User blog comment:Psychocartoonfan/Could we please take syndrome off of the pure evil villain catagory/@comment-31599322-20180630194051/@comment-2175012-20180701000629

The term was already in use before TV Tropes used it. Look, if you want to have some clarity to the article, by all means, the point is that a villain that doesn't count in one continuity can count in another. Syndrome is insufficiently heinous in the film, but the comic book is a different question.