Evil is great, right? Wrong! Despite the fact that some morally ambiguous characters will make you believe, being evil is additionally less than what it should be. It can destroy your character, your soul and the right people you want and many people care about. While evil can make temporary satisfaction like a cookie, a moment of sweetness has the ability to sell a lifetime of regret.
If bob is wise, he will understand that true happiness can only be achieved with the help of the power of love or the power of love. The power of friendship. Anyone gets the opportunity to cross the moral event horizon, but the consequences look quite bleak. No one wants to be friends with bob, he has nothing to brag about his own career in evil, and it's possible that he made the world a worse place, not a safer place, without even mentioning the starscreams in any corner. And because of all of the above, his soul is so dead that even evil no longer feels good - moreover, he can’t remember how to feel happy at all.
Compare this your brain with evil, the guilt nightmare and punishment for video game violence (in which the video game imposes this imagery). As opposed to "good feels good" (which sometimes leads to this path or vice versa if one character can experience both affirmation and annoyance in a career) and moral pragmatist, where bob sticks to whatever alignment helps him achieve his own goals. Pity a minion with an f in the word "evil" and an ineffectual sympathetic villain, because being evil can be a little worse if the character is not good at it.
If it is also said in the same work that being good sucks, see crapsack world.
Perfect monsters can't fall into this trope because they know how to be evil and are proud of it. For such characters to be evil is cool!
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- Attack on titan uses this fully with reiner, bertolt and annie. Everyone knows that good things are nice, but they resign themselves to saying that they have no other options. The toys have been involved in their business since childhood, but they quickly realized the truth once they infiltrated the survey corps. They could not become traitors because their families suffered a fate worse than death. Reiner, the only one who came home the moment annie was captured/voluntarily imprisoned and bertolt was eaten, suffers from crushing guilt and suicidal tendencies, unable to adapt in life, he now knows this is a lie. Oh, and the telephone cause was all in vain from scratch. Yes, it sucks to be a warrior. Reiner: it's great. We are all short-lived mass murderers, right? Besides us, who else could understand?- The reconnaissance corps themselves show elements of this after being forced to kill military police officers in self-defense.- At the end of the series, eren himself falls. Into this trap at the climax. He forced himself to complete the zero approval gambit to stop the rest of the world from destroying paradis, and lost everything in the process.
- Guardians: ozymandias. His intentions were never completely evil; he sought to stop the third world war before it began, and saw in the murder of several million people the only solution. Despite sacrificing relatively few to save everyone (with the exception of dr. Manhattan), it's clear that he has remorse and wishes there was another route. Towards chaotic neutral rather than outright evil). The biggest one is probably when the power girl crashes outside an amnesiac harley's house and harley convinces her that the porn bunny is her buddy. At first it may seem that harley is just a jerk, but in the end we recognize that the porn bunny really thinks that the power girl is cool and wants her to really be her partner (along with obvious feelings for her).With some hero or heroic organization (usually in the form of a component of an enemy mine) solely in order to still leave due to the status quo - this is god. Often she does seem sad due to the phenomenon of having to be a villain (or at least an anti-hero) again. Offender, and tried to walk straight. He's been a good guy for 20 years, in real time (only a few years, in comic book time). Then his old evil teammate the wizard stuffed the structure into a brainwashing car to make him evil again, causing him even more grief. . Poor dude.- The thunderbolts superhero team was founded as a front for a group of supervillains, then to earn the trust of a whole roster of world peacekeepers in order to be ready for a world domination scheme by changing themselves and pretending to be heroes. . At least half of the original team members suddenly realized that they really liked not being feared and hated, and decided to give up world domination and remain good guys. A bunch of cold-blooded killers who killed supervillains like the scourge of the underworld, while at the same time, the property being bought discovered that such a trope was true when it received its original mark, daredevil's longtime enemy, the matador. She just couldn't bring herself to pull the trigger when she saw that her intended victim was no longer a villain living in poverty in los angeles and working hard to help her sister take care of her children. In fact, this is what leads to the downfall of the organization due to their strict no-retirement policy. Priscilla was smart enough to figure out that they would be after her; before that, every potential defector (or loser, or even member in danger of being caught) was killed by others before you could reveal the various secrets of the group. However, the apartment being bought was smarter than the others, and quickly called the avengers hotline and contacted usagent, and they both ended up bringing down the entire organization. - Mighty thor: loki finally started to feel this way about being an evil god, in part because, as a god of mischief, he hated the idea of being predictable. One death and several not-so-successful resurrections, and then further loki sincerely accepted this trope, doing absolutely everything in their power not to be a villain again, in particular, destroying their individual personality. Dilbert's undressing is seen in the catacombs, where cathbert is depressed because being evil doesn't mean anything anymore. “Now i can cut my salary by ten percent, and all people will thank me when i didn’t fire this money!” (The stripe was present in 2009, during the last economic downturn in the states, so it makes sense.) - It turns out trypticon of any bot feels like you heard right, in transformers: salvation. He deliberately leaves devastator movable as a sign of uncharacteristic mercy in honor of the latter's valor and determination in the face of a superior enemy. Once the dinobots successfully free stretch from club's control (and he expresses his feedback on club's evil plan with the breath weapon), he announces that he is tired because he is only seen as a force of weathering and enlists newborn sparks into his force to you were able to use the metal of his body to organize new protoforms for yourself, allowing him to be the force of creation. The idea that his application hates everything, including the decepticon cause and himself, was part of his original biography, but was still ignored in all appearances in the franchise. How self-loathing, suicidal and highly educated is all the confused darth vader. He lashes out violently at anything positive because it reminds him of what the person used to be, spreads as much pain as he can to simplify his individuality, and looks for dangerous situations partly because he really wants to die, and partly just because to feel some detail again.
- Abraxas (hrodwitnon): san (former left head of ghidorah) and thus his evil twin are definitely experiencing this. While the san brothers (ghidorah's right and middle heads) are recognized as real sociopaths and believe that evil feels good, sun was not as involved as they are in ghidorah's "omnicidal maniac" campaign, and he usually only got satisfaction in the short term when he was allowed to hunt, kill and is present together with individual brothers. Sun's brothers abused him back when he was distractible and minimally evil than the heroes and they cut him off for billions of years, causing sun to have a freudian case of "i just want to be loved" and he seeks emotional interest to his new sister. Vivienne graham if he fuses with her to create a new two-headed artificial hybrid.Which, in her opinion, let darius down. - In a blosc fan verse about goodness, warp darkmatter holds this opinion under his "evil pays better" front. This is a key factor in his eventual heel turn. - Implied in fred porlock's conversations with patterson, wiggins, and watson in mortality. (Before the fic, heel's realization made him become a redeemer.- Pony pov series: in the dark outworld timeline, both false jack and traitor dash highlight this trope. In a bygone era, both evil pie and fluttercruel embraced their own new evil, and twilight tragedy has lost all hope and goes along with discord's rule since that's absolutely all she thinks she has left, falsejack and traitor dash (especially dash) are painfully aware of how discord's magic has been corrupted, transforming the cutscenes into monsters, and they hate themselves for it, but you must admit, they can't do anything about it.During the final battle of the dark world, against the nightmare eclipse/paradox and her psycho-rangers, we encounter examples of this trope of falsejack and traitor dash, enhanced in the mirror of nightmare and bindings, who, not like in paradox and other nightmares, know that what other measures constitute is evil, but feeling that this is perfection, what they can do.Applejack and rainbow dash, who redeemed st. Owe their guilt to this point, acknowledge such a step in their doppelgangers and pity them for it.—In tragic nightmares, princess luna confirms that the possession of the nightshadow was part of her calculated mockery of it during their struggle in her own mind. — A parody in horcrux 7. Voldemort's only true love at all times has been teaching, but due to the phenomenon that a person declares himself the dark lord voldemort by killing people, it is very difficult to find work near children. He would know, no matter how hard he tried. - Waiting for the heartless "this becomes the most serious of the significant points to be studied by the horned king, who was returned to activity and faced with a seemingly impossible mission: to earn a human dignity. Love despite his various sins before 18 months had passed. Otherwise, he is doomed to eternal sealing in the black cauldron. As the cast slowly becomes attached to the captive avaline being executed, he realizes how his millennium-plus existence has been wasted doing evil on his brand and the name of his former master arawn. Addressing this understanding, after thinking about the rule that no matter what its application tries, it always ends up being beaten and re-sealed by link, so why? Thus, he discards their last stand and teleports away, only due to a small last-minute interference that caused said teleportation to go awry and he ended up in equestria. For their own purposes, and in the end they were left alone, rightly calling their existence a hell in the world.- In the fanfic about the miraculous ladybug le papillon rising, adrien agreste is a supervillain known as papillon. Adrian's akum tends to become obsolete from the standpoint of use and ruin his life. He was implied to die rather than hurt marinette, but his ignorance of her superhero second self instead causes him to terrorize her on a daily basis. He does not sleep all the time and does not even have to understand his personal existence due to rivalry with himself. - The why worries fanfic represents this for t. The mane six is meant to stop the goddess of lust, luxury, but when it's released... It's rented! She can insist that she knows about the exploits of the prime six and that all the enemies they faced have given their asses to them, she decides... No, there is no need to be ashamed of taking over equestria. She even says this: luxur: don't you understand? Haven't you already figured out this post-victory period over so many villains no matter what? Were at a time when meanness has a very zero chance of winning. I may not have understood this when i was young and stupid, but i understand now. When i heard you won the nightmare moon, i thought, “okay, good luck to the newbies, big shout out. Then i heard about discord and thought, "sensibly, this is a little discouraging." By the time i found out that the king of evil and darkness himself can be defeated by a damn dragon, i realized that any chances of winning were negligible for me. Luxury: knowing what i do with this world today, if i actively trying to make an attempt at being a villain again, i would just make the donkey me and you. I know i won't win in the end, so what's the point? [Sighs] just take me back to the heart, and also to the dungeon, or nowhere else, i don't care https://chicks.cam/tags/X%20Art/ anymore.
<>- infinity train: blooming trail: upon completion of the fog car, grace monroe, leader of the pinnacle, realized that even what she did in every little cult was inadvisable for everything that came after: many are dead for a reason her, she refrains from character growth that apex has to leave behind and her desire to be noticed has now made her the scourge of the infinite train itself, leading to no one caring that the porn bunny is dead, except that the porn bunny can't ruin lives anymore.- Miraculous tales of scarlet beetle and ikati black: nathaniel kurzberg is the owner of the miraculous butterfly and becomes the anti-villain with the goal of acquiring the miraculous ladybug and black cat, so he can wish, in order to his dead father came back to life. He is not satisfied with this, since his akum often have disastrous events either for himself or for the purpose of his loved ones. He also fears that if his loved ones, including his mother or mark, who is in love with him, guess that the partner is a monarch, they will turn away from him out of disgust.
- "Bad boys" notorious thief mr. Wolfe and his gang pretend to be good guys in order to make a heist. But just as soon as he begins to feel what it means to be in charge, he will begin to doubt whether to remain a dangerous criminal. This has resulted in the player being unable to complete the heist as they do not force themselves to betray the newfound trust and respect they have. And when the real big evil turns the world against him anyway, he's devastated. The next time he argues, he directly proves that he is tired of being an outcast who is feared. There is something worthwhile in reality. However, under pressure, he is unable to tell if his dream is worth anything other than an excuse to vent his pain. Foreteller: say that you will finally destroy kung fu and take over china. Will you finally be happy then?Shen: (avoiding the question) this is the beginning. I can also turn the basement into a dungeon.
- The megamind character of the same name quotes the above, saying that using it does not get what heroes can get.- Doom and power . Slow schlepper brother zip has a heel realization and is mad. We are not evil, are we? This could lead to his heroic sacrifice.- In sleeping beauty, fauna says of the antagonist maleficent, "maleficent knows nothing about love, kindness, or the joy of helping others. I think she's really, really happy." But, unlike many uses of this trope, the holder is not sympathetic; maleficent is one of disney's very outspoken and unrepentant evil villains who doesn't have any redeeming traits (despite being undeniably badass). Gives flora the realization that evil must not understand good, allowing them to deceive maleficent. He is tired of being a bad gentleman in a video game in his thirties and not getting any respect for his job, which sets the plot in motion as he sets out to prove that he can be a good guy. Although he is not always evil at first, he does play a villainous role and is transferred for this patronage. - The lion king: after killing mufasa and usurping his throne, scar finds that toughness doesn't do him much good. Joy, as if he had hoped. His vanity and shortsightedness cause him to instantly turn his newly conquered territory into a desert wasteland, and he is haunted by the knowledge that his subjects will never respect him in the same way as his brother. By the time of the critical confrontation with simba, stress had driven him to the brink of insanity.
- Danny trejo says the reason he tends to play villains who end up getting killed is to show the audience ( especially to children) that the bad guys are sure to get what they have been owed for so long. Especially since he is a former convict who went straight, this message is understandable. Is a recurring motif in guillermo del toro's commercials. Most of his villains represent certain ideologies or political montages, and del toro predicts how their values hurt not only those around them, but themselves as well. - In kronos, the villains are a reclusive billionaire terrified of his own mortality and his insecure, abused nephew. They are both unhappy throughout the film. - In the devil's backbone, the villain is an insecure, cowardly bully who lives in fear of the consequences of his actions, specifically, the child he killed, whose ghost haunts him. He is miserable throughout the film.- In pan's labyrinth, the villain is a fascist deathseeker obsessed with living up to his father's legacy and getting his well-deserved dying moment of wonder of his own.In one scene, he saw the drug lazily thinking about suicide, and does not feel affection for anyone around him - he is obsessed with the desire to have a son, but only in order to continue the legacy, overshadowing the unhealthy aspirations for a glorious death. He's unhappy throughout the movie.- In crimson peak, the villains are a pair of poor aristocrats obsessed with maintaining their titles and maintaining decorum, caught in a mousetrap in a crumbling haunted house. They are also involved in an incestuous relationship, he finds it suffocating, however, he cannot escape, and she is afraid to lose him. They are unhappy at almost every stage of the film - he has a few moments of genuine happiness that come - certainly when he finally does the right thing. - In the manner of water "the villain spends most of his life trying to do what he thinks he is hired to do in a racist, patriarchal society, get a job in the government, obey orders and chase the dream of a white palisade. And he does not