User blog comment:AustinDR/The Worst PE Villains/@comment-2175012-20171023023858/@comment-24758512-20171023193635

Sometimes, a tragic villain can be really annoying when his past becomes an excuse for his crimes, but it actually depends on the tragic past.

I find characters like Obito Uchiha from Naruto to be pretty bad written because of the severity of the problem. For examples: I lost my girfriend, now I'm going to create a new world because it SUCKS. There are a plenty of villains like this in fiction that have a background that does not corresponds to his acts. What I mean, the character becomes a villain so reasons so insignificant that is almost impossible to sho sympathy for them.


 * Obito Uchiha is the only falling to this category. Darth Vader is not here because he was obviously under the influence of Sidious.

About Card Carrying Villain; personaly, I like this kind of villain but it depends of how they are played in the story. Villains like Isaac Westcott are one of my favorites but when they turn the character in machine-of-evil turns the character into a flat, simple, and boring character without personality. Most of Dragon Ball villians falls to this category, Frieza included who gives us a rain of unnecessary blood.

* Most of DB villains, especially Frieza, who is a overrated villain after he displayed as a character of pure evil; destroying planets while laughing, torturing enemies for no logical reason when he could simply get rid of them, making unnecessary victims. He is almost mindless creature of pure evil when is obviously a being able to think by himself, yet he was a enjoyable antagonist.

* Isaac Westcott (Date A Live) -  the reason I like him is because of his status as a Big Bad and Knight of Cerberus. He still has some human moments at times when he is played for laughs, and shows that he is not completely made of evil (actually, the only moment he acts like this in during the Tenguu Festival, I've been reading the story for a long time so I can say every of his actions had a meaning behind of it). Removing his I-like-being-evil personality, he is a nice antagonist and one of the best examples of Game Changer... I just hope they decide to give us something new in season 3 coming in 2018 or a reason of his insanity, because he will just become like the guy below.

* Prime Minister Honest (Akame Ga Kill) - wants to destroy the empire through poverty and corruption for no reason,  exaggerated signs of insanity, cannibal (because it turns him evil) and said he will eat Leone's womb in the final battle... Come on... Honest was just a character introduced as the Big Bad to give the story a central figure of all evil in the plot. It's clear the author wasn't interest in giving him something important (or even develop him) to turn him likable by the public like how he did to Esdeath.


 * Yuuki Terumi (Blazblue) - another villain introduced to the story with a insane personality and acts like a savage and wild beast for the rest of the series. I still don't know why people like this guy when he is not different from many other villains with an exaggerated-psychotic mind. Actually, I don't care much if the villain is savage and wild psychopath, as long he becomes fun to watch in the screen like Jerome Valeska... But Terumi... No.