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* Evangeline from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''
* Tia Harribel and Gin Ichimaru of ''[[Bleach]]''. {{spoiler|At least, Gin claims to be this at best and acts the part, but it turns out he's actually Type III, a well-intentioned extremist whose actions have put him well beyond any level of hero territory and far into anti-villain territory.}}
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* Napoleon in the ''[[Temeraire]]'' series. Indeed he often comes off as better than the people running Britain.
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* Garak in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', he does have standards. He is also quite utterly unapologetic about the rather horrifying things he has done (and does).
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* Tom of ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'', [[Depending on the Writer]]. Although he does get sadistic pleasure out of tormenting Jerry and at the beginning of some shorts is shown doing so, in other shorts he's really only forced to go after Jerry by his owner. Jerry does his share of provoking their battles as well, sometimes to the point of [[Disproportionate Retribution]], and sometimes even just because he feels like it.
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=== [[Anime]]
* Fate Testarossa in the first season of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''.
* Suzaku from ''[[Code Geass]]''.
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**As Anderson points out in the Afterword, [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|the real Gunnhild]] is unlikely to have been as bad as all that though she was unlikely to have been a Scandinavian version of a [[Girl Next Door]] either. History may or may not be written by the winners but [[Captain Obvious|sagas are written by skalds.]]
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* Ben from ''[[Lost]]'' usually bounces between this type and Type I and Type III.
* The Master from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fits into this trope given that the only reason he does what he does is because he's been driven absolutely insane by the drums in his head, and that the drumming was put there deliberately
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=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* In ''151 Hidden Depths'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130911072300/http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1405524/050-diglett/ Diglett] becomes this after evolving into [https://web.archive.org/web/20131220182021/http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1407376/051-dugtrio/ Dugtrio]. [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse|Being small]] led him to be rejected from joining the Pokemon Police Force so he proves he's a force to be reckoned with by [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|destroying cities]].
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* Colossus in ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]''
* Nox of ''[[Wakfu]]'', who desperately aims to be [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Type III]] but is [[Tragic Villain|mostly inhibited by his own delusions]].
* Jack O'Lantern, Nergal and his son Nergal Jr. in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Courtney in ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' becomes this in the later half of the third season.
* The Ice King of ''[[Adventure Time]]'', especially after the revelation that {{spoiler|he [[Was Once a Man|used to be normal]] until he tried an antique crown that resulted in [[Sanity Slippage|a loss of sanity]], along with [[Blessed with Suck|gradually gaining supernatural ice powers and becoming unsightly]]}}, leading to his present self.
* An interesting subversion/deconstruction of this character type can be found in [[Big Bad|Demona]] of ''[[Western Animation]]/Gargoyles''. She's certainly got enough nuance and tragedy in her backstory to qualify her as a [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]], but at the same time she has both the motive and means to do probably the most large-scale damage of any villain in the [[Rogues Gallery]] and her obsession with getting revenge for her own pain has blinded her to the fact that she's spent the last milennium just digging herself in deeper.
== Well-Intentioned Anti-Villains ==
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▲=== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ===
* Pain, Konan and {{spoiler|Itachi}} of ''[[Naruto]]''
* Gil Graham from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's]]''.
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* Nicci of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, along with several minor villains who aren't [[Complete Monster]]s, such as Michael and Sebastian.
=== [[Live
* Lex Luthor in ''[[Smallville]]'' is often this.
* Walternate from ''[[Fringe]]'' seems to fall into this category. Yes, he wants to destroy our universe, but for all he knows there isn't any other way to save his. Not to mention that he thinks the two universes are at war. True, he is openly malevolent towards {{spoiler|Olivia while she is trapped on the other side, along with anyone that helps her}} and is quite ruthless, but he occasionally has ''higher moral standards'' than Walter. {{spoiler|Most obviously displayed when he flat-out rejects his top scientist's idea to text cortexiphan on children, an idea that Walter developed and executed far before the conflict between the universes began}}.
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=== [[Web Original]] ===
* {{spoiler|Jaffers}} and the obstacles {{spoiler|(except for [[That Dude in the Suede|Suede]] at the end of part 5)}} in ''[[Suburban Knights]]'' just want to protect the gauntlet from {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Malecite]] so that he cannot pose a threat to our technology-dependent world}}. In the process, however, they're willing to fight and kill anyone also looking for the gauntlet in order to prevent that from happening.
* Dr. Horrible from ''[[
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
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* Valerie Gray from ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', if you don't view her as a [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type III and/or IV]] [[Anti-Hero]].
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=== [[Anime]]
* Haku from ''[[Naruto]]''.
* Coyote Starrk from ''[[Bleach]]''
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** Ivan from ''[[Digimon Savers]]'', who kills Digimon to earn money to support his mother and his many siblings. He's a stark contrast with his boss [[Mad Scientist|Kurata]], who is a bonafide [[Complete Monster]].
* Pantherlily, and Erza old comrades from ''[[Fairy Tail]]''
* The title character of ''[[Squid Girl]]''. First of all, her threat of invading and taking over the surface world isn't taken very seriously by other characters (except [[Only Sane Man|Nagisa]]). And even if she ''tries'' to actually invade the surface, she would easily be defeated the entire military from many different countries that would put her under control. Oh wait, you don't ''need'' a military to do that, because it only takes ''[[Beware
* Chao Lingshen from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. She's such an [[Anti-Villain]], in fact, that Negi had actually considered letting her complete her plan.
* ''[[Ratman]]'' is a [[Villain Protagonist|protagonist]] version, and is actually a superhero [[Otaku]] who is only a "dark hero" because he was tricked into joining Jackal, an [[Oddly Small Organization]] of rather goofy and nonthreatening villains. Since his missions have him breaking the law and put him at odds with the Hero Association (especially the more [[Jerkass]] heroes), he's a criminal, but takes every opportunity he can to use his powers to help people.
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* Alyssa from the [[Mai-Otome]] manga, who wants to end the Otome system so that she can spend more time with her sister.
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* [[Sub-Mariner|Namor the Sub-Mariner]] whenever he is antagonizing the other superheroes of the [[Marvel Universe]]. His actions are mostly due to his hot-headed and anti-social personality.
* Lucas Lee from [[Scott Pilgrim]].
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* In many of the original [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories, the perpetrator or the closest equivalent turns out to have merely been the victim of the circumstances, not known what they were doing, merely committing a lesser crime for understandable reasons, or at least to be a [[Sympathetic Murderer]] taking justice in their own hands against an [[Asshole Victim]] who really had it coming. Once they're exposed and explain themselves, Holmes tends to let these characters off the hook even when they actually did do something illegal.
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* Lt. Kavenaugh on [[The Shield]] at least until the premiere of season 6 when he crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]].
* Enos from ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]''. He is never really portrayed as corrupt or evil, and despite his [[Designated Villain]] role (by default by being on the same side as Boss Hogg), becomes quite sympathetic and likable over the course of the show. Enos is plagued by a strong sense of duty. He's a deputy, and sworn to uphold the law. Unfortunately for him, Boss Hogg controls the law. At times, one has to wonder if his goofing up isn't at least somewhat intentional as a way of helping the Dukes. Especially considering that he was able to become the head of the Los Angeles SWAT team.
* [[Minion with an F In Evil|Sgt. Shultz]] and [[Innefective Sympathetic Villain|Col. Klink]] from ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]''
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* John Dickenson in ''[[1776]]'' is staunchly against Independency, even coming to blows with protagonist [[John Adams]]. His only claim to villainy is he's a Loyalist that truly believes America's best course is to remain with England.
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