History KnightTemplar / WesternAnimation

*** Crossed the MoralEventHorizon in ''One Coarse Meal''. Not only did he spend the whole episode torturing and terrorizing Plankton for no other reason than for petty kicks, but when Plankton attempts ''suicide'' because of him, he just laughs and even erases a picture of him, which could imply that it was his ''plan'' all along.

** [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsMrKrabs Mr. Krabs]] of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' is determined to punish his rival Plankton for his unscrupulous deeds, even when he is using perfectly legitimate methods. Taken to extremes in "Plankton's Regular", where Plankton finally gains ''one'' regular customer and offers to call a truce with Krabs in return for keeping him. Krabs immediately becomes obsessed with taking away said customer. And that's not to mention the fact that Mr. Krabs often takes offense when Plankton simply isn't completely miserable and often goes out of his way to ruin Plankton's life ForTheEvulz.

** [[spoiler:Ben himself almost becomes this after getting the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Ascalon Sword]] from George and [[EldritchAbomination Dagon]]'s [[RealityWarper powers]] from Vilgax, Vilgax pointing out he could eradicate evil by his mere will now. He is eventually stopped from doing it by [[MoralityPet Julie]].]]

** Kuvira from Book 4 seeks to reunite the Earth Kingdom [[spoiler: after the Red Lotus threw it into chaos by killing the Earth Queen]]. Her primary method is to bully state governors into sacrificing their resources and swearing loyalty to her, and sending those that disagree with her off to "Re-Education Camps". Eventually, she decides that the RoyalBrat she's working for is not proper leadership material, so she publicly usurps him, declares herself ruler, and vows to crush anyone who says otherwise, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity to much applause]].

* Starlight Glimmer prior to her reformation in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. After losing her only childhood friend because of him getting a cutie mark, she develops a worldview in which cutie marks (which are supposed to signify one's special talent) are essentially harmful and lead to disarray. This results in her founding a village where she takes away every pony's cutie marks, making them "equal" and brainwashing everyone who shows signs of dissidence. Ironically, she keeps her own cutie mark, because without that she wouldn't be able to "create equality". When her perfect society is ruined by the main heroes, she goes as far as traveling back in time to make sure that Twilight never meets her friends and they never get in Starlight's way. What's interesting though is that the main driving force behind Starlight's actions seem to be not cutie marks themselves, but her own loneliness and unwillingness to restore older friendships. So she does sincerely believe she's in the right, but deep inside she's still unhappy because, despite all her efforts, she doesn't have any actual friends. This becomes the key to her eventual HeelFaceTurn.

** Cartman especially exhibited this in the Coon and Friends episode, destroying all that annoyed him with Cthulhu.

** Kyle himself is gradually leaning towards this trope in his rivalry with Cartman, some of their conflicts have shown his willingness to outright kill him (in "[[Recap/SouthParkS13E7Fatbeard Fatbeard]]" for example, he attempts to convince Cartman to travel to Somalia in his ill-defined plan to become a pirate, he is later seen gloating about assisting in Cartman's supposed death, unfazed by the fact that Butters, Clyde, and Kevin went along with him, Ike joining, however, is enough to change his mind.

** Mr Krabs of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' is determined to punish his rival Plankton for his unscrupulous deeds, even when he is using perfectly legitimate methods. Taken to extremes in "Plankton's Regular", where Plankton finally gains ''one'' regular customer and offers to call a truce with Krabs in return for keeping him. Krabs immediately becomes obsessed with taking away said customer. And that's not to mention the fact that Mr. Krabs often takes offense when Plankton simply isn't completely miserable and often goes out of his way to ruin Plankton's life ForTheEvulz.
** Crossed the MoralEventHorizon in ''One Coarse Meal''. Not only did he spend the whole episode torturing and terrorizing Plankton for no other reason than for petty kicks, but when Plankton attempts ''suicide'' because of him, he just laughs and even erases a picture of him, which could imply that it was his ''plan'' all along.
** Mr Krabs in general has become so over-the-top evil from his original "greedy-but-likable-boss" status that even the ''creator'' of ''Spongebob'', Stephen Hillenburg, deemed Mr Krabs just as evil as, if not ''worse'' than, Plankton himself.

* Most of the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E12BraveNewMetropolis Brave New Metropolis]]" takes place in a MirrorUniverse where Lois Lane's death has turned Superman into a tyrant who cooperates with Lex Luthor. Obviously, this causes the line "It is forbidden to interfere with human history" from [[Film/{{Superman}} the movie]] to become HarsherInHindsight. Though this could be a bit of a subversion as Superman truly thought he was doing good because Lex was lying to him and purposely got rid of people that could have told him differently. When Lois shows Superman the truth he is very ticked.

* The two-part ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' adventure "A Better World" featured the League's MirrorUniverse equivalents, the {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s called the Justice Lords, who decided to end crime by ruling their world as dictators. Interestingly, in this version, the straw that broke the camel's back was Superman ''killing'' Luthor, in response to Luthor's murder of the Flash. The aftermath of this encounter was seen in the first two seasons of ''Justice League Unlimited''.
* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Patriot Act", General Wade Eiling takes a SuperSerum in order to take out Superman, as he feels metahumans, aliens, and any other powered being on Earth is a threat to humanity. Unfortunately, Supes is off planet and confronts a group of leaguers that technically have no powers: Stargirl, STRIPE, Shining Knight, Vigilante, ComicBook/GreenArrow, and later the Crimson Avenger and Speedy.
* From the SequelSeries, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
** The Equalists. Their quest for equality for non-benders is realized through ''terrorism'' and [[spoiler: what amounts to soul rape]].

*** Possibly {{subverted|Trope}}. [[spoiler: Tarrlok indicated that his main goal in enacting the curfews was to play the Equalist-Republic City conflict for more personal power.]]

* General Crozier from ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', [[spoiler:at least until Mr. Salacia took over his mind in the Season 2 finale.]]
* Starlight Glimmer prior to her reformation in ''WesternAnimation/{{My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic}}''. After losing her only childhood friend because of him getting a cutie mark, she develops a worldview in which cutie marks (which are supposed to signify one's special talent) are essentially harmful and lead to disarray. This results in her founding a village where she takes away every pony's cutie marks, making them "equal" and brainwashing everyone who shows signs of dissidence. Ironically, she keeps her own cutie mark, because without that she wouldn't be able to "create equality". When her perfect society is ruined by the main heroes, she goes as far as traveling back in time to make sure that Twilight never meets her friends and they never get in Starlight's way. What's interesting though is that the main driving force behind Starlight's actions seem to be not cutie marks themselves, but her own loneliness and unwillingness to restore older friendships. So she does sincerely believe she's in the right, but deep inside she's still unhappy because, despite all her efforts, she doesn't have any actual friends. This becomes the key to her eventual HeelFaceTurn.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': [[Characters/TheOwlHouseOther Jacob Hopkins]] on Earth is an ego-driven ConspiracyTheorist out for attention who's convinced that he's the hero, while he's stalking and trying to kidnap what amounts to a scared if otherworldly child, past the point where it would become clear to most sane people that said otherworldly child is no threat.

* The BigBad in the Season 3 finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' is determined to colonize Mars, even if that means kidnapping, slavery and hijacking, because he thinks it's the only way to save humanity.

** Goliath, when he used the Eye of Odin to protect Elisa and Angela. The Eye amplifies strongest personality traits of any mortal that uses its powers without protection; quickly warping Goliath's normal protective guardian nature into an obsession with controlling those he cared for and destroying anything that could possibly threaten them. When they complained that the eye was making him crazy, he got pissed. Once it was removed, he reverted back to normal and was [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified at how far he almost went]].

** Unalaq from Book 2 of Korra, a religious fanatic that seeks to unite mankind with the spirits. [[spoiler: By fusing with the GodOfEvil, that is]].

* Starlight Glimmer prior to her reformation in ''WesternAnimation/{{My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic}}''. After losing her only childhood friend because of him getting a cutie mark, she develops a worldview in which cutie marks (which are supposed to signify one's special talent) are essentially harmful and lead to disarray. This results in her founding a village where she takes away every pony's cutie marks, making them "equal" and brainwashing everyone who shows signs of dissidence. Ironically, she keeps her own cutie mark, because without that she wouldn't be able to "create equality". When her perfect society is ruined by main heroes, she goes as far as traveling back in time to make sure that Twilight never meets her friends and they never get in Starlight's way. What's interesting though is that the main driving force behind Starlight's actions seem to be not cutie marks themselves, but her own loneliness and unwillingness to restore older friendships. So she does sincerely believe she's in the right, but deep inside she's still unhappy because, despite all her efforts, she doesn't have any actual friends. This becomes the key to her eventual HeelFaceTurn.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has thrown this label around on a number of occasions, sometime becoming rather insufferable with it.

-->'''The Coon''': I'm going around making the world a better place!
-->'''Mysterion''': For you! You're making it a better place for you!
--> '''The Coon''': Right, that's what superheroes do.
** The Knights of Standards and Practices in "It Hits The Fan". Granted, they were somewhat justified because cursewords were curse words and "shit" was causing an epidemic, but they seemed fine with killing people who were not the masterminds behind this incident.

** Kyle himself is gradually leaning towards this trope in his rivalry with Cartman, some of their conflicts have shown his willingness to outright kill him (in "[[Recap/SouthParkS13E7Fatbeard Fatbeard]]" for example, he attempts to convince Cartman to travel to Somalia in his ill-defined plan to become a pirate, he is later seen gloating about assisting in Cartman's supposed death, unfazed by the fact that Butters, Clyde and Kevin went along with him, Ike joining, however, is enough to change his mind.

** Crossed the MoralEventHorizon in ''One Coarse Meal''. Not only did he spend the whole episode torturing and terrorizing Plankton for no other reason then for petty kicks, but when Plankton attempts ''suicide'' because of him, he just laughs and even erases a picture of him, which could imply that it was his ''plan'' all along.

* Most of the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E12BraveNewMetropolis Brave New Metropolis]]" takes place in a MirrorUniverse where Lois Lane's death has turned Superman into a tyrant who cooperates with Lex Luthor. Obviously, this causes the line "It is forbidden to interfere with human history" from [[Film/{{Superman}} the movie]] to become HarsherInHindsight. Though this could be a bit of a subversion as Superman truly thought he was doing good because Lex was lying to him and purposely got rid of people that could have told him different. When Lois shows Superman the truth he is very ticked.
* [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending on what version]] of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' he's currently appearing in, Casey Jones is sometimes portrayed this way. In other versions he's more lucid (although even then he can be considered GoodIsNotNice).

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** [[spoiler:Ben himself almost becomes this after getting the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Ascalon Sword]] from George and [[EldritchAbomination Diagon]]'s [[RealityWarper powers]] from Vilgax, Vilgax pointing out he could eradicate evil by his mere will now. He is eventually stopped from doing it by [[MoralityPet Julie]].]]

** Leo gets this treatment for much of the fourth season of ''Series/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', after a CurbStompBattle against Shredder and Karai at the end of the previous season that nearly killed him and the rest of his family, and would have done so if not for a last-minute rescue from the Utroms. Leo suffers a HeroicBSOD from this defeat that lasts for much of the season and makes him obsessed with perfection from himself and his brothers, essentially trying to turn himself into a joyless warrior so that they will never be so vulnerable again. At his worst, he almost became a TautologicalTemplar, as despite several WhatTheHellHero callouts from various characters (in response to his overtraining, his constant anger, and his periodic violent outbursts), he continued to insist he was only acting to protect himself and his family. The situation only resolves when he's finally PutOnABus for a couple episodes to meditate with the Ancient One and regain his tranquility.

** Leo gets this treatment for mich of the fourth season of ''Series/TMNT2003'', after a CurbStompBattle against Shredder and Karai at the end of the previous season that nearly resulted in him and his entire family [[HeroicSacrifice killing themselves]] in a last-ditch effort to stop them. Leo's HeroicBSOD in the aftermath turns him ruthless, sullen, and obsessed with training himself and his brothers for much of the season, until he finally gets PutOnABus to meditate with the Ancient One for a couple of episodes to regain his tranquility. At the worst of this phase, Leo borders on being a TautologicalTemplar, as even after several WhatTheHellHero callouts from different characters, he insists that he's only acting to protect himself and his family.

** Kyle himself is gradually leaning towards this trope in his rivalry with Cartman, some of their conflicts have shown his willingness to outright kill him (in ''FatBeard'' for example, he attempts to convince Cartman to travel to Somalia in his ill-defined plan to become a pirate, he is later seen gloating about assisting in Cartman's supposed death, unfazed by the fact that Butters, Clyde and Kevin went along with him, Ike joining, however, is enough to change his mind.

* Mr Krabs of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' is determined to punish his rival Plankton for his unscrupulous deeds, even when he is using perfectly legitimate methods. Taken to extremes in "Plankton's Regular", where Plankton finally gains ''one'' regular customer and offers to call a truce with Krabs in return for keeping him. Krabs immediately becomes obsessed with taking away said customer. And that's not to mention the fact that Mr. Krabs often takes offense when Plankton simply isn't completely miserable and often goes out of his way to ruin Plankton's life ForTheEvulz.

* Demona from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' thinks that she's on a just crusade to destroy the human race because it is AlwaysChaoticEvil and dangerous. Nearly everyone else, though, can see that Demona's an [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds incredibly damaged individual lashing out at anyone who gets close enough to her]].