Category:Tragic

"The world took everything away from me! Everything I have ever loved!! But I'm going to make sure we're even. I'm going to track down anyone who would even think about being loyal to you... and I'm going to put their ass in the dirt right next to Zuri!!"

- Erik Killmonger on how his father's death drove him over the edge.

"It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up."

- Heinz Doofenshmirtz telling a sad story about his childhood.

Villains who although acting for evil goals have understandable reasons for their motives; hence audiences can sympathize with them. Most are not in full control of themselves due to being evil not by choice but instead being Victims of forces beyond their control. This also applies to Organizations and/or Hostile Species whose members are driven due to tragedies.

Villains who are Tragic or Sympathetic often suffer or PTSD and can become Delusional, Insecure and/or Egotists because their experiences develop their beliefs into obsessions twisting them towards insanity; many of them can also be Fallen Heroes and/or Vengeful.

There are three ways to declare Tragic Villains:
 * Villains with backstories giving them negative emotions and shaping them into destructive and hateful beings. However, their Broken Hearts cause their actions since they were forced into darkness and their pasts make them become distrustful and misled. This can happen if they were loners, bullied, severely scarred and/or Addicts, lost loved ones and so on (e.g. Atrocitus, Spinel, Tyrion Lannister, Count Bleck).
 * Protective Villains committing crimes to save those they care about. They are only looking out for whoever they love or care for the most but use extreme measures to do so and are confronted by Heroes or even the ones they are protecting making it more difficult to save them (e.g. most versions of Mr. Freeze, Johnny Klebitz, Cersei Lannister, Walter White).
 * The Possessed and/or Brainwashed controlled or corrupted by an evil presence. Therefore they are not willingly evil but manipulated by the Higher Powers controlling them (e.g. Cujo, Gollum, Arthas Menethil, Ice King).

''' /!\ However, Pure Evils CAN NEVER fall under Tragic. Either their tragedies would be extremely and outrageously logic-defying or they'd simply use them for justifying themselves and nothing more. Through their actions and lack of empathy the Pure Evil manages to destroy their own innocence and as a result are no longer sympathetic. Their excuses may be just what they deserved and some fake at least one tragedy''' (e.g. Jagi).

Even if they were given reasons for what they were doing involving traumatic experiences they are FAR PAST any tragedies due to their actions (e.g. Scar, Johan Liebert, Lord Voldemort, Arcturus Mengsk, Sauron, Grand Moff Tarkin, Koba, Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, Isaac Ray Peram Westcott, Dio Brando, Freddy Krueger, Captain Phasma, Luca Blight, Emperor Ganishka, Infinite, Zoom, Milady de Winter, Light Yagami, Adam Taurus, Herrscher of the Void, Michael Myers, Drago Bludvist, Gul'dan, Ultraman Belial, Sheev Palpatine, Evolt, Syndrome, Frank Underwood, Viktor Adler, Carnage, most versions of Joker).

Also, DO NOT add characters like these even if they are not Pure Evil:
 * Villains who committed unforgivable crimes and crossed the Moral Event Horizon - sometimes more than once - only due to MERE EXCUSES which are FAR TOO PETTY to be counted as tragedies (e.g. Nigel).
 * Villains whose crimes were too horrible that even their excuses or traumatic experiences can't justify them no matter how unfortunate they seemed (e.g. Madara Uchiha).
 * Villains who faked tragedies or rather brought it on themselves but blamed others (e.g. King Stefan).
 * Villains who merely have ironic defeats like being betrayed by people they trusted but had tragic backstories to begin with (e.g. Naria).

' This is for characters whose tragedies are not only TRUE and LEGITIMATE but STILL'' hold up after crossing the Moral Event Horizon. '''

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