It's more like Light Yagami's example above. And out of his seven personalities, "Shinobu" (the original) remains very pure and innocent. If he wasn't so pure as a good guy, he couldn't have become so tainted as a villain. Yu Yu Hakusho has Sensui, who once was extremely pure.The person to first introduce him to the reality could bend his perception of the conflict as they pleased. Further events indicate this purity likely stemmed from his ignorance of the darker goings-on of his village.Naruto: Itachi notes that Sasuke is "still pure, and can be colored by anything", and as a result the Big Bad had a fairly easy time manipulating him.In order to cheer her up Luna tells her that Usagi had her heart crystal stolen because of her pure love for Mamoru but still has plenty of bad traits like a pure love of eating. A Sailor Moon S episode has Minako depressed because the villains haven't tried to steal her pure heart crystal.Noticing others are less pure than you = cynicism + easy god complex. Also, completely pure + intelligent = noticing others are not pure.Light is partially an analogue to Milton's Lucifer (check out the names) and you know what they say about how far angels fall. Although that is a reference to pure good. The creator of Death Note says that Light became so evil because he was so pure in the first place.It might have something to do with Wonderweiss having been designed purely for one purpose: to nullify Yamamoto's Zanpakuto should he ever face Aizen.In Bleach, Kaname Tosen says that Wonderweiss Margera likes being near him because pure creatures gravitate toward each other, but that he isn't sure where along the spectrum Margera's purity lies.Broly probably fits this trope as well, given the above statement of requiring a pure heart to become a Super Saiyan.Kid Buu (Yes, the absolutely insane destroyer of all worlds) is hinted to be pure of heart during the climax of the battle with Goku, since he was able to not only catch the Spirit Bomb and move it back, but was also quite capable of deflecting it back at Goku (During the Vegeta Saga, Goku stated that the Spirit Bomb could be deflected by those pure of heart, and thus could not hurt them.).Incidentally, the Viz translated manga does indeed give this line as a heart of "pure evil".In the DBZ Video games, Cell is able to use the Spirit Bomb as his ultimate attack by being pure evil.Even for Goku, Super Saiyan was his Super-Powered Evil Side (at first, anyway), which is why he never used the spirit bomb in this form except in a Non-Serial Movie (even then, he had to actually absorb it into his body so it wouldn't backfire on him when he transformed).This is because their purity of heart is transformed into pure rage. One of the difficulties of fighting as a Super Saiyan is the sheer rage that overcomes the Saiyan.He could not accept his place in a world where a lowly soldier like Goku had obtained Super Saiyan form and a Prince like himself had not, so he defined his entire self purely on surpassing Goku. By this time in the story he wasn't really "evil" any more, so it could be more like "pure determination" or "pure stubbornness".
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