Thread:AustinDR/@comment-1762629-20140610230941/@comment-27818776-20140823153931

What I mean is that it is very hard to have a CM who also has a sympathetic backstory. Again, if a villain were to have a freudian excuse that was very poorly done, then they can count as a CM. Drago Bludvist, for example, tried to use his backstory of trying to excuse his actions, but it is clearly shown that he wasn't even fazed by the fact that his village was burned down by dragons. He even outright admitted that he had always been a power-hungry individual when Hiccup called him out on how weak his freudian excuse was. You see, in order for a villain to be a CM, the audience must react in disgust at the villain's actions. If they had only saw the villain as being only a sympathetic character, then he or she may not be a CM, because the audience would react more in sympathy for the villain rather than outright hating him or her. This is what I was trying to say about 0^2, even though I never actually played the game myself. I'm not really into games.