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* Franchise/EvilliousChronicles
** [[HangingJudge Gallerian Marlon]], who sentenced to death those who hadn't bribed him (or bribed him sufficiently). He was also a KnightTemplarParent for his [[WheelchairWoobie crippled daughter]]. [[spoiler:Who wasn't his daughter at all. She was a doll, who he thought was his daughter because the sorceress Ma tricked him into it after his real daughter was murdered by her illegitimate step-sister along with her (meaning the murdered daughter's) mother.]]
** In the The Story of Evil arc, it is a major story-driving element all around. This is the main focus of the song "The Servant Of Evil", showing the bond between Princess Riliane (A genocidal ruler) and Allen (The Servant).
** Before The Story of Evil story arc, Banica Conchita, possessed by the demon of Gluttony, shows affection to her lover Carlos Marlon, and has a child by him. [[spoiler:She also seems to grieve as she devours Carlos' remains after his failed murder/suicide attempt kills him alone. The poison he uses, though, greatly weakens the demon of Gluttony, thereby allowing Banica to later resist and commit {{Autocanibalism}} instead of eating her child by Carlos and become the new demon of Gluttony, having consumed the one that had possessed her.]] By the end of the Chronicles, [[spoiler:Banica appears to have formed a full-on FamilyOfChoice dynamic with not only her twin servants Arte and Pollo and a resurrected Carlos, but also her new servants Lich and Eater and the Demon of Wrath Seth Twiright]].

EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas and UnholyMatrimony are subtropes.

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* [[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.
* A platonic version is that between Archie-3 and Hagan Lonovich, from ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}''; though the AI initially took Hagan the {{technopath}} in as an "idea man" to counter his CreativeSterility, by the time of the second world book (the Mechanoids invasion), the two have actually become very close friends and each would do whatever he can to protect the other.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' the archdevil Dispater's most notable trait is his surprisingly functional romances. While neither [[{{Retgone}} he nor anyone else]] has any idea what his relationship with his first wife was like, he's been married two other times. His marriage to Feronia lasted a few centuries, which is a short marriage by deity standards but a long time for a neutral goddess of freedom to stay with the archdevil of ''prisons'', and the two are amicably divorced and stay in touch, while more typical fiendish breakups involve eternal torment or becoming nemeses. His third wife Erecura, also a non-evil deity, is apparently quite happy despite having been thrown into Hell by Pharasma.

* The giant that Jack kills in ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'' has a wife. [[spoiler:[[AvengingTheVillain Her revenge is the focus of act two.]] ]]

* In ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', Danya is usually presented as a monster who orchestrates the game for [[HiddenAgendaVillain no known reason]] and [[BadBoss treats most of his subordinates like crap]]. However, versions one and three gave him a PetTheDog moment when announcements showed him visiting his family, who he loves dearly and is viewed as a hero by.
** TheWoobie of Danya's EvilMinions, Dorian, has been shown to be working with the terrorists to provide for his mother.
** Clio Gabriella: murderess, psychopath, and just really wanted everyone else on the island dead...except for her boyfriend, Simon Telamon, who she'd been searching for since the beginning of the game, and truly believed that even though the [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne premise of Survival of the Fittest]] really didn't allow for anything past the next week, that they could be together. [[spoiler:Ultimately, he accidentally distracts her once they do meet and she's shot right in front of him. [[AlasPoorVillain She crawls to him, begging for him to save her even though she knows fully well she's beyond saving, and dies in his arms.]]]]
* ''Literature/TailsSeries'':
** Subverted in ''Literature/TailsOfFame'' with Rast Racklyn. He acts friendly towards his sister Carla and his best friend Lamson, but both of them annoy him; he just tolerates them. Rast, at one point, comes close to killing Lamson but doesn't ''solely because'' he didn't feel like cleaning up his corpse from within his apartment.
** ''Literature/TailsOfTheBountyHunter'' has Milz Dillvor, an assassin who cares about her best friend's well-being and even surrenders herself to Cale Tomlik just to save her. And when Cale allows her to have a phone call before heading to prison, she immediately calls her parents and warns them to go into hiding so her employers won't kill them for her failure.

* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' has a couple examples. The supervillain Marquis cares deeply and sincerely about his daughter [[spoiler:Amy]], putting her wellbeing and happiness ahead of his criminal enterprises and his own life.
** Similarly, the white supremacist super villain Purity cares deeply about her daughter and goes out of her way to take care of her stepson.
** A much creepier example is Bonesaw, an ''incredibly'' screwed up little girl who treats the other members of the Slaughterhouse Nine, a band of psychopathic spree killers, like a family.
** Likewise, the [[NighInvulnerability invincible]] [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] known as the Siberian, a fellow member of the Nine, feels maternal affection for Bonesaw. [[spoiler: Or, more accurately, [[TheManBehindTheMan Siberian's creator]] expresses ''paternal'' affection through the projection.]]
* The Dark from ''Literature/{{Brennus}}'' is the most powerfull supervillain in the world. He is also a caring father and a BenevolentBoss.
** Also, [[TheHero Basil]]'s older sister Amy/Mindstar. She's TheDarkChick for the Dark, an unrepentant murderer and rapist, and more than a little AxCrazy at times, but she's ''[[KnightTemplarBigBrother extremely]]'' protective of her brother, and she even supports his decision to become a superhero rather than joining the Dark like her.
* ''Literature/MirrorWorld'' has Zeil, an antagonistic {{Jerkass}} who doesn't care who he has to slaughter in order to avenge Pye, a member of his House who was like a sister to him.
* Tom Collins of ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' has a girlfriend and treats his film company like his family. When they all leave him for acting like an obsessive ex with Donnie, he takes it out on Rebecca and Tacoma, destroying the movie they made for their friend.

** ''Literature/ScrambledEgg'' has Sonya, a dark mage who became distraught after she miscarried and her husband committed suicide. Even when she's [[spoiler:moments from death, she's content knowing she'll be reunited with her lost ones]].

* ''Literature/TheKindnessOfDevils'':
** ''Literature/TheDreamsOfLonelyStars'' has Thomas Nero, the leader of a cult trying to destroy the world. Despite this, he still mourns for his wife and daughter, both of whom died several years before the story began.
** Subverted in ''Literature/UnderTheColdMoon'' with Siegfried Gunmarsohn. He doesn't care about any of his children ''except'' Sieglinde Nomura, one of his daughters he's very close to. However, when Siegfried finds out that [[spoiler:she was killed by Erin, he shrugs off her death and tells himself "oh fucking well."]]
* Teshirock from ''Series/{{Noob}}'' who turns out to have gone into his villainous activities [[spoiler:in hope to restore communication with his estranged son]] in the first place. He also seems to care deeply about his guildmates from the time he was an actual player, to the point of still being on good terms with the one that turned to RealMoneyTrade [[spoiler:and asking his guild master to stop playing upon realizing that he has a mental condition that makes him a great MMORPG player, but can also cause an unhealthy level of addiction to the game]].
* While not necessarily ''evil'', [[MadScientist Dr. Jack Bright]] is one of, if not the, craziest of the scientists working for the ''Wiki/{{SCP Foundation}}'', being driven insane as the result of his [[WhoWantsToLiveForever unwanted immortality]]. However, he does seem to genuinely care for his younger brother, [[EmpathicHealer TJ]]. Though, this doesn’t entirely play out in TJ’s favor as [[spoiler:Jack ends up [[KickTheMoralityPet reducing TJ to the mind of a toddler by having him cure several cases of mental retardation]] as a way to protect him from realizing he was being used as nothing more than a tool by the Foundation.]]
* ''{{WebVideo/AFK}}'': Vanya is a pretty brutal guy with few compunctions, but he seems to genuinely love his girlfriend Sheena, bringing healers in succession for her when she's injured and near death by septicemia.

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 a pragmatic or self-serving reason. Even if it was genuine at some point, that love can be [[{{Yandere}} twisted]] into something vile and selfish to the point where it's no longer genuine love.

Compare EvenEvilHasStandards when an evil character objects to or is disturbed by certain acts towards anyone and not just his own, MoralityPet, MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter, DaddysLittleVillain, TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether, VillainousFriendship, MinionShipping, and UnholyMatrimony. If the evil character in question is a {{mook|s}}, and said love brings them in conflict with their own boss, that's EvenMooksHaveLovedOnes. Guaranteed that it will overlap with MoralMyopia when the villain sees no problem with their own methods, until those methods are turned on the ones ''they'' love. When the villain turned evil as a ''result'' of their love for others, it's LoveMakesYouEvil. Contrast with EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes, where an AllLovingHero dispises at least one character.

Compare EvenEvilHasStandards when an evil character objects to or is disturbed by certain acts towards anyone and not just his own, MoralityPet, MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter, DaddysLittleVillain, TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether, VillainousFriendship, MinionShipping, and UnholyMatrimony. If the evil character in question is a {{mook|s}}, and said love brings them in conflict with their own boss, that's EvenMooksHaveLovedOnes. Guaranteed that it will overlap with MoralMyopia when the villain sees no problem with their own methods, until those methods are turned on the ones ''they'' love. When the villain turned evil as a ''result'' of their love for others, it's LoveMakesYouEvil.

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 a pragmatic or self-serving reason.

** Stolas is a [[Literature/ArsGoetia Goetian Prince of Hell]] who callously runs the gamut on maleficent things ranging from grand scale operations, like having politicians who try to bring attention to Global Warming silenced just so more people will die, to much more petty schemes, like basically blackmailing Blitzo into SexForServices. In private, however, he is shown to be stuck in an AwfulWeddedLife, his infidelity with the lowly Blitzo ''really'' pissing off his wife, Stella, and it's ''strongly'' implied that he thinks that his daughter, Octavia, is the only good thing that ever came out of their marriage. Also, [[AbhorrentAdmirer for all of his creepy antics]] towards Blitzo, and the imp's cold attitude towards Stolas in return, it's also strongly implied that he is the only person Stolas has ever sexually and romantically desired in his entire long life.

* ''Music/NautilusPompilius'': In the song "Wheels of Love", it was mentioned that even Hitler and Genghis Khan had had loved ones.

* ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'': in the episode "A Father's Love" a woman tells the story of living with her serial-killer father as a child. She recounts that her father, despite his crimes, always seemed to love her, and she believes his love was genuine. And unlike everyone else, she doesn't think her mother was one of his victims.

Villains who are CompleteMonster[=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 a pragmatic or self-serving reason.

** Before The Story of Evil story arc, Banica Conchita, possessed by the demon of Gluttony, shows affection to her lover Carlos Marlon, and has a child by him. [[spoiler:She also seems to grieve as she devours Carlos' remains after his failed murder/suicide attempt kills him alone. The poison he uses, though, greatly weakens the demon of Gluttony, thereby allowing Banica to later resist and commit {{Autocanibalism}} instead of eating her child by Carlos and become the new demon of Gluttony, having consumed the one that had possessed her.]]

Being evil doesn't always mean hatred and negativity 24/7. Even evil characters (and real people) can find someone to love. Often, that love is [[MadLove twisted]], [[LoveMakesYouEvil a cause for villainy]], or [[WasItAllALie an act]] but sometimes a work can show an evil character's love is genuine and deep. This serves to [[CharacterDevelopment humanize]] the character, to give the hero doubts about fighting him/her, or to provide a weakness for the hero to exploit. At an extreme end, can provoke MamaBear or PapaWolf reactions if they are threatened (or turning into a TragicMonster at worst), or prompt the loved ones to AvengingTheVillain. It also marks the villain as hypocritical and shows his twisted worldview by treating everyone else as insects but excluding the few ones he has feelings of affection for.

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes/{{Fanfiction}}

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This trope cancels out CompleteMonster since those villains don't show feelings of love.

** Beasts of Nurgle are ginormous, acid-spewing slugs with the personality of a BigFriendlyDog. They're not even trying to kill people, they just see new friends to chase and hug and play with, at least until their new friends stop moving.

* The Franchise/EvilliousChronicles gives us [[HangingJudge Gallerian Marlon]], who sentenced to death those who hadn't bribed him (or bribed him sufficiently). He was also a KnightTemplarParent for his [[WheelchairWoobie crippled daughter]]. [[spoiler:Who wasn't his daughter at all. She was a doll, who he thought was his daughter because the sorceress Ma tricked him into it after his real daughter was murdered by her illegitimate step-sister along with her (meaning the murdered daughter's) mother.]]

** Before The Story of Evil story arc, Banica Conchita, possessed by the demon of Gluttony, shows affection to her lover Carlos Marlon, and has a child by him. [[spoiler:She also seems to grieve as she devours Carlos' remains after his failed murder/suicide attempt kills him alone. The poison he uses, though, greatly weakens the demon of Gluttony, thereby allowing Banica to later resist and eat herself instead of her child by Carlos, and become the new demon of Gluttony, having consumed the one that had possessed her.]]

Being evil doesn't always mean hatred and negativity 24/7. Even evil characters (and real people) can find someone to love. Often, that love is [[MadLove twisted]], [[LoveMakesYouEvil a cause for villainy]], or [[WasItAllALie an act]] but sometimes a work can show an evil character's love is genuine and deep. This serves to [[CharacterDevelopment humanize]] the character, to give the hero doubts about fighting him/her, or to provide a weakness for the hero to exploit. At an extreme end, can provoke MamaBear or PapaWolf reactions if they are threatened, or prompt the loved ones to AvengingTheVillain. It also marks the villain as hypocritical and shows his twisted worldview by treating everyone else as insects but excluding the few ones he has feelings of affection for.

Compare EvenEvilHasStandards when an evil character objects to or is disturbed by certain acts towards anyone and not just his own, MoralityPet, MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter, DaddysLittleVillain, VillainousFriendship, MinionShipping, and UnholyMatrimony. If the evil character in question is a {{mook|s}}, and said love brings them in conflict with their own boss, that's EvenMooksHaveLovedOnes. Guaranteed that it will overlap with MoralMyopia when the villain sees no problem with their own methods, until those methods are turned on the ones ''they'' love. When the villain turned evil as a ''result'' of their love for others, it's LoveMakesYouEvil.