History EvenEvilHasLovedOnes / LiveActionTV

** In In "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS16E3Moose Moose]]", Elias is a prolific serial killer, who's trained others to kill online. He has a wife and two daughters who Elias appears to genuinely care for though.

** Dexter says he has no feelings, but grows quite attached to his family and some of his coworkers, and has other romantic relationships later in the series.

** Farr is genuinely friend with President Michelle Travers [[spoiler: which is why Redfield and Wick concealed their plan to assassinate her because they know it's a line Farr wouldn't cross.]]

* ''{{Series/Hightown}}'': Frankie Cuevas Sr. runs a drug syndicate and orders murders from prison. He also loves his girlfriend, son and cousin though (the latter being his lieutenant too).

** SubvertedTrope with [[spoiler:Trinity. Dexter discovers to his surprise that he is a dedicated family man and a pillar of the community, but it's later revealed that Arthur terrorized his family, and all but completely ignores his oldest daughter]].

** Ukrainian crime lord Isaac Sirko pursues Dexter for killing his friend Victor, [[spoiler:also his gay lover.]]

** Gul Dukat has a half-Bajoran daughter, Tora Ziyal. He gives up his career, reputation, and marriage when he decides to live with her rather than murder her as he'd originally intended--however, his love for her is not strong enough to overcome his ambitions, and he's manipulative towards her as much as anyone else, with the goal of ensuring her love and trying to attain Kira through her. [[spoiler:He goes (more) insane with grief when she is killed.]]

** Double-subverted with [[spoiler:Marie Warner]] from Season 2: (in that [[spoiler:she]] did love someone, but it didn't affect [[spoiler:her]] behaviour towards him.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'':

** [[BigBad The Governor]] is a megalomaniacal proto-warlord, but he loved his daughter [[spoiler:which is why he keeps her locked in a closet after she becomes a Walker]].
* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'': [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds H.G Wells]] -- even after 110 years, the only thing she genuinely cares and mourns for is her daughter, Christina.

* ''Series/{{Counterpart}}'': Baldwin is a ruthless hitwoman, but genuinely loves her girlfriend Greta.

Examples of EvenEvilHasLovedOnes in live-action TV.

** A driving factor that keeps Homelander under control is his love for Madelyn Stillwell. Granted it's an utterly ''disturbing'' kind of love riddled with OedipusComplex and him lusting for her breast milk since he's such a complete and utter PsychopathicManchild, but it's still love. [[spoiler:After she pushes her luck too far and hits his BerserkButton of lying to him one too many times, he murders her in the season finale, but it's shown to deeply disturb him. He makes a point of saving her child seemingly only for her sake, and ends up having [[VoluntaryShapeshifter Doppelganger]] take her form to coo over him until he gets it out of his system. Unsurprisingly, with her gone, [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope he takes a swan dive off the slippery slope he was already sliding down]]]].

* On ''Series/{{The 100}}'', Bellamy infiltrates Mount Weather by killing a guard and taking his uniform and key card, only to run into the pre-school aged son of the guard he just killed. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Bellamy does not take this encounter well.]]

* ''Series/TheGifted'': Dr. Campbell took care of his brother, who had cystic fibrosis. This apparently was why he got into genetics, hoping to find cures for such diseases. However, even then he viewed mutants as a threat and that they were also a "disease" to be "cured".

* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': In one episode called "Parasite", a conman who uses romance as one of his main weapons to trick people out of their money suffers a psychotic break. He may have been a cheating murderer at that point, but he did genuinely care about the safety of his wife and son. This same episode also made this a DeconstructedTrope; the profile notes that he cared for his family because he saw them as extensions of himself and his own achievements, rather than independent people with real feelings.

** Lindsey is wooed by Darla, to the point of confessing he wouldn't "mind" if she were the one to kill him. Darla choosing Angel (his ArchEnemy) over him made made him snap and go UnstoppableRage running Angel repeatedly over with his truck and wailing on him with a sledgehammer. [[spoiler: He also loves Eve in season five, though not as much as he loved Darla]].

** [[spoiler: Eve did genuinely love Lindsey, when Angel informs her of his death in finale while Wolfram Hart collapses, she refuses to escape and lets herself get crushed to death]].

** "[[Recap/TheBoysS0206TheBloodyDoorsOff The Bloody Doors]]" reveals that, by some miracle of God, Stormfront isn't ''completely'' heartless, at least to a degree. [[spoiler: She reveals to Homelander she was Frederick Vought's wife and had a daughter named Chloe with him, whom she deeply misses. Stormfront feels all alone now that everyone she cared for is dead. She also expresses her love for Homelander, as the superhuman they always hoped for.]]

*** Actually PlayedWith concerning Darla, directly after her second death and resurrection as a vampire in ''Series/{{Angel}}'' Season 2, she actually still retains some of the feelings she had for Angel as a human. This is seen when when she and Drusilla are gathering {{Mooks}}, Drusilla TheEmpath notices Angel (who’s in disguise spying on them)'s presence and alerts Darla who immediately loses her FemmeFatale swagger and searches for him, saying "Angel?" (rather than "Angelus" like before) and when Drusilla says "He remembers when you were warm" Darla (clearly upset) yells at Dru to shut up. She goes back to hating him after he sets her on fire [[spoiler: but she still sleeps with him hoping to bring Angelus back but is left disappointed]].
*** [[spoiler: Played straight in ''Angel'' Season 3 Darla begins to genuinely love her and Angel's unborn son Connor, due to Connor's humanity affecting her soulless body as he grows inside her. In fact Darla is terrified knowing when she gives birth to Connor, she'll stop loving her son and will try to eat him. This never comes to pass as unable to enter labor normally [[HeroicSacrifice she stakes herself]] so that Connor won't suffocate inside her]],

** Pre-HeelFaceTurn [[CardCarryingVillain Leonard Snart/Captain Cold]] and his sister Lisa Snart/Golden Glider clearly love and look out for each other, with Lisa even claiming "Lenny" practically raised her growing up. Averted with their father Lewis Snart, who was not only confirmed to be an AbusiveParent to Lisa and more than likely Leonard to some extent, but in his debut puts a ''[[ExplosiveLeash bomb in Lisa's head]]'' just to strong arm Captain Cold into aiding him in his latest job [[spoiler: and is [[AssholeVictim killed]] by his son, after losing said leverage.]]

** Downplayed with [[spoiler: "Dr. Wells" Professor Eobard Thawne / The Reverse-Flash]], despite the fact that he is ultimately using everyone on [[spoiler: Team Flash]] and is more than willing to kill them if they become a liability, he does sincerely admit that he has grown fond of them and even tells [[spoiler: Cisco]] in the timeline that was erased the first time Barry went back in time that he had shown him what it was like [[LikeASonToMe to have a son]]... before killing him to protect his plans.

** Perhaps most bizarrely, Jeremiah Valeska/[[spoiler: the Joker]] is the most devoted to Bruce Wayne the character's ever been, being motivated almost entirely by a desire to be noticed and appreciated by Bruce. In the series finale, he even compares Bruce leaving to having the one thing he cares about ripped away.

** Probably most outstanding is Oswald Cobblepot/the Penguin, who is genuinely devoted to both his parents, takes the mute orphan Martin under his wing and is even landed in Arkham for him, and forms an unbreakable VillainousFriendship with Ed Nygma/the Riddler in Season 2, to the point that Oswald [[spoiler:[[TakingTheBullet takes a grenade for Nygma]]]] and Nygma sincerely tells Oswald that he'd do anything for him.