Thread:Joshuamccray 2.0/@comment-33119148-20190326004004/@comment-4708882-20190326012115

Think of a villain who's being put through more than they earned in what they did: say someone is a petty thief but all of a sudden someone decided to torture or brutally kill them. On that case the villain didn't do much but suffers far more than they really deserved. There are many other examples but take Zuko as one he's regularly humiliated, berated by some and suffered a horrific childhood including having been burned across his face by his father for simply for speaking out of term. Scapegoats are characters who you can't help but sympathize with or pity because they regularly suffer humiliating or disturbing defeats that surpass what they truly earned.