Well Intentioned Extremist / Web Original

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Well-Intentioned Extremists in Web Originals.

• Duncan, from Arby 'n' the Chief, simply wanted to remove game police. If he had to ban other people, so be it. To be fair, he at least refused to participate in Clyde's plan to bring down the network.
• In Belkinus Necrohunt, Nathaniel has claimed that "the ends justify the means" as an explanation for some of the shadier activities the Witchtakers have done, such as how frequently they engage in Recruiting the Criminal without disclosing it to the public. In the Grand Finale, Chandrelle has a similar mindset, claiming that everything she's done was for the sake of achieving a True Resurrection, which helps Nathaniel realize that he can never be sure what "the ends" will be until they happen and that the Witchtakers need to be more focused on "the means", which is why he makes Renee his successor.
• Channel Awesome:
  • Suburban Knights: Jaffers and the obstacles (except for Suede at the end of part 5) just want to protect the gauntlet from Malecite so that he cannot pose a threat to our technology-dependent world. In the process, however, they're willing to fight and kill anyone also looking for the gauntlet in order to prevent that from happening.
  • Atop the Fourth Wall: Lord Vyce wanted to save the multiverse from 'The Entity', so he goes around protecting other universes by conquering and enslaving them.
• Brother Joseph Cross of DC Nation canon and, to a lesser extent, Clearwater Commune in general. Cross is so consumed by guilt over the war crimes he committed in Vietnam that he has put all his energy into building a sanctuary that rejects ALL forms of violence, even self-defense. Unfortunately, his unquestioned leadership has turned them into an Untrusting Community.
  Brother Joseph: Y'see, these are good people who try their best to raise their children who aren't corrupted by the lust for dominance that the outside worships. But for every group of good people, there needs to be an evil man who keeps that knowledge of how tempting it can be. And I AM that evil man.
• Doctor Steel wants to make the world a better place (for himself), a "Utopian Playland", by taking it over — with giant robots if necessary — and becoming World Emperor.
• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Dr. Horrible, at least in the beginning, if you believe him. His fish metaphor when he first speaks with Penny is a good example. He tries to convince himself that this is still the case during the "Slipping" song, probably unsuccessfully.
  Dr. Horrible: Then I win, then I get everything I ever/All the cash, all the fame and social change/Anarchy, that I run!
• The Final Minutes: The Path, one of the survivor collectives from the second half of Zombie Plague had good intentions, despite going to extreme lengths (like overthrowing the Australian government and using missiles to disperse the newly-discovered XMNV cure and bombarding the airspace of the other surviving communities without warning). Needless to say, this ends poorly not just for them, but for the entire planet.
• Fortnite The Movie: Jokeman Ranch. If not for his deeds, everyone would be dead. The only thing between White Skull and world domination was Ranch himself, but after he is killed by a character, The Oni is finally able to enact his plan to dominate the world.
• In The Gmod Idiot Box, DasBoSchitt's way of defending Renamon from people who portray her in a pornographic manner is to repeatedly kill her and portray her in other ways (such as attacking Duke Nukem) to make these people hate her, and, as a result, has been repeatedly viewed as a Renamon hater, or even a furry hater.
• "Good Doctor Locklear" by Madame Macabre is a pretty much a textbook example of this. He's a Mad Doctor who kidnaps and vivisects (without anaesthesia) criminals who escaped justice so that he can transplant their organs into innocent people with incurable medical conditions to save their lives. The song released alongside it, "God Syndrome", is basically a how-to guide on invoking this trope.
  "Why the good die and the cruel live?
  Injustice I cannot forgive.
  'Don't play God, you're no deity?'
  Who, pray tell, will try to stop me?"
• In Gospels of the Flood, Simon is genuinely trying to better the world. His understanding of what the problem is and how to solve it is not what most people would find reasonable, though.
• Jreg: Each of the extremists participating in the Centricide genuinely think they're doing the right thing and believe wholeheartedly in various causes that have their own pros and cons. Ancom hopes to create a society with equality and no hierarchies, even if quee is willing to achieve it through brutal violence; Tankie wants to build a system for and by the proletariat, even if he has to kill everyone who won't go along with his plans to achieve it; Ancap is completely confident in the benefits provided by an unrestricted free market, even if it exploits large numbers of people; and Nazi wishes to keep his people safe and prosperous, even if it comes at the cost of other peoples' rights. However, their leader, Jreg the Anti-Centrist, seems to have far more self-serving ideas in mind.
• Dudley Griffin of KateModern is one of the few people prepared to confront the Order head on. Pity he's such a violent jerk.
• July of May Xnocens wants to kill princess May to prevent Idius March from massacring ogres.
• NatOne Productions: The protagonists of Denazra are chasing after a group of terrorists who claim to be trying to save the galaxy from swarms of self-replicating machines by making the hard decisions that everyone else is too scared to consider. This includes stealing nuclear warheads from a military convoy and assisting in the complete destruction of a populated planet. The worst part is, they may be right...
• Xandra from Neopets. She sincerely believed that the extent to which the Neopians idolised and revered the faeries was bullshit because despite their immense powers, they did almost nothing in return. That being said... let's just say that crashing Faerieland into Neopia is universally considered to have been a bit extreme, as responses go.
• Noob:
  • Tenshirock, who wants to "free" players from MMORPG is somewhat of a meta-case. Due to most of the characters being gamers, he mostly comes off as an Anti-Villain. His cause however seems noble to a portion of the audience due to the existence of actual MMORPG addicts (which are spoken of in mainstream media much more frequently than casual gamers in the show's country of origin). His methods have also been shown to be treating the symptoms rather than the disease: when his regular partner in crime gets her avatar banned, he contacts her to see how she's doing and her answer is "Oh, I'm fine. Just spending my time watching TV while waiting to have enough money to buy [another game].".
  • Arthéon seems to have taken that route as well by the time of Noob: Le Conseil des Trois Factions. His purpose is basically to put an end to the Divine Conflict over the planet that serves as the game's main setting. The plan he turns out to have at the end of the movie follows a "there will be nothing to fight over if I just destroy the planet" logic.
• Plumbing the Death Star: In order to keep the magic of Santa Claus alive, Professor Charles Xavier brainwashes all the adults in the world to randomly give to whatever child Xavier needs them to. Moreover, Xavier also reads the minds of kids with divorced parents and then uses his telepathy to make the parents get back together until the next Christmas, at which point he lets them split apart again because he needs to focus on a gift for this Christmas.
• The Director of Project Freelancer in Red vs. Blue summed up his philosophy with this line: "When faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable." This led to him performing highly unethical and illegal research on fusing Artificial Intelligences with elite human operatives, which ended in plenty of deaths and more than a couple of breakdowns of sanity (for both humans and A.I.s). It's mentioned that entire sections of ethics law regarding AIs were added and rewritten once the full extent of what he had done was revealed.
• SCP Foundation:
  • The SCP Foundation, and that's putting it lightly. They capture Eldritch Abominations, Artifacts of Doom, things man was not meant to see and keep it all contained to protect humanity since many of these things could cause The End of the World as We Know It. So they use prisoners as Cannon Fodder to face a lot of the worst danger and testing, perform memory wipes, cover ups, have people killed and do horrible things to even the more benign SCPs sometimes. To make matters worse, almost every major split off group in their universe is bad enough they are the good guys if only for comparison's sake. That it's run by a dozen people at the very top makes them especially prone to this. Despite being one of the most competent groups out there they also managed to aggravate some paranormal entities into being malevolent or, in a several cases, created them outright often enough that we had to make a separate page for them. They uphold The Masquerade pretty well though, so most of humanity doesn't know they exist.
  • One of these split-off groups, the Global Occult Coalition, is just as well-intentioned as the Foundation but arguably more extreme. They were formed by the Allies after WWII and rather than keeping these things contained and studying them to see if they could be of any benefit to humanity like the Foundation, they simply kill/destroy anyone or anything they don't understand and be done with it. In many cases they end up either killing things that didn't deserve it or making the situation even worse.
  • A couple of the more (relatively) benign SCPs can be considered this. One is a sentient book that creates fantasy dream worlds for anyone who reads the book before falling asleep; a researcher ended up committing suicide after living the fantasy for 200 years, refusing to go back to his real life. Another one is a marble cube that, when touched by a human, turns that human into a copy of a missing person and compels the copy to return to the missing person's family. As it turns out, the cube housed an elderly human Reality Warper who dedicated his life to reuniting missing persons with their families, and came up with a workaround for people he legitimately couldn't find. Another one is a creature resembling a medieval Plague Doctor that keeps warning everyone of a dangerous pestilence that he seeks to cure, but his cure is turning people into zombies and while he insists he will someday find a better cure, it is unclear if this disease is real or he is just delusional.
• In the Sick Sad World episode "Cult Classics", Dev and Jasmine remark that cult leader Jim Jones had good ideas about religion and the Bible, but his context for them was awful.
• Survival of the Fittest:
  • Lenny Priestly of V3 has shown that he would do anything to get his sister off the island, including killing his classmates. May be subverted; there are some implications that he may be using her as an excuse to go on a killing spree, especially now that he's gone all Ax-Crazy and lost his Anti-Villain status...
  • Rachel Gettys from V4 is also one.
  • Aaron. Hughes. Yes, he's trying to find a way off the island. However, his methods are rather...extreme. At one point, he flat-out acknowledges to himself that he doesn't care if his allies get killed, just if the majority of the class gets off the island. That's not getting into his Manipulative Bastard tendencies, or how, previously, he had let one of his former friends be killed just so he could portray him as a martyr to the rest of his group. Or the fact that he manipulated another character into electrocuting someone to death, simply because both characters involved were "a threat".
• Unwanted Houseguest: Doctor Litchfield wants to eliminate all mental illness via brain surgeries that will also eliminate all creativity and free will.
• Vita Carnis revolves around a Canadian Government Conspiracy to prevent an Overpopulation Crisis by conditioning the public to use the titular Meat Moss encompassing the planet as an Artificial Meat substitute. Sounds perfectly noble, until it's shown that their methods include censoring information about the more dangerous creatures it spawns and selling Mind Control spores as seasoning.
• The Triarian Collective from Void of the Stars wants to end all wars in the Universe, create a universal union and bring about a golden age of universal prosperity. How do they get there? Brainwashing, genetic manipulation, massive wars, theft, assassination, genocide and mind control. Lovely.
• Winged Vengeance: Not even her creator escaped her judgment.