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** Inverted with Dr. Rudolph van Richten of TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}, who started out his monster-hunting career determined to avenge his wife and son by any means necessary, but came to recognize the wrongness of this after he'd [[spoiler: sicced some zombies on a Vistani band and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone watched them be torn to bits]]. Of course, given these were the Vistani who kidnapped his only son and sold him to a vampire to become the vampire's "bride" (a special form of spawn), and all because his efforts to treat one of their own wounded tribe members had failed and the badly injured Vistani had died, some could argue that [[KickTheSonOfABitch they had it coming]]. Still, that he is willing to realize that this is going too far is why he canonically has a Good-based CharacterAlignment]].

** The Night Haunter's backstory is made of this trope. Konrad Curze had the misfortune of landing on Nostramo, one of the most lawless and hellish planets on the galaxy. How do you do bring order and common good to a planet of endless night where practically the entire upper-crust are evil scum who rule through violence, cruelty and fear? Why, you become a terrifying [[SerialKillerKiller serial killer who brutally murders all the other criminals]] [[ScareEmStraight until people are too scared of you to commit crimes]], of course! And the scary part is, ''[[TheExtremistWasRight it worked]]''.

** The eponymous creatures of ''TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial'' do things that are supposed to teach so-called "lessons" which are often ruinous to their targets and have uncomfortable undertones of abuse apologism.[[note]]Not helped is how one of the writers of the book in general has been revealed to actually be an abuser.[[/note]] However, most of the Heroes opposing them are violent, narcissistic psychopaths who consider anything justified in the process of slaying Beasts, including causing collateral damage and sending allies to die as a delay or distraction, even if an objective observer would consider that the extremes they're willing to go to makes them worse than their foes. It gets bad enough that some of the aforementioned hunters mistake Heroes for Slashers.

** The eponymous creatures of ''TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial'' do things that are supposed to teach so-called "lessons" which are often ruinous to their targets and have uncomfortable undertones of abuse apologism[[labelnote]]Not helped is how one of the writers of the book in general was revealed to actually be an abuser[[/labelnote]]. However, most of the Heroes opposing them are violent, narcissistic psychopaths who consider anything justified in the process of slaying Beasts, including causing collateral damage and sending allies to die as a delay or distraction, even if an objective observer would consider that the extremes they're willing to go to makes them worse than their foes. It gets bad enough that some of the aforementioned hunters mistake Heroes for Slashers.

** The eponymous creatures of ''TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial'' do things that are supposed to teach so-called "lessons" which are often ruinous to their targets and have uncomfortable undertones of abuse apologism. However, most of the Heroes opposing them are violent, narcissistic psychopaths who consider anything justified in the process of slaying Beasts, including causing collateral damage and sending allies to die as a delay or distraction, even if an objective observer would consider that the extremes they're willing to go to makes them worse than their foes. It gets bad enough that some of the aforementioned hunters mistake Heroes for Slashers.