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Since: Oct, 2014
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Kuruni
(Long Runner)
AegisP
Since: Oct, 2014
Kuruni
(Long Runner)

I'm planing to remove many examples from it, and think it's better to post here for record first(because aside from my very recent post the last entry in discussion was from 2014).
I think the trope need better description. The current description put too much emphasis on "Not Evil" part but almost completely ignoring Just Misundertood part. From my impression, a character being "Not Evil" isn't as important as (people) "Just Misundertood" the chaarcter. In this trope context, "evil" is likely include "harmful/dangerous". Lets say we have a Classical Movie Vampire, the character may simply feed for sustain himself and not really malice (not evil), but there's no misunderstanding that he kill and feed on humans. So he can't be this trope, else the description of this trope will be narrowed to "any villain/antagonist that doesn't use For the Evulz as motivation" (which make it People Sit on Chairs).
I think the condition should be that
Blue-and-Orange Morality shouldn't be excuse here, else there won't be Just Misunderstood part. A robotic army programmed to kill every lives is not evil, and likely not aware that what they're doing is wrong, but there's no misunderstood part - they're really out to kill everything.
Just read the examples, we've "totally evil (Psychopathic Manchild who kills and eats people for fun), but she's raised that way" (no misundertood part), "totally evil, but used to be The Woobie" (no misundertood part, they're dangerous now), "doing evil things but has Well-Intentioned Extremist motive" (Necessarily Evil is still evil, and usually no misunderstood part. A dictator who Take Over the World to bring everlasting peace is still taking over the world with force.) Really, I think it need to be fixed.
Any opinion?
Edited by Kuruni