Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-24469175-20160228194417/@comment-26205772-20160319092437

It's something that happened to the villain in the past that set them down the course of evil. A Freudian Excuse is meant to justify the character's villainy; for CMs with excuses, the excuse is hypocritical (like Lotso), is too weak from the stary to justify the character's villainy (a classic example is Drago Bludvist, at least as he's portayed in the second move, as apparently he'll gain more depth in the third), or the character's actions eventually push them into the realm where the excuse can no longer solidly excuse their actions/behavior (Koba could be excused for his vehement hatred against mankind due to the godawful experiments conducted against him, but all that tragedy goes out the window when he kills Ash and starts murdering other apes).