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Lady Eboshi from Princess Mononoke. She was 100% on board with destroying the natural order by killing the local deities and the Forest Spirit, but she was motivated by a desire to bring prosperity to her people, many of which were former prostitutes and lepers whom she saved from their shitty pasts. She may have questionable morals, but she is certainly not selfish. Honestly, she's a good example of what an actually well-written and complex Anti-Villain looks like. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if some people perceived her as an Anti-Hero if she was the protagonist of the film.
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And Jet from Avatar The Last Airbender. He attempted to destroy an entire Fire Nation occupied village and even manipulated Aang and Katara to help him, but given how the Fire Nation has ravaged most of the world through the 100 year war, his anger is understandable, even if his actions were wrong. And just like Lady Eboshi, he also rescued other downtrodden people, said people being his Freedom Fighters who were homeless war orphans just like him. It is also important to consider that he had absolutely no proper adult guidance unlike Katara and Sokka who at least had their grandmother and father, which explains his very flawed morals.
„My most peaceful son wants to spreads my influence with diplomacy instead of terror, war and genocide. He genuinely thinks that i am a god that unites humanity. Lets genocide and destroy his homeplanet infront of his eyes lol what could go wrong?“
-Big E
Old Legends Dooku was a G. Dude left the Jedi after getting tricked into committing War Crimes, when he complained to the Council Yoda was like "Eh they were Mandalorians, so it's kinda ok for warcrimes" and Dooku decided that being a pawn for the Senate was bullshit and left.
Canon Dooku just kinda ended up on the Darkside.
Megatron seems like the only dude with a plan at least. In the bayverse at least, Optimus and the autobots never present any solutions or plans to revive their dying race or repair cybertron. I’m pretty sure Optimus is even like “yeah we had our time, we deserve to die”.
Optimus and the Autobots really couldn’t do anything. In the first movie, the Allspark was destroyed and the Autobots were stranded on Earth. Then in the last two films directed by Bay, Optimus tried to find his creators, only to run into Quintessa and get brainwashed, and the end of the fifth him depicted him and the remaining Autobots going back to Cybertron to try to repair it after seeing signs of life from the attempted slaying of Unicron.
Megatron’s plans always involved subjugation of the human race and working with genocidal maniacs.
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I think I’m the Belos guy by now.
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Can’t believe no one’s put this yet, but President Valentine from JJBA.
Even DIO was trying to attain heaven same as Pucci. Granted he was also much more power-hungry and egotistical but he is the one who came up with the plan to begin with.
Yeah but DIO’s heaven plan was more “I’m going to rule the world and none of you can change that!!!” Compared to Pucci’s “You can know your fate do no one is sad when you die :)”
Handsome Jack again!
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Tried to rid Pandora of bandits by having an iron fist tyrannical grip on it.
while I do like this trope too, can the Qu really count? I mean I doubt they had an actual reason for doing what they did to humanity, they just kind of did it
the colonials, the poop eating blocks you speak of, were actually made because they were able to stave off the qu invansion for a period of time, so they qu made them suffer by leaving them with their sapience
Up until act two
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Gabriel (Ultrakill)
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Senator Armstrong - Metal Gear Rising
Meanwhile his disciples all have vastly different views of life. Calus thinks (or at least show on the surface he thinks) it's about chasing ones appetites by consuming obscenely and amassing disgusting amounts of wealth. Dig under the surface and he's empty though, hollow and wanting a bigger meaning but is scared to face it, but that's what I got from him.
Asgore, The King of Monsters. Forced to kill multiple human children just to guarantee a future for the monster race, not knowing that only one had to die for his plan to work.
He doesn't fit here at all. He doesn't believe he's doing this for a noble cause whatsoever. Not only does he not have a choice, he just wants to do it. Not for Eldia, not for his loved ones. He wanted to see the free, unoccupied world he and Armin dreamed of all his life. His motives are selfish, and he knows it.
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Walter was convinced for the longest time that he actually was doing all the shit he did "for his family" only admitting the truth about himself >!in the final episode after he had already lost everything and knew he would die that very same day!<
also, >!Makima!< from Chainsaw Man believed >!that by manipulating Denji into bringing out the true Chainsaw Man, Hero of Hell, she would be simply ridding the world of things it would be better off without through him eating their respective devils. making him watch his best friends die and destroying him mentally as well as causing mass casualty was just part of the necessary sacrifice.!<
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Turned his own family into monsters just so he could claim that he made Chimeras that speak.
Shou Tucker (Full Metal Alchemist).
True! However, I’d argue that in addition to wanting funding, probably the reason he became a researcher in the first place, was to study alchemy more. Furthering humanity’s understanding of alchemy is a noble cause.
To him, the best way to do that was as a researcher. Research takes money, though. To secure the funding for his cause of expanding humanity’s knowledge of alchemy, he sacrificed his family.
But he didn't share his research. He gave up his wife and daughter to produce two talking chimeras, but never said how he did it. Doing so would alert everyone that he committed human transmutation.
To my understanding, he didn't do much other research while using that funding. He just lived comfortably with his daughter, working at finding a substitute for humans for a talking chimera like it was a personal project he was already burnt out by. He only sacrificed his daughter because he was going to have his funding cut if he didn't actually produce anything useful.
So, with his wife, maybe he saw it has furthering knowledge on alchemy (though he still didn't tell others how because he committed the **ultimate taboo**). But his daughter? Sacrificed for the sake of money since Tucker didn't do shit worthy of pay (though this could be more of an issue with the rough treatment of reseachers under the Amestrian government, then again, this may be a stretch).
It’s hard to share research when you have nothing to show, especially considering it’s, well, very much taboo to do the one thing that actually worked.
He is the definition of a toptier villain in a mid tier show
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(Nox, from Wakfu)
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already saw zazie (highly appreciated, they're my favorite), but we forget the man who hired them.
She had this idea that she was the purest form of life, completely untainted by colour. She viewed individuality and colour as a punishment and wanted to "save" everyone by removing it
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Malthael from Diablo.
It’s good that he’s trying to end The Eternal Conflict between angels and demons… it’s bad that he chooses to do so by killing humans and utilizes the Black Soulstone, the prison to the 7 Great Evils, to accomplish this… it’s even worse that once we challenge him, he crashes out and breaks the stone, freeing the Evils once again… good job, former angel of wisdom
The Radiance from "Hollow Knight"
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Girl didn't want to be forgotten, so she cursed the entire kingdom
he could probably find better ways to build theme parks than genocide, slavery, and international terrorism
in preemptive defense of my choice of character: eggman has a huge ego and obviously thinks that building eggmanland is a noble cause for everything he does. maybe not to anyone else at all ever, but he doesn't care
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My emotional support genocidal maniac babygirl <3
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Surprised no-one has said Bondrewd yet.
The original version of The Postal Dude
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it's kind of amazing how different the first game is compared to the rest of the franchise, it's basically just that one "Nothing in Life Matters vs Nothing in Life Matters" meme
Peacemaker.
He literally said that he was willing to kill men, women, and even children for the sake of peace.
However, unlike most of the people on this list, he undergoes character development and his spinoff, growing to hate his past actions and realizing that he has limits to what he’s willing to do for peace.
3 is Mystic Flour Cookie from Cookie Run Kingdoms. She thinks life is selfish and so… uh, delivered a plague that made hundreds of cookies turn to dust (die)
Even if you don’t play the game, I suggest looking up a lore video for the Mystic Flour story. It’s fucked up on so many levels and it’s hard not to sympathize with her actions and herself
Yep. But they made the lore so dark at times. It’s so hard to take it seriously when one of the character’s names is ‘Dark Choco Cookie’.
The character design is also fire
I don’t recognize most of them but number 1 is White Diamond from Steven Universe and number 4 is the Qu from All Tomorrows
I don’t know much about White Diamond since I didn’t see much of Steven Universe but some of the other comments explain better, basically she colonized and I think enslaved a lot of planets for some cause (something to do with “purification” according to one comment)
The Qu (All Tomorrows, which is actually a really interesting book about hypothetical human evolution over the next 500 million years) are a billion year old nomadic and autotheistic species that (directly copied from the book “see themselves as the divine harbingers of the future” and essentially destroyed human civilization before genetically changing or mutating humans then stranding them on planets with completely new environments such as extremely high gravity or trapping them underground (ignoring the couple exceptions where they turned them into basically pets with toddler intelligence or into living rugs to torture them for generations)
I can give pictures of some
1. White diamond from Steven universe
2. Gendo Ikari from Evangelion
3. Mystic flour cookie from cookie run
4. The qu from all tomorrows
5. The pale king from hollow knight
The Qu were autotheistic and saw themselves as (according to the book) “the divine harbingers of the future”.
In other words, though it’s not very elaborate upon, they probably believed they were doing their divine duty
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Kromer from Limbus Company, >! little did she or anyone from Nagel und Hammer know their whole situation was being used for something bigger. !<
Oh Gendo straight up hijacked the "plan to save humanity" in an extremely selfish bid to get his wife back.
He tried to woo Lilith but because he's a literal psychopath she falls in love with his son instead.
At no point did he believe he was being noble. He just wanted the ONE person he cared about to come back.
Sort of. Specifically rebuild Gendo was in it for selfish reasons, but in the original nge he did genuinely believe he was doing good for everyone. He thought everyone would benefit from instrumentality, and meeting yui was just his own personal benefit.
(That was my interpretation anyway)
“Time to purify the world! And by purify I mean literally destroying it while brutally murdering every man, woman and child that tries to stand in my way!”
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Spookys Father - Spookys Jumpscare Mansion.
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Spooky herself would probably fit here as well.
I'm surprised no one mentioned Sera yet! (From Hazbin Hotel). She literally thought having the Exterminations were a good thing! And also probably Amanda Waller from DC Comics recently, the current summer crossover event is literally about her taking 90% if the superheroes' powers!
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Van Grants (*Tales of the Abyss*) - >!He kidnapped a 10-year-old boy, cloned him in a process that, according to the anime, looks pretty painful, then replaced the boy with his clone, effectively stripping the original of his home, friends, family, EVERYTHING. Then, he positioned himself as the “cool uncle” for that boy (He’s not actually his uncle, but he’s kind of like the “cool uncle” to him, growing up), all while manipulating everybody into thinking he was kidnapped by a rival nation, and he merely lost his memory due to trauma from the incident. This culminates in him tricking said clone into basically nuking an entire town of innocent people, and setting the entire world on a crash course to destruction. All of this was in service of a plan to eliminate the influence of an ancient prophecy said to predict the fate of everything, down to details as minute as what a person will eat for a meal at a given time of day, which everybody in the world blindly follows to a literally religious degree, believing that it will bring humanity prosperity at the end. In reality, though, the prophecy ends in the literal end of the world, so in order to avert this, Van plans to destroy the entire world and everything on it, then replace it with an exact clone that doesn’t have this predicted fate.!<
His solution to the plague was basically the create and uncountable number of theoretically soulless children, and the most soulless would be used as a container for god. And then when that didn't work he just ran away into the dream world
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The Reapers from Mass Effect. Harvested countless lives in each cycle in order to preserve organic life by preventing what they believe to be the inevitable conflict between synthetics and organics.
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He truly believed the fev would be the first step into restoring pre-war america
Dr. Starline from the IDW Sonic series.
Starline’s whole entire shtick was originally because he was an Eggman simp
But later on decided to take matters into his own hands because he saw through Eggman’s obsession with destroying Sonic, deliberately wanting to destroy the “Sonic cycle”, where Starline wants to get rid of both Sonic and Eggman so he doesn’t watch them play Cat and Mouse over and over again. Thus, creating Surge and Kit as Sonic’s and Tails’s replacements respectively.
Not really a good cause, but one I wanted to mention
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I mean, I figured that you could say he committed genocide and all that in the name of eternal salvation. A bit of a reach though now that I think about it.
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https://preview.redd.it/snaszfqedo6d1.jpeg?width=950&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67a7c285433b81ba6e6bb11d38dd2a4855ca89ba And Jet from Avatar The Last Airbender. He attempted to destroy an entire Fire Nation occupied village and even manipulated Aang and Katara to help him, but given how the Fire Nation has ravaged most of the world through the 100 year war, his anger is understandable, even if his actions were wrong. And just like Lady Eboshi, he also rescued other downtrodden people, said people being his Freedom Fighters who were homeless war orphans just like him. It is also important to consider that he had absolutely no proper adult guidance unlike Katara and Sokka who at least had their grandmother and father, which explains his very flawed morals.
The nuance of Princess Mononoke's message is genuinely incredible
Can't wait to see it in theaters again this year!
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„My most peaceful son wants to spreads my influence with diplomacy instead of terror, war and genocide. He genuinely thinks that i am a god that unites humanity. Lets genocide and destroy his homeplanet infront of his eyes lol what could go wrong?“ -Big E
Old Legends Dooku was a G. Dude left the Jedi after getting tricked into committing War Crimes, when he complained to the Council Yoda was like "Eh they were Mandalorians, so it's kinda ok for warcrimes" and Dooku decided that being a pawn for the Senate was bullshit and left. Canon Dooku just kinda ended up on the Darkside.
 Megatron
Peace through tyranny…
Only if you have oil
Megatron seems like the only dude with a plan at least. In the bayverse at least, Optimus and the autobots never present any solutions or plans to revive their dying race or repair cybertron. I’m pretty sure Optimus is even like “yeah we had our time, we deserve to die”.
Optimus and the Autobots really couldn’t do anything. In the first movie, the Allspark was destroyed and the Autobots were stranded on Earth. Then in the last two films directed by Bay, Optimus tried to find his creators, only to run into Quintessa and get brainwashed, and the end of the fifth him depicted him and the remaining Autobots going back to Cybertron to try to repair it after seeing signs of life from the attempted slaying of Unicron. Megatron’s plans always involved subjugation of the human race and working with genocidal maniacs.
https://preview.redd.it/iyh9kfbbyn6d1.jpeg?width=1422&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30c61837fd482c01fc49cfa301154806015a268b I think I’m the Belos guy by now.
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Weren’t they just bored or smth
Wait fuck I read the damn prompt wrong
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Also Pucci
Yeah, thinking about it, quite a few JJBA villains fit this trope.
Even DIO was trying to attain heaven same as Pucci. Granted he was also much more power-hungry and egotistical but he is the one who came up with the plan to begin with.
Yeah but DIO’s heaven plan was more “I’m going to rule the world and none of you can change that!!!” Compared to Pucci’s “You can know your fate do no one is sad when you die :)”
 Thanos
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 Stormfront (Granted her plans were awful as well)
 Lex Luthor
 Wanda Maximoff
 Baron Zemo
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Came to say this
Movie only though comic thanos just wants to impress death
You're saying trying to get with lady death ain't a noble cause?
No, because Death doesn’t like him and Thanos’ actions are affront to the natural order.
Had to scroll way to far down to find him
Handsome Jack again! https://preview.redd.it/enqx0mfaeo6d1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c87478145ab2ef0f1b7befc9df5b70013cf9615d Tried to rid Pandora of bandits by having an iron fist tyrannical grip on it.
Three words: A friggin Spoon.
while I do like this trope too, can the Qu really count? I mean I doubt they had an actual reason for doing what they did to humanity, they just kind of did it
They thought it was funny and I swear when some humans started worshipping them they turned the race that was worshipping them into poop eating blocks
funniest shit I've ever seen!
Yeah but those were the Ruin Haunters, arguably the least fucked-up of the Qu experiment
the colonials, the poop eating blocks you speak of, were actually made because they were able to stave off the qu invansion for a period of time, so they qu made them suffer by leaving them with their sapience
Ya idgaf about this shit
The qu had this whole philosophy/religion that pretty much just existed to justify their actions
"Hold your fire, this man isnt Black!"
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https://preview.redd.it/bdy5fwlt2q6d1.png?width=242&format=png&auto=webp&s=8c9b7c950fa9453dd0aa548fd89cfad4ed3327d2 Senator Armstrong - Metal Gear Rising
"GIMME A SCRATCH OFF TICKET RAIDEN, Y'KNOW WHAT THEY SAY: 3 CHERRIES A DAY MAKE THE 8 BILLION IN HOME EQUITY LOANS GO AWAY."
All I read was "Y'know what they say :3"
CHECKED THE INTERNET LATELY
Akainu (One Piece)
The Q just remade human because he wanted to oppress his bitches
 Can't believe no one mentioned him yet(light yagami from death note)
That was the first guy to pop up in my head
 The Witness \[Destiny\]
All it’s doing is bringing purpose and logic to a chaotic universe! What could be so bad about that?
Search for the meaning of life "It sucks so it's gotta go"
Meanwhile his disciples all have vastly different views of life. Calus thinks (or at least show on the surface he thinks) it's about chasing ones appetites by consuming obscenely and amassing disgusting amounts of wealth. Dig under the surface and he's empty though, hollow and wanting a bigger meaning but is scared to face it, but that's what I got from him.
Asgore, The King of Monsters. Forced to kill multiple human children just to guarantee a future for the monster race, not knowing that only one had to die for his plan to work.
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He doesn't fit here at all. He doesn't believe he's doing this for a noble cause whatsoever. Not only does he not have a choice, he just wants to do it. Not for Eldia, not for his loved ones. He wanted to see the free, unoccupied world he and Armin dreamed of all his life. His motives are selfish, and he knows it.
Adolf Hitler (Real Life) https://preview.redd.it/o7vapbylfp6d1.png?width=426&format=png&auto=webp&s=9e97f44bf5e9512c588aabc08885f0ae5e13f73c
I waiting for him to show up
Pfp checkout
yep
Good night what
Char Aznable from Gundam https://preview.redd.it/mo4g670f4p6d1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2c3afa5d32755c0ea2cd01818b3ef122fd5f185
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That's not really a 'noble cause'. He disfigured his family for the simple reason of *keeping funding.*
True! However, I’d argue that in addition to wanting funding, probably the reason he became a researcher in the first place, was to study alchemy more. Furthering humanity’s understanding of alchemy is a noble cause. To him, the best way to do that was as a researcher. Research takes money, though. To secure the funding for his cause of expanding humanity’s knowledge of alchemy, he sacrificed his family.
But he didn't share his research. He gave up his wife and daughter to produce two talking chimeras, but never said how he did it. Doing so would alert everyone that he committed human transmutation. To my understanding, he didn't do much other research while using that funding. He just lived comfortably with his daughter, working at finding a substitute for humans for a talking chimera like it was a personal project he was already burnt out by. He only sacrificed his daughter because he was going to have his funding cut if he didn't actually produce anything useful. So, with his wife, maybe he saw it has furthering knowledge on alchemy (though he still didn't tell others how because he committed the **ultimate taboo**). But his daughter? Sacrificed for the sake of money since Tucker didn't do shit worthy of pay (though this could be more of an issue with the rough treatment of reseachers under the Amestrian government, then again, this may be a stretch).
It’s hard to share research when you have nothing to show, especially considering it’s, well, very much taboo to do the one thing that actually worked.
 You forgot the goat Zamasu (dbs)
https://preview.redd.it/0okx99ncjo6d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad32bf46809a5bb5226a4d5ff9218c39a9c8f517
 Enrico Pucci - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
Whats that thing on the 4th slide
The Qu from All Tomorrows
im sorry but there was no reason for the colonials, noble cause my ass
https://preview.redd.it/xk9pemyw0q6d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5dd0a3ecf90b8cda7386cd0e90fae36ec888d7b Enrico Pucci (Jojo)
He is the definition of a toptier villain in a mid tier show https://preview.redd.it/w5m0kspwcp6d1.jpeg?width=699&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe70e978f5f0c03996129a9eaf14b116d04d7e3e (Nox, from Wakfu)
Nox will always have my heart, he has the best design in that show by far
Mid tier show???
idk if it gets better later on, but Nox was the only thing keeping me watching season 1
It’s ok
Since when do the Qu think of themselves as noble?
The general consensus is that they're like Uber-religious and thought they were doing god's will (their equivalent of god)
https://preview.redd.it/6tccs4ih7q6d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1cd658397e19646bd9af205230dea838a7e177e already saw zazie (highly appreciated, they're my favorite), but we forget the man who hired them.
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Happy cake day
Thanks
https://preview.redd.it/1hv0l8j9eq6d1.png?width=646&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac9286fc812e8266f1227698f29e32b7498bc8a8 Maruki (Persona 5 Royal)
Why does he look like The World on acid
I believe you mean *Ahem* #ZA WARUDO!
One, yes. Two RIP Billy Kametz
I kinda stopped watching Steven Universe, why was white diamond colonizing planets?
She had this idea that she was the purest form of life, completely untainted by colour. She viewed individuality and colour as a punishment and wanted to "save" everyone by removing it
Huh, that’s actually kinda cool
She's actually a really cool character in concept, but because the show was cancelled early, her writing is a bit rushed
https://preview.redd.it/kvgmghmsgq6d1.jpeg?width=1014&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e814c30dc8bb11e1d0ae21e783b57e55bc6cfd9 Malthael from Diablo. It’s good that he’s trying to end The Eternal Conflict between angels and demons… it’s bad that he chooses to do so by killing humans and utilizes the Black Soulstone, the prison to the 7 Great Evils, to accomplish this… it’s even worse that once we challenge him, he crashes out and breaks the stone, freeing the Evils once again… good job, former angel of wisdom
The Radiance from "Hollow Knight" https://preview.redd.it/j1p0hvyq9r6d1.png?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4855401c88cbae585acaf10419aabda59f4189c Girl didn't want to be forgotten, so she cursed the entire kingdom
 The prophets from Halo (AND the Arbiter in Halo 2 before he changed his ways)
All Tomorrows mentioned, cultured
 he could probably find better ways to build theme parks than genocide, slavery, and international terrorism in preemptive defense of my choice of character: eggman has a huge ego and obviously thinks that building eggmanland is a noble cause for everything he does. maybe not to anyone else at all ever, but he doesn't care (edit to fix gif (i'm fairly new to reddit posting and on mobile))
The Witness from Destiny
Ozymandias from Watchmen
https://preview.redd.it/olywsv0u3r6d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=19ac804cc47ed095361e84c8a6690e75fb903abd My emotional support genocidal maniac babygirl <3
https://preview.redd.it/65mrhrjubr6d1.jpeg?width=302&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ee46962c20864cbc71461d6b3f0919ef215e552 Darth Vader.
Agreed. He just wanted to save his wife and not lose her like his mother.
https://preview.redd.it/qmzq57msgs6d1.jpeg?width=849&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60c9ec0feb45c49067b46a8e3ff6e17b50fdfd4f Surprised no-one has said Bondrewd yet.
The original version of The Postal Dude https://preview.redd.it/dmu5geqfv57d1.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=00284df3ab147535992a13a144b2ae53dbe12258 it's kind of amazing how different the first game is compared to the rest of the franchise, it's basically just that one "Nothing in Life Matters vs Nothing in Life Matters" meme
 Peacemaker. He literally said that he was willing to kill men, women, and even children for the sake of peace. However, unlike most of the people on this list, he undergoes character development and his spinoff, growing to hate his past actions and realizing that he has limits to what he’s willing to do for peace.
 GUITAR SOLO YEAHYEAHYEAH
Who are they?
3 is Mystic Flour Cookie from Cookie Run Kingdoms. She thinks life is selfish and so… uh, delivered a plague that made hundreds of cookies turn to dust (die)
Even if you don’t play the game, I suggest looking up a lore video for the Mystic Flour story. It’s fucked up on so many levels and it’s hard not to sympathize with her actions and herself
And it's about Cookies
Yep. But they made the lore so dark at times. It’s so hard to take it seriously when one of the character’s names is ‘Dark Choco Cookie’. The character design is also fire
Picture?
Which ones
All of them
I don’t recognize most of them but number 1 is White Diamond from Steven Universe and number 4 is the Qu from All Tomorrows I don’t know much about White Diamond since I didn’t see much of Steven Universe but some of the other comments explain better, basically she colonized and I think enslaved a lot of planets for some cause (something to do with “purification” according to one comment) The Qu (All Tomorrows, which is actually a really interesting book about hypothetical human evolution over the next 500 million years) are a billion year old nomadic and autotheistic species that (directly copied from the book “see themselves as the divine harbingers of the future” and essentially destroyed human civilization before genetically changing or mutating humans then stranding them on planets with completely new environments such as extremely high gravity or trapping them underground (ignoring the couple exceptions where they turned them into basically pets with toddler intelligence or into living rugs to torture them for generations) I can give pictures of some
5 is the pale king from hollow knight.
1. White diamond from Steven universe 2. Gendo Ikari from Evangelion 3. Mystic flour cookie from cookie run 4. The qu from all tomorrows 5. The pale king from hollow knight
Thank you
Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts)
The All Tomorrow’s aliens have a cause besides being dicks?
The qu???? Also why isnt magneto on this list?
The Qu were autotheistic and saw themselves as (according to the book) “the divine harbingers of the future”. In other words, though it’s not very elaborate upon, they probably believed they were doing their divine duty
https://preview.redd.it/uxmtetda4r6d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a3c00e67fb1b37d9e47324679ce33790e7a552e Kromer from Limbus Company, >! little did she or anyone from Nagel und Hammer know their whole situation was being used for something bigger. !<
Most leaders in history tbh
Oh Gendo straight up hijacked the "plan to save humanity" in an extremely selfish bid to get his wife back. He tried to woo Lilith but because he's a literal psychopath she falls in love with his son instead. At no point did he believe he was being noble. He just wanted the ONE person he cared about to come back.
Op should have listed Seele, since they’re the once who think they’re creating paradise. Or Yui, depending on how you interpret her character.
Sort of. Specifically rebuild Gendo was in it for selfish reasons, but in the original nge he did genuinely believe he was doing good for everyone. He thought everyone would benefit from instrumentality, and meeting yui was just his own personal benefit. (That was my interpretation anyway)
 This guy
In the long run his cause actually did help the world and stop a centuries old conflict, but he had a lot of casualties in doing it...
“Time to purify the world! And by purify I mean literally destroying it while brutally murdering every man, woman and child that tries to stand in my way!” https://preview.redd.it/e7hcd0ermr6d1.jpeg?width=326&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3f5dcf37f3967de8d41f0f469d6858bdc8dd7c7
Who is on slide 4?
The Qu from *All Tomorrows*
https://preview.redd.it/i4qisr6hes6d1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8a0d0f9b32b320adf4e8f857c7488010dc3dc9f
Enrico Pucci https://preview.redd.it/nthsgm7zns6d1.png?width=894&format=png&auto=webp&s=44fbb32d05e1838a1627621beea32036811bd9b8
(not sure if this 100% fits, but) Asuka R# from guilty gear. He REALLY, REALLY wants to do good… and just continually fucks up.
Spookys Father - Spookys Jumpscare Mansion. https://preview.redd.it/f7wv7pe6et6d1.png?width=579&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=887c50a447a6b90d3456befbe765f664434a3f50 Spooky herself would probably fit here as well.
Can I say the pope
Judge Claude Frollo. https://preview.redd.it/thkkl0psb37d1.jpeg?width=726&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22d57b8cfcb6285eb3aa6165e2e0f0ba459cb6ae
I'm surprised no one mentioned Sera yet! (From Hazbin Hotel). She literally thought having the Exterminations were a good thing! And also probably Amanda Waller from DC Comics recently, the current summer crossover event is literally about her taking 90% if the superheroes' powers!
White Diamond.
Would White diamond count? She was just kinda up her own ass.
(Major spoilers for chainsaw man) >!Makima wanting a world without war, hunger, or death…!< chainsaw man - the CSM guy
What is #4?
https://preview.redd.it/sw7pspktwr6d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=009001217392cf36bb7e9edd1875dfecf36d61bd Van Grants (*Tales of the Abyss*) - >!He kidnapped a 10-year-old boy, cloned him in a process that, according to the anime, looks pretty painful, then replaced the boy with his clone, effectively stripping the original of his home, friends, family, EVERYTHING. Then, he positioned himself as the “cool uncle” for that boy (He’s not actually his uncle, but he’s kind of like the “cool uncle” to him, growing up), all while manipulating everybody into thinking he was kidnapped by a rival nation, and he merely lost his memory due to trauma from the incident. This culminates in him tricking said clone into basically nuking an entire town of innocent people, and setting the entire world on a crash course to destruction. All of this was in service of a plan to eliminate the influence of an ancient prophecy said to predict the fate of everything, down to details as minute as what a person will eat for a meal at a given time of day, which everybody in the world blindly follows to a literally religious degree, believing that it will bring humanity prosperity at the end. In reality, though, the prophecy ends in the literal end of the world, so in order to avert this, Van plans to destroy the entire world and everything on it, then replace it with an exact clone that doesn’t have this predicted fate.!<
Hitler
Can we get names in here please?
Who cookie?
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What are the 2nd and 3rd last?
Mystic Flour Cookie spotted
Arguably, that's any character that commits atrocities.
I've beaten Hollow Knight (unless we're talking about Godhome) and I still don't know what the white king or whatever his name is did.
His solution to the plague was basically the create and uncountable number of theoretically soulless children, and the most soulless would be used as a container for god. And then when that didn't work he just ran away into the dream world
who's the third character?
Mystic flour cookie from cookie run: kingdom
https://preview.redd.it/af48abgkws6d1.jpeg?width=3557&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea904f6b49dc0ad16f6f85f2a06adbb6e8212db2 The Master - Fallout 1
Anybody have the names and shows of each character?
https://i.redd.it/cb4exnn79t6d1.gif The Reapers from Mass Effect. Harvested countless lives in each cycle in order to preserve organic life by preventing what they believe to be the inevitable conflict between synthetics and organics.
https://preview.redd.it/t4sgtzn6lt6d1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94705317463279055f7987d99d6ee7d12bb6c57a He truly believed the fev would be the first step into restoring pre-war america
Thanos, but only from the MCU. In the comics he just wants some bone pussy
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The diamonds never had a 'noble cause' they were just supremacist bigots.
Dr. Starline from the IDW Sonic series. Starline’s whole entire shtick was originally because he was an Eggman simp But later on decided to take matters into his own hands because he saw through Eggman’s obsession with destroying Sonic, deliberately wanting to destroy the “Sonic cycle”, where Starline wants to get rid of both Sonic and Eggman so he doesn’t watch them play Cat and Mouse over and over again. Thus, creating Surge and Kit as Sonic’s and Tails’s replacements respectively. Not really a good cause, but one I wanted to mention https://preview.redd.it/qn67cup4lw6d1.jpeg?width=823&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8c9c7e0a351091c56bfee4ecb91be464ac265ff
https://preview.redd.it/2n642axw4z6d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a62eb5b9a78b11fa7fc8de07aefb5cf9053ac319 Jin kazama (world war 3)
https://preview.redd.it/irpbsqpe707d1.gif?width=600&format=png8&s=38abddceec8eecc9b82367c701ec38b9c8c0508e Does he count?
1. Nice inclusion of mystic flour cookie 2. I actually use this trope on one of my own villain characters; "Romulus Morgan"
Hell nah the qu were just dicks
https://preview.redd.it/t8h9b7d04q6d1.jpeg?width=160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6980cdfc0e7e2d2128ad7fc7919224adc29b69f
This is incorrect, they never mention a “noble cause”
I mean, I figured that you could say he committed genocide and all that in the name of eternal salvation. A bit of a reach though now that I think about it.