{{Quote|I can't believe I trusted you! You made me think you wanted to restore balance with spirits, but this... this isn't balance, it's madness!|[[Korra]] to Unalaq after learning he was working with Vaatu}}'''Misguided Heroes''' are heroes who inadvertently do the wrong thing mostly because they don't know any better in that particular circumstance. This mainly arises in fables where some wide-eyed youth is set to be taught a lesson over the course of the story, such as The Boy Who Cried Wolf. This may also be done for fully grown competent characters who simply don't see a certain scope of the world they should be concerned with, such as [[Cait Sith|Reeves]] from ''Final Fantasy VII'' or [[Seto Kaiba]] from ''Yu-Gi-Oh!.'' These characters may still take a staring role in the their works, but the works themselves exist under the notion that said characters start off not knowing any better. Other times, they may be misguided/manipulated by an outside source, rather than themselves alone, and some of these cases may qualify as [[:Category:Pawn of the Villain|pawns of the villain]], depending on the story or context.

They are also the heroic counterparts of [[w:c:Villains:Category:Delusional|Delusional]] villains.

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