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** And in ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' where Superman was raised under the belief of communism, he does just this. Taking over Russia and becoming a dictator to protect the people. He tries to do this to the whole world but is stopped by ''ComicBook/LexLuthor'' with a simple [[ArmorPiercingQuestion note]] that makes him realize he is no better than ComicBook/{{Braniac}} trying to put the world in a bottle.
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** Another example would be Rorschach, whose violent and murderous behavior towards criminals is fueled by his own twisted desires to protect the world and defend the good. However, due to mental trauma, he tends to view almost everything and everyone as bad and needing punishment, making him come off as a SociopathicHero.
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* Amanda Waller, from ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad''. She's a tremendously shrewd politician and a MagnificentBitch in the dog-eat-dog world of DCU politics, who often has to battle her possessiveness and prejudice to do what really's right. Deep under the IronLady and the BlackBossLady, she's still human, even if she mutes her conscience on a daily basis.
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* Amanda Waller, from ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad''. She's a tremendously shrewd politician and a MagnificentBitch [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] in the dog-eat-dog world of DCU politics, who often has to battle her possessiveness and prejudice to do what really's right. Deep under the IronLady and the BlackBossLady, she's still human, even if she mutes her conscience on a daily basis.
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* ComicBook/BlackAdam is a perfect textbook example. Generally, all he wants to do is rule over and protect his homeland of Khandaq and its people from any foreign invaders. It's just that his method of doing so involves utterly decimating said invaders, which doesn't gel well when he applies his methods in modern times and ends up incurring the wrath of the authorities and superheroes who [[ThouShaltNotKill use more sensible methods for stopping criminals]].
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* ComicBook/BlackAdam is a perfect textbook example. Generally, all he wants to do is rule over and protect his homeland of Khandaq and its people from any foreign invaders. It's just that his method of doing so it involves utterly decimating said invaders, which doesn't gel well when he applies his methods mindset in modern times and ends up incurring the wrath of the authorities and superheroes who [[ThouShaltNotKill use more sensible non-lethal methods for stopping criminals]].
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* [[ManipulativeBastard Alexander Luthor Jr.]] was willing to kill an uncountable number of people to reach his goal during the ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. His goal? To find and create the [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Perfect Earth, free of Crime, Grime, and, possibly, super powers]].
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* [[ManipulativeBastard Alexander Luthor Jr.]] was willing to kill an uncountable number of people to reach his goal during the ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. His goal? To find and create the [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Perfect Earth, free of Crime, Grime, crime, grime, and, possibly, super powers]].
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* ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'': A very {{spoiler}}ish example, but: [[spoiler:Ozymandias? Possibly the most successful Well Intentioned Extremist in fiction. He kills three million people to achieve world peace... and, as far as the reader can tell, ''it works,'' though the last panel opens up the possibility that it may have all been for nothing.]]
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* ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'': A very {{spoiler}}ish example, but: [[spoiler:Ozymandias? Possibly the most successful Well Intentioned Extremist in fiction. He kills three million people to achieve world peace... and, as far as the reader can tell, ''it works,'' though the last panel opens up the possibility that it may have all been for nothing. This is later confirmed in the sequel ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'', and Ozy's KarmaHoudiniWarranty finally ends.]]
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* ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'': In ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' Annual #20, the Old Gotham Warden Harvey Bent came to believe that it was not enough to banish criminals to the hell of Arkham but that they should be put to death. The Bat-Man refused to consider this as he believed that it would make them as bad as the criminals that they fought. Bent resigned as Warden in protest. In order to end the battle between good and evil raging inside of him, Bent tried to burn the evil out of himself. This only served to make things worse as the resulting disfigurement turned him into [[ComicBook/TwoFace Split-Face]], who resorted to bribery, perjury, evidence tampering and even murder to bring criminals to justice (or at least his idea of it).
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* ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'': In ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' Annual #20, the Old Gotham Warden Harvey Bent came to believe that it was not enough to banish criminals to the hell of Arkham but that they should be put to death. The Bat-Man refused to consider this as he believed that it would make them as bad as the criminals that they fought. Bent resigned as Warden in protest. In order to end the battle between good and evil raging inside of him, Bent tried to burn the evil out of himself. This only served to make things worse as the resulting disfigurement turned him into [[ComicBook/TwoFace Split-Face]], who resorted to bribery, perjury, evidence tampering and even murder to bring criminals to justice (or at least his idea of it).
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* The Leader, EvilGenius ArchEnemy of the Comicbook/IncredibleHulk, is most often portrayed as this. He wants to conquer the world and solve all of its problems (in some cases, he doesn't even want to conquer the world, just set up his own utopia). Depending on the writer, he may or may not want to turn everyone in the world into a gamma monster like himself and the Hulk, as well.
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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villains:
** ComicBook/RasAlGhul's intention was to stop mankind's destruction of the environment. This could be accomplished by wiping out roughly 2 billion people.
** EcoTerrorist ComicBook/PoisonIvy wants plants to be respected. It's the ''"and completely dominant"'' part that causes trouble.
** ComicBook/MrFreeze is probably the straightest example: he just wants to save his wife and cure his disease (which makes him [[AndIMustScream have to live in a cold suit 24/7 and never be able to have human contact or die.]]) As he's fine with killing innocent people and doing other bad things, he's still a villain.
** The Civic Virtue serial killer in "Petty Crimes", a story in the ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'' anthology series, murders people for antisocial actions like littering and blocking traffic, and claims to be holding the line for civilized society. Several characters, including Batman, say that while of course they can't condone his methods they do kind of see his point.
* Franchise/{{Batman}} himself comes close to this from time to time, especially in the Creator/FrankMiller variations. It's implied that the reason Batman sticks so close to [[ThouShaltNotKill his code of no killing]] is because he's afraid that once he crossed that line, he would become this.
* [[spoiler: Cinderella's fairy godmother, as well as Geppetto]], in ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' embodies this trope. [[spoiler: The fairy godmother just wanted people to be happy, and Geppetto didn't start out ''intending'' to conquer the world.]]
* One of ComicBook/TheFlash's most dangerous enemies, Zoom, fits this pretty well. He just wants to make the Flash a better hero... by killing his friends, family, and lesser villains.
* ComicBook/LexLuthor in ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'' is confident that he can save the remains of mankind not wiped by the apocalypse, but he can only achieve this if everybody follow his orders, so he keeps people mind-controlled and caged inside "his" walled city and represses dissenters brutally; and then he doesn't get why people rebel against him.
* In ''ComicBook/HelOnEarth'', all H'el wants is to ressurect his home planet, Krypton. Unfortunately, Earth has to be destroyed for him to bring back Krypton.
* The Leader, EvilGenius ArchEnemy of the Comicbook/IncredibleHulk, is most often portrayed as this. He wants to conquer the world and solve all of its problems (in some cases, he doesn't even want to conquer the world, just set up his own utopia). Depending on the writer, he may or may not want to turn everyone in the world into a gamma monster like himself and the Hulk, as well.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Alexander Luthor Jr.]] was willing to kill an uncountable number of people to reach his goal during the ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. His goal? To find and create the [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Perfect Earth, free of Crime, Grime, and, possibly, super powers]].
* Issue 20 of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost'' shows us why Maxwell Lord is willing to do all the horrible things he does: he sincerely believes that if he doesn't take dictatorial control of the metahuman community, the inevitable result will be the sort of spandex genocide we saw at the end of ''ComicBook/KingdomCome''.
* ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'': In ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' Annual #20, the Old Gotham Warden Harvey Bent came to believe that it was not enough to banish criminals to the hell of Arkham but that they should be put to death. The Bat-Man refused to consider this as he believed that it would make them as bad as the criminals that they fought. Bent resigned as Warden in protest. In order to end the battle between good and evil raging inside of him, Bent tried to burn the evil out of himself. This only served to make things worse as the resulting disfigurement turned him into [[ComicBook/TwoFace Split-Face]], who resorted to bribery, perjury, evidence tampering and even murder to bring criminals to justice (or at least his idea of it).
* Comicbook/{{Sinestro}} falls into this, especially during his debut and the ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar''. His planet was, by all accounts, lawless and wild, so he used his ComicBook/GreenLantern ring to conquer it and instill order, by brutally oppressing the entire population. When the [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps Sinestro Corps]] starts up, he seeks out people who can instill great fear, including Franchise/{{Batman}} (who refuses), so he can save the galaxy from itself. Again, by ruling the entire population through fear.
** [[spoiler:In the end of the ''Sinestro Corps War'', Sinestro admits that what he really wanted was to improve the Green Lantern Corps by making them accept the use of deadly force when necessary. [[XanatosGambit He achieved his ends either way.]]]]
** After Hal Jordan's home town was destroyed, he was driven insane and became the supervillain known as Parallax. His goal was the [[OmnicidalManiac destruction of the universe]] to [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans rebuild it and make it better,]] and in particular to save all the people that had been killed. It was noted several times by other characters that Hal believed he was acting for the right reasons, but had simply lost his way. Eventually, he would regain enough of his former morality and nobility to sacrifice himself to save the world and redeem himself, and it was later retconned that he had been [[DemonicPossession possessed]] the entire time.
** The [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps Red Lantern Corps]] (emotion: rage) fall into this as a whole, since their rage is universally driven by loss; all any of them want to do is avenge their loved ones, [[ShootTheDog no]] [[BloodKnight matter]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds the]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope cost]]. It doesn't help that their power is one of the two least controllable ones of the emotional spectrum and, as a result, they tend towards being TheBerserker, destroying anything or any''one'' that they see as being in their way.
** The Entity of Compassion, Proselyte, is dedicated to eradicating evil by spreading empathy and compassion across the universe. It sees nothing wrong with ''brainwashing'' people to make them feel compassion. [[spoiler: Although the individuals it brainwashes are all borderline sociopaths, psychotic killers, and unrepentant monsters who are forced to wear the rings so they can finally understand why their past crimes were wrong. Indigo-1, a.k.a. Iroque the Child Killer, legitimately begged to have her ring returned and the Tribe restarted because she finally began to understand how terrible she'd been.]] Also, Proselyte doesn't brainwash ''every'' Indigo ring wielder, and they are capable of seeking out individuals who are fully capable of great compassion, [[spoiler: not just those who lack it.]]
** The Guardians of the Universe. They've been screwing up since the universe started, and while it's (usually) obvious that they are at least ''trying'' to do the right thing, more often than not, it just blows up in their faces.
** The White Light Entity has committed a few morally ambiguous acts in order to save all life in the universe.
* Amanda Waller, from ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad''. She's a tremendously shrewd politician and a MagnificentBitch in the dog-eat-dog world of DCU politics, who often has to battle her possessiveness and prejudice to do what really's right. Deep under the IronLady and the BlackBossLady, she's still human, even if she mutes her conscience on a daily basis.
* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:
** In ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', Atrocitus -- leader of the Red Lantern Corps -- is determined to avenge injustice... by killing whoever he finds guilty.
** In ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'', Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}'s actions (virtually taking over Gotham, running it as her own private kingdom with spy eyes installed everywhere, banning parahumans from her city...) are questionable at least, but her only goal is saving innocents and protecting the good people of Gotham.
** In the ''ComicBook/Supergirl2005'' story arc "Way of the World", villain Aftermath wants to turn the public against superhumans because he thinks good people always gets screwed when they fight. So he kidnaps a couple to blackmail their daughter into putting a mind-control hex on ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, intending to mind-control Supergirl into causing mayhem until everybody hates her.
--->'''Aftermath:''' NO!!! I only did this to make them understand-- to make the world '''better'''.\\
'''Supergirl:''' I know. But that doesn't mean you're right.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** General Zod, long-time enemy of Superman, was reinvented in the ''ComicBook/LastSon'' and ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'' storylines. Normally a conquering madman, he was named military commander of New Krypton and was devoted to protecting the new planet by any means necessary, but he was shown to be fairly honorable and decent. He cracked down on his sadistic minion Gor, promoted Superman in his place when he was incapacitated by an assassin, and came to appreciate his former enemy while still maintaining views that are much harsher than those of Superman's. [[spoiler:When New Krypton was destroyed]], [[UnstoppableRage all bets were off]].
** When the Eradicator took over as Superman during ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'', he had no qualms about using deadly force and thought he was doing what Superman would do. However, he's shown to be shaken by Guy Gardner's admiration and a couple of WhatTheHellHero speeches from Comicbook/LoisLane and Comicbook/{{Steel}}.
** And in ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' where Superman was raised under the belief of communism, he does just this. Taking over Russia and becoming a dictator to protect the people. He tries to do this to the whole world but is stopped by ''ComicBook/LexLuthor'' with a simple [[ArmorPiercingQuestion note]] that makes him realize he is no better than ComicBook/{{Braniac}} trying to put the world in a bottle.
** In ''ComicBook/AMindSwitchInTime'', Euphor increases his power by absorbing Metropolis' negative emotions until he is powerful enough to put the whole city under his total mind-control. Even so, he seems to believe he is really the good guy, since he privately insists he is just helping people and Superman deserves to be kicked out of Metropolis for not removing its citizens' unhappiness.
* V from ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' is the poster child of this trope. He wants to free England... by causing riots and crippling the government.
** The head of said government, Adam Susan, is ANaziByAnyOtherName who may be the only thing keeping order in a nuclear wasteland.
* ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'': A very {{spoiler}}ish example, but: [[spoiler:Ozymandias? Possibly the most successful Well Intentioned Extremist in fiction. He kills three million people to achieve world peace... and, as far as the reader can tell, ''it works,'' though the last panel opens up the possibility that it may have all been for nothing.]]
** Another example would be Rorschach, whose violent and murderous behavior towards criminals is fueled by his own twisted desires to protect the world and defend the good. However, due to mental trauma, he tends to view almost everything and everyone as bad and needing punishment, making him come off as a SociopathicHero.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villains:
** ComicBook/RasAlGhul's intention was to stop mankind's destruction of the environment. This could be accomplished by wiping out roughly 2 billion people.
** EcoTerrorist ComicBook/PoisonIvy wants plants to be respected. It's the ''"and completely dominant"'' part that causes trouble.
** ComicBook/MrFreeze is probably the straightest example: he just wants to save his wife and cure his disease (which makes him [[AndIMustScream have to live in a cold suit 24/7 and never be able to have human contact or die.]]) As he's fine with killing innocent people and doing other bad things, he's still a villain.
** The Civic Virtue serial killer in "Petty Crimes", a story in the ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'' anthology series, murders people for antisocial actions like littering and blocking traffic, and claims to be holding the line for civilized society. Several characters, including Batman, say that while of course they can't condone his methods they do kind of see his point.
* Franchise/{{Batman}} himself comes close to this from time to time, especially in the Creator/FrankMiller variations. It's implied that the reason Batman sticks so close to [[ThouShaltNotKill his code of no killing]] is because he's afraid that once he crossed that line, he would become this.
* [[spoiler: Cinderella's fairy godmother, as well as Geppetto]], in ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' embodies this trope. [[spoiler: The fairy godmother just wanted people to be happy, and Geppetto didn't start out ''intending'' to conquer the world.]]
* One of ComicBook/TheFlash's most dangerous enemies, Zoom, fits this pretty well. He just wants to make the Flash a better hero... by killing his friends, family, and lesser villains.
* ComicBook/LexLuthor in ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'' is confident that he can save the remains of mankind not wiped by the apocalypse, but he can only achieve this if everybody follow his orders, so he keeps people mind-controlled and caged inside "his" walled city and represses dissenters brutally; and then he doesn't get why people rebel against him.
* In ''ComicBook/HelOnEarth'', all H'el wants is to ressurect his home planet, Krypton. Unfortunately, Earth has to be destroyed for him to bring back Krypton.
* The Leader, EvilGenius ArchEnemy of the Comicbook/IncredibleHulk, is most often portrayed as this. He wants to conquer the world and solve all of its problems (in some cases, he doesn't even want to conquer the world, just set up his own utopia). Depending on the writer, he may or may not want to turn everyone in the world into a gamma monster like himself and the Hulk, as well.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Alexander Luthor Jr.]] was willing to kill an uncountable number of people to reach his goal during the ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. His goal? To find and create the [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Perfect Earth, free of Crime, Grime, and, possibly, super powers]].
* Issue 20 of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost'' shows us why Maxwell Lord is willing to do all the horrible things he does: he sincerely believes that if he doesn't take dictatorial control of the metahuman community, the inevitable result will be the sort of spandex genocide we saw at the end of ''ComicBook/KingdomCome''.
* ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'': In ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' Annual #20, the Old Gotham Warden Harvey Bent came to believe that it was not enough to banish criminals to the hell of Arkham but that they should be put to death. The Bat-Man refused to consider this as he believed that it would make them as bad as the criminals that they fought. Bent resigned as Warden in protest. In order to end the battle between good and evil raging inside of him, Bent tried to burn the evil out of himself. This only served to make things worse as the resulting disfigurement turned him into [[ComicBook/TwoFace Split-Face]], who resorted to bribery, perjury, evidence tampering and even murder to bring criminals to justice (or at least his idea of it).
* Comicbook/{{Sinestro}} falls into this, especially during his debut and the ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar''. His planet was, by all accounts, lawless and wild, so he used his ComicBook/GreenLantern ring to conquer it and instill order, by brutally oppressing the entire population. When the [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps Sinestro Corps]] starts up, he seeks out people who can instill great fear, including Franchise/{{Batman}} (who refuses), so he can save the galaxy from itself. Again, by ruling the entire population through fear.
** [[spoiler:In the end of the ''Sinestro Corps War'', Sinestro admits that what he really wanted was to improve the Green Lantern Corps by making them accept the use of deadly force when necessary. [[XanatosGambit He achieved his ends either way.]]]]
** After Hal Jordan's home town was destroyed, he was driven insane and became the supervillain known as Parallax. His goal was the [[OmnicidalManiac destruction of the universe]] to [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans rebuild it and make it better,]] and in particular to save all the people that had been killed. It was noted several times by other characters that Hal believed he was acting for the right reasons, but had simply lost his way. Eventually, he would regain enough of his former morality and nobility to sacrifice himself to save the world and redeem himself, and it was later retconned that he had been [[DemonicPossession possessed]] the entire time.
** The [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps Red Lantern Corps]] (emotion: rage) fall into this as a whole, since their rage is universally driven by loss; all any of them want to do is avenge their loved ones, [[ShootTheDog no]] [[BloodKnight matter]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds the]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope cost]]. It doesn't help that their power is one of the two least controllable ones of the emotional spectrum and, as a result, they tend towards being TheBerserker, destroying anything or any''one'' that they see as being in their way.
** The Entity of Compassion, Proselyte, is dedicated to eradicating evil by spreading empathy and compassion across the universe. It sees nothing wrong with ''brainwashing'' people to make them feel compassion. [[spoiler: Although the individuals it brainwashes are all borderline sociopaths, psychotic killers, and unrepentant monsters who are forced to wear the rings so they can finally understand why their past crimes were wrong. Indigo-1, a.k.a. Iroque the Child Killer, legitimately begged to have her ring returned and the Tribe restarted because she finally began to understand how terrible she'd been.]] Also, Proselyte doesn't brainwash ''every'' Indigo ring wielder, and they are capable of seeking out individuals who are fully capable of great compassion, [[spoiler: not just those who lack it.]]
** The Guardians of the Universe. They've been screwing up since the universe started, and while it's (usually) obvious that they are at least ''trying'' to do the right thing, more often than not, it just blows up in their faces.
** The White Light Entity has committed a few morally ambiguous acts in order to save all life in the universe.
* Amanda Waller, from ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad''. She's a tremendously shrewd politician and a MagnificentBitch in the dog-eat-dog world of DCU politics, who often has to battle her possessiveness and prejudice to do what really's right. Deep under the IronLady and the BlackBossLady, she's still human, even if she mutes her conscience on a daily basis.
* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:
** In ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', Atrocitus -- leader of the Red Lantern Corps -- is determined to avenge injustice... by killing whoever he finds guilty.
** In ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'', Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}'s actions (virtually taking over Gotham, running it as her own private kingdom with spy eyes installed everywhere, banning parahumans from her city...) are questionable at least, but her only goal is saving innocents and protecting the good people of Gotham.
** In the ''ComicBook/Supergirl2005'' story arc "Way of the World", villain Aftermath wants to turn the public against superhumans because he thinks good people always gets screwed when they fight. So he kidnaps a couple to blackmail their daughter into putting a mind-control hex on ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, intending to mind-control Supergirl into causing mayhem until everybody hates her.
--->'''Aftermath:''' NO!!! I only did this to make them understand-- to make the world '''better'''.\\
'''Supergirl:''' I know. But that doesn't mean you're right.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** General Zod, long-time enemy of Superman, was reinvented in the ''ComicBook/LastSon'' and ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'' storylines. Normally a conquering madman, he was named military commander of New Krypton and was devoted to protecting the new planet by any means necessary, but he was shown to be fairly honorable and decent. He cracked down on his sadistic minion Gor, promoted Superman in his place when he was incapacitated by an assassin, and came to appreciate his former enemy while still maintaining views that are much harsher than those of Superman's. [[spoiler:When New Krypton was destroyed]], [[UnstoppableRage all bets were off]].
** When the Eradicator took over as Superman during ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'', he had no qualms about using deadly force and thought he was doing what Superman would do. However, he's shown to be shaken by Guy Gardner's admiration and a couple of WhatTheHellHero speeches from Comicbook/LoisLane and Comicbook/{{Steel}}.
** And in ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' where Superman was raised under the belief of communism, he does just this. Taking over Russia and becoming a dictator to protect the people. He tries to do this to the whole world but is stopped by ''ComicBook/LexLuthor'' with a simple [[ArmorPiercingQuestion note]] that makes him realize he is no better than ComicBook/{{Braniac}} trying to put the world in a bottle.
** In ''ComicBook/AMindSwitchInTime'', Euphor increases his power by absorbing Metropolis' negative emotions until he is powerful enough to put the whole city under his total mind-control. Even so, he seems to believe he is really the good guy, since he privately insists he is just helping people and Superman deserves to be kicked out of Metropolis for not removing its citizens' unhappiness.
* V from ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' is the poster child of this trope. He wants to free England... by causing riots and crippling the government.
** The head of said government, Adam Susan, is ANaziByAnyOtherName who may be the only thing keeping order in a nuclear wasteland.
* ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'': A very {{spoiler}}ish example, but: [[spoiler:Ozymandias? Possibly the most successful Well Intentioned Extremist in fiction. He kills three million people to achieve world peace... and, as far as the reader can tell, ''it works,'' though the last panel opens up the possibility that it may have all been for nothing.]]
** Another example would be Rorschach, whose violent and murderous behavior towards criminals is fueled by his own twisted desires to protect the world and defend the good. However, due to mental trauma, he tends to view almost everything and everyone as bad and needing punishment, making him come off as a SociopathicHero.
