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== [[Literature]] ==

* [[J. K. Rowling]] was attacked by some of the aforementioned fringe groups for having the recently-revealed ''villain'' {{spoiler|Quirrell}} (or in the [[Film of the Book]] ''Voldemort himself'') say [[What Is Evil?|"There is no such thing as good and evil, only power and those too weak to seek it."]] in ''[[~~Harry Potter/~~Harry Potter and ~~The~~ Philosopher's Stone|Harry Potter]]''.

* [[J. K. Rowling]] was attacked by some of the aforementioned fringe groups for having the recently-revealed ''villain'' {{spoiler|Quirrell}} (or in the [[Film of the Book]] ''Voldemort himself'') say [[What Is Evil?|"There is no such thing as good and evil, only power and those too weak to seek it."]] in ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (novel)|Harry Potter]]''.

* This happened with the second book in ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'': It was banned in one school because the villain says "Damn!" and "Hell!", and the really absurd part is that Snicket uses this as an occasion for an parody of overly moralistic children's authors about how swearing is something only a villain would do.

** Daniel Handler eventually stated in an interview that he was deliberately trying to provoke this kind of thing, and was actually disappointed that he got so little attention compared to ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''. His one real "victory" was the series being banned from a Georgia school due to Olaf trying to marry his own relative in the first book. After jokingly hinting at why southerners in particular would object to that plot point, he went on, "I'm at a loss for how to write a villain who doesn't do villainous things."

** There was also some amount of scandal involved with the book when several Christian groups found out Daniel Handler was an atheist, and [[Insane Troll Logic|claimed that the book series would turn children into atheists.]]

* Every villain in any of the ''[[Land of Oz]]'' books by [[L. Frank Baum]]. Baum talks about how evil and nasty they are and how they love being that way, but they're all talk and no show. In his sixth book, four teams of villains band together to make war on Oz in secret, but Ozma had three annoyingly convenient plot devices that put the kibosh on the war just seconds before it could happen. In his previous book, ''The Road to Oz'', there is absolutely no conflict of villains at all. It may have been intentional because the prologues and epilogue of book six suggest that he really wished his fans would stop asking him to write the series.

* Every villain in any of the ''[[Land of Oz]]'' books by [[L. Frank Baum]]. Baum talks about how evil and nasty they are and how they love being that way, but they're all talk and no show. In his sixth book, four teams of villains band together to make war on Oz in secret, but Ozma had three annoyingly convenient plot devices that put the kibosh on the war just seconds before it could happen. In his previous book, ''The Road to Oz'', there is absolutely no conflict or villains at all. It may have been intentional because the prologues and epilogue of book six suggest that he really wished his fans would stop asking him to write the series.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* Let's not even get into Lord Zedd, one of the truly genuinely creepy villains in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', who got turned into an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] by the network after parents complained he was "too scary" for their kids.

** Made especially jarring considering that the rangers' response to any monsters' crime is to [[All Crimes Are Equal|blow them up (twice!)]]. Heck, most monsters don't even get to commit a crime before being [[Never Say "Die"|destroyed.]]