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[[File:the-heartless2 642.jpg|link=Scott Pilgrim|frame|"Nega-Scott" picture by [http://scarecrowartist.deviantart.com ScarecrowArtist]]]
{{quote|''"All they know is how to hurt and destroy and kill. Admirable when you need someone hurt, destroyed or killed, but what about the times when you just want them to sit down and shut up? Oh, FORGET that."''
|'''Dark General Cobalt''', ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'', about the problems with working with Yamiko}}
'''The Heartless''' are different from the average [[Monster of the Week]] in that they're basically born out of people's negative emotions, like a poltergeist. They can be a special case of the [[Body Horror]], but can also be a part of the victims [[Anatomy of the Soul|Soul Anatomy]] that has been [[Enemy Without|separated from them]], and [[Living Memory|may not]] [[Intangible Man|have a physical body at all]]. This is convenient for the right villain, since it can be an unlimited resource; the [[Victim of the Week]] always seems loaded with problems and angst for The Heartless to feed on. It can also have a [[Viral Transformation|self-propagating]] "[[The Virus|zombie]]" effect.
The trouble for the heroes is these are difficult to get rid of, especially if The Heartless still display an awareness of the world (usually, as a ruse of the [[Enigmatic Minion]]). If an established character becomes one of The Heartless, they may act as if they had undergone a [[Face Heel Turn]].
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{{examples}}
== [[Trope Namer]] ==
* The ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' videogames have the Heartless, which fit the definition of this trope. However, they were described as starting out as decidedly less destructive before the series' [[Big Bad]], Xehanort, started his experiments on them.
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* Yatagarasu, {{spoiler|Shiho's Child,}} is described as residing in the darkness of the human heart in ''[[My-HiME]]''.
* The fear of Shonen Bat/Lil' Slugger in ''[[Paranoia Agent]]''.
* Akuma in ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' are souls of the dead who have been bent to the will of the Millennium Earl. Often grieving for a lost loved one the bereaved person calls their soul down into an Akuma at which point the soul of the lost loved one is imprisoned and has no will of its own. The Millennium Earl orders the newly made Akuma to kill the person that made them an Akuma and [[
** One of Noah claims that if an Akuma self-destructs, rather than freeing the soul, the human soul is ''destroyed''. She then demonstrates this to Allen, who watches in horror as [[Fate Worse Than Death|the soul is torn into screaming pieces]].
** More generally, it's stated that the human soul will be released only if the Akuma are killed by an Innocence weapon. Any other method will destroy the soul. It's just that since normal humans don't have a chance in hell of of killing an Akuma in the first place, the question never comes up.
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** It's a bit more complicated than that. He feeds on planets, but the energy from hatred and violence is what gives him the strength to metaphorically get out of bed in the morning.
* [[Hannibal Lecture|Penelope Spectra]] from ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' was a [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghost]] posing as a school guidance counselor. She made her patients ''more'' depressed, however, because she needed their negative emotions to keep herself young. {{spoiler|At least, until she was able to make herself a new ectoplasmic body that wasn't falling apart.}}
* Serpentor from the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' cartoon. Initially, a clone created via gene splicing some of the most notorious tyrants and conquerors in history, any and all humanity and morality the donors had seemed lost when made into this soulless gestalt. Serpentor was a sociopathic monster fueled by hate and rage, a quality which often blinded him and caused him to make mistakes that led to failure.
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