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This is a page about list of moments when a hero/heroine does a(n) evil/bad thing.
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- Although John F. Kennedy was an overall well-intentioned politician as well as a war hero during WW2, he cheated on his wife with famous women, particularly Marilyn Monroe. He is also credited with placing missiles in Turkey, before the Cuban missile crisis and was tied to US involvement in Vietnam.
- Despite having good intentions and being a war hero during WW2, Lyndon B. Johnson is accused for being involved in a coup against JFK in order to become President and was also believed to be friendly with the Patriarca crime family. He also started the Vietnam War and allegedly described his African American voting strategy as "I'll have those n*****s voting Democrat for 200 years".
- Despite having good intentions and helped point out how poor sanitation caused deaths during the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale still denied that diseases could be transmitted by touch and is said to have denied the theory of infection for her entire life. Several new studies also reported that deaths actually increased when she was nursing during the war and was said to have had a frosty relationship with her fellow nurse Mary Seacole with possible racism.
- Giuseppe Garibaldi was a war hero and created the Republic of Italy, but he was hypocritical when it came to his religion and he was willing to let hundreds die if it meant saving Europe from terrorists.
- John Lennon hit his first wife, Cynthia Powell, in the early days of their relationship at Art College. Cynthia and John had been dating a few months when he slapped her. He would also abuse his son Julian, and Lennon slept with other women and would leave drugs "lying around the house."
- Despite his heroism during the Vietnam War, John McCain was involved in various shady schemes as a politician.
- Even though it was for the greater good, William Tecumseh Sherman went way too far with his retribution against the Confederates during the American Civil War when he burned down a good portion of the city of Atlanta, Georgia.
- Sherman also returned escaped slaves to their masters early in the war, only stopping when he realized most Southern people hated the Union army.
- Even though it was for the greater good, Boudica went way to far with her retribution against the Romans, where she burned down a good portion of Roman cities and killed Roman civilians who did no wrong.
- Although his administration had many achievements, including improving the rights of women and girls and rolling out the Polio vaccine to millions of people, as well as his education and environmental programs, Thomas Sankara was also a dictator who executed or imprisoned many of his political opponents and started a war with Mali that caused many deaths.
- Queen Elizabeth I continued the executions of Catholics, although she did arrange her religious policy so that as few executions as possible would take place.
- During the sinking of the RMS Titanic, Charles Lightoller refused to allow men into many of the lifeboats due to misinterpreting the policy of women and children being the first to evacuate in a disaster. Lightoller may also have been responsible for lowering the lifeboats into the water before they were full, resulting in many passengers being left behind on the sinking ship.
- Despite being a vocal opponent of racial prejudice, Billy Graham held several anti-Semitic views, including a recorded conversation with Richard Nixon in which he agreed with the bigoted conspiracy theory that Jews control the media.
- Also, Graham was a noted sexist who believed that a woman's role was in the home. One of Graham's daughters recalled an incident in which he refused to allow her to attend medical school because he thought women should remain as "wife, mother and homemaker".
- Benjamin Disraeli exacerbated an economic depression in the 1870s by refusing to adopt policies that were unpopular with the public.
- Winston Churchill exacerbated the Bengal famine of 1943 by sending food to troops in the Balkans rather than India. In addition, he held extremely racist views towards Indians, viewing them as less worthy than Greeks and referring to them as "a beastly people with a beastly religion", even calling them "the beastliest people on earth next to the Germans" and wishing they would be bombed into oblivion. Under massive pressure, he was forced to take action to save face by sending extremely insufficient amounts of food to the Indians to give them as little food as possible and condemned Viceroy Field Marshal Wavell as being "more Indian than the Indians" for threatening resignation if he didn't take action to mitigate the famine.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first US President to send American troops to Vietnam, leading up to the Vietnam War.
- William Penn owned slaves, although he supported for slaves to be well-treated and planned to free his own, some of which he did.
- Not counting John Adams, many Founding Fathers of America, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, owned slaves and/or advocated for American imperialism/monarchy.
- John Adams was blamed for leading America close to disaster, as a result of the XYZ Affair, and infamously signed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which criminalized criticism of the government and its officials, made it hard for immigrants to become American citizens from 7 to 14 years, and expel any immigrants deemed dangerous to the country.
- Thomas Jefferson was believed to have an alleged affair with Sally Hemings and signed the Embargo Act of 1807 that banned trade from Europe, devastating the economy.
- Alexander Hamilton had alleged affair with Maria Reynolds which generated the first political sex scandal in American History.
- He also supported a elective monarchy, despite public backlash against his idea.
- Felim O'Neill oversaw the massacres against British Protestant settlers during the Irish rebellion of 1641.
- Many Native American war leaders, including Tecumseh, Geronimo, and Crazy Horse, would target and massacre civilians who did nothing wrong in the West.
- In addition to making things worse for Native Americans during his first term (and declaring martial law), Abraham Lincoln appointed Andrew Johnson as his running mate for the 1864 election and dismissed his bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon to Richmond during his second term in April 1865. Because of his paranoia, this proved to be a fateful mistake, as it tragically led to his own assassination by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865 and destroyed a better hope for Reconstruction.
- Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years.
- Grover Cleveland intervened in the Pullman Strike of 1894 to keep the railroads moving angered labor unions nationwide. His legislation with the Dawson Act, despite good intentions, weakened various tribal governments and allowed individual Indians to sell land and keep the money.
- In addition, Cleveland allegedly raped and impregnated Maria Halpin, whom he then sent to an insane asylum against her will to cover it up.
- Calvin Coolidge failed to allow legislation to deal with the farm depression for farmers and signed the Immigration Act of 1924 that prevented Asians from immigrating to America.
- Several studies also reported that some of his economic policies were blamed for leading to the beginning of the Great Depression.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent Japanese citizens to internment camps during World War 2, refused Jewish refugee during the Holocaust, and was responsible for the court packing system.
- Several new studies also reported that many of his New Deal policies did not help people of color and also prolonged the Great Depression.
- Harry S. Truman ordered the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing at least a hundred thousand people.
- Truman also allegedly said crude and even downright racist remarks to people such as Richard Nixon.
- J. Edgar Hoover illegally persecuted "subversive organizations" such as the civil rights movement and the feminist movement under the COINTELPRO program.
- Hoover was also infamously racist, with civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being one of his many targets. Hoover believed King to be a communist agitator and used surveillance to gather evidence of King's extramarital affairs. FBI agents working for Hoover then tried to blackmail King into killing himself, which fortunately didn't work.
- George Wallace was a segregationist for most of his life. During his tenure as governor, he infamously tried to physically prevent black students from enter their new schools until the National Guard forced him to leave.
- Wallace was indirectly responsible for the death of his wife Lurleen after she was diagnosed with cancer. He attempted to use her as a surrogate governor due to restrictions on how many consecutive terms he could serve, and hid her diagnosis from her until she completed her campaign. After she ultimately died of cancer, Wallace ignored her last wishes. Lurleen had specifically asked for a closed-casket funeral, but George didn’t like the optics of this, so he reversed her decision. Lurleen was displayed at her wake in an ornate, glass-top casket, which was basically the exact opposite of what she wanted.
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk repressed various religious groups during his rule and denied the Armenian genocide. He also was an authoritarian.
- Gamal Abdel Nasser was an authoritarian dictator who suppressed dissent.
- Lee Kuan Yew restricted civil liberties such as freedom of press and used the legal system to go after political opponents.
- Napoleon Bonaparte attempted to take over Europe by force and introduced laws that gave men more rights than women.
- Arthur Wellesley fought against electoral reform and emancipation of Jews.
- Kairo Seijuro fought against some men in a train with a sword while the few didn't even have weapons, he also talked about his eager will to unleash his lethality and talked in an arrogant demeanor. And his fate was ultimately his egomania for when he and a close one of his went kayaking and there was a storm which caused the swords and boat to be sucked by the storm and he went to it instead of swimming/running away inadvertently causing his own abrupt fate.
- Mohandas Gandhi refused his son to be remarried after becoming widowed, was racist towards blacks living in India, and mostly supported the Caste System.
- Pope John Paul II appointed Bernard Law, a priest who covered up pedophilia cases, to Archpriest.
- Ronald Reagan sent CIA to arm Mujaheddin fighters during the Cold War to fight off the Soviets in Afghanistan, in which the Mujaheddin would go on to create Al-Qaeda and ISIS, while supporting Saddam Hussein. Reagan also ignored the AIDS Crisis and his administration was involved in the Iran Contra Affair.
- Although they helped defend the Capitol building from pro-Trump rioters, Markwayne Mullin and Troy Nehls also supported Donald Trump's failed attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.
- Sean Penn openly supports Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
- While William Henry Sleeman was progressive for his time and had some sympathy for the people of colonial India, he still ultimately believed that the white British were fundamentally superior and needed to occupy India for the Indians own good.
- John Howard refused to apologize for the Stolen Generations, stating that doing so would imply intergenerational guilt in support of a "black armband" view of history and denied that the removal policy was genocidal in nature.
- Frank Rizzo While he had good intentions for the city of Philadelphia, he was accused of partaking in various acts of police brutality during his tenure as police commissioner.
- Otto von Bismarck harbored extreme racism towards the Polish population and advocated for the extermination, expulsion and assimilation of Poles from eastern Germany. While he did oppose German colonialism, his arrangement of the Berlin conference in 1884 to mitigate territorial disputes with other European powers led to the Scramble for Africa, which fermented a destructive legacy on the African continent.
- Emperor Meiji imposed policies of forced assimilation against the indigenous Ainu and Ryukyuan peoples and established a colonial regime, in which he oversaw the annexations of Taiwan and Korea during his reign.