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(Not to be confused with ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' the game or the book by [[Friedrich Nietzsche]].<ref>While he did speak of going "beyond good and evil", his conception of what that meant is quite different from what we usually see; to put it quite bluntly, the way "beyond good and evil" has been taken in wider culture is at best [[The Theme Park Version]].</ref>)
(Not to be confused with ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' the game or the book by [[Friedrich Nietzsche]].<ref>While he did speak of going "beyond good and evil", his conception of what that meant is quite different from what we usually see; to put it quite bluntly, the way "beyond good and evil" has been taken in wider culture is at best [[The Theme Park Version]].</ref>)
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Huey Laforet from ''[[Baccano!]]'' is this trope via his several-hundred-year [[For Science!]] ambition. Everyone and everything in this world, including his own daughter, is nothing more than components of a grand experiment- ethics be damned. Even amongst his peers he is considered the creepiest of the lot. Go look at the show's and character entries to see [[Fridge Horror|just what that means.]]
* Huey Laforet from ''[[Baccano!]]'' is this trope via his several-hundred-year [[For Science!]] ambition. Everyone and everything in this world, including his own daughter, is nothing more than components of a grand experiment- ethics be damned. Even amongst his peers he is considered the creepiest of the lot. Go look at the show's and character entries to see [[Fridge Horror|just what that means.]]
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** Another argument that might have held more weight with Wan Shi Tong would be to point out that his own beloved library would be among the things a victorious Fire Nation would have destroyed.
** Another argument that might have held more weight with Wan Shi Tong would be to point out that his own beloved library would be among the things a victorious Fire Nation would have destroyed.
** It wasn't that Sokka wanted to take and use information, it's that he wanted to take and use information ''to fight a war''. The owl was fine with them looking around, and didn't seem to mind Sokka nicking things too much, until he heard Sokka say candidly that they were going to destroy the Fire Nation when they're at their weakest.
** It wasn't that Sokka wanted to take and use information, it's that he wanted to take and use information ''to fight a war''. The owl was fine with them looking around, and didn't seem to mind Sokka nicking things too much, until he heard Sokka say candidly that they were going to destroy the Fire Nation when they're at their weakest.
* ''[[X Men the Animated Series]]''—in the appropriately-named "Beyond Good and Evil" four-parter, Apocalypse declares he is "not malevolent. I simply ''am''." Eventually, after nearly destroying the world more than once, he starts to wonder if they actually have a point about the whole "malevolent" thing. He goes right back to destruction after that, though.
* ''[[X-Men: The Animated Series]]''—in the appropriately-named "Beyond Good and Evil" four-parter, Apocalypse declares he is "not malevolent. I simply ''am''." Eventually, after nearly destroying the world more than once, he starts to wonder if they actually have a point about the whole "malevolent" thing. He goes right back to destruction after that, though.
* "The Mysterious Stranger" from ''[[The Adventures of Mark Twain]]'' has [[Satan|the eponymous Stranger]] say, "I can do no wrong, for I do not know what it is."
* "The Mysterious Stranger" from ''[[The Adventures of Mark Twain]]'' has [[Satan|the eponymous Stranger]] say, "I can do no wrong, for I do not know what it is."
* A mad scientist supervillain in ''[[Mighty Max]]''. He turns his [[Devolution Device|de/evolutionary ray gun]] on himself to increase his [[Evolutionary Levels|evolutionary level]]. The first time, he turned into a large brained psychic. When he returns for another episode, he turns it on himself again and turns into a multicolored orb of "pure thought". He uses it a third time and starts babbling about "ultimate knowledge" and "[[Medium Awareness|hearing the music]]" before flying off. Wise fowl-man Virgil proclaims that he has "evolved towards the infinite, far beyond such primitive concepts like good and evil", which is funny considering Virgil is firmly on the "good" side.
* A mad scientist supervillain in ''[[Mighty Max]]''. He turns his [[Devolution Device|de/evolutionary ray gun]] on himself to increase his [[Evolutionary Levels|evolutionary level]]. The first time, he turned into a large brained psychic. When he returns for another episode, he turns it on himself again and turns into a multicolored orb of "pure thought". He uses it a third time and starts babbling about "ultimate knowledge" and "[[Medium Awareness|hearing the music]]" before flying off. Wise fowl-man Virgil proclaims that he has "evolved towards the infinite, far beyond such primitive concepts like good and evil", which is funny considering Virgil is firmly on the "good" side.
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