Basic Trope: A genuinely good character (or not-so-evil/half-decent at worst) among jerks or bad guys.
- Straight: Bob is the nicest member among a group of Jerkasses.
- Exaggerated: Bob is most pure-hearted and kind-hearted member of a group of card-carrying complete monsters.
- Downplayed:
- Bob is just like the villains, but is more honorable and nicer than they are.
- Bob is an Ideal Hero who works with an group of antiheroes.
- Bob is a Nice Guy in a group of Jerks With Hearts of Gold.
- Bob is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who works with a group of villains who claim to be just as well-intentioned as Bob is, but they only do immoral things for their own benefit.
- Bob is a Jerkass who doesn't kill or hurt people in a group of Ax-Crazy Serial Killers.
- Bob is a Good is Not Nice Jerk with a Heart of Gold who frequently hangs out with a group of purely and genuinely selfish Jerkasses.
- Bob is an example of Even Evil Has Standards while the others are Complete Monsters.
- In spite of Bob advancing a villainous cause, he's the only supporter of the cause to not have any villainous motives.
- Bob is an Anti-Villain that are good friends with the Main Villains.
- The whole team is Evil. But Bob is the Token Nice Guy, being an Affably Evil Villain while the rest are either Faux Affably Evil or traditional Jerkass Villains.
- Bob, The Hero, usually hangs out with a friend group that is very hard to pinpoint if they're evil or not.
- Baar'agmir is one of a dozen Eldritch Abominations with Blue-and-Orange Morality. However, its goals are the most compatible with humanity's well-being, even though it doesn't pursue them for altruistic reasons.
- Justified:
- Bob was forced to join their group.
- Bob likes hanging out with them.
- Bob is too stupid to know what's going on.
- Bob thinks he has a better chance manipulating the group from the inside than defeating them from outside the group.
- Bob is so annoying, smelly, stupid, creepy, or socially inept that no one else would hang out with him.
- While Bob disapproves of the methods his comrades use, he sincerely believes in the cause that the team fights for.
- Bob's role to the group is to keep the rest of the team on the good side of things.
- Inverted: Token Evil Teammate
- Subverted:
- Bob seems nice and kind-hearted, but he's really a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing or (Faux) Affably Evil or Pragmatic Evil.
- Bob looks all moral and just, but then we learn what he's like "in the dark".
- Double Subverted:
- Bob still isn't such a bad guy compared to the rest of the group.
- Bob was only acting like a jerk for the greater good.
- He just had a really bad day. Normally he's a Nice Guy.
- Bob feels guilty and learns from it, becoming a better person.
- Parodied:
- Bob the resident jerkass is a part of a group of villains and is considered the Token Good Teammate when all they do is Poke the Poodle.
- Bob is considered a pillar of Incorruptible Pure Pureness simply because he won't eat cake.
- Bob is literally hired to act as the moral pillar of an evil organization for no other reason than to piss off the mooks, that or they thought it would like on TV.
- Zig Zagged:
- Bob is the good guy of the group. But there are moments where he's Not So Above It All; making it harder to tell whether he's really a good guy, faking his morality, or simply just looks moral when compared to the rest of the gang.
- Bob unknowingly becomes a member of a group of villains. He later is seen helping an old lady across the street, but only as a ploy to steal her purse and then goes on to help his new evil friends commit various crimes. However it turns out that his evil "friends" brainwashed him into doing such things. He ends up quitting after that and becomes their sworn enemy.
- Averted: Bob is mean and evil just like his group members.
- Enforced: "We need one character who is at least not as evil as the other villains."
- Lampshaded: "You seem to be a good guy. Why do you hang with these jerks?"
- Invoked: Joey gets a member to act as The Heart out of fear that in pursuit of their noble goal, they'll lose their moral compass.
- Exploited: Whenever Bob's evil friends want to appear benevolent, they have Bob do the talking.
- Defied: Bob wants to be evil or mean like the rest of the gang and tries to be just that.
- Discussed: "Bob's a pretty decent guy; why is he always hanging around with such evil jerks?"
- Conversed: "Why is it that Bob is the only one that's even remotely likable?"
- Implied: Bob is the one who barely talk in a group of criminals and we barely learn anything about him but in one specific scene he seems to be the only one against slaughtering a 9 year old
- Deconstructed:
- Although Bob is a good person, that doesn't change the fact that he is still on the evil side. After being forced to commit many atrocities, Bob finally attempts to quit but his teammates kill him because He Knows Too Much or For the Evulz.
- People constantly mistake Bob for an immoral jerk because of the people he hangs out with or is victimized through guilt-by-association because "he must be just like those a-holes or why else would hang out with them."
- Bob stays around only for as long as he keeps telling himself that the team are doing everything for the great good. When the teammates begin do worse deeds, like murdering a child, exploding homes, and harming innocents For the Evulz, it doesn't take long for him to see who they truly are.
- Bob realizes the people he's hanging around with are terrible, but he can't do anything about it, lest they persecute him for not being a part of them. Eventually, he throws away his morals and tries his best to emulate them just so they can keep him around.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob turns out to be someone who's not so easy to kill, and he lied about quitting to show the group that he's the one who's kept them together for so long by acting as their main source of common sense. Without him, the other members would have already killed each other by now. Bob may be a good person, but he can be bad as much as he wants to be.
- Bob is a Noble Demon who has Heel Realization after spending too long working with villains towards their Evil Plan. He fakes his own death in order to defect to the heroic side.
- Bob is a Good Shepherd trying to reform a group of ex-cons, or works in a prison. There might be a couple of Pedophile Priest jokes, but he basically has a good repulation for his ministry to sinners.
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