Markup View

Author: FrodoGoofballCoTV

May 6th 2012 at 9:59:29 PM

Basically, my understanding is that these characters see a heroic goal that seems to themselves to be more important than anything else, and thus they pursue it without guilt or concern over their villainous acts.  For this character, the only morality they necessarily require other than a morally good goal is "the ends justify the means".

My vision is, let's say for example, an underling has info the heroes need to stop the BigBad, who is planning a bank heist that will likely leave several dozen people dead.  A [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=yny8d79npfj6upnn30f3paow Pragmatic Hero]] - and most {{Unscrupulous Hero}}es for that matter - might knock a policeman unconcious, kidnap the underling, tie him up in a precarious position, and threaten him until he talks, but would be very reluctant to kill anyone to accomplish the mission.  This character might not only kill the underling, he'd murder a RedShirt or two as well just to trick the BigBad into thinking he'd made a FaceHeelTurn to get close to the BigBad.