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{{quote|''"Oh, we usually murder our way to the top and claim victory whilst astride a pile of mangled bodies. But we're heroes so it's okay when '''we''' do that."''
|'''Fighter''', ''[[8-Bit Theater]]''}}
Considering all the [[Kick the Dog|puppy-kicking]] the [[Knight Templar]] gets into, sooner or later another good character is going to get the courage to ask her something. Considering how [[Evil Is Petty|petty and mean]] she acts, often toward people who have only committed minor crimes, how can she really be a "good" character?
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The answer is simple. Her actions are good because ''she'' is good.
That headache you're feeling right now is the mounting frustration most characters feel at the realization that they're dealing with a '''Tautological Templar''', a character who has been radicalized to a cause for so long that she can't fathom the idea that she could commit immoral actions. Alternatively, this could be an outright villain who is deluded enough that they can justify completely selfish behaviour as being for the greater good, such as claiming that [[The Hero]] is the evil one because they keep foiling their plans which are, of course, going to make the world a better place, because they are the ones who will be running it.
Tautology is a term meaning that something is true in every possible interpretation; a Tautological Templar, then, is a character who can justify absolutely any sort of behaviour to themselves because no matter what it was, they are arrogant, fanatical or [[Ax Crazy]] enough to interpret it as being the right thing.
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