In The Good Place, Michael's plan to torture the humans in a fake Good Place kept going wrong, but he might have been sabotaging it on purpose. Ambitious and evil, the Bad Place architect was eager to prove that he had found a new way to create miserable eternities for people who failed to gather enough "good" points while on Earth. He did this by making a fake Good Place with the expectation that the evil humans would torture each other. Of course, this plan always went wrong in the same way, which potentially indicates that Michael was not as dedicated to torture as he seemed.

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