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| - This is when The Chessmaster villain has developed a devious plot that is prepared for anything the hero might do -- except for one glaring flaw. For some reason, the villain has not considered the possibility of a Heroic Sacrifice. After all, you'd never catch him throwing his life away to save a bunch of lazy ungrateful civilians who don't care about anybody except themselves. Heck, even saving your True Companions comes after saving your own life. Only an idiot would throw his life away like that -- and only because he didn't realize how much more profitable saving it would be. Well, sometimes that PR would be bad, but you only have to get him to where he can act secretly to get it out of him.
- Even Evil Cannot Comprehend Good is a situation/phenomenon where, an antagonist or villain is either confused with or unable to comprehend the kindness that displayed by the people, whether they are heroes or those whom they antagonized. Reasons of this are ranges from simply confused with understanding to disgusted/furious with protagonists or other people’s compassion toward each other. For instance, an evildoer was confused by the good doers who tries to protect their loved ones and innocent people that goes so far to the point that they ended up endangered their own lives.
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| - Even Evil Cannot Comprehend Good is a situation/phenomenon where, an antagonist or villain is either confused with or unable to comprehend the kindness that displayed by the people, whether they are heroes or those whom they antagonized. Reasons of this are ranges from simply confused with understanding to disgusted/furious with protagonists or other people’s compassion toward each other. For instance, an evildoer was confused by the good doers who tries to protect their loved ones and innocent people that goes so far to the point that they ended up endangered their own lives. Other examples includes:
* The villain whom horrified that the heroes whom he/she already brainwashed/possessed able to regain their sense thanks to confrontation with the said heroes’ loved ones. This may led to either the villain him/herself’s downfall or worse, villainous breakdown that ironically result in his/her own death.
* The evildoers may not know what either love or bond with friends or family, which made them vulnearable to the dark side.
* The villain may have the hero/heroine cornered, but he/she suddenly did something that he/she never predicted While this can made the villain became more evil and savage than those whom may retain redeeming qualities, became evil in this way can became the double-edge weapon for themselves as this can be serve as their weakness. While being popularized by TV Tropes Terms, the elements of this phenomenon is not entirely based on that site: In some cases on how characters, either in real-life or fiction, turned to the dark side such as given only bad examples, mistreated/abused in their childhood without being loved, or in some extent, behave like spoiled brat whom mostly self-centered and had no qualm with the others' need can also resulting them unable to comprehend good or kindness from the others.
- This is when The Chessmaster villain has developed a devious plot that is prepared for anything the hero might do -- except for one glaring flaw. For some reason, the villain has not considered the possibility of a Heroic Sacrifice. After all, you'd never catch him throwing his life away to save a bunch of lazy ungrateful civilians who don't care about anybody except themselves. Heck, even saving your True Companions comes after saving your own life. Only an idiot would throw his life away like that -- and only because he didn't realize how much more profitable saving it would be. Well, sometimes that PR would be bad, but you only have to get him to where he can act secretly to get it out of him. Too bad for the villain that Machiavelli Was Wrong. Our Hero goes and makes the Heroic Sacrifice anyway, thereby ruining the villain's plan with a Didn't See That Coming that a Dangerously Genre Savvy villain really should have seen coming. This is one of the ways those with Honor Before Reason can continue to defeat the Big Bad. A major problem for villains who really believe they are Not So Different and think heroes could have used their powers for Evil, as opposed to villains who are just screwing with the Hero's head. Occasionally greater justification is provided by having a hero who the villain knows is a Jerkass. Too bad the Anti-Hero decides to redeem himself at the critical moment. Or the villain will meet a hero who decides to Turn the Other Cheek instead of fighting back. Another justification is simply the villain suffers from sociopathy or another such disorder that makes them truly incapable of actually understanding things like compassion. This is actually Truth in Television in many cases. An alternative version involves the Hero giving into the villain's manipulative demands and becoming a villain (usually to the horror of his sidekicks, Love Interest, and True Companions). But wait! It was all a ruse to defeat the villain. The villain falls for it because it's what he'd have done if the situations were reversed. Greedy villains may content themselves with bribing the hero. After all, Justice Will Prevail and even Revenge aren't shiny, and don't get a very good exchange rate. Yet The Hero goes and turns down the Briefcase Full of Money, or a share in the proceeds of a robbery. Similarly, those affected by the Green-Eyed Monster often assume that The Hero is equally preoccupied with whatever inspired their envy, and the Knight Templar does not realize that other people differ about the relative values of what he supports versus what he is willing to sacrifice for its sake. And when the Hero interrupts an Attempted Rape, the would-be rapist may propose an easy solution: he can join in! Which doesn't work very well. Innocent Bystanders and Mooks leave the villain even more certain. A Doomed Moral Victor's inspiration or a Heroic Bystander will flabbergast these villains, as will a Mook's Heel Face Turn that is inspired by the hero's example, or a Mook who proves that Even Evil Has Standards (for him, anyway). Indeed, he may help the Mook along by threatening their loved ones. Never underestimate The Power of Love... wait, What Is This Thing You Call Love?? I simply must understand it! May end in An Aesop that Rousseau Was Right. Can be played for laughs if the villain in question does a Heel Face Turn and becomes a Hero with an F In Good. A favored ethical position of Socratic and Platonic philosophers, who hold that goodness is wisdom and understanding and that no-one does evil willingly and for its own sake. In other words, evil does not so much fail to understand good as it can only be evil at all because it fails to understand good. The God of Evil, Satan, or other beings that are Made of Evil are normally shown as being incapable of understanding things like compassion or goodness. In this case, Pure Evil cannot understand something that their nature renders them unable to experience themselves. This is Older Than Feudalism: The Bible often depicts the Devil in this fashion, where he's unable to appeal to anything other than selfish desires when manipulating humans. This is often the reason a Deal with the Devil fails; the deal maker's inability to understand good leaves a loophole that someone who can is able to take advantage of or simply offer something that doesn't truly matter to the target. Contrast It's All About Me; when the villain expects the hero to behave, not selfishly, but generously toward him. When the trope is Evil Cannot Comprehend Good, the villain can't understand why the hero saved him from falling; in It's All About Me, the villain can't understand why the hero insists on arresting him after. It can get a little fuzzy when the character decides to be generous: did he murder his son's romantic rival because he didn't realize his son would hate it -- this trope -- or because he was so caught up in the notion of his own generosity that he didn't care what his son thought -- It's All About Me? Supertrope of Beware the Honest Ones. Contrast Good Is Old-Fashioned, Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids, and Good Cannot Comprehend Evil. Compare Blue and Orange Morality. Examples of Evil Cannot Comprehend Good include:
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