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Sometimes, what people call villains are just... ''misunderstood''. They aren't necessarily ''evil'' or deliberately committing bad deeds, but rather, everybody around them assume that they are the "bad guy" simply because their ideas and goals might not mesh or because they mistakenly believe them to be aiming for bad things.
A villain might be misunderstood because of their appearance (for example, the Beast in "[[Beauty and The Beast]]"), as a result of family, [[Bad Powers, Bad People|by the nature of their powers]], or due to circumstances outside of their control.
Can also refer to characters who aren't deliberately portrayed as antagonists, but are still misunderstood in a negative light.
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[[Obliviously Evil]] is a subtrope (despite the name), when a character doesn't have the malevolent intent to really be considered an evil person, but causes serious harm anyway because they don't understand that what they're doing is wrong. Or, sometimes, that they're doing anything wrong in the first place.
See also [[Justified Criminal]], [[Anti-Villain]], [[Tragic Villain]], [[Misunderstood Loner With a Heart of Gold]], and, for nonsapient creatures, [[Non
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== Comic Books ==
* Lex Luthor, [[Depending On the Writer]], believes what he is doing is right and honorable. From his perspective<ref> and the [[
* {{spoiler|Ozymandias}} from ''[[Watchmen]]''. Now ''there's'' a misunderstood villain. He single-handedly kills off half of New York City in order to avert a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union that would destroy the world. I'm still not sure whether Alan Moore was trying to portray him as the villain or the tragic hero of the story. If he's the hero, then that'd make Rorschach the villain, and he's definitely misunderstood as well.
** Wait...Was {{spoiler|Ozymandias}} the hero and Rorschach the villain, or Rorschach the hero and {{spoiler|Ozy}} the villain? [[
** One common interpretation of the Black Freighter was a criticism of Veidt's actions.
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