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* Most of Edgar Pangborn's antagonists are misguided rather than evil, but that doesn't prevent them occasionally causing horrific tragedies. Example: ''Tiger Boy'', in which the semi-[[Wild Child|wild]] title character and a friend he meets are killed due to the belief that he is a demon.
* The ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' is at different places on the morality scale [[Depending On the Writer]].
* The ''[[Honorverse (Literature)|Honorverse]]'' certainly ''does'' feature many a [[Complete Monster]]-- and some [[Black and White Morality|truly, deeply unambiguous conflicts]]-- but it's also at constant pains to point out that this trope is in play ''most'' of the time. In fact, the first part of the series (with the Manticore/Haven war) really only has five or so really evil characters, right at the top of the enemy food chain. The [[Loads and Loads of Characters|many dozens]] of other Havenite enemies given names and faces all tend toward [[My Country, Right or Wrong]] at worst.
* [[Ursula K Le Guin|Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s work tends to feature this; in fifty years of publishing, only one of her stories(''The Word for World is Forest'') features an character she described as "[[Complete Monster|purely evil]]"
* [[Playing With a Trope|Played with]] in the novel [[Miracle Monday]], where [[Superman]] faced [[The Devil]]'s agent on Earth. While the demon ''was'' truly evil (we get to read his thoughts to confirm it) Superman himself holds this belief, and it's ''because'' of it that he ultimately wins.
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