movies/tv Top Ten Most Pitiable Villians

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Dr. Horrible (from Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog) is one of the few villains I actually feel bad for. He's not really evil, but circumstance and his environment force him to do bad things. Also, he accidentally kills the girl he loves which sucks.

 

I think Captain Hammer was more of a villian in that movie. But I agree I felt very bad for Dr. Horrible because he was a good person and his actions indirectly lead to Penny's death.

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Even though the joker was a pretty pitiful villain, he was very fun to watch. In the Dark Knight Rises, Bane seems like the complete opposite of pitiful.

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Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight

His story in TDK is just so tragic. It's my favorite version of his origin in any form, because you really feel a lot of sympathy for him, partially because his loss is almost like a collective loss since it completely changes Batman's life and the way people live in that entire city. You saw a man who really was pure of heart and had a belief that he could save the world and bring society to new highs... and then he was pushed over the edge and everybody had to suffer for it.

 

Clu 2.0 - Tron: Legacy

I think a lot of people didn't "get" his character, but I always thought his character was really tragic.

He's basically someone with extremely high expectations. He is supposed to be an "exact, perfect" clone of his creator, Kevin Flynn. Flynn was the creator and basically God of his world, and Clu was created to help him perfect this world that was created. Flynn created Clu to create "perfection" and so it was built into his programming.

Because he wasn't human, like Flynn, he was permanently in this state of mind. Of finding perfection. But while Flynn realized that you couldn't really "create perfection" Clu was unable to learn this and stop obsessing over "perfection."

He really just wanted to make his "father" happy. So when a bunch of "imperfections"(people not created/designed by Flynn) wandered into the world, he committed genocide against them, because he was trying to keep the world clean and organized. He became a villain and he was basically disowned by his own creator for doing what he was told/"programmed".

 

Lotso-Huggin' Bear - Toy Story 3

Pretty simple setup, but you've gotta feel sorry for him. He started off as that cute cuddly pink teddy bear... But he lost all faith in children because he got replaced by his original owner. The only reason was because she really thought she lost him... but he never forgave her, and he stopped trusting others.

 

Roy Batty - Blade Runner

He's an android with a built in "expiration date." He's lived most of his life as a slave for other humans, and as he feels the clock ticking, he goes on a rampage trying to find a way to give himself and his friends "more life" He just loved living, even through all the hardships, there were enough good moments that he knew he wanted more.

 

????? - Watchmen

The identity of the villain is sort of a enormous spoiler, but he/she is definitely someone you can sort of feel sorry for. You sort of feel sorry for every single character in that story, they all have super depressing lives from the main characters, to smaller villains, to random people on the street. If the villain isn't pitiable... well there's like another 36 anti-heros you can pity.

 

Dracula - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

I don't know why... I hate Dracula throughout the whole movie... I see him as just the most terrible and evil type of man... but at the very end... I kind of tear up and feel pity for the guy.

Maybe it's because he's played by Gary Oldman, one of the best actors alive.

 

Bill (and his brother) - Kill Bill Vol. 2

These guys are way too cool for you to not feel at least a little pity for them. You're on The Bride's side the whole time, and you know she should have her revenge because they both did something terrible to her... but you sort of don't want them to die because you know they're both normally pretty nice guys.

 

Kong - King Kong (2005)

Well if Kong is the villain then I felt pretty bad for the guy. If it's people, then I really don't care for them because they really slowed down the movie lol.

 

Even though the joker was a pretty pitiful villain, he was very fun to watch. In the Dark Knight Rises, Bane seems like the complete opposite of pitiful.

 

How can he not be pitiful when he came out of a pit! ok lame joke.

I sort of felt sorry for him, I was reading about some deleted scenes and it seems like the guy went through a lot.

Edited August 26, 2012 by Dr Manehattan

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I don't know about you, but I feel pity on Gargamel from the Smurfs. He just seems like a sad old man that devoted his life to capturing small blue people...

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Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando's character in Apocalypse Now)

Seymour Parrish (Robin Williams' character in One Hour Photo)

Alex (Malcolm McDowell's character in A Clockwork Orange)

The older brother in Slumdog Millionaire

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Mine are Discord, Scar, Team Rocket, and Plankton. In particular plankton because he is good some times and bad sometimes so I like him.

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Mia from Evil Dead 2013

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Killmonger from Black Panther, his father was killed by his uncle and despised Wakanda for its isolation instead of using its resources to help countries in need. He even got the T'Challa to question his father and ultimately open up Wakanda to the world