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In before Kabuto.
On the latter point, I agree.
edited 17th Feb '11 9:19:37 PM by TotemicHero
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One of the bad guys from Heroes has healing powers.
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@OP: Mercedes Lackey explores the Evil Healer idea on occasion (after establishing just how not-likely it would be).
@Karalora: Yes, Winnowill was pure evil. But goddamn, that hair...
edited 17th Feb '11 9:35:01 PM by drunkscriblerian
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That's because any writer that's played video games with evil healers knows how ungodly hard they are to kill.
Really though, Evil Healers that do their job with the power of undeath and Body Horror can make for seriously friggen scary villains, like whoa.
I see the Awesomeness.
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Evil Healers also allow the possibility of unlimited torture. Torture, heal, torture, heal, repeat until their will is broken beyond belief.
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I can attest to an Evil Healer making for a nightmarish and dark villain. I read one in an obscure little book, and my own villain, Kall is based on that. He mainly heals people. In between doing everything he is notorious for doing.
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I've always wondered what would happen if an evil Cleric cast cure wounds on someone with full life...
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Even if you Shoot the Medic First, they're probably subject to some kind of undead Healing Factor. As are any minions they throw at you. They will not stay down.
It sees you.
I've always thought of Necromancers as being the evil healers. Both Clerics and Necromancers bring people back from the dead, it's just that Necromancers do it with a side helping of slavery and exposed bone.
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I think a better candidate for evil healers is the Mad Scientist. I mean, think of being “healed” by the likes of Mayuri or Szayel, that could NOT POSSIBLY end well.
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One of the bad guys from Heroes has healing powers. Daniel Linderman, the mob boss from the first season.
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In DCU there exists the Crime Doctor. He has a fancy pair of sunglasses.
Was going to remember Winnowill too.
Also, one of the Forsaken in Wheel Of Time, Semirhage, if I am not mistaken.
Technically any evil cleric in Dn D would count too.
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Also, Real Life has many, many applications. Example A: Dr. Mengele
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^ Well, if Mengele qualifies...
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Remember, everyone with a medical doctor has to take the Hypocratic Oath somewhere along the line. At least, I hope so.
Shouldn't be so hard to do. It's easy enough to twist genero-healing into something morbid by pairing it with a side-effect of transferring wounds to others/accelerated regeneration being excruciatingly painful or cost lifespan or something.
I know what you said, sugar, but 'platonic' still entails a world of ideas.
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Evil Healers also allow the possibility of unlimited torture. Torture, heal, torture, heal, repeat until their will is broken beyond belief. Remember, everyone with a medical doctor has to take the Hypocratic Oath somewhere along the line. At least, I hope so. 
Seriously, a person could commit so many atrocities with this kind of power but NOOOOO, they have to be on the good guys side. >:/
Also sorta kinda related: Not enough genuinely nice heroes with nightmare powers.
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