Thread:Loudfan21000/@comment-24200891-20190319214159/@comment-24200891-20190418200015

To me everything needs to happen for some reason to make sense. I don't watch anime anymore, but I heard that in anime One Piece was a villain, who had virtually no reason to be a villain and he's unpopular for this. It's Hody Jones, a fishman pirate hunting for humans despite they did nothing to him, he was simply raised by racists to be a racist.

The Joker in 90s terrorized people just for own amusement, in 2004 the Batman he had much the same motivation. In Tim Burton's film he had many reasons always changing - revenge on his boss, to become top crime boss, to reform Gotham in his twisted way. In Nolan's film he had no vision and no backstory, he wanted to prove that humans are inherently evil just because.

You're right about the terrible trio. Filler villains can be skipped. However there was villain Lock Up, who wasn't a seeker of vengence or a misfortune victim. He thought that police and Batman are too soft for criminals, so he wanted to deal with them. To me it was an original motivation back then.

I wish you Happy Easter.