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| - Basic Trope: A character uses wholesome ends to justify their villainous deeds.
* Straight: Bob seeks to maintain order in society...by installing a totalitarian dictatorship in which he is the sole ruler.
* Exaggerated: Bob seeks to find the meaning of Life, The Universe, and Everything by mass murder, torture and genocide.
* Up to Eleven: Bob seeks to eliminate human suffering and bring the humanity a paradise... by turning all living beings into orange juice and forcefully merging their souls.
* Justified: Bob is deluded.
* He actually has a point after all.
* Bob has lived for a very long time, and has learned that humans need to be controlled, lest they wipe themselves out.
* Inverted: Selfish Good
* Subverted: Bob lied about his intentions.
* Bob is revealed to be not that extreme
* Double Subverted: Bob claims to have lied about his intentions, because the greater good involves him seeming like "the bad guy".
* That was a lie.
* Parodied: Bob wishes to save the world...by ripping the tags off of every mattress in the world.
* Deconstructed: Despite his good intentions, many people turn on Bob for his actions.
* In the end, Bob goes down in history as a Complete Monster of a ruler.
* After being defeated by Alice, Bob realises all the sacrifices he made were for nothing because his plan failed, and has a Villainous BSOD as he reflects on what he's done.
* Bob's extremism ends up causing the exact thing he wished to avoid.
* Reconstructed: Bob is OK with the world hating him, so long as the world he creates is a better one in the end.
* Zig Zagged: Depending on the writer, Bob's motive for his tyranny ranges from simple lust for power to desire to create an orderly society.
* Averted: Bob is a Card-Carrying Villain.
* Bob is a Knight Templar who only thinks that his goal is good.
* Enforced: "If we want our show to have more depth, we should give our 'villains' an understandable motivation and at least partially sympathetic goals."
* Lampshaded: "I killed millions...to save billions!"
* Invoked: Shoot the Dog
* Exploited: Turns out, Alice is a Complete Monster, and is using Bob's Well-Intentioned Extremist tendencies and (Anti-) Heroic Zeal to make it easier for her to Kill'Em All.
* Defied: "There are instances in which the means are too rotten to be justified by any ends."
* Discussed: I Did What I Had to Do
* Conversed: ??? Should you not go back to Well-Intentioned Extremist, the world will no doubt suffer for it...and I shall see to it that you will not live to see such a tragedy take place.
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