Editing Edgy (section)

==="Right Target, Wrong Method" Characters===

One important partial exception: Sometimes authors include a character that can be considered "Edgy" in theory, but in practice, it's clear the author isn't rooting for them because they take things '''way''' too far. We're talking "Utopia Justifies the Means, No Matter How Horrific" and [[Konrad Curze|"Death Penalty for Jaywalking"]]-type characters.

While they can degrade into Edgelords quite easily, as long as it's clear that either the author's sympathies are not with them, and/or the story spends a lot of time on the collateral damage they inflict, they can be considered not wish-fulfillment enough to count as Edgelords. Note that such characters tend to degrade into Edgelordery over time (particularly if allowed to be a protagonist or when placed in the hands of a different author), for subtly obvious reasons.