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*** [[[[Characters/AllForLuzLuzNoceda Luz]] might be trying to be a good person, but make her angry or be stupid enough to try and kill her and her loved, and you'll soon realize that's a really bad idea as she's not afraid to use lethal force and steal your powers with [[PowerParasite All For One]].

*** Luz might be trying to be a good person, but make her angry or be stupid enough to try and kill her and her loved, and you'll soon realize that's a really bad idea as she's not afraid to use lethal force and steal your powers with [[PowerParasite All For One]].

*** Luz might be trying to be a good person, but make her angry or be stupid enough to try and kill her and her loved, and you'll soon realize that's a really bad idea as she's not afraid to use lethal force and steal your powers.

* ''Fanfic/TheSoulmateTimeline'' has Mami Tomoe. Mami is many things. She's kind, she's sweet, she believes in being respectful of society's laws. She puts on the airs of TheParagon, she wants to live up to these ideals and is the happiest she's been in years in story [[SoulmateAUFic once she gets her Soulmates]]. However all of this does not mean Mami is a pushover. Homura outright notes that Mami has always been willing to display and act on lethal intent, something another Magical Girl she encounters can't do even when starving and half-mad from desperation, and while she desperately wants friends she has expectations of them. Even Kyoko coming back to reconcile with her doesn't mean she will give Kyoko any leverage to argue with her about her rules. As she later tells Madoka, lethal force is never to be used as a first option, but it is also always an option on the table. When a SerialKiller Magical Girl shows up in Mitakihara and holds one of their friends hostage, Mami is adamant on seeing her killed, only by the hands of someone who has killed (she doesn't expect Nagisa or Yuma to kill her), but is clear the girl will die. And Mami makes good on this when she catches her. [[MultipleGunshotDeath Very clear.]]

** Thor (formerly James Potter) is a devoted father to Harry, a loving boyfriend to Jane Foster, and an all round NiceGuy. He's TheWisePrince, a FriendToAllChildren, [[ObfuscatingStupidity and even willing to play up]] his FishOutOfWater tendencies to amuse others. He is also a PhysicalGod who can devastate entire planets, a WarriorPrince, first among a pantheon of nigh immortal [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warrior gods]] and a truly terrifying PapaWolf. Rest assured, if you harm someone he loves, he will show you the true meaning of 'the Wrath of God', and he will only hesitate in utterly obliterating you if he's setting an example for his son, or if Steve Rogers asks him to.

* ''Fanfic/TheSoulmateTimeline'' has Mami Tomoe. Mami is many things. She's kind, she's sweet, she believes in being respectful of societies laws. She puts on the airs of TheParagon, she wants to live up to these ideals and is the happiest she's been in years in story [[SoulmateAUFic once she gets her Soulmates]]. However all of this does not mean Mami is a pushover. Homura outright notes that Mami has always been willing to display and act on lethal intent, something another Magical Girl she encounters can't do even when starving and half-mad from desperation, and while she desperately wants friends she has expectations of them. Even Kyoko coming back to reconcile with her doesn't mean she will give Kyoko any leverage to argue with her rules. As she later tells Madoka, lethal force is never to be used as a first option, but it is also always an option on the table. When a SerialKiller Magical Girl shows up in Mitakihara and holds one of their friends hostage, Mami is adamant on seeing her killed, only by the hands of someone who has killed (she doesn't expect Nagisa or Yuma to kill her), but is clear the girl will die. And Mami makes good on this when she catches her. [[MultipleGunshotDeath Very clear.]]

** Best shown when [[spoiler:Gilda]] attacked Sunset in her apartment. She [[TranquilFury calmly told]] her that she will be allowed to crawl back to Hueco Mundo if she apologizes but she will still lose [[AnArmAndALeg a limb or two.]] When [[spoiler:Gilda]] doesn't back down, Sunset's ready to kill her if it means protecting any innocent bystanders. It briefly concerns her how readily she thought about killing someone, but she says will worry about morality later.

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* Johnny from ''Fanfic/{{Cranes}}'' is a very nice person, doesn't mean Scarecrow is any more merciful. Artemis and M'gann have shades of this as well.
* ''Fanfic/TheDayAfterYouSavedTheMultiverse'': When a boy named Clark Kent gains [[Franchise/{{Superman}} his namesake]]'s powers in a lifelike universe, the local Mafia Boss tries to coerce him into working for him by kidnapping his parents. As ComicBook/{{Superboy}} tracks down and angrily roughs up the gang members, he states they are gravely mistaken if they think they can push him around.
-->Larson coughed. "We hold the..."\\
"Shut up!" Clark Kent bulled him up against the wall of the garage, not far from the fallen hoods. He held him there, Larson's feet not touching the floor, one hand firmly on Larson's throat, putting a bit of pressure on it.\\
"Get this straight. I am not the ComicBook/{{Superboy}} you read about in your comic books."
* ''[[Fanfic/DeliverUsFromEvilSeries Mortality]]'' has this with [[TheWatson Watson.]] Smith had to find out [[TooDumbToLive the hard way]] why [[BewareTheNiceOnes pissing off]] a [[NiceGuy gentle soul]] like him by [[BerserkButton messing with]] a [[GreatDetective detective]] is....not a smart choice, and generally [[DeadlyDoctor un-survivable.]]
** The captured criminal too. He was an ''idiot'' for [[VillainsWantMercy begging for mercy in playing a part in Holmes's whereabouts.]] He gets [[TranquilFury calmly, coldly]] murdered. Basically? Screw around with his [[LivingEmotionalCrutch friend]] [[OhCrap and it's not survivable.]] You'll get ''murdered''.
* In ''Fanfic/FateVrains'', [[VideoGame/FateExtra Hakuno Kishinami Zaizen]] embodies this trope. She is one of the kindest people in the setting. She enjoys friendly duels in the world of [[Anime/YuGiOhVrains VRAINS]] just as much as any other person. Hurt her friends and try to cause the world to collapse just to get at her and she will unleash [[StoryBreakerPower Gilgamesh]] on you.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6999519/1/The-Pride-of-Sunnydale The Pride of Sunnydale]]'', Xander tortures a vampire by nailing her upside down to a pillar, breaking her legs, and pouring holy water on her to get information on the Master.
* In ''FanFic/TheInfiniteLoops'', Equestria is declared to be sanctuary to all visiting loopers; whether you want to join in the fun, get some much-needed therapy for whatever trauma ails you, or just be left alone and not have to deal with anything at all for once, you have it, no questions asked. You can do whatever you want, as long as you don't cause trouble or hurt anyone. The ponies are nice like that. But if you ''do'' try to start anything, you'll find out that they're ''anything'' but soft.
* ''Fanfic/LifeOreDeath'':
** Ferris is this [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation if you consider her 'good' enough to count.]] She's trying to not kill people and respect rule of law now that she's in a world where [[CrapsackWorld human life isn't worth spit,]] but she will beat people senseless, break bones, and emotionally traumatize people if it becomes necessary.
** It's also mentioned that Franchise/{{Batman}} is this, as part of her justification for breaking fingers in an interrogation is to ask Robin what Batman does and use those as guidelines for appropriate behavior.

* In ''Fanfic/LiveAHeroMHA'', Izuku is a KindheartedCatLover who would prefer not to hurt others if he can help it. If he ''is'' pushed into a fight, he showcases his skills as a {{Tykebomb}} raised to be a SerialKiller, easily dodging the Sludge Villain's attacks before immediately throwing three knives to gouge out its eye.
* ''Fanfic/MassEffectHumanRevolution'': Adam Jensen is one of the few good people in a CrapsackWorld. Ever polite and considerate, he is always thinking of others before himself. He really wants to practice ThouShaltNotKill. He has no qualms against punching people out or taking AnArmAndALeg. And if you're far enough beyond the line, he won't even regret it.
* ''Fanfic/TheNextFrontier'': [[VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram The Kerbals]] are a ProudScholarRace of {{Bold Explorer}}s and scientists who haven't known real war in decades, but their first interstellar mission uses a starship that is quite well armed, and they also aren't above employing a bit of subtle GunboatDiplomacy by being quite up-front (purely in the spirit of full disclosure, of course) about [[KzintiLesson just what their FTL drive is capable of doing to a planet]].
* In ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', Hugh, Lily and Soren are the more [[NiceGuy pleasant]] members among Kyril's apprentices, but don't let this trait overshadow the fact that they are [[HunterOfMonsters hunters]] who are more than capable of hunting down their prey, human or non-human, without mercy.
* WordOfGod considers Queen Majesty to be this in the [[Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds Hasbroverse]], due to her depiction in the [[ComicBook/MyLittlePony G1 comics]].

* Spitandvinegar seems to like this trope, generally used with canonically kind characters who have [[BreakTheCutie been through a lot]].
** Bucky Barnes in ''Fanfic/AintNoGrave''. For a traumatized, mentally ill, semi-amnesiac, former [[SympatheticSentientWeapon tortured brainwashed assassin]], he's surprisingly kind and amiable to his friends and innocent civilians, and he does his best to be a conscientious ParentalSubstitute to his unofficial foster children. But since his traumatic backstory is all Hydra's fault, he's not inclined to show Hydra loyalists any mercy, even if they're noncombatant scientists. And his VigilanteMan efforts can be pretty brutal.
** [[FluffyTheTerrible "Honey"]] in ''Fanfic/ExceptItAbideInTheVine'', an AlternateSelf of Steve Rogers from a Hydra-ruled dystopian AlternateUniverse. If you aren't a member of the fascist conspiracy that killed his best friend, used his boyfriend as their dehumanized killing machine, and turned the world into a fascist hellscape, he's as kind as any other Steve Rogers. If you ARE, he'll kill you and be glad of it. (The characters from LighterAndSofter universes find this a bit disturbing.)
* In ''FanFic/SugarPlums'' Ume is a very nice and empathic person to her friends, her siblings and to nonshinobi whom she's very popular with because they aren't used to shinobi treating them with respect. This doesn't change the fact that she is a very potent warrior with an in story body count higher than most of the Rookie Nine. If you threaten her or anybody she cares about she will not hesitate to kill you, usually in the fastest most efficient way possible.
* Diadem in ''Fanfic/EchoingSilence'' is one of the sweetest people you'll ever meet. She has no problem killing if she thinks the situation calls for it.
* Examples from ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'':
** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is gentle and compassionate by nature... but when her evil duplicate threatened innocent lives as well as her friends', making clear the whole time she would never stop, Supergirl hurled her into an anti-matter star.
** During "The Apokolips Agenda", ComicBook/TheSpectre -the embodiment of God's Wrath- comes face to face with Trigon -massively powerful otherwordly demon-. The Spectre thrusts a hand through Trigon's chest and then makes Trigon explode. Literally.
--->The Spectre looked into Trigon’s eyes, let him glimpse the skulls that served him for pupils, and thrust a hand into and through his chest. It protruded from Trigon’s back, in ghastly fashion. Trigon’s left hand went limp, and Raven flew to freedom.\\
Then the Guardian Ghost sent a surge of white energy through his arm, at full power.\\
Trigon exploded.\\
It was hard for the nonmystics to see or perceive. For those who could see it, bits of red psychomatter radiated away from the Spectre’s outstretched arm, and Trigon’s face, for the second time in a lifetime, held an expression of terror before it disintegrated. There was little audible noise, but a psychic roar for those who were attuned to hear it.

* In ''Fanfic/WarriorsRedux'', the Clans in general are shown to have serious punishments for wrongdoing, especially shown when Bluestar, after Tigerclaw tries to take over the Clan as in canon, decides to have him executed rather than just exiling him.
* In ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn'', Supergirl goes against Faora Hu-Ul, the deadliest Kryptonian female alive, and beats the crap out of her.
* ''Fanfic/TheSevenHunters'': Littlefoot and his pack certainly count. Considering they now have to kill to survive, they are not above brutally killing the enemy fast biters.
* In ''Series/Supergirl2015'' fic ''Fanfic/FutureShock'' Kara is undeniably the hero and genuinely has the best interest of mankind in mind, fighting for them, providing them with tech to fix cancer and pollution and so forth. She will also kill you dead, engage in some ruthlessly illegal interrogation, and what the Survivor does to [[spoiler: Sam and Lillian following the battle of little Krypton is considered even by her allies to be close to monstrous.]]
** None of that gets into Kara's actions during the prior war, where blowing up a planet with four billion people on it is just another Tuesday.
* In crossover ''Fanfic/EchoesOfYesterday'', Kara is extraordinarily kind-hearted and empathetic... but bullies set her off. And Sophia found out the hard way when Kara rescued Taylor from the filthy locker where Sophia had shoved her into: Sophia decided to push the older woman and found herself neck-lifted and glared by two angry glowing eyes.
-->I buried my anger, and turned to the assembled students, keeping one protective arm around the girl, "Where's the nurse's office?" I demanded.\\
The response I got, was, "Who the fuck are you?"\\
This came from one of the trio, a short slender girl with dark skin and brown eyes. She wore a track and field uniform, and her look told me all I needed to know. I was in no mood to play nice.\\
I grabbed the girl by the shirt and lifted her into the air with one hand. There were a few shouts of surprise, and the other two girls hastily backed away, wide eyed. It was weak, but I felt that familiar heat building at the base of my eyes, and I had a good idea of what this girl was seeing.\\
"Nurse's office. Where is it?"

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* ''Fanfic/MomentaryWeakness'': In the sequel series ''Endless Strength'', Rex offers a chance to surrender for the people who have invaded his home to murder his family and children. He warns them that he's not giving them a second chance. When they refuse, he kills one... and then offers the survivors another chance to surrender. This pretty much continues until they're all dead.

* The HYDRA World Revenge Tour brings out Steve's ruthless side in ''Fanfic/BuckyBarnesGetsHisGrooveBackAndOtherInternationalIncidents'', because this is ''Bucky'' he's avenging. He happily uses guns and knives, gets halfway decent at espionage, and kills a hell of a lot of people ([[AssholeVictim who were working for HYDRA, so they deserved it]]). When he returns to the states in the sequel, the FBI gets on his ass for taking matters into his own hands, and the Wilson family's collective asses for daring to associate with Steve, and to say he's not pleased is an understatement.
-->[Steve] can play ''nice''. He'll be a perfect fucking gentleman. He'll be the nicest brick that's ever been thrown through the FBI's window.

* In ''Fanfic/FuneralForAFlash'', the Rogues don't murder people because they ''really'' don't want to find out what would happen if The Flash got mad.
-->More than once, he said, "I'm glad I have guys like you to tangle with, and not the Gotham mobs or some megalomaniac like Luthor." But he also let them know that if they killed anybody, the gloves and good feelings would be off. So they didn't.
* ''[[Fanfic/TheZeroContextSeries Zero Context: Taking Out the Trash]]'' produces the Infinite Defense, a crime-fighting organization consisting of [[BeastMan alien cats and dogs]], plus [[TokenHuman one retired human]]. They might be all for keeping the peace, helping their friends, leaving well enough alone, generally having a good time and standing up for what is right, but that doesn't mean they won't resort to such things as MindRape, [[PersonOfMassDestruction beings of mass destruction]], [[EldritchAbomination borderline eldritch entities]], raw chaos, or [[KillSat Kill-Sats]] to do it.

* ''Fanfic/TheSecretReturnOfAlexMack'': Alex really is a wonderful person, who tries to help people ''pro bono'' in all sorts of ways, and always tries to protect life. She's also seen a lot of nasty, scary things, and has learned to defend herself against all manner of monsters including those in human form. Threaten her and she ''will'' put you down for the count, gently if she can and with electrical burns if she must.
* In ''Fanfic/KaleidoscopicGrangers,'' Ariadne has no qualms about showing no mercy to her foes, unlike how her canon counterpart often refuses to kill - Ariadne sometimes outright delivers a killing blow immediately, as she does several times during the Battle of Hogwarts. Additionally, Ron, [[spoiler:who is a werewolf after their third year, goes berserk when Fenrir Greyback attacks Bill and very nearly kills him.]] Of the New Marauders, the only individual to have killed nobody after the war is Hermione.

* In ''Fanfic/LiveAHero'', Izuku is a KindheartedCatLover who would prefer not to hurt others if he can help it. If he ''is'' pushed into a fight, he showcases his skills as a {{Tykebomb}} raised to be a SerialKiller, easily dodging the Sludge Villain's attacks before immediately throwing three knives to gouge out its eye.

** Elyon makes it clear to Caleb that even if whoever disobeyed her orders by having Kage immediately imprisoned (instead of being kept in the castle as a guest) was acting with [[WellIntentionedExtremist the best of intentions]], she will have them punished for their role in inadvertently making an enemy out of the Shadow Realm. And when she later starts seeing how unhelpful Caleb is becoming due to his IrrationalHatred towards Kage, she declares that while she still values him as a friend, she will remove him from command if he doesn't get his act together soon enough.
** Though Vathek has his HeelRealization about Kage and becomes TheAtoner, he concludes she has nonetheless allied herself with Phobos and must be stopped violently if need be. Furthermore, he resolves himself to putting a stop to Elyon's reign becoming a FullCircleRevolution, even if he must go up against his old comrades.

* In ''FanFic/{{Fractured}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[=/=]''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover crossover]] and its sequel ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', this comes up a lot. Given the universes involved, it makes sense.

* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'' (''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' & ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}''): Elyon makes it clear to Caleb that even if whoever disobeyed her orders by having Kage immediately imprisoned (instead of being kept in the castle as a guest) was acting with [[WellIntentionedExtremist the best of intentions]], she will have them punished for their role in inadvertently making an enemy out of the Shadow Realm. And when she later starts seeing how unhelpful Caleb is becoming due to his IrrationalHatred towards Kage, she declares that while she still values him as a friend, she will remove him from command if he doesn't get his act together soon enough.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13545968/1/Wilhuff-Tarkin-Hero-of-the-Rebellion Wilhuff Tarkin, Hero of the Rebellion]]'' has a few examples, most notably Rivoche Tarkin and Luke:

* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'' (''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' & ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}''): Elyon makes it clear to Caleb that even if whoever disobeyed her orders by having Kage immediately imprisoned (instead of being kept in the castle as a guest) was acting with [[WellIntentionedExtremist the best of intentions]], she will have them punished for their role in inadvertently making an enemy out of the Shadow Realm.