Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-366087-20160524235431

I'm finding a LOT of characters tagged as Category:Heroes turned to the Dark Side which I find dubious at best.

I believe the issue is in defining "hero". I'm finding a lot of neutral characters being tag with this, when the fact is neutrals are not the same as "heroes". Sure some may be "protagonists", at least initially. But fact is, if we accept characters who are initially neutral as "heroes" or "heroic", the category will be HUGE.

A neutral is a character who is an "average joe" type of person, living life as expected of their societal norm and status quo. Because they have yet to be faced with making a choice of being Good or Evil. This also needs to be established by their setting and narrative. Someone saving a person then either immediately becoming their "protective" stalker, or begins to engineer a series of dangerous events so as to arrive to be a saviour is not a "hero". A character's "you're my hero!" is dialog hyperbole and not the same as narrative.

No, a character must be established as having set out to be a heroic hero. Who then made bad decisions or frustrated enough to say "fukkit" and TURN/Slide to the darkside. 