...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Necessarily Evil

993 statements
188 feature instances
258 referencing feature instances

Necessarily Evil	type	FeatureClass
Necessarily Evil	label	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil	page	NecessarilyEvil
Necessarily Evil	comment	A villain may believe that the Ends (involving a Utopia or the survival of the species) justify the Means, but either has in no way lost his conscience, or otherwise had a Heel Realization during his deluded time. He knows full well that what he's doing is evil and that heroes may try to bring him to justice for his crimes. He may in fact be counting on it, feeling it to be a just punishment for what he feels he must do. He may bear the heroes no ill will, and may instead commend them for trying to stop him. Oftentimes, in the event that he succeeds in his goal, he will flat-out refuse to take part in his newfound paradise: the things that he did to create it are inexcusable in the new society. This is the more Anti-Villain version of the Well-Intentioned Extremist. Likewise, the Knight Templar often sees themself as this. They will regularly Shoot the Dog and carry out a Zero-Approval Gambit. A Necessarily Evil villain is, by definition, AWARE that what they're doing is wrong. Otherwise you have a Tautological Templar. He does what he has to do, because he knows that something far worse will happen if he doesn't. He knows he must pay the price for his deeds, but not before his goals are accomplished. What a Senseless Waste of Human Life... In some cases, said actions may be unnecessary towards that goal, and there may be a better option, but the character is either too far gone in morality or sanity to see the light. If they realize that the suffering they caused wasn't as necessary as they had assumed, they could very well conclude that what they did was Not Quite the Right Thing and regret it for the rest of their life. This trope inspires a tremendous amount of Values Dissonance in Real Life. Some believe firmly that certain immoral actions can be "necessary", and others believe that thinking of evil acts as "necessary" encourages amoral behavior and creates considerable unnecessary suffering. The polar opposite of the Sociopathic Hero. See also I Did What I Had to Do and Token Evil Teammate. For mundane examples, see Cruel to Be Kind. noreallife Examples
Necessarily Evil	fetched	2024-03-19T18:02:12Z
Necessarily Evil	parsed	2024-03-19T18:02:12Z
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to AllThereInTheManual: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to AristocratsAreEvil: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to BigBad: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to ConquerorFromTheFuture: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to CurbStompBattle: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to DealWithTheDevil: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to DirtyBusiness: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to DraggedOffToHell: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to EldritchAbomination: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to EvilFormerFriend: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to FinalSolution: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to FreeSpace2: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to GaslampFantasy: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to GeneralRipper: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to GentlemanAdventurer: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to HeroicSacrifice: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to HumansAreBastards: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to ItsAllAboutMe: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to ItsPersonal: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to KnightTemplar: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to Laibach: Not an Item - IGNORE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to LastSecondChance: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to MechanicalAbomination: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to NoNameGiven: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to NobleDemon: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to SecretPolice: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to ShootTheDog: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to StarWarsExpandedUniverse: Not an Item - CAT
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to TheChessmaster: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to TheDragon: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to TheHero: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to ThePurge: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to TheResidents: Not an Item - IGNORE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to TokenEvilTeammate: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to UltimateUniverse: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to VillainHasAPoint: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to VillainProtagonist: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to XtremeKoolLetterz: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to balancingdeathsbooks: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to invokedtrope: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to theinfiltration: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingComment	Dropped link to wellintentionedextremist: Not an Item - FEATURE
Necessarily Evil	processingUnknown	FreeSpace2
Necessarily Evil	isPartOf	DBTropes
Necessarily Evil / int_10321784	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_10321784	comment	Valvatorez, the protagonist of Disgaea 4, is a strange sort of Punch-Clock Villain who sees his job of being an evil, human-terrorizing tyrant as a very important public service - If he isn't going to Scare 'Em Straight, who will?
Necessarily Evil / int_10321784	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_10321784	featureConfidence	1.0
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten / Videogame	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_10321784
Necessarily Evil / int_12300cc3	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen: Ozymandias constructs himself as Necessarily Evil in his final conversation with Dr. Manhattan, justifying murdering millions of people with his success in preventing further escalation of the Cold War and claiming 'he has made himself to feel every death'. He is never brought to justice for his acts and the comic does not judge either way, leaving the readers to make up their own minds on the subject. A throwaway comment that references the Black Freighter comic implies that, ultimately, he has availed nothing. Doomsday Clock still shows Ozymandias doing whatever it takes to achieve his goals, after his so-called 'achievement' in maintaining world peace has completely shattered in his own world when Rorschach's journal has been publicised to the public, and leading the whole world into World War III thanks to his antic. This time however is that he must seek Dr. Manhattan and bring him back to their world as a way to fix this, but when the latter refused, he resorted to having a plan to save both DC and Watchmen Universes, which so far involves shattering the public's faith in the metahuman community, and falsely framing Dr.Manhattan for his actions in Moscow and sending a majority of DC superheroes there just to be incapacitated by him.
Necessarily Evil / int_12300cc3	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_12300cc3	featureConfidence	1.0
Watchmen (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_12300cc3
Necessarily Evil / int_12b2b8a6	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_12b2b8a6	comment	Mr. Glass in Unbreakable has spent his entire life being Necessarily Evil and looking for someone to counterbalance him so that his world will make sense.
Necessarily Evil / int_12b2b8a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_12b2b8a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Unbreakable	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_12b2b8a6
Necessarily Evil / int_136469af	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_136469af	comment	Pact: most Practicioners hate diabolists, because diabolists deal in things like devils, demons, and other variations of the most malevolent Others. One diabolist in the series wrote a book on the ethics (such as they are) of the profession, and makes an argument that diabolists are Necessarily Evil, because someone has to bind demons and devils, and things would be a lot worse if these beings were free to do whatever they wanted. He is self-aware enough to acknowledge that most diabolists don't get into the practice for selfless reasons, and this argument of his is liable to fall on deaf ears.
Necessarily Evil / int_136469af	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_136469af	featureConfidence	1.0
Pact	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_136469af
Necessarily Evil / int_1367cea0	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_1367cea0	comment	Worm has "Doing the wrong things for the right reasons" as its tagline, and so explores this trope a fair bit: Taylor, the protagonist, is certainly the most clear cut example. Initially purely a mole among her villainous friends, she comes to view villainy as the best way to achieve her goals. Entirely selfless goals. Cauldron as a whole claims this. They have performed decades of horrific human experimentation, kidnapping, brainwashing, enslaving, murder, manipulation of world government figures, and consorting with criminals of all kinds. Their leadership did this because they have a future-seer on their staff who tells them that if they don't do these things, for the purpose of building up a huge population of superpowered parahumans across multiple worlds, humanity will most likely (90%+ chance) cease to exist within a few years. While their future-seer is among the most powerful to exist, they are not omniscient, and many characters insist that Cauldron's crimes aren't justified even in the face of almost certain multiversal extinction.
Necessarily Evil / int_1367cea0	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_1367cea0	featureConfidence	1.0
Worm	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_1367cea0
Necessarily Evil / int_187f0cac	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_187f0cac	comment	Eerie Cuties: Tia Darkness is a pint-sized demoness who feeds on misery and discord. The inverse, is that displays of kindness, friendship, and happiness, can cause her to become physically ill. In extreme cases, it threatens to make her fade out of existence. Meaning, in all likelihood, she has no choice but to sow discord in order to sustain her existence.
Necessarily Evil / int_187f0cac	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_187f0cac	featureConfidence	1.0
Eerie Cuties (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_187f0cac
Necessarily Evil / int_18b424d6	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_18b424d6	comment	Tales of Legendia's Stingle is a Punch-Clock Villain. He does it support his ill daughter.
Necessarily Evil / int_18b424d6	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_18b424d6	featureConfidence	1.0
Tales of Legendia (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_18b424d6
Necessarily Evil / int_1bdeba5a	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Magneto, who over time has oscillated between hero and villain a few times, is perhaps written most convincingly this way. A classic example occurs in Uncanny X-Men #275 (written by Chris Claremont). Confronting a Russian colonel trying to kill him to avenge the death of his son (who died when Magneto sank a nuclear submarine 125 issues earlier), he admits he considers himself damned as well. And later he insists on killing world-threatening supervillainess Zaladane even though this means that he will now have to part ways with Rogue, with whom he had just started sharing romantic feelings. (See the Quotes sub-page). Chris Claremont also insists that everything Mystique did before Irene's death was to prevent prophesied worse evil from taking place if she didn't.
Necessarily Evil / int_1bdeba5a	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_1bdeba5a	featureConfidence	1.0
X-Men (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_1bdeba5a
Necessarily Evil / int_1cc09117	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Hundreds of years before the start of the series, the Shinigami enacted a purge in order to eradicate the Quincies, who threatened the balance between the Human World and Soul Society by destroying Hollows instead of allowing them to be purified. Even Uryu concedes that they did the right thing. When the Vandenreich (a faction formed of Quincies that both survived the war with Soul Society 1,000 years ago and the subsequent purge) begin slaughtering Hollows en masse in modern times, Mayuri rectifies the escalating imbalance by having the 12th Division slaughter 28,000 Rukongai citizens, forcing them to reincarnate in the Human World. Yamamoto takes umbrage with this because Mayuri did not ask for permission first, even if he did agree that the extreme circumstances would've gotten him said permission quickly; Mayuri retorts that it would've taken too long and that he needed to act fast. The war with the Vandenreich escalates so quickly and leaves Soul Society at such an overwhelming disadvantage that Kyoraku exerts his authority to perform questionable measures in order to even the odds. Such measures include unlocking Kenpachi Zaraki's true potential and releasing Aizen from prison to help them. It is strongly implied in Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World that the Royal Guard was grooming Ichigo to replace the Soul King as the linchpin holding the three realms together, should the Soul King be killed by Yhwach. The same novel reveals that this is not a desirable fate; not even for Yhwach, whose corpse ends up becoming the new linchpin. It is eventually revealed that Captains killed in battle cannot break down into Reishi and reintegrate with the soil and atmosphere of Soul Society by any means; since they cannot be allowed to linger for fear of breaking the balance, a special ritual is performed to cast them into Hell.
Necessarily Evil / int_1cc09117	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_1cc09117	featureConfidence	1.0
Bleach (Manga)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_1cc09117
Necessarily Evil / int_1ee8851e	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_1ee8851e	comment	Wild ARMs 2 has Irving Vold Valeria, who formed both the heroes and the villains as a two-tiered plan to gather information as well as global resources in order to stop a sentient dimension from swallowing their world. The villains could use whatever tactics they wanted; and the heroes would be able to get the combined support of the world's governments who wanted them to stop the villains.
Necessarily Evil / int_1ee8851e	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_1ee8851e	featureConfidence	1.0
Wild ARMs 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_1ee8851e
Necessarily Evil / int_1f76648	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_1f76648	comment	A Certain Magical Index: An Anti-Magical Faction known as the "Church of Necessary Evil", or Necessarius, for short, practices magic of its own, seeing it as a necessary evil to defeat sorcery. Also, they do a crapton of bad shit, like wipe this one girl's memory. Repeatedly. To prevent her from becoming a goddess. And this whole situation was intentionally created... by them. In order to create an anti-magic weapon.
Necessarily Evil / int_1f76648	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_1f76648	featureConfidence	1.0
A Certain Magical Index	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_1f76648
Necessarily Evil / int_207208a9	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_207208a9	comment	Magneto, who over time has oscillated between hero and villain a few times, is perhaps written most convincingly this way. A classic example occurs in Uncanny X-Men #275 (written by Chris Claremont). Confronting a Russian colonel trying to kill him to avenge the death of his son (who died when Magneto sank a nuclear submarine 125 issues earlier), he admits he considers himself damned as well. And later he insists on killing world-threatening supervillainess Zaladane even though this means that he will now have to part ways with Rogue, with whom he had just started sharing romantic feelings. (See the Quotes sub-page).
Necessarily Evil / int_207208a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_207208a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Magneto (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_207208a9
Necessarily Evil / int_2192aeb3	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: Sephiran acts affable to the end, and loyal to one of the heroes even while he is fighting the others. Can't be talked out of fighting the heroes, yet is happy upon defeat. The following pattern is pretty common in Fire Emblem, especially in the endgame of Radiant Dawn: Several side materials for Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War depict Arvis of Velthomer as one. The guy wants to create a utopia free of prejudice and racism, so he joins force with the Loptous clan, which he loathes, to take down fellow lords and unite Grannvale into a single country. Naturally, this does not work, and he becomes heavily guilty as he grows Older and Wiser and realises his plan has backfired horribly. In part two of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Edelgard views their actions of declaring war on the Church of Seiros as necessary to change the continent of Fodlan. They also view working with "those that silther in the dark" as necessary to ensure their victory against the Church as well, and once theyâ€™re done with them, they intent to get rid of them next.
Necessarily Evil / int_2192aeb3	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_2192aeb3	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem (Franchise)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_2192aeb3
Necessarily Evil / int_22147342	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_22147342	comment	Malcolm Merlyn from The CW's Arrow orchestrated The Undertaking, an endeavor shared between him and several of his colleagues, during the first season. Its purpose? To obliterate the crime-infested area of Starling City known as the Glades. His line of reasoning for this is to avenge his late wife Rebecca, who was murdered by a Glades resident. He also firmly believed that the city could somehow be reformed through this one act of eliminating the majority of, if not the entirety of the criminal element. And like most other examples on this page, he is genuine in his concern for the city. Because what else were you expecting, Malcolm becomes the necessary evil for Oliver when the latter needs to solve his League of Assassins problem fast. His friends are not pleased, and the necessity of working with Malcolm quickly comes into question.
Necessarily Evil / int_22147342	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_22147342	featureConfidence	1.0
Arrow	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_22147342
Necessarily Evil / int_23bc247b	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_23bc247b	comment	Thunderhide in Equestria: A History Revealed fully understands that he is walking in the path of evil in joining Luna in the Equestrian Civil War, but sees it as necessary to accomplish his aims of political change. However, he chooses not to fully go off the deep end, treats his occupied cities well, and surrenders once he realizes the war is over. He even presents his point of view in the Trial at Fillydelphia, to explain how a pony of his esteemed position would choose to fall so low.
Necessarily Evil / int_23bc247b	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_23bc247b	featureConfidence	1.0
Equestria: A History Revealed / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_23bc247b
Necessarily Evil / int_23e0dd0	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_23e0dd0	comment	While Captain Jarvis in The Return sees himself as evil for what he does, really he is just Necessarily Evil, this doesn't really reassure him. A lot of what Willard International Consulting does could fall under this trope due to existing in a Grey-and-Gray Morality series.
Necessarily Evil / int_23e0dd0	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_23e0dd0	featureConfidence	1.0
The Return / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_23e0dd0
Necessarily Evil / int_260d57b3	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_260d57b3	comment	Excel♡Saga: Dr. Kabapu claims to be this by seeking to destroy all Overtechnology left behind by the Solarian civilization in order to avoid the End of the World as We Know It repeating itself. However, it conveniently puts him in a position of power in Fukuoka City and sets him against his age-old nemesis Lord Il Palazzo, so it's less than clear whether his words, or Il Palazzo's for that matter, can be trusted.
Necessarily Evil / int_260d57b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_260d57b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Excel♡Saga (Manga)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_260d57b3
Necessarily Evil / int_26674ed5	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_26674ed5	comment	Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: Solidus Snake knows his and Dead Cell's actions are wrong and likely being manipulated by outside forces, but it's what he feels must be done to free America from the Patriots. Ironically, this makes the player character an agent of the Greater-Scope Villain.
Necessarily Evil / int_26674ed5	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_26674ed5	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_26674ed5
Necessarily Evil / int_28887316	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_28887316	comment	Cable & Deadpool: Cable endeavors to unite the world against a devastating enemy — himself. The idea being, with his powers spiraling out of control and becoming a threat, everyone would team up and kill him, and then feel guilt for doing so, as his public plan is to establish an island utopia. Later in the same book, he aids the revival of Apocalypse so the decimated mutant race would have an enemy to unite against.
Necessarily Evil / int_28887316	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_28887316	featureConfidence	1.0
Cable & Deadpool (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_28887316
Necessarily Evil / int_28fba44c	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_28fba44c	comment	The big twist at the end of Urinetown is that the Evil Overlord Cladwell was right the whole time and the revolution that overthrows him makes everything so much more awful than it was under his draconian rule.
Necessarily Evil / int_28fba44c	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_28fba44c	featureConfidence	1.0
Urinetown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_28fba44c
Necessarily Evil / int_2a77a546	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_2a77a546	comment	In Inside Out, this is how Joy views Anger, Fear and Disgust. While she considers herself the most important emotion and feels that things are going well when she makes up the majority of Riley's day, she understands and respects that Anger, Fear and Disgust, while "negative" emotions, exist to protect Riley from the various dangers in her life. The driving source of conflict in the movie is that nobody has any idea what Sadness is for other than making Riley miserable, causing Joy to do everything she can to marginalize her and limit her involvement in Riley's life, with disastrous results.
Necessarily Evil / int_2a77a546	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_2a77a546	featureConfidence	1.0
Inside Out	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_2a77a546
Necessarily Evil / int_2bb4ae0f	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	The Company from Heroes in Volume One.
Necessarily Evil / int_2bb4ae0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_2bb4ae0f	featureConfidence	1.0
Heroes	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_2bb4ae0f
Necessarily Evil / int_2c451a2a	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_2c451a2a	comment	Okiura from Kobato. is pretty clearly evil. He's with the yakuza, and using threats and underhanded tactics to force his own ex-wife Sayaka to shut down the preschool she's taught at all her life to collect on a debt she inherited from her father the former owner. That's Disney evil. It's later revealed that he's afraid that the yakuza will hurt Sayaka, and has been working from the inside to buy her as much time and safety as possible. He doesn't have the authority to call off the others, and he knows if she sells the building, she'll be safe. And better he shatter her dreams than the yakuza shatter her limbs. He does his best to appear cold and villainous in an attempt to push her into selling, and accepts that while he might be saving her life, Sayaka will probably never love him again.
Necessarily Evil / int_2c451a2a	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_2c451a2a	featureConfidence	1.0
Kobato. (Manga)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_2c451a2a
Necessarily Evil / int_2d321e16	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_2d321e16	comment	The Midnight Meat Train: Mahogany and the conspiracy isn't butchering people on the subway for the fun of it. They're necessary human sacrifices to protect the rest of the city from the evil gods that dwell below.
Necessarily Evil / int_2d321e16	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_2d321e16	featureConfidence	1.0
The Midnight Meat Train	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_2d321e16
Necessarily Evil / int_2e1df124	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_2e1df124	comment	Literal example in Wreck-It Ralph; a video game only works when there's a 'bad guy' to defeat. When Ralph, the 'bad guy' of his game, isn't there, the game is declared out of order.
Necessarily Evil / int_2e1df124	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_2e1df124	featureConfidence	1.0
Wreck-It Ralph	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_2e1df124
Necessarily Evil / int_2f542769	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_2f542769	comment	In Orion and the Dark, Light is this. He is the film's main antagonist since he unintentionally wipes Dark from existence by coming too close to him, but Light's movement around the world is as necessary as Dark's. It's not clear if he physically can't stop moving, or is worried about the consequences if he does.
Necessarily Evil / int_2f542769	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_2f542769	featureConfidence	1.0
Orion and the Dark	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_2f542769
Necessarily Evil / int_2fee008d	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann does this with both major villains. The Anti-Spiral, the main villain of the second arc and the Greater-Scope Villain of the first, oppresses civilizations across the galaxy and prevents them from growing. This is because, if left unchecked, these civilizations will harness Spiral Energy to grow without limit, thus creating a premature heat death of the universe known as the Spiral Nemesis. Lordgenome, the first arc's main villain, used to fight on behalf of humanity's growth, but after he learned about the Spiral Nemesis he aligned himself with the Anti-Spiral, oppressing Earth and forcing humanity underground. Under the Anti-Spiral's rule, if at least a million humans live on Earth then the moon will fall and destroy the planet; Lordgenome uses his Beastman army to stifle the human population, oppressing them to prevent this destruction.
Necessarily Evil / int_2fee008d	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_2fee008d	featureConfidence	1.0
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_2fee008d
Necessarily Evil / int_30065ab	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_30065ab	comment	In the Cuphead fan comic from DeviantArt, "Cagney Is a Carnation" by fuyuflowga, Cagney Carnation has lost everyone he cared for, and his friends have shunned him for signing his Soul Contract that the Devil has offered him in his attempt to save his adopted flower children, and he feels so unloved. When Cagney discovers that the sibling protagonists Cuphead and Mugman are being forced to do the Devil's bidding by taking the Soul Contracts from other inhabitants who have lost but don't want to work for him, the flower makes sure that the brothers won't have to go through the same fate he's been through. Although he wants to hand over his Soul Contract, he can't do it easily for fear that the boys will be denounced as the Devil's lackeys, so he instead has to fight them in a battle to the death, knowing that his death means that he'll be free from servitude to the Devil. He even goes so far as to murder Mugman in his effort to spur Cuphead to retaliate and destroy Cagney for the contract. (Both Mugman and Cagney get better after a hard battle.) In the end, Elder Kettle and Cagney commend the boys for having beaten the Devil and destroying the Soul Contracts (the flower moreso commending them for their battle for his contract), then cook up lunch and explain the situation afterwards. In an Earn Your Happy Ending moment, Cagney gets his friends and the flower children back, in which he has finally found love and his will to live again.
Necessarily Evil / int_30065ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_30065ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Cuphead (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_30065ab
Necessarily Evil / int_30a5ebfd	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto Itachi murdered his entire clan save for his brother Sasuke and lived out the rest of his life as a traitor hated by everyone in order to prevent a war. He planned to die by Sasuke's hand since the beginning. Danzo considers himself this and is a deconstruction, claiming the ninja world must unite, and there's no time to do it morally. Some of his actions such as helping Hanzo out with Akatsuki as well as his approach to matters led to making problems much worse, most notably leading Kabuto to the beginning of his criminal career. Not to mention the fact that his actions drove Nagato into becoming Pain, who would level Konoha to the ground and kill over half the village's population in one fell swoop (granted, he revived them all but still, the people have to rebuild the village from scratch). Nagato, Tobi, and Madara also considered themselves this to varying extents, all of them being Well-Intentioned Extremists who lean very heavily on the extreme side. All of them were manipulated, directly or indirectly, by Zetsu on behalf of the ''true' Big Bad, Kaguya.
Necessarily Evil / int_30a5ebfd	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_30a5ebfd	featureConfidence	1.0
Naruto (Manga)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_30a5ebfd
Necessarily Evil / int_32926c5b	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_32926c5b	comment	Tarkin's Fist: The attitude taken by the more introspective Earthlings towards the more draconian efforts they are willing to resort to to win the Empire-Earth war. They know that, before the war, the brutal suppression of food riots, ruthless crackdowns on protestors, and blatant abuses of power by the central government would never have been acceptable. But with the global economy gutted, global civilization crumbling on the edge of the abyss, and the Empire threatening to reduce them to eternal serfdom, any method of extricating themselves from the bleak situation they find themselves in is preferable to defeat.
Necessarily Evil / int_32926c5b	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_32926c5b	featureConfidence	1.0
Tarkin's Fist (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_32926c5b
Necessarily Evil / int_35e05f2a	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Blake's Evil Former Friend Ilia Amitola makes it clear she hates hurting people and isn't a fan of the extreme methods the White Fang use to further their cause, but feels it's necessary because they've tried everything else and humans either actively hate Faunus or stand back and let the hate happen. She ultimately decides otherwise and pulls a Heelâ€“Face Turn when Blake asks her what her parents would think of what she's doing. Ironwood deconstructs the trope. By his own admission, any act, no matter how unethical or immoral, is necessary if it helps fight Salem. However, Ironwood arrogantly and stubbornly believes that only he knows what the "Greater Good" is. His refusal to consider any other alternatives, combined with his callous disregard for anyone he deems unimportant, results in his policies harming the people he should be protecting while enabling Salem's Divide and Conquer methods. By the end of Volume 7, he has become no better than Salem, perfectly willing to let half his kingdom die so he can put the other half under martial law to safeguard the Relics, violently lashing out at anyone who disagrees with him.
Necessarily Evil / int_35e05f2a	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_35e05f2a	featureConfidence	1.0
RWBY (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_35e05f2a
Necessarily Evil / int_3662453e	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_3662453e	comment	The Red Queen is this in Resident Evil (2002), going to any lengths to prevent a T-virus outbreak.
Necessarily Evil / int_3662453e	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_3662453e	featureConfidence	1.0
Resident Evil (2002)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_3662453e
Necessarily Evil / int_3692a962	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_3692a962	comment	In Lord of War, Yuri labels himself as such at the end of the film because he's sometimes a middleman supplying weapons to conflicts on the White House's request that the politicians can't be seen to get involved in themselves. He's let go from custody and exits the movie a free man with gun running the only thing left in his life.
Necessarily Evil / int_3692a962	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_3692a962	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of War	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_3692a962
Necessarily Evil / int_3717ea4a	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_3717ea4a	comment	In the DC Animated Universe: Amanda Waller saw Cadmus as a check as against the Justice League falling from grace. The Justice Lords. They see themselves as being able to accomplish what the Justice League cannot.
Necessarily Evil / int_3717ea4a	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_3717ea4a	featureConfidence	1.0
DC Animated Universe (Franchise)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_3717ea4a
Necessarily Evil / int_375e8f14	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_375e8f14	comment	In The Last Hero, the Silver Horde encounter the Card-Carrying Villain Evil Harry Dread, who's on good terms with them and as an evil overlord, has Contractual Genre Blindness. He recognizes there needs to be a villain in the story for the heroes to fight, and happily fills the role for the Silver Horde, since only they and he actually care about the hero's code anymore. And since the villain always escapes to cause trouble in the next story, he's always able to survive.
Necessarily Evil / int_375e8f14	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_375e8f14	featureConfidence	1.0
The Last Hero	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_375e8f14
Necessarily Evil / int_39fe00f1	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_39fe00f1	comment	In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Cassandra states after her personal quest that she always saw the Rite of Tranquility as a necessary evil. However, learning the real history of the Rite, the conditions of the Circles, and the beginnings of the Mage-Templar war, have left her questioning just how necessary it was.
Necessarily Evil / int_39fe00f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_39fe00f1	featureConfidence	1.0
DragonAgeInquisition	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_39fe00f1
Necessarily Evil / int_3b34143f	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Snape carried this role in the latter half of the series as Dumbledore's mole in Voldemort's inner circle. He had to do Death Eater things such as kill Dumbledore himself to prove himself and maintain his cover. Dumbledore planned for that to happen because he believed it necessary.
Necessarily Evil / int_3b34143f	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_3b34143f	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_3b34143f
Necessarily Evil / int_3c912cc2	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_3c912cc2	comment	Tales of Vesperia: Duke is the poster boy for this trope. His Entelexeia friend Elucifur was betrayed and killed by humans right after Elucifur helped them win the Great War. When the Adephagos eventually showed up, his solution for it was to destroy it using the energy absorbed from the life force of humans, including himself, effectively wiping humanity off the face of the planet but saving every other life form. Unusually for the final boss, the party manages to talk him out of it at the end of battle and he ends up helping them. The Hero himself Yuri Lowell views his acts of vigilante killing of some reprehensible people as this. He comes around before the climax against the Big Bad after seeing just how far this could take him. This is half the reason he's able to convince Duke to trust in them and talk him out of destroying the world; he's able to empathize with his viewpoint.
Necessarily Evil / int_3c912cc2	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_3c912cc2	featureConfidence	1.0
Tales of Vesperia (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_3c912cc2
Necessarily Evil / int_3d22c14b	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_3d22c14b	comment	Another example is the side of Mobile Suit Gundam 00's Celestial Being represented by the Ptolemaios crew. They are fully aware of the hypocritical and outright contradictory nature of their mission statement to end war through war, with some even admitting that they make for excellent terrorists. However, it turns out that the Ptolemaois crew is played for exactly the same reason; they themselves are rendered a hypocritical foe by the very same organization for whom they supposedly work. It works out, somehow.
Necessarily Evil / int_3d22c14b	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_3d22c14b	featureConfidence	1.0
Mobile Suit Gundam 00	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_3d22c14b
Necessarily Evil / int_3e5de40b	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: The Chief of Medicine has the job to keep the Sacred Heart hospital a thriving business or else they can't help anyone. This means the Chief has to make hard decisions that favors the hospital over individual patients. Chief of Medicine Dr. Kelso combines this with Zero-Approval Gambit, so that the staff have all a scapegoat to hate on while they're focusing on their patients. Dr. Cox, who has fought for his patients against Dr. Kelso for several years, eventually takes over as the new Chief of Medicine, and he realizes that he has to do the same things that Kelso was doing because the Sacred Heart has really been tight on money all the time. And with the board possibly watching over him, Dr. Cox can't commit the same fraud of treating uninsured patients anymore.
Necessarily Evil / int_3e5de40b	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_3e5de40b	featureConfidence	1.0
Scrubs	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_3e5de40b
Necessarily Evil / int_3e8c09b9	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan thrives on people doing horrible deeds in the hopes of good outcomes. Bertolt Hoover confesses to knowing his actions can never be forgiven and expresses remorse, but states he can't accept a Last-Second Chance because his mission has to be done. Since he's a Tyke Bomb clearly afraid of failing his superiors, how true this actually turns out to be is questionable. Djel Sanes claims that all the torturing and murdering done by the Secret Police is necessary, to uphold the peace within the Walls. The military commanders Erwin Smith and Dot Pixis are well aware their actions make them general rippers but believe they need to sacrifice that many soldiers for the sake of humanity's survival. Eren Yeager himself takes up this role once Marley decides to declare war on Paradis Island, realizing that the Fantastic Racism in the whole world is so deeply ingrained, there's no way for his people and loved ones to be free and safe unless everyone outside the walls get exterminated.
Necessarily Evil / int_3e8c09b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_3e8c09b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Attack on Titan (Manga)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_3e8c09b9
Necessarily Evil / int_3fe6b4fb	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	Jacen Solo in the post-New Jedi Order era Star Wars Expanded Universe, prior to Jumping Off the Slippery Slope. He convinced himself that he could become a Sith yet still work for the good of the galaxy. It didn't work out that way.
Necessarily Evil / int_3fe6b4fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_3fe6b4fb	featureConfidence	1.0
New Jedi Order	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_3fe6b4fb
Necessarily Evil / int_405243c7	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_405243c7	comment	Dante from The 100 sees himself as irrevocably tainted by the forced harvesting of the 100's bone marrow, but supports it anyway when he sees no other option for his people's survival. Clarke comes to see herself this way after she slaughters everyone in Mount Weather to save her own people.
Necessarily Evil / int_405243c7	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_405243c7	featureConfidence	1.0
The 100	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_405243c7
Necessarily Evil / int_4141af74	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_4141af74	comment	Future Diary: This is how Yukiteru views himself, once he decides to actively take part in the Survival Game. Prior to that, the only people he killed were in direct self-defense. As he begins killing in order to win the game, he justifies it by saying that once he's become the new god, he can resurrect everyone he's killed and give them happy lives. Cruelly enough, he finds out far too late that even God can't bring back the souls of dead people. He doesn't take this news well.
Necessarily Evil / int_4141af74	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_4141af74	featureConfidence	1.0
Future Diary (Manga)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_4141af74
Necessarily Evil / int_41b0198a	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_41b0198a	comment	Ebenezar McCoy of The Dresden Files taught Harry about how magic is suppose to be about protecting life and respect for the laws of magic. Ebenezar is the Blackstaff, the only wizard on the White Council who has permission to break the seven Laws of magic, ranging from mind control to mass murder, when the "rules" are being used against the council and to prevent even worse disasters. And it later turns out that the purpose of the Winter Court of the Fae is to protect our universe from the Outsiders, and the Summer Court protects mortals from Winter. This is shaping up to be a theme in The Dresden Files. Marcone is a Noble Demon Don acknowledged by everyone, including himself, to be the Lesser of Two Evils, but he's still a drug-dealing, pimping murderer. He's just a drug-dealing, pimping murderer who is also a Friend to All Children and minimizes the harm done to innocent bystanders. If anybody is going to be running the Chicago Outfit, it's best that it be someone like him.
Necessarily Evil / int_41b0198a	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_41b0198a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dresden Files	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_41b0198a
Necessarily Evil / int_42ffb88e	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_42ffb88e	comment	The SCP Foundation is a single giant example of dog shooting, doing what's necessary, and protecting you from things you don't need to know about. The Ethics Committee makes sure that every evil that they do is necessary. Any scientists who Kick the Dog without a good reason (and no, For Science! is not a good reason) are punished appropriately (read: killed). SCP-231 is contained by Procedure 110-Montauk, which is never described in detail, but the details we are told aboutnote Like the fact that all non-D-class staff have to be rotated out every two months for psychological counseling, and are permitted to subject themselves to Laser-Guided Amnesia after they've completed their assignment with SCP-231 make it clear that what they are doing is subjecting an innocent young woman to a horrifically traumatizing procedure (which has to be traumatizing or else it won't work, so they have to keep wiping her memory of it every time she starts becoming desensitized to it), because if they don't, she will give birth to something undisclosed which poses a serious threat to everyone in the surrounding area and possibly life as we know it. An Easter Egg hidden on the page questions how necessary this evil actually is. SCP-1427 is a steele that attempts to inflict severe mental damage to the nearest roughly-20,000 humans who aren't already under its effects. Humans with authoritative-submissive tendencies will still be targeted, but will not suffer the effects. To maximize its containment, it's been placed in North Korea, a dictatorship of 25 million citizens, and the Foundation has agents in United Nations Security Council member-states that make sure that it remains a so-called "Democratic People's Republic" of Korea. This trope actually gets discussed in an addendum by two dissenting members of the Ethics Committee, who deem this containment procedure an unnecessary evil and explain that the Foundation has almost enough D-class personnel to prop up a self-contained dictatorship to house SCP-1427 in so that the people of North Korea can get on with having actual human rights already.
Necessarily Evil / int_42ffb88e	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_42ffb88e	featureConfidence	1.0
SCP Foundation (Website)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_42ffb88e
Necessarily Evil / int_43116ded	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_43116ded	comment	Arc of a Scythe: The Scythedom, an elite group who bring permanent death in a world where permanent death is otherwise eradicated. There are two justifications for its existence, a) the idea that life has no meaning without death and b) the fact that humanity would overpopulate to extinction without it, because every attempt at space colonization had failed. They only failed because Scythe Goddard sabotaged them.
Necessarily Evil / int_43116ded	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_43116ded	featureConfidence	1.0
Arc of a Scythe	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_43116ded
Necessarily Evil / int_43576f5	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_43576f5	comment	In season 6 of Supernatural, Castiel becomes this after Michael has been locked up with Lucifer, and the only remaining archangel wants to break open the cage so Lucy and Mike can finish up their big fight, or even worse, become the new God. Faced with the prospect of death, or going along with these plans, Castiel was forced to Take a Third Option that had him trying to handle the slippery slope without jumping.
Necessarily Evil / int_43576f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_43576f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Supernatural	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_43576f5
Necessarily Evil / int_43a00a9b	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_43a00a9b	comment	In Rockman & Forte: Mirai Kara no Chousensha, R-Shadow reveals to Mega Man that the reason he's come from the future to destroy him was to stop the problems that Wily has caused at its roots by destroying all of the robots of the past.
Necessarily Evil / int_43a00a9b	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_43a00a9b	featureConfidence	1.0
Rockman & Forte: Mirai Kara no Chousensha (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_43a00a9b
Necessarily Evil / int_4522fd1	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_4522fd1	comment	She-Beast of the Whateley Universe describes the international supervillain Dr. Diabolik like this, including talking about the thousands of people who have died in his efforts to advance the human race. She may be giving him more credit than he deserves though, since she is his daughter. Now that we have seen him attack the entire city of Cincinnati, we know the truth. She didn't give him enough credit.
Necessarily Evil / int_4522fd1	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_4522fd1	featureConfidence	1.0
Whateley Universe	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_4522fd1
Necessarily Evil / int_457b671e	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_457b671e	comment	Allison Taylor does this in the final season of 24 by protecting the true masterminds behind the terrorist attacks earlier in the day and allowing them to go unpunished for the actions even after learning they were behind it all in a desperate attempt to secure a peace treaty between the United States, Russia, and another country.
Necessarily Evil / int_457b671e	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_457b671e	featureConfidence	1.0
24	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_457b671e
Necessarily Evil / int_468bebb0	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Lord Vetinari strengthened the power of the guilds in Ankh-Mopork such as the Assassins' Guild and legalised others including the Thieves' Guild, thereby formally organizing the city's criminals. The guilds own monopolies on those crimes: as long as they ensure that all thefts and murders are committed by licensed members and adhere to certain standards (like avoiding bystander fatalities and robbing any one citizen only once a year), they are permitted an annual crime quota and enforcement authority. Why does Vetinari expect criminals to abide by this agreement? Half self preservation, half simply knowing where they live since they do openly do business. In later books, the Thieves are mostly in the insurance business (offering a pre-emptive payment option in lieu of annual robbery) and the Assassins are more a snobby boarding school and gentlemen's club than a bunch of cutthroats. But they will still act with extreme prejudice to defend their lucrative monopolies. Prof. John Hix — of the Department of Necroman... sorry, Post-Mortem Communications — serves a Necessarily Evil function for Unseen University. UU has to have an official evil (but not too evil) necromancer on the staff in order to extend their monopoly on magic to include necromancy and other black magic... and with it the authority to fireball all freelancers. The post of Official Post-Mortem Communicator carries a lot of authority and respect on the University Council, as Hix is also tasked with determining when it is appropriate to use small amounts of black magic in the service of the greater good. His duties also involve saying impolite things that still need to be said and performing slightly evil deeds for the greater good (like knocking another wizard out to free them from possession). In The Last Hero, the Silver Horde encounter the Card-Carrying Villain Evil Harry Dread, who's on good terms with them and as an evil overlord, has Contractual Genre Blindness. He recognizes there needs to be a villain in the story for the heroes to fight, and happily fills the role for the Silver Horde, since only they and he actually care about the hero's code anymore. And since the villain always escapes to cause trouble in the next story, he's always able to survive.
Necessarily Evil / int_468bebb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_468bebb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Discworld	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_468bebb0
Necessarily Evil / int_475972f0	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_475972f0	comment	Y: The Last Man: Alter, after dealing with internal discord in Israel thanks to an abrupt end to their conflict with Palestine, concludes an outside enemy is necessary to distract them and engineers a conflict with America. This is later revealed to be a cover for her real plan to be killed by Yorick.
Necessarily Evil / int_475972f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_475972f0	featureConfidence	1.0
Y: The Last Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_475972f0
Necessarily Evil / int_4997726d	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_4997726d	comment	Dracula/Gabriel Belmont in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 believes himself to be this; on top of feeling like he had no choice to become evil in the first place, he considers himself a necessary evil in that, due to his overwhelming power and presence, his existence keeps greater evils at bay.
Necessarily Evil / int_4997726d	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_4997726d	featureConfidence	1.0
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_4997726d
Necessarily Evil / int_49ad83ee	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_49ad83ee	comment	In the World of Warcraft short story In the Shadow of the Sun (available for reading on the official website), Lor'themar Theron admits to being this in his personal journal.
Necessarily Evil / int_49ad83ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_49ad83ee	featureConfidence	1.0
World of Warcraft (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_49ad83ee
Necessarily Evil / int_49ff762	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_49ff762	comment	Torchwood's Captain Jack Harkness, when he's not The Ace, a Lovable Rogue, or a Chivalrous Pervert, pretty much bases his entire character around being this. The best (worst?) examples are the episodes "Small Worlds" and "End of Days", and of course, the miniseries Children of Earth.
Necessarily Evil / int_49ff762	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_49ff762	featureConfidence	1.0
Torchwood	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_49ff762
Necessarily Evil / int_4a4a982a	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_4a4a982a	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz meanwhile, the Preventers are essentially seen as this. Relena and her supporters in the Earth Sphere Unified Nation know that even in a world without war, there would still be battles. And thus view the need for an armed military force both to keep potential hotspots from escalating into another conflict and keep the more military-minded members of her own government pleased.
Necessarily Evil / int_4a4a982a	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_4a4a982a	featureConfidence	1.0
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_4a4a982a
Necessarily Evil / int_4bb01243	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_4bb01243	comment	In the Thog Infinitron, the aliens that gave Thog his powers finally realize their mistake, and decide they must destroy Thog to hide their mistake, even though they admire him.)
Necessarily Evil / int_4bb01243	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_4bb01243	featureConfidence	1.0
Thog Infinitron (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_4bb01243
Necessarily Evil / int_4c9647dd	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_4c9647dd	comment	This trope is the title of a Savage Worlds book that allows PCs to play supervillains in world where aliens had successfully killed off all the superheroes.
Necessarily Evil / int_4c9647dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_4c9647dd	featureConfidence	1.0
SavageWorlds	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_4c9647dd
Necessarily Evil / int_4f1098ae	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_4f1098ae	comment	Hellsing Ultimate Abridged: Anderson and his posse give a Badass Creed about how they are a necessary evil in episode 5.
Necessarily Evil / int_4f1098ae	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_4f1098ae	featureConfidence	1.0
Hellsing Ultimate Abridged (Web Video)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_4f1098ae
Necessarily Evil / int_50bcf7a6	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_50bcf7a6	comment	This is how Vriska sees herself in Homestuck. She justifies her constant abuse and even sacrificing her teammates as being "for the greater good". Sometimes it seems she actually is right, but most of the time her "helpfulness" is ambiguous at best.
Necessarily Evil / int_50bcf7a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_50bcf7a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Homestuck (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_50bcf7a6
Necessarily Evil / int_51b3091a	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_51b3091a	comment	This is the attitude that the protagonists of Knight Hunters take toward their work as assassins. They kill criminals who are above the law in order to help protect the innocence of normal people, while acknowledging that they themselves are also criminals and murderers, and expecting to be punished for it someday. Even their voice actors, one of whom is the creator of the series, do not expect their characters to meet good ends.
Necessarily Evil / int_51b3091a	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_51b3091a	featureConfidence	1.0
Knight Hunters	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_51b3091a
Necessarily Evil / int_522a146a	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_522a146a	comment	The Riddle Master Trilogy: Deth is very much this. He will do whatever it takes to make sure that Morgon is capable of taking up the land-rule when he dies, including consigning him to a year of Mind Rape in Erlenstar Mountain.
Necessarily Evil / int_522a146a	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_522a146a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Riddle Master Trilogy	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_522a146a
Necessarily Evil / int_5436b1a9	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_5436b1a9	comment	Senran Kagura: In Estival Versus, when Miyabi and Homura are discussing what it means to be evil to them, Miyabi's answer boils down to being evil so that good has something to strive being stronger than, so that when true evil emerges, they are strong enough to face it.
Necessarily Evil / int_5436b1a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_5436b1a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Senran Kagura (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_5436b1a9
Necessarily Evil / int_59151283	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: Solidus Snake knows his and Dead Cell's actions are wrong and likely being manipulated by outside forces, but it's what he feels must be done to free America from the Patriots. Ironically, this makes the player character an agent of the Greater-Scope Villain. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: In order to save the world, The Joy had to be perceived as a traitor and die by Naked Snake's hands. Needless to say, this caused some nasty emotional trauma to him, and differences in interpretation of her will ultimately made things worse for the next half-century.
Necessarily Evil / int_59151283	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_59151283	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_59151283
Necessarily Evil / int_5b075d7c	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_5b075d7c	comment	Fable III: Logan views his actions as these in order to fund an army and prepare Albion to deal with an Eldritch Abomination called the Crawler. You have to be this to get the bad-karma ending, otherwise known as the one that doesn't involve everybody you know and love dying. Unless you feel like playing the Lute for ten hours or going into real estate. Have I mentioned you're the king/queen?
Necessarily Evil / int_5b075d7c	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_5b075d7c	featureConfidence	1.0
Fable III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_5b075d7c
Necessarily Evil / int_5c66fff9	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_5c66fff9	comment	Ammon Jerro in Neverwinter Nights 2. Not only does he deal with devils, and other deadly creatures of the lower planes in order to get what he needs done. True, he's trying to save all of the sword coast. But at the same time he kills his granddaughter, and several other people whom are really not all that bad. They just happen to get in his way. Though he does have a Villainous Breakdown when he realizes who Shandra was, and spends the rest of the game trying to atone for what he's done.
Necessarily Evil / int_5c66fff9	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_5c66fff9	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwinter Nights 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_5c66fff9
Necessarily Evil / int_5cd1aa89	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_5cd1aa89	comment	Nineteen Eighty-Four: If O'Brien is correct, the Brotherhood has no choice but to commit the most heinous of acts to defeat The Party.
Necessarily Evil / int_5cd1aa89	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_5cd1aa89	featureConfidence	1.0
Nineteen Eighty-Four	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_5cd1aa89
Necessarily Evil / int_5db577ba	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_5db577ba	comment	The main theme of The Dark Knight was Batman - and his perception in the eyes of Gotham City - becoming this. He hoped that Harvey Dent, Gotham's 'White Knight', would make him obsolete so no further evil of any sort would exist within Gotham.
Necessarily Evil / int_5db577ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_5db577ba	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_5db577ba
Necessarily Evil / int_5e150650	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_5e150650	comment	In Exalted the Sidereals deliberately ended a golden age, caused the deaths of millions of innocents, plunged Creation into medieval squalor, threatened and murdered some of the gods themselves to go along with the new order, and spent the next millennium tracking down and murdering the innocent reincarnations of the world's greatest heroes. It was the only surefire way to save Creation from being utterly destroyed.
Necessarily Evil / int_5e150650	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_5e150650	featureConfidence	1.0
Exalted (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_5e150650
Necessarily Evil / int_5e26057	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_5e26057	comment	Master Mattias in Luminous Arc 2, who seems to continue his reign of terror of killing people to fuel Rega the demon sword with their souls, after being released from being sealed by Fatima and Josie. He's actually preparing to stop the Beast Fiends at their source and sealed them away, plus the souls inside Rega will be released after it's used for the plan.
Necessarily Evil / int_5e26057	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_5e26057	featureConfidence	1.0
Luminous Arc 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_5e26057
Necessarily Evil / int_5e3f9611	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_5e3f9611	comment	The Handmaid's Tale: Lawrence may be a part of Gilead's top government, but he doesn't seem to think too highly of them. He also shows June that he has to pick-and-choose who survives and who dies in Gilead. He eventually says that he's well aware of the horrific acts that he's guilty of, but saw no other way to save the human race through pushing up birth rates by brutal means.
Necessarily Evil / int_5e3f9611	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_5e3f9611	featureConfidence	1.0
The Handmaid's Tale	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_5e3f9611
Necessarily Evil / int_5e4ba6dc	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_5e4ba6dc	comment	For the most part the Overlords are this to the world. They seem to save the world (so they can take it over) from the other (worse) evils and Fallen Heroes. Rose states that the Balance of Good and Evil will mean that during the times when Light Is Not Good and becomes too powerful, Darkness is required to triumph.
Necessarily Evil / int_5e4ba6dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_5e4ba6dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Overlord (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_5e4ba6dc
Necessarily Evil / int_5e65e572	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_5e65e572	comment	In Izure Shinwa No Ragnarok, the organization, Eucharista, had to create a battlefield for the warring gods and provide them with suitable human hosts in order to limit their destruction to a tiny island.
Necessarily Evil / int_5e65e572	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_5e65e572	featureConfidence	1.0
Izure Shinwa No Ragnarok	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_5e65e572
Necessarily Evil / int_5ed228d8	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_5ed228d8	comment	Marder from Panzer World Galient gladly wears the "evil overlord" hat, for the sake of going back to his home planet and use chaos and destruction to wake up his compatriots from their extremely dull, boring and lifeless utopia.
Necessarily Evil / int_5ed228d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_5ed228d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Panzer World Galient	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_5ed228d8
Necessarily Evil / int_60156176	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_60156176	comment	Vorkosigan Saga: In Shards of Honor, Emperor Ezar sets up a massive interplanetary war and gets several thousand people killed, all to assassinate his son, a deranged sadist, and discredit his cronies, a batch of expansionist warmongers, thus averting the ascension of a madman to the throne and subsequent civil war.
Necessarily Evil / int_60156176	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_60156176	featureConfidence	1.0
Vorkosigan Saga	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_60156176
Necessarily Evil / int_61a39969	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_61a39969	comment	Avengers: Infinity War: Thanos perceives himself as this. After watching an Overpopulation Crisis destroy his world, heâ€™s firmly convinced that the resources of the universe are finite and that the only way to stave off similar disasters is to use the Infinity Stones to wipe out half of all life, giving the other half a chance to survive. He takes no pleasure in it, but he believes it must be done. Cut through all the flowery speeches however, and it becomes clear his real motive is to prove to the universe and himself that he was right about how to save Titan; that all the death and tragedy heâ€™s suffered or inflicted werenâ€™t all for nothing. Come Avengers: Endgame, a version of Thanos from an alternate timeline (one that hasn't had the chance to undergo Character Development) sees that the Avengers are attempting to undo his work and decides that since the universe is going to be ungrateful, then he will simply unmake the universe and remake it from scratch so that no one can remember what they've lost and only remember "what they've been given", thus creating a grateful universe.
Necessarily Evil / int_61a39969	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_61a39969	featureConfidence	1.0
Avengers: Infinity War	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_61a39969
Necessarily Evil / int_62126ef1	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_62126ef1	comment	Wonder Man in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes; the only reason he is acting as a member of the Masters of Evil is because their Black Magician Girl, the Enchantress, is the one casting the spell that allows him to stay alive, meaning he can only stay alive if he does what they say. Other than that, he has absolutely no interest in being a supervillain. As it turns out, this was all a lie on The Enchantress' part. After The Masters of Evil broke up, there was nothing keeping him alive, except himself. Kang the Conqueror seems to be an example of this. He came to the past to prevent an intergalactic war from destroying the Earth. Unfortunately, saving the Earth entailed taking it over and killing Captain America.
Necessarily Evil / int_62126ef1	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_62126ef1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_62126ef1
Necessarily Evil / int_629cd094	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_629cd094	comment	Being a fairly nuanced RPG, Dragon Age: Origins allows you to behave like this in any number of situations, justifying a great deal of evil as necessary to destroy the darkspawn. Loghain definitely feels this way about what he's done by the end of the game. Doesn't change the fact that he's a wee bit unhinged at this point... Though if you recruit him, he becomes The Atoner. In the sequel, Anders stands out among a city of Well-Intentioned Extremists as one of the few who acknowledges that the actions taken to reach his goals are inexcusable. He doesn't blow up the Chantry because he thinks it's the right thing to do... but because things have gotten so hopeless and the stalemate between the templars and the mages has remained deadlocked for so long that he sees no other option. Meredith verges on this a few times as well, though it swings back and forth between this and Knight Templar given the Sanity Slippage means one moment she's insisting the templars are entirely in the right, and the next she seems more regretful and willing to acknowledge some of her methods for controlling the mages are inhumane. Sometimes within the span of a few seconds. The Mages' Circle is guilty of this as well; they actually are harboring Blood Mages and Abominations, firstly because the evidence of their existence would be all the Templars need to oppress them further or outright purge them, and secondly because if the Templars decide to do that anyway the Circle will need all the power they can get on their side. Their necessary evil comes to the same logical conclusion at the same time as the Templars'. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Cassandra states after her personal quest that she always saw the Rite of Tranquility as a necessary evil. However, learning the real history of the Rite, the conditions of the Circles, and the beginnings of the Mage-Templar war, have left her questioning just how necessary it was. Her partner Leliana very much subscribes to this trope: kill a traitor? You'd be hard pressed to talk her out of it. Cut out the tongues of slanderers? This and threatening The Inquisitor's family is her stock in trade. Kidnapping the children of The Inquisition's enemies? A valid tactic. Using an assassin's remains to scare off threats? This is actually one of her prouder funny moments. She hates herself for these actions but firmly rooted in Dirty Business unless you take action.
Necessarily Evil / int_629cd094	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_629cd094	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Age: Origins (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_629cd094
Necessarily Evil / int_65aabcf0	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_65aabcf0	comment	Buso Renkin: Captain Bravo descends into this when he accepts the order to kill Kazuki before he completely Victorizes (A process they did not know could be arrested or reversed at the time). He even freely admits that this is a war crime that he will have to answer for once the war is over.
Necessarily Evil / int_65aabcf0	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_65aabcf0	featureConfidence	1.0
Buso Renkin (Manga)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_65aabcf0
Necessarily Evil / int_6633a097	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_6633a097	comment	In the beginning of the Woody Woodpecker short Ration Bored, Woody himself flat out admits that he is a necessary evil. Given the context under which he said that, he could have meant it as a joke.
Necessarily Evil / int_6633a097	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_6633a097	featureConfidence	1.0
Woody Woodpecker	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_6633a097
Necessarily Evil / int_677fd618	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_677fd618	comment	Colonel Zarpedon and her Lost Legion, the obvious antagonists for most of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!, use "[killing] thousands to save millions" as a slogan. They've got a point, too, although they don't try very hard to make anyone understand it.
Necessarily Evil / int_677fd618	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_677fd618	featureConfidence	1.0
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_677fd618
Necessarily Evil / int_686684b0	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_686684b0	comment	Arthur, head of The Men in Black who uphold The Masquerade about magic, describes himself and his job like this. He believes in freedom for all, but also believes that some information should be hidden because it's just too dangerous for the general public to know about. He also strongly objects to the idea that his actions should ever be considered "good" in the grand scheme of things: Necessarily Evil is still evil, and to call it anything else is a trap that will lead to even greater evil.
Necessarily Evil / int_686684b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_686684b0	featureConfidence	1.0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_686684b0
Necessarily Evil / int_68959735	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_68959735	comment	In Suikoden II, Jowy seems at first to be simply a Faceâ€“Heel Turn or a Rival Turned Evil, when he betrays the city of Muse to the Highlands, assassinates the Mayor, and opens the gates to the invaders. It turns out, however, that he only did it because he knew that the only way to stop the monstrous Luca Blight, was from the inside - and so, he sold out Muse in order to gain Luca's trust, so that he could later betray him, bringing about his death at the hands of the hero. However, by the time Luca dies, Jowy has already married Luca's sister, and he thus becomes the ruler of Highland... and thus, he is responsible for the nation, and feels compelled to win the war. At the very end of the game, he is gambling on The Hero killing him, so that he can use his life-force to seal the Beast Rune that Luca unleashed earlier... whether it actually ends that way, however, depends on a few things...
Necessarily Evil / int_68959735	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_68959735	featureConfidence	1.0
Suikoden II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_68959735
Necessarily Evil / int_68c8e9ad	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_68c8e9ad	comment	Bian Zoldark and Maier Branstein in Super Robot Wars Original Generation. When they realized that the government was preparing to surrender to the coming alien invaders, they launched an attempt to Take Over the World, in order to give mankind the means to fight back against the invaders, remove those who wanted to collaborate, and finally, ensure that the heroes were strong enough to spearhead the counterattack. Tragically, a lot of their minions had different plans. Most of which involve 'kill the heroes, take their place'. Which may have been Bian and Maier's back-up plan.
Necessarily Evil / int_68c8e9ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_68c8e9ad	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Robot Wars (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_68c8e9ad
Necessarily Evil / int_68ff28ca	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_68ff28ca	comment	Claudia Wolfe from Silent Hill 3. She acts cruel and evil to the protagonist and orders the murder of her father...but Heather eventually finds her diary, which is filled with entries about how much she's sorry for having to put Heather through all this, and only feels she must do it to bring the birth of paradise for Heather and everyone—everyone, that is, except Claudia herself. She believes in Hell, by the way. She believes that she deserves to go to Hell for committing the necessary evil to save everyone else, meaning she absolutely embodies this Trope. Heather stops whatever the result would have been, but Claudia's intentions are definitely well intentioned and self aware.
Necessarily Evil / int_68ff28ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_68ff28ca	featureConfidence	1.0
Silent Hill 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_68ff28ca
Necessarily Evil / int_69a51847	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_69a51847	comment	Ghost Rider: Mephisto often comes across as this. Hell is a necessary part of the universe. It inevitably corrupts any good person who tries to rule it, the exception being Noble Kale, who was the result of a centuries long gambit by Uri-El to get rid of Mephisto for good. Any attempts at reform fail, even Kale ruling hell benevolently got him kicked back to Earth by demons that wanted Mephisto back. And any other hell lord besides Mephisto tends to be worse. So for better or worse heroes will sometimes work with Mephisto to restore him to his throne since someone has to do the job as Lord of Evil and keep worse hell lords in check.
Necessarily Evil / int_69a51847	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_69a51847	featureConfidence	1.0
Ghost Rider / Comicbook	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_69a51847
Necessarily Evil / int_6a8aff51	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_6a8aff51	comment	In The Stormlight Archive, King Taravangian sees himself this way. When called on it by his Dragon Szeth, he fully admits that he's a monster, but that he's "the monster who will save this world".
Necessarily Evil / int_6a8aff51	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_6a8aff51	featureConfidence	1.0
The Stormlight Archive	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_6a8aff51
Necessarily Evil / int_6ab7b409	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_6ab7b409	comment	Jin Kazama in Tekken 6 purposefully started World War 3 to awaken an ancient Egyptian demon that is only summoned when humanity is in grave danger in order to defeat it and destroy it once and for all in hopes of ridding himself of the Evil Gene that turns him into a demon.
Necessarily Evil / int_6ab7b409	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_6ab7b409	featureConfidence	1.0
Tekken 6 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_6ab7b409
Necessarily Evil / int_6ac55ec7	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In certain versions of Dungeons & Dragons, it's actually allowed for a Lawful Good Paladin to commit an outright evil act like slaughtering an innocent civilian or destroying a village, without losing their powers, so long as it is for the greater good in the long term. And they apologize to their deity either before or after committing said evil act... And the icing on the cake: Both 3.5 and 5.0 actually have special rules that encourage Paladins to commit this kind of evil acts! In 3.5, there's the Evil Counterpart known as a Blackguard. In 5.0, there's special Archetype for a Paladin who breaks his sacred Oath, aptly named Oathbreaker, which comes with its own unique features. 4.0, on the other hand, simply ignores alignments for all purposes other than the already limited Roleplaying side of the game. At least 2.0 was consequent about this. You play a Paladin, you play Lawful Good or you permanently lose your powers! The Blackguard and Oathbreaker are so effective that some players are willing to pick the Paladin Class, behave nicely until they can get the Blackguard Prestige Class, and then commit the necessarily evil acts required to lose their Lawful Good alignment just so they can become Blackguards or break their Oath enough times to become an Oathbreaker. The Blood War, the eternal conflict between devils and demons, acts as this. The forces of evil are actually much more powerful than their current influence suggests, but luckily they hate each other more than they hate the universe in general, so they fight. The forces of Good encourage the conflict to continue, because as long as the demons harry the devils, devils won't be able to impose their tyranny on the non-lower planes, and as long as the devils stalemate the demons, demons won't spill out into the multiverse and destroy it all. 5e clarifies that this is the reason Abbathor, the Dwarven god of greed, is tolerated as the Token Evil Teammate of the pantheon. As disreputable and annoying as he is, he also encourages change and improvement- something dwarves, who are somewhat inclined to stagnation, need.
Necessarily Evil / int_6ac55ec7	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_6ac55ec7	featureConfidence	1.0
Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_6ac55ec7
Necessarily Evil / int_6da64089	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_6da64089	comment	The villains of Each Little Universe certainly want to claim that the harm they cause is necessary, in service of restoring the natural order that if left unbalanced could destroy the entire cosmos, but Orion in particular occasionally lets the mask slip and openly enjoys inflicting pain.
Necessarily Evil / int_6da64089	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_6da64089	featureConfidence	1.0
Each Little Universe	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_6da64089
Necessarily Evil / int_6ed09d93	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_6ed09d93	comment	The Shame Wizard from Big Mouth is the embodiment of shame and is always there to spread guilt amongst the main cast and all the other students in their grade. However, as he rightly points out in his song, without shame, things would devolve into a chaotic mess. Andrew himself also realizes that shame helps everyone reflect on their wrongdoings and gives them the chance to learn from it.
Necessarily Evil / int_6ed09d93	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_6ed09d93	featureConfidence	1.0
Big Mouth	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_6ed09d93
Necessarily Evil / int_73d7930f	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Gul Dukat believes his actions during the Cardassian occupation were this, and forms a major guilt complex over it. Winn Adami believes many of her more extreme actions are this, when they're not completely justified and necessary. Section 31 (which may or may not exist) are this to the Federation. They do all the horrific, underhanded things Federation ideals forbid but are necessary to its survival. If it exists, it may have been deliberately set up by the Federation at its founding to be this. Or it may not. The details are a little vague. Given that they served on the most important location on the frontlines of the most brutal and destructive war in Alpha Quadrant history, pretty much the entire senior Command crew of DS9 had a moment or two of this. But none more than Sisko, who in "In the Pale Moonlight" takes decidedly non-Starfleet-like actions in secret that bring the Romulans into the war on the side of the Federation. Ultimately, Sisko is unable or unwilling to go far enough to succeed in his plot to trick the Romulans into joining the Federation/Klingon alliance. Fortunately, he's enlisted the aid of Elim Garak, who is both able and willing to succeed at the task no matter how evil the means.
Necessarily Evil / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_73d7930f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_73d7930f
Necessarily Evil / int_747d9a6f	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_747d9a6f	comment	Blackwatch from [PROTOTYPE] may be a small army of sociopaths, but their brutal tactics are necessary to prevent The End of the World as We Know It. Or so we're told; in practice they aren't any better than the Marines at achieving their goals without the protagonist's help, and they mostly just make things worse by constantly interfering with said protagonist's efforts to help them. The second game drops the pretense and makes it clear that putting an unaccountable gang of blood knights and mad scientists in charge of things isn't going to save the day.
Necessarily Evil / int_747d9a6f	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_747d9a6f	featureConfidence	1.0
[PROTOTYPE] / Videogame	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_747d9a6f
Necessarily Evil / int_7559ae0b	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_7559ae0b	comment	By some readings, Paul Atreides and Leto Atreides II in the Dune series, who both see the future. Leto II especially fits the trope: he merges with an alien species, becomes God of his own theocracy, crushes rebellions before they happen, and manipulates the genome for millennia in order to avert human extinction. Even his closest advisors repeatedly try to kill him and their eventual success is part of his plan. Sometimes, All-Loving Hero has to be a Magnificent Bastard to save you despite yourself.
Necessarily Evil / int_7559ae0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_7559ae0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Dune (Franchise)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_7559ae0b
Necessarily Evil / int_76c01b30	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_76c01b30	comment	V for Vendetta: The ending features this trope, though it's the protagonist who realizes that he can't live in the utopia he's spent the entire book trying to birth.
Necessarily Evil / int_76c01b30	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_76c01b30	featureConfidence	1.0
V for Vendetta (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_76c01b30
Necessarily Evil / int_792239e5	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_792239e5	comment	Yuan in Tales of Symphonia may be this or a Well-Intentioned Extremist. It doesn't show him acting guilty for what he does, but then again, he doesn't show much emotion at all and the storyline doesn't focus on him enough to give him a chance.
Necessarily Evil / int_792239e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_792239e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_792239e5
Necessarily Evil / int_7988cb68	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_7988cb68	comment	Many of the Renegade decisions in the Mass Effect games can come across like this. Saren Arterius, The Dragon of Mass Effect, believes his terrible actions such as attacking a defenseless colony, researching living weapons, and betraying the Council are absolutely necessary for the future of the galaxy. Tela Vasir, a Spectre in Mass Effect 2, provides this justification for her ruthless actions such as bombing an office building with many civilians inside. She combines this with "Not So Different" Remark and Shut Up, Kirk! if a Paragon Shepard - who is working with the terrorists of Cerberus - calls her out on it. In Mass Effect 3, Paragon Shepard appears to view working with Cerberus in Mass Effect 2 as a necessary evil: (s)he hates what they stand for and what they do, but they were literally the only people in the galaxy who were actually listening about the Reaper threat and taking it seriously. During the events of Mass Effect 2, (s)he had nowhere else to turn when things needed to get done, in large part because the Illusive Man drove away anyone else who might have helped Shepard. Mordin Solus was one of scientists in charge of the project to "update" the genophage biological weapon to keep the fertility rate for krogan extremely low. He justifies this as a choice between "genophage or genocide", reasoning that if the krogan can replenish their population, they will once again try to conquer new worlds and go to war with the rest of the galaxy. The Council races would probably win, but if a second krogan war happened the krogan would probably be wiped out entirely. A paragon Shepard can help convince Mordin to have a change of heart, as he is genuinely moved by the suffering of krogan desperate to have children and carry on their culture. Depending on other choices, he might also have confidence in the new generation of krogan leaders to be less warlike. In Mass Effect 3, he can even wind up giving his life in a Heroic Sacrifice to cure the genophage and save the krogan. From a certain point of view, the Reapers themselves are this. They wipe out technologically advanced species on a regular schedule so that they don't wind up creating an even more dangerous form of synthetic life that completely extinguishes organic life in the galaxy for good. The memories of the destroyed civilizations are preserved and younger races are allowed to take their place in time.
Necessarily Evil / int_7988cb68	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_7988cb68	featureConfidence	1.0
Mass Effect (Franchise)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_7988cb68
Necessarily Evil / int_7aaf9e41	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: This is Jason Todd's original characterization and goal post-resurrection - he believes there is no way to stop crime legally, so he aims to control all the crime in Gotham instead and quell the worst the city has to offer on threat of death. Batman essentially counters that instead of saving Gotham by controlling crime, he's making things worse and driving the city into a gang war and, naturally, a fight ensued. Afterwards, Depending on the Writer, he either kept this characterization or descended into more insane revenge schemes (until the New 52 happened and he went back to being a hero).
Necessarily Evil / int_7aaf9e41	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_7aaf9e41	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_7aaf9e41
Necessarily Evil / int_7e22b6b0	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_7e22b6b0	comment	Balthazar in Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal. He is one of the Five, a group of Bhaalspawn convinced by the Big Bad to exterminate their siblings, ostensibly in exchange for a chance to serve as the lieutenants of Bhaal, the dead god of murder, when he is resurrected by the deaths of enough of his children. When you confront him it turns out he has other plans - he intends to eliminate the other members of the Five and as many Bhaalspawn he can find, the Big Bad (who is the only one who can resurrect Bhaal), and then kill himself, ensuring that Bhaal's chance to return dies with him. The player has no choice but to fight him, and he verbally regrets the player character death as a "necessity."
Necessarily Evil / int_7e22b6b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_7e22b6b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_7e22b6b0
Necessarily Evil / int_7f8a38b6	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_7f8a38b6	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Treize Kushrenada and Milliardo Peacecraft start a war to show humanity just how senseless war really is. Treize actually goes so far as to commit to memory the names of every single one of his deceased pawns, to show that he doesn't take their sacrifices lightly. In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz meanwhile, the Preventers are essentially seen as this. Relena and her supporters in the Earth Sphere Unified Nation know that even in a world without war, there would still be battles. And thus view the need for an armed military force both to keep potential hotspots from escalating into another conflict and keep the more military-minded members of her own government pleased.
Necessarily Evil / int_7f8a38b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_7f8a38b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_7f8a38b6
Necessarily Evil / int_81202666	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_81202666	comment	Chainsaw Man: The Yakuza espouse this ideal, that they are necessary to keep the balance of power in Japan. They're perfectly willing to help Public Safety, even giving Makima information to punish some of their own rogue men, but balk at the idea of ratting out other gangs. As the boss explains, that would cause a gang war, creating a power vacuum that would leave space for the much worse foreign gangs to move in. Makima reveals a bag full of eyes surgically removed from the loved ones of everyone in the room, then calmly deconstructs their worldview. She's getting what she wants out of them, and she really doesn't give the slightest care what they think about her or themselves.
Necessarily Evil / int_81202666	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_81202666	featureConfidence	1.0
Chainsaw Man (Manga)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_81202666
Necessarily Evil / int_81bd05cd	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_81bd05cd	comment	Pitch (2009): Belial implies that the corrupting work of demons plays a part in God's plan.
Necessarily Evil / int_81bd05cd	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_81bd05cd	featureConfidence	1.0
Pitch (2009)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_81bd05cd
Necessarily Evil / int_834197b2	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_834197b2	comment	The Horus Heresy novels provide us with one person who joined the Heresy not because he believed the Emperor had betrayed them, but because he knew it was side with Horus and save everyone except humanity, or side with the Emperor and screw over the entire galaxy and everyone in it: Alpharius. The Drop Site Massacre, and all other events of the Heresy, were being done in order to break the back of Chaos.
Necessarily Evil / int_834197b2	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_834197b2	featureConfidence	1.0
Horus Heresy	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_834197b2
Necessarily Evil / int_8614f3c0	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_8614f3c0	comment	Card also invokes it in The Worthing Saga with Abner Doon, who engineers the fall of The Empire, believing it has caused humanity to stagnate. He is compared to a gardener and humanity to a tree that must be pruned. Said pruning involves a galaxy-wide universal rebellion that almost certainly cost millions if not billions of lives, but all that happens offscreen.
Necessarily Evil / int_8614f3c0	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_8614f3c0	featureConfidence	1.0
The Worthing Saga	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_8614f3c0
Necessarily Evil / int_86c3beca	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Othar Tryggvassen, Gentleman Adventurer! is convinced that all Sparks are a menace to the world and seeks to eliminate all of them, ending with himself. Read his rant. Also in the same comic, Klaus Wulfenbach took over Europe and rules it with an iron fist to prevent Sparks from running wild and terrorizing the populace with pointless wars; it is implied (and later proven) that his rule is the only thing keeping all of Europa from looking like a post-1918 Western Front with a twist of Gaslamp Fantasy.
Necessarily Evil / int_86c3beca	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_86c3beca	featureConfidence	1.0
Girl Genius (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_86c3beca
Necessarily Evil / int_8ac4e993	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Treize Kushrenada and Milliardo Peacecraft start a war to show humanity just how senseless war really is. Treize actually goes so far as to commit to memory the names of every single one of his deceased pawns, to show that he doesn't take their sacrifices lightly. In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz meanwhile, the Preventers are essentially seen as this. Relena and her supporters in the Earth Sphere Unified Nation know that even in a world without war, there would still be battles. And thus view the need for an armed military force both to keep potential hotspots from escalating into another conflict and keep the more military-minded members of her own government pleased. Another example is the side of Mobile Suit Gundam 00's Celestial Being represented by the Ptolemaios crew. They are fully aware of the hypocritical and outright contradictory nature of their mission statement to end war through war, with some even admitting that they make for excellent terrorists. However, it turns out that the Ptolemaois crew is played for exactly the same reason; they themselves are rendered a hypocritical foe by the very same organization for whom they supposedly work. It works out, somehow. The ECOAS special forces (aka, the "Manhunter" unit) in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn are this. Compared to their Londo Bell counterparts, they have no qualms doing shady wetwork or questionable actions in getting the job done. But what stops them from turning out just like the Titans is that they are all well-meaning professionals to a man who are utterly aware that what they're doing is dubious at best, but nonetheless accept the necessity.
Necessarily Evil / int_8ac4e993	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_8ac4e993	featureConfidence	1.0
Gundam (Franchise)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_8ac4e993
Necessarily Evil / int_8ba4613a	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note: Light Yagami starts out this way, determined to sacrifice himself for the greater good. However, less than a week later he's squeeing over his promotion to Godhood. It doesn't keep him from occasionally toying with the concept of himself as selfless and self-sacrificing though, and in his climactic Motive Rant, he claims that his ascent to Godhood and becoming Kira was a purely selfless and altruistic act on his part.
Necessarily Evil / int_8ba4613a	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_8ba4613a	featureConfidence	1.0
Death Note (Manga)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_8ba4613a
Necessarily Evil / int_8d862a74	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_8d862a74	comment	Wallachia in Melty Blood. Turns out he was trying to prevent the end of the world, but every solution he came up with just made things worse. He became a Dead Apostle in order to get the power to hopefully avert it. Speaking of the Nasuverse, we have Emiya Kiritsugu, from Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night, who is more than willing to shoulder all the evils in the world in order to save everyone. He did shoulder all the evils in the world, but didn't completely save people from them. Fate/Grand Order introduces the Evils of Humanity, also known as the Beast class Servants. While all of them are Beasts of the Apocalypse and manifestations of the evils of mankind, the Seventh Lostbelt indicates that they are actually needed for the Human Order to function. The inhabitants of the Lostbelt, sapient dinosaurs known as Deinos, are explicitly shown to lack any of the evils the Beasts represent. This makes them perfected being, but also leaves them completely stagnant, as they have no need to grow as people. This is why, despite their similarities to Fairy Britain, their Lostbelt has not transformed into a Lostworld - they just exist contentedly with no higher aspirations.
Necessarily Evil / int_8d862a74	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_8d862a74	featureConfidence	1.0
Melty Blood (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_8d862a74
Necessarily Evil / int_8eda89ef	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_8eda89ef	comment	Darker than Black: Amber is leading a sort of La RÃ©sistance against The Syndicate, having learned that they're planning to kill off every single Contractor by destroying the Gate. Unfortunately, the only permanent solution for that is to have BK-201 seal the area around the Gate, which would wipe Japan off the map. Being a Contractor, she has no qualms about it, but when presented with another option, is willing to Ret-Gone herself to make it work.
Necessarily Evil / int_8eda89ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_8eda89ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Darker Than Black	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_8eda89ef
Necessarily Evil / int_921cb27d	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_921cb27d	comment	In Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook The Biker Gorilla (a parody of Rainbow Factory), Surprise is completely aware killing the foals is wrong and even admits staying up wondering what Pony Hell looks like and what her parents would think of her if they knew. But she sees what they are doing as necessary too and spends the episode trying to convince her new manager, Rainbow Dash, this. It's later revealed that it wasn't necessary after all.
Necessarily Evil / int_921cb27d	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_921cb27d	featureConfidence	1.0
My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series (Web Video)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_921cb27d
Necessarily Evil / int_9472b00d	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_9472b00d	comment	The ECOAS special forces (aka, the "Manhunter" unit) in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn are this. Compared to their Londo Bell counterparts, they have no qualms doing shady wetwork or questionable actions in getting the job done. But what stops them from turning out just like the Titans is that they are all well-meaning professionals to a man who are utterly aware that what they're doing is dubious at best, but nonetheless accept the necessity.
Necessarily Evil / int_9472b00d	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_9472b00d	featureConfidence	1.0
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_9472b00d
Necessarily Evil / int_95d534e1	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_95d534e1	comment	The Dragon Prince: Lord Viren belives that sometimes a problem requires a "creative solution". If it works, then why care about the details?
Necessarily Evil / int_95d534e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_95d534e1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dragon Prince	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_95d534e1
Necessarily Evil / int_961ae24f	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_961ae24f	comment	In Kimi No Na Iowa, the abyssals are under no illusions whatsoever that their vision of a better humanity free of the threat of Japan will be one built on genocide and much bloodshed in general and that they are no heroes.
Necessarily Evil / int_961ae24f	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_961ae24f	featureConfidence	1.0
Kimi No Na Iowa (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_961ae24f
Necessarily Evil / int_985ad25d	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_985ad25d	comment	Dragon Ball Super: How Zamasu initially justifies his plans of mortal genocide and every heinous act he commits, up to and including slaughtering the other gods as well; yes, what he's doing is evil, but as far as he's concerned, his actions are necessary to bring about a greater good. Eventually, he spirals and it becomes clear that his actions aren't about justice and order, but about ridding The Multiverse of everything he sees wrong and imperfect... which is basically everyone and everything but himself.
Necessarily Evil / int_985ad25d	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_985ad25d	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Ball Super	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_985ad25d
Necessarily Evil / int_994e32db	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_994e32db	comment	In Rango, the inhabitants of Dirt are threatened frequently by a large hawk with a metal beak. However, no one bothers to harm it, as the hawk is also keeping Rattlesnake Jake out of town, as even heâ€™s scared by it. Rango ends up taking the hawk down, unaware of the status quo it was keeping, which allows Jake to start planning to head back into town.
Necessarily Evil / int_994e32db	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_994e32db	featureConfidence	1.0
Rango	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_994e32db
Necessarily Evil / int_9caa9883	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_9caa9883	comment	Knight Bewitched: Although Uno kills villains who are immune to the law, he admits that he can't consider himself a good person because murder is still murder.
Necessarily Evil / int_9caa9883	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_9caa9883	featureConfidence	1.0
Knight Bewitched (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_9caa9883
Necessarily Evil / int_9cc9639	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_9cc9639	comment	Seraph Lamington in Disgaea allowed Vulcanus to run amok, and later justly but "excessively" punished Flonne for a relatively minor sin by turning her into a flower. He was however willing to, and counting on, being defeated by the protagonist. It is revealed in the good ending that he was plotting with the ghost of the Netherworld's ruler to use a Batman Gambit and force Laharl to grow up and become kinder, so they will unite both kingdoms. In the good ending, Laharl spares the Seraph's life, and he returns Flonne to life as a fallen angel (with cute bat wings and red trim), which was part of his plan all along assuming Laharl passed the Secret Test of Character - Not that that matters anymore, now that she's his right hand angel now. Valvatorez, the protagonist of Disgaea 4, is a strange sort of Punch-Clock Villain who sees his job of being an evil, human-terrorizing tyrant as a very important public service - If he isn't going to Scare 'Em Straight, who will?
Necessarily Evil / int_9cc9639	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_9cc9639	featureConfidence	1.0
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_9cc9639
Necessarily Evil / int_9d47a2a2	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Varys in A Song of Ice and Fire claims himself to be this: "Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you High Lords play your Game of Thrones?" However, he is perhaps the most gifted intriguer and spy in the Seven Kingdoms, so his own motivations are incredibly clouded.
Necessarily Evil / int_9d47a2a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_9d47a2a2	featureConfidence	1.0
A Song of Ice and Fire	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_9d47a2a2
Necessarily Evil / int_9e8e9ba3	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_9e8e9ba3	comment	In Gaunt's Ghosts: The Guns of Tanith one of the Ghosts' less savory members kills an old man to keep word of their secret mission getting to the Blood Pact. Subverted by the thoughts of Hlaine Larkin in the same squad thinking 'There was quite enough unnecessary evil in the fething galaxy without deliberately adding to it'.
Necessarily Evil / int_9e8e9ba3	featureApplicability	-0.3
Necessarily Evil / int_9e8e9ba3	featureConfidence	1.0
Gaunt's Ghosts	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_9e8e9ba3
Necessarily Evil / int_a037ae41	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_a037ae41	comment	Fate/Zero: Kiritsugu Emiya lives by this trope, although he is an extreme Anti-Hero rather than a villain. After his failure to kill one person his first crush, turning into a vampire destroyed the entire population of his home, he was willing to kill one person his father, continuing experiments that create vampires to ensure the destruction wouldn't spread. He lives by a harsh code of utilitarian ethics — killing the few to save the many. His ultimate goal is world peace, and he is willing to do anything to achieve it. He has a breakdown at the very end of the series when his attempt to destroy the Grail causes far more destruction and death, realizing that everything he did was pointless — not "necessarily" evil at all, just evil. He barely avoids falling into despair by rescuing and raising the lone survivor of the disaster: Shirou, the hero of Fate/stay night.
Necessarily Evil / int_a037ae41	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_a037ae41	featureConfidence	1.0
Fate/Zero	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_a037ae41
Necessarily Evil / int_a183d57f	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_a183d57f	comment	Dr. Zoidberg's view on his people's brutal conquest and enslavement of Earth in Futurama after the Earthicans attempt to punish him for eating their flag on "Freedom Day." He felt this would teach them to actually value their freedom over mindless conformity. Fortunately he has a Heel Realization when the Decapodian Occupation Force killed his lawyer Old Man Waterfall., who had been the only man to actually defend his right to eat the flag.
Necessarily Evil / int_a183d57f	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_a183d57f	featureConfidence	1.0
Futurama	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_a183d57f
Necessarily Evil / int_a2c37f38	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_a2c37f38	comment	Trias the Betrayer from Planescape: Torment is a Fallen Angel who betrayed his kin and made a compact with the lower planes. He actively works towards shifting the balance of the planes towards evil in return for the command over an army of devils should he succeed. Trias plans to use this army to attack the gates of heaven themselves. While he's expecting both this army and himself to be defeated, his hope is that such an act would be enough to rouse the celestials of the upper planes to take a more hands-on approach in the war against evil instead of doing what he saw as being Achilles in His Tent while evil was allowed to run rampant. This is why the Practical Incarnation is the "Practical" Incarnation and not the "Evil" Incarnation. He did some absolutely horrific things over the course of his existence, most infamously convincing Deionarra that he loved her, solely to betray and kill her in such a way that her ghost could be useful to him later. But in the end, every horrible thing he did, every horrible thing, was a necessary stepping stone for his future incarnation, the Nameless One, to complete his journey and finally end his immortality. He never did anything needlessly terrible... it's just that everything he did was to his benefit first and usually only.
Necessarily Evil / int_a2c37f38	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_a2c37f38	featureConfidence	1.0
Planescape: Torment (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_a2c37f38
Necessarily Evil / int_a4514a75	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_a4514a75	comment	Everyone in Iji: The Tasen invade Earth because they're being hunted to extinction by the Komato and think that Earth would be a nice place to hide. The Komato general justifies his campaign by saying that the folks back home will settle for nothing less than total annihilation. Iji calls bullshit on both counts. And if you play in the standard action adventure style, they'll retort with a "Not So Different" Remark.
Necessarily Evil / int_a4514a75	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_a4514a75	featureConfidence	1.0
Iji (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_a4514a75
Necessarily Evil / int_a4a6b86a	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: Lelouch Lamperouge, The Protagonist, openly admits that he's doing reprehensible things in pursuit of noble goals (bringing down The Empire and making the world a better place for his Morality Pet sister). This is pointed out in an early second season episode where he engages in a short Break Them by Talking to Honor Before Reason Guilford about the best way to confront an overwhelming evil. In the end he has himself killed to create world peace; whilst he never explains (to the viewer) exactly why he did it, the implication is that it was as redemption for the sins he committed during the course of the series. In the latter parts of the series after Suzaku Kururugi has his Heel Realization moment he attempts to kill his benefactor for the last year, and then helps his best, and probably only, friend in the world, become evil dictator of the world, then kill him. And having done that, he must sacrifice his identity as Suzaku and live as Zero for the rest of his life.
Necessarily Evil / int_a4a6b86a	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_a4a6b86a	featureConfidence	1.0
Code Geass	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_a4a6b86a
Necessarily Evil / int_a4ff8e01	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order introduces the Evils of Humanity, also known as the Beast class Servants. While all of them are Beasts of the Apocalypse and manifestations of the evils of mankind, the Seventh Lostbelt indicates that they are actually needed for the Human Order to function. The inhabitants of the Lostbelt, sapient dinosaurs known as Deinos, are explicitly shown to lack any of the evils the Beasts represent. This makes them perfected being, but also leaves them completely stagnant, as they have no need to grow as people. This is why, despite their similarities to Fairy Britain, their Lostbelt has not transformed into a Lostworld - they just exist contentedly with no higher aspirations.
Necessarily Evil / int_a4ff8e01	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_a4ff8e01	featureConfidence	1.0
Fate/Grand Order (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_a4ff8e01
Necessarily Evil / int_a68c19b8	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_a68c19b8	comment	Several side materials for Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War depict Arvis of Velthomer as one. The guy wants to create a utopia free of prejudice and racism, so he joins force with the Loptous clan, which he loathes, to take down fellow lords and unite Grannvale into a single country. Naturally, this does not work, and he becomes heavily guilty as he grows Older and Wiser and realises his plan has backfired horribly.
Necessarily Evil / int_a68c19b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_a68c19b8	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_a68c19b8
Necessarily Evil / int_a8c95694	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_a8c95694	comment	In The Flight of Dragons, this is stated to be the divine purpose of Ommadon, the Red Wizard of Fire and Darkness; his evil gives his benevolent brothers something to oppose and define themselves against, and without him they would be weak, flickering, purposeless beings. If one is inclined to sympathize with Ommadon for being outraged over science striving to destroy the magical world, then his plan to destroy and discredit science to preserve the world of magic can be viewed as this.
Necessarily Evil / int_a8c95694	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_a8c95694	featureConfidence	1.0
The Flight of Dragons	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_a8c95694
Necessarily Evil / int_a9c907c7	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_a9c907c7	comment	From the Black Library: In Gaunt's Ghosts: The Guns of Tanith one of the Ghosts' less savory members kills an old man to keep word of their secret mission getting to the Blood Pact. Subverted by the thoughts of Hlaine Larkin in the same squad thinking 'There was quite enough unnecessary evil in the fething galaxy without deliberately adding to it'. The Horus Heresy novels provide us with one person who joined the Heresy not because he believed the Emperor had betrayed them, but because he knew it was side with Horus and save everyone except humanity, or side with the Emperor and screw over the entire galaxy and everyone in it: Alpharius. The Drop Site Massacre, and all other events of the Heresy, were being done in order to break the back of Chaos. In Dark Angels: Angels of Darkness, Brother-Chaplain Boreas delivers a very short speech regarding the value of human life in the grim darkness of the 41st millenium.
Necessarily Evil / int_a9c907c7	featureApplicability	-0.3
Necessarily Evil / int_a9c907c7	featureConfidence	1.0
Warhammer 40,000 Expanded Universe (Franchise)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_a9c907c7
Necessarily Evil / int_aa74bf0e	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_aa74bf0e	comment	Neogicia: Nox Lucans, the Psycho Sidekick to one of the setting's rulers, considers a lot of his actions to be this, as they have been called evil by allies that have been hurt by them.
Necessarily Evil / int_aa74bf0e	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_aa74bf0e	featureConfidence	1.0
Neogicia	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_aa74bf0e
Necessarily Evil / int_aa7ee99e	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_aa7ee99e	comment	The death squad in Magnum Force. They kill known criminals with summary executions because to them, courts do not work. The screenwriter went to the extra effort of having the squad cause numerous collateral deaths in the process because otherwise it would have been much harder to get the audience to root against them.
Necessarily Evil / int_aa7ee99e	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_aa7ee99e	featureConfidence	1.0
Magnum Force	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_aa7ee99e
Necessarily Evil / int_ac3836a5	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_ac3836a5	comment	Forever Gate: Leader of the Users attempts to convince Hoodwink the gols are this trope. In a nushell this is his argument: The gols do nasty things but without them our civilization would crumble.
Necessarily Evil / int_ac3836a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_ac3836a5	featureConfidence	1.0
Forever Gate	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_ac3836a5
Necessarily Evil / int_ae1f8a83	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_ae1f8a83	comment	In Jesus Christ Superstar Judas considers his betrayal of Jesus to be this in order to keep his movement from getting out of hand and destroying the Jewish people. To a lesser extent this is also true of Caiaphas although there's also a large amount of self interest mixed in in his case.
Necessarily Evil / int_ae1f8a83	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_ae1f8a83	featureConfidence	1.0
JesusChristSuperstar	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_ae1f8a83
Necessarily Evil / int_afc86b0a	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_afc86b0a	comment	This also turns up in Ender's Game, as Colonel Graff knows that the tactics he's using to shape Wiggin into a commander will probably have long-lasting psychological effects on the kid, ascribing to "They can punish me after it's done" mentality. They don't. The war crimes tribunal eventually agrees that it must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Ender could have saved the world with less extreme training, and Graff is exonerated. The entire point of training a commander like Ender is revealed to be an example: he's not being trained to defend Earth if/when the Formics/Buggers return for a third time, he's being trained to command the Human invasion and war of extermination against the Formic/Bugger colonies and homeworld. The military views it as this trope all along, and the rest of humanity by and large agree when the truth comes to light afterwards. Ender himself takes exception to the necessity of it and, writing under an anonymous pseudonym, reveals the true depth of the tragedy due to misunderstanding between these species. As a result, he is remembered as the greatest war criminal and mass murderer in all of human history, with his very name being considered a profanity thousands of years later.
Necessarily Evil / int_afc86b0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_afc86b0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_afc86b0a
Necessarily Evil / int_b0b4e8ff	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_b0b4e8ff	comment	In Jade Empire, Sagacious Zu claims that he viewed the actions of the Lotus Assassins — killing political opponents and terrorizing the citizens of the Empire — as necessary to preserve the authority of the Emperor and the stability of the Empire. When they started targeting women and children purely as punitive action against their husbands/fathers, however, it got too much for him.
Necessarily Evil / int_b0b4e8ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_b0b4e8ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Jade Empire (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_b0b4e8ff
Necessarily Evil / int_b30ae4db	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: How most people see Varys (i.e. he's a dishonorable traitor, but his treachery serves a purpose), and even how he views himself from time to time. Compare his allegiance to Westeros as a whole to Petyr Balish's "Chaos is a ladder" speech.
Necessarily Evil / int_b30ae4db	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_b30ae4db	featureConfidence	1.0
Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_b30ae4db
Necessarily Evil / int_b4996199	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: This is precisely why The Kingpin is still in business and also the reason why no one has made any serious attempts to get rid of him for good. If someone ever actually did kill him or ruin him so thoroughly that he had no hope of ever rebuilding his empire, the resulting power vacuum would lead to an innumerable amount of low-level crime lords fancying themselves the next Kingpin going to war with one another over his spot, and the carnage that would result would be far greater than Fisk could ever dream of causing himself. Or for that matter, would dream of causing, because that kind of mass carnage would hurt his profit margins. He knows this, Spider-Man and Daredevil know this... hell, just about everyone who could remove him from power knows this, and they sure as hell aren't about to disregard it. Hell, even The Punisher won't take a run at the Kingpin, which says a lot. It's not that Frank doesn't want Fisk dead, he just knows that he's already got his hands full and taking down Fisk is going to increase his workload exponentially.
Necessarily Evil / int_b4996199	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_b4996199	featureConfidence	1.0
Spider-Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_b4996199
Necessarily Evil / int_b6166c3f	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_b6166c3f	comment	Joji's song has an extremely bittersweet version of this in the music video for "Sanctuary"; after Joji and his entire space crew become depressed after finally defeating his Arch-Enemy, his partner sees fit to become their new enemy (even sacrificing his eye to fit the look) just to give his friends something to live for again.
Necessarily Evil / int_b6166c3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_b6166c3f	featureConfidence	1.0
Joji (Music)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_b6166c3f
Necessarily Evil / int_b64d451f	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_b64d451f	comment	Vampire in Brooklyn: Eddie Murphy's vampiric antagonist kills and then impersonates an Evangelical preacher, then finds events contriving to force him into making an impromptu sermon. Given his own evil and selfish intentions, it's little surprise when he chooses the concept of Necessary Evil as his topic and sets about convincing his congregation not to be so hard on the bad guys as, without Evil for comparison, no one would know what Good was.
Necessarily Evil / int_b64d451f	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_b64d451f	featureConfidence	1.0
Vampire in Brooklyn	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_b64d451f
Necessarily Evil / int_b7776ed1	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_b7776ed1	comment	Daemon: Sobol's plans for a new society require him to tear down the one that currently exists, ultimately causing global economic and social chaos. In the end, it appears that his actions are justified.
Necessarily Evil / int_b7776ed1	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_b7776ed1	featureConfidence	1.0
Daemon	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_b7776ed1
Necessarily Evil / int_b9809b83	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_b9809b83	comment	In Kingdom of Heaven, Reynald de ChÃ¢tillon remarks in a strangely somber and reflective mood for a man who otherwise seems to delight in slaughter and atrocity:
Necessarily Evil / int_b9809b83	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_b9809b83	featureConfidence	1.0
Kingdom of Heaven	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_b9809b83
Necessarily Evil / int_ba1b62cb	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_ba1b62cb	comment	It is strongly implied in Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World that the Royal Guard was grooming Ichigo to replace the Soul King as the linchpin holding the three realms together, should the Soul King be killed by Yhwach. The same novel reveals that this is not a desirable fate; not even for Yhwach, whose corpse ends up becoming the new linchpin.
Necessarily Evil / int_ba1b62cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_ba1b62cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_ba1b62cb
Necessarily Evil / int_ba666650	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_ba666650	comment	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: In order to save the world, The Joy had to be perceived as a traitor and die by Naked Snake's hands. Needless to say, this caused some nasty emotional trauma to him, and differences in interpretation of her will ultimately made things worse for the next half-century.
Necessarily Evil / int_ba666650	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_ba666650	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_ba666650
Necessarily Evil / int_bc7736c8	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_bc7736c8	comment	Suicide Squad: This is Amanda Waller's original characterization. One storyline had the Suicide Squad being forced into disbanding. Amanda's response: hijack three of the prisoners who made up the Squad, offer them their freedom in exchange for their cooperation, brutally massacre the gang of thugs who had set in motion the disbanding (and who were preparing to release a flood of zombifying drugs onto the streets)... and then turn herself in to face trial. Going further, she refused to use her knowledge of American espionage to get a better deal, reasoning that they'd dig her out if they ever needed her again. She ended up spending a year in prison.
Necessarily Evil / int_bc7736c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_bc7736c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Suicide Squad (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_bc7736c8
Necessarily Evil / int_bcadd7cb	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_bcadd7cb	comment	This is how the factions in Warhammer 40,000 that aren't just in it For the Evulz operate. How valid their claims are is up for debate and heavily Depending on the Writer, but it's generally agreed that for a species to survive in the Crapsack World that the game takes place in, moral compromises are going to be required. The Imperium is infamously xenophobic and makes the extermination of all non-humans policy, but the number of alien species that aren't equally hostile can be counted on one hand (though the Imperium exterminated them too). They ruthlessly execute anyone who shows the slightest hint of descent, but the Legions of Hell that make up Chaos are so good at corrupting and influencing mortals that they don't even know they've been corrupted until it's too late. They force whole worlds into slave labor to produce warships and weaponry, but every one of those ships and weapons is desperately needed to defend a hundred other planets. Whether humanity could survive without resorting to such barbaric methods is up for debatenote There are examples of human civilizations that managed it on a small scale and were wiped out by the early Imperium for their "crimes" but it's debatable if any of these could've survived long term once threats like the Necrons and the Tyranids arrived, but the Emperor certainly didn't think so, and he wasn't the sort to brook dissenting opinions.
Necessarily Evil / int_bcadd7cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_bcadd7cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Warhammer 40,000 (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_bcadd7cb
Necessarily Evil / int_bd310eaa	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive: Abraham views his oath to kill the spawn of the Dewitchery Diamond this way. To his credit, the Dewitchery Diamond usually spawns highly dangerous beasts or monsters. In this case though, he has a crisis of conscience when he realizes that what the Diamond spawned this time was an innocent young girl... but ultimately decides that because he swore that oath, he must go through with it. Nanase eventually snaps him out of this by pointing out that he swore that oath with the intention of protecting innocent people: Ellen is an innocent person, so while killing her might fulfill the letter of his oath, it would violate the spirit of it. Abraham concedes the point and backs off. Arthur, head of The Men in Black who uphold The Masquerade about magic, describes himself and his job like this. He believes in freedom for all, but also believes that some information should be hidden because it's just too dangerous for the general public to know about. He also strongly objects to the idea that his actions should ever be considered "good" in the grand scheme of things: Necessarily Evil is still evil, and to call it anything else is a trap that will lead to even greater evil.
Necessarily Evil / int_bd310eaa	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_bd310eaa	featureConfidence	1.0
El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_bd310eaa
Necessarily Evil / int_c0c57462	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_c0c57462	comment	In Chrono Trigger, the Disc One Climax Boss Magus turns out to be this. After you defeat him (but not immediately), he can join your party and become the Token Evil Teammate.
Necessarily Evil / int_c0c57462	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_c0c57462	featureConfidence	1.0
Chrono Trigger (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_c0c57462
Necessarily Evil / int_c2463c55	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_c2463c55	comment	In Final Fantasy X, Seymour Guado fancied himself as this and committed his innumerable sins because he genuinely felt that the world would be better off in the peace of death.
Necessarily Evil / int_c2463c55	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_c2463c55	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy X (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_c2463c55
Necessarily Evil / int_c3a1c8f8	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_c3a1c8f8	comment	UFO (1970): Although the nature of the aliens is a mystery, their harvesting of human organs indicates they come from a Dying Race. Commander Straker suggests they view humanity not with malice but with callousness ("much as we view our food animals"). Straker later encounters a man with telepathic powers who is being controlled by the aliens. In the middle of their conversation, he suddenly blurts out: "We mean no harm to the peoples of Earth. Why do you attack us? We're fighting for existence... you must understand!"
Necessarily Evil / int_c3a1c8f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_c3a1c8f8	featureConfidence	1.0
UFO (1970)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_c3a1c8f8
Necessarily Evil / int_c43df4d8	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor from Doctor Who had to destroy his own planet to protect the universe — he harbours a lot of guilt about it but believes that it was the best option he could have taken. Later, it turns out that his future selves managed to prevent it happening, but he still spends hundreds of years believing he did it. The Doctor actually has to take this kind of action a lot — one instance is the 'eruption' of Vesuvius, which was actually the Doctor and Donna stopping the Pyroviles from destroying Earth in "The Fires of Pompeii". The Doctor is generally a pacifist and avoids war whenever possible, but throughout his life he has fought in more than a millennium of conflict — the Time War, which lasted about 400 years, and the Siege of Trenzalore, which lasted 900. He did so in both cases to protect innocent civilians, but is remorseful about the deeds he was forced to do.
Necessarily Evil / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_c43df4d8
Necessarily Evil / int_c62995ba	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm: Doctor Strange is an incredibly ruthless Manipulative Bastard, a schemer without equal, who uses his time travelling and incredibly powerful precognitive abilities to arrange the entire plot of the series - with one or two notable exceptions, when someone manages to impede his powers. This involves making heroes and villains alike dance on his puppet-strings, even when they know that they're there because he's got them so thoroughly wrapped up, and a lot of blood on his hands - there's no end to the horrible things that he has done and has allowed to happen. Not only does this not make him particularly popular, he sadly observes that for all his good intentions and attempts at kindness, he is no longer all that different from most of the enemies he fights. The main mitigating factors are that he never wanted to be what he is (that happened largely because of a deal with the Time Stone - which could be a Deal with the Devil or Bargain with Heaven, depending on how you look at it), he's doing all of this to defeat Thanos, and that he's deadly determined that no one should turn out like him.
Necessarily Evil / int_c62995ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_c62995ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Child of the Storm (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_c62995ba
Necessarily Evil / int_ca4949d1	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_ca4949d1	comment	Villains by Necessity: The book title lampshades that these villains have taken on the task of saving the world, so their being evil (aside from neutral Kaylana) is a necessity. Indeed, evil itself turns out to be. None but Valerie is more than just mildly evil either. Blackmail's even revealed to be a paladin who realizes their quest is needed.
Necessarily Evil / int_ca4949d1	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_ca4949d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Villains by Necessity	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_ca4949d1
Necessarily Evil / int_cbad9b62	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_cbad9b62	comment	Paul von Oberstein from Legend of the Galactic Heroes is a Necessarily Evil strategist who seeks to overthrow the Decadent Court of The Empire (which he belongs to), at any cost. At one point, he allows two million people to die in an atomic attack he was forewarned about, simply because having it happen would discredit the nobles and help Reinhard take control of the empire. He is fully aware that he must be Reinhard's Psycho Supporter and in many ways plays the 'lightning rod', letting the negative public opinion focus on himself instead of Reinhard.
Necessarily Evil / int_cbad9b62	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_cbad9b62	featureConfidence	1.0
Legend of the Galactic Heroes	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_cbad9b62
Necessarily Evil / int_cbe5dd75	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_cbe5dd75	comment	In Dark Angels: Angels of Darkness, Brother-Chaplain Boreas delivers a very short speech regarding the value of human life in the grim darkness of the 41st millenium.
Necessarily Evil / int_cbe5dd75	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_cbe5dd75	featureConfidence	1.0
Dark Angels	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_cbe5dd75
Necessarily Evil / int_cf10c600	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_cf10c600	comment	More sympathetic portrayals of Clu in TRON: Legacy fanfics will point out that the system really was falling apart under the strain of the Isos and Flynn's gross incompetence as a deity in the Betrayal comic, and that the Admin Program was given an impossible directive, which drove him somewhat insane.
Necessarily Evil / int_cf10c600	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_cf10c600	featureConfidence	1.0
TRON: Legacy	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_cf10c600
Necessarily Evil / int_cfd860dd	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_cfd860dd	comment	Speaking of the Nasuverse, we have Emiya Kiritsugu, from Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night, who is more than willing to shoulder all the evils in the world in order to save everyone. He did shoulder all the evils in the world, but didn't completely save people from them.
Necessarily Evil / int_cfd860dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_cfd860dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Nasuverse (Franchise)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_cfd860dd
Necessarily Evil / int_d11e211f	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_d11e211f	comment	In Kamen Rider Gaim, Takatora Kureshima (Kamen Rider Zangetsu) believes that the invasion of Helheim can't be stopped, and the best they can do is to save 1/7th of humanity's population via Project Ark. He certainly doesn't like the fact that most of humanity will have to die, but he prefers it to all of humanity dying. However, it's later subverted by the fact that the sacrifice isn't necessary at all; Takatora's inner circle was lying to him because they wanted to eliminate the "useless" portion of humanity, and once he finds out about another option that could potentially save everyone, he gladly abandons Project Ark in favor of it.
Necessarily Evil / int_d11e211f	featureApplicability	-0.3
Necessarily Evil / int_d11e211f	featureConfidence	1.0
Kamen Rider Gaim	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_d11e211f
Necessarily Evil / int_d2f4b8ae	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_d2f4b8ae	comment	Battle Angel Alita: Last Order: In the backstory, this attitude is essentially responsible for the state of the world. Arthur, the leader of humanity After the End establishes a totalitarian dictatorship with the goal of ensuring that the catastrophe that nearly left humanity extinct doesn't happen again, mobilizing all of Earth's remaining resources to achieve spaceflight and colonize the stars. He recognizes this as evil, and potentially the wrong decision, and leaves behind a means to end the undying dictatorship he created.
Necessarily Evil / int_d2f4b8ae	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_d2f4b8ae	featureConfidence	1.0
Battle Angel Alita (Manga)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_d2f4b8ae
Necessarily Evil / int_d31cdea	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games: President Coriolanus Snow's conversation with Katniss at the beginning of Catching Fire indicates that he sees himself and the Capitol as this.
Necessarily Evil / int_d31cdea	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_d31cdea	featureConfidence	1.0
The Hunger Games	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_d31cdea
Necessarily Evil / int_d3b17858	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_d3b17858	comment	In Final Fantasy Tactics: Duke Druksmald Goltanna seems to justify himself for prolonging the war because he thinks it's for the good of the people, when in fact it's the main reason for their suffering. When Cidolfus Orlandeau complains about his attitude, he threatens his life considering disagreeing to the plan as an act of treason. Delita and Wiegraf may arguably fit for this trope too, depending on your definition of "evil".
Necessarily Evil / int_d3b17858	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_d3b17858	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy Tactics (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_d3b17858
Necessarily Evil / int_d461f757	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_d461f757	comment	From Battlestar Galactica (2003):
Necessarily Evil / int_d461f757	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_d461f757	featureConfidence	1.0
Battlestar Galactica (2003)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_d461f757
Necessarily Evil / int_d4642985	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_d4642985	comment	The Wolves/Inhibitors of the Revelation Space Series wipe out intelligent life any time they discover it spreading beyond its original planet. (Even they, a kind of Mechanical Lifeforms, are only intermittently sentient when necessary to reach their goals.) It eventually turns out they are trying to keep intelligence from being wiped out forever when our galaxy collides with the Andromeda galaxy several billion years in the future.
Necessarily Evil / int_d4642985	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_d4642985	featureConfidence	1.0
Revelation Space Series	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_d4642985
Necessarily Evil / int_d540b678	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_d540b678	comment	The titular Kamui fighters are considered this since they use the inhumane Brain Uploading technology, but they where necessary due to the ZODIAC's laying waste to the earth at the time.
Necessarily Evil / int_d540b678	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_d540b678	featureConfidence	1.0
Kamui (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_d540b678
Necessarily Evil / int_d616724d	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_d616724d	comment	In League of Legends, Gangplank, the Saltwater Scourge, was retroactively seen as this to the pirate city of Bilgewater. While Gangplank is a cruel monster, everyone in Bilgewater was afraid of him so his presence kept the extremes in line. As soon as word spread that he was "dead" after he was killed, the entire city was thrown into chaos. His "killer", Miss Fortune, had to lament the fact that even though her vendetta against him was paid, she also really screwed up the power dynamics and stability in Bilgewater, and the only way it could be resolved is by taking control of the ruthless power vacuum left behind, putting her on a road to being just as cutthroat and dangerous as he was.
Necessarily Evil / int_d616724d	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_d616724d	featureConfidence	1.0
League of Legends (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_d616724d
Necessarily Evil / int_d7aab7c1	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Sailor Moon: Sailors Uranus and Neptune consider their actions necessary but not worthy of forgiveness. They are revealed to have pure hearts midway through.
Necessarily Evil / int_d7aab7c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_d7aab7c1	featureConfidence	1.0
Sailor Moon	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_d7aab7c1
Necessarily Evil / int_dbeede2c	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_dbeede2c	comment	Several of the students in the experiment feel this way in Pyrrhic, as they are being forced to kill each other, so justifiably they can murder others to save themselves. DeQuan feels this way about plotting with Ryan to kill Joshua because of what he did to Chase.
Necessarily Evil / int_dbeede2c	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_dbeede2c	featureConfidence	1.0
Pyrrhic	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_dbeede2c
Necessarily Evil / int_defedb34	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_defedb34	comment	The plot of Shadow Hearts: Covenant expands on the motivation of the first game's antagonist, turning him from a Well-Intentioned Extremist into something more like this trope. It turns out Albert Simon was desperately trying to stop Rasputin and the secret society Sapientes Gladio from potentially destroying humanity in their bid to take over Europe through occult means.
Necessarily Evil / int_defedb34	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_defedb34	featureConfidence	1.0
Shadow Hearts: Covenant (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_defedb34
Necessarily Evil / int_e04f934e	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_e04f934e	comment	In part two of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Edelgard views their actions of declaring war on the Church of Seiros as necessary to change the continent of Fodlan. They also view working with "those that silther in the dark" as necessary to ensure their victory against the Church as well, and once theyâ€™re done with them, they intent to get rid of them next.
Necessarily Evil / int_e04f934e	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_e04f934e	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_e04f934e
Necessarily Evil / int_e144ba19	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_e144ba19	comment	In the sequel, Anders stands out among a city of Well-Intentioned Extremists as one of the few who acknowledges that the actions taken to reach his goals are inexcusable. He doesn't blow up the Chantry because he thinks it's the right thing to do... but because things have gotten so hopeless and the stalemate between the templars and the mages has remained deadlocked for so long that he sees no other option.
Necessarily Evil / int_e144ba19	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_e144ba19	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Age II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_e144ba19
Necessarily Evil / int_e293455a	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The show included lampshading the overlap between this and Shoot the Dog in the season 5 finale when Giles explains why he is about to kill Ben (Glory's relatively innocent human host), because Buffy won't and shouldn't have to. Everything Twilight does is to distract and hold back all the forces planning to attack the Slayer Organization.
Necessarily Evil / int_e293455a	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_e293455a	featureConfidence	1.0
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_e293455a
Necessarily Evil / int_e30b9261	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_e30b9261	comment	New Avengers: The reason Wolverine is recruited by Iron Man and Captain America to join the New Avengers is that he would be able (and willing) to kill if necessary, whereas the rest of the team wouldn't.
Necessarily Evil / int_e30b9261	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_e30b9261	featureConfidence	1.0
New Avengers / Comicbook	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_e30b9261
Necessarily Evil / int_e365af07	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_e365af07	comment	Dino Attack RPG: This is how General Evil initially viewed himself, explaining why George Ogel agreed to be called "General Evil" while serving under his brother. Despite genuinely believing that his beliefs were correct and ultimately for the greater good, he was aware that his morals would be considered "evil" by the general populace. These beliefs faded away after the incident which left his body scarred, after which it became personal. Dr. Rex most likely knew that dooming his own species to extinction would be an act considered "evil", but in his delusions created by the Darkitect's manipulations, he believed that this was for the greater good of the universe.
Necessarily Evil / int_e365af07	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_e365af07	featureConfidence	1.0
Dino Attack RPG (Roleplay)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_e365af07
Necessarily Evil / int_e8327120	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_e8327120	comment	Doomsday Clock still shows Ozymandias doing whatever it takes to achieve his goals, after his so-called 'achievement' in maintaining world peace has completely shattered in his own world when Rorschach's journal has been publicised to the public, and leading the whole world into World War III thanks to his antic. This time however is that he must seek Dr. Manhattan and bring him back to their world as a way to fix this, but when the latter refused, he resorted to having a plan to save both DC and Watchmen Universes, which so far involves shattering the public's faith in the metahuman community, and falsely framing Dr.Manhattan for his actions in Moscow and sending a majority of DC superheroes there just to be incapacitated by him.
Necessarily Evil / int_e8327120	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_e8327120	featureConfidence	1.0
Doomsday Clock (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_e8327120
Necessarily Evil / int_e8bc5852	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_e8bc5852	comment	And Then Emily Was Gone: Bonnie Shaw takes the child of whoever makes a deal with him. He tells Hellinger that if he doesn't, the whole universe will collapse.
Necessarily Evil / int_e8bc5852	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_e8bc5852	featureConfidence	1.0
And Then Emily Was Gone (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_e8bc5852
Necessarily Evil / int_eb37bd61	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_eb37bd61	comment	Code Prime: Optimus admits he doesn't want to fight Megatron and would gladly be willing to end the war between the Autobots and Decepticons peacefully, but so long as Megatron remains a power-hungry tyrant, that will never happen. Suzaku takes issue to this, due to believing that all violence is pointless.
Necessarily Evil / int_eb37bd61	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_eb37bd61	featureConfidence	1.0
Code Prime (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_eb37bd61
Necessarily Evil / int_ef7b3325	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: Galactus, the Marvel Universe eater of worlds is needed for the survival of the universe... but only because if he dies, than something even worse will take his place. And unlike Galactus, it won't just drain some planets of life after giving its inhabitants a heads-up that their world's about to be eaten, it would just destroy everything in the universe. His role as a necessary evil became a very big problem (well, bigger than usual) when he ended up being teleported into the Ultimate Universe. The Ultimate version of Galactus is a Hive Mind being that isn't required like mainstream Galactus is, but mainstream Galactus was so trained to his job of eating planets, that he refused to listen to reason and set about trying to eat Ultimate Earth and other inhabited planets... after taking control of the Ultimate Galactus and making himself even more powerful!
Necessarily Evil / int_ef7b3325	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_ef7b3325	featureConfidence	1.0
Fantastic Four / Comicbook	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_ef7b3325
Necessarily Evil / int_f0688fff	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_f0688fff	comment	In PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire, you are required to ally yourself with either Team Aqua or Team Magma (depending on which game you are playing) in order to oppose the other Team. This does not mean that the Team you are allied with isn't evil, however; they are simply not currently involved in any world-threatening plans while the Team you are opposing is clearly doing something worse. This was changed to the opposing Team beating their rivals to the punch within the remakes.
Necessarily Evil / int_f0688fff	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_f0688fff	featureConfidence	1.0
PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_f0688fff
Necessarily Evil / int_f186f924	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_f186f924	comment	In Horizon Zero Dawn, the main villain was originally intended to be this; GAIA, the AI responsible for reseeding Earth's biosphere after a Robot War, was, by her very nature, dedicated to the preservation of life above all else. However, since a biosphere is extremely delicate, the slightest issue would make it unusable. If that happened, HADES would step in to do what GAIA couldn't; Wipe the slate clean. The reason they become the villain is simply that they were put into action when it wasn't necessary. A recording of General Aaron Herres admits that Operation Enduring Victory, the fight to stop the Faro robots until Project Zero Dawn can provide the weapon it needs to stop them and win was a lie. He and the other leaders knew extinction of life on Earth was inevitable, and so they knowingly threw people into a hopeless battle, mobilizing them with false propaganda and promises of victory just to buy time with their lives so Zero Dawn could be completed for recreating the biosphere and humanity after extinction..
Necessarily Evil / int_f186f924	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_f186f924	featureConfidence	1.0
Horizon Zero Dawn (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_f186f924
Necessarily Evil / int_f3e1a2a5	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_f3e1a2a5	comment	Queen Mab from Merlin (1998) tries to pass herself off as this, but the other characters don't believe her, mostly due to her complete and utter amorality in the face of the pain caused by her actions. As emphasized in the novelizations, Merlin is also "necessarily magical" as he uses the magic of the Old Ways to create a society free of the Old Ways, and gradually becomes less and less welcome in the new society when the now predominantly Christian kingdom gets less tolerant of a wizard of the Old Ways.
Necessarily Evil / int_f3e1a2a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_f3e1a2a5	featureConfidence	1.0
Merlin (1998)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_f3e1a2a5
Necessarily Evil / int_f5d65775	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_f5d65775	comment	Nick Fury: Nick Fury, Marvel's resident Spy Master is often a jerkass who performs morally questionable, but necessary actions due to the grey world he lives in. This was eventually deconstructed in Original Sin, where Dum Dum Dugan (or rather the android programmed to believe he was Dum Dum Dugan because Fury wanted a Morality Pet and promptly disregarded it — It Makes Sense in Context) tells Fury off on the fact that he has gone so deep with the whole "I am the man who makes the hard choices" mentality that he has completely forgot about keeping the damned world safe, and instead turned it into a reason to become] a monstrous Control Freak. Ultimate Nick Fury is this even more so.
Necessarily Evil / int_f5d65775	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_f5d65775	featureConfidence	1.0
Nick Fury (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_f5d65775
Necessarily Evil / int_f6c16bab	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_f6c16bab	comment	The Saga of Darren Shan: In the sixth book, The Vampire Prince, Kurda Smahlt and his plan turn out to be this.
Necessarily Evil / int_f6c16bab	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_f6c16bab	featureConfidence	1.0
The Saga of Darren Shan	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_f6c16bab
Necessarily Evil / int_f74b5f80	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: The Shadows regard themselves as agents of evolution and the genocidal wars they wage on the galaxy as an effective form of natural selection and development drive for the Younger Races. The problem is that there never was a need for such accelerated development, and Shadows only enforce it to prove that it works. William Edgars, who plans to use an artificial plague to institute a Final Solution on human telepaths, finds it to be a monstrous idea but the most expedient solution to what he considers an otherwise unsolvable problem.
Necessarily Evil / int_f74b5f80	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_f74b5f80	featureConfidence	1.0
Babylon 5	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_f74b5f80
Necessarily Evil / int_f8705c18	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_f8705c18	comment	The Iscariot Organization in Hellsing. Their Badass Creed is them chanting how they will follow the disciple Judas in following God's plan through the means of sin and betrayal, and that they will march into hell to do battle with its demons when they die.
Necessarily Evil / int_f8705c18	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_f8705c18	featureConfidence	1.0
Hellsing (Manga)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_f8705c18
Necessarily Evil / int_f9b9dfe4	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: Sephiran acts affable to the end, and loyal to one of the heroes even while he is fighting the others. Can't be talked out of fighting the heroes, yet is happy upon defeat. The following pattern is pretty common in Fire Emblem, especially in the endgame of Radiant Dawn:
Necessarily Evil / int_f9b9dfe4	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_f9b9dfe4	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_f9b9dfe4
Necessarily Evil / int_fb873b86	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_fb873b86	comment	Saw: Jigsaw knows that torture isn't a good thing, but he believes it's necessary to teach people to value their own lives and better themselves. That is, if they survive.
Necessarily Evil / int_fb873b86	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_fb873b86	featureConfidence	1.0
Saw (Franchise)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_fb873b86
Necessarily Evil / int_fbf8acc	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_fbf8acc	comment	The Controllers and Director in The Cabin in the Woods, who have to peform rituals involving killing teenagers with monsters to prevent the end of the world. The Controllers have become desensitized enough to run bets and enjoy some of the "entertainment" the ritual provides, though a little bit of their basic human decency still slips through, and tell their new recruit that even his training isn't enough to prepare him for the real thing. The Director is extremely, painfully aware of how evil their actions are, and regrets them deeply, but will do everything possible to see them fulfilled.
Necessarily Evil / int_fbf8acc	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_fbf8acc	featureConfidence	1.0
The Cabin in the Woods	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_fbf8acc
Necessarily Evil / int_fc02a281	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_fc02a281	comment	In You, Me and the Apocalypse, General Gaines will do whatever it takes to ensure the survival of humanity first, his family second: deception, abductions, murder, treason - nothing is off the table. He will sacrifice his marriage, too. In the end he is trapped with a dozen innocents, an impulsive psycho, the Big Bad and an armed mook. More necessary evil awaits.
Necessarily Evil / int_fc02a281	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_fc02a281	featureConfidence	1.0
You, Me and the Apocalypse	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_fc02a281
Necessarily Evil / int_ff0b6458	type	Necessarily Evil
Necessarily Evil / int_ff0b6458	comment	All For Luz: Luz sees having All For One as her Evil Mentor as this. He's trapped inside her head as she inherited his Quirk from the Mass Super-Empowering Event with no way to kick him out and he has over a century's worth of knowledge and experience in using Quirks, as no one else in her world knows much bout them much less an expert on them and often invokes Villain Has a Point to assist her. However, he also acts as a corrupting influence on Luz over time.
Necessarily Evil / int_ff0b6458	featureApplicability	1.0
Necessarily Evil / int_ff0b6458	featureConfidence	1.0
All For Luz (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_ff0b6458

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Necessarily Evil	processingCategory2	Cynicism Tropes
Necessarily Evil	processingCategory2	Deus Est Machina
Necessarily Evil	processingCategory2	Hero Tropes
Necessarily Evil	processingCategory2	Index with a Heart of Gold
Necessarily Evil	processingCategory2	Quirky Good
Necessarily Evil	processingCategory2	Villains
Gravion / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Knight Hunters / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Now and Then, Here and There / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
And Then Emily Was Gone (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Beast Wars: Uprising (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Bomb Queen (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Hunter Zolomon (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Immortal Hulk (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Judas (2017) (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
No Hero (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Paperinik New Adventures (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Red Skull (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Resurrection of Magneto (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Scalped (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Sins of Sinister (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Something is Killing the Children (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Avengers (Jonathan Hickman) (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Boys (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Kingpin (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Sandman Universe (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Simpsons (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Ultimate Galactus Trilogy (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
New Avengers / Comicbook	seeAlso	Necessarily Evil
Mickey's Christmas Carol / Disney / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Wreck-It Ralph / Disney / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Brief History of Equestria / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Necessarily Evil
Fall of Liberty / Fan Fic / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Forward / Fan Fic / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Pages of Harmony / Fan Fic / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Professor Arc / Fan Fic / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Last Ringbearer (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
TheThreeKingsHunt	seeAlso	Necessarily Evil
The Toxic Verse / Fan Fic / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Weight of the World / Fan Fic / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Butterfly Effect (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Heart For Any Fate (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Knight's Tale as Inquisitor (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Tale of Wandering Stars (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Very Scary Thought (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Young Girl's Game of Thrones (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Alfred And The Tiny Attic Squatters (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Ambition of the Red Princess (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Arcanum (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Batman 1939 (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Black Wings, Black Sails (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Code Prime (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Conversations with a Cryptid (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Dominoes (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Fairies of the Shattered Moon (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Flesh and Blood (Cyblade Silver) (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Forum of Thrones (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Forward (Peptuck) (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Friendship Contract (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Hazredous Interruptions (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Heaven's Light (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
I Can't Be a Magical Girl!! You, a Magical Girl, Say (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Imperium Ascendant (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
J-WITCH Series (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Lelouch of the Wings of Rebellion (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Lyssophobia (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Marionettes (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Mr. Fixit (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Nobledark Imperium (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Nymeria's War (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Nymph and the Corrupted Miraculous (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Outcry (LD1449) (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
RyuugisTheMasterOfDeath	seeAlso	Necessarily Evil
Seven Days in Sunny June (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Sunshine and Fire (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Super Robot Wars High (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Tarkin's Fist (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Fansus (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Master of Death (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Savior King, the Master Tactician and the Queen of Liberation (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Tales of Team OMEN (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Vampiolence (Fanfic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Few Good Men / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Advise & Consent / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
First Blood / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Goon (2011) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
How It Ends / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Ip Man 2 / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Ivan the Terrible / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Johnny Dangerously / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Kingdom of Heaven / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Lord of War / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Men in Black / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Pitch (2009) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Repo Men / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Resident Evil (2002) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Serenity / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Serenity (2005) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Snowpiercer / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Soylent Green / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Battle of Algiers / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Cabin in the Woods / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The First Purge / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Midnight Meat Train / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Mummy (1999) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Thor / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Watchmen / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing (Lets Play) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Twitch Plays Pokémon (Lets Play) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The World's Finest Assassin / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Brother's Price / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Certain Magical Index / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Memory of Flames / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Science Fiction Omnibus / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Curtain / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Daemon / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Dune Messiah / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Each Little Universe / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
God-Emperor of Dune / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Izure Shinwa No Ragnarok / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Legend of the Galactic Heroes / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Mistborn: Secret History / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Nineteen Eighty-Four / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Oracle of Tao / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Overheaven / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Perelandra / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Project Hail Mary / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
1632 / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
So I'm a Spider, So What? / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Soul Music / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Arts of Dark and Light / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Aurelian Cycle / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Egyptian / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Executioner and Her Way of Life / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Flames Of Rome / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Hunger Games / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Prince / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Riddle Master Trilogy / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Saga of Darren Shan / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Way of Kings (2010) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Way Of Kings (2011) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The World's Finest Assassin / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Worthing Saga / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Transition / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Tsun-Tsun TzimTzum / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Unsong / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Villains by Necessity / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
World War Z / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
DarkerThanBlackTwinsOfTheMeteor	seeAlso	Necessarily Evil
NecessaryEvil	seeAlso	Necessarily Evil
Rpgingmaster	seeAlso	Necessarily Evil
SAMAS	seeAlso	Necessarily Evil
The Men in Black / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Birdy the Mighty (Manga) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Black Paradox (Manga) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Dragon Ball Super (Manga) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Fire Punch (Manga) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
MPD Psycho (Manga) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Toward the Terra (Manga) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (Manga) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
07-Ghost (Manga) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Joji (Music) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
WoodenToaster (Music) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Ancient Ones (Roleplay) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Mass Effect Relinquish (Roleplay) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Blood & Treasure / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Boss / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Callan / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Deadliest Catch / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Dexter / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
El corazón nunca se equivoca / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Fate: The Winx Saga / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Halo (2022) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Mayor of Kingstown / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Merlin (1998) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Peaky Blinders / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Reaper / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Borgias / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Lost Room / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Magicians (2016) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Philanthropist / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Thick of It / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
24 / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
UFO / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
UFO (1970) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Iron Kingdoms (Tabletop Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Small Family Business (Theatre) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Imagine This (Theatre) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Urinetown (Theatre) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Boktai (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Dawn of War (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Fable III (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Fallout (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Goddess of Victory: NIKKE (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Hitman (2016) (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Kamui (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Knight Bewitched (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
MARDEK (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Marvel's Avengers (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Oracle of Tao (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Overlord (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Pentiment (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Resonance (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Rome: Total War (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Rune (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Samurai Shodown (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Super Robot Wars EX (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Mortuary Assistant (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The New Order: Last Days of Europe (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Touken Ranbu Warriors (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
War for the West (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Dark Parables / Videogame / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten / Videogame / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
America's Most Eligible (Visual Novel) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Sharin no Kuni (Visual Novel) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Diamond in the Rough (Touhou) (Web Animation) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Handplates (Webcomic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Oculus Imperia (Web Video) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Annotated Series (Web Video) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon (Web Video) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Red (Web Video) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Xombie (Web Animation) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Dark Wick (Webcomic)	seeAlso	Necessarily Evil
Nepetaquest 2011 (Webcomic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Thog Infinitron (Webcomic) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Felidae / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Igor / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Inside Out / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Mickey's Christmas Carol / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Monsters, Inc. / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Monsters, Inc. / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Orion and the Dark / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Superman: Red Son / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Flight of Dragons / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Lorax (1972) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Woody Woodpecker / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Wreck-It Ralph / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Impact Wrestling (Wrestling) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (Wrestling) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Panzer World Galient / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Hammered Down / Fan Fic / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.