History WellIntentionedExtremist / LiveActionTV

** Locke sometimes comes off as this. He commits some people pretty extreme acts on the way to his goals.

* ''Series/StrangerThings'': In the fourth season, Jason Carver is genuinely devastated by the death of his girlfriend and becomes convinced she and the other teens who die mysteriously are the victims of a satanic cult run by Eddie. He's wrong, but from his perspective, based on the limited information he gets from what is in fact due to otherworldly events, he's acting heroically.

** While Varys can and will switch sides if it suits him and is willing to commit some pretty ambiguous acts, in the long run, Varys is doing it all for the sake of the Realm. He might even be one of the most genuinely well-intentioned characters in the show since he takes the little people into consideration, though his methods and goals for doing so lack imagination. (His counterpart in the books is more sinister, and commits some truly malovolent acts, but still comes off in this category.)

** While Varys can and will switch sides if it suits him and is willing to commit some pretty ambiguous acts, in the long run, Varys is doing it all for the sake of the Realm. He might even be one of the most genuinely well-intentioned characters in the show since he takes the little people into consideration, though his methods and goals for doing so lack imagination.

* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': The songs that call down storms and tornados cause environmental disaster in other places around the world; droughts, famines, disease and other similar catastrophes. The world governments are completely aware of this, they simply don't care. They think the good their power does in war makes the resulting deaths from their consequences worth it.

* ''Series/{{Touch}}'': Guillermo Ortiz may be the most ruthless person to ever hold this distinction, [[KnightTemplar singularly devoted to the goal of killing a group of 36 people whose very existence he believes]] [[TheHeretic to be a crime against]] {{God}} [[YouAreWhatYouHate and bound to this goal by being a member of said group (presumably he intends to commit suicide after all of the others have been killed),]] but when he nearly took the life of someone outside this group of 36, it caused him to doubt himself, and when his attempt to confess his sins forced him to do what he'd narrowly avoided doing in order to remain free to continue his mission, he had a severe crisis of faith that only ended when he saved the life of a man who'd been DrivenToSuicide and restored the man's will to live. It truly appears that he is genuine in his belief that in hunting down and killing 35 highly gifted individuals and then committing suicide he is merely [[ChurchMilitant carrying out God's will.]]

** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' lead villain Kuroto Dan is looking for the cure for death, and he intends to share once he has it. A pity that his method of ''creating'' the cure involves using thousands of people as his unwilling test subjects by uploading their minds into his video games, without knowing if he can actually resurrect them when he's done.

* ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'':
** Yggdrasil is seen as this post-episode 19, as they are trying to prevent the Helheim Forest from over taking the world. The following episodes go on to reveal the lengths they're willing to go to to stop this from happening ([[spoiler:which goes up to and including the worst-case-scenario of making {{transformation trinket}}s to ensure the survival of a billion people then killing off the other six]]) but soon after it's revealed that ''no one'' is actually well-intentioned. A good chunk of Yggdrasil don't care about the ends ([[DragonWithAnAgenda their own goals are more important]]) and the only one who ''does'' care is deeply upset with the means and latches onto a more optimistic option the first chance he gets... [[spoiler:which gets him overthrown by the former]].
** After Yggdrasil's done and over with, [[spoiler:along with a group of people who control Helheim Forest]], a victim of their extremism steps in and declares his vow to destroy the world. When Kouta confronts him in the final battle, he points out that his experience taught him that the strong hurt the weak because they lost their compassion in the process of being strong. His conclusion? Kill all of humanity and replace it with his own kind of race, one that wouldn't trade compassion for strength. Kouta knows where he's coming from, but believes he's going about it the wrong way.

** Several villains, 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]].

** In season 3, it turns out Alie was the artificial intelligence who believed the best way to control population was to start a nuclear war.

** Also the Order of Byzantium from season 5. Their main goal was to destroy the key to stop Glory from using it and destroying the universe. Notably, in a later season Buffy admits to Giles that she's come to realize they were right at the time, and if she had to make a similar choice now she ''would'' do it.

** Gideon, the BigBad of season 6. He believed that Wyatt, born of a Charmed One and Whitelighter, was too powerful a being to remain good, and, after learing about a future where Wyatt did indeed turn evil, was determined to prevent that from happening. What Gideon didn't realize, however, was that it was his pursuit of Wyatt for weeks in the Underworld is what caused the boy to turn evil eventually in that future. He [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope solidified this status]] in allowing innocents to be killed to cover his tracks, and even personally killing his friend and confidant Sigmund when he left to expose Gideon's plans to the sisters. He was willing to go so far as to work with his [[MirrorUniverse Evil Mirror opposite]], which just unbalanced the world even more.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': A few [[VictimOfTheWeek Victims Of The Week]] fall into this category, as does [[MyCountryRightOrWrong Control]]. In the second half of season four, [[TheCracker Root]] tumbles backwards into this after she had just managed to pull herself into a [[ThouShaltNotKill relatively moral code]] due to a SanitySlippage following [[spoiler: [[UncertainDoom Shaw's disappearance]]]]. Toyed with to Hell and back with [[MissionControl Finch]], who played it straight by building the Machine following September 11th, constantly violating the privacy of basically ''everyone in the United States'' to stop terrorist activity, but built it as a closed system so that it couldn't be abused by the government, specifically to avert this.

** [[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.

** Sam Winchester had a few shades of it too in seasons 3 and 4 where he was reluctantly willing to sacrifice one for the good of the many.
** In season 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. To put Heaven on the right 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. He continues to plead for them to accept him and his 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 himself]].
** In season 12, Sam and Dean are at first impressed by how the British Men of Letters keep things safe in England with very few monster attacks, highly organized and effective. However, the brothers are thrown when they learn that the reason there hasn't been a werewolf attack in England in nearly a century is because the MOL just kill them all off. As far as the MOL are concerned, ''all'' monsters are evil and must be killed. When a teenaged girl is bitten by a wolf, Agent Mick kills her in her hospital bed on the chance she may turn. The Winchesters argue about it but Mick doesn't seem to grasp that there can be monsters who aren't that bad.

* ''Series/Stargirl2020'': The ISA, it turns out, doesn't want anything evil. Rather, their goal is to make a better America that works to stop climate change and has no homophobia or racism. However, they plan to do this through brainwashing millions of people, with a process that will inevitably kill 25 percent of those affected, the deaths of a percentage of their victims as a side-effect and murder of those who oppose them as well as their families.

* ''Series/Stargirl2020'': The ISA, it turns out, doesn't want anything evil. Rather, their goal is to make a better America that works to stop climate change and has no homophobia or racism. However, they plan to do this through brainwashing millions of people, with a process that will inevitably kill 25 percent of those affected.

* ''Series/Stargirl2020'': The ISA, it turns out, doesn't want anything evil. Rather, their goal is to make a better America that works to stop climate change and has no homophobia or racism. However, they plan to do this through brainwashing people.

** Also the Order of Byzantium from season 5. Their main goal was to destroy the key to stop Glory from using it and destroying the universe. Notably, in a later season Buffy admits to Giles that she would have let them do it if she knew then what she knows now.

** Gideon, the BigBad of season 6. He believed that Wyatt, born of a Charmed One and Whitelighter, was too powerful a being to remain good, and, after learnng about a future where Wyatt did indeed turn evil, was determined to prevent that from happening. What Gideon didn't realize, however, was that it was his pursuit of Wyatt for weeks in the Underworld is what caused the boy to turn evil eventually in that future. He [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope solidified this status]] in allowing innocents to be killed to cover his tracks, and even personally killing his friend and confidant Sigmund when he left to expose Gideon's plans to the sisters. He was willing to go so far as to work with his [[MirrorUniverse Evil Mirror opposite]], which just unbalanced the world even more.

** Tom Zarek sees himself as this, in universe. It's the perspective of other characters that show he's more of an ego-centric power seeker.

* ''Series/{{Utopia}}'': It becomes apparent that [[TheConspiracy The Network]] wish to avert a global catastrophe by [[spoiler: [[SterilityPlague covertly sterilising 90% of the planet]]. By the end of the series, the good guys have ''[[HeWhoFightsMonsters also]]'' [[HeWhoFightsMonsters become]] [[BlackAndGreyMorality Well Intentioned Extremists]].]]

* ''Series/AngieTribeca'' may be a parody of cop shows, but it ends up having one in the second season with [[spoiler: Eddie Pepper and his organization, Mayhem Global. Eddie created it in order to take down Mayor Perry and his corruption. [[DeconstructedTrope However, his efforts become increasingly horrible and violent, ranging from having moles in the FBI and Perry's camp to having people kill themselves via allergies to keep his secrets. Most of his actions only ever resulted in Perry getting more support, and when he tried to assassinate him on the day of the election, Perry ended up winning instead.]] Meanwhile,Eddie ended up all alone as his cohort Diane Duran disappeared, and he got arrested and shot by Angie, who was on his side until she remembered that she had something to live for: her son.]]

** The Judoon. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones 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. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]] reveals that, if the Doctor hadn't intervened, everybody but one man 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.

** In the spin-off ''Creator/BigFinish'' audio series ''Doom Coalition'', this arguably applies to the villain [[spoiler:Padrac and his titular 'Doom Coalition']]; their final objective is [[spoiler:to save Gallifrey from the destruction that Padrac has predicted will inevitably strike them at some future date, which the Doctor can agree with in principle, but Padrac has concluded that the only way to guarantee Gallifrey's safety is to destroy ''every other planet in the universe'', which the Doctor is less inclined to agree with]].

-->'''Michael''': Who ''are'' you people?
-->'''"Henry Gale"''': We're the good guys, Michael.