Oh, yes.

If the Good Guys really are more powerful than the Bad Guys, it's always wise to have the Bad Guys prudently go off and beat up some little guys instead of heroically and idiotically throwing themselves against the powers that be -- it arouses sympathy, even when their aims are merely havoc.

Though we do have Abdiel.

So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found
Among the faithless, faithful only he;
Among innumerable false unmoved,
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal;