Thread:AustinDR/@comment-25008763-20190113024234/@comment-2175012-20190116023818

I never personally read Power Pack. For child abuse in itself...how Freudian excuses work is that they are there to EXPLAIN the person's descent into villainy. However, when a FE is not enough is if the character had gone too far to reasonably explain their actions. Take Koba or Lotso. Koba was experimented on by human scientists, and yet he goes to kill any apes still loyal to Caesar as well as any hapless human he came across who was not responsible for his pain. Lotso was originally Daisy's favorite toy which gave him such an ego, he snapped and turned evil when he saw that he was replaced. That does not excuse turning Sunnyside Daycare into a totalitarian dictatorship where he would send toys to be bludgeoned and mangled by the young children in the Caterpillar Room, nor any of his other misdeeds.

It's a case by case, I would say.