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Even Evil Can Be Loved

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Even Evil Can Be Loved	comment	This is an inversion of sorts of Even Evil Has Loved Ones: the villain is humanized (i.e. becomes painted more grey than black), or at least demystified in case the feeling is not mutual, not by them worrying about others' well-being, but by others worrying about theirs. This other character is usually (but certainly not always) a fundamentally decent individual, often a family member, a former friend or student, or even just an honorable underling who is on speaking terms with the heroes. Where the heroes usually just want the bad guy dead (the All-Loving Hero notwithstanding), this character will often acknowledge the latter's villainy (unlike in in the case of Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal) but, depending on their affiliation, either sees it as Necessarily Evil or wants instead to redeem the villain. Either way, the internal conflict between their morals and their attachment to the villain mirrors their conflict of interests with the good guys who start off without such second thoughts. Protected by a Child and Villainous Friendship are specific subtropes, although the latter is also a subtrope of Even Evil Has Loved Ones. If even this character gives up on the villain, it is a telltale sign that the latter has crossed the Moral Event Horizon. Alternatively, killing or irreparably harming the supporter is a good way to show that villain has (or already had) crossed it, even if the supporter doesn't give up on them. For when the character who loves them is not virtuous, but equally evil instead, it's the subtropes Unholy Matrimony and Psycho Supporter that apply. Compare also Save the Villain, which may stem from this just as well as from the plain Chronic Hero Syndrome or Sympathy for the Devil. This trope is to Morality Pet what Licked by the Dog is to Pet the Dog. Heavily overlaps with Criminal Found Family.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_12381dc	comment	Divinity: Original Sin II: Dallis's second in command, White Magister Reimond, is a Psycho Supporter, a vicious racist, and a literally frothing-at-the-mouth Sadist, but his cousin thinks he's a stand-up fellow and offers to refer the player character for a job. Her young son, however, wants nothing to do with Reimond.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_13b20f1b	comment	Hero King Quest: Peacemaker Prologue: When the party opens up Princess Spidervenom's prison, the latter admits that she held out hope that her mother would have a change of heart and save her. Unfortunately, Dark Lord Spidergland is a selfish ruler who has no intention of saving her daughter, since she has the potential to take the throne.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_1bdeba5a	comment	There have been a few X-Men stories in which a young Kitty Pryde gets to know Magneto a bit better and humanizes him as a result, during the time period in which he tries to serve as headmaster to the Xavier school in respect of Charles' last wishes.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_2212773a	comment	In Angel, the title character clearly cares deeply about Darla, who is evil for most of her time on the show. While Angelus didn't seem capable of loving her while he was evil, Angel continually tries to help and support Darla when she's human again and later when she's pregnant. He is distraught when she is bitten by Drusilla and when she stakes herself to "give birth" to their son (despite being soulless during the latter event).
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_2372359	comment	In The Belgariad, Torak is an evil god who seeks to rule the world through a religion that practices human sacrifice. But even after everything he's done, his father UL still loves him. So do his brothers, Aldur and the other gods, and his "mother", the Universe, for that matter. When Torak dies, all lights in the universe briefly go out, and then UL and the other gods sadly gather around him to mourn his death and bring his body to a proper place to bury him. It's eventually revealed that he wasn't always like that.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_261c8d3f	comment	Mr. Burns in The Simpsons is a thoroughly irredeemable Bad Boss and Corrupt Corporate Executive, whose only humanizing trait is that he has the Undying Loyalty of his assistant Smithers.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Lyrical Nanoha: The Noble Top Enforcer Fate Testarossa in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha genuinely loves her insane and abusive mother and believes she can still redeem her despite everyone — from her own familiar to her new best friend and the Space Police — telling her otherwise. Even ten years later, she keeps a picture of her right next to one of her adoptive family. In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, the only thing that prevents the Mad Scientist Jail Scaglietti from being completely evil is that all twelve of his Combat Cyborgs — even the ones who question and eventually reject his evil plans — view him as a loving father (and he returns their affection).
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: While he is ultimately redeemed at the end of the series, for the time Sasuke spent as the villain rival to Naruto, his former teammates still cared about him and were devoted to bringing him back home. This is also the case for Orochimaru but rather than his former teammates, it was his former teacher that still cared for him and wished things would have turned out differently for his student instead of having to fight him to protect everyone else he cared about.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_3427bf2f	comment	The Blood Guard: Even despite his father being a member of an organization that plans to end the world and having tried to kill him several times, Ronan still cares about his father and is heartbroken when he commits suicide.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_34d050c6	comment	The Darkwing Duck episode "Time and Punishment" shows two examples, with varying results: Despite Darkwing having become ruthless as a vigilante (to the point where he's all but directly stated to have a massive body count), Gosalyn still tries to reach and redeem him, believing that on some level he's still her father. His love for her keeps her relatively safe (though he does throw her in prison after she pushes him a bit too hard), but doesn't much affect the way he treats others. To a somewhat lesser degree, Darkwarrior's version of Launchpad still cares about him. He's clearly regretful that his former friend threw him out and when Darkwarrior softens upon seeing Gosalyn, he seems hopeful that things can go back to normal. However, he's (understandably) less trusting than Gosalyn that it's possible to reach whatever's left of Darkwing and knocks him out to protect her from him.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_35b937ef	comment	In Narcos, Pablo Escobar is sincerely loved by his family. And at first he is also loved by many poor Colombians for his generosity and various charitable deeds.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_36795c0f	comment	Falling Down: When the gangbangers' car crashes and they are killed or injured, their friend Angie (who is implied to be the girlfriend of one of them) races up to the scene, crying.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_3790ae45	comment	In Double Homework, Dennisâ€™s dad didnâ€™t hate him; he just wanted to raise his son in is image of what a man should be. He vows to avenge Dennis, and honors the protagonistâ€™s request not to contact him or his friends ever again because of his (supposed) friendship with Dennis.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman Vol 1: Hypnota's twin sister still loves them even though they've turned to using their mental powers to brainwash people into subservient slaves and sell them to the Empire of Saturn to help the Empire prepare for their invasion of Earth. It doesn't help that the brain damage and paranoia that turned Hypnota villainous were caused by their sister accidentally shooting them in the head, which Hypnota does not believe was an accident.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_3be307d1	comment	In the Tenchi Muyo! one-shot No Need for School Day, Mayuka builds a headstone for her "mother"(creator) Yuzuha at the Masaki shrine and visits it every day, despite knowing that Yuzuha was a hateful, jealous, bitter demoness who treated her horribly.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_3c6e7f9f	comment	Cross Ange has Prince Julio. His younger sister Ange gets mad at Embryo for killing him, despite all the terrible things Julio has done - including trying to hang Ange. Probably because Embryo ended up being even worse than him.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_3ccfa555	comment	Sibling example in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Trials and Tribulations with Dahlia and Iris. Iris genuinely loves Dahlia, despite the fact that Dahlia is The Sociopath, that she more than once asked her to help in her criminal activities, and in the end only thought of her as a backstabber. Iris knows the kind of person Dahlia is (or rather, was, since was convicted for murder in the first case of the game and later executed before returning as a spirit in the final case) but pities her, wishing that their father had dropped the both of them off at Hazakura Temple when they were young instead of just Iris so Dahlia too would have found a mother figure in Sister Bikini to replace their power-hungry mother who never really loved them. She believes that if Dahlia had been treated with love growing up, she wouldn't have become so cruel, callous, and vindictive. She tells Phoenix that Dahlia was always strong, independent, and never once complained about her lot in life.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_3f214754	comment	I'm the Grim Reaper: Liam never stops loving Ana, not even after he finds out sheâ€™d killed her own son. This could be interpreted as the case with Scarlet and Chase as well; despite being objectively terrible people, theyâ€™re the most important people to each other.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_459ca4de	comment	Galaxy Angel: In the third game, Eternal Lovers, even after discovering that Wein was a Valfasq and was only manipulating her for his own ends, Lushati can't help but cry for him after he sacrifices himself for her sake. It's heavily implied that Wein too developed genuine affection for her during the time he pretended to be her brother, leading him to disobey his superiors when they ordered her execution.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_46823c49	comment	William of Moriarty the Patriot is a serial mass murderer, and his subordinates' deep and boundless affection for him nearly ruins his entire plan. One of his brothers loves him so much he agrees to care for the entire world in William's absence, and the other loves him so much he goes to prison to attempt to spare his reputation. Even Sherlock Holmes, William's greatest rival and antagonist, cares for William so much he jumps off the Tower Bridge after him hoping to save his life.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_49a88435	comment	In Final Fantasy XII, Larsa genuinely loves his older brother Vayne, even after he becomes a Broken Pedestal. This makes it especially poignant when Larsa finally turns on Vayne in the end, sword shaking in his hand. Likewise, Basch genuinely loves his Evil Twin Gabranth, despite the fact that Gabranth framed him as The Kingslayer and locked him in a dungeon to be subjected to two years of Cold-Blooded Torture, to the point where he takes on Gabranth's identity after Gabranth dies in order to protect Larsa. (Basch is just that good, and also that lacking in self-esteem.)
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_4e7bc558	comment	Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: While Yeardley Lobelia is a misogynist bully in the story, it would be extreme to call him evil. Rather he an unpleasant bully taking out his issue on someone else. His little sister still cares about him deeply, calling Ash to ask if her brother is a bad guy after he locks himself in his room to cry. However, his sister appears to be in the dark about his bad behavior. After the trial, where his little sister learns of his treatment of Chloe, she becomes scared that he'll start harming her because she's a girl and refuses to hold his hand. However, when Yeardley was taken hostage with Class 5-E, his little sister shows that she still very most loves him, and he regains her trust when Yeardley sacrifices himself to save her from Ms. Turner.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_55445192	comment	Sacred Earth - Alternative: In the flashback cutscenes, Konoe knows that she's hated by her sister and major antagonist, Kagura, but seeks to reconcile with her. Unfortunately, it's implied the reconciliation failed and Konoe's party had to kill her, leading to Konoe destroying the world in a mad attempt to bring Kagura and their family back.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_5755b96a	comment	Elan in The Order of the Stick has an exceptional amount of empathy for his evil twin brother Nale, despite Nale being an unrepentant Card-Carrying Villain with almost no redeeming qualities who repeatedly threatens Elan's and his friends' lives. That they were Separated at Birth, with Nale raised by their Faux Affably Evil megalomaniac nutcase of a father, makes Elan question whether they would have grown up in each other's roles if their positions had been reversed (and he makes the connection about why growing up he'd sometimes find his mom alone in her room crying about a "lost nail"). When Nale is murdered in front of him, Elan is devastated. In fact, Nale's only redeeming quality is his surprisingly sincere relationship with the succubus Sabine who was originally sent to him to guide him into deeper evil, but genuinely fell in love with him. When Nale is murdered, Sabine's reaction is unbridled vengeful fury!
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_5908ee91	comment	In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim DLC "Dawnguard", Serana the Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire does her best to humanize her father, the omnicidal vampire lord Harkon. Her tragedy is that even she realizes that the parent she had once loved has long been consumed by his hunger for power, and there is ultimately no way of redeeming him.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_5985a57f	comment	Darkseid, the self-proclaimed God of Evil and the Anthropomorphic Personification of Tyranny, once loved a good woman named Sulli and was loved in return. Darkseid's evil mother Heggra had Sulli poisoned so she couldn't soften him up, and any good in him died with her. Their son Kalibak lives for Darkseid's approval, but Darkseid is dismissive of and abusive towards him. The fact he's all that he has left of Sulli is why he always keeps him around.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_5cfb879b	comment	New Gods Darkseid, the self-proclaimed God of Evil and the Anthropomorphic Personification of Tyranny, once loved a good woman named Sulli and was loved in return. Darkseid's evil mother Heggra had Sulli poisoned so she couldn't soften him up, and any good in him died with her. Their son Kalibak lives for Darkseid's approval, but Darkseid is dismissive of and abusive towards him. The fact he's all that he has left of Sulli is why he always keeps him around. As much of an Evil Matriarch that Heggra was, her husband and even worse God of Evil Yuga Khan loved her. When Yuga Khan escapes from the Source Wall, he angrily berates Desaad for having poisoned her and vaporizes Desaad despite his pleas that Darkseid made him do it, and he was Just Following Orders.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_5e150650	comment	In Exalted, the Abyssal Exalted are the earthly vessels of undead Eldritch Abominations' Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum, granted power through the trapped, debased essence of Solar Exaltations — except each has a Lunar Exalted somewhere in the world who is the bonded mate of the Solar Exalted they were supposed to be, and whose love is one of the few positive things that they can experience free from their masters' corruption.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_6108ba8d	comment	In the sequel trilogy, Kylo Ren (formerly Ben Solo) is still deeply loved by his parents Han and Leia, and Han even gives his life trying to reach out to his son. In The Last Jedi, his uncle Luke encourages Leia not to give up on him, and even Rey grows to empathize and care for him, to the point that she actively tries to reach out and encourage the light she still senses in him.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_64eedb73	comment	In The Umbrella Academy, most of the siblings who fight Vanya take the opportunity to insult her...Except for Diego, who insists until the end that he loves her and he's sure she doesn't really want to do what she is doing.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_669c13ee	comment	He Never Told You: In spite of Simon murdering Tuba, mistreating Hazel, becoming insane and trying to kill Grace, and even still trying to kill her after she saved his life, Grace was still horrified and heartbroken by his death. The reason Grace seeks out The Cat to talk with her was because she is the only other person on the train that would care about his death.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_68d44a4d	comment	Tribe Nine: This trope is Kazuki's motivation for everything he does in the series — he still values his friendship with Ojiro, and wishes to save him from himself. This persistence pays off in the finale, where the non-fatal Heroic Sacrifice he performs ends up triggering Ojiro's Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_694ab80	comment	Subverted in the Batman Beyond episode "Ascension". Big Bad Derek Powers' son Paxton initially seems concerned for his father's health and safety. Paxton later reveals that he purposely set up the protest by the Verdeza activists in order to expose his father as Blight. He then hired Batman to search for Blight pretending to plan to help him when he was actually intent on killing Blight and taking control of the company for himself. However, it's also played straight in a much more subtle way with Derek Powers' personal assistant, who is visibly upset at seeing her boss unhinged and in hiding. The comic book tie-in even had her become a supervillain, Vendetta, to take revenge for his fate.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_69dabedf	comment	In Vampyr (2018), Seymour Fishburn is a sociopathic Serial Killer and one of the most despicable characters met in the game - he is one of the few potential victims whose death actually improves the district rather than make it worse - yet, the only people capable of loving him is his own mother Stella. Sadly, she is also deeply burdened by the fact he is a monster and is unable to turn him over to the police because he is still her son.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_6da4c85c	comment	The page quote from American Horror Story: Freak Show is about Psychopathic Manchild, Dandy Mott. Throughout the season, he's shown to be a modern version of being Royally Screwed Up, which contributes to him becoming an Ax-Crazy murderer. Yet despite it all, his mother Gloria loves him, murderous intents and all. She even goes so far as to instead of doing a thing about his murders, cover them up. Tragically, his mother's love wasn't enough to stop him from killing her.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_6fe277bc	comment	In Divinity: Original Sin, Icara the White Witch reveals to the Source Hunters that the game's apparent Big Bad, the Conduit, is her own estranged sister Leandra. Icara blames herself for the Conduit's Start of Darkness and begs the Source Hunters to find the means of restoring their long-severed Psychic Link so she can attempt to redeem her.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_708ae58b	comment	Dark Pegasus is one of the principal villains in the Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures universe, having started a Zombie Apocalypse to rule the world (which failed). Heroic Daniel Ti'Fiona was prepared to battle Dark Pegasus to the death, when his girlfriend Lorenda and her mother Kria intervened. Lorenda concedes that Dark Pegasus has an Evil Plan or two, but no more so than any other demon. Lorenda knows him as Uncle Aliph, a decent and honorable patriarch of the Soulstealer family.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_72262aee	comment	In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Azula, despite all of her evil actions, was still loved by her mother Ursa. Azula continually tries to deny this, claiming Ursa only ever thought of her as a monster, but the subconscious knowledge that her mother really did love her in spite of her behavior winds up being a major factor in Azula's descent into madness. In later comics, Zuko is willing to try to make amends; but given Azula's mental state isn't stable enough to try to reciprocate, much less Zuko handling the issue very poorly the first time around; the two got driven further apart. Zuko comes to terms with the fact that Azula is hurting inside, and that he cannot change her, but it's his responsibility to be there for her when she's ready to get her life back together.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_7400c391	comment	Yakuza: Like a Dragon ends with Ichiban confronting the main antagonist Ryo Aoki AKA, his former ward Masato Arakawa at the coin lockers where their stories began. Aoki, having suffered a brutal Humiliation Conga and undergoing a massive Villainous Breakdown bares his heart out to Ichiban as he laments that all the power he pursued meant nothing since he still feels as if no one truly cared for him as he prepares to blow his own brains out. Ichiban shoots back that Aoki was always surrounded by family who loved him unconditionally, which includes Ichiban himself, declaring that no matter how far he he fell they were always there for him, culminating in him declaring that he still sees him as a brother and tearfully begging to not have to watch his own brother die.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_7668653a	comment	Morinth from Mass Effect 2 is an Ardat-Yakshi, an asari with a rare genetic defect that means they kill their mates when they meld minds with them. Rather than spend her life cloistered away with the rest of her kind, Morinth fled across the galaxy and became an unrepentant Serial Killer. She grew addicted to the rush of killing, and each melding made her stronger. She was so bad that her own mother, Samara, became a justicar and dedicated her life to finding and killing her. Yet when Samara finally does kill Morinth, she mourns her death, grieving that she was forced to kill the "bravest and smartest" of her daughters.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_76e539c2	comment	In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, the only thing that prevents the Mad Scientist Jail Scaglietti from being completely evil is that all twelve of his Combat Cyborgs — even the ones who question and eventually reject his evil plans — view him as a loving father (and he returns their affection).
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: Pink Diamond of the Diamond Authority is an unusual example of a villain humanized by the love of other villains and antagonists. While very little has been revealed as of this post, we DO know that her court adored her, her sister Diamonds loved her, and even Rose Quartz (who shattered her) shows deep regret for her actions. The writers give as much weight and legitimacy to her mourners' grief as they do for Rose's own loved ones, making this yet another point of contrast between the two. Subverted as she is the person everyone thinks shattered her and was Good All Along (though her family and subjects don't know that).
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_7894fb5d	comment	And, of course, the Book of John famously contains this verse, about how much God loves everyone, both good and bad:
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_78a64189	comment	In the Biblical Book of Judges, the Song of Deborah has an interesting example when, amidst celebrating the evil general Sisera's defeat and death, Deborah imagines Sisera's mother anxiously waiting for her son to return from battle. The contrast is reversed again when someone consoles Sisera's mother that her son is probably just late because of all the Israelite women he and his men are raping.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_78f53d16	comment	In Kara of Rokyn, Lex Luthor's family mourns his death, even though he had just attempted to murder them on the grounds of "betraying him" (i. e., not supporting his murderous goals), and his wife Ardora remembers that he used his scientific acumen to improve her subjects' lives before he let his hatred towards Superman consume him again.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_7cf5a07	comment	In the third season finale of The Flash (2014), Savitar/Future Flash is shocked to realize that even after all he's done, Iris is still willing to support and be there for him as long as he comes back to Team Flash, even touching his face not an hour after he tried to kill her. However, he ultimately decides that he can't stand to live in a world where Iris and his past self will live happily together when he couldn't get Iris in the future, and so decides to splice himself across time and space.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_8125b468	comment	During DC's One Year Later event, several minor Batman villains were killed off, one of them a mutated biologist named Orca. During the storyline, it's revealed that Orca was married to a normal human, who's interviewed by the police regarding the circumstances around her death. While a little humor is taken from the relationship (the man remarking that he had a thing for big women◊), the pain of loss is treated seriously.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_84bb0f7e	comment	In the 1966 Batman: The Movie, the Penguin uses a dehydration machine to temporarily turn a group of minions into powder (so as to be rehydrated later to attack Batman). As the powdered remains are collected for transport, the Penguin takes pains to tell his mooks to be careful because "every one of them has a mother" (which actually makes their later implied deaths during a later fight scene a little disturbing).
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_85fc7b63	comment	The Book of Romans plays it more straight by saying this is true of God's love for sinful people: "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_8768d171	comment	Mastermind: Rise of Anarchy: Whilst acknowledging that both of them are members of the League of Villains, Rei Todoroki is fully supportive of Touya and Shouto, her two sons, due to them finding a supportive family within the League. Rei also acknowledges how crazy she sounds.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_8a27d31c	comment	In the October Daye novel, An Artificial Night after October kills Blind Michael, both his wife, Acacia and youngest daughter mourn his death at least briefly. He was abusive to both of them and they both agree that he had it coming but they still remember the years before his descent into evil and will always remember those memories even if he wasn't like that anymore.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_8b5820ed	comment	The final mission of Red Dead Redemption involves Edgar Ross being hunted down by Jack Marston in revenge for him killing his father, John. During this mission, the player learns Ross' whereabouts by interrogating Ross' loving wife and his brother. Both of them end up showing off a slightly more humanizing side to Ross, that he never shows on his own, and even inadvertently reveal that he's similar to John in certain ways.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note: Light is adored by Misa, though this is arguably part of a Villainous Friendship. Otherwise, his family love him dearly (though they don't know he is Kira).
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_8c22af8f	comment	Dragon Ball Super: Broly Despite being an abusive father, the new version of Broly deeply cares about Paragus, and flies into an Unstoppable Rage when he's killed. Tragically, Paragus did truly love his son in the past, but after getting stranded on Vampa became an angry, bitter man. Throughout the film, Paragus' desire for revenge conflicts with his desire to keep Broly alive, and he goes back and forth from demanding his son fight harder, to worry for Broly's safety. Frieza of all people is revealed to have a warm relationship with his nanny and implied mother figure Berryblue, who's the only person that he has no problems with teasing him about and bringing up his insecurities. She's shown to be fond of her master, and in turn she's the closest anyone has come to Frieza caring about them.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_8cea2648	comment	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: The Prowler is a ruthless enforcer for Kingpin, but he has Miles, a nephew who loves him and looks up to him, and a brother who, in spite of their estrangement, still wishes him well. Even after Miles finds out the truth, he's still utterly devastated by his death, especially since he died because he refused to kill him. Likewise, his brother finds his corpse in an alley, still in full supervillain costume, and begins crying. The epilogue shows Miles and his father painting a memorial mural for him, with the words, "Rest in Power," showing that despite becoming aware of his worst acts, they still love him very much.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_8d81bb26	comment	On NCIS, this trope is instrumental in Ziva's He Who Fights Monsters breakdown and subsequent departure from NCIS. At the start of her time on the series, she assassinated her brother, Ari, after he had gone rogue and joined a terrorist organization. Eight years later, she returns to Israel and runs into Ari's fiance, who still sees him as the boy next door she loved, and holds resentment towards Ziva. Dina reminds Ziva of Ari's humanity, and Ziva is hit with the Fridge Horror that everyone she has ever assassinated working with Mossad and NCIS was loved by someone. And reminds her that she loved Ari, as her brother, once upon a time. No amount of insistence from Tony that she was right to take him out, because he wouldn't have stopped hurting people, is enough to pull her out of her Heroic B So D, and she decides to leave law enforcement and discover who she was before being turned into a Tyke Bomb by her father.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_8f794c68	comment	Subverted in Wings of Fire. Darkstalker only appears lovable to his girlfriend because he's been brainwashing her to ignore his manipulations and abuse. The future- true- version of him is exactly as sadistic in daily life as you would expect of a genocidal torturer.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_945b7a4f	comment	Tangled: The Series: In Season 3, Rapunzel still clearly cares about her ex-best friend Cassandra, even as Cassandra continues down her spiral, continually offering her second chances even after Cassandra tries to kill her.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_94bfa327	comment	Spildit is a more passive case in The Dreamstone. She doesn't so much defend the Urpneys as seem naive to the extent of their villainous actions, viewing them more as naughty playmates, and aiding them whenever they aren't up to no good, a stark contrast to the rest of the Land of Dreams, who abhor anything that serves Zordrak (willingly or not). Since Frizz and Nug are more recessive Slave Mooks, they don't seem to bother Spildit's company. Sgt Blob however sometimes uses this to dupe Spildit into helping with schemes.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia: Despite all the terrible crimes he's committed as Dabi and the fact that he seeks to destroy their family in the name of revenge, none of the Todorokis can move past their love for him, still viewing him as his previous identity of Toya Todoroki. Ultimately, despite the many issues they still need to work through, they come together in order to save Toya, not stop him.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_9668eb10	comment	Temporal Anomaly: This is the reason why One couldn't bring herself to kill the rest of the Intoners (sans Zero); despite how clearly they've been Slowly Slipping Into Evil and causing all sorts of havoc, she loved her sisters too much to put them down herself and had to rely on Zero to do the job.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_996edfa1	comment	Aldo Rakan from Reflections of Eterna starts off a relatively likable individual but soon reveals himself as a utterly repulsive and power-hungry bastard who single-handedly brings about more evil and harm than any other villain in the series. Only his Best Friend Robert and his grandmother Mathilda, both fundamentally decent and honorable people, seem to harbor any sort of good will towards him at that point, despite realizing how morally bankrupt the guy has become.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_9a6791aa	comment	King Lear: When Edmund realizes that both Goneril and Regan loved him (or at least as close to love as they could get), he resolves to save Cordelia's life. Unfortunately, her death already happened.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire Tywin Lannister is a grim, cold man responsible for widespread death and destruction throughout the series. In spite of that though, he's still loved by both his brother, Kevan, and his sister, Genna. Tyrion — his son who despises him — has a very sobering moment when he realizes that the man who has abused him all his life is as beloved by his brother as much as Tyrion loves his own brother, Jaime. In Genna's case, Tywin was apparently a protective brother. Stannis Baratheon is another grim, cold man. The readers see him most often through the eyes of Davos, who is a good guy, and fiercely loyal to Stannis. Davos is a reformed criminal, who was granted a respectable position in the service of Stannis. Stannis seems to respect him, despite his shady past and lowly origins. Davos is willing to overlook many of Stannis' genuine faults in gratitude for this respect.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	Regular Show: This trope leads to the defeat of Anti-Pops. Despite all the evil he's committed, deep down Pops still loves him because they're brothers and nothing will change that. Anti-Pops' powers are based entirely on destruction and misery, so positive emotions like kindness and love cause him to be Brought Down to Normal. Thus, all it takes to destroy him forever is Pops hugging and reassuring him, followed by hurling both himself and the weakened Anti-Pops into a nearby star.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_9f867f17	comment	The final book of The Zodiac Series, Thirteen Rising, reveals that Ophiuchus and Aquarius were romantically involved before the former's initial death. In the present day, Aquarius, while well-intentioned, also destroys several planets, manipulates everyone for his own ends, and is willing to kill Ophiuchus again to open the portal to Earth (which he is well aware of)...and yet Ophiuchus still loves him, enough to outright lie about his identity to protect him even after changing sides.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_9fa025d	comment	In Mother 3 Fassad is a traitorous jerk who frequently abuses the captured monkey Salsa to do his bidding and enforces The Empire's tyranny. After Fassad's death, the player's can find his house in which a mouse is residing. The mouse says the man who lived in the house may have been hated by most people, but was a very dear friend who cared for him and states he's anxiously waiting his friend's return (unknowing of Fassad's death). Itoi says he added this to show everyone, no matter how awful, is loved by someone.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_a4ff8e01	comment	In the Fate/Grand Order fanfic The Queen's Sins, the Proper Human History version of Morgan was a ruthless woman that plotted to take the throne away from her sister Artoria, and she is willing to fight her own children for siding against her. Her sons Agravain and Gaheris loathe her, while Gawain and Mordred want nothing to do with her. Despite all this, her daughter Gareth still sees Morgan as her mother that loved her. Gareth admits to Barghest that part of the reason she wants to help Lostbelt Morgan is because its the closest chance she has to speaking with her version of her mother.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: In the Biblical Book of Judges, the Song of Deborah has an interesting example when, amidst celebrating the evil general Sisera's defeat and death, Deborah imagines Sisera's mother anxiously waiting for her son to return from battle. The contrast is reversed again when someone consoles Sisera's mother that her son is probably just late because of all the Israelite women he and his men are raping. The Book of Romans plays it more straight by saying this is true of God's love for sinful people: "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." And, of course, the Book of John famously contains this verse, about how much God loves everyone, both good and bad:
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_abe2e836	comment	The And Then There Were None fanfic "Nightmares" deconstructs the Asshole Victim archetype Justice Wargrave was looking for. After Vera and Lombard escape the island, they learn that everyone who was on the island had someone who cared about them and vice-versa, be it a girlfriend (Marston), a son (the Rogers), close friends (General Macarthur), or an older person they were providing for (Armstrong and Blore).
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Joffrey Baratheon mother Cersei Lannister genuinely loves him despite all his horrid behavior, as she admits in "Mhysa", in one of her rare sympathetic moments:
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_b370ddd1	comment	Loki in Thor. Despite everything that happened with his brother Thor, his parents and his friends still love and care for him. It's eventually a combination of his parents forgiveness and, in a subversion, Thor deciding that even though he still loves his brother Loki is probably never going to stop trying to betray him, that actually makes him complete his Heelâ€“Face Turn in Thor: Ragnarok.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_b3f3b0b7	comment	Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG: Deconstructed. At the end of Chapter 2, Chase admits that she feels some sadness over her mother Morgalia's death, but also wonders if Morgalia's abusive parenting instilled a feeling of Stockholm Syndrome in her. If Fredek's sync is maxed out, he'll state that he wished he kept Clyde from going off the deep end, showing that he misses their old friendship.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: Despite being a vile, abusive monster, Brian Banner noted Rebecca did love him at first, an impossible thing to a man who'd grown up in an abusive household himself. Brian's descent into alcoholism and abuse, and then actual murder put the kibosh on that one. However, in Immortal Hulk Brian mentions Rebecca's shade (or possibly an echo of her) occasionally visits him in the Below Place, even if she never says anything.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_b7c37594	comment	Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Even with his abandonment and stubborn nature, it's shown that Kanna cares deeply about her father and wants to have a more healthy relationship with him. Just anything else but the status-quo might do, but the guy is immovable.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_b962c879	comment	Fairy Tail: Makarov loves, or at the very least still has faith in, his wayward son Ivan (who he exiled from the guild for recklessly endangering his comrades) and his grandson Laxus (who he banished for similar reasons, though only in the latter case do we see him break down in tears over it). The difference is that Laxus sees the error in his ways and returns those feelings, while Ivan seems to find the idea that Makarov has faith in him disgusting, a fact Laxus calls his old man out on.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_bac4b7ea	comment	Vogel, the Nazi war criminal in The Debt, is married to a nurse at his office, who is horrified when told that her husband has had a heart attack.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_badcfb3b	comment	In Kings Quest (2015), Hagetha's nature as an Anti-Villain is cemented by the reveal that she was the original princess locked away in the tower, waiting for someone to rescue her. As time passed, nobody came for her, her looks faded and overuse of potions to maintain her beauty turned her into a hagged reptilian creature, so in her desperation Hagetha began tricking other princesses into getting trapped in the tower with her in the hopes that someone would come to rescue them all. Graham is able to redeem her by sympathising with her plight and using his love for her to break the spell trapping her there.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_bb2b811a	comment	In the Divine Divinity series: In Divinity: Original Sin, Icara the White Witch reveals to the Source Hunters that the game's apparent Big Bad, the Conduit, is her own estranged sister Leandra. Icara blames herself for the Conduit's Start of Darkness and begs the Source Hunters to find the means of restoring their long-severed Psychic Link so she can attempt to redeem her. Divinity: Original Sin II: Dallis's second in command, White Magister Reimond, is a Psycho Supporter, a vicious racist, and a literally frothing-at-the-mouth Sadist, but his cousin thinks he's a stand-up fellow and offers to refer the player character for a job. Her young son, however, wants nothing to do with Reimond.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_c007a111	comment	Dragon Age: Inquisition: The player character can fall in love with Solas, who is later revealed to be the Greater-Scope Villain responsible for not just the events of the game, but almost every problem plaguing the world of Thedas (albeit unintentionally in both cases). In the DLC story, Trespasser, he reveals that he plans to lead an army of Elven rebels to destroy the Fade which he himself created, even though he knows that this will kill most non-Elves. The Player Character can choose to say that she still loves him and wants to save him from himself, or she can even offer to throw away everything she believes to join him.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_c7f59f7d	comment	Teen Titans: Deconstruction as this trope causes nothing but grief for Roy and Lian Harper because of Cheshire, Roy's ex-girlfriend and Lian's mom. Roy fell in love with Cheshire while he was investigating her for the C.B.I., leaving her because he couldn't bring himself to turn her in. Neither of them knew at the time she was pregnant with their daughter. Roy and Lian both love Cheshire to varying degrees, but it's a very strained type of love because she's an unrepentant psychopath and responsible for destroying an entire country with a nuclear weapon because she felt like it. So they know Cheshire's a horrible person, but she's still Lian's mom and Roy doesn't want Lian to endure having a mother who'll spend the rest of her life locked away in prison (though father and daughter both know she deserves it). The worst part is the mounting evidence Cheshire doesn't love either of them and manipulates their emotions to keep them under her control.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_ca48bb5c	comment	In Fable, the Hero can be a Card-Carrying Villain with Horns of Villainy and a miasma of flies, but if he marries a villager and doesn't mistreat them, they'll be vocally "thrilled with [their] man from the Guild", even while the neighbours run screaming from the sight of him.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_d3e3e38a	comment	All over the place in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Even the cases where both participants are in the Horde, generally one is either a Minion with an F in Evil or a Token Good Teammate. Most of them hit serious problems, invariably because of Catra. The Hero Adora still clearly cares about Catra, even as Catra continues down her spiral, continually offering her second chances even after Catra tries to kill her. It's a major "oh shit" moment when Adora finally concludes that trying to redeem Catra is just wasting her time and dulling her edge, and it takes Catra trying to end the world to push Adora that far, and even then Adora cannot bring herself to hate Catra and ultimately does love her in spite of everything. Adora understands that she cannot change Catra, but she will be there for her when she's ready to get her life together. Catra is also the object of Scorpia's affections, although since Scorpia is kind of a pushover, she ultimately ends up as more of an enabler. Catra burns this bridge too, when she backstabs Entrapta, has her thrown on a transport to Beast Island, and threatens Scorpia to keep her quiet about it; you can actually see Scorpia's heart being ripped out when it happens. True Neutral science nerd Entrapta (who's on the Horde's side, but mostly indifferent to their actual plans) and Big Bad Hordak become extremely close. Both characters show surprising vulnerability around each other in season 3. Hordak sees lights flash behind Entrapta when she talks about the beauty of imperfection (a sensitive topic for Hordak, being a flawed clone); Entrapta works the First One word for "loved" into an upgrade she makes to Hordak's life support armor. Catra secretly has Entrapta exiled to Beast Island and lies to Hordak about it, telling him that Entrapta defected to the Princess Alliance. When Hordak discovers that this was a lie, he goes ballistic and attacks Catra with his arm cannon, destroying large swaths of the Fright Zone in the process.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_d57c12d4	comment	Dark Times: Jennir killing Dezono Qua causes him to have a bounty placed on his head by the man's vengeful family, despite the fact that Qua was a murderous cannibal scumbag.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_d794a2a2	comment	In AKIRA, Tetsuo spends most of the first half of the comic being vilified. Even his friends are fairly quick to turn against him (to be fair, he kinda deserves almost all of it, especially after killing one of them). And then Kaori shows up during the second half, and suddenly Tetsuo doesn't seem so Satanic. While he's even less so in the movie, this is still established by having Kaori as his girlfriend from the start, and Kaneda not giving up on him just yet, even when they face off.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_d98ab15	comment	Rave Heart: High King Arcturo Rave is betrayed by his son Eryn, who has no problem letting Count Vorakia Estuuban perform dangerous experiments on him. Despite that, Arcturo simply apologizes to Eryn for failing him as a father. Ellemine also mourns Eryn when the latter dies from overdosing on elixir to power himself up.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_d9db5c77	comment	Mercy Thompson features Les Heuter and his father, senator Benedict Heuter. Les is a scumbag Serial Killer and Serial Rapist who preys on innocent people and is thoroughly guiltless over his crimes and there isn't any indication that Les cares about his father. Yet, his father still genuinely loves him enough to help him try and get away with said crimes via good lawyers and had a breakdown after he was killed.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: Asami Sato understandably tries to disown her father, Hiroshi, after he is revealed as an Equalist and turns on her for siding with the Avatar, but deep down she still loves him because and is ultimately able to forgive him for his crimes. Tragically, however, she only fully admits this to herself just before he dies saving her life, leaving them unable to truly reconnect and make amends.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_e21878a1	comment	Honoo No Alpen Rose: Count Georges de Garmont is a French Nazi collaborator and an ebhibophile (being attracted to 13-year-old Jeudi), but in spite of this his wife FranÃ§oise still loves him. She expresses envy at little Jeudi for being able to stand up to him, being too scared to do so herself, (and even helps her escape the Count's clutches), but never leaves his side, even though she acknowledges that he's a horrible, toxic Manipulative Bastard. She has loved him since they were children and never stopped loving him even when he had eyes for other women, and dies happily after he affirms his love for her.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_e293455a	comment	In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a still-entirely-soulless Spike was partially humanized in season 5 by Dawn developing first a crush on him and then a brotherly Odd Friendship with him when she realizes he's smitten with her big sister. She frequently affirms that she thinks he's cool, is generally the only Scooby who openly likes his company, and is horrified when he is severely injured and tortured by the season Big Bad in order to protect her. This demonstration of his Noble Demon side also helps plant the seeds for this trope in his relationship with Buffy, as she sees how loyal and dedicated he really is for someone he cares about and starts treating him with a degree of trust and respect despite knowing that he's still a monster.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_e44b869d	comment	In Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo, John Miller was a violent father who unleashed his own self-esteem issues on his son Eddie and he also killed his wife and her daughter after learning that she cheated on him and planned to divorce him to get with her new lover, and then killed himself. Eddie, sole survivor of his family was taken into custody by his aunt, John's sister Claire whom in spite of everything John did, still loved him and insist that he used to be a better person who got "lost". She brainwashed Ed by convincing him that John was a loving father and that his wife's death was an accident so he could keep a good memory of him.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_e6318baf	comment	The Midsomer Murders episode "The House in the Woods" is driven by this trope. A murderer is shielded by his twin brother, who bitterly complains that the murderer was "born wrong" and can't help being what he is. He even Took The Heat and served his brother's prison sentence for killing a police officer, then doesn't defend himself against further murder charges that his brother frames him for. For his pains, the murderer tries to garrote him as soon as he stops being a useful scapegoat.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_e93b2f62	comment	In The Fly (1986), Seth's unwitting Slow Transformation into a Half-Human Hybrid after a Teleporter Accident involves a Split-Personality Takeover and initially manifests itself in ways that give him a Drunk with Power feeling. As a result, he grows increasingly selfish and nasty towards his lover Veronica, especially once she starts pointing out that he didn't act this way before he teleported himself so his invention must have had something to do with it, and finally tosses her (almost literally) out of her apartment. However, her love for him never flags because she knows that he's sick. When he finally reestablishes contact with her after a month, having realized what's actually happening to him and reclaimed his better self, she becomes a faithful Living Emotional Crutch to him even though he's now The Grotesque — until he sends her away because he knows that his mind will eventually fully succumb to the instincts of an insect and he will be dangerous to her. Alas, he learns afterward that she's pregnant and doesn't intend to keep the child, and goes on to kidnap her before she can have an abortion, and maims her ex-lover when he comes to rescue her. Even then she still sees good in him and wants to help him with his last-ditch plan to save himself. Too bad it involves Romantic Fusion. In the end, after she's rescued from this fate while Seth is turned into a twisted Clipped-Wing Angel for his trouble, she's still reluctant to fulfill his request to end his misery by blowing his head off with a shotgun. But she does.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_e966997	comment	Bat-Bat implores this of the Cow in the Bakshi Mighty Mouse episode "Night of the Bat-Bat." The Cow acquiesces.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_ea29fc84	comment	The first recounting of the origins of Marvel Comics' Doctor Doom is told by Boris, the faithful servant of the Von Doom family who served as surrogate father to young Victor Von Doom after his family was slain by an arrogant aristocrat. Boris sees Doom as the champion of Baltic gypsies, after turning medieval Latveria into a showpiece of Europe. Latverians are shown heartily supporting Doom as well.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_eb3f3551	comment	Several times in Mass Effect: Andromeda, it's possible to find e-mails to enemies from loved ones (a group of terrorists being asked by their loved ones just what the hell's made them desert La RÃ©sistance, mooks trying to compose e-mails to their buddies they left behind when they got exiled, a krogan henchman being told his old boss is perfectly willing to give him his job back if he stops working for an Ax-Crazy asari). Usually, these e-mails are found after Ryder has killed them.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_eef69f10	comment	In the Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, the escaped Serial Killer Selden is still loved by his older sister Elisa. Upon seeing Elisa's completely heartbroken reaction after Selden is accidentally killed by the Hound, Watson comments, "Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him." Although Watson doesn't make the connection explicit, this tells us something about the villain of the novel, whose death at the end is mourned by nobody; the one woman who might have been expected to mourn him seems positively glad he's gone and in fact helped to bring about his death.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_ef2e80e6	comment	Flug from Villainous is a Card-Carrying Villain and Mad Scientist who loves what he does, that being spreading mayhem and evil through his inventions, but his pride and joy is the genetically-engineered bear 5.0.5., who couldn't hurt a fly; he treats him with boundless kindness and dotes on him constantly, and 5.0.5. loves him just as much.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_fdf7a632	comment	Vampire: The Requiem has this as an optional mechanic: a vampire in regular contact with a human who genuinely loves them can more easily resist the Sanity Slippage and occasional Unstoppable Rage that the Damaged Souls of the undead are susceptible to. Those humans usually aren't aware that some vampires are mentally incapable of reciprocating.
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Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_fe8ef766	comment	Captain America: Baron Zemo, the original Nazi Nobleman version, was married at the start of the war. His wife remained devoted to him even after the unfortunate incident with Adhesive X, so clearly she wasn't interested in him for his money or his looks. Naturally, her death via falling rubble was just another reason for Heinrich and Helmut to want to kill Captain America.
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X-Men Red (2022) (Comic Book) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Flash Gordon 2023 (Comic Strip) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Darkwing Duck / Comicbook / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Kallen Stadtfeld, Countess of Britannia (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
A Monster's Nature (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
A Wolf Amongst Lions (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Apotheosis (MHA) (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Breaking The Generational Cycle (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Fuzzboy Total Pokemon Series (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Icarus (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Incarnate (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Kara of Rokyn (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Little Kitty on a Roof (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Mastermind: Rise of Anarchy (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Owl's Hell That Ends Well (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Rain Code: New Game Plus (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Star Trek: Mirror (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Temporal Anomaly (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
The Tales of Team OMEN (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
The World of the Creatures (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
To Forge an Heir (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
You See Them (Fanfic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Do Revenge / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Falling Down / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Fear Street / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Frightmare (1983) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Girl in the Basement / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
It's a Wonderful Knife (2023) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Knives Out / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Lisa Frankenstein / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Popcorn / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
The Bad Seed (2018) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
The Beekeeper / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
The Death of Stalin / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
The Flying Man / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
The Killer (2023) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
The Shape of Water / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Thor / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
WEIRD World 1995 / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
World's Greatest Dad / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Book of Romans / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Earthlings / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Gleams of Aeterna / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Heaven (1985) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
My Lady Just Wants to Relax / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Of Cinder and Bone / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Reflections of Eterna / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Slade House / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
The Hound of the Baskervilles / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
The Inkworld Trilogy / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
i tell c (Manga) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Monster (Manga) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Girl from Nowhere / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Go! Live Your Way / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Melrose Place / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Midsomer Murders / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Ozark / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Sherlock / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
The Last Czars / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Heathers (Theatre) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Heathers: The Musical (Theatre) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Condemned: Criminal Origins (Video Game) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Divinity: Original Sin (Video Game) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG (Video Game) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Rave Heart (Video Game) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Sacred Earth - Alternative (Video Game) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Double Homework (Visual Novel) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Unbiased History (Web Animation) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Cucumber Quest (Webcomic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
I'm the Grim Reaper (Webcomic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
The Croaking (Webcomic) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Batman Beyond / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Blood of Zeus / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Hulk Vs. / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Villainous (Cartoon Network) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved

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