“Cato from The Hunger Games. He’s been brainwashed to believe that the Games are an honor. He’s trained his whole life, but then he gets into the arena and it’s a lot of killing and awfulness. Then he loses, dies a long death and all his preparation and fanboying isn’t worth anything.”
“Prince Nuada from Hellboy: the Golden Army. He’s the Prince of a dying race of fae, has to see his father lead his kind into darkness and obscurity, and THEN see humanity tear down everything he loved for their own greed/expansion. His speech about how the world will never see the likes of the Elemental Forest God was heartbreaking.”
“Billy Madison. Eric Gordon might have been an @$$hole but he devoted years of his life working for Madison Hotels, working his way up to become the boss’s right-hand man, only for the boss’s idiot son to take over because he managed to get a basic education.”
“Bee Movie. A bee stole this man’s girlfriend.”
“X-Men. Magneto was right and his backstory was very sad.”
“The bad people in Us just want to live on the surface. :( “
Austin Powers. Dr Evil’s upbringing is tragic:
‘The details of my life are quite inconsequential…. My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloé with webbed feet. My father would womanize; he would drink; he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really.'”
“I’m not saying Scar was right for killing his brother and running the Pride Lands into the ground, but they call him Scar because he had a physical deformity.
Before he was nicknamed Scar, his parents named him Takka… Which means garbage.
“Oh hi. Let me introduce you to my sons ‘King’ and ‘Garbage’
How is that not setting your youngest up for failure?”
“Baby’s father in Dirty Dancing. Dude just wanted to have a nice family vacation.
But heaven forbid he protests against his 17-year-old daughter getting seduced by the 25-year-old resort dance instructor. “
“Sound of music — not the Nazis obviously, but the baroness. Imagine you’re a wealthy, savvy, child free woman open minded enough to date a sulking widower with a billion children he ignores in favor of travel and partying– in other words, your lifestyle. You’re not into kids but you try to be a presence in their lives when he finally deigns to introduce you to them (same time he announces that he’s marrying you, so he’s a super great father).
You put on a cheerful face anyway, and when it’s apparent the kids hate you (you are a stranger after all!), you consider sending them to boarding school where they might benefit from, say, structure and attention and schooling that they are not getting at home from their father/endless rotating nannies.
Then the super virginal, younger au pair moves in, and your boyfriend suddenly decides he is totally into being father of the year again after his Austrian rumspringa, and dumps you.”
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Imagine: you’re 16 years old. Your father is in prison. Your home has been taken over by a Nazi cult that you’ve been indoctrinated into. The leader of the cult is telling you to kill your principal, someone exceptionally powerful who could easily beat you in a fight, or he will kill you and your family.”
“Jaws.
Bruce is just trying to be a shark, man.”
“Thor 1. Loki loses everything, finds out his whole life is a lie, even his skin is a lie, the people who he was supposed to trust the most (his parents) betrayed him about who he was and brought him up in a society that thought his real race were disgusting savage monsters to the point that he thought it was ok to try and kill them all, and in the middle of having a mental break down his dad goes into a coma while his mom is emotionally unavailable to give him any support because she’s busy watching the dad, and his friends betray him to go help his brother on earth, so he is completely isolated with no support system undergoing the worst crisis of his life and goes off the rails, to the point of committing suicide because he realized no matter what he did he could never gain the approval of his father or belong there as the only frost giant in all of asgard. it’s an epic tragedy when you look at it from his perspective.”
“Mrs. Doubtfire, because imagine how scared Pierce Brosnan was when Mrs. Doubtfire tried to kill him with pepper.”
“Blade Runner
And it works either way, if you see Batty as the villain or Deckard”
“General Francis X. Hummel from The Rock
Joins the military at a young age and believes that he’s fighting for his country and commands several special clandestine operations for the government and his men get killed. Because they were black ops, the US government doesn’t give their families any benefits, it doesn’t recognize them as having even served, and they don’t even get military funerals. Hummel pleads with the Government to recognize these men and that they fought and died to further America’s interests and he even goes before Congress to ask for the funds. They tell him to kick rocks. When his wife dies, he’s had enough and feels he has to force their hand through taking hostages and threatening to launch VX poison gas rockets at population centers. He has no intent to go along with this plot, it’s just a bluff.”
“Spiderman 2. Doc Oc just wanted to provide limitless, cheap energy to everyone and got turned into a monster and controlled by tentacles that he invented for the task. Lost his wife to his own failed experiment. And then committed crime to re-do the experiment, only to abjectly fail again and have to take one for the tram to put things right.”
“Sid in Toy Story. Neglected, possibly abused child acts out his trauma, then gets further traumatized by possessed toys.”
“Pirates of the Caribbean. This pirate crew found treasure, it was cursed. They became undead, feeling nothing, tasting nothing. A shadow of their former selves. For some reason, everyone was trying to stop them becoming mortal even though it would be easier for all parties to help them restore the treasure.Also as most pirates are on the ship when the curse is lifted, they surrendered to the Royal Navy. They were all undoubtably hung immediately after the credits role.”
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Agreed. Sociopathy is more 'nature' than 'nurture.'