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** [[Freudian Excuse|The way he was raised has given him a sadistic personality disorder.]]
* '''Inverted''':
** See [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]] and [[Knight Templar]].
** [[For Great Justice]]
** A hero does something kind because it's good.
** Alternately, the villain ''builds'' an orphanage because he's kind.
** Or, an [[Anti -Hero]] kills a puppy because it's against the law.
** Doing something because it's the good thing to do.
** A good guy doing something because it's against the law.
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* '''Defied''':
** The villain is evil, vile and mad, and can stoop to any low. He has the chance to blow up the orphanage, but the hero taunts him into fighting him to give the orphans a chance to escape.
** Alternately, the villain declares that he is ''not'' a maniac who does heinous things for his own amusement; he's either a [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]], someone who feels [[Even Evil Has Standards]], or someone who prefers to engage in [[Pragmatic Villainy]]. He may be at the brink of ''becoming'' [[Motive Decay|this sort of villain]], beginning to enjoy death and destruction, but stops himself before he actually kills someone/destroys something for no reason other than "I can." Instead walking away saying "I can, but ''I won't''."
* '''Discussed''': "How do I know he's either lying about why he did it or crazy? Sane people don't have goals like 'murder as many people as I can get my hands on'; there's always at least some claim to the moral high ground."
* '''Conversed''': "Why does it seem like all of the villains in [this show] seem to lack a coherent motivation besides 'kill as many people as possible'?"