Thread:LostGod2000/@comment-24945605-20140710022524/@comment-24945605-20140711194503

Also, it's possible that the writers intended Syndrome's backstory to be sympathetic...though they did establish later that he wasn't going to be redeemed.

In the case of Lotso, the writers actually went and made changes to the script to explain that while Lotso did have a tragic backstory, it did not excuse what he had done, and he deserved to be strapped to the front of a garbage truck as a fly collector in the end.