For Heroic Base Breaking Characters, Scapegoats are heroes who are being subjected to upsetting situations. These heroes are often wrongfully mistreated and accused of being evil or somehow in the wrong even though they are trying to act in a benevolent manner.

For Villainous Base Breaking Characters, Scapegoats are villains who are punished much more than they would actually deserve.

Villainous Base Breaking Characters are harder to determine whatever they are truly scapegoat or not due to fans of series would have different reception whatever these characters punishment are well deserved or too much compare to their crimes.