Fine with me. There's too many sympathetic villains these days. It's a ******* plague. What happened to ************* like the Joker, or Lex Luthor? Scheming, mad, maniacal? Intelligent but just EVIL.
It's all "You'd be just like me if you had a bad day!" sob stories. Which is FINE, but not when it's every ************* villain of any note. And people just keep sucking that dick and demanding more yet it's ******* cliche now. Sympathetic villains are so popular and populous I'm surprised FJ's not ******** itself over who can call them autistic cancer the fastest.
The Joker and Lex aren't going anywhere as far as I can tell. Lex has actually had some touching moments in the comics. Sympathetic characters make a story more interesting, sure the complete sociopath might be fun to read about, but if every villain was like that, it would get rather one note fast.
Honestly anon has a point, I don't agree with his last statement but everything else is alright, and definitely not "edgy"
There's a ******** of sympathetic villains, which is great because I personally love grey area vigilante crap.... but some people enjoy "maniacal mad geniuses"..... with little motive other than to be "bad".... and that's ok too.
Personally I blame the fact that the comics have been running for so long that they need to make new bad guys to keep the series interesting, these new bad guys tend to be op so they require alliances with old ones and, well you can't have alliances with someone who is pure evil.... what kind of hero does that?
So sympathetic villains, or villains with a code tend to be needed.
Rela alboorack, schneidend, darianvincent, blackmore. In the tv show canon Nora was his real wife, He wasn't put in Arkham because he wasn't as insane as lets say, scarecrow or the joker.
I love batman villians because all of them are just victims of various mental disorders and tragedies but then batman himself is a victim of his own sort of insanity that through rigid willpower, a strict code of conduct, and a focused ambition uses his disturbia to do good **** .
Come to think off it, with all the global warming ******** going around, Victor Freeze could easily become a redeemed hero by helping combat Global Warming, AND he could get paid enough for it to support his research into making sure that no-one suffers the same disease as his wife Nora did.