Thread:GethN7/@comment-36740624-20190215033729/@comment-7981828-20190217010223

Those pages are based on trope terms, taken at the time from TV Tropes, since it was the only troping wiki around then.

The theme is that good (or heroic for the purposes of this wiki) characters may not be nice people or softhanded when dealing with those who are villains, but they are, at the end of the day, good/heroic anyway.

For example, Batman:

He's not a nice guy in many depictions, often being a bit cold, aloof, and kinda scary, but his motivations and goals remain heroic and firmly on the side of justice at the end of the day.

He's also not shy in giving villains one hell of a beating if he has to, but despite this, he refuses to kill and ultimately delivers those he stops from committing crime over the proper authority to properly punish.

He's not soft in how he stops crime, but his methods in doing so end in a good and heroic fashion more or less.