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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 i

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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 i
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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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