History EvilCannotComprehendGood / AnimeAndManga

** In the adaptation of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'', the Cubus Sister is shocked when Link and the fairies save Linebeck from her, despite having found out his past crime [[spoiler:of abandoning his crew]].

* ''Manga/FrierenBeyondJourneysEndDemons'': Demons appear nearly human but are actually articulate, intelligent monsters who exclusively hunt humans and other races. They not only lack emotions but are unable to comprehend what they mean, only understanding that mimicking them is a useful tactic for deceiving their prey. [[spoiler:A few demons have taken an interest in understanding humanity, but their method of doing so is to cause human suffering and observe their emotions in an attempt to emulate them. The previous Demon King's was attempting such an experiment with his war on humanity, which would have ultimately failed because humanity would have been exterminated before he was able to understand them]].

** ''Anime/YuGiOh'': Seto Kaiba is a proudly self-proclaimed loner, and his disdain for everyone else and self-imposed obsessive rivalry with Yugi are no secret. When Kaiba is forced into a tag team duel with Yugi as his partner, he spends the majority of the duel refusing to work together and insisting he doesn't need Yugi's help. Then a pivotal moment comes and their opponent has to choose between defeating (and killing) Yugi or destroying Kaiba's beloved Blue Eyes White Dragon, and Kaiba [[ReversePsychology taunts the Rare Hunter]] about being [[BriarPatching too afraid to attack his dragon]]. Their opponent [[NobodyCallsMeChicken takes the bait]], assumes Kaiba is trying to save himself and his dragon, and destroys Kaiba's Blue Eyes instead, never considering for a second that Kaiba wanted to save Yugi.

** Light is established as this practically from the start. After he lays out his ultimate goal to Ryuk, the Shinigami points out that if Light successfully kills every evil person in the world, then the only one left will be Light himself. [[AGodAmI Light's messiah complex prevents him from getting what Ryuk is saying]].

** Griffith, plays with this trope towards the end of the Golden Age and after his resurrection; he is completely baffled as to why Guts would want to leave him and is even more confused at himself for throwing everything away for the loss of this "one soldier". In the Conviction Arc where he returned to the mortal plane, Griffith is concerned that his heart is beating when it comes to Guts and Casca, saying it "''should be frozen over''" [[note]] this is likely because of Guts and Casca's child whose body he used to resurrect himself having some lasting affect on him[[/note]].

*** [[spoiler:The D-Reaper]], being a DigitalAbomination that lacks the kind of emotions that regular digimon possesses, has a hard time comprehending anything else beyond its programmed desire to delete all life, humans and digimon included, and when it does evolve enough sentience to understand love and friendship on a bare intellectual, shallow level, it considers those emotions as [[VirtueIsWeakness logical weaknesses that makes humans and digimon inferior to it]]. A memorable moment is when [[spoiler:Juri's father confronts it to try to rescue her from the D-Reaper's clutches]] and it tries to analyze him in order to understand why a mere human would try to confront it head-on, only to hit a feedback loop due to fact that the concept of familial relationships is beyond its understanding.

*** [[spoiler:The D-Reaper]], being a DigitalAbomination that lacks the kind of emotions that regular digimon possesses, has a hard time comprehending anything else beyond its programmed desire to delete all life, humans and digimon included, and when it does evolve enough sentience to understand love and friendship on a bare intellectual, shallow level, it consider those emotions as [[VirtueIsWeakness logical weaknesses that makes humans and digimon inferior to it]]. A memorable moment is when [[spoiler: Juri's father confronts it to try to rescue her from the D-Reaper's clutches]], it tries to analyze him in order to understand why a mere human would try to confront it head-on, only to hit a feedback loop due to fact that the concept of familial relationships is beyond its understanding.

*** [[spoiler:The D-Reaper]], being a DigitalAbomination that lacks the kind of emotions that regular digimon possesses, has a hard time comprehending anything else beyond its programmed desire to delete all life, humans and digimon included, and when it does evolve enough sentience to understand love and friendship on a bare intellectual, shallow level, it consider those emotions as [[VirtueIsWeakness logical weaknesses that makes humans and digimon inferior to it]]. A memorable moment is when [[spoiler: Juri's father confronts it to try to rescue her from the D-Reaper's clutches]], it tries to analyze him in order to understand why a mere human would try to confront it head-on, only to hit a feedback loop due to fact that the idea of familial relationships is beyond its understanding.

*** Ruki, back when she was a semi-StarterVillain, shared the same flawed idea of human/digimon relationship that the Devas does and had Renamon killing and loading up countless digimon, believing that sheer strenght and brute force would help Renamon evolve to higher levels. When she saw that Takato and Li managed to get their digimon to evolve to Adult level before her, despite them being less experienced than her, she was absolutely frustrated and impatient at Renamon and at herself. [[CharacterDevelopment Only by starting to treat Renamon as an actual friend rather as a servent just like how Takato and Li does with their digimon]] does Renamon manages to evolve to higher levels.

** ''Anime/DragonBallZCoolersRevenge'': The titular villain after giving Goku a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown decides to destroy the planet as Cooler believes like his younger brother (Frieza) that since he’s so powerful he gets to decide who lives and who dies. Goku after turning into a [[SuperMode Super Saiyan]] and [[HealingHands reviving]] a bird that fell to the ground thanks to Cooler’s destruction, points out that he is hurting people and destroying worlds who have done nothing to him or his family, Cooler of course can’t understand what Goku is going on about saying [[SocialDarwinist the weak die and the strong survive]]. This becomes ironic when Goku immediately overpowers him after Cooler says that.
** Subverted in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly''. While Frieza ''is'' incapable of genuinely understanding love and compassion, he recalls how Goku’s original change into Super Saiyan and UnstoppableRage was triggered by Krillin’s death, and thus understands as far as “Saiyans losing loved ones = DespairEventHorizon SuperMode”. He weaponizes this idea while spectating the fight with Broly’s father Paragus, chooses to kill Paragus with a Death Beam, and in an spout of hammy acting, alerts Broly to it while claiming that a stray energy blast killed Paragus. The scheme works, with Broly going OneWingedAngel in grief. That said, the plan still bites Frieza on the ass when Goku and Vegeta lure Broly to his location before warping away with Instant Transmission, leading to Frieza getting a very satisfying and karmic NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, which Frieza-- who thought he could just use Broly as a tool against Goku and Vegeta-- [[EvilIsNotAToy never considered would happen to him.]]

** An example where "Evil Misinterprets The Concept Of Good" occurs in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', where Puppetmon is a PsychopathicManchild who thinks having friends means having living toys that [[BadBoss can be thrown out or killed]] [[YouHaveFailedMe whenever they fail you]], [[OffingTheAnnoyance annoy you]], [[ItAmusedMe just for fun]], or when you [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness simply lose interest in them]]. Before he was killed by [=MetalGarurumon=], Matt, who's the holder of [[PowerOfFriendship the Crest of Friendship]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tells him point-blank that]] Puppetmon doesn't understand what having friends means.

*** The Devas and their master [[spoiler:Zhuqiaomon]] believe that the relationship between the human tamers and their digimon partners that helps the digimon to evolve to higher levels aren't so much based on a symbiotic relationship of mutual love and respect as they're based on a parasitic relationship of subjugation and slavery, with the human as the master and the digimon as the slave. So they believe that by invading the real world and enslaving mankind; reversing their misinterpreting of that human/digimon bond, they'll gain the ability to evolve to enough strong levels to wage war against the EvilerThanThou [[spoiler:D-Reaper]]. When they're defeated one by one, they're absolutely baffled that the tamers' digimon would actually remain by their tamers' side rather when [[WeCanRuleTogether join them in their conquest of Earth]], believing to the end that they're the humans' obedient, broken-willed slaves rather as their friends.

*** The Devas and their master Zhuqiaomon believe that the relationship between the human tamers and their digimon partners that helps the digimon to evolve to higher levels aren't so much based on a symbiotic relationship of mutual love and respect as they're based on a parasitic relationship of subjugation and slavery, with the human as the master and the digimon as the slave. So they believe that by invading the real world and enslaving mankind; reversing their misinterpreting of that human/digimon bond, they'll gain the ability to evolve to enough strong levels to wage war against the EvilerThanThou [[spoiler:D-Reaper]]. When they're defeated one by one, they're absolutely baffled that the tamers' digimon would actually remain by their tamers' side rather when [[WeCanRuleTogether join them in their conquest of Earth]], believing to the end that they're the humans' obedient, broken-willed slaves rather as their friends.

*** [[spoiler:The D-Reaper]], being a DigitalAbomination that lacks the kind of emotions that regular digimon possesses, has a hard time comprehending anything else beyond its programmed desire to delete all life, humans and digimon included, and when it does evolve enough sentience to understand love and friendship on a bare intellectual, shallow level, it consider those emotions as [[VirtueIsWeakness logical weaknesses that makes humans and digimon inferior to it]]. A memorable moment is when [[spoiler: Juri's father confronts it to try to rescue her from the D-Reaper's clutches]], it tries to analyze him in order to understand why a mere human would try to confront it head-on, only to hit a feedback loop due to fact that the idea of familial relationship is beyond its understanding.

*** [[spoiler:The D-Reaper]], being a DigitalAbomination that lacks the kind of emotions that regular digimon possesses, has a hard time comprehending anything else beyond its programmed desire to delete all life, humans and digimon included, and when it does evolve enough sentience to understand love and friendship on a bare intellectual, shallow level, it consider those emotions as [[VirtueIsAWeakness logical weaknesses that makes humans and digimon inferior to it]]. A memorable moment is when [[spoiler: Juri's father confronts it to try to rescue her from the D-Reaper's clutches]], it tries to analyze him in order to understand why a mere human would try to confront it head-on, only to hit a feedback loop due to fact that the idea of familial relationship is beyond its understanding.

*** The Devas and their master Zhuqiaomon believe that the relationship between the human tamers and their digimon partners that helps the digimon to evolve to higher levels aren't so much based on a symbiotic relationship of mutual love and respect as they're based on a parasitic relationship of subjugation and slavery, with the human as the master and the digimon as the slave. So they believe that by invading the real world and enslaving mankind; reversing their misinterpreting of that human/digimon bond, they'll gain the ability to evolve to enough strong levels to wage war against the EvilerThanThou [[spoiler:D-Reaper]]. When they're defeated one by one, they're absolutely baffled that the tamers' digimon would actually remain by their tamers' side rather when [[WeCanRuleTogether join them in their conquering of mankind]], believing to the end that they're the humans' obedient, broken-willed slaves rather as their friends.

*** Ruki, back when she was a semi-StarterVillain, shared the same flawed idea of human/digimon relationship that the Devas does and had Renamon killing and loading up countless digimon, believing that sheer strenght and brute force would help Renamon evolve to higher levels. When she saw that Takato and Li managed to get their digimon to evolve to Adult level before her, despite them being less experienced than her, she was absolutely frustrated and impatient at Renamon and at herself. [[CharacterDevelopment Only be starting to treat Renamon as a friend rather as a servent just like how Takato and Li does with their digimon]] does Renamon manages to evolve to higher levels.

*** The Devas and their master Zhuqiaomon believe that the relationship between the human tamers and their digimon partners that helps the digimon to evolve to higher levels aren't so much based on a symbiotic relationship of mutual love and respect as they're based on a parasitic relationship of subjugation and slavery, with the human as the master and the digimon as the slave. So they believe that by invading the real world and enslaving mankind; reversing their misinterpreting of that human/digimon bond, they'll gain the ability to evolve to enough strong levels to wage war against the EvilerThanThou [[spoiler:D-Reaper]]. When they're defeated one by one, they're absolutely baffled that the tamers' digimon would actually remain by their tamers' side rather when [[WeCanRuleTogether join them in their conquering of mankind]], believing to the end that they're the humans' obident, broken-willed slaves rather as their friends.
*** Ruki, back when she was a semi-StarterVillain, shared the same flawed idea of human/digimon relationship that the Devas does and had Renamon killing and loading up countless digimon, believing that sheer strenght and brute force will help Renamon evolve to higher levels. When she sees that Takato and Li manages to get their digimon evolve to Adult level before her, despite them being less experienced than her, she was absolutely frustrated and impatient with Renamon and her own skills. [[CharacterDevelopment Only be starting to treat Renamon as a friend rather as a servent like how Takato and Li does with their digimon]] does Renamon manage to evolve to higher levels.

*** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'':
** The Devas and their master Zhuqiaomon believe that the relationship between the human tamers and their digimon partners that helps the digimon to evolve to higher levels aren't so much based on a symbiotic relationship of mutual love and respect as they're based on a parasitic relationship of subjugation and slavery, with the human as the master and the digimon as the slave. So they believe that by invading the real world and enslaving mankind; reversing their misinterpreting of that human/digimon bond, they'll gain the ability to evolve to enough strong levels to wage war against the EvilerThanThou [[spoiler:D-Reaper]]. When they're defeated one by one, they're absolutely baffled that the tamers' digimon would actually remain by their tamers' side rather when [[WeCanRuleTogether join them in their conquering of mankind]], believing to the end that they're the humans' obident, broken-willed slaves rather as their friends.

** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': In the final battle, [[spoiler:[[BigBad BelialVamdemon]]]] uses his Mind Illusion to entrap the Chosen Children through illusions of their most inner desires, except for Daisuke who manages to resist it and free the others from his spell. Baffled that a mere boy manages to resist his Mind Illusion, [[spoiler:Belial Vamdemon]] demands to know how it's possible that Daisuke doesn't have any insecurities or self-doubts for him to feed on. Daisuke answers that it isn't so much that he doesn't have them as he has the ability to handle them and resist the need for escapism ''because'' he has the love and support he knows that his friends and family will provide in times of need, giving in process [[spoiler:Belial Vamdemon]] a ShutUpHannibal speech that not only leaves the dark digimon speechless, but lso unprepared for the Chosen Children's counter-attack.

** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': In the final battle, [[spoiler:BelialVamdemon]] uses his Mind Illusion to entrap the Chosen Children through illusions of their most inner desires, except for Daisuke who manages to resist it and free the others from his spell. Baffled that a mere boy manages to resist his Mind Illusion, [[spoiler:BelialVamdemon]] demands to know how it's possible that Daisuke doesn't have any insecurities or self-doubts for him to feed on. Daisuke answers that it isn't so much that he doesn't have them as he has the ability to handle them and resist the need for escapeism ''because'' he has the love and support he knows that his friends and family will provide in times of need, giving in process [[spoiler:BelialVamdemon]] a ShutUpHannibal speech that not only leaves the dark digimon speechless, but lso unprepared for the Chosen Children's counter-attack.

* An example where "Evil Misinterprets The Concept Of Good" occurs in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', where Puppetmon is a PsychopathicManchild who thinks having friends means having living toys that [[BadBoss can be thrown out or killed]] [[YouHaveFailedMe whenever they fail you]], [[OffingTheAnnoyance annoy you]], [[ItAmusedMe just for fun]], or when you [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness simply lose interest in them]]. Before he was killed by [=MetalGarurumon=], Matt, who's the holder of [[PowerOfFriendship the Crest of Friendship]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tells him point-blank that]] Puppetmon doesn't understand what having friends means.

** In ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess2016'', King Bulblin is baffled that Ilia isn't leaping at the opportunity to become his queen after his impressive display dominance (i.e. brutally mauling her crush, Link).

* In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'', the Cubus Sister is shocked when Link and the fairies save Linebeck from her, despite having found out his past crime [[spoiler:of abandoning his crew]].

* In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'', the first Cubus Sister is shocked when Link and the fairies save Linebeck from her, despite having found out his past crime [[spoiler:of abandoning his crew]].

** Downplayed and played for laughs ("{{Jerkass}} cannot understand good") with [[spoiler:Todoroki theorizing that Izuku Midoriya is All Might's [[LukeIAmYourFather secret son]], because with Endeavor putting him through TrainingFromHell, Todoroki just cannot understand ([[CharacterDevelopment at least at first]]) that All Might would become someone's mentor without an ulterior motive - or at least, one as awful as [[VicariouslyAmbitious Endeavor's]].]]
** Similarly downplayed but more dramatic with [[spoiler:Bakugou's borderline IrrationalHatred of Midoriya, stemming from the fact that Izuku once tried to help him stand after falling on a stream when they were kids. Ten years of unrelenting bullying stemmed from the fact that Bakugou just cannot accept that Deku was ''not'' [[DontYouDarePityMe looking down at him]] at that moment.]] When he finally accepts this was not the case, it's after a lot and CharacterDevelopment.

** Downplayed and played for laughs ("{{Jerkass}} cannot understand good" with [[spoiler:Todoroki theorizing that Izuku Midoriya is All Might's [[LukeIAmYourFather secret son]], because with Endeavor putting him through TrainingFromHell, Todoroki just cannot understand ([[CharacterDevelopment at least at first]]) that All Might would become someone's mentor without an ulterior motive - or at least, one as awful as [[VicariouslyAmbitious Endeavor's]].]]