Inconsistently Heinous villains who care for the well-being of others for altruistic reasons.

• While Protective villains are never Completely Evil, as they show concern for someone they care about, there may still be instances where they can become Completely Evil in one of three ways:

1. The Protective villain spends half or most of the story caring about someone, but they later reject that caring for their own selfish ends, or their caring gradually becomes corrupted or perverted to the point of being tyrannical and obsessive.
2. The Protective villain has shown great care and protection for someone in the past, but over time has lost that affection, and even if it still somehow holds on in the future, it completely evaporates at the climax.
3. The Protective villain cared about someone, but not sincerely, but in the succubus of pragmatic or selfish desires, so that they would have a useful resource with them, but they hide such neglect so that the "native" person would not betray or leave them. This can be called a kind of category "Faux Protective". Also, villains who are Remorse Fakers and Faux Affably Evil can fall into this category.

• Overall, even if this prevention is at all significant, in all these cases it is considered a very minor prevention, which even so will not prevent them from becoming Completely Evil.