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This is a cynical trope regarding morality and idealism. For when heavily structured order in which very little is meant to occur is defined as 'good' and set in opposition to the 'evil' of chaos, see Order Versus Chaos. You're looking for a motivation for your nihilistic villain to take action in order to get the plot moving, but he is so deep in his nihilism that the only motivation one can come up with is that he did it because it would be fun. However, now another side of the character has been revealed. If evil is fun to them then that must mean that he believes this. This trope is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Either in the view of a character or in the reality of the situation in-universe, Good Is Boring and Evil is... not. However there is still the question of why one would come to that conclusion, so let's explore that idea together! The character is simply good, boring and... not much else. They either exist to be a moral compass to the other characters, be a foil to a villain or anti-hero, show that boring might not be so bad after all, or perhaps to be a plot device and cause the villain to overgeneralize this trope. From the villain's perspective, they might simply desire thrills that they get most easily from evil acts, resulting in the belief that since evil is far more interesting, then Good Is Boring by extension. They do not have to be correct in this belief, and the belief can be held by non-villains. This trope is a sister trope to Evil is Cool, particularly when it's the villain stirring things up. Likewise, it is invoked in settings with A Hell of a Time- since if Good is Boring and Evil is Interesting, then the interesting plots happen where all the bad guys are dumped. Links all too frequently to the Author Tract trying to tell us something about mainstream religion, culture, or ethics. Even worse when paired with a Straw Man Political. When this trope refers to a problem with the writing and conflict itself, it is the polar opposite problem of Too Bleak, Stopped Caring (which is also quite a problem). Compare and contrast Boring, but Practical (which this trope can also be paired with). Contrast Good Feels Good. Can result from an Invincible Hero and is a common complaint regarding the Purity Sue. Tangentially related to Victory Is Boring, which can occur with both good and evil characters. One possible reason why All Girls Want Bad Boys. |
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Hal Stewart/Titan/Tighten from Megamind compares being a hero to a dead end job with no long-term goals. Of course, he's only saying this after Roxanne justifiably tells him that she does not love him. | |
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The Dimension of Lame from Sluggy Freelance epitomizes this. At first, it seems like a great place where everyone's kind and even the sewers smell like flowers. Except there's no alcohol, all swearing is censored, the only TV channels are PBS and Disney, and everyone seems to subsist entirely off rice cakes and spring water. Torg high-tails it out of there pretty quick. On his second visit, Torg notes that the people of the dimension aren't necessarily "good" so much as "pure"; in the sense that they are incapable of doing anything to prevent or even resist evil for fear of becoming less pure. |
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When Cordelia ascends to a higher plane on Angel, the first thing she says: "I am so bored!" | |
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As of Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, Chaos has succeeded in overrunning the world... and now that they have no one to really fight against except each other, the Chaos tribes are desperately bored, growing fat and weak. The reveal that the champions of Order have ascended to godhood was greeted with joy because they finally had something to do. | |
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In Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, Belinda Zee thinks Supergirl's heroism impossibly dull and uncool. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "Viva Ned Flanders", Springfielders are amazed at Ned's longevity and youthfulness at age 60 until he reveals how much he's deprived himself in order to attain it. | |
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The Matrix: As told by Agent Smith: In the second movie, the Architect strongly hints that it's more along the lines of Order Is Boring. |
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One of the "Censored Eleven" Looney Tunes, Clean Pastures (1937), starts out with Heaven ("Pair-O-Dice"— oh yes, there are reasons this is on the Censored Eleven list) losing ground to "Hades, Inc." and its Harlem jazz clubs until Gabriel gets him some swingin' angels of his own (modeled on performers like Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, and Fats Waller)— and then Good is so not Boring that Satan himself tries to get back in! | |
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Cucumber Quest: Sir Carrot is an example of a character representing this. His sole reason for becoming a Knight was to serve his king. He doesn't care much for fighting or being cool, but rather the things he enjoyed most about being a Knight were "rescuing stray pets", an "massaging his king's feet". That he's being completely serious about it is Played for Laughs. | |
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Used in Hackers, when the villain describes the moral philosophy that allows him to frame a bunch of teenagers for his crimes: | |
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Exploited by the Underwoods in the US House of Cards: Frank woos Claire into Unholy Matrimony with the promise that she would never be bored. | |
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In The Order of the Stick: Averted by the Lawful Good heaven: people reunite with their dead friends and enjoy idealized versions of mortal activities (like the Tavern of Infinite One Night Stands) for as long as they want to, moving on to more spiritually fulfilling pursuits as they let go of their old lives. Although the process ends in Loss of Identity when they become spiritual embodiments of their alignment, that's the ultimate goal of every afterlife. Xykon is an Ax-Crazy, thrill-seeking, undead Psychopathic Manchild who gets tired of anything less than wanton death and destruction: he thinks Pragmatic Villainy is just as boring as Good. |
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In Sinfest, Baby Blue assures Fuschia that being good is really boring -- and accuses her of thinking of converting. Fuschia denies it. | |
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In TNA, Raven taunts Lauren about her moral superiority to everyone around her, saying he knows it must make her miserable. Subverted in that Raven himself is always miserable. | |
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In the opening to Link: Faces of Evil, Link feels this way: | |
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In Sins, good, as personified by The Virtues, isn't just boring, but stupid and unpleasant as well. No wonder all the hosts think Evil is Cool. Of course, the Virtues want the Sins to die so that the universe will be destroyed by the imbalance of Good over Evil, on the off chance it will be remade without evil. If it gets remade at all. And Labor is willing to kill an innocent girl on sight, made worse by the fact she lost her soul no matter how innocent she was (her sole crime was picking up the Sins' Soul Jar). |
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In Sodom and Gomorrah, when Ildith tells Lot that he shouldn't act on his love for her because he needs to be a good man to set an example to the Hebrews he leads, he snarks that what she really means is "dull, grey, old, boring". | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine made it a point to deconstruct this trope, with numerous characters both within and without the Federation criticizing its bland, overly saccharine outlook. Eventually, the trope is outright subverted with the reveal of Section 31. Needless to say, fan reactions have varied somewhat. In any case, we see almost nothing of how the ordinary Federation citizens live, though it's said they still find meaning in challenging themselves by their work or pleasurable pastimes. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: In the opening to Link: Faces of Evil, Link feels this way: In Ocarina of Time, the soldier inside the house full of pots wishes Hyrule was more chaotic, as standing all day in a peaceful place bores him. He gets his wish seven years later when Ganon takes over Hyrule. |
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Nasthalthia Luthor from Kara of Rokyn is a villain because she finds honest life incredibly boring. | |
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The plot of Touhou Hisouten ~ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody can be summarized as "Celestial gets bored, attempts to destroy world for fun." | |
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In Lethal Weapon 3, this is the gist of Jack Travis' Motive Rant when he kidnaps Capt. Murphy: | |
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Mentioned by Kefka of Final Fantasy VI: | |
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In WarpZone Project, the protagonist has just entered the world of super-heroes and super-villains, choosing the side of good. His mentor's arch-enemy tries to get him to become his pupil whenever they run into each other, his main if not only argument being that he's going to get bored fast otherwise. | |
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Danganronpa: Monokuma/Junko Enoshima, the Big Bad of the Hope's Peak Saga, believes in this; despair is good because it is fun and exciting, while hope is dull, predictable, and undesirable. Her "Ultimate Analyst" talent maker her able to see almost every possible outcome of every situation, therefore the normal, harmonic world is agonizingly boring to her, while despair creates unpredictable situations — since the only way she can feel almost any sort of positive emotion is through despair and chaos, she decides to cause The End of the World as We Know It. The Reveal of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is a variant of this. According to the Big Bad, the "real world" became so peaceful and boring that the chaos of their Sadistic Game Show was seen as a nice change of pace by the general public. In fact, the cast's past selves prior to having their minds wiped were flat-out ecstatic at the prospect of killing someone or being killed themselves, much to the horror of their present selves seeing the footage. They eventually have to invert the trope by making evil (i.e. continuing the game) boring by refusing to take part, so the audience will be forced to move on. |
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The Great Divorce: Inverted, as people in Heaven are vibrant and happy, while denizens of Hell are bored and full of themselves - or, at the very best, tend to chase trivial things (like attempts of one of them to get a Heaven's apple to Hell). | |
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This is shown as an issue between Tom and his wife in The Boondocks. Tom, a straight-laced, calm, morally upstanding man, apparently bores his wife to tears, to the point where she throws him out of the house at one especially low point and is shown to lust after "bad boys" like Pretty Boy Flizzy. Flizzy himself sums up his success with women with the term "bitches hate being bored." | |
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Bagdad Cafe: The local scrimshaw/prostitute Debby leaves Bagdad, to the disappointment of the rest of the town. When asked why, she replies, "Too much harmony." | |
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In Futurama, Leela mentions that this trope is why Heaven is boring; there's no sleaze. Seconds later, a mass orgy is called. | |
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Oglaf discusses this for laughs with the Paladins for Group Sex: | |
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The Screwtape Letters: Demons try to minimize the enjoyment people get out of sin, hating joy just like other positive emotions because they lead to people wanting to do more things that "feel good". Moreover, they see God as a hedonist bent on undermining the order and dignity of Hell. | |
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In Ocarina of Time, the soldier inside the house full of pots wishes Hyrule was more chaotic, as standing all day in a peaceful place bores him. He gets his wish seven years later when Ganon takes over Hyrule. | |
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I'd Trade My Life For Yours: In the eyes of Motherkuma, the dramatic and murder themed events of the killing game are good for ratings while the pleasant and tranquil events between the students are boring, ergo bad for ratings. | |
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In The Dark Crystal, the urRu are nearly completely apathetic. Justified in that the passion, drive, and ambition of the urSkeks is embodied within the Skeksis, the other set of beings created when the urSkeks split into two. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Eldar have to be very careful about what kind of emotion (especially pleasure) they let themselves feel, because they run the risk of attracting the attention of Slaanesh, Chaos god/dess of desire, who loves nothing more than eating Eldar souls. The Dark Eldar can let themselves be sadistic debauched hedonists... as long as they're in the Webway where Slaanesh can't reach. When in realspace their famously backstabbing kind stay rigorously on-target, with betrayals happening once they're "safe". | |
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Warhammer Fantasy: In thi Crapsack World, the forces of Order are closest to traditional "good," but they all seem deadset against having or allowing any sort of fun or joy. The Dwarves are dour, inflexible, and obsessed with their grudges and the Human Empire is oppressive, corrupt, and engage in paranoid witch-burning sessions (albeit often with actual witches). The Dark Elves and human servants of Chaos, however, often get to enjoy themselves (unless they end up on the wrong side of a sacrificial knife) and do what they want. The Greenskins truly live for nothing but war, so essentially all of life is a game to them. Which makes it terribly ironic for the Dwarves to take Greenskin transgressions so personally. Chaos (or at least Archaon) wants to "save the world from stagnation and order." Of course, when it comes to saying that, you know it means something like killing everybody and turning the world into an insane playground of Chaotic Evil embodied, so at that point, you may notice it wouldn't be an improvement after all. Inverted in a "Boring is Good" way by one vampire lord, who planned to save the world from Chaos... by killing everyone in it, starving the Chaos Gods of believers. |
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Doctor Who: Robert Holmes, known for being very strong on the cynical side of the Scale, tended to feel this way. Grey-and-Grey Morality and Black-and-Gray Morality abounds, and when he was made script editor he Enforced a darker, moodier and more manipulative characterisation for the Doctor than had been seen since William Hartnell's Token Evil Teammate phase. Some of his other achievements in darkening boring good characters include Revisioning the Time Lords from a Crystal Spires and Togas civilisation of enlightenment into a hypocritical and pretentious Decadent Court of declining power. |
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Villains by Necessity: The book starts on a description of how Good beat Evil when they won the final great war, after which the source for Evil was sealed off from the world. Afterward, the Evil remaining was slowly destroyed by the Good guys, with the world steadily becoming nicer and more peaceful, but also quite boring to the few villains left. "Boring!" is the first dialogue spoken in the book, as Sam shouts this in annoyance once the prologue ends (he's an assassin with no call for his work anymore. This is his grievance at first with the forces of Good who now rule (alongside them hunting down everyone like him to be "whitewashed" into being Good too. It soon transpires however that far more is at stake if Good takes over entirely. | |
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In Season 3 of Once Upon a Time Henry's memories have been altered by a spell causing him to forget his real life. He has no idea that David and Mary Margaret are both Prince Charming and Snow White and his grandparents and finds them to be very boring. They are highly offended when Emma tells them this, apparently they thought they were cool. | |
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Lois & Clark alluded to a Utopian future in "Tempus Fugitive." Superman and Lois' legacy is a completely perfect, balanced world - which drives the villain of the episode to try and change it. He just can't stand it. | |
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