Thread:Mediawatcher/@comment-4708882-20160426013645/@comment-24469175-20160521232634

One major example of designated hero is like this, a character is treated as crossing the meh for blowing up a planet full of civilization, even though that civilization was always chaotic evil and killed off numerous other planets for no reason. Yet when a more morally ambiguous race is only trying to survive and is nowhere near as awful gets blown up by the essential "hero" and is treated in the right. His victims were far more innocent than the victims of the meh crosser.

This can cause a character become a scrappy or result in a broken Aesop, and at times even when the essential "villain" is treated as a meh crosser, sometimes the audience will still side with them and go against the hero.