History PlayingWith / TragicVillain

* '''Defied''': "I don't care whether Dr. Psychosis' victims are assholes or whether he knows he's wrong. He's still evil and needs to be stopped."

'''Basic Trope''': A villain who is completely aware of their evil, but knows it's too late for redemption.

** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dr. Psychosis]] is a MadScientist and TheCracker who wants to stop killing people, but thinks he doesn't deserve redemption.

** Dr. Psychosis is a {{Jerkass}} and an OmnicidalManiac who was turned into a TragicMonster or [[ShootTheShaggyDog being murdered]] by the nation he seeks to destroy.

* , GenericDoomsdayVillain

** There are no villains.

* '''Averted''': There is nothing sympathetic or tragic about Dr. Psychosis' actions.
* '''Enforced''': The author wants to make their villain [[CryForTheDevil more]] {{sympat|heticMurderer}}[[JerkassWoobie hetic]] to the viewers.

* '''Played for Drama''': After the heroic FiveManBand defeats Dr. Psychosis, they [[AlasPoorVillain regret having had to do so]].

* '''Exploited''': AntiHero [[AwesomeMcCoolName Steel Blood]] keeps reminding Dr. Psychosis about his past to push him over the [[RageBreakingPoint edge]].

* '''Played for Drama''': After the heroic FiveManBand defeats Dr. Psychosis, they [[AntagonistInMourning regret having had to do so]].

Back to TragicVillain

* '''Downplayed''': Dr. Psychosis is an AffablyEvil PlayfulHacker, a MorallyBankruptBanker and a DirtyCop who robs banks because [[CorruptCorporateExecutive all the public and private investors]] withdrew funding from his projects.

** Dr. Psychosis is out to destroy someone, in revenge, due to being responsible for an incident that turned him into a super-villainous megalomaniac.

* '''Downplayed''': Dr. Psychosis is an AffablyEvil PlayfulHacker and a MorallyBankruptBanker who robs banks because [[CorruptCorporateExecutive all the public and private investors]] withdrew funding from his projects.

** Dr. Psychosis is an OmnicidalManiac who was turned into a TragicMonster over by the nation he seeks to destroy.

* '''Downplayed''': Dr. Psychosis is a mostly sane scientist who robs banks because all the public and private investors withdrew funding from his projects.

** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dr. Psychosis]] is a MadScientist who wants to stop killing people, but thinks he doesn't deserve redemption.

** Dr. Psychosis is a genocidal maniac who was screwed over by the nation he seeks to destroy.

** Dr. Psychosis is a MadScientist who wants to stop killing people, but thinks he doesn't deserve redemption.
** Dr. Psychosis is out to destroy someone, in revenge, due to being responsible for an incident that turned him into a supervillain megalomaniac.

** Dr. Psychosis feels he had been controlled his whole life, like he has no freedom. Now it's his time to control the world.
* '''Downplayed''': Dr. Psychosis is a mostly sane scientist that robs banks because all his projects lost funding from the government.
* '''Justified''': Dr. Psychosis' victims are [[AssholeVictim terrible people]] who have wronged him, so he is driven to do evil things to them.
* '''Inverted''':

** Dr. Psychosis is also killing innocents because he wants people to hate him enough to want to kill him as he can't live with himself.
** Dr Psychosis's redemption is temporary and he soon goes back to killing people because he thinks that his methods of justice are better, even if they are evil.
* '''Parodied''': Dr. Psychosis is an exterminator who wants to stop the giant-mutant-radioactive-killer-cockroaches from outer space, but thinks he does not deserve redemption.
* '''Zig Zagged''': HeelFaceRevolvingDoor.
* '''Averted''': There is nothing sympathetic or tragic about Dr. Psychosis's actions.
* '''Enforced''': The author wants to make their villain [[CryForTheDevil more]] [[SympatheticMurderer sympat]][[JerkassWoobie hetic]] to the viewers.

* '''Exploited''': AntiHero [[AwesomeMcCoolName Steel Blood]] keeps reminding Dr. Psychosis about his past to push him over the [[RageBreakingPoint edge]]
* '''Defied''': "I don't care whether Dr Psychosis's victims are assholes or whether he knows he's wrong. He's still evil and needs to be stopped."
* '''Discussed''': "I know Dr. Psychosis is evil and all, but come on, if [[DarkAndTroubledPast I lived a life like he did]] I'm sure I'd turn evil too"

* '''Implied''': Dr. Psychosis never speaks of his past, but his actions show he's fighting out of desperation rather than [[FortheEvulz just the evulz]]
* '''Deconstructed''': Dr. Psychosis lets his past get the better of him and ultimately starts to go insane and forget what he was fighting for in the first place.

* '''Played For Laughs''': "What was that, Steel? [[Webcomic/HiimDaisy I couldn't hear you over the sound of my troubled past.]]"

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