History Main / ButNotTooEvil

* In ''[[{{Gargoyles}} Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles]], BigBad David Xanatos and his wife Fox got a really jarring HeelFaceTurn and became complete saints.

See also TruffautWasRight. When the MoralGuardians start to [[StrawmanHasAPoint have a point]] expect to hear ButItReallyHappened. When this is done to a HistoricalDomainCharacter, see HistoricalVillainDowngrade.

** ''TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. Disney was forced to cut several minutes of footage (including most of the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome]] VillainSong) in order to secure a General Release rating in Australia.

* Every villain in any of ''TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' books by L Frank Baum. Baum talks about how evil and nasty they are and how they love being that way, but they're all talk and no show. In his sixth book, four teams of villains band together to make war on Oz in secret, but Ozma had three annoyingly convenient plot devices that put the kibosh on the war just seconds before it could happen. In his previous book, ''The Road to Oz'', there is absolutely no conflict of villains at all. It may have been intentional because the prologues and epilogue of book six suggest that he really wished his fans would stop asking him to write the series.

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* In early ''{{VeggieTales}}'', before {{DVD}}, "Rack, Shack, and Benny" retold a Biblical story of idolatry, replacing chocolate bunnies for the idol. "The Bunny Song" was {{bowdlerise}}d, after parents complained, to replace references to neglecting parents, church, and school (''shock and horror'') with neglecting health food. Eventually, one of the singalong movies also included a rewritten "New & Improved Bunny Song", with distinctly non-evil lyrics ("I need to eat good food to help me to grow / I'll obey my mama, 'cause she loves me so"). The original is only around at [[{{VCR}} VHS]] quality, or [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wUbIsgf0lQ lower]].
** Although I'm quite certain that the "New and Improved Bunny Song" was intended as a ''parody'' of this.
** The "New and Improved Bunny Song" is supposed to be what the villain sings after he has reformed, which he had to do because this is Veggie Tales.
*** Spoofed at the same time, because the back up singers lyrics are unchanged, except now the bad guy scolds them for it.
** Even ''VeggieTales'' got complaints?
*** It's taken some heat for its overt religious messages.
**** Isn't that the point?

* This happened with the second book in ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': It was banned in one school because the villain says "Damn!" and "Hell!", and the really absurd part is that Snicket uses this as an occasion for an AuthorFilibuster about how swearing is something only a villain would do. (Then again, Snicket was probably parodying overly moralistic children's authors, but I don't think the censors caught onto that.)

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* The ComicsCode Authority wouldn't pass ''The Amazing Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}} #96-98'' because it contained drug use despite the fact that it was commissioned by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [[VerySpecialEpisode as a warning against it]]. StanLee published them [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome without CCA approval]], which led to the 1971 CCA revision and the eventual downfall of the CCA.

* Every villain in any of the Oz books by L Frank Baum. Baum talks about how evil & nasty they are & how they love being that way, but they're all talk & no show. In his 6th book, 4 teams of villains band together to make war on Oz in secret, but Ozma had a 3 annoyingly convenient plot devices that put the kibosh on the war just seconds before it could happen. In his previous book, The Road to Oz, there is absolutely no conflict of villains at all. I think it was intentional, because the prologues & the book 6 epilogue suggest that he really wished his fans would stop asking him to write the series.

** Obviously- this troper was unaware there even ''were'' proper "villains" in neopets.

*** Isn't "awesome Villain Song" redundant? :-)

See also TruffautWasRight. When the MoralGuardians start to [[StrawmanHasAPoint have a point]] expect to hear ButItReallyHappened.

** There was also some amount of scandal involved with the book when several Christian groups found out Daniel Handler was an atheist, and claimed that the book series would turn children into atheists.

*** Remember when Homer was something resembling a normal human being? Y'know, before he turned into Peter Griffin?

** To say nothing of the crazy rednecks who actually got Harry Potter BANNED in schools. Because it teaches witchcraft. Sometimes, I hate my country.

* Given that, outside of amateur white supremacist video games, Nazis are universally portrayed as villains in video games, NoSwastikas could almost be a subtrope of this.

* [[HarryPotter J.K. Rowling]] was attacked by some of the aforementioned fringe groups for having the recently-revealed ''villain'' Quirrell (or in the FilmOfTheBook ''Voldemort himself'') say [[WhatIsEvil "There is no such thing as good and evil, only power and those too weak to seek it."]]

** People like to quote "Brevity is the soul of wit" as though it was Shakespeare's own beliefs and use it as part of an Appeal to Authority, completely ignoring 1.The guy who said it is hardly a role model ('''[[BlackAndGrayMorality no one]]''' in ''{{Hamlet}}'' is) and [[HypocriticalHumor contradicting this]] is one of his main character traits. 2. What do ''you'' remember about the way The Bard wrote?
** Richard III also has this. Richard actually says at the beginning of the play that he intends to try to be a villain and then gleefully kills his way to the English thrown. Then, at the very end of the play, shortly before he is killed, he has a monologue where he mourns that no one will miss him when he dies.

* An in-universe example (sort of): The CouchGag of ''QueVidaMasTriste'' is the actors (Not [[TheDanza the characters]]) discussing show-related stuff. One of them is about [[AntiHero Borja]] receiving mail from a feminist association denouncing him because his character treats women like sex objects. Except not only Borja CantGetAwayWithNothing, his experiences with women usually end the ''worst''. So, apparently, you can't be sexist against women, even if this is shown to be a bad thing.