History WellIntentionedExtremist / WebComics

* WebComic/{{Paranatural}}: One of the themes of the comic is extremists using good intentions to justify evil deeds... even if the deeds have nothing to do with their good intentions.

* SUEPR Team One, from ''Webcomic/CityOfReality'', attempts to protect Reality's MarySueTopia by destroying the entirety of the neighboring World of Magic, which has threatened to wreck their way of life. The protagonists are forced to try to stop them, despite nearly falling victim to the very same cynicism.

* ''Webcomic/{{TREVOR}}'': [[spoiler: Dr. Maddison]]. He wants to stop the [[spoiler: SuperSoldier]] project he’s been forced to go along with, and instead of a mundane solution like leaking info to the press to turn public opinion against the [[spoiler: military]], he opts instead to orchestrate [[spoiler: Trevor’s escape]], so [[spoiler: Trevor can kill the other members of]] the medical team, and (presumably) wait for the military to sweep in afterwards and clean everything up.

** On the heroic side, Vaarsivuus is getting there as well in recent comics. At this rate, (s)he'll end up like [[HeroicComedicSociopath Belkar]]...
*** ...quite possibly [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0331.html by saying the right four words to the right being at the right time for all the wrong reasons.]]
*** [[spoiler:[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0634.html Confirmed.]]]]
*** [[spoiler:Fixed after a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from [[BigBad Xykon]] makes him/her realise that might does not make right.]]

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Abraham vowed to destroy anything created by someone using the Dewitchery Diamond. This is understandable in most circumstances since the use of the diamond usually creates monsters that are embodiments of curses. However, he takes it too far when he decides to kill Ellen even though the "curse" that she is an embodiment of is simply a spell to turn someone female and not at all monstrous.

* It can be argued that [=VespAvenger=] from ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' is a well intentioned extremist in the punishment she doles out to [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=743men those who mistreat their girlfriends.]]
** However, Faye, Dora, and Marten then quickly point out how wrong this is by asking her what she'd think if a ''man'' [[DoubleStandard did what she did]] to women who mistreat their boyfriends. She'd ask him out. And then she orders her Vespa-bot to shoot Dora and Faye, with the lasers set to "disfigure".

* ''Webcomic/MagIsa'': [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119653 The school shooters in this comic are well-intentioned extremists]]. They honestly believe that by [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119712 shooting up a school]], they help create a world of love and peace.
* ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'''s Adina believes that she is purifying the world by [[spoiler:destroying those she deems "evil", which more-than-often includes those who ''aren't'' truly evil]].
* As shown somewhat earlier in the strip, Miranda West of ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' walks full stride into Well Intentioned Extremity in a recent arc, where she punishes [[SchoolNewspaperNewsHound Ivan]] for being too intrusive in his desire to discover Anne's secrets, also condemns two innocents, and then refuses Ivan's plea that he has (apparently) learned his lesson, as well as refusing to help the ones who had nothing to do with her concerns, [[http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2008-12-23 threatening him]] when he calls her out on it. But her status as a WellIntentionedExtremist comes not just from her actions, but also from [[http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2009-01-09 her attempt to justify it]] to her familiar (and herself).
* Professor Broadshouders in ''[[http://zebragirl.keenspot.com Zebra Girl]]'' has made it his life's mission to rid the world of demons — and doesn't care who he has to hurt, damn, or kill to get the job done. Up to and including himself.

* It's been stated that Roxy Lalonde from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' doesn't really plan her actions often, and they tend to do more harm than good. But she usually means well and enjoys helping her friends, even though she's done things such as blowing up her best friend's computer and coercing her into revealing her feelings for Jake.
** A clear example from ''Homestuck'' is Aranea, who wishes to create an alternate timeline where the BigBad never comes to power, and then use her unique abilities to make that timeline become the main universe. Of course, in order to do so, she is willing to kill anyone that gets in the way, including those opposed to the very Big Bad she's trying to stop.
** Feferi Peixes planned to reform her entire society to become more compassionate to others if and when she became empress, even though said compassion is shown to be more than a bit [[CondescendingCompassion condescending]]. In an AlternateUniverse, she succeeds, but creates a CrapSaccharineWorld that had no hope of beating [[TheGamePlaysYou Sburb]].
* [[spoiler:Ian Samael]] from ''Webcomic/ErrantStory'' comes from a culture where Elven oppression is common and many Elves wouldn't think twice before wiping him out. His goal to keep his people from being hunted down by Elves is fine; pity that he tries to do so by [[spoiler:attempting to wipe out the Elves himself]].
* Darkbringer from ''{{Webcomic/Lightbringer}}'' strongly believes that the only way to fight evil is to [[LogicBomb embrace its ways,]] abandon all hope, and give himself up to darkness and despair. He believes that Lightbringer's actions give people false hope, so he wants to kill him.
* SUEPR Team One, from ''Webcomic/CityOfReality'', attempts to protect Reality's MarySueTopia by destroying the entirety of the neighboring World of Magic, which has threatened to wreck their way of life. The protagonists are forced to try to stop them, despite nearly falling victim to the very same cynicism.
* Weijuaru of ''Webcomic/{{Juathuur}}'' basically wants to make every juathuur a god, because that would mean absolute freedom.
* The robot Blunt in ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}''. Just wants to protect humanity...[[spoiler:and has no problems with a plan to lobotomise millions of robots to remove the chance that any of them could harm a human]].
* This is exactly how the main character was going to turn out in ''Webcomic/ToPreventWorldPeace''. Until her FaceHeelTurn, anyway.
** In fact, before she goes AntiVillain [[VillainProtagonist Protagonist]], '''all''' the {{Magical Girl}}s are destined to turn out like this.
* Parodied in [[http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2009/09/08/recipe-for-disaster this]] ''Webcomic/PvP'' strip.
* Psionic Minmax in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' wants to reduce the amount of suffering in the world... and considers [[ApocalypseHow triggering a Class 6 Metaphysical Annihilation]], [[OmnicidalManiac completely unmaking reality]] so that suffering doesn't have anywhere to take place, to be a perfectly reasonable way of achieving that goal.
* Michael Kappel in ''Webcomic/{{Collar 6}}'' just wants to end the silent cold war between the world governments because their hostility is creating a shadow blight that is poisoning the world (not to mention causing a lot of collateral damage). But he thinks the only way to do it is to DePower everyone but his loyalists and take control of the world himself.
* ''Webcomic/FilthBiscuit'': In the story [[http://www.filthbiscuit.com/red-kate/ Red Kate]], the titular heroine tuns a western town upside-down in her pursuit of an egalitarian, socialist paradise.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Abraham vowed to destroy anything created by someone using the Dewitchery Diamond. This is understandable in most circumstances since the use of the diamond usually creates monsters that are embodiments of curses. However, he takes it too far when he decides to kill Ellen even though the "curse" that she is an embodiment of is simply a spell to turn someone female and not at all monstrous.
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
** The F'sherl-Ganni as a species implemented a technological lockdown on the Galaxy through their PortalNetwork and Clone-And-Interrogate process, which killed the equivalent of the Galactic society's total population several thousand times over in {{Expendable Clone}}s. They did all this to prevent the [[OmnicidalManiac Pa'anuri]] from restarting their war on the Milky Way, as well as to keep forbidden technologies that inevitably start pan-galactic wars (like Long Gun tech) out of the hands of the newer races. Even [[DeusEstMachina The Fleetmind]] finds it difficult to fully condemn them after their system is dismantled.
** General Xinchub is in charge of humanity's [[spoiler:immortality project]], which will ensure humanity's future for millennia to come if successful. He is willing to do absolutely ''anything'' to keep those secrets safe, [[BecomingTheMask and somewhere along the way he started to enjoy it]]. By the time the story starts, he's a shameless CardCarryingVillain with only a few brief glimpses of any nobility underneath, but [[spoiler:he sells the project to Petey when he becomes convinced that his own government is too incompetent to get the job done. Part of Petey's conditions are that Xinchub will undergo rehabilitation so that he won't be acting like a mindless psychopath any more]].
** Shufgar, a minor villain from one arc, is fighting a guerilla war against his government, apparently for the cause of democracy. We never get a good look at his politics, though, and we just see him engaging in torture and mayhem whenever the mood strikes him. In the end, the heroes see both him and his government as jerks, but [[OnlyInItForTheMoney the government are the ones paying them]].
** Admiral Emm, Xinchub's replacement, takes over the project with the same stated goals. For the most part, she is more competent and engages in more PragmaticVillainy; she prefers carefully-placed CloneByConversion sleeper agents rather than rolling in with warships and vaporizing everything. She also often expresses disapproval at the glee with which her subordinates carry out their terrible orders. Of course, as one subordinate points out, she is still ''giving'' those terrible orders, and seems more interested in covering up the project than actually advancing it. [[spoiler:When the heroes finish the project, she is left with an opening: She can either get behind them and become a hero who saved millions of lives (though she will have to kill a lot of conspirators), or she can desperately try to cling to what power she has left. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist She chooses the second option]], and is [[LaserGuidedKarma permanently killed by one of her subordinates shortly after]].]]
** Professor Pau discovers a new type of {{Nanomachines}} that can cure any illness and repair any injury. They are so successful that he has to start altering the census data in his space station because ''no one is dying any more''. Unfortunately, they can only grow in human hosts, so he has to kidnap large-mass men, hook them up to machines, and use them to breed more of the nannies. [[spoiler:Turns out that he was actually being sabotaged by his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Max; the whole thing was a social experiment for the Laz'R'us immortality nanites that Xinchub and Emm worked on. Once Max is removed, the human hosts are easily replaced with racks of hydroponic watermelons, and Pau takes a lesser, advisory role in the new organization]].

** Even more so, Miko Miyazaki. A case study in what Lawful Good can do, when taken to its extremes. Justice untempered with Mercy, blind to the possibility that she could ever be wrong.

** The F'sherl-Ganni as a species implemented a technological lockdown on the Galaxy through their PortalNetwork and Clone-And-Interrogate process, which killed the equivalent of the Galactic society's total population several thousand times over in ExpendableClones. They did all this to prevent the [[OmnicidalManiac Pa'anuri]] from restarting their war on the Milky Way, as well as to keep forbidden technologies that inevitably start pan-galactic wars (like Long Gun tech) out of the hands of the newer races. Even [[DeusEstMachina The Fleetmind]] finds it difficult to fully condemn them after their system is dismantled.

* ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'''s Adina believes that she is purifying the world by [[spoiler: destroying those she deems "evil", which more-than-often includes those who ''aren't'' truly evil.]]

* Professor Broadshouders in ''[[http://zebragirl.keenspot.com Zebra Girl]]'' has made it his life's mission to rid the world of demons - and doesn't care who he has to hurt, damn, or kill to get the job done. Up to and including himself.

** [[JustTheFirstCitizen Baron]] [[EmperorScientist Wulfenbach,]] absolute ruler of Europa. He demands obedience of his subjects, kidnaps the children of notable [[MadScientist Sparks]] to his floating citadel in the sky, sends criminals and troublemakers to the [[GeniusLoci Castle]] [[DeathTrap Heterodyne]] to repair it, [[SnipeHunt despite nobody even possibly knowing how to,]] and has burned entire towns down to the ground to contain unmanageable problems within. He's also absolutely fanatical about keeping the Heterodyne bloodline under control, which puts him at odds with the protagonist Agatha, herself the last known heir of the family. The thing is, he has a point. Prior to his taking control, Europa was a chaotic, feudal place of madness where most Sparks ran wildly and warred against each other with their insane creations, the worst of which included the exceptionally powerful Heterodyne family, which for at least fifteen hundred years had been, with two very notable exceptions, irredeemably evil warmongers singlehandedly capable of bringing Europa into ruin. Everything Baron Wulfenbach has done, however horrific, has been to restore peace and order to the country, [[TheExtremistWasRight and he did a damn good job of it too.]] [[spoiler:Not only that, but once he [[TimeStandsStill freezes himself along with the entirety of Mechanicsburg]] in a bid to keep Agatha from reclaiming the seat of her power, Europa quickly descends once again into a terrible anarchy unmatched by any before.]]
** Othar Tryggvassen, GentlemanAdventurer!, from the same series. He has the same goal as the Baron but a different method: [[GottaKillEmAll He plans to kill every Spark in the world]], [[NoPlaceForMeThere ending with himself]], due to the sorry state Sparks have left the normal folks of Europa in. As a result, he's a hero to the common folk and non-sparks, while the sparks (including our protagonists) all despise him and [[RunningGag tend to throw him out of airships]].
** Pretty much EVERY Spark (who isn't already a full-time villain) is, at one time or another, one of these. It goes with the Sparkiness. Even Agatha. As demonstrated [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070216 here.]]
* In ''Webcomic/KidRadd'', [[spoiler:GI Guy]] believes that humans and sprites are too far predisposed to hurting each other to hope for peaceful existence, and that [[FinalSolution a mercy-genocide]] is in order to stop the suffering.

** A clear example from Homestuck is Aranea, who wishes to create an alternate timeline where the BigBad never comes to power, and then use her unique abilities to make that timeline become the main universe. Of course, in order to do so, she is willing to kill anyone that gets in the way, including those opposed to the very Big Bad she's trying to stop.

* Darkbringer from ''{{Webcomic/Lightbringer}}'' strongly believes that the only way to fight evil is to [[LogicBomb embrace its ways,]] abandon all hope, and give up himself to darkness and despair. He believes that Lightbringer's actions give people false hope, so he wants to kill him.

** [[EcoTerrorist Malthus and the Light Demons]] want to preserve the ecosystem... by wiping out most of the world's population. (Malthus being named after Thomas Malthus isn't an accident.)

** The crowning example is arguably Drathilox, who hails from an unpublished ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' fanfic. Drathilox, like the Trophic Blenders, seeks to eliminate violence. But where the Trophic Blenders see competition for food as the root of all violence, Drathilox instead blames prejudice, bigotry, and hatred. To eliminate prejudice, Drathilox seeks to [[AssimilationPlot transform all beings into Drathlings]] -- [[HiveMind essentially his mental slaves]]. Drathilox believes that stripping away the distinctions of race -- [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill and free will along with them]] -- is the only way to abolish violence.

** General Xinchub is in charge of humanity's [[spoiler:immortality project]], which will ensure humanity's future for millennia to come if successful. He is will to do absolutely ''anything'' to keep those secrets safe, [[BecomingTheMask and somewhere along the way he started to enjoy it]]. By the time the story starts, he's a shameless CardCarryingVillain with only a few brief glimpses of any nobility underneath, but [[spoiler:he sells the project to Petey when he becomes convinced that his own government is too incompetent to get the job done. Part of Petey's conditions are that Xinchub will undergo rehabilitation so that he won't be acting like a mindless psychopath any more]].

** Mysto Majora Kijadhimov is the HeroToHisHometown variant. Using her innate power to travel through time, she has witnessed the Catholic Church's ruthless persecution of various pagan religions, including [[UsefulNotes/SlavicMythology her own]], and she is fiercely determined not to let it happen again. The problem is that she believes [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly the only way to accomplish this]] is to [[FinalSolution utterly obliterate the Abrahamic religions]].

** [[EcoTerrorists Malthus and the Light Demons]] want to preserve the ecosystem... by wiping out most of the world's population. (Malthus being named after Thomas Malthus isn't an accident.)

* Parodied in [[http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2009/09/08/recipe-for-disaster this]] ''Webcomics/PvP'' strip.

* ''Webcomic/{{MAGISA}}'': [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119653 The school shooters in this comic are well-intentioned extremists]]. They honestly believe that by [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119712 shooting up a school]], they help create a world of love and peace.
* ''{{Webcomic/Zoophobia}}'''s Adina believes that she is purifying the world by [[spoiler: destroying those she deems "evil", which more-than-often includes those who ''aren't'' truly evil.]]

-->'''Boss Leader:''' I suspect he keeps secrets from me more out of ''habit'' at this point.

-->'''Isabel:''' He has fun hurting people, so his ''evil heart'' tells him it's for a good cause.

* {{MAG ISA}}: [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119653 The school shooters in this comic are well-intentioned extremists]]. They honestly believe that by [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119712 shooting up a school]], they help create a world of love and peace.

--'''>Radd:''' He was just... well, like a lot of madmen. Somewhat accurate view of the problem, really insane view of the solution.

** Othar Tryggvassen, GentlemanAdventurer!, from the same series. He has the same goal as the Baron but a different method: [[GottaKillEmAll He plans to kill every Spark in the world]], [[NoPlaceForMeThere ending with himself]], due to the sorry state Sparks have left the normal folks of Europa in. As a result he's a hero to the common folk and non-sparks, while the sparks (including our protagonists) all despise him and [[RunningGag tend to throw him out of airships]].

* In ''Webcomic/KidRadd'', [[spoiler:GI Guy]] believes that humans and sprites are too far predisposed to hurting each other to hope for peaceful existence, and that a mercy-genocide is in order to stop the suffering.
-->Radd: He was just... well, like a lot of madmen. Somewhat accurate view of the problem, really insane view of the solution.

*** [[spoiler: Fixed after a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from big bad Xykon makes him/her realise that might does not make right]].

* [[spoiler: Ian Samael]] from ''Webcomic/ErrantStory'' comes from a culture where Elven oppression is common and many Elves wouldn't think twice before wiping him out. His goal to keep his people from being hunted down by Elves is fine; pity that he tries to do so by [[spoiler: attempting to wipe out the Elves himself.]]

** If [[EldritchAbomination the Snarl]] breaks out, it's believed that it will not only destroy the universe, but render its victims DeaderThanDead. As such, half the gods are actually in favor of destroying the world ''now,'' so that they're followers will at least get an afterlife. There are good and evil gods on both sides of the debate.