Basic Trope: A member of an otherwise Always Chaotic Evil species joins the good side.
- Straight: Hiro fights a lot of Skeevaxes, an Always Chaotic Evil alien species. However, one Skeevax known as Claw joins him.
- Exaggerated: Every single Skeevax ever shown in the work has crossed the Moral Event Horizon by default, but Claw is an All-Loving Hero.
- Downplayed: Skeevaxes are generally unfriendly creatures, and Claw is more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Justified: Claw believes that My Species Doth Protest Too Much.
- Inverted: (Token Villainous Elf) An otherwise Always Lawful Good species has one member named Zadock join the side of villainy.
- Subverted:
- Claw turns out to be The Mole.
- It turns out that Skeevaxes are not Always Chaotic Evil, and Hiro was just unfortunate enough to only encounter the worse ones beforehand.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters, and any human aligned Skeevaxes likes Claw are not heroes but cynical sellouts at best and genocidal Boomerang Bigots at worst.
- Double Subverted:
- But another Skeevax comes along, which actually is friendly.
- Or Claw turns out to have actually grown into his fake persona and regrets his decision, rejoining and apologizing to Hiro.
- Skeevaxes being the real victims of the war turns out to be propaganda, Claw is not trying to wipe out his own people simply prevent them from wiping other races.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- There are no Always Chaotic Evil species in the work.
- If a species is Always Chaotic Evil, then it is - no exceptions.
- Enforced: The work got criticized of having Unfortunate Implications due to its Always Chaotic Evil species, so the writers added a member of the species that is sympathetic.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Hiro decides that he will not let a Skeevax join him.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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