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Except he's not. He's the [[Designated Hero]] either by [[Author Avatar|the]] [[Author Appeal|author]], or even if the author doesn't ''originally'' intend to somehow make him heroic and a Real Man (tm), [[Misaimed Fandom]] causes the writer to [[Flanderization|play up his torture and abuse as "good" or heroic.]] He's on the [[Black and White Morality|"side of good"]] not just in his fictional world, but he can also possibly become a cause celebre for [[Real Life]] defenders of torture and/or police brutality or whatever form of atrocity he's inflicting upon his victims, either because they are [[Acceptable Targets]] or because he's the [[Designated Hero]], or both.
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* Viewed as [[Designated Hero|heroic]] and admirable (''not'' an [[Anti-Hero]] or [[Villain Protagonist]]) when his actions are more in line with being a [[Complete Monster]] acting [[For the Evulz]], doing things that would make "villains" or "antagonists" flinch at the idea.
* Using [[Cold-Blooded Torture]], [[Rape as Redemption|rape]], the [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]], the [[Maximum Fun Chamber]], [[Police Brutality]], extreme [[Perp Sweating]], and/or some combination thereof to achieve his goals.
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* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in Gene Wolfe's ''[[Book of the New Sun]]'', [[Designated Hero|Severian]] at first believes this, but then comes to later realize that [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torture]] [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|is]] '''bad'''.
* Depending on who you ask, [[God]] or [[Satan]] ([[Take a Third Option|or both]]) in [[The Bible]]. The book of Job is an example, where an innocent victim is tortured solely to prove his faithfulness.
* In the ''[[Left Behind]]'' series, it's God who's propped up as the
{{quote|"Like My Father, with whom I am One, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but justice must be served, and death is your sentence."}}
* While no details are given as to what exactly Butcher Brakespeare of the ''[[Flora Segunda]]'' books did during the war, her reputation as her country's greatest war criminal makes it clear that it was not very nice. But apparently she thought very hard about it and while it was difficult for her to do, it was the only way. So ''that's'' all right then. (Meanwhile, the other side's equally-vague war crimes are treated as completely unjustified and horrible.)
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** Hell, sometimes even [[Good Is Not Nice|Paragon Shepard.]]
* A ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'' example. During the quest "Inside Job", [[Player Character|Hawke]] can torture a miner and have him killed. In his/her own home.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' is a special case. While most of the torturers in game (Torturer Lecraft and such) are ''not'' this trope because they are antagonists to both factions (which would make them [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Unexalted Torturers]]), there are characters that do meet this trope because at least one faction considers them non-antagonist (Sergeant Kanren in Falconwing Square is a Horde example, Interrogator Khan in Telaar an Alliance one), and there's a class (Death Knight, at least in the beginning) and quests for both Horde and Alliance that can make [[You Suck|your]] [[Player Punch|character]] [[What the Hell, Hero?|become]] an
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