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Moral Guardians often get into a tizzy over any sort of naughty, nasty, or even questionable business portrayed in the media. After all, in their minds those kids will imitate anything they see on the screen. This tends to result in a world of clear-cut heroes and villains in media marketed as being "kid-friendly". Fringe Christian groups seem to be fond of this, which is ironic when you consider that The Bible itself is just full of nasty villains (and heroes). To the point where the guy killing hundreds of them with a donkey's jawbone looks like Jimmy Stewart.

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  • Moral Guardians often get into a tizzy over any sort of naughty, nasty, or even questionable business portrayed in the media. After all, in their minds those kids will imitate anything they see on the screen. This tends to result in a world of clear-cut heroes and villains in media marketed as being "kid-friendly". Fringe Christian groups seem to be fond of this, which is ironic when you consider that The Bible itself is just full of nasty villains (and heroes). To the point where the guy killing hundreds of them with a donkey's jawbone looks like Jimmy Stewart.
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  • Moral Guardians often get into a tizzy over any sort of naughty, nasty, or even questionable business portrayed in the media. After all, in their minds those kids will imitate anything they see on the screen. This tends to result in a world of clear-cut heroes and villains in media marketed as being "kid-friendly". But villains are supposed to be evil, right? They can get away with doing all sorts of nasty things the moral guardians wouldn't approve of because they inevitably get what's coming to them in the end. But sometimes the guardians complain anyway, as if the viewers are too dumb to tell who's right and who's wrong. It's like they don't want the bad guys to be evil... The result of this sort of thinking (if the writers don't tell the Moral Guardians to shove off) is typically Villain Decay or a Harmless Villain or Friendly Enemy who isn't actually shown doing bad things. Any attempt by the villains to do bad things will get foiled by the heroes with a minimum of fuss. To be fair, one of the oldest ways of Getting Crap Past the Radar is to create a Magnificent Bastard who outsmarts everyone, is much cooler than the heroes, and lives a life of (vividly described) debauchery, but gets killed in the last five minutes. Then the creators appease the Moral Guardians by saying, "Hey, he loses. That proves that all the debauchery and lying we showed isn't something you root for." (Goes at least as far back as Don Giovanni.) After Moral Guardians realize they've been hoaxed this way, they become paranoid and assume that any villain who succeeds at all is a case of Getting Crap Past the Radar. Fringe Christian groups seem to be fond of this, which is ironic when you consider that The Bible itself is just full of nasty villains (and heroes). To the point where the guy killing hundreds of them with a donkey's jawbone looks like Jimmy Stewart. Villain who fall into this trope have a very high chance of being regarded as Draco in Leather Pants by fans. See also Do Not Do This Cool Thing. When the Moral Guardians start to have a point expect to hear But It Really Happened!. When this is done to a Historical Domain Character, see Historical Villain Downgrade. A priori not related to Even Evil Has Standards, which is when a villainous character can't be as villainous as another one, in-story. Examples of But Not Too Evil include:
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