Examples of Even Evil Has Loved Ones in webcomics.
- Yadmon from Aisopos deeply cares for his slave/friend Archius. And his son much later.
- Captain Snow in Archipelago (of all people) has his widow and daughter, the latter of whom was born a few months after he died. He is also rather protective of his nephew... but also averted in that he murdered his mother, though he seems to regret that.
- Bastard: Apparently, as twisted as Dongsoo is, he can't bring himself to kill his family. According to him, the only time he threatened to kill Jin, he was actually joking. As Chapter 91 shows, he couldn't bring himself to kill his wife, either. On one hand, he admits to himself he's not sure why he's letting either of them live, but on the other hand, you'd think he would have gone through with it by now. Additionally, the reason he went after Manny? It was because he had been bullying Jin. And once Manny threatens to hurt Jin and turn him in as Dongsoo's accomplice as revenge for his parents, Dongsoo flies into a rage and proceeds to murder Manny in an uncharacteristically sloppy fashion. He ends up getting caught because of this, and seems aware that it would be the price.
- In Blip, Succubi and Incubi care for each other; their loyalty to each other is stronger than their loyalty to their boss. In fact, when Incubus was seriously injured, Succubus seemed willing to sacrifice herself to save his life.
- In Evil Plan, super villain Dr Kinesis still visits his clueless family for the holidays, and looks out for his sister, objecting to her fiance as any suspicious sibling might.
- Friendship is Dragons features Rainbow Dash as a Chaotic Evil Barbarian. When the GM argues that this means she doesn't fit the Element of Loyalty, Dash's player argues the point using this. Yes, she fully intends to do Evil and selfish things in the future, but that doesn't preclude her being faithful to her True Companions. She does what she wants, regardless of what others say, and that includes having friends she refuses to betray.
- Girl Genius:
- The old Heterodynes have been described as monsters. But as bad as they were, they did at least care about their family and minions. This is why they inspired such loyalty that people were not only willing but eager to take the Jägerdraught and swear fealty to the family for generations despite the fact that the draught kills the vast majority of those who take it with only a handful actually becoming Super Soldiers.
- The Geisterdamen — warrior-priestesses of a Religion of Evil serving the setting's Big Bad — apparently have a connection to the Giant Spiders they ride into battle. One Geisterdame is visibly upset
when her steed is hurt, even if we can't tell what she's saying. - The Usurper Martellus von Blitzengaard genuinely loves the lycanthrope "Knights of the Hunt" he rides with into battle with. He thinks of them as "good men" and his friends, giving them respect in death when another villain's Mind Control forces them to fight him. Martellus' other minions have to make sure too many of them don't die in battle, since they know their master would be upset by the news.
- In Homestuck, the Pre-Scratch Trolls' secretly Token Evil Teammate, Kurloz, still cares for his ex-matesprit, even though: a) His post-scratch incarnation is pure evil; b) He's not much different in his intentions, given that he worships, with his successor Gamzee, Lord English; and c) His successor brutally killed Meulin's successor, Nepeta. He's also moirails with Mituna Captor, meaning that it's Kurloz's job to serve as Mituna's emotional crutch, something Mituna defintively needs considering his psychically self-induced brain damage.
- Gamzee himself could also qualify in regards to Calliope. During his interactions with her as a young child, she's shown to be quite the Daddy's Girl, and he has a genuine, non-psychotic smile on his face as he hugs her.
- Deconstructed with Vriska's feelings for Tavros. Her confused feelings of love and poor social skills leads to her abusing and bullying him, expecting him to develop a backbone. Eventually he does stand up to her, but only after she attempts something so bad that he can't stand by and allow it, leading to her killing him.
- Played straight later on when Vriska enters a happy relationship with the similarly jerkish Meenah. It's rather telling about both characters that the only genuine and healthy relationship they could find was with someone who was also a borderline sociopath.
- Inanimate Experiments: Testtube is willing to kidnap others and commit wicked and cruel acts on them, but she is shown to have a soft spot for Fan and even promises Fan will not get kidnapped. Meanwhile Fan has no idea Testtube is actually the kidnapper.
- My Deepest Secret: Deconstructed with Elios. While talking to Emma, he does say he loves her and his mom... while explaining that they have value to him. This frightens Emma, making her think that if she weren’t his girlfriend he might not see her as having any value. It also serves as a reminder to the readers that he is a sociopath, no matter how sweet he appears. Plus, there's the possibility of his overprotectiveness and hurting those who hurt Emma are because Love Makes You Evil.
- Sarilho: Although that doesn't necessairly mean he loves them, Eurico does have a family that includes a wife and two young kids. On the other hand, Estanis seems to really care for Ângela too.
- The Order of the Stick makes it clear that an "evil" alignment does not prevent a character from having loved ones.
- This was present in the prequel comic Start of Darkness, most notably between Redcloak and his brother Right-Eye. At one point, Redcloak chooses to side with Xykon over his brother, but comes to deeply regret that decision afterwards, and he still regrets it in the comic proper. He's since tied himself to his Mission from God at the wrist because abandoning it would mean that he killed his brother for no reason, which Xykon points out and rubs in his face. Further, the reason Redcloak is working with Xykon in the first place is that paladins from Azure City killed everyone in his village, including his mentor, his parents and his little kid sister, which has left him with a lasting vendetta against humanity, Azure City in particular, and a seething hatred of paladins.Miko Miyazaki: Pfft! As if the bonds of family had any meaning to a soulless nihilist who seeks to undo creation.
Redcloak: Proof once more that you paladins have zero ranks in the Knowledge (What the Hell You're Talking About) skill. - General Tarquin, Lawful Evil father of Elan and Nale, plays with this. At first, it seems like he cares about his sons, but as The Giant says, this is very misleading. It's shown that Tarquin's love only goes as far as his assumed control of them; When he learns that Elan is fine being Plucky Comic Relief and not The Hero, Tarquin's big idea is to kill Roy and the most of the Order so Elan can rise up, because if Elan's not the main hero, that means Tarquin's not the main villain. When Nale kills Malack, and makes it clear that he wants nothing from his father, Tarquin kills him because Nale won't do as he's told — he would have even forgiven killing Malack if Nale had been subservient.
- Tarquin's right-hand Malack lost three offspring in a revolution. Even years later, he wants to be a father again but can't find "the right person". By the way, those three offspring? Nale killed them. Malack has been out for Nale's blood ever since, and if not for Tarquin's intervention he would have had it by now. On the other hand, possibly subverted by the fact by "offspring" he means "vampire spawn", and he eventually decides Durkon is the right person, and turns him.
- Enor and Gannji are fairly amoral, greed-driven bounty hunters who are willing to kill friends and family members of their collected bounties should they come asking. However, they truly do care for each other, which is another Kick the Dog moment when Tarquin orders them to fight each other in the gladiator arena, which he sent there because they "tried" to extort money from him by playing out another Star Wars reference in a long string of them.
- Nale and Sabine seem to honestly care about each other, even though she's apparently keeping the secret about working for the Three Fiends from him.
- Nale is also willing to attempt to fight barehanded against a vamped Durkon to protect Zz'dtri.
- Sabine's reaction to Nale's death at Tarquin's hands is pretty telling: after a brief outburst, she explains to Vaarsuvius exactly how to negate Tarquin's most powerful teammates.
- The ancient black dragon was probably evil before she ever decided to avenge herself against Vaarsuvius, but she had a very specific beef when Vaarsuvius killed her only son. She also mentions her mate having been killed by adventurers. Vaarsuvius is shocked when they realize the extent of damage they had done with their Familicide spell. In particular, V notes that the dragon who was the ancestor of the Draketooth clan had three children with a human woman, implying a stable relationship rather than a one-time fling.
- And the only being capable of inducing empathy in Belkar is his cat, Mr. Scruffy. At first, that is, until he accidentally started developing a conscience as a side effect of trying to fake character development on the advice of his hallucination of the Mr. Scruffy's former owner.
- One of the ways Tarquin controls his soldiers is by threatening their families. On top of that, however, at one point one of the soldiers is about to do something that will make Tarquin mad, and one of the other soldiers is quick to stop him to keep him safe. Even random evil mooks are friendly with each other.
- This was present in the prequel comic Start of Darkness, most notably between Redcloak and his brother Right-Eye. At one point, Redcloak chooses to side with Xykon over his brother, but comes to deeply regret that decision afterwards, and he still regrets it in the comic proper. He's since tied himself to his Mission from God at the wrist because abandoning it would mean that he killed his brother for no reason, which Xykon points out and rubs in his face. Further, the reason Redcloak is working with Xykon in the first place is that paladins from Azure City killed everyone in his village, including his mentor, his parents and his little kid sister, which has left him with a lasting vendetta against humanity, Azure City in particular, and a seething hatred of paladins.
- Widdershins: The Corrupt Corporate Executive Pemberton Pryce doesn't care about his schemes jeopardizing thousands of lives, but he has nothing but support and praise for his daughter, who works with him as a wizard. He's completely devastated when she appears to have been killed by his plan going awry.
