User blog comment:JoxFox2109/PE Removal: Lots-O' Huggin' Bear/@comment-39032584-20190710183805

Let me see if I can help; generally, a villain with a tragic backstory is considered a complete monster/pure evil when they clearly go beyond what their backstory excuses. In my opinion, Lotso intially getting angry about being replaced and the way he forced Big Baby and Chuckles to stay with him was actually pretty understandable; instead of possibly going back to look for him, her parents simply replaced him with a different Lotso, and he even eventually walked what is implied to be a considerable distance home just to find that out. So getting upset over that and taking out on your fellow toys by forcing them into exile of sorts with you? That makes sense. However, everything he did starting when he got to Sunnyside Daycare wasn't justifiable at all. He basically decided if he couldn't be happy, no other toy could be either, and proceeded to subject them to very harmful misuse at the hands of toddlers who didn't know how to handle them properly, to the point that they would eventually break and be sent to the garbage, then presumably, the incinerator. And if they rightfully protested that treatment, they would be punished and treated like prisoners for it.

In short, he keeps because being the victim of being misplaced and even turning into a nihilist who genuinely convinced himself that all love between owners and toys was an illusion over it doesn't justify subjecting so many others of his kind to that kind of treatment until they break, get put in the garbage, and sent off to burn. And of course, that's without going into his actions within the film itself, like essentially brainwashing Buzz Lightyear into beating down and imprisoning his friends, having Chatter Telephone beaten to a pulp, the fact that he continued to lie to and manipulate Big Baby even long after the initial incident, and of course, leaving all of Andy's toys to burn in the incinerator, even though Woody and Buzz had only just saved his life no more than a minute beforehand. Does that help?