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** In many ways, the Time Lords are also this, with the Doctor himself being the Drizz't of the bunch (and perhaps a few others like the Corsair, Romana, etc).

*** Or are they? While they've undoubtably done some evil things, they seem to be trying to prevent the end of the universe, {{spoiler|which will apparently happen if the Doctor lives long enough.}} They may possibly have some kind of good motivation, it's been kept too ambiguous so far.

* The Reavers in ''[[Firefly]]''. It's never quite explained why they don't kill/rape/eat each other, even though they travel in such massive groups.

** As revealed in the movie, ''[[Serenity]]'', {{spoiler|Reavers are infected with a chemical agent that, in .01% of the population, causes uncontrolled aggression.}} Given that Reavers mutilate themselves for no reason at all, the idea that they don't rape/kill/eat each other is probably due to the fact that other Reavers wouldn't care about having it done TO them. {{spoiler|On their home world, they didn't attack the 99.99% who simply became overly passive, most likely because the "passives" wouldn't have given a crap either way.}}

** And that woman was part of a team sent to investigate why all communication with the planet had stopped. When the crew of Serenity check out the place, they note that everyone just laid down and died, and there are no signs of violence whatsoever.

** One could use the facts of the movie to [[Retcon]] "Bushwhacked" as the lone survivor of the ship being the only one of the crew to react in the "Reaver" way to the Pax. The Reavers, who can sense this, left him alone and murdered the rest of the crew in front of him, then left him to change as a second booby-trap (the first one being the little thing that Kaylee had to disable to free Serenity).

* The Goa'uld in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. Thoroughly [[Justified Trope|justified]] in the RPG supplement on the System Lords, where it's described as a stacking effect of the circumstances of their evolution, their genetic memory, and their use of the sarcophagus. The Goa'uld queen Egeria, the progenitor of Tok'ra, spawned an entire subrace of [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]].

** This is repeatedly emphasized in episodes of the show like "Crossroads" and "Absolute Power". As Daniel notes, being a Goa'uld is like being "born with the memories of a thousand Hitlers." After researching the device more thoroughly, Daniel eventually revised that as simply causing madness and addiction—a bit less colorful than stealing the soul, but same net result.

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