Basic Trope: A character who is on the side of good, but doesn't have heroic motivations.
- Straight: Brock fights alongside the other heroes, but doesn't have a noble motivation of being a hero.
- Exaggerated:
- Brock fights alongside the most morally sound heroes ever, but he lacks any heroic motivations that the heroes will quickly brand him as "evil".
- A Lighter Shade of Black
- Downplayed:
- Unscrupulous Hero
- Brock does have heroic motivations, but he put that in the backburner.
- Brock doesn’t have any heroic motivations, but otherwise acts traditionally heroic.
- Justified:
- Brock thinks he has nothing better to do other than to seek enjoyment in the heroes' adventure.
- Brock is Only in It for the Money.
- Brock really would've preferred to not be the hero, but he's The Chosen One and is forced against his will to go along with the heroes, so he's here to fulfill the sacred prophecy his chosen one status gave him, whether he wants to or not.
- Brock is a Blood Knight who enjoys beating up the villains.
- Brock wishes he had a normal life where there's no drama, crime, or catastrophes.
- Brock wants to impress Caitlyn whom he has a crush on.
- Brock realizes that teaming with the heroes is more efficient way to achieve his goal than to do morally questionable deeds.
- Brock just wants to be alone, but the villains always threaten his peace so he had to fight against them alongside the heroes.
- Brock and the heroes are caught in an impossible situation, and thus, he and they must work together to survive.
- Brock has powers that are needed to save the world. As long nothing he cares about gets destroyed, he doesn't bother.
- Brock's powers are hereditary, whether it's political power or super power genetics, and thus is forced to fight for good, because he's supposed to.
- Brock is a prisoner who agreed to help the heroes in hopes of being free from prison or at least receive a lighter prison sentence.
- Brock simply wants revenge.
- Inverted:
- Brock fights alongside the other villains, but he doesn't have any villainous motives to make him a pure villain.
- Brock is a Pragmatic Hero or Ideal Hero.
- Subverted: Brock seems to only be fighting the villains for selfish reasons, but he turns out to have a Hidden Heart of Gold.
- Double Subverted: But it appears that Brock is pretending to be nice just to get them out of his back and return to doing what he usually does. Of course, he is forced to come alongside their adventures again.
- Parodied: The other heroes ask Brock why does he fight on the good side, and Brock explains that it's because the villain broke his Xbox 360.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Brock is a hero who fights for justice and compassion for others.
- Enforced:
- "It's so boring how good guys always fight For Great Justice. Let's make a hero who fights for his own reasons."
- “We need a foil to the Well-Intentioned Extremist villain; A hero with selfish motives versus a villain with selfless motives.”
- Lampshaded: "I'm not a good guy. I just help good guys. No reason really."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Brock thought that fighting for his own reasons is selfish and declares that he fights for the good of everybody.
- The heroes decide to teach Brock how to fight for the greater good.
- Brock, completely ignoring the call to heroism, makes a break for the hills well before either the heroes or villains even find him.
- Discussed: "Some say that Brock needs to learn how to be a real hero by fighting for people instead of fighting for himself."
- Conversed: "Whatever happened to those heroes in the comics who fight for justice and peace? Now we got heroes who fight for anything but."
- Deconstructed:
- After receiving a better offer from the villains to fight on their side against the other heroes, Brock quickly switches sides and shows why it's so dangerous to have a person fighting for your cause when they don't even believe in it.
- Brock ends up feeling guilty for doing good deeds out of self-interest and questions his worth as a human being.
- Reconstructed:
- Brock realizes that Emperor Evulz is a Omnicidal Maniac|Absolute Xenophobe|Straw Nihilist, and that if he wins, things will go sour for everyone, including him. He quickly joins the heroes again on the first opportunity he gets.
- Brock might not have heroic motivations, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have loved ones that are fighting for the heroes. Knowing that Emperor Evulz's victory will taint their relationship forever, he reconsiders his alliances.
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