Much like
its predecessor,
Fairy Tail avoid this trope as much as possible, giving every villain at least some
Pet the Dog moments and/or an understandable
Freudian Excuse. However,
some are definitely not.
- The slavers who forced thousands of captives to build the Tower Of Heaven don't have either. They employed even children (among which, Gerard and Erza) to do this work, starving them almost to death, punishing and killing them over the most insignificant slight; and they weren't above some Cold-Blooded Torture as well - it was because of a particularly brutal beating from them that Erza lost one of her eyes. Killing them all was obviously Gerard's Start of Darkness, but hey, they deserved it.
- Ur's daughter Ultear was kidnapped by the scientists she asked to help said sick daughter. They also lied to both mom and daughter: first, they told Ur that Ultear had not survived her illness while they raised the girl into a Tykebomb Dark Action Girl, making what they could to let Ultear believe her mother hated her and left her on her own.
- Even notable wizards aren't immune to this. Monsieur Sol, one of the Elemental 4 of Phantom Lord's guild, is one for mind-raping Elfman with the guilt of his sister's death and then nonchalantly stating that his elder sister was going to be crushed for tricking the master for pretending to be Lucy. Taken Up to Eleven in the anime where he creates copies of his Dead Little Sister to distract him and put him into even further guilt; which was not done out of pettiness, but out of the superiority complex towards Fairy Tail as well as the kicks . It was satisfying when Elfman activates his true powers on on Sol's ass.
- Brain shouldn't be on this list normally, but his Super Powered Evil Side, Zero, is worth mentioning. He killed his ally, the skull staff Klodoa, for no reason, scared his other personality, Brain, enough to seal him away when he tried to warn his enemies about him, and seemed obsessed about destroying everything with form because it has form.
- Zancrow, Natsu's opposite from Grimoire Heart, is Ax Crazy and full of Nightmare Fuel. He kills his own allies because they're weak, tortures Natsu and Makarov after the latter was badly injured, and later insults his teammate. Thank god ZEREF of all people kills him in one shot.
- Raven Tail, first thing they do is attack Wendy, then later a member threatens the six-year-old Asca.
