Villains you feel sorry for

[blackcherry]

Most of the batman villains that get their own time time in the limelight you can sympathise with. The riddler is a prime example. His deductive skills and ability to plan are actually brilliant, but are always undermined by the compulsion to leave riddles and to have them discovered.

Lex Luthor. Of all supermans' villains, he is the only one you can identify with. He just wants humanity to be able to stand on its own two feet rather than relying on superheroes to save and guide them.

He just goes around it in the wrong way in that he thinks it would be better to remove superheroes completely. Pick up Lex Luthor: Man of Steel. Bloody good read.

Game wise, I rarely come across people that can be sympathised with. Perhaps the WW gannondorf, as by that point in the timeline (toward the end I would guess as hyrules part of legend) he seems to be rather weary of it all. He explains that all along he just wanted his people to be able to live in a place where they weren't born into death. But then that game seems to deal a lot more in greys (for a zelda game) than black and white.

 

[Sykotic]

GLaDOS. Hey, I reckon I'd put some random person through a heap of gruelling tests and then try to incinerate them if I were a lonely robot ^^

 

[Kevvers]

I'd have to second Roy from Blade Runner. The guy is actually more likeable than Deckard for me.

When you think about it Deckard really isn't a nice guy. He kills people for a living - replicants perhaps but also people. His love scene is when he gets drunk and basically forces himself on a woman who he had previously revealed to be a replicant -- that's physical on top of emotional abuse. I love Blade Runner, but I really hate that scene.

 

[psico666]

Darth Vader. Yeah he made some bad choices but in the end he comes through.

 

[psijac]

Zul'Jin


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1N0etIVPuk

 

[Bagaloo]

I spent all of Death Note cheering for Kira, and the majority of Heroes supporting Sylar.
Kira had good intentions, he just got corrupted by the power he had.

Spoiler: Sylar...

Sylar was turned into a monster both by his original power, and by the company forcing him to use it in a murderous way.

 

[psijac]

I spent all of Death Note cheering for Kira, and the majority of Heroes supporting Sylar.
Kira had good intentions, he just got corrupted by the power he had.

Spoiler: Sylar...

Sylar was turned into a monster both by his original power, and by the company forcing him to use it in a murderous way.

Heros has jumped the sharks. how could the blonde chick help him kill his second victim then Report to H.R.M. who jumps into a taxi with Mohinder Suresh who shouldn't even be there since Sylar hasn't killed his father yet?

 

[Whiskyjakk]

I felt sorry for General Hummel in the Rock (unsurprisingly since the film has him doing everything short of cooing over babies and patting kittens to show that he was not really a villain).

Also the Family in the Omega man. They're trying to cope with their undeserved mutation and a man who from their point of view is making all the mistakes that got them in a mess to begin with is wiping them out with submachine guns and high powered sniper rifles. I felt even more sorry for Ben Cortman in the original novel.

 

[CallmeMerry]

Kawahara from an anime called Saikano. He is the head scientist of a program that turned a student (Chise) into the "Ultimate Weapon." His family was killed in a bombing run in Sapporo(sp?). He gives some pills to Chise to help her surpress her weapon side of her for as long as possible and does some overdue maintenance on her. After that he shoots himself thinking he did all he could to help her because he felt sorry for her turning her into a weapon to defend Japan. If he doesn't count, then Chise herself because she's a shy, clumsy schoolgirl who was made into a ruthless killing machine by the government. She falls in love with Shuji and uses her weapon side because she's trying to protect him. In the end, she kills everyone escept Shuji, in which case he goes insane and presumably dies. (For those of you that watch South Park, in the Imaginationland episodes, at the end, when Butters is all alone and the ground is covered with the white stuff...that's the ending of Saikano.)

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Anyone that fought superman, I mean he's fucking indestructible, with only a rare material that can kill him, and he could just heat vision you from far away enough that it doesn't affect him. They've never got a chance in hell but they just keep trying, which you've gotta feel pity about at a point.

 

[SmartIdiot]

Kadaj from FF VII Advent Children because at the end after Cloud makes Sephiroth all kinds of messed up and he turns back to Kadaj the way they made Kadaj look like a confused child plus the music i just felt bad for him

I agree, but I think it's fair to include Sephiroth and the other 2 children aswell. Hell imagine being a badass Soldier, looked up to by everyone only to realise there's nothing special within you really... you were just one of the survivors of horrendous Mako Infusion experiments. As for the 3 remnants, well they said it themselves "Every child misses their mother" if a little misguided...

 

[Zersy]

Jinno's story is a sad one, a life destroyed by another's quest for vengeance that would spawn a similar hatred and malice in another as a result. His story is an object lesson in the vicious cycle of revenge. One person's actions to punish an enemy will inevitably cause another to hunt them in turn. It's a self-perpetuating cycle of death and self-destruction in which there is no escape.

now thats deep as in so Deep that it proves so much about people nowadays

the Villian i feel sorry for is
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is that guy form Naruto who was a master of water Jutsu (i'm really sorry people but i can't seem to remember his name)

in order to pass the ninja exam he had to kill all his class mates everyone who he trained with , the one's he he shared the same passion with, the one's who would support him all the way so they can fufil their dreams

he had to kill them all only to become the greatest

(i can remember very little so i'll just stop now before i say something thats not true)

and also Sauskay he watched his entire family be Slaughtered by his own brother who he looked up to

and now for the ones that i can remember very well

the Beauty and the Beast unit from MGS4 after you defeat each one you here Drebin tell their story which are all sad because War tore them apart but i think that Crying wolf had it the worse (Soffcated her own BABY brother without knowing,,,,,her intentions were to simply stop him from crying so the gaurds won't find them and kill them)

 

[PureChaos]

Haku from Naruto. OK, maybe he's not technically a villain but his back stoty and what happen to him is really sad. The way he ended up with Zabuza and why he does the things he does go a lot deeper than most villains.

 

[RavenTheBlade]

The Demon Zombie Ghost Pirate LeChuck. C'mon, he (and Guybrush) got robbed on the five game contract. How could you not?

 

[CRAVE CASE 55]

John Henery Eden

"President" of the U.S. in Fallout 3

 

[Jursa]

Let's see: W.I.T.C.H, Bratz, Winx club, Barbie and any other show where the writer's brains have been sucked out with a straw... Every time I was stuck watching those shows and a villain came along, deep in my heart I hoped that he would end the nightmare of retardation, I mean the villains are even more intelligent and the world they'd make can't be worse than the one they're in..

 

[minarri]

I always feel bad for the villains in movies where they get ditched by the woman for no good reason other than that they aren't some girly-boy protagonist (e.g. Pirates of the Caribbean).

 

[Washboard]

Ryan from Bioshock. poor guy, poor insane guy

 

[Beefcakes]

...How could it get worse than that.
Anyway, I don't really feel bad for many villains, if only because their motives are often poorly explained.
Villain protagonists, however, are different.
Dexter is a guy I can agree with pretty much all of the time.

This may not be a good thing to say, but while reading the books and watching the series, I rarely disagreed with what Dexter did. He did what he had to to prevent becoming an ordinary soulless serial killer, instead becoming an evil guy killing serial killer. He doesn't kill innocents, and a few bad guys...disappear. What's not to like?

Edit: added some sentences

It's not a bad thing. He's necessarily evil. He can't be helped, and he's providing a service to the city.
Win-win.

The dastardly guy that is always tying dudley do-right's girlfriend to the railroad tracks.

Hes only malicious because of the moustache.

Snidely Whiplash: Villain extraordinary.

He also had a black top-hat and a cape, if those don't make him evil I don't know what does!

THE MOUSTACHE, DAMN YOU, THE MOUSTACHE

Blame the black cape, yeah thats okay...
Blame the black top hat, I'm a-okay with that...
Blame gaming on corrupting his upbringing, it's a load of bullocks but what ever
But never
EVER
Blame that glorious mustache, that simply superb and beautiful mustache
Its so... Stunning!
It lures you in with its glorious... glory!
Oh, its so beautiful...

 

[DND Judgement]

Magneto. Come on, he only wants to rule the world! But, I honestly root for the villain most of the time. They are more complex characters then your grizzled hero-type.

seconded... they submitted him to a fate worse than death for him...

oh yeah and davy jones from pirates of the carribean...

John Henery Eden

"President" of the U.S. in Fallout 3

hell yes.. in part cos he's voiced by malcolm macdowell who is a legend...