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*WebAnimation/WolfSongTheMovie: for all the pain he has caused the heroes, let's not forget that the Death Alpha is doing what he can to ensure his own brother Cerberus can make it to the surface world so he (Cerberus) doesn't have to stay guarding the gates of hell, with little bro doing the job instead. This doesn't excuse the numerous atrocities committed by the Death Alpha and his pack over the course of the movie.
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Villains who are {{Complete Monster}}s can never qualify as this trope, as they are incapable of feeling love for anyone but themselves. Sometimes, if they show a sort of love that seems genuine, it's revealed to be for [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic]] or [[ItsAllAboutMe self-serving]] reasons. Even if it was genuine at some point, that love is [[{{Yandere}} twisted]] into something vile and selfish to the point where it's no longer genuine love but rather possessive obsession.
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Villains who are {{Complete Monster}}s can never qualify as this trope, as they are incapable of feeling love for anyone but themselves. Sometimes, if they show a sort of love that seems genuine, it's revealed to be for [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic]] or [[ItsAllAboutMe self-serving]] reasons. Even if it was genuine at some point, that love is [[{{Yandere}} twisted]] into something vile and selfish to the point where it's no longer genuine love but rather possessive obsession.
obsession. A villain without loved ones may require you to HitThemInThePocketbook.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The backstory for the Head of the Loveless, a magic item in the article "From The Hands of Hags" in ''Magazine/DragonMagazine'' #300 is that it's the head of a green hag who fell in love with [[InterspeciesRomance an evil human druid]]. Then her jealous sisters found out about him and made her watch as they tortured him to death; the sight drove her insane with grief as she realized she truly loved him and she cared that he was killed, whereas hags normally mate with men just to torment them, [[LiteralManEater as a way to lure in fresh meat]], to conceive, or any combination thereof.
* [[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Rich Burlew]] covered this as a way to make villains more fleshed-out in his Villain Workshop articles. In the presented example, two villainous siblings were honestly planning to divvy up the world between them and rule without fighting each other, but the heroes believed EvilCannotComprehendGood and assumed they were both gearing up to backstab the other. This led to a very shoddy attempt to play one side against the other that failed in the worst possible way.
* [[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Rich Burlew]] covered this as a way to make villains more fleshed-out in his Villain Workshop articles. In the presented example, two villainous siblings were honestly planning to divvy up the world between them and rule without fighting each other, but the heroes believed EvilCannotComprehendGood and assumed they were both gearing up to backstab the other. This led to a very shoddy attempt to play one side against the other that failed in the worst possible way.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** The backstory for the Head of the Loveless, a magic item in the article "From The Hands of Hags" in ''Magazine/DragonMagazine'' #300 is that it's the head of a green hag who fell in love with [[InterspeciesRomance an evil human druid]]. Then her jealous sisters found out about him and made her watch as they tortured him to death; the sight drove her insane with grief as she realized she truly loved him and she cared that he was killed, whereas hags normally mate with men just to torment them, [[LiteralManEater as a way to lure in fresh meat]], to conceive, or any combination thereof.
** In the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' setting, the Xanathar (a beholder crime lord in charge of a vast crime guild in the city of Waterdeep) legitimately cares about exactly one other being [[TheNarcissist apart from itself]]: its pet goldfish, Sylgar, and will react even more violently than normal should any harm ever befall it. It is completely unaware that the underlings responsible for Sylgar's care have been [[ReplacementGoldfish replacing it with a new fish]] whenever it dies (it being a mundane, non-magical goldfish, this tends to happen not infrequently) to avert the beholder's wrath.
* [[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Rich Burlew]] covered this as a way to make villains more fleshed-out in his Villain Workshop articles. In the presented example, twovillainous siblings villains were actually close friends and honestly planning to divvy up the world between them and rule without fighting each other, but the heroes believed EvilCannotComprehendGood and assumed they were both gearing up to backstab the other. This led to a very shoddy attempt to play one side against the other that failed in the worst possible way.
** The backstory for the Head of the Loveless, a magic item in the article "From The Hands of Hags" in ''Magazine/DragonMagazine'' #300 is that it's the head of a green hag who fell in love with [[InterspeciesRomance an evil human druid]]. Then her jealous sisters found out about him and made her watch as they tortured him to death; the sight drove her insane with grief as she realized she truly loved him and she cared that he was killed, whereas hags normally mate with men just to torment them, [[LiteralManEater as a way to lure in fresh meat]], to conceive, or any combination thereof.
** In the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' setting, the Xanathar (a beholder crime lord in charge of a vast crime guild in the city of Waterdeep) legitimately cares about exactly one other being [[TheNarcissist apart from itself]]: its pet goldfish, Sylgar, and will react even more violently than normal should any harm ever befall it. It is completely unaware that the underlings responsible for Sylgar's care have been [[ReplacementGoldfish replacing it with a new fish]] whenever it dies (it being a mundane, non-magical goldfish, this tends to happen not infrequently) to avert the beholder's wrath.
* [[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Rich Burlew]] covered this as a way to make villains more fleshed-out in his Villain Workshop articles. In the presented example, two
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Compare CriminalFoundFamily.
CriminalFoundFamily. May overlap with and/or be the result of EvilDesiresInnocence.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The backstory for the Head of the Loveless, a magic item in the article "From The Hands of Hags" in ''Magazine/DragonMagazine'' #300 is that it's the head of a green hag who fell in love with [[InterspeciesRomance an evil human druid]]. Then her jealous sisters found out about him and made her watch as they tortured him to death; the sight drove her insane with grief as she realized she truly loved him and she cared that he was killed, whereas hags normally mate with men just to torment them, [[LiteralManEater as a way to lure in fresh meat]], to conceive, or any combination thereof.
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* ''WebVideo/SodorThenAndNow'': The short “Spiral Into Madness” reveals that Patrick Boomer of all people used to have a wife he loved, with said wife’s death being a factor in why Patrick is the way he is now.
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* ''WebOriginal/TaleOfTheNecromancer'': The desire to protect his children and wife from imminent death is one of the main motivations for which the protagonist begins to look for a way to become immortal. Even as a dark sorcerer, he still cares for them, in his own way.
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* ''[[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]]: Stheno and Euryale were the older sisters of the ever-infamous Medusa; after their little sister was [[RapeAsBackstory raped by Poseidon]], they came to her defense-[[ForcedTransformation even though that backfired HORRIBLY and all three of them were turned into Gorgons]]-and after Perseus killed Medusa, [[BigSisterInstinct they tried to attack him]].
