Horror villains you felt bad for... or opposite
07-10-2009, 05:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2009, 05:08 AM by Dr. Briggs.)
I got this off another site, but I thought it was mucho interesante, so, I bring it here. There have been plenty of characters in horror who invoke pathos, many of them the very villains we are supposed to hate! Or... sometimes, there are villains who are just successfully assholes.
So, who tops your lists of villains who invoke said emotions at either pole?
I Felt bad for:
Duane Bradley from Basket Case - Just about every shitty thing out there happens to him in the Basket Case series
All the killers from Alone in the Dark ('81) - One was a cabin-fevered gung-ho war vet with delusions, one was a simpleminded pyromaniac, one was an obese dude who happened to like little girls, and one was a half-good-natured schizo. They all just got a new doctor at the wrooooooong time :*(
Norman Bates in the sequels - BIG TIME sympathy for him.... What with obsessed victims, old delusions, wicked copycats and muckrakers going after him every which way, you basically hope for a happy ending for him every second of him taking new lives
Jack Torrance (TV version of The Shining) - This guy was not a total family abuser and you really hoped he wouldn't go over the edge for the longest time
Dr. Weir from Event Horizon - His work killed his wife, demons took his work (And his mind), I felt sad that the only thing he really has going for him by the end are the demons
Melton from Valentine - I was honestly glad when it seemed he wasn't the killer in the end... I still think it might not have been him, sure it was the guy, but who said he was the killer?
Toulon from Puppet Master 2 - He really cared for his creations, and for his wife... He just expressed it wrong >.>
Willard Stiles - Obvious choice there! His only friends were rats, sure he screwed them over for human love later, but then they screwed him more over!
Herbert West - Who doesn't love Jeff Combs?? Can't help but sympathize for the guy as his shit comes back to kill him
I hated:
The Candyman - I initially thought about putting him on the previous list, but hell for all we know he could have been a bastard pre-death... His love for his woman does not excuse killing just about everyone else he meets, keeping an entire community in fear, etc....
Jigsaw - I can understand and sort of sympathize with him... But he's just so damn SMUG! >.<
Chucky - Manipulative, sadistic slaughter obsessed turd... Nuff said
Otis, Mama and Baby out of The Devil's Rejects - Despite attempts from the film to make them sympathetic, I still could not forget that they killed the poor rodeo clown wannabe... and those other guys . Spaulding and Tiny were OK though...
Fred Krueger - Happy bastard deserves the original ending to Freddy's Dead... And that is not an issue to take lightly X(
Peyton from The Hand that Rocks the Cradle - Just a self important bitch pure and simple!
The Leprechaun - Doesn't care about shit but his gold, and gets his kicks from hurting human beings any way he can, whether he really has to or not >.>
Martin from The Item - Though not "the villain" per se, he was BY FAR the most hateable character, in fact, one of the most hateable characters I have ever hated >.<
So, who tops your lists of villains who invoke said emotions at either pole?
I Felt bad for:
Duane Bradley from Basket Case - Just about every shitty thing out there happens to him in the Basket Case series
All the killers from Alone in the Dark ('81) - One was a cabin-fevered gung-ho war vet with delusions, one was a simpleminded pyromaniac, one was an obese dude who happened to like little girls, and one was a half-good-natured schizo. They all just got a new doctor at the wrooooooong time :*(
Norman Bates in the sequels - BIG TIME sympathy for him.... What with obsessed victims, old delusions, wicked copycats and muckrakers going after him every which way, you basically hope for a happy ending for him every second of him taking new lives
Jack Torrance (TV version of The Shining) - This guy was not a total family abuser and you really hoped he wouldn't go over the edge for the longest time
Dr. Weir from Event Horizon - His work killed his wife, demons took his work (And his mind), I felt sad that the only thing he really has going for him by the end are the demons
Melton from Valentine - I was honestly glad when it seemed he wasn't the killer in the end... I still think it might not have been him, sure it was the guy, but who said he was the killer?
Toulon from Puppet Master 2 - He really cared for his creations, and for his wife... He just expressed it wrong >.>
Willard Stiles - Obvious choice there! His only friends were rats, sure he screwed them over for human love later, but then they screwed him more over!
Herbert West - Who doesn't love Jeff Combs?? Can't help but sympathize for the guy as his shit comes back to kill him
I hated:
The Candyman - I initially thought about putting him on the previous list, but hell for all we know he could have been a bastard pre-death... His love for his woman does not excuse killing just about everyone else he meets, keeping an entire community in fear, etc....
Jigsaw - I can understand and sort of sympathize with him... But he's just so damn SMUG! >.<
Chucky - Manipulative, sadistic slaughter obsessed turd... Nuff said
Otis, Mama and Baby out of The Devil's Rejects - Despite attempts from the film to make them sympathetic, I still could not forget that they killed the poor rodeo clown wannabe... and those other guys
. Spaulding and Tiny were OK though...Fred Krueger - Happy bastard deserves the original ending to Freddy's Dead... And that is not an issue to take lightly X(
Peyton from The Hand that Rocks the Cradle - Just a self important bitch pure and simple!
The Leprechaun - Doesn't care about shit but his gold, and gets his kicks from hurting human beings any way he can, whether he really has to or not >.>
Martin from The Item - Though not "the villain" per se, he was BY FAR the most hateable character, in fact, one of the most hateable characters I have ever hated >.<
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