History PlayingWith / TautologicalTemplar

** Bob is a CardCarryingVillain who is fully aware of his actions and never seeks to justify himself.

* '''Straight''': The LawfulStupid [[KnightTemplar Tomoe]] ''knows'' that she's one of the good guys -- she's a soldier for justice! And that means she does nothing but good deeds, and ''punishes'' the baddies! [[KickTheDog Even that puppy was evil]]!
"Bob is a member of Antifa, and he [[GodwinsLaw labels everything he doesn't like as fascist whether its accurate or not]]. This self-justification [[MoralMyopia allows him to hurt innocent people without feeling any form of guilt or remorse]]

* '''Downplayed''': Tomoe is somewhat a good person at heart, although in a [[PragmaticHero pragmatic manner]]. Because of this, she knows that everything she does is right, no matter how harsh her actions can be.
** Bob [[SoapboxSadie talks a lot about his leftist views]], but [[RevolutionariesWhoDontDoAnything never does anything to actually help other people]], spending his time lecturing people on social media. He thinks he's changing the world for the better.

** Bob is stupid and has a hero complex, [[WrongGenreSavvy believing that he's a main character like those in many anti-Nazi movies he watched]].

** Bob is a CardCarryingVillain who is fully aware of his actions.

** "We call ourselves the Anti-Bad Guy Squad and we label our opponents the Bad Guys. How can people not understand this? We can never be terrorists because we're fighting the Bad Guys. It's so simple to understand. Everything we do is justified because of our name."

** [[IgnorantOfTheCall Naoya]] [[HeroicSelfDeprecation is convinced]] that [[BadPowersBadPeople he is evil]] and everything he does is evil by default, despite all testamony and evidence to the contrary. Singlehandedly saved his hometown from TheEmpire? But the Imperial army had [[PunchClockVillain so many good soldiers]] [[{{Conscription}} forced into an aggressive war]] -- and he had to cut them down and blast them with his magic... [[ItNeverGetsAnyEasier again!]] Kept everyone he knows safe? Huh, you don't know how many he couldn't keep safe -- and [[SamaritanSyndrome what he feels about it!]] Rescued several litters of kittens from trees in my spare time? Aye, only for those kittens to [[NatureIsNotNice grow up and kill his beloved songbirds]]! If only he had known it...

** [[IgnorantOfTheCall Naoya]] [[HeroicSelfDeprecation is convinced]] that [[BadPowersBadPeople he is evil]] and everything he does is evil by default, despite how he's been singlehandedly defending his hometown from TheEmpire, keeping everyone he knows safe, and rescuing kittens from trees in his spare time.

* '''Inverted''': [[IgnorantOfTheCall Naoya]] [[HeroicSelfDeprecation is convinced]] that [[BadPowersBadPeople he is evil]] and everything he does is evil by default, despite how he's been singlehandedly defending his hometown from TheEmpire, keeping everyone he knows safe, and rescuing kittens from trees in his spare time.

* '''Defied''': Tomoe knows she's done evil and {{Wangst}}s about the DirtyBusiness [[IDidWhatIHadToDo she's had to do]] in the name of the greater good.

* '''Inverted''': Naoya is convinced that [[BadPowersBadPeople he is evil]] and everything he does is evil by default, despite how he's been singlehandedly defending his hometown from TheEmpire, keeping everyone he knows safe, and rescuing kittens from trees in his spare time.

* '''Enforced''': Tomoe is an AuthorAvatar inserted into some franchise because her creator thinks that, after seventy years of the main characters being jerks, the only way someone's calling out will be heard is if they are every bit as forceful. The chance of it backfiring didn't occurred to her creator at the moment.

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Conversed''': ???

** Tomoe is a CompleteMonster who somehow believes herself to be both an AllLovingHero and IncorruptiblePurePureness.

* '''Justified''': Tomoe was raised to believe this.

* '''Enforced''': Good is a cosmic force that is not connected to [[GoodPowersBadPeople any sort of moral obligations]]. Furthermore, certain races and jobs (such as "soldiers for justice") are considered to be aligned to Good, and thus get to exploit this cosmic force for their own reasons. Anything these Good people do must, by definition, be Good.

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Averted''': ???

* '''Played For Laughs''': [[DestructiveSavior After destroying a village]] to take out a monster Tomoe asks the surviving citizens if they think she's a [[MemeticMutation "great hero or the GREATEST hero?]] [[DeadpanSnarker ...I'll put you down for great."]]

** Whenever anyone tries to [[WhatTheHellHero tell her she's evil,]] [[BerserkButton her response is to]][[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat]] [[ShutUpKirk Kirk]] [[DisproportionateRetribution senseless]] [[IResembleThatRemark and completely prove his point.]]

** Whenever anyone tries to [[WhatTheHellHero tell her she's evil.]] Her response is to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat]] [[ShutUpKirk Kirk]] [[DisproportionateRetribution senseless]] [[IResembleThatRemark and completely prove his point.]]

** [[SelectiveObliviousness Any attempt to get Tomoe to face the truth]] is met with [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial overly emphatic assertions]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything that she is not evil,]] [[BastardlySpeech she is good and kind and pure and everything she does is righteous!]]

* '''Played For Laughs''': [[DestructiveSavior After destroying a village]] to take out a monster Tomoe asks the surviving citizens if they think she's a "great hero or the GREATEST hero? ...I'll put you down for great."
* '''Played For Drama''': Tomoe used to be good friends with [[CuteWitch Ic]][[PlayingWithFire hi]][[FieryRedhead go]], but her [[WideEyedIdealist Wide-Eyed Idealism]] was easily manipulated by [[TheDragon General Kaizo]], who has her convinced that she and the rest of the empire's forces are paragons of virtue and that her former friend has been blinded by the darkness.

** Tomoe is a CompleteMonster who somehow believes herself to be TheMessiah of IncorruptiblePurePureness.
* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': Tomoe's beliefs are the lynchpin to her sanity. Her entire identity and sense of self-worth is built around the idea that everything she does is ultimately 'good'; she simply ''can't'' second-guess herself, for fear that those insecurities and doubts will prove overwhelming. Even when confronted with seemingly undeniable proof that her actions have had terrible, evil consequences, she retreats further into denial and mental instability.
** And the above scenario eventually leads to General Kaizo to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness put her down when she started becoming a threat to the empire's plans.]]

** Tomoe is a CompleteMonster who somehow believes herself to be TheMessiah of IncorruptablePurePureness.

* '''Exaggerated''': As a devoted soldier of TheEmpire, Tomoe is perfectly willing to SaveTheWorld by curbstomping it into submission wherever necessary, fully convinced that it's okay because she and her friends are pillars of truth and light.

* '''Parodied''': [[SelectiveObliviousness Any attempt to get Tomoe to face the truth]] is met with [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial overly emphatic assertions]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything that she is not evil,]] [[BastardlySpeech she is good and kind and pure and everything she does is righteous!]]

* '''Deconstructed''': Tomoe's beliefs are the lynchpin to her sanity. Her entire identity and sense of self-worth is built around the idea that everything she does is ultimately 'good'; she simply ''can't'' second-guess herself, for fear that those insecurities and doubts will prove overwhelming. Even when confronted with seemingly undeniable proof that her actions have had terrible, evil consequences, she retreats further into denial and mental instability.
* '''Reconstructed''': Tomoe is confronted with her evil deeds and at first has a FreakOut but ultimately [[IgnoredEpiphany dismisses]] those heretics who would try to undermine her beliefs and cause such doubts. They are the evil ones! They don't understand true justice!

* '''Played For Laughs''': [[DestructiveSavior After destroying a village]] to take out a monster Tomoe asks the survivng citizens if they think she's a "great hero or the GREATEST hero? ...I'll put you down for great."

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