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* Parodied in the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4400697/1/His-Eyes-of-Amber His Eyes of Amber]]''.
-->''"I don't care if Tigerclaw was evil; he was still an amazing cat."''
* Played straight in the ForWantOfANail fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11667304/3/Into-the-Forest-and-Into-the-Wild Into the Forest and Into the Wild]]''. After [[Literature/WarriorCats Tigerstar]] murders Redtail out of nothing more than lust for power, he somehow feels so immediately, totally regretful over it that he freely admits his crime, "his eyes filled with guilt and self-loathing". (As opposed to, you know, ''canon'', where Tigerstar gloats over the murder, threatens Ravenpaw to keep his crimes a secret, and kills many other innocent cats in pursuit of power.) For some reason, the character he confesses to isn't at all bothered by Tigerstar ''killing someone'' [[note]]someone who the narrative [[InformedAttribute claims]] was "like a father to her", no less[[/note]] and promises him her eternal friendship.
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* "[[Music/TheBeatles Maxwell's Silver Hammer]]" is about a psycho med student who murders people with a silver [[DropTheHammer hammer]]. The final verse has fangirls storming the courtroom as he's tried for homicide, demanding that Maxwell be freed. [[DeconstructedTrope The final refrain has Maxwell murdering them, too.]]
* There is a very strange case of this with Uncle Ernie from Music/{{Tommy}}. Every adaptation does nothing to hide the fact that he's a greedy, alcoholic child molester (admittedly less so in the movie adaptation) who molested the titular character (a deaf, dumb and blind boy), and gets little to no comeuppance for his actions. However, because most of the people who play Uncle Ernie tend to make him a LargeHam (and the movie's version is played by [[Music/TheWho Keith Moon]], the band's drummer), the fans seem to ''adore'' him and sometimes even defend him because he's "cute".
** Cousin Kevin, Tommy's other abusive relative who talks about putting him through all kinds of physical torture, doesn't have nearly as large of a fanbase as Ernie, but he's just about as bad. It doesn't help that plenty of actors who have played Kevin are also at least slightly attractive.
* Rolling Stone got accused of doing this to the Boston Marathon bomber when they put his picture on the cover.
* Lampooned in Music/{{Eminem}}'s [[Music/TheMarshallMathersLP "The Real Slim Shady"]]
-->''"Feminist women love Eminem\\
(Chicka chicka chicka Slim Shady)\\
'I'm sick of him, look it him, walkin around, grabbin his you know what, flippin' to you know who'\\
'Yeah, but he's so cute though.'"''
** This trope is also a theme of Eminem's song "Stan", which deals with a LoonyFan who thinks that Eminem's {{Jerkass}} Slim Shady persona is the real thing rather than an over-the-top joke, and latches onto and romanticizes the things Slim does and says because he thinks they have a bond. Stan ends up dying because he tries to imitate a song Eminem wrote about a man drowning his girlfriend (and the fact that Stan wanted to name his future daughter after the song is a pretty good indicator that he took the wrong message from it).
* ''Music/{{CG5}}'': The music video for "Let Me Through" shows various versions of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Foxy]] ruthlessly killing/dismembering the other animatronics and making some very clear death threats to the security guard while trying to get into the guard's room. Yet many people in the comments sympathize with Foxy, seeing him as just lonely and wanting to hug him. To be fair, Foxy also gets the DILP treatment a lot in his home series, so the response to [=CG5's=] Foxy is almost certainly carried over from existing interpretations of him.
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[[folder:Myths and Religion]]
* In several apocryphal Christian letters and writings such as the ''Acta Pilati'', Pontius Pilate is upgraded from merely a conflicted executioner of Jesus to a remorseful post-Resurrection convert, and even martyr. To this day, he is a saint in the Coptic and Ethiopian calendars.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''Super TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' invokes this trope with an enemy named "Misunderstood Man." He's depicted as a [[{{Adorkable}} bespectacled supervillain in slacker clothes]] surrounded by fawning heroines, and female characters cannot fight him.
* Invoked humorously in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' 3rd edition. Lord Entropy is a cruel tyrant who has outlawed love for Nobles. Even so, some observers were surprised that no one seems to have fallen in love with ''him'', despite him being a "deeply troubled, handsome, dangerous celebrity." Experiments seem to prove that it's ''impossible'' to love him, and it's likely that he's either responsible for the phenomena or glad that it exists.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Servants of Khorne tend to get this treatment. In fanon, they're NobleDemon {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s who spare non-combatants and {{Worthy Opponent}}s, a belief which stems from previous depictions of Khorne followers from older versions of the game, and the fact [[KickTheSonOfABitch they oppose the decadent followers of Slaanesh, who torture their victims to death]]. But in reality, or at least the newest versions of the game, Khorne worshippers are all murderously psychotic [[TheBerserker berserkers]] who slaughter civilians, combatants and [[FriendOrFoe even their fellows]] indiscriminately. [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Kharn Kharn the Betrayer]], the most kill-happy of them all, gets entire fanfics centered around this interpretation. Don't worry though, [[MemeticMutation he's actually a really fun guy]]. [[BlatantLies We promise]].
** A really understated example is Imperial Commissars. Due to the popularity of characters like [[Literature/GauntsGhosts Ibram Gaunt]] and Literature/CiaphasCain, the average Commissar is often thought of in the fandom as AFatherToHisMen, maybe a JerkWithAHeartOfGold ''at the absolute worst''. What people forget is that Gaunt and Cain are ''the exception'', not the rule. The average Commissar will execute Guardsmen over trivial offences and gladly send them to die horribly in pointless assaults and {{Last Stand}}s, a practice which disgusts the alien Tau.
** This could apply to a lot of the "good guy" factions in ''Warhammer 40000'', to be honest. And Creator/GamesWorkshop don't take kindly to that. The Imperium looking too justified in their extremism? Next edition, add more deluded {{Knight Templar}}s screaming '''''"HERESY!"'''''. The [[SpaceElves Eldar]] looking too sympathetic? Play up their TheFairFolk tendencies by showing them orchestrating events which lead to the deaths of billions of human civilians to save the lives of a handful of Eldar. The Tau looking too hopeful and progressive? Add [[spoiler:recently confirmed]] rumours of mind-control, sterilization and generally treating their auxiliary races like second-class citizens. The Orks looking too much like PluckyComicRelief? Make [[VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine a game]] where Orks are seen laughing gleefully as they massacre women and children. ''Warhammer 40000'' is straight up EvilVersusEvil, ''maybe'' BlackAndGrayMorality at the best of times, so the moment any faction begins being viewed as "good guys" or at the very least "alright", lore will update showing that faction committing horrible atrocities to remind everyone that ''no-one'' should be cheered on in this series.
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[[folder:Other]]
* L'ange du mal by Joseph Geefs. The statue of Lucifer was removed from the cathedral that commissioned it because of its "unhealthy beauty" and the concern that it was distracting to young female attendees. The Church commissioned Geefs' older brother for a replacement. The resulting [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_g%C3%A9nie_du_mal Le génie du mal]] is generally regarded as even sexier and Satanists are known to visit the church where it resides to meditate on the sculpture.
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* Parodied in the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4400697/1/His-Eyes-of-Amber His Eyes of Amber]]''.
-->''"I don't care if Tigerclaw was evil; he was still an amazing cat."''
* Played straight in the ForWantOfANail fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11667304/3/Into-the-Forest-and-Into-the-Wild Into the Forest and Into the Wild]]''. After [[Literature/WarriorCats Tigerstar]] murders Redtail out of nothing more than lust for power, he somehow feels so immediately, totally regretful over it that he freely admits his crime, "his eyes filled with guilt and self-loathing". (As opposed to, you know, ''canon'', where Tigerstar gloats over the murder, threatens Ravenpaw to keep his crimes a secret, and kills many other innocent cats in pursuit of power.) For some reason, the character he confesses to isn't at all bothered by Tigerstar ''killing someone'' [[note]]someone who the narrative [[InformedAttribute claims]] was "like a father to her", no less[[/note]] and promises him her eternal friendship.
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[[folder:Music]]
* "[[Music/TheBeatles Maxwell's Silver Hammer]]" is about a psycho med student who murders people with a silver [[DropTheHammer hammer]]. The final verse has fangirls storming the courtroom as he's tried for homicide, demanding that Maxwell be freed. [[DeconstructedTrope The final refrain has Maxwell murdering them, too.]]
* There is a very strange case of this with Uncle Ernie from Music/{{Tommy}}. Every adaptation does nothing to hide the fact that he's a greedy, alcoholic child molester (admittedly less so in the movie adaptation) who molested the titular character (a deaf, dumb and blind boy), and gets little to no comeuppance for his actions. However, because most of the people who play Uncle Ernie tend to make him a LargeHam (and the movie's version is played by [[Music/TheWho Keith Moon]], the band's drummer), the fans seem to ''adore'' him and sometimes even defend him because he's "cute".
** Cousin Kevin, Tommy's other abusive relative who talks about putting him through all kinds of physical torture, doesn't have nearly as large of a fanbase as Ernie, but he's just about as bad. It doesn't help that plenty of actors who have played Kevin are also at least slightly attractive.
* Rolling Stone got accused of doing this to the Boston Marathon bomber when they put his picture on the cover.
* Lampooned in Music/{{Eminem}}'s [[Music/TheMarshallMathersLP "The Real Slim Shady"]]
-->''"Feminist women love Eminem\\
(Chicka chicka chicka Slim Shady)\\
'I'm sick of him, look it him, walkin around, grabbin his you know what, flippin' to you know who'\\
'Yeah, but he's so cute though.'"''
** This trope is also a theme of Eminem's song "Stan", which deals with a LoonyFan who thinks that Eminem's {{Jerkass}} Slim Shady persona is the real thing rather than an over-the-top joke, and latches onto and romanticizes the things Slim does and says because he thinks they have a bond. Stan ends up dying because he tries to imitate a song Eminem wrote about a man drowning his girlfriend (and the fact that Stan wanted to name his future daughter after the song is a pretty good indicator that he took the wrong message from it).
* ''Music/{{CG5}}'': The music video for "Let Me Through" shows various versions of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Foxy]] ruthlessly killing/dismembering the other animatronics and making some very clear death threats to the security guard while trying to get into the guard's room. Yet many people in the comments sympathize with Foxy, seeing him as just lonely and wanting to hug him. To be fair, Foxy also gets the DILP treatment a lot in his home series, so the response to [=CG5's=] Foxy is almost certainly carried over from existing interpretations of him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Myths and Religion]]
* In several apocryphal Christian letters and writings such as the ''Acta Pilati'', Pontius Pilate is upgraded from merely a conflicted executioner of Jesus to a remorseful post-Resurrection convert, and even martyr. To this day, he is a saint in the Coptic and Ethiopian calendars.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''Super TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' invokes this trope with an enemy named "Misunderstood Man." He's depicted as a [[{{Adorkable}} bespectacled supervillain in slacker clothes]] surrounded by fawning heroines, and female characters cannot fight him.
* Invoked humorously in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' 3rd edition. Lord Entropy is a cruel tyrant who has outlawed love for Nobles. Even so, some observers were surprised that no one seems to have fallen in love with ''him'', despite him being a "deeply troubled, handsome, dangerous celebrity." Experiments seem to prove that it's ''impossible'' to love him, and it's likely that he's either responsible for the phenomena or glad that it exists.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Servants of Khorne tend to get this treatment. In fanon, they're NobleDemon {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s who spare non-combatants and {{Worthy Opponent}}s, a belief which stems from previous depictions of Khorne followers from older versions of the game, and the fact [[KickTheSonOfABitch they oppose the decadent followers of Slaanesh, who torture their victims to death]]. But in reality, or at least the newest versions of the game, Khorne worshippers are all murderously psychotic [[TheBerserker berserkers]] who slaughter civilians, combatants and [[FriendOrFoe even their fellows]] indiscriminately. [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Kharn Kharn the Betrayer]], the most kill-happy of them all, gets entire fanfics centered around this interpretation. Don't worry though, [[MemeticMutation he's actually a really fun guy]]. [[BlatantLies We promise]].
** A really understated example is Imperial Commissars. Due to the popularity of characters like [[Literature/GauntsGhosts Ibram Gaunt]] and Literature/CiaphasCain, the average Commissar is often thought of in the fandom as AFatherToHisMen, maybe a JerkWithAHeartOfGold ''at the absolute worst''. What people forget is that Gaunt and Cain are ''the exception'', not the rule. The average Commissar will execute Guardsmen over trivial offences and gladly send them to die horribly in pointless assaults and {{Last Stand}}s, a practice which disgusts the alien Tau.
** This could apply to a lot of the "good guy" factions in ''Warhammer 40000'', to be honest. And Creator/GamesWorkshop don't take kindly to that. The Imperium looking too justified in their extremism? Next edition, add more deluded {{Knight Templar}}s screaming '''''"HERESY!"'''''. The [[SpaceElves Eldar]] looking too sympathetic? Play up their TheFairFolk tendencies by showing them orchestrating events which lead to the deaths of billions of human civilians to save the lives of a handful of Eldar. The Tau looking too hopeful and progressive? Add [[spoiler:recently confirmed]] rumours of mind-control, sterilization and generally treating their auxiliary races like second-class citizens. The Orks looking too much like PluckyComicRelief? Make [[VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine a game]] where Orks are seen laughing gleefully as they massacre women and children. ''Warhammer 40000'' is straight up EvilVersusEvil, ''maybe'' BlackAndGrayMorality at the best of times, so the moment any faction begins being viewed as "good guys" or at the very least "alright", lore will update showing that faction committing horrible atrocities to remind everyone that ''no-one'' should be cheered on in this series.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Other]]
* L'ange du mal by Joseph Geefs. The statue of Lucifer was removed from the cathedral that commissioned it because of its "unhealthy beauty" and the concern that it was distracting to young female attendees. The Church commissioned Geefs' older brother for a replacement. The resulting [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_g%C3%A9nie_du_mal Le génie du mal]] is generally regarded as even sexier and Satanists are known to visit the church where it resides to meditate on the sculpture.
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* Parodied in the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4400697/1/His-Eyes-of-Amber His Eyes of Amber]]''.
-->''"I don't care if Tigerclaw was evil; he was still an amazing cat."''
* Played straight in the ForWantOfANail fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11667304/3/Into-the-Forest-and-Into-the-Wild Into the Forest and Into the Wild]]''. After [[Literature/WarriorCats Tigerstar]] murders Redtail out of nothing more than lust for power, he somehow feels so immediately, totally regretful over it that he freely admits his crime, "his eyes filled with guilt and self-loathing". (As opposed to, you know, ''canon'', where Tigerstar gloats over the murder, threatens Ravenpaw to keep his crimes a secret, and kills many other innocent cats in pursuit of power.) For some reason, the character he confesses to isn't at all bothered by Tigerstar ''killing someone'' [[note]]someone who the narrative [[InformedAttribute claims]] was "like a father to her", no less[[/note]] and promises him her eternal friendship.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* "[[Music/TheBeatles Maxwell's Silver Hammer]]" is about a psycho med student who murders people with a silver [[DropTheHammer hammer]]. The final verse has fangirls storming the courtroom as he's tried for homicide, demanding that Maxwell be freed. [[DeconstructedTrope The final refrain has Maxwell murdering them, too.]]
* There is a very strange case of this with Uncle Ernie from Music/{{Tommy}}. Every adaptation does nothing to hide the fact that he's a greedy, alcoholic child molester (admittedly less so in the movie adaptation) who molested the titular character (a deaf, dumb and blind boy), and gets little to no comeuppance for his actions. However, because most of the people who play Uncle Ernie tend to make him a LargeHam (and the movie's version is played by [[Music/TheWho Keith Moon]], the band's drummer), the fans seem to ''adore'' him and sometimes even defend him because he's "cute".
** Cousin Kevin, Tommy's other abusive relative who talks about putting him through all kinds of physical torture, doesn't have nearly as large of a fanbase as Ernie, but he's just about as bad. It doesn't help that plenty of actors who have played Kevin are also at least slightly attractive.
* Rolling Stone got accused of doing this to the Boston Marathon bomber when they put his picture on the cover.
* Lampooned in Music/{{Eminem}}'s [[Music/TheMarshallMathersLP "The Real Slim Shady"]]
-->''"Feminist women love Eminem\\
(Chicka chicka chicka Slim Shady)\\
'I'm sick of him, look it him, walkin around, grabbin his you know what, flippin' to you know who'\\
'Yeah, but he's so cute though.'"''
** This trope is also a theme of Eminem's song "Stan", which deals with a LoonyFan who thinks that Eminem's {{Jerkass}} Slim Shady persona is the real thing rather than an over-the-top joke, and latches onto and romanticizes the things Slim does and says because he thinks they have a bond. Stan ends up dying because he tries to imitate a song Eminem wrote about a man drowning his girlfriend (and the fact that Stan wanted to name his future daughter after the song is a pretty good indicator that he took the wrong message from it).
* ''Music/{{CG5}}'': The music video for "Let Me Through" shows various versions of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Foxy]] ruthlessly killing/dismembering the other animatronics and making some very clear death threats to the security guard while trying to get into the guard's room. Yet many people in the comments sympathize with Foxy, seeing him as just lonely and wanting to hug him. To be fair, Foxy also gets the DILP treatment a lot in his home series, so the response to [=CG5's=] Foxy is almost certainly carried over from existing interpretations of him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Myths and Religion]]
* In several apocryphal Christian letters and writings such as the ''Acta Pilati'', Pontius Pilate is upgraded from merely a conflicted executioner of Jesus to a remorseful post-Resurrection convert, and even martyr. To this day, he is a saint in the Coptic and Ethiopian calendars.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''Super TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' invokes this trope with an enemy named "Misunderstood Man." He's depicted as a [[{{Adorkable}} bespectacled supervillain in slacker clothes]] surrounded by fawning heroines, and female characters cannot fight him.
* Invoked humorously in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' 3rd edition. Lord Entropy is a cruel tyrant who has outlawed love for Nobles. Even so, some observers were surprised that no one seems to have fallen in love with ''him'', despite him being a "deeply troubled, handsome, dangerous celebrity." Experiments seem to prove that it's ''impossible'' to love him, and it's likely that he's either responsible for the phenomena or glad that it exists.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Servants of Khorne tend to get this treatment. In fanon, they're NobleDemon {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s who spare non-combatants and {{Worthy Opponent}}s, a belief which stems from previous depictions of Khorne followers from older versions of the game, and the fact [[KickTheSonOfABitch they oppose the decadent followers of Slaanesh, who torture their victims to death]]. But in reality, or at least the newest versions of the game, Khorne worshippers are all murderously psychotic [[TheBerserker berserkers]] who slaughter civilians, combatants and [[FriendOrFoe even their fellows]] indiscriminately. [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Kharn Kharn the Betrayer]], the most kill-happy of them all, gets entire fanfics centered around this interpretation. Don't worry though, [[MemeticMutation he's actually a really fun guy]]. [[BlatantLies We promise]].
** A really understated example is Imperial Commissars. Due to the popularity of characters like [[Literature/GauntsGhosts Ibram Gaunt]] and Literature/CiaphasCain, the average Commissar is often thought of in the fandom as AFatherToHisMen, maybe a JerkWithAHeartOfGold ''at the absolute worst''. What people forget is that Gaunt and Cain are ''the exception'', not the rule. The average Commissar will execute Guardsmen over trivial offences and gladly send them to die horribly in pointless assaults and {{Last Stand}}s, a practice which disgusts the alien Tau.
** This could apply to a lot of the "good guy" factions in ''Warhammer 40000'', to be honest. And Creator/GamesWorkshop don't take kindly to that. The Imperium looking too justified in their extremism? Next edition, add more deluded {{Knight Templar}}s screaming '''''"HERESY!"'''''. The [[SpaceElves Eldar]] looking too sympathetic? Play up their TheFairFolk tendencies by showing them orchestrating events which lead to the deaths of billions of human civilians to save the lives of a handful of Eldar. The Tau looking too hopeful and progressive? Add [[spoiler:recently confirmed]] rumours of mind-control, sterilization and generally treating their auxiliary races like second-class citizens. The Orks looking too much like PluckyComicRelief? Make [[VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine a game]] where Orks are seen laughing gleefully as they massacre women and children. ''Warhammer 40000'' is straight up EvilVersusEvil, ''maybe'' BlackAndGrayMorality at the best of times, so the moment any faction begins being viewed as "good guys" or at the very least "alright", lore will update showing that faction committing horrible atrocities to remind everyone that ''no-one'' should be cheered on in this series.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Other]]
* L'ange du mal by Joseph Geefs. The statue of Lucifer was removed from the cathedral that commissioned it because of its "unhealthy beauty" and the concern that it was distracting to young female attendees. The Church commissioned Geefs' older brother for a replacement. The resulting [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_g%C3%A9nie_du_mal Le génie du mal]] is generally regarded as even sexier and Satanists are known to visit the church where it resides to meditate on the sculpture.
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* ''Music/{{CG5}}'': The music video for "Let Me Through" shows various versions of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Foxy]] ruthlessly killing/dismembering the other animatronics and making some very clear death threats to the security guard while trying to get into the guard's room. Yet many people in the comments sympathize with Foxy, seeing him as just lonely and wanting to hug him. To be fair, Foxy also gets the DILP treatment a lot in his home series too, so the response to [=CG5's=] Foxy is almost certainly carried over from existing interpretations of him.
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* ''Music/{{CG5}}'': The music video for "Let Me Through" shows various versions of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Foxy]] ruthlessly killing/dismembering the other animatronics and making some very clear death threats to the security guard while trying to get into the guard's room. Yet many people in the comments sympathize with Foxy, seeing him as just lonely and wanting to hug him. To be fair, Foxy also gets the DILP treatment a lot in his home series too, series, so the response to [=CG5's=] Foxy is almost certainly carried over from existing interpretations of him.
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* ''Super TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' invokes this trope with an enemy named "Misunderstood Man." He's depicted as a [[{{Adorkable}} bespectacled supervillain in slacker clothes]] surrounded by fawning heroines, and female characters cannot fight him.
* Invoked humorously in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' 3rd edition. Lord Entropy is a cruel tyrant who has outlawed love for Nobles. Even so, some observers were surprised that no one seems to have fallen in love with ''him'', despite him being a "deeply troubled, handsome, dangerous celebrity." Experiments seem to prove that it's ''impossible'' to love him, and it's likely that he's either responsible for the phenomena or glad that it exists.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Servants of Khorne tend to get this treatment. In fanon, they're NobleDemon {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s who spare non-combatants and {{Worthy Opponent}}s, a belief which stems from previous depictions of Khorne followers from older versions of the game, and the fact [[KickTheSonOfABitch they oppose the decadent followers of Slaanesh, who torture their victims to death]]. But in reality, or at least the newest versions of the game, Khorne worshippers are all murderously psychotic [[TheBerserker berserkers]] who slaughter civilians, combatants and [[FriendOrFoe even their fellows]] indiscriminately. [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Kharn Kharn the Betrayer]], the most kill-happy of them all, gets entire fanfics centered around this interpretation. Don't worry though, [[MemeticMutation he's actually a really fun guy]]. [[BlatantLies We promise]].
** A really understated example is Imperial Commissars. Due to the popularity of characters like [[Literature/GauntsGhosts Ibram Gaunt]] and Literature/CiaphasCain, the average Commissar is often thought of in the fandom as AFatherToHisMen, maybe a JerkWithAHeartOfGold ''at the absolute worst''. What people forget is that Gaunt and Cain are ''the exception'', not the rule. The average Commissar will execute Guardsmen over trivial offences and gladly send them to die horribly in pointless assaults and {{Last Stand}}s, a practice which disgusts the alien Tau.
** This could apply to a lot of the "good guy" factions in ''Warhammer 40000'', to be honest. And Creator/GamesWorkshop don't take kindly to that. The Imperium looking too justified in their extremism? Next edition, add more deluded {{Knight Templar}}s screaming '''''"HERESY!"'''''. The [[SpaceElves Eldar]] looking too sympathetic? Play up their TheFairFolk tendencies by showing them orchestrating events which lead to the deaths of billions of human civilians to save the lives of a handful of Eldar. The Tau looking too hopeful and progressive? Add [[spoiler:recently confirmed]] rumours of mind-control, sterilization and generally treating their auxiliary races like second-class citizens. The Orks looking too much like PluckyComicRelief? Make [[VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine a game]] where Orks are seen laughing gleefully as they massacre women and children. ''Warhammer 40000'' is straight up EvilVersusEvil, ''maybe'' BlackAndGrayMorality at the best of times, so the moment any faction begins being viewed as "good guys" or at the very least "alright", lore will update showing that faction committing horrible atrocities to remind everyone that ''no-one'' should be cheered on in this series.
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* ''Super TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' invokes this trope with an enemy named "Misunderstood Man." He's depicted as a [[{{Adorkable}} bespectacled supervillain in slacker clothes]] surrounded by fawning heroines, and female characters cannot fight him.
* Invoked humorously in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' 3rd edition. Lord Entropy is a cruel tyrant who has outlawed love for Nobles. Even so, some observers were surprised that no one seems to have fallen in love with ''him'', despite him being a "deeply troubled, handsome, dangerous celebrity." Experiments seem to prove that it's ''impossible'' to love him, and it's likely that he's either responsible for the phenomena or glad that it exists.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Servants of Khorne tend to get this treatment. In fanon, they're NobleDemon {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s who spare non-combatants and {{Worthy Opponent}}s, a belief which stems from previous depictions of Khorne followers from older versions of the game, and the fact [[KickTheSonOfABitch they oppose the decadent followers of Slaanesh, who torture their victims to death]]. But in reality, or at least the newest versions of the game, Khorne worshippers are all murderously psychotic [[TheBerserker berserkers]] who slaughter civilians, combatants and [[FriendOrFoe even their fellows]] indiscriminately. [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Kharn Kharn the Betrayer]], the most kill-happy of them all, gets entire fanfics centered around this interpretation. Don't worry though, [[MemeticMutation he's actually a really fun guy]]. [[BlatantLies We promise]].
** A really understated example is Imperial Commissars. Due to the popularity of characters like [[Literature/GauntsGhosts Ibram Gaunt]] and Literature/CiaphasCain, the average Commissar is often thought of in the fandom as AFatherToHisMen, maybe a JerkWithAHeartOfGold ''at the absolute worst''. What people forget is that Gaunt and Cain are ''the exception'', not the rule. The average Commissar will execute Guardsmen over trivial offences and gladly send them to die horribly in pointless assaults and {{Last Stand}}s, a practice which disgusts the alien Tau.
** This could apply to a lot of the "good guy" factions in ''Warhammer 40000'', to be honest. And Creator/GamesWorkshop don't take kindly to that. The Imperium looking too justified in their extremism? Next edition, add more deluded {{Knight Templar}}s screaming '''''"HERESY!"'''''. The [[SpaceElves Eldar]] looking too sympathetic? Play up their TheFairFolk tendencies by showing them orchestrating events which lead to the deaths of billions of human civilians to save the lives of a handful of Eldar. The Tau looking too hopeful and progressive? Add [[spoiler:recently confirmed]] rumours of mind-control, sterilization and generally treating their auxiliary races like second-class citizens. The Orks looking too much like PluckyComicRelief? Make [[VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine a game]] where Orks are seen laughing gleefully as they massacre women and children. ''Warhammer 40000'' is straight up EvilVersusEvil, ''maybe'' BlackAndGrayMorality at the best of times, so the moment any faction begins being viewed as "good guys" or at the very least "alright", lore will update showing that faction committing horrible atrocities to remind everyone that ''no-one'' should be cheered on in this series.
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* ''Music/{{CG5}}'': The music video for "Let Me Through" shows various versions of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Foxy]] ruthlessly killing/dismembering the other animatronics and making some very clear death threats to the security guard while trying to get into the guard's room. Yet many people in the comments sympathize with Foxy, seeing him as just lonely and wanting to hug him. To be fair, Foxy also gets the DILP treatment a lot in his home series too, so the response to [=CG5's=] Foxy is almost certainly carried over from existing interpretations of him.
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* ''Super TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' invokes this trope with an enemy named "Misunderstood Man." He's depicted as a [[{{Adorkable}} bespectacled supervillain in slacker clothes]] surrounded by fawning heroines, and female characters cannot fight him.
* Invoked humorously in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' 3rd edition. Lord Entropy is a cruel tyrant who has outlawed love for Nobles. Even so, some observers were surprised that no one seems to have fallen in love with ''him'', despite him being a "deeply troubled, handsome, dangerous celebrity." Experiments seem to prove that it's ''impossible'' to love him, and it's likely that he's either responsible for the phenomena or glad that it exists.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Servants of Khorne tend to get this treatment. In fanon, they're NobleDemon {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s who spare non-combatants and {{Worthy Opponent}}s, a belief which stems from previous depictions of Khorne followers from older versions of the game, and the fact [[KickTheSonOfABitch they oppose the decadent followers of Slaanesh, who torture their victims to death]]. But in reality, or at least the newest versions of the game, Khorne worshippers are all murderously psychotic [[TheBerserker berserkers]] who slaughter civilians, combatants and [[FriendOrFoe even their fellows]] indiscriminately. [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Kharn Kharn the Betrayer]], the most kill-happy of them all, gets entire fanfics centered around this interpretation. Don't worry though, [[MemeticMutation he's actually a really fun guy]]. [[BlatantLies We promise]].
** A really understated example is Imperial Commissars. Due to the popularity of characters like [[Literature/GauntsGhosts Ibram Gaunt]] and Literature/CiaphasCain, the average Commissar is often thought of in the fandom as AFatherToHisMen, maybe a JerkWithAHeartOfGold ''at the absolute worst''. What people forget is that Gaunt and Cain are ''the exception'', not the rule. The average Commissar will execute Guardsmen over trivial offences and gladly send them to die horribly in pointless assaults and {{Last Stand}}s, a practice which disgusts the alien Tau.
** This could apply to a lot of the "good guy" factions in ''Warhammer 40000'', to be honest. And Creator/GamesWorkshop don't take kindly to that. The Imperium looking too justified in their extremism? Next edition, add more deluded {{Knight Templar}}s screaming '''''"HERESY!"'''''. The [[SpaceElves Eldar]] looking too sympathetic? Play up their TheFairFolk tendencies by showing them orchestrating events which lead to the deaths of billions of human civilians to save the lives of a handful of Eldar. The Tau looking too hopeful and progressive? Add [[spoiler:recently confirmed]] rumours of mind-control, sterilization and generally treating their auxiliary races like second-class citizens. The Orks looking too much like PluckyComicRelief? Make [[VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine a game]] where Orks are seen laughing gleefully as they massacre women and children. ''Warhammer 40000'' is straight up EvilVersusEvil, ''maybe'' BlackAndGrayMorality at the best of times, so the moment any faction begins being viewed as "good guys" or at the very least "alright", lore will update showing that faction committing horrible atrocities to remind everyone that ''no-one'' should be cheered on in this series.
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* ''Super TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' invokes this trope with an enemy named "Misunderstood Man." He's depicted as a [[{{Adorkable}} bespectacled supervillain in slacker clothes]] surrounded by fawning heroines, and female characters cannot fight him.
* Invoked humorously in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' 3rd edition. Lord Entropy is a cruel tyrant who has outlawed love for Nobles. Even so, some observers were surprised that no one seems to have fallen in love with ''him'', despite him being a "deeply troubled, handsome, dangerous celebrity." Experiments seem to prove that it's ''impossible'' to love him, and it's likely that he's either responsible for the phenomena or glad that it exists.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Servants of Khorne tend to get this treatment. In fanon, they're NobleDemon {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s who spare non-combatants and {{Worthy Opponent}}s, a belief which stems from previous depictions of Khorne followers from older versions of the game, and the fact [[KickTheSonOfABitch they oppose the decadent followers of Slaanesh, who torture their victims to death]]. But in reality, or at least the newest versions of the game, Khorne worshippers are all murderously psychotic [[TheBerserker berserkers]] who slaughter civilians, combatants and [[FriendOrFoe even their fellows]] indiscriminately. [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Kharn Kharn the Betrayer]], the most kill-happy of them all, gets entire fanfics centered around this interpretation. Don't worry though, [[MemeticMutation he's actually a really fun guy]]. [[BlatantLies We promise]].
** A really understated example is Imperial Commissars. Due to the popularity of characters like [[Literature/GauntsGhosts Ibram Gaunt]] and Literature/CiaphasCain, the average Commissar is often thought of in the fandom as AFatherToHisMen, maybe a JerkWithAHeartOfGold ''at the absolute worst''. What people forget is that Gaunt and Cain are ''the exception'', not the rule. The average Commissar will execute Guardsmen over trivial offences and gladly send them to die horribly in pointless assaults and {{Last Stand}}s, a practice which disgusts the alien Tau.
** This could apply to a lot of the "good guy" factions in ''Warhammer 40000'', to be honest. And Creator/GamesWorkshop don't take kindly to that. The Imperium looking too justified in their extremism? Next edition, add more deluded {{Knight Templar}}s screaming '''''"HERESY!"'''''. The [[SpaceElves Eldar]] looking too sympathetic? Play up their TheFairFolk tendencies by showing them orchestrating events which lead to the deaths of billions of human civilians to save the lives of a handful of Eldar. The Tau looking too hopeful and progressive? Add [[spoiler:recently confirmed]] rumours of mind-control, sterilization and generally treating their auxiliary races like second-class citizens. The Orks looking too much like PluckyComicRelief? Make [[VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine a game]] where Orks are seen laughing gleefully as they massacre women and children. ''Warhammer 40000'' is straight up EvilVersusEvil, ''maybe'' BlackAndGrayMorality at the best of times, so the moment any faction begins being viewed as "good guys" or at the very least "alright", lore will update showing that faction committing horrible atrocities to remind everyone that ''no-one'' should be cheered on in this series.
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* In several apocryphal Christian letters and writings such as the ''Acta Pilati'', Pontius Pilate is upgraded from merely a conflicted executioner of Jesus to a remorseful post-Resurrection convert, and even martyr. To this day, he is a saint in the Coptic and Ethiopian calendars.
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* In several apocryphal Christian letters and writings such as the ''Acta Pilati'', Pontius Pilate is upgraded from merely a conflicted executioner of Jesus to a remorseful post-Resurrection convert, and even martyr. To this day, he is a saint in the Coptic and Ethiopian calendars.
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* InUniverse example: Parodied without mercy in Creator/ScottKeith's ''[[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.sport.pro-wrestling.fantasy/_NTF0412VgU/pHF01DgY13QJ WCWF SummerSlam 1995]]''. It starts with a group of [[StrawCharacter political activists]] called [[FunWithAcronyms Women's Activists and Convicted Killers Organization]] protesting "something or other." Wrestling/MrFuji and his stable of {{Foreign Wrestling Heel}}s ([[Wrestling/JinseiShinzaki "The White Angel" Hakushi]], [[Wrestling/NikitaKoloff "The Russian Nightmare" Nikita Koloff]], [[Characters/WWENewGeneration "The Helsinki Hellraiser" Ludvig Borga]] and The Quebecers [Wrestling/JacquesRougeau and Piere Carl Ouellette]) confront them. Fuji introduces Hakushi, and the activists talk like {{Smart Mark}}s about Japanese wrestlers' workrate and the quality of Japanese technology. He introduces Koloff, and they talk about how the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar must have depressed him. He introduces Borga, and they talk about the [[UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} Finnish]] UsefulNotes/IceHockey team's winning percentage at the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames. Finally, Fuji introduces The Quebecers, and they talk about how they must "feel so betrayed by the mainstream Anglophone population."
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* InUniverse example: Parodied without mercy in Creator/ScottKeith's ''[[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.sport.pro-wrestling.fantasy/_NTF0412VgU/pHF01DgY13QJ WCWF SummerSlam 1995]]''. It starts with a group of [[StrawCharacter political activists]] called [[FunWithAcronyms Women's Activists and Convicted Killers Organization]] protesting "something or other." Wrestling/MrFuji and his stable of {{Foreign Wrestling Heel}}s ([[Wrestling/JinseiShinzaki "The White Angel" Hakushi]], [[Wrestling/NikitaKoloff "The Russian Nightmare" Nikita Koloff]], [[Characters/WWENewGeneration "The Helsinki Hellraiser" Ludvig Borga]] and [[Characters/WWETagTeams The Quebecers [Jacques Rougeau and Piere Carl Ouelette]]]) confront them. Fuji introduces Hakushi, and the activists talk like {{Smart Mark}}s about Japanese wrestlers' workrate and the quality of Japanese technology. He introduces Koloff, and they talk about how the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar must have depressed him. He introduces Borga, and they talk about the [[UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} Finnish]] UsefulNotes/IceHockey team's winning percentage at the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames. Finally, Fuji introduces The Quebecers, and they talk about how they must "feel so betrayed by the mainstream Anglophone population."
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* InUniverse example: Parodied without mercy in Creator/ScottKeith's ''[[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.sport.pro-wrestling.fantasy/_NTF0412VgU/pHF01DgY13QJ WCWF SummerSlam 1995]]''. It starts with a group of [[StrawCharacter political activists]] called [[FunWithAcronyms Women's Activists and Convicted Killers Organization]] protesting "something or other." Wrestling/MrFuji and his stable of {{Foreign Wrestling Heel}}s ([[Wrestling/JinseiShinzaki "The White Angel" Hakushi]], [[Wrestling/NikitaKoloff "The Russian Nightmare" Nikita Koloff]], [[Characters/WWENewGeneration "The Helsinki Hellraiser" Ludvig Borga]] and [[Characters/WWETagTeams The Quebecers [Jacques Rougeau [Wrestling/JacquesRougeau and Piere Carl Ouelette]]]) Ouellette]) confront them. Fuji introduces Hakushi, and the activists talk like {{Smart Mark}}s about Japanese wrestlers' workrate and the quality of Japanese technology. He introduces Koloff, and they talk about how the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar must have depressed him. He introduces Borga, and they talk about the [[UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} Finnish]] UsefulNotes/IceHockey team's winning percentage at the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames. Finally, Fuji introduces The Quebecers, and they talk about how they must "feel so betrayed by the mainstream Anglophone population."
