probablybadrpgideas:

Ways to make your villain morally ambiguous:

• Eats babies, but only for medical reasons.
• Every time they kill someone they make a clone, ensuring that strictly speaking they’re having no effect on the amount of life in the universe
• Want to end all bad things but only has a gun to do it with.
• Has exactly five (5) noble traits: tips waiters, donates to medical gofundmes, tidies your bathroom, buys milk for orphans, once gave a dog a hat.
• Never attacks anyone who can’t fight back unless it’s convenient for their plans or they really want to.
• Uses your correct pronouns when informing you about the horrible death trap they put you in.
• Actually has an antipoverty machine powered by blending orphans. Look, they know its contrived, but you can only play the cards you’re dealt, right?
• Is pretty sure they’re doing the right thing. They haven’t actually checked, they’ve been busy, but they’re pretty sure!
• Is only doing evil because they got hit by an Evil Ray that makes you violent and dangerous.
• Hasn’t ever done anything wrong and is actively helping the heroes. It’s a very light shade of morally grey.