Then Let Me Be Evil: Difference between revisions

''But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs.''|'''Shylock''', [[The Merchant of Venice]]}}

 

 

The villain normally gets to this point by being rejected by the resident morality enforcers and treated to assumptive behaviour. Whether it's due to being of a different nationality, hailing from a [[Fantastic Racism|stereotypically]] [[Exclusively Evil]] [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|species]], or having had a few evil moments in the past, they just ''cannot'' get a break; even if they try to do good deeds, it will only lead to being [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|horrifically punished]] for them. The point is, there is absolutely no way they can change anyone's mind that they're not a [[Complete Monster]], so why bother?

**** {{spoiler|Yashamaru might just not be that good with poisons. Or maybe, whether he meant it or not, he never hated Gaara so much that he would resort to that, since ninja or no assassinating your ''nephew'' by poison is pretty low, and at least that way Gaara had a fighting chance. Or, more likely, maybe poison wouldn't be effective for some reason (decent chance it might have caused Gaara to accidently [[Sealed Evil in a Can|set the Shukaku demon free]]; few poisons are instantaneous, and merely falling asleep would be enough to release it). So no, not bad writing.}}

**** {{spoiler|Also he wanted to test him to see if ,after that,he could contain his hatred,which would prove that he was of no danger of releasing the Shukaku demon.By ordering,or allowing him to use poison he would blow his son's last chance of proving him wrong by containing his hatred.}}

* Played with by Lelouch of ''[[Code Geass]]'', especially towards the end after things pretty much entirely go south for him. He pretty much says this after {{spoiler|the death of Euphemia.}}

** Pretty much his entire mindset when he begins his scheming. He is willing to commit evil if it means taking out greater evil in so doing. Ultimately, he plays it to the hilt {{spoiler|and allows himself to become the most despised person in the world...so that the world would focus all their hatred on him...so that his death would remove that hatred and provide a chance for the world to rebuild more positively.}}

* The most commonly-accepted interpretation of Sorceress Ultimecia's motivations in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' is that she was [[Bullying a Dragon|discriminated against and persecuted]] by a society conditioned to assume that any sorceress runs the risk of snapping and trying to take over the world, until - shockingly enough - she snapped and decided to become the evil sorceress that history reviled.

* {{spoiler|[[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Oersted]]}} from ''[[Live a Live]]''.

* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'', Leonard "[http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Frostfire Frostfire]" Calhoun ([[Unfortunate Names|Yes, that is his real name]]) is [[All There in the Manual|explicitly stated]] to have "succumbed to a 'if you're going to treat me like a villain' mentality" after a botched attempt at vigilanteism. For this reason, [[An Ice Person|Frost]][[Playing with Fire|fire]] is one of the more sympathetic villains in the game, even delivering a crude [[Motive Rant]] when confronted. {{spoiler|He even eventually tries to [[The Atoner|redeem himself]].}}

* In ''[[Icewind Dale]]'' ''2'', the twin [[Big Bad]]s Isair and Madae were treated as embodiments of evil their entire lives because they were cambions—half devil, half elf. After a lifetime of this treatment, with a cruel prank involving cakes baked with holy water as the final straw, they decided they might as well act like embodiments of evil. Iselore the [[Big Good]] remembers that he warned their foster mother (the only person who ever loved them) that "they are forged in evil and only evil can come from them" and sadly wonders if he helped make it true.