The Good, the Bad, and The Evil: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Hellsing]]'' has the Hellsing Organization ([[Anti-Hero|mostly good]]), the Iscariots ([[Knight Templar|bad]]), and Millennium ([[Complete Monster|evil]]). At the end of the series the Iscariots briefly <s> team up with</s> leave Hellsing alone to fight Millennium {{spoiler|but end up being annihilated by Alucard when their leader crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]]}}.

* The exact words of the trope were used by [[Cartoon Network]] to advertise ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' at one point, referring to Goku, Vegeta and Freeza respectively.

* In ''[[Saint Beast]]'', the Saint Beasts are the good, Lucifer is the bad, and Zeus is the evil, although initally the latter two seem the other way around. The angels know things aren't right with the missions Zeus is sending them on but reject Lucifer's offer to join him because they know he's responsible for demons attacking humans. However, when they finally decide to rebel against Zeus they end up on the same side as Lucifer without actually agreeing to work together.

 

 

== Literature ==

* After the Emperor's death, the Empire in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] started breaking up. Various captains and admirals left with their forces and became warlords, sometimes rejoining the Empire later, sometimes the New Republic, sometimes becoming isolationist, and most often fighting everyone. ''[[The Courtship of Princess Leia]]'' and three books of the [[X Wing Series]] deal with the New Republic's campaign against Warlord Zsinj. In ''Courtship'' he's a cardboard baddie, but in the [[X Wing Series]] he's really clever and nasty. Enough so that both the Empire and the New Republic form task forces to take him down, and surreptitiously they end up working together, both aware that this wouldn't last and if this cooperation was ever reported they'd face treason charges.

** Warlordism and the attrition that comes of a new leader rising to the fore, striking the New Republic, and getting beat down eventually whittled the Empire down small enough that Captain Pellaeon, who'd patiently served under each leader and picked up the pieces after, was forced to join a warlord. Eventually, during the [[Jedi Academy Trilogy]], Daala talked the various warlords into meeting together to try and get them to join forces; she and Pellaeon sat out their arguing, then put on gas masks and watched the warlords die. Then Daala [[General Failure|lost a good portion]] of this newly-replenished Empire and [[You Are in Command Now|left it to Pellaeon]]. A few years later, and Supreme Commander Pellaeon [[Hand of Thrawn|worked to make peace with the New Republic]], while other elements of the [[Vestigial Empire|Imperial Remnant]] fought furiously to prevent this. Decades after that, Grand Admiral Pellaeon was one of the heroes' most reliable allies {{spoiler|until he was assassinated by the Sith}}.

** Do note, though, that ''Vin'' is the one who states something along the lines of "Good? Bad? I'm just here to kill people."

** At one point in his [http://www.brandonsanderson.com/annotation/162/Mistborn-Chapter-Thirty-Four-Part-One commentary], Sanderson points out that a particular fight is "a good, old-fashioned showdown between good and evil! Or, at least, between Kelsier and evil".

 

 

* ''[[The Cape]]'' now seems to have established something like this with the Cape as the Good, the Carnival of Crime as the Bad and Fleming/Chess as the Evil. it may even be a fourway with Scales somewhere between the Carnival and Fleming.

* ''[[Juken Sentai Gekiranger]]'', sort of. GekiJyuKen school is the Good, RinJyuKen school is the Bad, where GenJyuKen is the Evil.

** Though it should be noted that Division only seems better than Gogol and Zetrov because [[Supporting Protagonist|Alex]] is in an [[Enemy Mine]] against the latter two with the former. And on top of that, somewhere between Bad and Evil we have Amanda (who runs Division but is now [[The Starscream|plotting against]] Oversight) and Percy (who's plotting against ''everyone'').

** Following the status quo changing events about midway through the season, the list is a bit different now -- Team Nikita is still the Good {{spoiler|along with the [[Heel Face Turn|Heel Face Turned]] last living members of Oversight}}, but Zetrov's head Semak is now closer to the Bad, and the Evil can be best represented by Amanda {{spoiler|and her partner Ari (Semak's [[The Starscream|Starscream]])}}, with Percy still somewhere between Bad and Evil.

* In the [[Free Space]] stategy guide, it describes the Terrans as the "Good Guys," the Vasudans are the "Bad Guys," and the Shivans are the "Really Bad Guys."

* ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'': Zero, Ciel, and [[La Résistance]] are the Good; [[Knight Templar|Copy-X]], [[Hero Antagonist|the Guardians]], and Neo Arcadia in general (or rather what Neo Arcadia has become) are the Bad; and [[Complete Monster|Dr. Weil]] and [[Ax Crazy|Omega]] are the Evil.

* Something like this happens in [[Fallout 3]] with the Enclave splitting up. An interesting variation as the player is actually given the option of siding with the ''more'' evil faction.

* [[Command and Conquer]], starting with Yuri in Red Alert 2, the Scrin faction in ''Tiberium Wars'' (double the fact that the Brotherhood of Nod has received even more fandom by this time). Not so much in Red Alert 3, since the 'bad guys' are technically still the Soviets.

 

== Western Animation ==

** This is actually true for most of the show. In the first season, Aang and co. are the good, Zuko is the bad, and Zhao is the evil; in the first part of the third, the good and bad roles are the same, but with [[Big Bad|Ozai]] joining Azula in the evil. After Zuko's [[Heel Face Turn]] the system breaks down, though at the very end you have the [[Fan Nickname|Gaang]] as the good, Azula as the [[Tragic Villain|crazy yet pitiable evil]], and Ozai as the [[Complete Monster|stone-cold irredeemable sadistic evil]].

* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' turned into this pretty early on and kept building on it. It used to be that Team Phantom was the good and the [[Rogues Gallery|various ghosts he fought]] were the evil. Now, Team Phantom is good, Vlad and Valerie (along with a few more sympathetic ghosts) are the bad, and most of Danny's [[Rogues Gallery]] is the evil. By the end, however, Vlad is the evil and most of the [[Rogues Gallery]] is the bad.

** It's not just him, either - Sandman, Black Cat, and (to a much lesser extent) Rhino are just in it for the money, and don't really go out of their way to hurt anyone (except Spidey himself, in Rhino's case). Sandman even gets to team up with Spidey for {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]] in the course of saving a little girl}}.

* In the fourth season of [[Kim Possible]], [[Affably Evil]] Dr. Drakken and his [[Deadpan Snarker]] [[The Dragon|dragon]] Shego developed into "the bad". First by toning down their evil throughout the season and in the final episode by putting them in an [[Enemy Mine]] position against a race of [[Always Chaotic Evil]] alien invaders.

* The [[Justice League]] temporarily side with the Legion of Doom against, Darkseid and his army from turning Earth into another [[Polluted Wasteland|Apokolips]].

** Luthor & company accidentally rescued Darkseid, and rather sensibly went straight to the League and explained there was going to be an alien invasion now and the planet needed saving, let us help. The League gave them a five-minute head start afterward.