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{{quote|"WHY AM I SO BAD AT BEING GOOD?"|Zuko, [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]}}
A specific type of [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|Sympathetic Villain]], or even a [[Villain Protagonist]]. A character who simply cannot become liked or even viewed by the other inhabitants of their world as basically ''good'', no matter what they do. If they kick a soccer ball to a child who lost it, it will instantly [[Kick the Dog|morph into a puppy]] before the poor kid's very eyes just to retroactively force evil on this villain. If they have a love interest, almost all other characters (and possibly even the viewer) will think of their affections as [[Stalker with a Crush]] material. This character is often the object not merely of bad luck or karma but of active stereotyping, with the world at large openly calling their lifestyle, deeds, or ''existence'' ([[Bad Powers, Bad People|in the case of those with powers]]) things like "criminal", "wrong", or "abomination against
Generally treated by the author as either a figure of comedy or of tragedy. A comedic mandatory-villain will generally keep on trying throughout the entire series or story to make themselves good, and will generally keep their spirits up despite the misfortune visited upon them. On the other hand, a tragic mandatory-villain will sometimes become so fed up with their lot in life that they decide to [[Then Let Me Be Evil|deliberately cross]] the [[Moral Event Horizon]] into [[Complete Monster|genuine villainy]], and doing so may be treated either as a sign of the character's deep inner pain, as a sign that [[You Can't Fight Fate]], or as a sign that the character was too morally weak. When stereotyping is the thing that forces the villainy, there will sometimes be a stated or implied [[Aesop]] that all the suffering could have been avoided but for the type-casting committed by the less sympathetic characters.
Compare with [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] for the tragic version and with [[Reformed but Rejected]] for those who actually started out as villains at some point. Contrast with [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] for the
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== Anime
* Lelouch from ''[[Code Geass]] R2'' gets it pretty badly, but he manages to handle it.
** Towards the end, he actually ''weaponizes'' it for his great {{spoiler|[[Thanatos Gambit]]}} in true [[Magnificent Bastard]] fashion.
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== Fanfiction ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20151105022240/http://addventure.bast-enterprises.de/224921.html Dungeon Keeper Ami] involves [[Sailor Moon|Sailor Mercury]] being forced to become a [[Dungeon Keeper|Keeper]]. It becomes almost impossible for her to convince the heroes of the land that she ''isn't'', in fact, a [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Labyrinth|Jareth]] in the [[Mega Crossover]] [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates]]''. [[Narrative Causality]] hates him... when not he [[Hero with an F In Good|screws it up himself]] (so much that it's a [[Running Gag]]). When he fixed his love interests sleeping problem ([[Inception|Mr. Saito]]) it (he) became [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|their landlord]] and nobody believed this wasn't intentional.
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*** Just about everyone, however, believes he was not given enough credit in [[World of Warcraft]], where he was more [[Card-Carrying Villain]].
** Thrall, and by extension most of the Horde in general are seen as evil no matter what they do by certain members of the Alliance.
* [[Yggdra Union|Nessiah]] in the ''[[Dept. Heaven]]'' series. Played for tragedy in the main games, where his condition is the result of extreme [[Fantastic Racism]] in Asgard; after all the hell he's been through, he just [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|stops really caring who gets hurt]] in his attempt to settle the score, and his few chances at being happy are [[Yank the Dog's Chain|inevitably ruined by the writers]] ([[Blaze Union|and]] [[Omniscient Morality License|Baretreenu]]). Exaggerated to [[Up to Eleven|outrageous extremes]] in ''[[Yggdra Unison]]'', where everyone just kind of assumes that he's pure evil because of his appearance and [[Troll|general attitude]], and [[You Didn't Ask|he doesn't bother explaining his actions to them]].
== Web Original ==
* The titular Doctor Horrible of ''[[
== Western Animation ==
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