Monday, July 20, 2020

Villains Who People Sympathized With


Some classic movie villains are just having a bad day, had a tragic backstory, are trying to protect the people they love, are straight up following a contract, or just get attacked by the protagonist for no reason. On the other side, sometimes a fictional character is written or portrayed so well that they inspire genuine feelings of hate.

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Text - diabettycrocker 349 points · 11 hours ago The witch from Hansel and Gretel. Single woman, works hard, builds/bakes her own house, and these little fucks come out of no where and start eating it like it was free... as an adult and homeowner now, I would be really irritated if I looked outside and saw the neighborhood kids gnawing on my siding..

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Text - cozymouse 330 points · 14 hours ago Ursula did nothing wrong in the little mermaid. She told Ariel exactly what would happen, and Ariel decided on her own will to go forward with the voice for legs trade.

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Text - -EDGAR- 19.6k points · 16 hours ago Magneto. He always thought humans would try to destroy mutants and he was right because they tried. He might have not been completely right, but man it's hard not to feel some sympathy for him after the shitty hand that life dealt him early on.

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Text - Mister_Chrome 15.4k points · 17 hours ago Captain Hook. If a little boy chopped off your hand and fed it to a crocodile you'd probably want to kill him too.

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Text - weeedtaco 14.5k points · 14 hours ago The dad from Dirty Dancing, he was just trying to keep his underage daughter from fucking the local trouble maker

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Text - HawkTeacher 14.5k points · 15 hours ago T-Rex from Jurassic Park. ChintanP04 7.0k points · 12 hours ago Also, The Indominus-Rex: You made a living kill-machine, with abilities that far exceed those of your measures to control it, and expect it to live its life in a small cage like a cat? (Heck, even cats won't stay in cages)

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Text - JackwhitesLiteBrite 12.2k points · 15 hours ago Doc Ock. I'm not saying that I'd sooner rob a bank than beg for grant money, but I get where he's coming from.

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Text - ButteringButters 529 points · 12 hours ago Now a movie but from a song. In the Black Sabbath song Iron Man, it talks about a guy who travels through time and sees a robot apocalypse. He tries to warn everyone but before he returns to his original time he gets turned to metal. He tries to tell everyone but they don't listen, so he gets mad and kills everyone out of rage. Bro was just angry. In the end he caused the robot apocalypse he saw and boom, Infinite loop.

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Text - CitizenOfRlyeh 2.5k points · 16 hours ago The Puppet Master from the original Ghost in the Shell movie. All he really asked for was asylum. There is a scene where, before going on a rampage, it demands asylum and rights to a trial to which the humans pretty much ignore. It's only after demanding its rights then being denied that it decides to go guerilla.

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Text - RoachIsCrying 11.9k points · 12 hours ago Dr Freeze. The guy just wanted to find a way to save his wife. Batman even once tried to help him with it

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Text - LaVidaYokel 11.5k points · 11 hours ago Colonel Kurtz "We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their aeroplanes because it's obscene!"

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Text - Steff_164 9.4k points · 13 hours ago General Grievous His people were massacred by the Jedi for reasons that were false. He was then physically crippled for the rest of his life (our side of his exoskeleton) and was told that the Jedi were to blame. He destroyed as many as he could and took their weapons as a trophy to exact his revenge for the Jedi ruining his life and pushing his people to the brink of extinction.

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Text - Johnston42 856 points · 15 hours ago Dwight from the office. He was just trying to do his job and Jim (a slacker) kept pranking him and making fun of him for carrying about his work. StreetReporter 501 points · 14 hours ago To be fair, Dwight did some pretty extreme things

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Text - Alarming-System 8.0k points · 14 hours ago Poison Ivy. All she wants is more plants and less destruction. With-a-Cactus 3.2k points · 13 hours ago In No Man's Land she moves into Central Park I think and just stays there. No crime boss approach, no city take over just walks into the park. Batman goes into the park, walks back out and suddenly the city starts getting fed by these fast growing plants. I don't remember if they explain that part, but of the villains in the Batman universe she

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Text - Gokai_Trickster 8.0k points · 14 hours ago Not a movie, but Robbie Rotten from LazyTown. As an adult, you get it, you want sleep, you want cake, your want quiet. You want to be lazy. There were moments where you could be like "I feel ya bro."

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Text - KingOfDacians 7.0k points · 12 hours ago Hades - would not be too happy if I was forced to rule over hell by my younger siblings.

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Text - eric_1115 5.4k points · 16 hours ago 3 Luke Skywalker. I mean, obviously he was a terrorist insurgent bent on destroying critical infrastructure, but you can't blame him for his resent about the unfortunate incident with his aunt and uncle.

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Text - ladidaboopboop 5.7k points · 13 hours ago Wicked witch of the west dullaveragejoe 6.8k points · 12 hours ago Bitch dropped a house on my sister and stole her shoes I'd be out for blood too. Continue this thread > thewriterlady 1.2k points · 9 hours ago Also, Glinda was pretty evil. She knew all along that Dorothy could have gone home five minutes after arriving in Oz. She basically manipulated Dorothy into going on that journey just so she could use her to have the Wicked Witch of the Wes

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Text - watchingstonks 5.0k points · 12 hours ago I agree with Ken from the Bee Movie. His gf got pissed at him for trying to kill a bee something that he was allergic to, meaning it was potentially life threatening. Frankly, Vanessa was terrible for dumping him because he tried to kill an insect. It's like getting mad at someone for refusing shrimp because they have a shellfish allergy. (I know he's not the main villain, but he was the secondary one.)

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Text - Ace-Of-Shovels 3.0k points · 11 hours ago The Grinch. He just wants to live alone in his gaff with a dog and the who people won't stop bothering him

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Text - TheDustLord 2.9k points · 13 hours ago Barbossa (and his crew from PotC 1) They found a bunch of gold coins sitting around, traded them as currency like anyone would, and were severely punished for no good reason.

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Text - QuipLogic 2.5k points · 16 hours ago 9 The Machines from the Matrix. The humans attacked first, going as far as blocking out the sun to end them. The machines create a new reality for the humans that is much better than the alternative of living in the sewers in the real world. The only reason Agent Smith became problematic was because Neo gave him new code.

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