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* ''Webcomic/SpringtrapAndDeliah'': Springtrap's AdaptationalNiceGuy - status was bound to make him this. Plenty of readers are quick to say he should be forgiven completely for all his past crimes and be allowed to hold onto his relationship with Deliah. But nice guy or not, Springtrap is still an unstable serial killer. Even ''he'' knows he can't always control himself and that he has anger issues.
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** This also happens to [[PlagueMaster Nurgle]] and his followers. In the lore, the Plague God wishes to turn the galaxy into a garden of virulent diseases, locked into an endless, repeating cycle of death and regrow. All the while, his decomposing followers trudge along, nearly all of them overcome by a depressive nihilism. To the fandom, Nurgle is a jolly, almost fatherly god who sees his followers and underlings as his children, and who in turn see him as their "grandfather".
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** This also happens to [[PlagueMaster Nurgle]] and his followers. In the lore, the Plague God wishes to turn the galaxy into a garden of virulent diseases, locked into an endless, repeating cycle of death and regrow.regrowth. All the while, his decomposing followers trudge along, nearly all of them overcome by a depressive nihilism. To the fandom, Nurgle is a jolly, almost fatherly god who sees his followers and underlings as his children, and who in turn see him as their "grandfather".
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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.]]
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* "[[Music/TheBeatles Maxwell's Silver Hammer]]" is about a psycho med student who murders people with a silver [[DropTheHammer hammer]].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.]]
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* 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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* Played straight in the ForWantOfANail WhatIf 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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** 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]].
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** 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]].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]].
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* ''Fanfic/InkopolisChaos'': Cyalux Clover often gets justified a little too much by fans. While it is definitely understandable why he hates octolings, and that he is one of the most likeable vilains in the trilogy and is a saint compared to the main villains of the other 2 installments of the trilogy, it is usually forgotten that his brother was far from a saint too and one of the more evil villains in the trilogy whose death was also far from undeserved. Not only that, but considering he led a racist organization should point out that he’s not in the right here. He also isn't 100% a victim, as he betrays his two childhood friends in cold-blood and intended to exile the entire octoling race underground all due to his undying hatred for octolings. All of this should really say that he’s gone too far. He may be sympathetic and funny, but he is definitely evil.
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* ''Music/{{Voltaire}}'': "The King of Villains / When I Said I Was Evil" is implied to be an InUniverse example of this. The singer character speaks disdainfully towards the listener character, implying that they tried to get close to him because they liked him for being "evil" while grievously underestimating how dangerous he actually was. The song comes across as a major TakeThat to the concept of DracoInLeatherPants by stating that villains are not to be trivialized or taken lightly.
-->''When someone says they're evil''\\
''It's best to believe''\\
''Like the skull on that poison vial you see''\\
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''A symbol so primeval''\\
''It's not there to deceive''\\
''It's there to let you know it's deadly''\\
''Just like me''
-->''When someone says they're evil''\\
''It's best to believe''\\
''Like the skull on that poison vial you see''\\
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''A symbol so primeval''\\
''It's not there to deceive''\\
''It's there to let you know it's deadly''\\
''Just like me''
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** This also happens to [[PlagueMaster Nurgle]] and his followers. In the lore, the Plague God wishes to turn the galaxy into a garden of virulent diseases, locked into an endless, repeating cycle of death and regrow. All the while, his decomposing followers trudge along, nearly all of them overcome by a depressive nihilism. To the fandom, Nurgle is a jolly, almost fatherly god who sees his followers and underlings as his children, and who in turn see him as their "grandfather".
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** The Necrons of all factions have been hit by this. While their original incarnation was just a mindless horde of robots doing the bidding of the C'Tan, their post 5th Edition version gave them actual characters and stories. The combination of their status as {{Tragic Villain}}s, their sheer badass power and their occasionally comic moments (especially with [[EnsembleDarkHorse Trazyn]]) have made a large part of the fandom consider them to be the closest thing to a "good guys" faction. This is ignoring the fact that most necrons are still just mindless killing machine, and that a lot of them see ''[[AbsoluteXenophobe all other races]]'' as being inferior to them, and wish to either subjugate or exterminate them.
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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.
* There's an entire trope for [[SatanIsGood Satan being depicted as the good guy]].
* There's an entire trope for [[SatanIsGood Satan being depicted as the good guy]].
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* UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} and Literature/TheBible.
** 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.
* ** There's an entire trope for {{Satan}} being [[SatanIsGood Satan being depicted as the good guy]].guy]].
* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
** The Greeks had a strange relationship with Cronus (aka Kronos), differing between seeing him as a cruel villain (like Creator/{{Homer}} did) to an amoral figure with changing loyalties (like Creator/{{Hesiod}} did). However, the Romans took an entirely positive view of Cronus - or Saturn, as they called him in their language. To them Saturn ruled over humanity in a Golden Age, and when overthrown by Zeus/Jupiter he fled to Italy to continue his reign.
** 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.
* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
** The Greeks had a strange relationship with Cronus (aka Kronos), differing between seeing him as a cruel villain (like Creator/{{Homer}} did) to an amoral figure with changing loyalties (like Creator/{{Hesiod}} did). However, the Romans took an entirely positive view of Cronus - or Saturn, as they called him in their language. To them Saturn ruled over humanity in a Golden Age, and when overthrown by Zeus/Jupiter he fled to Italy to continue his reign.
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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]]''.
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* Parodied [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4400697/1/His-Eyes-of-Amber His Eyes of Amber]]''.
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** 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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** 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. [[TheEmpire The Imperium 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 [[ScaryDogmaticAliens 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 [[OurOrcsAreDifferent 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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* 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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* 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 org/wiki/Le_genie_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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* "[[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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* 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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* ''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.
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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.
[[/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.
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* 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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