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* In ''{{Babylon 5}}'', both the Vorlons and the Shadows are guiding the younger races to be better and stronger. If "some must be sacrificed", so be it. The fact that the two are permanently at war is the first sign that something's wrong here.
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* In ''{{Babylon 5}}'', ''Series/BabylonFive'', both the Vorlons and the Shadows are guiding the younger races to be better and stronger. If "some must be sacrificed", so be it. The fact that the two are permanently at war is the first sign that something's wrong here.
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* ''{{Smallville}}'': Tess Mercer wants to save the world. Unfortunately, the only way she can think to go about it is to team up with alien leader [[GeneralRipper Zod]], effectively betraying her entire race and throwing the world into hell. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice.]]
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* ''{{Smallville}}'': Tess ''{{Smallville}}'':
**LexLuthor's main drive starts out as "protecting mankind from aliens and meteor freaks". Yes, Clark and [[spoiler:Chloe]] are probably on those two hitlists respectively, and you know [[CompleteMonster where he ended up]].
**[[spoiler:Lana Lang]] around season five to seven (it is not made too clear) in her mission to get revenge on Lex. Chloe slams her for it. WhatTheHellHero doesn't seem bad enough to cover it.
**Tess Mercer wants to save the world. Unfortunately, the only way she can think to go about it is toteam [[spoiler:team up with alien leader [[GeneralRipper Zod]], effectively betraying her entire race and throwing the world into hell. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice.]]]]]]
**LexLuthor's main drive starts out as "protecting mankind from aliens and meteor freaks". Yes, Clark and [[spoiler:Chloe]] are probably on those two hitlists respectively, and you know [[CompleteMonster where he ended up]].
**[[spoiler:Lana Lang]] around season five to seven (it is not made too clear) in her mission to get revenge on Lex. Chloe slams her for it. WhatTheHellHero doesn't seem bad enough to cover it.
**Tess Mercer wants to save the world. Unfortunately, the only way she can think to go about it is to
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* In ''TheNorthandtheSouth'', Virgilia Hazard is an abolitionist who can't tolerate slavery or those who condone it, but she comes off as an antagonist because her actions are so extreme that several characters question her life's decisions, wondering if she'd made them to spite others or to further her cause. For example, her family wonders if she married a black man because she was in love with him or if she did it because it wasn't socially-acceptable. Her hatred and extremism ends up getting her husband killed and dominates her life, although later in the series, she's able to control herself enough to provide fair treatment to wounded Southerners.
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* In ''TheNorthandtheSouth'', Virgilia Hazard is an abolitionist who can't tolerate slavery or those who condone it, but she comes off as an antagonist because her actions are so extreme that several characters question her life's decisions, wondering if she'd made them to spite others or to further her cause. For example, her family wonders if she married a black man because she was in love with him or if she did it because it wasn't socially-acceptable. Her hatred and extremism ends up getting her husband killed and dominates her life, although later in the series, she's able to control herself enough to provide fair treatment to wounded Southerners.Southerners.
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson. You can sympathize with his intentions to fight the militia, but not with his methods of blowing them up along with civilians who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson. You can sympathize with his intentions to fight the militia, but not with his methods of blowing them up along with civilians who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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* In ''TheNorthandtheSouth'', Virgilia Hazard is an abolitionist who can't tolerate slavery or those who condone it. Her actions are so extreme that several characters question her life's decisions, wondering if she'd made them to spite others or to further her cause. For example, her family wonders if she married a black man because she was in love with him or if she did it because it wasn't socially-acceptable. Her hatred and extremism ends up getting her husband killed and dominates her life, although later in the series, she's able to control herself enough to provide fair treatment to wounded Southerners.
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* In ''TheNorthandtheSouth'', Virgilia Hazard is an abolitionist who can't tolerate slavery or those who condone it. Her it, but she comes off as an antagonist because her actions are so extreme that several characters question her life's decisions, wondering if she'd made them to spite others or to further her cause. For example, her family wonders if she married a black man because she was in love with him or if she did it because it wasn't socially-acceptable. Her hatred and extremism ends up getting her husband killed and dominates her life, although later in the series, she's able to control herself enough to provide fair treatment to wounded Southerners.
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* Former prosecutor Shelby Cross of the [[TheOnion Onion News Network]] takes the pursuit of justice to ludicrous and often criminal extremes. Her crusades include rounding up trick-or-treaters in her basement to protect them from pedophiles and encouraging viewers to throw suspected criminals into homemade "justice sheds". She also changes identities every three years to prevent them from being stolen, [[FridgeHorror and considering that one of those identities was a patient in a psychiatric hospital...]]
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* Former prosecutor Shelby Cross of the [[TheOnion Onion News Network]] takes the pursuit of justice to ludicrous and often criminal extremes. Her crusades include rounding up trick-or-treaters in her basement to protect them from pedophiles and encouraging viewers to throw suspected criminals into homemade "justice sheds". She also changes identities every three years to prevent them from being stolen, [[FridgeHorror and considering that one of those identities was a patient in a psychiatric hospital...]]]]
* In ''TheNorthandtheSouth'', Virgilia Hazard is an abolitionist who can't tolerate slavery or those who condone it. Her actions are so extreme that several characters question her life's decisions, wondering if she'd made them to spite others or to further her cause. For example, her family wonders if she married a black man because she was in love with him or if she did it because it wasn't socially-acceptable. Her hatred and extremism ends up getting her husband killed and dominates her life, although later in the series, she's able to control herself enough to provide fair treatment to wounded Southerners.
* In ''TheNorthandtheSouth'', Virgilia Hazard is an abolitionist who can't tolerate slavery or those who condone it. Her actions are so extreme that several characters question her life's decisions, wondering if she'd made them to spite others or to further her cause. For example, her family wonders if she married a black man because she was in love with him or if she did it because it wasn't socially-acceptable. Her hatred and extremism ends up getting her husband killed and dominates her life, although later in the series, she's able to control herself enough to provide fair treatment to wounded Southerners.
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* On ''AmericanGothic'', after she [[spoiler:kills her new body to save the soul of a baby]] and is sent briefly to Hell, Caleb resurrects the spirit of his sister, Merlyn. Apparently, this brush with darkness changed her usually angelic personality into one that was vengeful, ruthless, and downright disturbing. Completely aside from the NightmareFuel (or {{Narm}}) when she [[spoiler:briefly speaks with a deep, demonic voice]], she declares war on Buck right in the middle of a church (a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for a character who rarely gets any). And when Buck [[spoiler:possesses Caleb and dares her to kill her own brother]], she goes completely too far, [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope deciding that since everyone in the town is either aiding Buck or looking the other way, they are all evil too]]...[[spoiler:so she sends a plague to slaughter the town]]. And all of this while [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience still wearing white]]!
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* On ''AmericanGothic'', after she [[spoiler:kills her new body to save the soul of a baby]] and is sent briefly to Hell, Caleb resurrects the spirit of his sister, Merlyn. Apparently, this brush with darkness changed her usually angelic personality into one that was vengeful, ruthless, and downright disturbing. Completely aside from the NightmareFuel (or {{Narm}}) when she [[spoiler:briefly speaks with a deep, demonic voice]], she declares war on Buck right in the middle of a church (a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for a character who rarely gets any). And when Buck [[spoiler:possesses Caleb and dares her to kill her own brother]], she goes completely too far, [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope deciding that since everyone in the town is either aiding Buck or looking the other way, they are all evil too]]...[[spoiler:so she sends a plague to slaughter the town]]. And all of this while [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience [[ColourMotif still wearing white]]!
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* {{Missing2012}}''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
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* {{Missing2012}}''! Ashley Judd from {{Missing2012}} Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. her.She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
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* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ''{{Missing2012}}''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
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* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ''{{Missing2012}}''! {{Missing2012}}''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
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* In the [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffyverse]], Watchers generally tend toward this. Both Rupert Giles and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce showed themselves willing to do ''whatever'' it takes to stop a greater threat. Made more effective because, initially, they tend to come off as befuddled librarians.
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* In the [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffyverse]], Watchers generally tend toward this. Both Rupert Giles and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce showed themselves willing to do ''whatever'' it takes to stop a greater threat. Made more effective because, initially, they tend to come off as befuddled librarians.
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** The Doctor himself has always been this. Colin Baker, the Sixth Doctor, once said that the Doctor believes in "the rightness of things. It doesn't have to be [[BeautyEqualsGoodness beautiful]], or happy, but ''right''; it's got to be right. And when he sees something that isn't right, he's compelled to do something about it." Most of the time, it works out in his favor, but since the end of the Time War, he's become much more reckless, leading to several MyGodWhatHaveIDone moments throughout the New Series.
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*** The Doctor himself has always been this. Colin Baker, the Sixth Doctor, once said that the Doctor believes in "the rightness of things. It doesn't have to be [[BeautyEqualsGoodness beautiful]], or happy, but ''right''; it's got to be right. And when he sees something that isn't right, he's compelled to do something about it." Most of the time, it works out in his favor, but since the end of the Time War, he's become much more reckless, leading to several MyGodWhatHaveIDone moments throughout the New Series.
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** In ''Remembrance of the Daleks'', the difference between George Ratcliffe and Mike Smith (the two named human racist fascists in the story) is that Ratcliffe was only after power, while Mike Smith had been led astray from his youth and genuinely believed the Association was acting in Britain's best interests. With Ratcliffe's [[BrokenPedestal pedestal broken]], he might have learned better in time had he not [[spoiler:been electrocuted Sith-style by the Daleks' young slave]].
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** I'd say, when Watchers behave this way, they're almost always actually right. Had Giles not killed Ben, for instance, Glory would have been back and possibly killed the entire cast (PlotArmor would have prevented it, but the characters aren't supposed to know that they have PlotArmor).
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** I'd say, when When Watchers behave this way, they're almost always actually right. Had Giles not killed Ben, for instance, Glory would have been back and possibly killed the entire cast (PlotArmor would have prevented it, but the characters aren't supposed to know that they have PlotArmor).
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* The Others on ''{{Series/Lost}}'' believe that they are the good guys. Just what good they're working towards is unknown, but most of their actions point to quite the contrary.
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* The Others on ''{{Series/Lost}}'' believe that they are the good guys. Just what good they're working towards is unknown, guys, but most of their actions point to quite the contrary.
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** Their actions would appear justified as they're [[spoiler:trying to ensure the presence of all of the candidates to replace Jacob. Without a Jacob, the BigBad can escape to the outside world and bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]
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** Their actions would appear justified as they're [[spoiler:trying main goal is to ensure protect The Island at all costs. They follow Jacob, but due to limited contact with him, and Ben's tendency to do his own thing, they end up attempting to kill the presence of all of the survivors on several occasions when their true goal should be to keep them (the candidates to replace Jacob. Without a Jacob, the BigBad can escape to the outside world and bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]at least) safe.
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The Doctor has been a well-intentioned extremist since well before \"Day of the Moon.\"
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*** The Doctor himself as of Day of The Moon, what else can you call it when people are being brainwash into killing
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*** The Doctor himself as has always been this. Colin Baker, the Sixth Doctor, once said that the Doctor believes in "the rightness of Day of The Moon, what else can you call it things. It doesn't have to be [[BeautyEqualsGoodness beautiful]], or happy, but ''right''; it's got to be right. And when people are being brainwash into killing he sees something that isn't right, he's compelled to do something about it." Most of the time, it works out in his favor, but since the end of the Time War, he's become much more reckless, leading to several MyGodWhatHaveIDone moments throughout the New Series.
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* Mayor Tom Kane in ''Boss'' is a subversion: he likes to think that the bad things he does serve the greater good of Chicago, but he has a lot of trouble differentiating between what's best for Chicago and what's best for Tom Kane.
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* Mayor Tom Kane in ''Boss'' is a subversion: he likes to think that the bad things he does serve the greater good of Chicago, but he has a lot of trouble differentiating between what's best for Chicago and what's best for Tom Kane.Kane.
* Former prosecutor Shelby Cross of the [[TheOnion Onion News Network]] takes the pursuit of justice to ludicrous and often criminal extremes. Her crusades include rounding up trick-or-treaters in her basement to protect them from pedophiles and encouraging viewers to throw suspected criminals into homemade "justice sheds". She also changes identities every three years to prevent them from being stolen, [[FridgeHorror and considering that one of those identities was a patient in a psychiatric hospital...]]
* Former prosecutor Shelby Cross of the [[TheOnion Onion News Network]] takes the pursuit of justice to ludicrous and often criminal extremes. Her crusades include rounding up trick-or-treaters in her basement to protect them from pedophiles and encouraging viewers to throw suspected criminals into homemade "justice sheds". She also changes identities every three years to prevent them from being stolen, [[FridgeHorror and considering that one of those identities was a patient in a psychiatric hospital...]]
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** That's more in line with the KnightTemplarParent since W.I.E.s tend to try and see a bigger picture, but whatever.
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** That's more in line with the KnightTemplarParent since W.I.E.s tend to try and see a bigger picture, but whatever.whatever.
* Mayor Tom Kane in ''Boss'' is a subversion: he likes to think that the bad things he does serve the greater good of Chicago, but he has a lot of trouble differentiating between what's best for Chicago and what's best for Tom Kane.
* Mayor Tom Kane in ''Boss'' is a subversion: he likes to think that the bad things he does serve the greater good of Chicago, but he has a lot of trouble differentiating between what's best for Chicago and what's best for Tom Kane.
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* [[spoiler:Boyd]] from JossWhedon's ''{{Dollhouse}}'' truly believes that [[spoiler:extracting Echo's spinal fluid]] to make a vaccine against imprinting is the only way to stop the apocalypse from being total. [[spoiler:He wants to use the technology that Topher developed, which he says cannot be unmade, to destroy civilization before anyone else does, and protect those he considers worthy.]]
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* [[spoiler:Boyd]] from JossWhedon's ''{{Dollhouse}}'' ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' truly believes that [[spoiler:extracting Echo's spinal fluid]] to make a vaccine against imprinting is the only way to stop the apocalypse from being total. [[spoiler:He wants to use the technology that Topher developed, which he says cannot be unmade, to destroy civilization before anyone else does, and protect those he considers worthy.]]
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* In ''Franchise/StarTrek'', it's a common Villain motive that even the heroes are not immune to, especially on ''DeepSpaceNine'', with Sisko's actions in "For the Uniform" and "In the Pale Moonlight" (the latter has Sisko stating that the anonymous quote formerly at the top of the page was something his father used to say), as well as everything Luther Sloan and Section 31 do.
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* In ''Franchise/StarTrek'', it's a common Villain motive that even the heroes are not immune to, especially on ''DeepSpaceNine'', ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', with Sisko's actions in "For the Uniform" and "In the Pale Moonlight" (the latter has Sisko stating that the anonymous quote formerly at the top of the page was something his father used to say), as well as everything Luther Sloan and Section 31 do.
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* In ''StarTrek'', it's a common Villain motive that even the heroes are not immune to, especially on ''DeepSpaceNine'', with Sisko's actions in "For the Uniform" and "In the Pale Moonlight" (the latter has Sisko stating that the anonymous quote formerly at the top of the page was something his father used to say), as well as everything Luther Sloan and Section 31 do.
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* In ''StarTrek'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', it's a common Villain motive that even the heroes are not immune to, especially on ''DeepSpaceNine'', with Sisko's actions in "For the Uniform" and "In the Pale Moonlight" (the latter has Sisko stating that the anonymous quote formerly at the top of the page was something his father used to say), as well as everything Luther Sloan and Section 31 do.
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* ''{{Smallville}}'': Tess Mercer wants to save the world. Unfortunately, the only way she can think to go about it is to team up with alien leader [[CompleteMonster Zod]], effectively betraying her entire race and throwing the world into hell. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice.]]
* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ''{{Missing2012}}''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ''{{Missing2012}}''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
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* ''{{Smallville}}'': Tess Mercer wants to save the world. Unfortunately, the only way she can think to go about it is to team up with alien leader [[CompleteMonster [[GeneralRipper Zod]], effectively betraying her entire race and throwing the world into hell. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice.]]
* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ''{{Missing2012}}''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding herson!son!
** That's more in line with the KnightTemplarParent since W.I.E.s tend to try and see a bigger picture, but whatever.
* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ''{{Missing2012}}''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her
** That's more in line with the KnightTemplarParent since W.I.E.s tend to try and see a bigger picture, but whatever.
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* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ''Missing2012''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
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* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ''Missing2012''! ''{{Missing2012}}''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
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* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ''[[Missing 2012|MISSING]]''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
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* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ''[[Missing 2012|MISSING]]''! ''Missing2012''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
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* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ABC'S ''{{Missing}}''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
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* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ABC'S ''{{Missing}}''! ''[[Missing 2012|MISSING]]''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
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* ''{{Smallville}}'': Tess Mercer wants to save the world. Unfortunately, the only way she can think to go about it is to team up with alien leader [[CompleteMonster Zod]], effectively betraying her entire race and throwing the world into hell. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice.]]
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* ''{{Smallville}}'': Tess Mercer wants to save the world. Unfortunately, the only way she can think to go about it is to team up with alien leader [[CompleteMonster Zod]], effectively betraying her entire race and throwing the world into hell. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice.]]]]
* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ABC'S ''{{Missing}}''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
* CRAP!! We made it ''ALL'' the way here ''WITHOUT EVEN'' MENTIONING ABC'S ''{{Missing}}''! Seriously, you don't want to mess with Ashley Judd. She'll literally KILL you if you prevent her from finding her son!
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* Gideon, the BigBad in ''{{Charmed}}''.
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* Gideon, the BigBad in ''{{Charmed}}''.''Series/{{Charmed}}''.
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* Jasmine of ''{{Angel}}''. Also, the other Powers in the comic series, now that they've hit upon the idea of sending angels to kill humans they think are destined to commit crimes.
** Holtz of ''{{Angel}}'' as well, although with, of course, relatively smaller stakes. He was always a vampire hunter and had hunted Angel(us) long before the vampire had gained a soul. On the series, he sought revenge for Angelus' killing his family and many others he knew. While he was wrong to take revenge against a souled version of Angelus, he certainly saw himself as the good guy, and, as a vampire hunter in general, his intentions were good.
** Holtz of ''{{Angel}}'' as well, although with, of course, relatively smaller stakes. He was always a vampire hunter and had hunted Angel(us) long before the vampire had gained a soul. On the series, he sought revenge for Angelus' killing his family and many others he knew. While he was wrong to take revenge against a souled version of Angelus, he certainly saw himself as the good guy, and, as a vampire hunter in general, his intentions were good.
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* Jasmine of ''{{Angel}}''.''Series/{{Angel}}''. Also, the other Powers in the comic series, now that they've hit upon the idea of sending angels to kill humans they think are destined to commit crimes.
** Holtz of''{{Angel}}'' ''Series/{{Angel}}'' as well, although with, of course, relatively smaller stakes. He was always a vampire hunter and had hunted Angel(us) long before the vampire had gained a soul. On the series, he sought revenge for Angelus' killing his family and many others he knew. While he was wrong to take revenge against a souled version of Angelus, he certainly saw himself as the good guy, and, as a vampire hunter in general, his intentions were good.
** Holtz of
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* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', vampire hunter Gordon Walker can be considered this: he kills monsters but generally does not care if innocents get caught in the crossfire.
** Sam Winchester had a few shades of it too in season 3 and 4 where he was reluctantly willing to sacrifice one for the good of the many.
** In season 6 of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the Big Bad of the season, to whom both [[spoiler: Crowley and Eve]] played {{Disc One Final Boss}}, is revealed to be [[spoiler: Castiel, who has decided that, to defeat Rafael and put Heaven on the right track,]] anything is acceptable - in this case, opening Purgatory, the afterlife From Whence Monsters Come. The Winchester boys do their best to stop their {{Face Heel Turn}}ed ally throughout the final episodes of the season, while he continues to plead for them to accept him and his extremist reasons for evil.
** Sam Winchester had a few shades of it too in season 3 and 4 where he was reluctantly willing to sacrifice one for the good of the many.
** In season 6 of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the Big Bad of the season, to whom both [[spoiler: Crowley and Eve]] played {{Disc One Final Boss}}, is revealed to be [[spoiler: Castiel, who has decided that, to defeat Rafael and put Heaven on the right track,]] anything is acceptable - in this case, opening Purgatory, the afterlife From Whence Monsters Come. The Winchester boys do their best to stop their {{Face Heel Turn}}ed ally throughout the final episodes of the season, while he continues to plead for them to accept him and his extremist reasons for evil.
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** Sam Winchester had a few shades of it too inseason seasons 3 and 4 where he was reluctantly willing to sacrifice one for the good of the many.
** In season6 of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', 6, the Big Bad of the season, to whom both [[spoiler: Crowley and Eve]] played {{Disc One Final Boss}}, is revealed to be [[spoiler: Castiel, who has decided that, to defeat Rafael and Castiel. To put Heaven on the right track,]] track by defeating Raphael]] to keep the Apocalypse from being restarted, he has decided anything is acceptable - in this case, [[DealWithTheDevil allying with Crowley]] and opening Purgatory, the afterlife From Whence Monsters Come. The Winchester boys do their best to stop their {{Face Heel Turn}}ed ally throughout the final episodes of the season, while he season. He continues to plead for them to accept him and his extremist reasons choices up until he decides [[IgnoredEpiphany he doesn't care anymore]] and [[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon kills his angel allies]], distracts his human allies by [[KickTheDog breaking Sam's mind]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking betrays Crowley]] to take all the souls' power for evil.himself]].
** Sam Winchester had a few shades of it too in
** In season
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** There's also [[{{MIB}} The Cleaners]] who were willing to go so far as erasing a baby from existence to keep magic from being exposed to the world.
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** Sam Winchester had a few shades of it too in season 3 and 4 where he was completely willing to do the whole "sacrifice one for the good of the many" thing.
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** Sam Winchester had a few shades of it too in season 3 and 4 where he was completely reluctantly willing to do the whole "sacrifice sacrifice one for the good of the many" thing.many.
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* [[spoiler:Boyd]] from JossWhedon's ''{{Dollhouse}}'' truly believes that [[spoiler:extracting Echo's spinal fluid]] to make a vaccine against imprinting is the only way to stop the apocalypse from being total. [[spoiler:He wants to use the technology that Topher developed, which he says cannot be unmade, to destroy civilization before anyone else does, and protect those he considers worthy.]]
** Echo's original personality, Caroline, from "Getting Closer", is another example. In her past life, she becomes a much harder, colder person after years of hiding under the radar of the Rossum Corporation, trying to bring it to justice for its crimes and the death of her boyfriend, Leo. Dewitt says, "She's not evil. She's worse. She's an idealist."
* Several villains in ''Series/TwentyFour'', including Stephen Saunders, who threatens the US with a biological weapon to halt American globalism; [[spoiler:President Logan]] in season 5, who sold nerve gas to Central Asian terrorists in order to frame them as an excuse for US intervention in Central Asia and gain oil from the area, and ordered the assassination of an ex-president to cover it up; and Tom Lennox in season 6, who seeks to inter thousands of American Muslims in the hopes of protecting the country from terrorism, and becomes involved in an assassination plot against the president when his proposals are declined. [[spoiler:Though, in fairness, he was only pretending to go along with the assassination in order to uncover the conspirators]].
** From another perspective, this applies to the [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique protagonists]] as well, especially Agent Jack IDidWhatIHadToDo Bauer. In later seasons, Jack flirts with a HeelRealization as he [[spoiler:questions not only the efficacy and morality of his methods, but even whether his life is worth preserving.]]
* The Others on ''{{Series/Lost}}'' believe that they are the good guys. Just what good they're working towards is unknown, but most of their actions point to quite the contrary.
-->'''Michael''': Who ''are'' you people?
-->'''"Henry Gale"''': We're the good guys, Michael.
** Their actions would appear justified as they're [[spoiler:trying to ensure the presence of all of the candidates to replace Jacob. Without a Jacob, the BigBad can escape to the outside world and bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]
* These characters turn up in the ''LawAndOrder'' franchises all the time.
* Gideon, the BigBad in ''{{Charmed}}''.
** The Avatars also qualify. Their intention was to create a perfect, peaceful {{utopia|JustifiesTheMeans}}, but they were going to create it by means of basically brainwashing the entire human race to remove violent thoughts, and [[RetGone erasing from existence]] anyone who disturbed the peace.
** There's also [[{{MIB}} The Cleaners]] who were willing to go so far as erasing a baby from existence to keep magic from being exposed to the world.
** Just Wyatt? They'll rewrite history if they need to in order to keep magic under wraps.
* On ''AmericanGothic'', after she [[spoiler:kills her new body to save the soul of a baby]] and is sent briefly to Hell, Caleb resurrects the spirit of his sister, Merlyn. Apparently, this brush with darkness changed her usually angelic personality into one that was vengeful, ruthless, and downright disturbing. Completely aside from the NightmareFuel (or {{Narm}}) when she [[spoiler:briefly speaks with a deep, demonic voice]], she declares war on Buck right in the middle of a church (a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for a character who rarely gets any). And when Buck [[spoiler:possesses Caleb and dares her to kill her own brother]], she goes completely too far, [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope deciding that since everyone in the town is either aiding Buck or looking the other way, they are all evil too]]...[[spoiler:so she sends a plague to slaughter the town]]. And all of this while [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience still wearing white]]!
** Dr. Crower ends up becoming one of these in "Doctor Death Takes a Holiday", and this is the ostensible justification for Buck [[PutOnABus sending him out of town to the loony bin]]. On the one hand, [[RoomFullOfCrazy plastering the walls of your room with newspaper clippings, death threats, photos, and a big red gun-sight target]] would definitely suggest someone is a danger to himself and others. On the other hand, considering Buck is the Devil Incarnate, being an extremist, well-intentioned or not, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo may be the only way to get rid of him]]. Which, [[GambitRoulette since the whole thing was orchestrated by Buck anyway]] to get rid of who he thought was his biggest obstacle to claiming Caleb, really underscores how, in Trinity, GoodIsImpotent.
* In ''StarTrek'', it's a common Villain motive that even the heroes are not immune to, especially on ''DeepSpaceNine'', with Sisko's actions in "For the Uniform" and "In the Pale Moonlight" (the latter has Sisko stating that the anonymous quote formerly at the top of the page was something his father used to say), as well as everything Luther Sloan and Section 31 do.
** Unusual in that the actions of Sisko during "In the Pale Moonlight" are likely a large part of what won the Dominion War, and the actions of Section 31 allowed it to end MUCH sooner, saving billions of lives. The episodes hit hard because, to protect {{the Federation}} and its people, they had to do things that they find abhorrent.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d and played with in "For the Uniform" because Sisko chooses to ''deliberately'' invoke the trope in order to force Eddington, himself a WellIntentionedExtremist, to surrender.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', vampire hunter Gordon Walker can be considered this: he kills monsters but generally does not care if innocents get caught in the crossfire.
** Sam Winchester had a few shades of it too in season 3 and 4 where he was completely willing to do the whole "sacrifice one for the good of the many" thing.
** In season 6 of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the Big Bad of the season, to whom both [[spoiler: Crowley and Eve]] played {{Disc One Final Boss}}, is revealed to be [[spoiler: Castiel, who has decided that, to defeat Rafael and put Heaven on the right track,]] anything is acceptable - in this case, opening Purgatory, the afterlife From Whence Monsters Come. The Winchester boys do their best to stop their {{Face Heel Turn}}ed ally throughout the final episodes of the season, while he continues to plead for them to accept him and his extremist reasons for evil.
* Mr. Linderman, from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', who believes that [[spoiler:killing 0.07% of the world's population to end violence and war is an "acceptable loss by anyone's count"]].
** This (and Linderman's entire plot) is an obvious homage to/idea theft of [[spoiler:Ozymandias from ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'']], in much the same way that most of the ideas from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' are stolen wholesale from comic books. It's still great TV though.
*** It's hardly "stolen". It's a homage to it. There's a difference.
*** Adam Monroe also counts, as after 400 years of seeing mankind's hatred, bigotry, ignorance, and warlike nature, he's decided that the best way to save the world is to wipe out most of humanity with a virus and start over with the "worthy" survivors. Again, a clear homage of sorts to Ras Al Ghul/Apocalypse, as, like them, Adam genuinely wants to help people, he's just become so warped and crazy due to his long life and powers that he feels that he's got the right to play god.
*** And, for the hat trick, "The Hunter", aka Emle Danko: a cold hearted son of a bitch who nevertheless sees himself as in the right, as he feels that the evolved humans are too dangerous to exist. And, given people like Linderman, Arthur, Adam, Sylar, Maury, Candice, Doyle, Flint, and the various others who've appeared in the show and in the graphic novels, it's easy to see how he arrived at this misguided viewpoint.
*** Both Angela, who started the Company to protect her people, and Nathan, who started the whole "round them up" program.
**** What about Samuel and Claire? Samuel wants to make TheReveal at the cost of normal human life and even at the cost of some specials in order to inspire non-specials into fear so that the special can use this intimidation to live freely in the acknowledgement of their power...While Claire makes TheReveal once Samuel's nasty ways are avoided with no consideration whatosever whether it would actually be better overall...It's an improvement so far as no more effort will be made to hide their powers. Indeed, she even acknowledges what her father said, "People won't change."
* In ''{{Babylon 5}}'', both the Vorlons and the Shadows are guiding the younger races to be better and stronger. If "some must be sacrificed", so be it. The fact that the two are permanently at war is the first sign that something's wrong here.
* In ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', Felix Gaeta [[spoiler:launches a mutiny]] because he believes that Admiral Adama is too close to the Cylons. His worldview is understandable; his actions, [[spoiler:especially the alliance with not-so-well-intentioned extremist Tom Zarek,]] not so much.
* Allison's stalker on ''{{Medium}}'', who thinks that her psychic powers are interfering with God's plans by saving people who are supposed to die and catching people who are supposed to be free. Allison tries to reason with him by suggesting that her powers are God's plan too, to no avail. The "Well-Intentioned" part is lessened a little when you consider how ''vicious'' he is not only towards Allison but also her children (there's also the fact that he's the Invisible Man from ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' movie). [[spoiler:DeusExMachina steps in after the now-dead stalker reveals that he's been interfering with her and other psychics' visions, resulting in the deaths of ''dozens'' of people whose very pissed-off spirits drag him to Hell.]]
* In the [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffyverse]], Watchers generally tend toward this. Both Rupert Giles and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce showed themselves willing to do ''whatever'' it takes to stop a greater threat. Made more effective because, initially, they tend to come off as befuddled librarians.
** I'd say, when Watchers behave this way, they're almost always actually right. Had Giles not killed Ben, for instance, Glory would have been back and possibly killed the entire cast (PlotArmor would have prevented it, but the characters aren't supposed to know that they have PlotArmor).
* Jasmine of ''{{Angel}}''. Also, the other Powers in the comic series, now that they've hit upon the idea of sending angels to kill humans they think are destined to commit crimes.
** Holtz of ''{{Angel}}'' as well, although with, of course, relatively smaller stakes. He was always a vampire hunter and had hunted Angel(us) long before the vampire had gained a soul. On the series, he sought revenge for Angelus' killing his family and many others he knew. While he was wrong to take revenge against a souled version of Angelus, he certainly saw himself as the good guy, and, as a vampire hunter in general, his intentions were good.
*** Or was he? Angel and Holtz both agree that Angel is culpable for the actions of Angelus, and Angelus' crimes would warrant the death penalty in any jurisdiction that allows it many times over. Angel believes that he can atone for Angelus' crimes in life, Holtz believes he can only do so in death.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The Judoon. In "Smith and Jones", they're trying to stop a sociopathic killer. They do this by transporting an entire hospital and everyone inside it to the Moon. Ultimately, they return it as planned, but it's still an incredible risk to take with the lives of probably hundreds of innocent bystanders. The episode ''Turn Left'' reveals that, if the Doctor hadn't intervened, everybody in that hospital (including Martha) would have suffocated. Similarly, the book ''Judgement of the Judoon'' opens with them forcing their way into a spaceship by driving an access tunnel through the hull, in order to ask the occupants about the Invisible Assassin. On discovering that they don't know anything, the Judoon leave...and don't think twice about retracting the access tunnel to leave a gaping hole.
** Operation Golden Age in ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''. [[spoiler:Desperate to save the planet, people mean to move back time and RetGone everyone save their chosen few.]]
** Maximilien Robespierre in ''The Reign of Terror''. TruthInTelevision.
*** The Doctor himself as of Day of The Moon, what else can you call it when people are being brainwash into killing
* Uther from ''{{Series/Merlin}}'' actually believes that magic is evil and is destroying his kingdom.
** As of the third series - [[spoiler: Morgana and Morgause. They believe that Uther is evil and should be killed/removed from his throne due to his treatment of magic-users, something that a lot of viewers can get behind, but the way they go about it is...violent.]]
* Scorpius from ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' will coerce, extort, torture, mind rape, murder, wage galactic war, and threaten to cause the mass extinction of the entire human race in his quest to destroy the vile Scarrans.
** For that matter, the Scarran Emperor Staleek was similarly driven to safeguard and advance his people, and sought wormhole technology from Crichton for the same reason as Scorpius - to save lives in the coming conflict. He also felt that the Scarrans were viewed as brutish and ignorant by the other races, and that no-one would trust them to maintain peace or negotiate with the same civility as other races, and so brutal conquest was seen as the only way to preserve his race; when given the opportunity to talk and settle, he was able to overcome a hostile reaction, albeit with much effort.
* The British drama series "Terror Alert" takes this trope to the extreme, building the entire plot around it. The show is about a group of terrorist that only ever targets music related companies. Their attacks include flying a plane into a record producers building, killing a 20,000 or so people inside, going into a music store and massacring every single person inside, and killing multiple pop stars. At the end of the series, when the main protagonists finally manage to arrest the men involved, the reason that they give for their attacks leaves the cops speechless...
--> "We did it because the music industry is an evil corruptive hell hole that is destroy the public!"
* The show "Level Headed" is an example of this trope. A little boy is so fed up by people littering at his school that he writes a report about it...before going on a murderous rampage, killing all the children and teachers, as well as a puppy that he sees taking a dump in the hallway. (It's interesting to note that this show was banned from viewing after the 2006 Cosboy Brothers school killing spree, due to a scene in the show that almost mirrored an incident from the real life spree almost word to word. A lawsuit was filed over the show for "Promoting the killing".)
* ''{{NCIS}}'' had the daughter of the ambassador of a Middle Eastern country who was willing to fake her own kidnapping in order to prevent her father from signing a weapons deal with the U.S.. It initially seemed like she was also in on the terrorist plot to murder her father as well, although it was later made apparent that she neither planned nor intended it. Her professor, who she wasn't even aware was in on the plot to murder her father until after the faked kidnapping became the real deal, and her other co-conspirator who became greedy were the real culprits.
* ''Series/TheShadowLine'' has [[spoiler:Counterpoint, a well intentioned GovernmentConspiracy. They're profiting from drug trafficking, but that profit is being used to fund police pensions rather than for personal gain.]]
* Criminal Minds villains tend to be insane, but several probably do fall into this category, like the one who, after growing up in a hellish foster home, thought it was better to kill children in their sleep than let them be put into the system.
* Its possible to include Harriet from "Series/TheLastTrain" who is so obssessed with reaching Ark, where the nations top scientists have been stored as human popsicles, that she frequently goes to unnecessary extremes such as sabotaging any attempt by the other survivors to settle down and start anew by poisoning their water supply to pushing the cart with all their gear and supplies off a cliff because it was slowing them down.
* ''{{Smallville}}'': Tess Mercer wants to save the world. Unfortunately, the only way she can think to go about it is to team up with alien leader [[CompleteMonster Zod]], effectively betraying her entire race and throwing the world into hell. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice.]]
** Echo's original personality, Caroline, from "Getting Closer", is another example. In her past life, she becomes a much harder, colder person after years of hiding under the radar of the Rossum Corporation, trying to bring it to justice for its crimes and the death of her boyfriend, Leo. Dewitt says, "She's not evil. She's worse. She's an idealist."
* Several villains in ''Series/TwentyFour'', including Stephen Saunders, who threatens the US with a biological weapon to halt American globalism; [[spoiler:President Logan]] in season 5, who sold nerve gas to Central Asian terrorists in order to frame them as an excuse for US intervention in Central Asia and gain oil from the area, and ordered the assassination of an ex-president to cover it up; and Tom Lennox in season 6, who seeks to inter thousands of American Muslims in the hopes of protecting the country from terrorism, and becomes involved in an assassination plot against the president when his proposals are declined. [[spoiler:Though, in fairness, he was only pretending to go along with the assassination in order to uncover the conspirators]].
** From another perspective, this applies to the [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique protagonists]] as well, especially Agent Jack IDidWhatIHadToDo Bauer. In later seasons, Jack flirts with a HeelRealization as he [[spoiler:questions not only the efficacy and morality of his methods, but even whether his life is worth preserving.]]
* The Others on ''{{Series/Lost}}'' believe that they are the good guys. Just what good they're working towards is unknown, but most of their actions point to quite the contrary.
-->'''Michael''': Who ''are'' you people?
-->'''"Henry Gale"''': We're the good guys, Michael.
** Their actions would appear justified as they're [[spoiler:trying to ensure the presence of all of the candidates to replace Jacob. Without a Jacob, the BigBad can escape to the outside world and bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]
* These characters turn up in the ''LawAndOrder'' franchises all the time.
* Gideon, the BigBad in ''{{Charmed}}''.
** The Avatars also qualify. Their intention was to create a perfect, peaceful {{utopia|JustifiesTheMeans}}, but they were going to create it by means of basically brainwashing the entire human race to remove violent thoughts, and [[RetGone erasing from existence]] anyone who disturbed the peace.
** There's also [[{{MIB}} The Cleaners]] who were willing to go so far as erasing a baby from existence to keep magic from being exposed to the world.
** Just Wyatt? They'll rewrite history if they need to in order to keep magic under wraps.
* On ''AmericanGothic'', after she [[spoiler:kills her new body to save the soul of a baby]] and is sent briefly to Hell, Caleb resurrects the spirit of his sister, Merlyn. Apparently, this brush with darkness changed her usually angelic personality into one that was vengeful, ruthless, and downright disturbing. Completely aside from the NightmareFuel (or {{Narm}}) when she [[spoiler:briefly speaks with a deep, demonic voice]], she declares war on Buck right in the middle of a church (a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for a character who rarely gets any). And when Buck [[spoiler:possesses Caleb and dares her to kill her own brother]], she goes completely too far, [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope deciding that since everyone in the town is either aiding Buck or looking the other way, they are all evil too]]...[[spoiler:so she sends a plague to slaughter the town]]. And all of this while [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience still wearing white]]!
** Dr. Crower ends up becoming one of these in "Doctor Death Takes a Holiday", and this is the ostensible justification for Buck [[PutOnABus sending him out of town to the loony bin]]. On the one hand, [[RoomFullOfCrazy plastering the walls of your room with newspaper clippings, death threats, photos, and a big red gun-sight target]] would definitely suggest someone is a danger to himself and others. On the other hand, considering Buck is the Devil Incarnate, being an extremist, well-intentioned or not, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo may be the only way to get rid of him]]. Which, [[GambitRoulette since the whole thing was orchestrated by Buck anyway]] to get rid of who he thought was his biggest obstacle to claiming Caleb, really underscores how, in Trinity, GoodIsImpotent.
* In ''StarTrek'', it's a common Villain motive that even the heroes are not immune to, especially on ''DeepSpaceNine'', with Sisko's actions in "For the Uniform" and "In the Pale Moonlight" (the latter has Sisko stating that the anonymous quote formerly at the top of the page was something his father used to say), as well as everything Luther Sloan and Section 31 do.
** Unusual in that the actions of Sisko during "In the Pale Moonlight" are likely a large part of what won the Dominion War, and the actions of Section 31 allowed it to end MUCH sooner, saving billions of lives. The episodes hit hard because, to protect {{the Federation}} and its people, they had to do things that they find abhorrent.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d and played with in "For the Uniform" because Sisko chooses to ''deliberately'' invoke the trope in order to force Eddington, himself a WellIntentionedExtremist, to surrender.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', vampire hunter Gordon Walker can be considered this: he kills monsters but generally does not care if innocents get caught in the crossfire.
** Sam Winchester had a few shades of it too in season 3 and 4 where he was completely willing to do the whole "sacrifice one for the good of the many" thing.
** In season 6 of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the Big Bad of the season, to whom both [[spoiler: Crowley and Eve]] played {{Disc One Final Boss}}, is revealed to be [[spoiler: Castiel, who has decided that, to defeat Rafael and put Heaven on the right track,]] anything is acceptable - in this case, opening Purgatory, the afterlife From Whence Monsters Come. The Winchester boys do their best to stop their {{Face Heel Turn}}ed ally throughout the final episodes of the season, while he continues to plead for them to accept him and his extremist reasons for evil.
* Mr. Linderman, from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', who believes that [[spoiler:killing 0.07% of the world's population to end violence and war is an "acceptable loss by anyone's count"]].
** This (and Linderman's entire plot) is an obvious homage to/idea theft of [[spoiler:Ozymandias from ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'']], in much the same way that most of the ideas from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' are stolen wholesale from comic books. It's still great TV though.
*** It's hardly "stolen". It's a homage to it. There's a difference.
*** Adam Monroe also counts, as after 400 years of seeing mankind's hatred, bigotry, ignorance, and warlike nature, he's decided that the best way to save the world is to wipe out most of humanity with a virus and start over with the "worthy" survivors. Again, a clear homage of sorts to Ras Al Ghul/Apocalypse, as, like them, Adam genuinely wants to help people, he's just become so warped and crazy due to his long life and powers that he feels that he's got the right to play god.
*** And, for the hat trick, "The Hunter", aka Emle Danko: a cold hearted son of a bitch who nevertheless sees himself as in the right, as he feels that the evolved humans are too dangerous to exist. And, given people like Linderman, Arthur, Adam, Sylar, Maury, Candice, Doyle, Flint, and the various others who've appeared in the show and in the graphic novels, it's easy to see how he arrived at this misguided viewpoint.
*** Both Angela, who started the Company to protect her people, and Nathan, who started the whole "round them up" program.
**** What about Samuel and Claire? Samuel wants to make TheReveal at the cost of normal human life and even at the cost of some specials in order to inspire non-specials into fear so that the special can use this intimidation to live freely in the acknowledgement of their power...While Claire makes TheReveal once Samuel's nasty ways are avoided with no consideration whatosever whether it would actually be better overall...It's an improvement so far as no more effort will be made to hide their powers. Indeed, she even acknowledges what her father said, "People won't change."
* In ''{{Babylon 5}}'', both the Vorlons and the Shadows are guiding the younger races to be better and stronger. If "some must be sacrificed", so be it. The fact that the two are permanently at war is the first sign that something's wrong here.
* In ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', Felix Gaeta [[spoiler:launches a mutiny]] because he believes that Admiral Adama is too close to the Cylons. His worldview is understandable; his actions, [[spoiler:especially the alliance with not-so-well-intentioned extremist Tom Zarek,]] not so much.
* Allison's stalker on ''{{Medium}}'', who thinks that her psychic powers are interfering with God's plans by saving people who are supposed to die and catching people who are supposed to be free. Allison tries to reason with him by suggesting that her powers are God's plan too, to no avail. The "Well-Intentioned" part is lessened a little when you consider how ''vicious'' he is not only towards Allison but also her children (there's also the fact that he's the Invisible Man from ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' movie). [[spoiler:DeusExMachina steps in after the now-dead stalker reveals that he's been interfering with her and other psychics' visions, resulting in the deaths of ''dozens'' of people whose very pissed-off spirits drag him to Hell.]]
* In the [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffyverse]], Watchers generally tend toward this. Both Rupert Giles and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce showed themselves willing to do ''whatever'' it takes to stop a greater threat. Made more effective because, initially, they tend to come off as befuddled librarians.
** I'd say, when Watchers behave this way, they're almost always actually right. Had Giles not killed Ben, for instance, Glory would have been back and possibly killed the entire cast (PlotArmor would have prevented it, but the characters aren't supposed to know that they have PlotArmor).
* Jasmine of ''{{Angel}}''. Also, the other Powers in the comic series, now that they've hit upon the idea of sending angels to kill humans they think are destined to commit crimes.
** Holtz of ''{{Angel}}'' as well, although with, of course, relatively smaller stakes. He was always a vampire hunter and had hunted Angel(us) long before the vampire had gained a soul. On the series, he sought revenge for Angelus' killing his family and many others he knew. While he was wrong to take revenge against a souled version of Angelus, he certainly saw himself as the good guy, and, as a vampire hunter in general, his intentions were good.
*** Or was he? Angel and Holtz both agree that Angel is culpable for the actions of Angelus, and Angelus' crimes would warrant the death penalty in any jurisdiction that allows it many times over. Angel believes that he can atone for Angelus' crimes in life, Holtz believes he can only do so in death.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The Judoon. In "Smith and Jones", they're trying to stop a sociopathic killer. They do this by transporting an entire hospital and everyone inside it to the Moon. Ultimately, they return it as planned, but it's still an incredible risk to take with the lives of probably hundreds of innocent bystanders. The episode ''Turn Left'' reveals that, if the Doctor hadn't intervened, everybody in that hospital (including Martha) would have suffocated. Similarly, the book ''Judgement of the Judoon'' opens with them forcing their way into a spaceship by driving an access tunnel through the hull, in order to ask the occupants about the Invisible Assassin. On discovering that they don't know anything, the Judoon leave...and don't think twice about retracting the access tunnel to leave a gaping hole.
** Operation Golden Age in ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''. [[spoiler:Desperate to save the planet, people mean to move back time and RetGone everyone save their chosen few.]]
** Maximilien Robespierre in ''The Reign of Terror''. TruthInTelevision.
*** The Doctor himself as of Day of The Moon, what else can you call it when people are being brainwash into killing
* Uther from ''{{Series/Merlin}}'' actually believes that magic is evil and is destroying his kingdom.
** As of the third series - [[spoiler: Morgana and Morgause. They believe that Uther is evil and should be killed/removed from his throne due to his treatment of magic-users, something that a lot of viewers can get behind, but the way they go about it is...violent.]]
* Scorpius from ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' will coerce, extort, torture, mind rape, murder, wage galactic war, and threaten to cause the mass extinction of the entire human race in his quest to destroy the vile Scarrans.
** For that matter, the Scarran Emperor Staleek was similarly driven to safeguard and advance his people, and sought wormhole technology from Crichton for the same reason as Scorpius - to save lives in the coming conflict. He also felt that the Scarrans were viewed as brutish and ignorant by the other races, and that no-one would trust them to maintain peace or negotiate with the same civility as other races, and so brutal conquest was seen as the only way to preserve his race; when given the opportunity to talk and settle, he was able to overcome a hostile reaction, albeit with much effort.
* The British drama series "Terror Alert" takes this trope to the extreme, building the entire plot around it. The show is about a group of terrorist that only ever targets music related companies. Their attacks include flying a plane into a record producers building, killing a 20,000 or so people inside, going into a music store and massacring every single person inside, and killing multiple pop stars. At the end of the series, when the main protagonists finally manage to arrest the men involved, the reason that they give for their attacks leaves the cops speechless...
--> "We did it because the music industry is an evil corruptive hell hole that is destroy the public!"
* The show "Level Headed" is an example of this trope. A little boy is so fed up by people littering at his school that he writes a report about it...before going on a murderous rampage, killing all the children and teachers, as well as a puppy that he sees taking a dump in the hallway. (It's interesting to note that this show was banned from viewing after the 2006 Cosboy Brothers school killing spree, due to a scene in the show that almost mirrored an incident from the real life spree almost word to word. A lawsuit was filed over the show for "Promoting the killing".)
* ''{{NCIS}}'' had the daughter of the ambassador of a Middle Eastern country who was willing to fake her own kidnapping in order to prevent her father from signing a weapons deal with the U.S.. It initially seemed like she was also in on the terrorist plot to murder her father as well, although it was later made apparent that she neither planned nor intended it. Her professor, who she wasn't even aware was in on the plot to murder her father until after the faked kidnapping became the real deal, and her other co-conspirator who became greedy were the real culprits.
* ''Series/TheShadowLine'' has [[spoiler:Counterpoint, a well intentioned GovernmentConspiracy. They're profiting from drug trafficking, but that profit is being used to fund police pensions rather than for personal gain.]]
* Criminal Minds villains tend to be insane, but several probably do fall into this category, like the one who, after growing up in a hellish foster home, thought it was better to kill children in their sleep than let them be put into the system.
* Its possible to include Harriet from "Series/TheLastTrain" who is so obssessed with reaching Ark, where the nations top scientists have been stored as human popsicles, that she frequently goes to unnecessary extremes such as sabotaging any attempt by the other survivors to settle down and start anew by poisoning their water supply to pushing the cart with all their gear and supplies off a cliff because it was slowing them down.
* ''{{Smallville}}'': Tess Mercer wants to save the world. Unfortunately, the only way she can think to go about it is to team up with alien leader [[CompleteMonster Zod]], effectively betraying her entire race and throwing the world into hell. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice.]]
