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* ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'' plays with this, due to its [[Black and Grey Morality]]. For the most part the two main [[Big Bad]]s, the Sith and [[The Empire]] have made major reforms. The Sith, while still quite evil, have abandoned many of their old ways in favor of working together as one (one even saves another's life after spending the whole issue arguing, because "We are Sith"), plus they have [[Evil Is Sexy]] on their side. While [[The Empire]] is now a force of good in the Galaxy and most of its [[Fantastic Racism|anti-nonhuman ways]] are behind them. The Republic has been reduced to a handful of planets and ships whose only act in the comics have been a stealing a Sith [[Super Prototype]] [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|which the Empire had already rigged with bombs so it would look like a malfunction]] causing the Sith to blame the Mon Calamari (who aided the Republic) and declare war (and by war, meaning genocide). The Jedi, while still good, are back to being a [[Hidden Elf Village]] to a point where they refused to aid the Mon Calamari. The main character, last of the Skywalkers, is a total [[Jerkass]] just looking out for himself (and abusing his powers) as a result of being sick of all the [[But Thou Must!]] his family (as Force ghosts) and fellow Jedi have been ramming down his throat.

* [[Doctor Doom]] has gotten this in a big way, especially in recent years, and partly due to his [[Memetic Badass]] status in the fandom, and neither one is all that unjustified; Doom usually is that badass, and Reed Richards has a notorious history of being a total prick rather frequently. [[Warren Ellis]] gave [[Marvel 2099]] a grand send-off by ''[[Easily-Conquered World|letting Doom take over the US.]]'' [[The Extremist Was Right|It worked]]... right up until the politicians broke out the WMDs they had previously been too scared to use.

** Though the Brotherhood does do a number of considerably heinous acts. Such as Avalanche destroying his school, possibly killing hundreds of students, or Pietro abandoning a run away train to crash into a tanker train full of fuel. They only get some [[Pet the Dog]] Moments. It was a Grey/Gray morality situation as the Brotherhood were total jerks at most times but were so pathetic it became funny or sympathetic, while the X-Men were entirely good, but only human teenagers who were still capable of acting as such.

* A great deal of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' fans sympathize with the [[Villain Protagonist]]'s goal of conquering the Earth. Some of this sympathy even extends to the [[Evil Empire|Irken Empire]] at large, albeit less so.

'''Zim''': Stupid human propaganda... }}

** At least some of the support of Zim is due to the humans of the series being, for the most part, [[Too Dumb to Live]], and well deserving of being conquered and/or wiped out.