Random Anime Heroes Were Guilty Of Awful Things (16 items)

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  (#2) Guts

  • Berserk Golden Age Arc II: The Battle for Doldrey, Berserk Golden Age Arc I: The Egg of the King

  Guts often uses his formidable strength to save others from various dangers including despotic power-hungry priests to literal demons, but his rap sheet is long and horrible. First of all, he slays hundreds, if not thousands, of people, including children, under a staggering variety of circumstances. Though he doesn't enjoy it, he'll do it out of necessity, and in the world of Berserk, necessity is often observed. 

  Though technically a hero, Guts will unleash his cruelty on the ones he loves. One of the worst things he ever does is sexually assault Casca, the love of his life. Thanks to traumatic events, including repeated rapes, Casca's mind is already nearly destroyed, and she can no longer speak, reason, or look after herself. Though Guts wants desperately to protect her, he still assaults her. He immediately begins feeling remorse and self-loathing, but nothing ever erases what he's done. 
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  (#9) Takeo Gouda Doesn't Care If His Friend Wants To Kiss Him In 'My Love Story'

  Most of the time, Takeo Gouda is a big cuddly sweetheart who would never do anything to hurt anyone, unless of course, they do something to hurt his beloved girlfriend, Yamato. A kind and respectful boyfriend, Takeo loves his mom and is just an all-around great guy... except when it comes to his best friend, Sunao. 

  In one scene, Takeo wants to get some experience with kissing to prepare himself for the big moment with Yamato, so he asks Sunao for a practice kiss. When Sunao says no, Takeo responds by covering his face with Saran wrap and forces a kiss on him. Not only could Sunao actually suffocate, but Takeo's blatant disregard for his friend's consent is just gross. This scene is played for laughs, but that doesn't make it any less unsettling.
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  (#7) Berserk Mode Makes Haruto Tokishima Assault His Friend In 'Valrave The Liberator'

  Thanks to acquiring an immortal vampire body, Haruto Tokishima sometimes loses control of his own behavior when he goes into a berserk state known as "Possessed Parastica Vampire." While in this state, he sexually assaults Saki Rukino, one of his friends. Knowing Haruto would never do something so terrible intentionally, Saki forgives him, but it drives a wedge between the two nevertheless.
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  (#15) Katsuya Jonouchi

  • Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light, Yu-Gi-Oh!

  For an anime focusing so heavily on the power of friendship, Katsuya Jonouchi, known as Joey Wheeler in the Yu-Gi-Oh! dub, fails to be a very good friend quite a lot. In fact, when he first starts talking to Yugi Muto, it's because he's tormenting him. He insults him, then takes his possessions and throws them in the school fountain.

  Jonouchi's behavior is somewhat understandable in that his home life is a mess; his father beats him, his mother has basically abandoned him, and his little sister is going blind. The behavior also stops completely when he and Yugi become friends. But because their past is never addressed, it's hard to take their friendship seriously. 
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  (#3) Lelouch Lamperouge

  • Code Geass

  Lelouch Lamperouge's ultimate goal involves taking down the Holy Britannian Empire and freeing the Japanese people from its tyranny. To do this, he must take out a lot of people. None of the slayings are exactly good, but one of the saddest is when he must end the life of Euphemia, his half-sister. Despite being part of the royal family, Euphemia supports the Japanese people and wants to create a safe zone where they may live without being oppressed by Britannia. However, Lelouch accidentally uses his Geass power to set her on a path which would end in the Japanese people being slain en masse.

  The only way to prevent that outcome is to end her, so he does exactly that. It's a particularly tragic moment because Euphemia wants to do the right thing, and Lelouch is the one who accidentally sets her on the wrong path through mind control. 
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  (#5) Itachi Uchiha

  • Naruto Shippūden, Naruto, Ninja World

  Itachi Uchiha's misdeeds are simultaneously the most reprehensible and the most understandable in all of Naruto. He slays every single member of the Uchiha clan except for his younger brother, Sasuke, then uses genjutsu to force Sasuke to re-watch every moment of the event that he'd missed. He tells the 8-year-old that he did it to test his own abilities, and for most of the series, that remains the only explanation.

  Later in the series, it is eventually revealed the city government manipulated Itachi into taking out his family. The government says Itachi must slay them all (except Sasuke) or else they will come and mow down his family themselves. For a 13-year-old boy who already suffered PTSD thanks to a conflict-torn childhood, Itachi isn't exactly in a state to refuse, or even understand his actions. He commits terrible acts, but the reasoning behind them makes it difficult to hold it against him.

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