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Fortunately, there's an excellent--if not perfect--solution to your problems: the Deliberately Bad Example. The Deliberately Bad Example is everything your morally wholesome and upstanding protagonist is not. If you present this depraved buffoon's perversity comically enough, you won't have to say anything about your protagonist's motives at all. Your viewers will understand that since your protagonist is not at all like this Deliberately Bad Example, he must *not* be a bad guy.
There are lots of variants. For example, rather than the protagonist, the Deliberately Bad Example may be serving as the backdrop to an important secondary character. Pointing out the differences or similarities between the behavior of the two characters may also serve to raise suspicions rather than allay them. (If the [[Jerkass]] doesn't behave like the [[Complete Monster]], how do we know he isn't really a [[Jerk
Deliberately Bad Examples do of course tend to be rather one-dimensional in their usual roles as the [[Butt Monkey]] or [[Complete Monster]], but need not always be so. Quite often, if a story lasts long enough and they get enough face time, they may go on to develop personalities of their own and maybe even become a [[Draco in Leather Pants]] or an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Mori Kouji and Toufukuji from ''[[I My Me! Strawberry Eggs]]'', of course. See how these guys behave? Amawa Hibiki is nothing like them!
* ''[[Love Hina]]'''s Shirai and Haitani are definitely this to Keitaro, though all the girls in the dormitory fail to see the difference.
* Odagiri from ''[[Koi Kaze]]'': he's the raving pervert with a fetish for high school girls who's pining away for a younger sister, not Koshiro.
* Parodied and [[Lampshaded]] with the character Matagu from ''[[
* ''[[
* From the [[Tournament Arc]] in ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', Sabertooth seems to be one of the bad guys... until you see [[Evil Counterpart|Raven Tail]]. Then you realize that Sabertooth is just a case of [[Good Is Not Nice]].
** Subverted, {{spoiler|forcing a member to strip before kicking them out for losing a fight can hardly be considered good.}}
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Assassins (
* ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235189/ Wild Target]'' follows ''Assassins''' lead, making the vicious hitman Dixon a Deliberately Bad Example in order to make his colleague Victor Maynard more sympathetic.
* While ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* Dolores Umbridge from the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' novels. If Severus Snape really were a [[Complete Monster]], this is who he'd be.
* In Sabatini's novel about the pirate Peter Blood, Isterling and l'Evaser are both portrayed as [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]] so that Blood can retain the image of a noble pirate.
* In [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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