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Sometimes, you just need a break from heroes. It can get a bit repetitive to have every protagonist be a [[Light Is Good|white-as-snow]] [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|goody-goody]] [[The Hero|hero]]. A refreshing dose of moral ambiguity can do just the trick. When you're tired of watching heroes be heroic, watching a [[Villain Protagonist]] be villainous can be a nice change of pace.
But there's a problem with this. See, heroes are so popular because people ''like'' heroism. People are, to some small extent, [[Rousseau Was Right|basically good]]; they like watching other people be happy, succeed against all odds, and so on. [[Humans Are
The solution? Pit the [[Villain Protagonist]] against the [[Villain Antagonist]]. [[Complete Monster|Someone so rotten]] that no matter how low you go on the [[Karma Meter]], you'll ''still'' want to kick his ass. That way, the character(s) can ''be'' evil while ''doing'' good. It's the best of both worlds. You don't have to do really rotten things like [[Kick the Dog|kicking puppies]], you can kick fire-breathing demon puppies instead. It's kind of hard to [[Take Over the World]] when another [[Evil Overlord]] is already ruling it; [[Evil Versus Oblivion|or]] wants [[Omnicidal Maniac|to destroy it]]. For a [[Gentleman Thief]] who wants the best loot, what better target than other thieves? [[The Starscream]] has to have ''someone'' to overthrow, right? And even the most vicious [[Knight Templar]] is right once in a while. And if both bad guys are [[Complete Monster|bad enough]], having them killing each other is a victory for everyone!
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[24|Twenty Four]]'' does this A LOT; probably because most evil plots involve groups of bad guys working together (a bit of [[Truth in Television]]). But of course, since they're bad guys, they'll turn on each other in a heartbeat.
** [[Homeland]] fans that are also yoai fans that liked the Carrie/Nick Brodie romance would be quick to see that as pretty hot. "They'll turn on each other in a heartbeat" and so forth. [[
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' and ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has this thing going on. We have the Goa'uld fighting each other over territory and other things, we have the Replicators (not evil per se, but a threat to all life) fighting everyone, including the Goa'uld. In Atlantis we have the Asurans, who battled the Wraith, erasing human life to deplete the Wraith's "food sources". {{spoiler|In the end the Asurans proved to by far the greater threat, leading to an [[Enemy Mine|alliance]] between the humans and a Wraith faction to eliminate them.}}
** The Wraith are no more friendly amongst themselves than the Goa'uld, that alliance contains ''nine'' factions, not the three you'd assume at first glance.
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