More Words, Deeper Hole

Someone who is by nature a supervillain, a criminal psychopath, but genre-aware enough to know how that will play out if he indulges himself. Instead he is going to be a good guy, and stick to doing all the heroic things he knows a hero should. Often he doesn't really understand why heroes do the things that they do but he's done studies so at least he has a list.

He's having a lot of trouble talking his parents into walking down Fatal Mugging Alley....

(He's bright enough to know if he just kills them himself, that a black hat move and he will pay for it)