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* The "monster" from ''[[Frankenstein (novel)|Frankenstein]]''. He actually recounts how all his thoughts were extremely noble when he had just been hiding and listening to people, but when he actually tried to interact with them and was feared, he became bitter and nasty. Of course, this slides it towards [[Informed Attribute]], but the actual events in the novel also give good enough grounds to say this trope applies, especially when the protagonist Dr. Frankenstein is [[Anti-Hero|not very heroic]] himself.

* Gunnhild in another of Poul Anderson's Viking stories, ''Mother of Kings'' is a [[Villain Protagonist]]. She [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|is a witch, a murderer, a power-grasping and violent plotter, and a seducer]] and no one can mistake her for anything other then a villain. At the same time she has a [[Knight Templar Parent|love for her sons]], a hunger for truth that has nothing to do with her power; and she lives in a [[Crapsack World]] of violence in the secular world and confusion between religions in the spiritual. You cannot really like her or root for her but you can sympathize with her even though she would probably be to proud to [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|accept your pity.]]

 

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