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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 3249476" data-attributes="member: 13892">Honestly, many Bond villains fit this mold. Dr. No, Hugo Drax, Max Zorin, and Elliot Carver are basically philanthropists who have gone off the deep end (mass murder for a better tomrrow, baby!). Then you have guys like Francisco Scaramunga who, despite being professional killers, have better manners and more rigid moral codes of conduct than most high society aristocrats. Or May Day, who wasn't genuinely evil, but simply very dedicated to a cause (a cause that she abandons when she realizes that Zorin is willing to sacrifice here to achieve his vision). The Bond franchise literally invented the "Anti-Villain" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Alternately, you may want to consider Tony Soprano who, depsite being a mobster, cares about things like his children being raised properly (including not swearing) and receiving good educations (the first episode I ever saw, he was driving his daughter to school and stopped off along the way to whack an informer who was in the witness relocation program). He's the archetype for the humanized bad guy -- he does what he does, not because he's evil, but because it's what he knows and what he's good at.</blockquote>