conflicted by this, since he wants to call his mother "evil", but knows that she genuinely loves him and his siblings. This is in stark contrast to her Equestrian counterpart.
- The Gaia Everfree/Gloriosa Daisy fusion still has all of the latter's love for her brother Timber Spruce, and in the past the former genuinely cared about her Fraccion, her feud with Chrysalis starting partially because Chrysalis killed one, and when she had the other two killed, Gaia was furious.
- A Fake Hero (Fate/stay night & High School D×D): Segrif Zepar is by all means an unlikeable, arrogant piece of shit that has no qualms when it comes to experimenting on his servants or abduct Sona and her peerage, and yet he is show to harbour genuine affection towards his sister, choosing to get power by his own means rather than kill her and secure his future when he easily could have done the latter.
- In Harry and the Shipgirls (Harry Potter/KanColle), the Malfoys put each other before their own power and political gain. When Voldemort agreed to a suggestion from Bellatrix that the second-born children of Death Eaters should be turned into Obscurials, that was the end of them siding with the Dark Lord. However, even this code has limits, as when Abraxus was willing to entertain this idea, his son Lucius arranged an unfortunate incident for him.
- The Grinning Snake
(Hell Girl & My-HiME): Was written by someone who was upset about Shizuru being a Karma Houdini in canon, noting that all the people she killed at the First District had loved ones whom they left behind. In the fic, the daughter of one of her victims makes a contract with Ai Enma and sends her to Hell. - Downplayed in Infinity Crisis. Sin admires her grandfather, but neither of them express actual affection for each other.
- Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: Yeardley Lobelia may be an unpleasant misogynist bully taking out his issues being overshadowed by his older sister on Chloe. But he deeply loves his little sister is pretty much the only person he likes, and the feeling is mutual... until the trial where his little sister learns he a misogynist bully. To his heartbreak, his little sister becomes scared of him and refuses to hold his hand. He and his sister show they still very much love each other despite everything that happens when Yeardley was taken hostage with Class 5-E. She later regains her trust for him after he sacrifices himself to save her from Ms. Turner.
- Lost in Camelot (Lost Girl & Merlin (2008)): This trope is played with, as while Uther's anti-magic vendetta makes him a threat to them both, he isn’t evil enough for Bo and Merlin to want to kill him, particularly not when they know that it would hurt Arthur (Bo also reflects that even the jerk Ash in the future could have had loved ones before her mother's attack left him on life support).
- In The Prayer Warriors, Horus has a wife named Baste, and mourns her passing after the Prayer Warriors kill her, and before they cause him to suffer the same fate.
- A Thank You Gift From Madness Himself (The Elder Scrolls & Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire): Grindelwald still has ambitions to break The Stature Of Secrecy, Take Over the World, and benevolently rule over all mugglekind. Despite all of this, however, he is a loving and doting older brother to his younger brother Henrik. Henrik's death during the duel between Grindelwald, Albus, and Aberforth steels Grindelwald's resolve to find the Deathly Hallows with the hopes that doing so will bring his younger brother back.
- To Hell and Back has several examples:
- In The Masks We Wear, both Zuko and Azula are horrified by the thought of their father dying as a result of his insisting on using lightning redirection immediately after learning it. He succeeds.
- Resurrected Memories: Even prior to becoming half human, Ember, despite having a difficult human life, did have a strong bond with her younger sister Amy and she is the only one the ghostly girl genuinely misses from her old life.
- In Daughter of Fire and Steel, Lex is opposed to Superman and set up as an antagonist, but he genuinely loved his sister, Lena, and her death is his reason for going to war with the Man of Steel.
- In Supergirl fic Hellsister Trilogy, Satan Girl is literally an embodiment of dark impulses and desires. World-scale destruction, killing sprees and rape turn her on. Still, she's devastated when she finds out her child has been stolen.Kara said, <Tell me about your child. How is it you know he is gone?>
Satan Girl hesitated. For once, Kara saw something other than hatred in her eyes. Even one such as her Hellsister could feel sorrow. - Subverted in Kara of Rokyn. Lex Luthor loved his family in the past, but after several decades obsessed with killing Superman he has become unable to feel anything other than hatred.
- With This Ring: Doctor Thaddeus Sivana is a brilliant scientist whose frustrations eventually drove him toward the mad end of genius, and who started killing the people who had turned down his grant applications because he couldn't see any reason not to. However, despite his general lack of empathy for other beings, he does care about his family, even after his wife divorced him. In the Paragon timeline, Paul protects them from a Sheeda assault, and earns a degree of toleration and respect henceforth, even managing to direct the younger children toward more constructive avenues. In the Renegade timeline, the assault succeeded, and Dr Sivana goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, slaughtering the Sheeda like dogs and killing their queen in a kamikaze assault.
- In the Crack Fic A Charmed Life Light and Ryuk genuinely care about each other.
- Professor Ratigan in DiscordantPrincess' The Great Mouse Detective fanworks is pretty much the same ruthless criminal mastermind he is in the movie; but his relationship with his daughter Danielle is a very sweet one, and an even more surefire way of getting yourself killed than calling him a rat would be harming or insulting her in any way.
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
- Jeice and Burter show tremendous friendship for each other. On the rest of the Ginyu Force? Over Guldo's death they were discussing the last time they masturbated.
- Ginyu as well. He is shaken by Burter's death, calling it a hefty loss, Recoome's is what sends him out for revenge and after Jeice's he voices genuine distress, even pleading with his foes for a brief moment of silence of mourning.
- Despite being a ruthless tyrant who has little to no hesitation in stabbing an infant, King Vegeta at least cares enough about his son Vegeta to have him taken off-planet just in case negotiations with Frieza went south.
- Though he tries to brush it off to catch Trunks off guard, King Cold, unlike the original series, is also visibly pissed when Future Trunks kills Freeza.
- Mr. Popo actually misses Kami after he fuses with Piccolo.
- Dr. Gero modeled Android 16 after his son, who was killed in Goku's attack on the Red Ribbon Base.
- In his own very demented way, Cell considers Androids 16, 17, and 18 his "siblings" and tries to act affably towards them, in-spite of the fact he still plans on devouring the latter two to increase his power. After he does so, he still tries to strike up a relationship with 16, who is understandably reluctant to bond with him:16: You ate my family.
Cell: 16, I'm trying!!! - There's also Bardock, who is quite clearly evil but genuinely cares about his men (well, mostly Toma).
- The Fall of Lord Frieza: Frieza genuinely cares about his family, even Cooler, and actually cries when King Cold is killed. He also cares enough about his race to want to wish Arcos back after its destruction. The same can be said about Cooler, before he's assimilated by the Big Gete Star.
- She Lives In A Daydream has Cell. Love doesn't redeem him at all, and he still did everything his canon counterpart did, but his love for Pippa was genuine all the same.
- A Brighter Dark: Despite his cold and ruthless actions King Garon is shown to truly care about his children (in stark contrast to the original, where he spent most of his screen time undermining his children at every turn). He tries (awkwardly) to greet his daughter Azura the first time he's seen her since she was kidnapped, and tells Corrin that he truly sees her as his daughter before she leaves with her army for Hoshido.
- "The Strange Good Girl" sees Jason Voorhess of all people acquire a love interest in the form of Lisa Watkins, whose mother Janet was one of the few people who was kind to Jason as a child, when she worked as a nurse at the original Camp Crystal Lake.
- The spin-off fic "Guardian Angels" features Jason and Lisa protecting a little girl named Blake when a group of cultists attempt to sacrifice her after coming to the old camp, with Blake coming to see the two as her guardian angels. Even after the cult has been defeated and Blake returned to her father, Jason and Lisa make it clear that they would welcome Blake and her father returning to the area at any time. While Blake's father is uncomfortable with the notion of his daughter being friendly with Jason Voorhees at first, he decides to see it as the two protecting their territory, and Jason even accepts that Blake's father is a good man who is raising Blake well.
- The spin-off fic "Guardian Angels
- My Huntsman Academia (My Hero Academia & RWBY): The Admiral is an officer in the White Fang and a Faunus supremacist who would like nothing more than to trample on and enslave humanity for their systematic oppression of the Faunus. At the same time, he loves his nephew Huey and his girlfriend Daisy and his last thoughts before being knocked out cold are the realization that he missed Huey's college graduation and wedding.
- In the AU fic An Alternate Life - depicting a world where the Manhattan Clan and Demona are human and Elisa is the gargoyle - Dominique Destine took part in the attempt to experiment on the captured Elisa. However, after the gargoyle Elisa escapes and befriends Dominique’s estranged daughter Angela, after Elisa is recaptured and Angela is taken as a hostage to ensure Elisa’s good behaviour, Dominique assists her ex-husband Goliath in the subsequent rescue as she chooses to save her daughter (although Goliath then deliberately avoids revealing when he's already saved Angela so that she'll help him find Elisa as well).
Godzilla / King Kong / MonsterVerse
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Zig-Zagged by Alan Jonah. He really cared about Asher, and mention of the latter's death gets under Jonah's skin unlike anything else, but it still wasn't enough to stop Jonah from essentially sending Ash to his death whilst failing to extend any significant effort to try and protect him. Jonah's experiments with Ghidorah's biology are partly motivated by the belief it can resurrect his dead daughter — but even so, Word of God indicates Jonah repressed the memory of his daughter for decades until his Sanity Slippage's foundations stirred it up.
- A Marauder's Plan: Barty Crouch Jr. reminisces about his love affair with Rabastan Lestrange and Bellatrix's offer to carry a child for the two of them.
- Bending History:Potter sighed and ran a hand down his face. "Last year, Professor Dumbledore spent months not looking me in the eye in case the Former Wraith looked out of my eyes and at him. And he wasn't even wrong about that. He—he cares about me, but would he sacrifice caring about me to the greater political game? Oh, yes, in a heartbeat."
Blaise just sat there and had no idea how to feel. Of course, he had a mother who would keep husbands for a certain period of time while her magic drained them and kill them when they were useless, but she would never harm Blaise. You weren't supposed to harm the people you cared for, no matter what you did to the rest of the world. - In Those Gilded Chains We Wear Bellatrix genuinely cares about her family (even her sister Andromeda, who, as a Death Eater, she should hate unconditionally due to her marriage to a Muggle-born).
- In Harry Potter and the Puppet of Time Lucius Malfoy is an unrepentant Death Eater who arranged his own father's death (then used it to advance his political agenda), but is nonetheless deeply upset when Draco kills Barty Crouch Jr. He considers it an undeniably good thing the man is dead but would rather his son didn't have to kill, at least not so young.
- In A Two Finger Salute Pettigrew betrayed his friends because Voldemort promised to heal his mother.
- The Condesce and Grand Highblood in Hivefled genuinely care about each other, albeit in a selfish and violent way. However, they're supposed to be moirails, yet fuck like matesprits and make each other's violent behaviour much worse. The Grand Highblood also seems sometimes to like Gamzee despite his "unacceptable" behaviour, but expresses it by repeatedly raping and mutilating him.
- In Some Semblance of Meaning, District One tribute Obsidian reveals in his interview that he volunteered not only because he wanted to compete in the Hunger Games but because his thirteen-year-old cousin was the male tribute who had been selected. (Then again, Obsidian isn't really evil, even if he is part of the Career pack.)
- The Smeet Series: Zim is still as much of a megalomaniacal lunatic as he was in canon, while Gaz is still an antisocial misanthrope. Despite this, the two are in a genuinely caring relationship with each other; Zim may be more overtly affectionate in their interactions than Gaz, but she still clearly cares about him, at one point partaking in a bit of Anger Born of Worry when he recovers from a Disney Death by being Eaten Alive by Zimkro.
- Jackie Chan Adventures: Olympian Journey: Eris is a chaotic goddess, but she still has feelings for her aunt Hestia, and even misses Hestia's cooking. She's also shown wailing at her best friend Patches being dead and tears swell in her eyes when she looks at the remains of Hecate's room in the ruined Olympian palace. She was also very close with her brother Ares and was overjoyed at his resurrection.
- Queen of All Oni: Jade honestly cares about her dog Scruffy, breaks the Dog Talisman to make him immortal again, and pampers him a lot for a while. After Scruffy decides to leave her because of how evil has consumed her, she has a Villainous BSoD.
- The Ultimate Evil:
- Shendu develops a Villainous Crush on Valerie Payne who happens to be the Chans' friend and his Other. Though as vile and cruel as in canon, he makes sure that nothing bad happens to her, remarkably tones down his treacherous tendencies when dealing with her, and he does at times go out of his way to make her happy, like helping her rescue Jade whom he personally loathes.
- In the sequel called The Stronger Evil, Drago, the future son of Shendu and Valerie, has a strained relationship with his father's present version as much as with his future version. However, he doesn't seem to bear ill memories of his mother since her present version is one of the only people he refuses to hurt and whom he'll hear out without any tension.
- Jimmy Two-Shoes the Movie: Misery Loves Company: Lucius Heinous VII is an expy of Satan and a Corrupt Corporate Executive who owns an entire city that he runs like a particularly sadistic and megalomaniacal Caligula, but he deeply loved his wife Maggie and was so devastated when she left him that he became depressed for months on end and still badly misses her a century later.
- One JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable fan comic has Yoshikage Kira having a platonic version of this trope with beautician Aya Tsuji, having been best friends with her since high school and even avoiding to target her for her hands. The ending of the comic hints it will be subverted, as a wounded Kira approaches Aya to disguise his face as a favor for a friend, implying the same deadly fate Aya suffered in canon.
- Kira's new family: During a routine search for a new girlfriend (read:kill them for their hands), Yoshikage Kira runs into Tomoko Higashikata and her 4-years-old daughter Josuko, developing a fondness for them due to Tomoko's hospitality and finding out that Josuko has a Stand like him. Kira considers that he's been needing a family for so long, and decides that the Higashikatas will be a wonderful addition to his life. Then this gets Deconstructed as Kira claims Tomoko as his wife by destroying everything but her hands, and vowing to raise Josuko with "her" as part of his new obsession and routine.
- In you said no more hurting people, Rubber Soul's reason for trying to kill Jotaro is so he'd be able to take care of his daughter, Anne, with the money he would get from DIO. He is also genuinely heartbroken when Anne loses all love and respect for him because he broke his promise of no more hurting people.
- Natural Selection:
- Ryuko, despite being a tyrant and a sadistic Blood Knight has shown the capacity to love and cherish others.
- First among the people she cares for is her girlfriend, Mako. In fact, their relationship is shown to be her most redeeming quality. She genuinely loves and cherishes her girlfriend and will actively curb her sadistic tendencies for nothing more than to make Mako happy.
- She loves and cares for her Kamui, Junketsu, having known him almost her whole life and having bonded with him at an early age. She's shown a strong comradery with him when they fight Satsuki together.
- Despite the Villainous Incest present in their relationship, she does genuinely love her younger sister, Nui. Seeing her when she was in a dire situation almost immediately puts her at ease.
- Nui may be deranged enough to make Ryuko look sane, but she does love her older sister, Villainous Incest aside. When she's captured by Nudists, she shows that there are no limits to what she'll do to save her. She also genuinely loves and cherishes Soroi, as she warmly greets and hugs him when they meet in Chapter 17. It's even noted that Ragyo orders her children not to be affectionate with the hired help, but since Nui does so anyway with Soroi, it shows how much she cares about him.
- Ryuko, despite being a tyrant and a sadistic Blood Knight has shown the capacity to love and cherish others.
- The Touch of Green Fire: Shego may be an aloof super-villain, but there are people she genuinely cares for. She loves being a criminal, but she doesn't want her younger twin brothers following that path. She was also genuinely in love with her First Love Teryl and was hurt by her betrayal. As the series goes on, Shego finds herself attracted to Kim in a less-than-platonic manner as well.
- The Vow:
- The plot of Kung Fu Panda 2 has been expanded with Lady Lianne, Lord Shen's former fiancée. Shen loved her before his banishment from Gongmen City and he still does, even if that love has been buried under hatred for the perceived betrayal in rejecting him for his crime of mass murder. While he wants to conquer China and make her his queen as a form of punishment, he does want precisely her, the woman he loves. Lianne in turn wants desperately to stop Shen's plans and make him repent as she also still loves him. Eventually Shen sets Lianne free when he realizes that he'd rather have her happy than by his side on his dark road, though Lianne finalizes their marriage out of her own will before she leaves. Shen is left in a state of deep depression due to his broken heart, but he survives his canon ending because he wants to see Lianne one more time. The epilogue shows Shen and Lianne living together with their child.
- Shen has also not been able to completely forget his love towards his parents and his former nanny Ah-Ma.
- Zhan the Wolf Boss regards his pack as his family which makes him concerned when Lianne points out that there will be casualties if they try to conquer the entire China. He also forms a warm relationship with Jade, the dhole spy impersonating as a maid. After she's exposed, he's genuinely hurt. As she confesses that she did come to like him and tries to reason with him, he sends her out of the city instead of killing her while warning her to never return. They're reunited peacefully after Shen's apparent death.
- The male leopard member of Haun's gang expresses his desire to free/avenge his sister who's been captured by Shen's wolves.
- How Bad Can A Little Gossip Be: Mr Ricci may be a temperamental, bigoted jerk, but he cares for his son, even going as far as to try to hurt (or worse, kill) Alberto, who gave Mr Ricci's son a well-deserved beating for harassing Luca.
- Canid focuses largely on the relationship between Loki and his son Fenrir. It's fraught at times, but ultimately a loving relationship.
- The Lament Series (ChaoticNeutral): Deconstructed:
- Gabriel's Lament:
- While Gabriel insists that he only ever wished to protect Adrien, his Parental Neglect and abuse tell a very different story. When he insists that he never intentionally put his son in harm's way, Plagg reminds him that he threw him off a building once just to see whether he'd transform into Chat Noir, and saw nothing wrong with deliberately making him and those around him miserable in order to exploit their emotions as Hawk Moth.
- Gabriel also 'justifies' his reign of terror as Hawk Moth by claiming that it was all for the sake of saving Emilie from her coma. What Emilie might have wanted doesn't matter to him... in fact, he balks at the notion of telling her the truth precisely because he suspects she wouldn't approve of how he treated their son in the process.
- Chloe's Lament: Adrien is, perhaps, the only person Chloe gives a damn about other than herself. Mainly because she considers him the only one worthy of becoming her boyfriend. When Adrien grows a spine and starts standing up against her, calling her out on being so incredibly self-absorbed, she's completely unable to handle it and ultimately brainwashes him just to shut him up.
- Gabriel's Lament:
- The Murderof Lila Rossi: Marinette tells Alya that while the late Lila Rossi might have used lies to manipulate Alya and the others, she believes that Lila might have valued her friendship with Alya after all the years together. The epilogue reveals that when Lila got a soul-mate ice cream from André before her death, her order had a strong resemblance to Alya, hinting that she loved the reporter above anyone else, including herself.
- Zig-Zagged in One step backwards and Three forwards. On one hand, Hawkmoth ordered his minions to stand down once he saw that Chat Noir was none other than his own son, Adrien. He justified this by declaring that they'd already gotten the Black Cat Ring, and the detransformed hero was now powerless to stop them. But this didn't stop him from using his Wish to rewrite reality, and in the new world, he continues to treat Adrien much the same as he did before... with the added twist that he now has an older son, Felix, whom he favors (and who secretly has all of the original Adrien's memories). What's worse, he allows Lila to claim Adrien as her trophy boyfriend as part of her 'reward' — and while he flinches when Felix compares this to whoring his sibling out, allows the situation to continue unchallenged.
- Soul Eater: For all of Gabriel Agreste's crimes Asa supervillain, he does care for his son, albeit much of it suppressed by his present attitude as an Abusive Control Freak. This ends up becoming a plot point in the second half, as the sentibeing Tracker is set up by Duusu to be powered by Gabriel's positive emotions, hence his worry for Adrien's safety against his father and his reluctant to hurt his sympathetic targets like Andrew or the heroes' family under his creator's orders. After Gabriel is finally defeated, Adrien figures out Tracker represents the old Gabriel that still loved his family, and revealing this along with how Gabriel had tried to erase Tracker (essentially deleting his positive emotions) in several timelines according to Bunnyx causes the supervillain to finally reach his Heel Realization.
- Scarlet Lady: Subverted by Gabriel; the series repeatedly makes clear that he only cares about his son as a face for his brand. This is driven home during "Gorizilla": having started to suspect that Adrien might secretly be Chat Noir, he akumatizes his son's bodyguard. When Adrien is seemingly falling to his death, Gabriel is just disappointed that his theory didn't pan out, and dismissively orders Gorizilla to let Marigold rescue him, as he "can't make ads with a pancake son." He then tries to gaslight and guilt-trip Adrien into blaming himself for good measure, only to learn that Adrien doesn't trust him — something that only bothers him because he's such a manipulative Control Freak.
- Mortal Kombat Khronicles:
- Mileena views Meat and Skarlet as her "siblings", due to their shared origin as artificial creations. She also has a close relationship with Baraka and is romantically involved with Tanya. There is also her "mother" Sindel and "sister Kitana, though that one's complicated by brainwashing being used on all parties involved and Mileena and Kitana's animosity following the latter finding out the truth about her origins.
- Subverted with Shao Kahn's relationship with his "daughters". While he can put on a convincing loving, if stern father act when he wants to, he ultimately sees them both as tools.
- Downplayed with Kano. Who seemed genuinely upset to lose his mentor, Trev. Even if he kept up a strong appearance.
- Noob Saibot/Bi Han makes a seemingly sincere offer to his sister, Frost, to work together against their other sibling, after revealing her full origins.
- #14: Bakugou notes that All For One truly seems to care about Inko.
- Custody Battle: All for One loves his little brother and his son Izuku enough to attempt to compromise with them.
- Fear No Evil: All for One is desperate to save his son Izuku after he is abducted by Humarise, even to the point of teaming up with All Might.
- Forgiveness is the Attribute of the Strong: All for One genuinely cares about his son Izuku. But this rather twisted love manifests in kidnapping attempts.
- Perfection Is Overrated, being a My-HiME fic, has even the SUEs, despite their lack of regard for others, possess Most Important people who will die if they lose. They range from those motivated to do morally questionable deeds for the sake of their beloved person, to those who have them despite not seeming like the type to care for others. The only exception is Hitomi. Later on, one of the First District underlings is revealed to have a wife who works at Fuuka Academy and a son who goes to school there.
- The Alternate Adventures of the Power Ponies: A recurring characteristic. Ahuizotl loves his cats, Mane-iac still recalls a distorted affection for Rarity, Sombra and Discord both genuinely care for their respective love interests, and Longhorn has his daughter Madcow.
- The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum:
- In spite of everything, Queen Celestia still loved her sister. It didn't stop her from turning Luna to stone after she tried to side with the humans.
- Discord expresses genuine sadness at the disappearance of the alicorn Faust, whom he calls his "mother".
- Equestrylvania: Nevermore the Perverse created a devastating poison that only affects foals. He was sure to create a cure as well, in case anyone else decided to use it on his own kids.
- Chrysalis in Friendship Is Magical Girls is as evil as she is in cannon, but she does love her children.
- Harmony Theory: Charisma, a pegasus that was literally born to be a Blood Knight and The Dragon to one of the big bads still cares about her ex-boyfriend, the unquestionably good and pacifistic Trail Blazer, even long after they had broken up. She is also implied to have remorse over accidentally murdering her own brother, when her "killer mark" first appeared and lead to her being disowned by her family.
- The Immortal Game:
- In his own sick, twisted way, Esteem actually seems to care about his daughter Rarity. Likewise, Terra seems to genuinely love Titan.
- Terra (and Titan too, before he snapped) also loved Harmony (Terra's mother and Titan's first wife) and the original Empyrean (Terra's brother/first husband and Titan's son).
- Despite being The Caligula, the My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series version of Celestia seems to at least tolerate her sister Luna's antics.
- In the Ponies of Olympus series, Chrysalis seems to honestly love her daughter Aurelia.
- Despite going through some serious Adaptational Villainy the Ultra Fast Pony version of Applejack still seems to care about her siblings.
- Pony POV Series:
- This describes the relationship between the Dark World versions of Fluttercruel and Discord. They both genuinely care about each other; Fluttercruel is Daddy's Little Villain all the way, and Fauna Luster help you if you hurt Cruel in Discord's presence. When Discord is mortally wounded, Fluttercruel has a full-blown Villainous Breakdown and becomes an Omnicidal Maniac to protect him.
- Discord also begs the Dark World!Mane Six not to hurt Screwball and Mad Tiara/Diamond Tiara, who are his nieces. He even sends the two of them away with specific orders to never try to fight the mane six for his death because they'd not stand a chance and likely die.
- Despite all the evil, horrible things they've done, Nightmare Paradox and her Psycho Rangers seem to genuinely love each other as friends, to the point they can still use the Elements of Harmony. Paradox has even been looking for a Nightmare Rarity because of what it'd mean to Banneret. Nightmare Banneret and Mirror also still care for Rarity and Apple Pie as well, but not enough to spare them (though its implied Mirror may have spared her Apple Pie in some way).
- By the Finale Arc, Diamond Tiara has become a Nightmare and minion of Discord. She seems to be numb to all emotion, and only serves Discord because she believes that is her only purpose. However, she still cares about Silver Spoon, Tootsie, and Alula. She even became terrified for and then rescued Tootsie when Venus tried to kill her.
- Nyarlathotrot seems to genuinely care about his son, King Sombra. While he sees everybody else, even Discord, as an expendable pawn, he wishes Sombra all the happiness in the world when he is temporarily freed, and arranges for his needs to be met.
- Princess Trixie Sparkle:
- Astelle, the main antagonist of the story, has a soft spot for Princess Luna the little sister she never got to meet.
- Also Astelle's minion/creation The Shadow Alicorn, sees her as its mother and largely participates in her schemes to make her happy... even if she may not see things the same way. He is also revealed to be an Old Friend to Luna.
- The Somewhat Cracked Mind Of Uchiha Itachi: Rasa is a bastard who stuck the Shukaku into his youngest child and eventually drove him insane, and even went as far as to try and hold a hospital hostage during the Invasion, but when it comes down to it, he loves all his children and is genuinely hurt when he realizes that they all (justifiably) hate him in return.
- Always Visible: Since doctor Baselard's connection to the Makoto Institute is never confirmed, it can be assumed that the remaining nameless silver-haired specialist is his best student, who carried out his whims in fooling Galbraith.
- All Mixed Up!:
- Ultimately subverted with Mariana Mag and Otto. Mariana developed a fondness for Otto since he's a Nice Guy, and as a result, she refused to attack him and turn him into a personalized anagrammed object. However, it's all past tense, as she sets her sights on attacking him when he manages to sniff her out and exposes her for who she really is.
- Played straight with Mariana Mag and her aquarium, as well as the animals that live there. She loves them all dearly and doesn't want to lose the aquarium, since it's a Family Business that her father handed down to her. Of course, she doesn't turn her animals into anagrammed objects, either.
- Marie D. Suesse and the Mystery New Pirate Age!: It is unclear how much Madelyn, really cared for her lover, Trafalgar Law, and she caused her brother, Monkey D. Luffy's execution for his sake. However, she greatly cares for her husband Garreth, and her daughter Marie, to the point at which she begs Law to exact his revenge on her, rather than him. He replies that he didn't wait 20 years to settle for that, and there is a way for her to right her wrongs- but it involves changing the past so that, among other things, she never meets them.
- Boiling Isles and Beyond: Played straight but tragically subverted. Even Amity and Skara, who hate Boscha now, admit she was nothing but kind and loving to her girlfriend, Bo. Unfortunately, Boscha's increasing stress caused by Willow stealing her popularity and her friends realizing how toxic she was and cutting her out of their lives led to her abusing Bo. Any love she had left for her is extinguished when Bo leaves her.
- Ashes of the Past has Giovanni; what pissed him off about the Iron Marauder's little attempt to usurp him as boss of Team Rocket via Celebi was the fact that he might have not met Persian if the Marauder succeeded. Which is why, when it's all said and done, he orders his beloved Persian to give Vicious a stroke in retaliation.
- Back to Zero: Giovanni is a cruel and arrogant mafia boss-esque character who murdered his own mother. He sends his agents to murder people and has no issue raping his underlings. Despite all this, he does genuinely care for his daughter Jessie, he has a messed-up but romantically tinged relationship with Jessie's mother Miyamoto, and he keeps an eye out for his son Ash.
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Lost Tracks of Time: The three members of Team Wish are all pokemon raised by Volo. They spend centuries exploiting the Reincarnation process to get him to be reborn. When that plan fails to work, they resort to trying to control or usurp Arceus to resurrect him.
- Pokémon Reset Bloodlines:
- Belladonna and her crew are ruthless and vengeful vigilantes, but they deeply care for each other romantically. Belladonna, when she discovers Ash may be her half brother, refrains from killing him, tries to strike up a friendly conversation with him, and offers him genuine comfort when he cries over the potential death of Primeape.
- Sabrina is a Social Darwinist whose method to make a better world is to push people to live up to their potential through fear and kill off those that she deems as "worthless" without any remorse whatsoever. However, her Gaiden sidestory reveals that she genuinely loved her father, preferring to hypnotize him into leaving their hometown so she wouldn't have to kill him when he tried to stop her.
- O'Malley from Murderer's Row shows a twisted, rapey, interest in Doc. On a more platonic note, he and Gary are, in flashback chapters, shown to be quite friendly with each other, and O'Malley was extremely upset when Delta killed Gary for a perceived betrayal.
- Guardian of Light: Pitch is revealed to be Helen's father. While his treatment of her towards the beginning leaves much to be desired, it gradually becomes apparent that he really does love her, despite everything.
- Lullabies: By the same author as the above, has another example. Jack is surprised by the knowledge that, out of all of the Immortals, Pitch is the only one who has experience in parenting because he has a daughter.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness: Jovian and Jacqueline Kikion, Hokuto's Co-Dragons during the events of Acts III and IV. The author goes out of his way to establish that Jovian and Jacqueline are nothing more than Psychopathic Manchildren who absolutely thrive on causing as much pain, destruction, and death as possible, going so far as to torture and rape those Hokuto holds hostage For the Evulz. That being said, they have Undying Loyalty to Hokuto, and love each other, even if said love is somewhat twisted; in fact, in Act IV chapter 28, the minute Apoch and Astreal successfully kill Jacqueline, Jovian completely drops her Faux Affably Evil act and starts spamming Wave Motion Guns at the two in a blind rage.
- Fixing RWBY: Xiong is a crime lord, but he genuinely cares for his henchwomen the Malachite twins and they each-other. Fixing RWBY Volume 4 shows a post-Fall of Beacon Junior mournfully looking at a picture of the Malachites after Miltia perished in the attack, while Melanie has gone insane from her sister's death despite Junior's best efforts to care for her. Melanie subsequently replaces Neopolitan's canon role of pursuing the heroes across Remnant for vengeance in the rewrite timeline.
- A Monster's Marriage: Cinder Fall is a monster who happily sold her soul for power but is very much in love with her husband, Jaune Arc, whom she keeps her life as a criminal far from. Not that this works, as Jaune unknowingly ends up befriending other criminals, ultimately becoming a loved one to several characters by the end of the story (and sparking many a Heel–Face Turn in the process).
- RWBY: Destiny of Remnant: Cinder, surprisingly despite everything she has done, still cares for her younger brother Ashe. She's quite uncomfortable about killing Ashe, but eventually went through with it because she couldn't disobey her master Salem, and because she has already chosen her fate.
- White Sheep: Salem is still the Evil Overlord of the Grimm but she loves her husband deeply and positively dotes on her children. Yang remarks on the irony that the Big Bad is a better mother than her own.
- Malefor in Skylanders Academy: New Horizon may not approve of his daughter Cynder's choice to join his mortal enemies in the Skylanders, but ultimately, Malefor does ultimately love her, grounding her in an attempt to protect when she tells him she's being targetted, and later doing an Enemy Mine with the Skylanders to get her back from Omen when she's captured.
A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones
- The Boltons in The Bloods of Bolton may be a cavalcade of sociopaths, but they do seem genuinely capable of caring for each other. Roose may be an utterly ruthless and cruel Lord, but he does care for his son and daughter (his daughter especially) and he also can't bring himself to kill Ramsay despite him attacking Drucilla. Drucilla herself is a sadistic little girl, but she does love her brother Domeric to the point where she actively targets Ramsay despite her fear of him.
- Chasing Dragons:
- Rhaegar gets his Berserk Button pushed by the sight of Lannister banners because of what happened to his wife and children.
- The members of the Myrish Remnant whose POV we see hate the Kingdom of Myr because of the deaths of their loved ones in the fall of Myr and the war leading up to it.
- Euron Greyjoy, who isn't quite as bad as in canon, fondly remembers his father and despises Balon for ruining the man's life work with his rebellion. Also, there's the matter of Balon possibly being responsible for the deaths of their stepmother and half-brother, which Euron is disgusted by.
- Sonic Boom: Beyond the Black Horizon: Unlike his canon counterpart (who had no bridges left to burn by the time he was sealed off), Lyric had some very close friends in the World-Wreckers. After he's accidentally freed a millennium later and gets Sonic and co. off his back, his primary concern is finding them...
- Sonic Mania: The Novelization: For all his evil and craziness, Eggman does care about his niece Eggatha. When the Flying Battery crash-lands in the Press Garden Zone, Eggman's immediate concern is whether or not Eggatha managed to escape before the crash.
- Sonic X: Dark Chaos: Tsali deeply cared about the mercenaries he hired to aid him with exterminating the Seedrians - to the point when they betrayed him to try to end the Metarex War, he was so devastated that he suffered a slight Villainous Breakdown. Especially Talia, as she was madly in love with Tsali and only reluctantly turned against him which is probably why he gave her a Mercy Kill.
- The Prodigal Daughter: While ‘evil’ and ‘loved ones’ might be overstating the matter, Kilbourne notes that Sloan was respected in Section 31 and quite a few people in the organisation aren’t happy that Doctor Bashir let Sloan die so that he could save Odo.
- The Star Trek (2009) fic Safe and Sound solidifies what the second film established; that Khan cares about his crew. He even adopts the newly augmented Lucille Harewood and accepts her into his family.
- running with lightning feet deconstructs the concept with the Opress brothers. After being raised by a sociopathic Sith Lord, Maul is so emotionally stunted he cannot envision a relationship in other terms than "student-teacher" or "usefulness" while Savage is so terrified of his younger sibling Feral being hurt or losing his inner kindness he's ignoring or outright bullying him to teach him strength. The result is that Feral genuinely believes his brothers would abandon him for being unable to fulfill their expectations, meaning that Savage and Maul's attempts to care for him only can drive Feral away.
- In Mario & Luigi: Darkest Timeline, despite how low he has sunk to the point of wiping out most of the Toads, the future Bowser still cares about Princess Peach to the point where Mephistopheles was able to manipulate his actions through her death. He is also horrified when Mephistopheles says he plans to show his son no mercy.
- The Heart Trilogy:
- Deconstructed a bit with Smaug who develops a complicated relationship with Kathryn whom he originally kidnapped as his songbird. He comes to regard her as his greatest treasure, but he's still a murderous and greedy dragon whose actions hurt the much more moral Kathryn, and the prideful dragon-dread doesn't easily comply to her wishes. By the end of the trilogy's second part, Smaug is forced to give up his plans to take Erebor and his treasure back if he wants Kathryn's love. In the beginning of the third part, this trope is discussed, with Gandalf arguing to Galadriel that Smaug's feelings for Kathryn make him A Lighter Shade of Black against Sauron. Smaug's also happy about his and Kathryn's twins Kolstros and Vervenia after they're born.
- The misandristic witch Andraya is an Abusive Parent to her timid and normal daughter Freyja, but her schemes (which include making Smaug give Freyja a powerful offspring) are to provide a better life for her and Freyja. Freyja's death by Smaug's teeth saddens and angers Andraya into handing Kathryn to Fankil, both to get back at Freyja's killer and gain from the demon a resurrection spell so that she can get Freyja back.
- The Woman Behind her Face: For all of Tomie's proud and selfish attitude, especially as her vidicative side manifested after her first death, she and many of her incarnates all loved her mother Mitsuki, who genuinely loved her and raised her to the best of her ability. One Tomie, during Mitsuki's final years, choose not to focus on her modus operandi of manipulation but instead devote herself as Mitsuki's nurse, desperately trying to extend her life and make her as comfortable as possible.
- In The Transformers fanfic series Prisoner of Destiny and The Big Capture of 1999-2006 by Shebakoby, Megatron, of all people. He goes full Papa Wolf in part 7 of Shadow of the Guardian co-written by Conveyus-Prime.
- Riding a Sunset: Soundwave is one of the deadliest Decepticon soldiers ever known. He's also incredibly fond of his Cassettes, treating them more like pets or children than tools. When Shockwave suggests that a malfunctioning Ravage simply be replaced, Soundwave gives him a Death Glare.
- A Darker Path: The morality of Atropos' actions is debated extensively In-Universe, whether she's a saviour or just an extraordinary effective and reasonable mass murderer. It's undeniable, however, that she kills over and over without hesitation or remorse, even when less lethal options are available, and couldn't care less about public opinion or legality except insofar as they inconvenience her. Nonetheless, she cares very deeply about her father and a couple of friends, and has warned the PRT that if they expose her Secret Identity and her loved ones are harmed as a result, she will massacre everyone responsible.
