"The Greater Good" should be a trope by itself. Whenever a character announces that something must be done "for the greater good", it flashes a big red light warning that a)said character is about to trample all over "lesser" good and common decency b)his planned action is going to resoundingly blow up into Greater Evil.
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I think that is already covered by Utopia Justifies the Means, Totalitarian Utilitarian, and Well-Intentioned Extremist.
The distinction between this and Heel–Face Brainwashing is...?
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Apparently there isn't. I'm making a forum topic to see what action to take.
I always saw it as whether or not it's portrayed postively. So technically, the Tau, despite the whole Greater Good motif wouldn't qualify, oddly enough.
T Vtropes is NOT Wikipedia, stop trying to make it that. I'm attacking the darkness!
This page has a number of entries that don't seem appropriate. Notably, the entry for Avatar: the Last Airbender. Yes, Ba Sing Se is brainwashing people, and they believe its for the greater good. . . but the story does not portray them as being the good guys, at all. As I read this trope, this is for when the *heroes* solve problems with mindwipes and personality rewrites.
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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Merge Brainwashing For The Greater Good and Heel Face Brainwashing?
, started by Earnest on Oct 20th 2010 at 3:04:12 AM
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