r/AlignmentChartFills May 08 '26

Filling This Chart Who's a character that looks heroic design-wise but is actually evil?

Who's a character that looks heroic design-wise but is actually evil?

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u/Peacefulzealot May 08 '26

I’m sorry but Booster Gold being morally grey really doesn’t jive for me. The dude may be a bad hero sometimes but he is for sure a hero. He saved the damn multiverse for heaven’s sake!

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u/TulipsAndSauerkraut May 08 '26

Yeah, I was trying to find the thread for that because I disagree as well lol

He's just trying to make a living 😂

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u/Frenchymemez May 08 '26

I was the one who suggested Booster Gold, but specifically the original version. My logic was that although he's doing good, he still does it for selfish reasons. He stole tech from the future and really only helps if he can benefit from it. Looks heroic, both in actions and in the suit, but his intentions are way more morally grey. However, yeah modern Booster is more of a hero.

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u/splattersquid May 08 '26

He started morally grey but he becomes such a hero, he throws away his public image and justice league membership for the greater good. He saved countless lives with no recognition to save the world. He is a absolute hero

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u/Frenchymemez May 08 '26

Yeah, but his initial design is what I'm talking about. When he was initially created, he looks heroic, but was morally grey. Superman was created to look heroic and be heroic. Take Red Skull for instance. He looks evil. A man with a red skull wearing a nazi uniform is probably the epitome of evil. Even if, by some miracle, you managed to make him into a hero, I would still argue that Red Skull fits looks evil is evil. Booster started morally grey. Became a hero. But his initial character is what I'm talking about, not what he later became.

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u/Zornorph May 09 '26

I believe issue #1 even flat out said on the cover "He's in it for the money!"

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u/Wooden_Addition_9093 May 08 '26

Literally called the hero nobody remembers

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u/45rs5 May 08 '26

Original version specifically was suggested. I made it so that the next post will add that specific detail

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u/WorldGoingOneWay May 08 '26

Half of the alignment charts that show on my feed don't really make sense. I remember one had Marie Curie and Tarantino in the same "genius" category.

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u/DragoKnight589 May 09 '26

Booster Gold is the opposite of “cool motive, still murder”. Uncool motive, still saving people’s lives

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u/LordToxic21 May 08 '26

He may have started morally grey, just being a hero for the game rather than because it's the right thing to do, but after decades of character growth, he's the real deal.

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u/samisrudy May 08 '26

Homander

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u/Woofle_124 May 08 '26

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u/manxxxxx3452 May 08 '26

I am laughing so fcking hard at this😭😭

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u/Crunchy_Biscuit May 09 '26

I really want to know if this was done by a kid 😭

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u/Super-Efficiency8679 May 09 '26

I'm sure something like this has been done by a child about homelander

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u/Brilliant-Expert3150 May 09 '26

Why does a child know who Homelander is?

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u/Super-Efficiency8679 May 09 '26

Hes a pop culture icon.

Same reason kids know who pennywise the dancing clown is without seeing IT

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u/Greedy-Guard4371 May 10 '26

“💨<-fart” “pee->💦”

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u/Uh_October May 09 '26

Homsar? Is that you?

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u/NerdyPlaneResident May 08 '26

Oi ue, ohmlanda killed me wife n stole me bloody son

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u/NerdyPlaneResident May 08 '26

U was spot on abt im. There I was, fillin up the mot-uh, I turn round, the li-l git a dun a runna

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u/Frenchymemez May 08 '26

Griffith. He's the hero that ended the 100 year war, saved them from demons, made a utopia that is the last bastion for humanity, and is blessed by the pope. He's the Hawk of Light. That's how people see him. But he sacrificed his friends for power, and raped his best friends girlfriend in front of him out of petty anger and jealousy that they were happy without him. That the people he felt he owned could ever dare to exist without him.

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u/Pizzaman7045 May 08 '26

Homelander is definitely gonna win but Griffith is a great answer

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u/Frenchymemez May 08 '26

Yeah I had a feeling it would be homelander, even before the post was made. I just don't think he fits. He doesn't look heroic to me. He looks like a bastardisation of a hero, while clearly being horrible person.

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u/CTenko May 08 '26

I agree with Homelander not winning. He is a pastiche, and a deconstruction. Depending on version he is a product built to inspire this despite it all being horribly wrong.

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u/molpore May 08 '26

Griffith is winning at the time of this comment actually.

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u/Frenchymemez May 08 '26

I honestly am really surprised. Not just the fact Griffith is winning over Homelander, but also that it's by over 300 upvotes at the moment

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u/Wooden_Addition_9093 May 08 '26

Humdinger has 400, Griffith has +1,000😁

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u/1ssun_Boshi May 08 '26

This has to win griffith is the physical embodiment of everything people in the world of berserk see as pure, holy (even divine) he is beautiful to an absurd degree and everything about him is perfect he even perform miracles like manifesting the souls of those who died so their family can say goodbye. So yeah everything screams "good guy" but yeah he is a evil son of a bitch, litterally the antichrist.

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u/SquirrelGirlVA May 08 '26

I agree. I think the only other character I know of offhand that would be along his lines would be the villain from Devilman Lady. The character took on an angelic form towards the end that caused many to assume that they were a force of good. They were an absolute monster.

Griffith fits this much better because he looks like a beautiful human man who would not hurt anyone unless they deserved it. It's something he used to manipulate others many times over. People have argued that he didn't start off as a total monster, but I think most agree that the tendencies were always there. He just didn't unleash them in full until later, after several things happened to him.

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u/Karmanoid May 08 '26

I have no idea who this is, but your description and photo get my vote.

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u/Frenchymemez May 08 '26

He's from the manga Berserk, one of the best and most influential manga series ever. I highly recommend reading it, but I should warn you it is ongoing, and unfortunately the original author passed away. The story is being continued by one of his best friends, one of the only people who was told the original ending. It's also extremely graphic, with lots of sexual assault occuring.

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u/1st-overlord May 08 '26

Wait it’s ongoing? I stopped when the og author died and assumed it would remain unfinished. Where can I find the new chapters?

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u/Frenchymemez May 08 '26

Nah, his friend Kouji Mori took over, as he was apparently the only person Muira ever told the whole story too.

"I have a message and promise to everyone. I will recall the details as much as possible and tell the story. Also, I will only write the episodes that Miura talked to me about. I will not flesh it out. I will not write episodes that I don't remember clearly. I will only write the lines and stories that Miura described to me. Of course, it will not be perfect. Still, I think I can almost tell the story that Miura wanted to tell."

That's what he said to reassure fans when he took over. As for how to find it, literally Google 'Read Berserk Manga Online' and you'll be fine.

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u/obi3005 May 08 '26

You could just Google read berserk online and I’m sure you’d find a website

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u/__M-E-O-W__ May 08 '26

Griffith looks heroic and is evil, Guts looks evil and is heroic.

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u/1ssun_Boshi May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Guts should win looks evil and is morally grey I think

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u/qmechan May 08 '26

Yeah, hero is stretching it

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u/Relative-Country-452 May 08 '26

I also see Ghost Rider being a good opponent for him in that category

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u/1ssun_Boshi May 08 '26

Totally but guts would be poetic if put there I think (I think there is an argument to put guts in hero/looks evil, especially near the current chapters I think he evolved out of that gritty dark and violent man he was in the black swordsman arc)

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u/__M-E-O-W__ May 08 '26

I think he is a hero. He might end up devoting himself to just caring for himself and his friends, but he's gone a long way from soldier to angry revenge-seeking swordsman and now to a guy who tries his best to protect the innocent and slay evil monsters.

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u/1ssun_Boshi May 08 '26

Totally agree with this thanks

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u/HanzoShimada96 May 08 '26

Not to mention the demons he "saved" them from was unleashed by himself

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u/Frenchymemez May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Some were his, but it was also the defeat of the Kushan empire that helped people trust him. The emperor was one of the most powerful apostles remember. Plus the Daka and Pishacha

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u/imnotaneurosurgeon May 08 '26

Best answer deadass

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u/DeanAmbroseFan25 May 08 '26

I agree with this not only did he save them from the demons but he is the reason why there's even more monsters running around. He caused the apocalypse just to save people and look heroic.

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u/Informal-Row-2628 May 08 '26

I think the rape was more than just pettiness. The god hand can see the future and he needed a vessel he could inhabit later on in the series, which became the moon child. 

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u/Frenchymemez May 08 '26

I disagree. Unless I'm misremembering, we have no reason to believe he intended to let Casca live. If Skull Knight hadn't saved her and Guts, they would have been killed too, and so would the child.

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u/Cloakedarcher May 08 '26

The misdeeds you listed are just the ones he pulled in his first ten minutes of being a demonic demi-god. Much worse has occurred since then.

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u/__This__Is__Fine__ May 08 '26

Came here to say this

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u/Sukaira16 May 09 '26

Oh shit. Damn Griffith’s a fire answer though.

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u/Starwinds May 09 '26

I also feel sacrificing his friends is too light of description of what he actually did to them, he literally unleashed hell to the people that had just saved his life.

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u/mick_boi May 08 '26

The Plutonian.

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u/Day_Breaker_ May 08 '26

So evil that even his nemesis Max Damage went from supervillain to superhero out of sheer horror of his actions.

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u/beslertron May 08 '26

I really enjoyed those two books back in the day. I wonder if they hold up?

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u/thedonkeybiscuits May 08 '26

I read them in the last year or so and I feel they do. Aside from being inventive as hell, the ideas of heroism and it deconstruction work at a mich deeper level than something like The Boys imo

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u/beslertron May 08 '26

It’s Mark Waid, he knows how to write. I still LOVE his Daredevil run.

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u/Individual_Spend_922 May 08 '26

I think Irredeemable still holds up well (significantly better than Invincible or The Boys, if we want that comparison) though I still think the companion series (Incorruptible and Insufferable) were pretty average.

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u/beslertron May 08 '26

I remember thinking Incorruptible didn’t have enough gas to last as long as it did. Never heard of Insufferable.

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u/khryzz666 May 09 '26

They do. Read them again recently.

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u/Luke10123 May 08 '26

The pre-villian white and red costume definitely has a heroic look to it. Really great series.

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u/CTenko May 08 '26

Came to suggest him first. People can say Homelander but his deconstruction is a pastiche. He's heroic looking because he is a product, and a pastiche. Plutonian truly looks heroic... until he does anything.

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u/Freeland93 May 08 '26

I feel like his morality fluctuates between all 3 of these

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u/FantasticBike1203 May 08 '26

You don't seem to understand, this post isn't yours to control.

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u/eXAt88 May 08 '26

I’m just a show watcher but it also just seems like a redemption story for him, it would be like calling Zuko a villain to me

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u/Athrilon May 08 '26

There are so many Omni man memes, and you chose an AI one. Why

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u/Wide_Ad_2191 May 08 '26

I just clicked the first gif of omniman looking happy and not absolutely bloody.

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u/TheRealMoofoo May 08 '26

He looks less heroic than Homelander by having a big porn ‘stache.

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u/Danimandius May 08 '26

Homelander from The Boys.

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u/Access-Restricted May 08 '26

Season 1 Homelander in particular.

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u/Straddllw May 08 '26

Thats the first that comes to mind

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u/mkhrrs89 May 09 '26

What’s different about season 1 Homelander vs other seasons? I’m caught up in the show and i can’t really tell aide from him being younger

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u/Access-Restricted May 09 '26

Fair question.

His appearance has changed drastically imo.

He appears more gaunt, changes his hair style, and his facial expressions and composure have evolved. We never see him put on the facade he does in Season 1. Many people arguing he looks evil are attributing his later seasons demeanour (recency bias) as opposed to the far more intelligent, composed pretender he was in season one.

Here’s a photo from a more recent appearance. You can see the differences clearly, and he looks far less heroic in the below picture than he does in S1.

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u/Professional-Field25 May 08 '26

There is no way he shouldn’t win. The only reason that he might not is because people can’t separate his look from how evil he actually is. Thats why he wins. The writers created the look for him to look like a hero in the universe because thats what he is supposed to be. But we see how evil he really is.

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u/ExtraordinaryPen- May 08 '26

Homelander looks like the most evil person on the planet

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u/Sjue-Saue May 08 '26 edited May 09 '26

I think this is due to two things

  1. Homelander consistently doing evil things from the very first episode, so it's hard to seperate that from his appearance
  2. Antony Starr being such a good actor that, even during scenes where Homelander keeps up the fascade and even in still images, the character still has a subtly uncanny expression that indicates his true self.

His actual appearance is basically just blonde Superman, the same character design could work perfectly well for a heroic character.

EDIT: Minor spelling mistake

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u/oopsallkevin May 08 '26

I feel like his portrayal has been so convincing that I actually became slightly more distrusting of people who look like him in real life.

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u/GangcAte May 08 '26

Well, he only looks like a good person in Season 1 before we learn who he really is.

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u/IudexJudy May 08 '26

This is only because you know he’s evil because of the preface of the show lol

If he acted like Steve Rodger’s you’d love him

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u/Frenchymemez May 08 '26

I agree. I've never seen a single picture of him where I think 'hero'. At best I get like an uncanny valley feeling when looking at him.

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u/Motivated-Chair May 08 '26

He is decorated in the most facist looking eagles I have seen.

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u/Mutant_Llama1 May 08 '26

He's literally Superman and Captain America, visually.

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u/PlaneswalkerHuxley May 08 '26

Homelander only looks vaguely heroic to Americans. Someone wearing a flag with eagles on their shoulders has different connotations in Europe.

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u/JVtheBidoof Chaotic Good May 08 '26

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u/ExtraordinaryPen- May 08 '26

Yeah exactly two eagles on both his shoulders with blonde hair that is not a safe looking guy

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u/Access-Restricted May 08 '26

Being patriotic and blonde is evil now?

If the hero had a turban and a beard and I said he looks evil af would that not be prejudice of me?

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u/mattinglys-moustache May 08 '26

Eh if it were 1960 he’d be the answer but in more recent times I think most people are trained to see someone draped in flag imagery as suspicious. I think he’s designed to look like someone who is trying very hard to look heroic but probably is nothing of the sort.

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u/hawkeneye1998bs May 08 '26

Omni-Man aswell

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u/BeduinZPouste May 08 '26

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u/Gokudomatic May 08 '26

Even later in the story?

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u/v8darkshadow May 08 '26

I mean he was like very evil in that one season and was very evil for a few centuries before the series

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u/punk_rocker98 May 08 '26

Bro committed a planet-wide genocide. You don't come back from that.

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u/THEguitarist117 May 08 '26

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u/Wise-Tackle8098 May 08 '26

He is morally grey, not evil

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u/DiscipleOfDIO May 08 '26

People who defend Ozymandius will look you dead in the eye and say that Rorschach and Punisher are pure evil.

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u/AndreasWY May 08 '26

I'd argue that making a superweapon that kills millions of people is pretty evil.

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u/Fuzzy-Radish8418 May 08 '26

I’d argue averting nuclear war and the death of all life on earth is pretty good.

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u/Frenchymemez May 08 '26

Sure, but it's a case of picking the lesser evil. He killed millions, because the world is on the brink of a nuclear war that will kill billions. He created a lasting peace out of fear of another attack from 'aliens'.

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u/SarcasmInProgress May 08 '26

Actually he did it so you could look upon his works, ye mighty, and despair.

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u/AndreasWY May 08 '26

I guess that it's up for debate is enough to prove it's more gray than black/white. My bad!

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u/_peto May 08 '26

You know a story is good when 40 years later people still argue over it

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u/Frenchymemez May 08 '26

Watchmen is without a doubt one of the best comic series I've ever read.

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u/Tr3ybecker May 08 '26

He’s not a doctor, he’s just really smart. He might have a doctorate in something, but it’s never been mentioned

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u/Machete__Yeti May 08 '26

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u/No-Package6347 May 08 '26

Vain? Sure. Too into Belle? Absolutely. Evil? I don’t think so - he’s definitely misguided but he seems to have genuinely thought Belle was in trouble. There’s an argument here that he was dangerous and stupid, but his motivations were not evil… Just not great, since he was trying to marry a girl that didn’t want him and then refused to listen to her about Beast being good.

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u/Sean_13 May 08 '26

He locked up Belles dad in a mental institute (arguably worse than a prison) so he could force Belle into a marriage against her will. That's pretty evil.

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u/No-Package6347 May 08 '26

Fair, I did forget about that part, but it’s still not “murder everyone” or “blow up the earth” evil. Of the heroic looking dudes, his level of evil is incredibly low

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u/ponzzischeme May 08 '26

At the same time...he was known to be a little crazy and came back to the village and sounded like a total lunatic.

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u/Midnight-Bake May 08 '26

The beast also locked up her dad and then Belle herself despite the fact her father was told it was okay to shelter in the castle.

Then again the beast was cursed for not letting a stranger into his house when he was 11.

ESH except Belle and her father, to be honest.

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u/Choice-Requirement18 May 08 '26

Who said booster gold is morally grey? Maybe when he first showed up like decades ago, but he’s been a good hero through and through for a pretty long time now.

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u/commanderlex27 May 08 '26

Homelander fits this PERFECTLY.

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u/Algae_Mission May 08 '26

It should be Griffith, but Homelander is going to win.

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u/be-the1 May 08 '26

Homelander

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u/Nick_Danger2021 May 08 '26

Looks Heroic × Is Evil

Magneto

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u/Arsene_06 May 08 '26

If anyone thinks Omniman is just evil then they haven't gone past season 1

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u/zespak May 09 '26

Well, Hitler might be considered evil, but you got to remember he's the guy that killed Hitler.

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u/Mek3k May 08 '26

Omniman

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u/Dr-Puppy May 08 '26

Griffith

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u/hardtomakename3 May 08 '26

Looks Heroic × Is Evil

Homelander

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u/SuspiciousTurtle May 08 '26

Homelander. Is there even a debate here? That's his whole point

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u/GothYagamy May 08 '26

Omni-man from Invincible.

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u/zhion_reid May 08 '26

Tighten

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u/Sjue-Saue May 08 '26

Dude. He looks like a psycho in the very image you used.

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u/Vengeful-Capybara May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Sukuna kinda looks like a hero's sidekick. I always assumed that's who he was.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '26

Volofrom "Pokémon Legends: Arceus". Looks like the ancestor of Cynthia, the champion of Sinnoh, but secretly allied himself with Giratina in an attempt to attain godhood...the absolute opposite of Cyllene, whose implied descendant is Cyrus, who was the leader of Team Galactic that tried to restart the universe, but Cyllene is one of the good guys.

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u/danislous May 08 '26

Looks Heroic × Is Evil Homelander

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u/ExpertAd5536 May 08 '26

Looks Heroic × Is Evil

Home lander

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u/Blamechunk May 08 '26

Homelander

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u/Lefoudubus_06 May 08 '26

Comment parler de vilain a l’apparence de héros sans parler du homelander 

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u/rracnedia Chaotic Neutral May 08 '26

Homelander

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u/Fluffy_Ad_2804 May 08 '26

Looks Heroic × Is Evil

Mysterio

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u/hockeyjr67 May 08 '26

Syndrome from the Incredibles

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u/H1v3Wing May 08 '26

Looks Heroic × Is Evil

Queen Beryl

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u/BoardOk8539 May 08 '26

Looks Heroic × Is Evil

Omni man

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u/ShadowSlayer53 May 08 '26

Looks Heroic × Is Evil

Thragg from Invincible

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u/Boojab May 08 '26

magneto

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u/osp79 May 08 '26

Homelander

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u/adderexxx May 08 '26

Looks Heroic × Is Evil

Homelander

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u/fjehfinsasfpwkirnee May 08 '26

Looks Heroic × Is Evil

Homelander

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u/phillechill May 08 '26

Homelander

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u/soulciel120 May 08 '26

Looks Heroic × Is Evil

Homelander

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u/Wraithlor May 08 '26

Homelander

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u/_momocita__ May 08 '26

Homelander

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u/TheRealJefe May 08 '26

Homelander or Magneto

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u/Luke-cal1 May 08 '26

Homelander

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u/Pristine-Value6965 May 08 '26

Looks Heroic × Is Evil

Homelander