Delusional villains are characterized by or holding beliefs or impressions that they are good persons although their acts. It's the evil counterpart of Misguided.

Delusional villains are similar to Vigilantes, Extremists/Counterpart and Anti-Villains/Anti-Heroes, but unlike them, the villain's cause is often nothing close to noble.

No matter how horrible an act that a delusional villain does, they will always see it as a noble act; thus, even though they see themselves as good, many of those types of delusional villains can be Pure Evil (e.g. Akainu, Dimentio, King Boo, Judge Claude Frollo, Koba, Light Yagami, Bill Cipher, Captain Vidal or General Mandible).

These villains also believe that whoever disagrees with or opposes them is a bad person. Therefore, they are very paranoid and pay little to no attention to the opinions of others. These villains may be greedy or hypocritical, but cannot even see it. Worse, some of them tend to blame other people for the destruction they cause (especially those who oppose them) while, in reality, it was their fault.

The scope of these villains' delusion can range from being a relatively minor trait (usually just simply believing they are doing good and not fanatical about it) to dangerously extreme to the point of mental illness (such as villains who are extremely outspoken that what they are doing is right and there is absolutely no chance to convince them otherwise).

However, if a certain delusional villain truly wanted to do good, that can be a redeeming quality, and a Messiah and/or Pure Good can aid in redemption. Through that can the villain truly see and accept their mistakes and then choose true righteousness over their delusional one.

Delusional villains can also be nihilists who do not believe in good or evil, thereby justifying their own heinous actions with their twisted logic. The best example of this would be Gaku Yashiro, Isaac Ray Peram Westcott and Eurus Holmes. Xenophobes who believe a certain / some foreign races to be "evil" can also count as delusional (e.g. Count Bleck's Father); same thing with Misanthropes who think humanity itself, whether an individual is truly innocent or not, is evil and should be punished (e.g. The Crusader). Social darwinists can use their twisted philosophy to justify oppression of the weak instead of helping them (e.g. Albert Wesker). ms:Kategori:Delusi