History AlasPoorVillain / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Despite [[Characters/AmphibiaKingAndrias King Andrias]] being an evil, power-crazed tyrant, his defeat at Anne's hands is downright brutal, dark, and sad. She strikes him at the ''exact'' moment [[HeelFaceTurn he decides to repent]] and [[ILetYouWin open himself up to defeat]]. Whilst Andrias does survive Anne's finishing blow and later cement his repentance, WordOfGod confirms that the damage [[YourDaysAreNumbered has numbered his days]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}'': That poor ''Argentinosaurus'' in "[[Recap/Primal2019E7PlagueOfMadness Plague of Madness]]" never wanted to be bitten by an infected ''Parasaurolophus'' and subsequently transformed into a flesh-hungry undead monster. Its demise by falling into lava is horrific, and at the same time, downright ''[[MercyKill merciful]]''. Even Spear and Fang, who the infected ''Argentinosaurus'' had spent the entire episode trying to kill, both watch the sauropod burn to ashes mournfully.

** It's ''very'' hard not to feel sorry for the VillainProtagonist of the "The Tale of X9" episode , a robotic assassin, who was one of several murderous robots created by Aku, but was the only one given [[PersonalityChip emotions and feelings]]. After years in the service of Aku all the other robots of his series have been destroyed, but he has survived because of his emotions. However, when he meets [[MoralityPet a tiny dog]] named Lulu ([[RunningGag sweet thing]]), he finally hangs up his assassin hat for good. Unfortunately, when Jack arrives, Aku becomes desperate and decides that he has to pull his greatest assassin out of retirement by [[IHaveYourWife holding Lulu hostage.]] Jack knows nothing of this, and when X9 launches his attack, [[CurbStompBattle Jack cuts him down just as effortlessly as he would any other mook]]. His final words are asking Jack to finish caring for his now abandoned charge.
** Princess Mira from "The Princess and the Bounty Hunters" is another enemy of Jack's that is after him for a noble cause; she hopes to use him as a bargaining chip to free her nation from Aku's tyranny. When she and her allies ambush Jack, he effortlessly dispatches all of them with only Mira standing. Realizing that she is so badly outclassed by the samurai, Mira can only slump over and cry, seemingly accepting that she will never save her people, while Jack wanders off into the forest without a word.
** In Season 5, Jack is pursued by female assassins known as the Daughters of Aku, whom were brutally trained from birth by their [[EvilMatriarch abusive mother]] with the purpose of killing the samurai. While Jack himself is initially unaware of this, its made abundantly clear to the viewer that they were just [[TragicVillain abused young women than anything else]]. When he is forced to kill one in self-defense, its treated as a very somber moment for marking the first time he killed a real human being and not a robot. And after killing five more in combat, Jack is so wracked with guilt he begins to hallucinate with dozens of crows calling him "MURDERER".
* PlayedForLaughs in the ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' episode [[Recap/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerS2E04RollWithIt "Roll With It"]] when a [[CuteMachines tiny spybot]] is accidentally destroyed.
* It’s almost impossible not to feel bad for Gargamel and Azrael in most of the cases he's defeated in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981''.

* [[Characters/StevenUniverseJasper Jasper]] from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''. Before [[spoiler:being [[FateWorseThanDeath corrupted]],]] she's revealed to be an angry and vengeful loyal soldier who, from her point of view, lost her colony, her planet and her leader ([[spoiler:Pink Diamond]]) because of [[spoiler:Rose Quartz]]. She spends her last moments roaring at Steven for every wrong she thinks [[spoiler:Rose Quartz]] did. On top of this, it's implied she's nothing more than the equivalent of a grown up {{Child Soldier|s}} who's been indoctrinated from birth to think the way she does. WordOfGod later confirmed that she refused Steven's help because she hated herself for being (in her eyes) too weak.

-->'''[[spoiler:Bismuth]]:''' You should have shattered me back then. At least if I were in pieces, I wouldn't have to know how little I ''mattered'' to you! You didn't even tell 'em. You bubbled me away and didn't ever tell your friends. ''My friends!''\\

'''[[spoiler:Bismuth]]:''' *chuckles* Then you really are better than her.

-->'''[[spoiler:Peridot]]:''' ”Go to Earth”, they said. “It’ll be easy”, they said.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' episode “ [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S1E5Nano Nano]]”, a colony of NanoMachines are separated from the main group, and create a body made from junk, which is found by a jewel thief who "adopts" it (seeing as it has the intelligence and personality of a child) and uses it to commit crimes. Eventually, as the nano-bots multiply and it gets stronger, the Turtles have to destroy it by dumping it in a vat of molten iron, but they're pretty bummed about it later:
-->'''Michelangelo:''' I kinda feel sorry for the guy. He was like a little kid.
-->'''Donatello:''' Too bad he had such a rotten father...
** Hun in ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'', after the Turtles finally convince him that The [[BigBad Shre]][[OmnicidalManiac dder]] is going to destroy TheMultiverse. Hun [[DeaderThanDead is erased from reality]] right afterwards. The same thing happened to Casey and April; they both get better once reality is restored, Hun was likely brought back too.
-->'''Leonardo:''' You heard the man. Let's go stop the Shredder.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''.
** The Decepticons got some of their members killed unceremoniously. Breakdown was eviscerated by Airachnid. And Dreadwing, who wanted to kill Starscream who zombified his brother Skyquake, was killed by Megatron for disobeying his order to stand down.
** Additionally, several MECH members end up being killed by Silas as he views them as useless now he is a human-Transformer hybrid, ''just after they saved him'' of all things. It's pretty hard not to feel sorry for them in this case.

** [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Poor]] [[PapaWolf Nox]].
-->'''Nox:''' Twenty minutes? All that [[LifeEnergy wakfu]] spent for a jump of twenty minutes in time? Two hundred years of [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow researching]] and [[HorrorHunger collecting wakfu]] for ''[[AllForNothing twenty miserable minutes?!]]'' '''[[BigNo NOOOOOO!]]'''
::The real kicker is when Yugo chews Nox out for committing so many atrocities in the name of his delusions. [[HeelRealization Finally seeming]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone to understand the truth,]] [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption or that he never had a chance of seeing his family again,]] Nox breaks down crying. When the soldiers of Sadida show up to pass judgement on him, he doesn't put up a fight. Likely because, on top of everything else, Nox had managed to convince himself (and attempted to convince others) that it was okay to do any horrible thing in pursuit of his goals because it would all be undone when he finally succeeded. He'd get what he wanted and no one would really be hurt. But of course, it didn't work out that way. Then he teleports away and travels to the grave of his beloved family, [[LoveMakesYouEvil whom he wanted to see again so badly that it was the key motivation for everything he'd done,]] and dies either by [[DrivenToSuicide quietly killing himself]] or running out of power after he surrendered the Eliacube to Yugo and couldn't draw on its energy anymore. Take your pick on which is even ''more'' depressing.
** Though debatably less sympathetic (and ''[[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist definitely]]'' less [[AntiVillain anti-villainous]]) than Nox, Qilby himself is a pretty sad character. From birth he was involuntarily BlessedWithSuck by the fact he and his dragon sister alone [[PastLifeMemories retain all their memories every time they die and reincarnate]], making him [[DrivenToMadness slowly and increasingly go mad]] as he surpassed the TimeAbyss threshold -- developing a LackOfEmpathy as he watched everything in the Krosmoz one way or another, sooner or later return to the dust from whence it had risen, while he and his siblings remain eternal. His other siblings [[ParentalNeglect either didn't recognise his problems or just couldn't be bothered to help him]], which further detached Qilby from everyone and everything but himself and his twin. And when Qilby finally acts out twice by forcing his people to become SpaceNomads so he [[WhoWantsToLiveForever won't be bored with eternity]], what is his punishment? Imprisonment, exile? Nope - being thrown into a BlankWhiteVoid for eternity without his sister or anyone (or ''anything'') else, which surely doesn't do anything to get him over his crazy before he comes back out after ''thousands of years'' wandering around in total, lethargic nothingness. He escapes his oblivion for a while and has something other than nothing around him again, [[HopeSpot only to get thrown right back in his former prison after his temporary reprieve, condemned once more to sobbing alone in eternal oblivion]] -- but not before the very immortal twin he sought to reunite with, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes the only other being in the Krosmoz who he truly though he could rely on]], has [[EtTuBrute rejected him for going too far]] alongside every one of their people.

Oropo was born one of the Eliotropes, an Eliatrope-like species that was accidentally created by Yugo when he used the power of the six Eliatrope Dofus, his species went through numerous hardships and they prayed to Yugo and the deities of the World of Twelve to help them only to be ignored numerous times and when the rest of the Eliotropes died, Oropo was left alone being the last remaining member of his species with their power being given to him. His sympathy would later be thrown out the window however, when it was revealed that he instigated most of the series’ conflict by making Ogrest depressed and indirectly killing Nox’s family and then nearly killing Lady Echo when she exposed him, however, he slowly reminisces about his good times with his Brotherhood and dies along with Echo when the bomb he created explodes with Echo holding onto him and them kissing each other. The fact that Yugo didn’t even know of his or his race’s existence makes it all the more heartbreaking when Yugo presumably mourns Oropo’s death.

The majority of the Brotherhood of the Forgotten can be considered this, they were the demigod children of several major deities who were either neglected or forgotten about by their biological parents with it being shown that they have ill will towards their parents. It doesn’t help that Oropo took advantage of their misfortunes and manipulated them from the start. It’s only when he reveals the stuff he did that causes them to officially turn against him.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': Ian Peek, the VillainOfTheWeek in "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E19SneakPeek Sneak Peek]]", is an unethical and slimy {{Paparazzi}} who murdered a scientist to steal an intangibility belt and use it to jump-start his career, and nearly exposes Terry's secret identity for the sake of ratings. However, his ultimate fate is played surprisingly sombrely; his belt malfunctions and leaves him permanently intangible, [[AndIMustScream resulting in him sinking into the center of the Earth, presumably for all eternity.]] Terry is noticeably saddened by this, regardless of how much do a scumbag Peek was.

** Hun in ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'', after the Turtles finally convince him that The Shredder is going to destroy TheMultiverse. Hun [[DeaderThanDead is erased from reality]] right afterwards. The same thing happened to Casey and April; they both get better once reality is restored, Hun was likely brought back too.

** Queen Scintel surprisingly. Her arc presents a horrifyingly accurate look at slavery and she herself is the unrepentant head of a slaving empire. Despite this she grows genuine affection for Anakin and while he doesn't reciprocate romantically, he still grows a certain attachment to her. However all her plans for to make Zygeria a galactic power come crashing down on her when Count Dooku demonstrates just how much above her the Sith really are and strangles her with the force. She dies realizing she was as much a slave as anyone else and willingly tells Anakin where his friends are being kept.

* ''WesternAnimation/Primal'': That poor ''Argentinosaurus'' in "[[Recap/Primal2019E7PlagueOfMadness Plague of Madness]]" never wanted to be bitten by an infected ''Parasaurolophus'' and subsequently transformed into a flesh-hungry undead monster. Its demise by falling into lava is horrific, and at the same time, downright ''[[MercyKill merciful]]''. Even Spear and Fang, who the infected ''Argentinosaurus'' had spent the entire episode trying to kill, both watch the sauropod burn to ashes mournfully.

%%* Is almost impossible not to feel bad for Gargamel and Azrael in most of the cases he's defeated in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981''.

%%* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''
%%** It's debatable whether Starscream in ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' even counted as a villain anymore by the time he had his RedemptionEqualsDeath moment, but Megatron definitely counted.
%%** Ditto for Scorponok in ''Anime/TransformersEnergon''.
%%** Also, Demolishor, although he got better.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Silco is a ruthless sonofabitch who's responsible for destroying the sisters Vi and Powder's adoptive family and flooding the streets of the Undercity with [[FantasticDrug Shimmer]]. His relationship with Powder turned Jinx, though surprisingly sweet at times, is also deeply unhealthy as he encourages her worst traits while jealously trying to keep Vi away from Jinx by lying that Vi's only there for the [[MacGuffin Hextech crystal]]. Yet he dies rather sympathetically. In an intense standoff with Vi over Jinx, Silco prepares to shoot Vi but in a moment of absolute panic, Jinx mortally wounds Silco. He spends his dying breath providing reassurance of his love to the daughter who just riddled him with bullets as the girl profusely mourns his death.

** [[spoiler:The Rubies]] are a generally incompetent, childlike [[TheDitz morons]], aside from [[spoiler:Eyeball]], who has a little more experience due to being a ShellShockedVeteran. All of them are ThrownOutTheAirlock by Steven, a possible FateWorseThanDeath, due to the fact Gems don't need to breathe and are TheNeedless, condemning them to a possible eternity of floating through space, something Steven expresses [[MyGreatestFailure heavy guilt]] over in later episodes, in addition to the fates of [[spoiler:Jasper and Bismuth]].