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Author: KingZeal

Feb 9th 2016 at 6:51:31 PM

"Them as in the bad guys?"  
No, I misunderstood the last point of your previous reply.  I thought you meant the Nominal Hero was opposed to a different hero (a non-nominal one).  That was my mistake.

"Yes they can.  They totes can.  You just refuse to acknowledge it, which you have no reason for."

Put the claws down.  I'm not attacking you, so don't attack me.

The problem with what you're saying is that Nominal Hero's actions do not fall into the "good/bad goal" or "good/bad methods" thing.  Here are a list of goals a nominal hero can have:

* Killing people (doesn't matter if the person they want to kill is good or bad).
* Mayhem for the hell of it.
* Helping someone (may or may not be someone the audience sympathizes with, such as a villain).
* Money
* Sex, drugs or other vices.

Those are all possible neutral goals for a NominalHero.  None of them necessarily need to be good or bad.  But, yes, you can still have any of the above situations and STILL have a "good/neutral" method.  For example, a Nominal Hero that wants to cause mayhem and tear down society, but again, said society is oppressive and totalitarian.   We, the audience, may code his desired anarchy as "bad" because of any number of reasons (people are hurt, lives are ended or ruined, art and culture are lost) but it can STILL be argued in-story that this is better than the alternative.

Thus, a Nominal Hero can be TOTALLY neutral across the board, and still be a Nominal hero.