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* [[MAGISAMAG ISA]]: [http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119653 The school shooters in this comic are well-intentioned extremists]. They honestly believe that by [http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119712 shooting up a school], they help create a world of love and peace.
* Celesto Morgan in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle for Hire''. Compare him to the far more ruthless (and detestable) [[Knight Templar]] Raf Maliksh, who tries to kill Celesto for being insufficiently fanatical.
* As shown somewhat earlier in the strip, Miranda West of ''[[The Wotch]]'' walks full stride into Well Intentioned Extremity in a recent arc, where she punishes [[School Newspaper Newshound|Ivan]] for being too intrusive in his desire to discover Anne's secrets, also condemns two innocents, and then refuses Ivan's plea that he has (apparently) learned his lesson, as well as refusing to help the ones who had nothing to do with her concerns, [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2008-12-23 threatening him] when he calls her out on it. But her status as a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] comes not just from her actions, but also from [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2009-01-09 her attempt to justify it] to her familiar (and herself).
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* In ''[[Kid Radd]]'', {{spoiler|GI Guy}} believes that humans and sprites are too far predisposed to hurting each other to hope for peaceful existence, and that a mercy-genocide is in order to stop the suffering.
{{quote| Radd: He was just... well, like a lot of madmen. Somewhat accurate view of the problem, really insane view of the solution.}}
* Redcloak from ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', if one reads ''[[Start of Darkness]]'', falls squarely into this. He wants to improve life for the goblinoid races, but attempts to do so by putting down the other humanoids via divine blackmail, instead of by actually helping the goblins improve their lot.
** Even more so, Miko Miyazaki from the same strip. A case study in what Lawful Good can do, when taken to its extremes. Justice untempered with Mercy, blind to the possibility that she could ever be wrong.
** On the heroic side, Vaarsivuus is getting there as well in recent comics. At this rate, (s)he'll end up like [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|Belkar]]...
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* SUEPR Team One, from ''[[City of Reality]]'', attempts to protect Reality's [[Mary Suetopia]] by destroying the entirety of the neighboring World of Magic, which has threatened to wreck their way of life. The protagonists are forced to try to stop them, despite nearly falling victim to the very same cynicism.
* Weijuaru of [[Juathuur]] basically wants to make every juathuur a god, because that would mean absolute freedom.
* The robot Blunt in ''[[Freefall (Webcomic)|Freefall]]''. Just wants to protect humanity...{{spoiler|and has no problems with a plan to lobotomise millions of robots to remove the chance that any of them could harm a human}}.
* This is exactly how the main character started out in [http://worldpeace.emilymarthasorensen.com To Prevent World Peace.] Until her [[Face Heel Turn|Face Heel Turn,]] anyway.