Who are your most sympathetic villains?

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I assume you mean who we belt bad or sorry for.

I felt sorry for that villain on Meets the Robinsons. The bad guy missed the fly ball due to lack of sleep and he didn't get adopted because of it. So he spends the rest of his childhood at the orphanage and then it shuts down and he is left there. He then meets the hat and he turns bad because of it but it was never his intent for the world to go wrong because the hat betrayed him. He does change at the end and becomes a good guy and he does catch that fly ball and gets adopted. He missed sleep because the kid kept him up all night with his project so he held a grudge against him all those years and even savatoged (sp) his project to get back at him and ruin his life.


I also felt sorry for that penguin guy from Batman Returns. His parents dumping him in the river because he was deformed so he was raised by penguins.


Even though Cruella De Vil is bad but I felt sorry for her in the TV series because she grew up with no parents. They were always away so she was left with nannies and she always wanted a dog but never got one so she grew up hating dogs and being obsessed with spots. They were never around on the holidays either. It was explained in one of the episodes. I also felt sorry for her in the second movie because Big Ben ruined her treatment so she was back to Cruella De Vil and the rest of her money went to the dogs because she went back to her old ways. It wasn't like it was her fault. But perhaps she should have checked herself back in demanding treatment again because the old her was back.

Karla (played by Patrick Stewart) in the TV adaptations of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People.

Anakin Skywalker
Eric Lehnsherr (Magneto)
Doc Ock

All are comic book characters (Anakin is sorta) )) That´s funny.

I have little sympathy for Anakin for not only killing children, but so quickly agreeing to do so.


I do, however, have a great deal of sympathy for him for being so poorly written. I feel for every star wars character in that regard.

Loki, from the Marvel movie universe.

It helps that he is insanely beautiful.

I agree with a lot of the ones here (though Loki in particular makes me skeptical considering he's pretty awful in my opinion...though in the movies his actor portrayed him a lot "softer" than his comic persona I guess :/)

Frankenstein's monster
Draco Malfoy
Sweeney Todd

And I think this one is questionable depending on your definition of a "villain", but Dexter Morgan also.

most sympathetic villains:

Pain/Nagato from Naruto
Tai Lung from Kung Fu Panda

Mr. Glass from the movie Unbreakable.

Dr. Marlowe in Voodoo Man. Boris Karloff was famous for playing sympathetic villains.

Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker pops to my mind

Does the T-800 from T2 count as well ? He's originally meant to kill people but he was reprogrammed to be good.

Harry Maybourne from Stargate SG-1 is another one

1. Harvey Dent / Two Face, especially in TDK. The price he paid for refusing to bend was breaking. Besides, I can completely relate to a black/white way of looking at the world ...

2. Magneto. I don't agree with what he did, but I can understand why he did it, yes.

3. Kaiser Soze

4. Cato in the Hunger Games. He was brutal and terrible but his last words really said a lot about the world that made him what he was.

5. The Operative - Serenity. How badass was he? I loved him. He really believed what he was doing was right.

Mr. Freeze (TAS): Dedicated Husband
Adrian Veidt, Khan Noonien Singh: They wanted to bring order to the world, also Khan went nuts after his wife died.
Magneto: Survived one holocaust, trying to stop another.

In general, I admire intelligent villains, also I want Khan's intellect/strength, Adrian Veidt's accent and Magneto's powers/abilities.

The Cylons
Godzilla
Walter White
Frankenstein
Dragons