Category:Fake Tragic

A fake tragic is a Pure Evil villain who actually presents a tragic past or an alleged Freudian Excuse, but cannot qualify as truly tragic due to their PE status. The reason why their tragic past doesn't prevent them from being Pure Evil is cause of how heinous they actually go in being shredded of having any sympathy for them as they go way above the accountability in of being evildoers.

In some instances, these Pure Evils may have been former heroes, given the circumstances of their tragedy leading to them becoming the complete opposite of admirable.

Villains in this category include:


 * Villains who use "tragedies" as excuses that are too petty to justify anything (e.g. Chucky, Infinite, the Grand High Witch, DOR-15, General Lunaris, The Master (O), and Rip Blazkowicz).
 * Villains who overreacted to their dreams getting "crushed" or had excuses worth near 0 compared to their crimes (e.g. Mysterio, Syndrome, Lionel Starkweather, Reverse Flash, Piella Bakewell, Howard Payne, Kristoph Gavin, Professor Solomon, Vladimir Makarov and Gelorum).
 * Villains who use a natural part of life (such as death or rejection) as an excuse to ruin everyone else's life (e.g. Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, the Scarlet King, D'Spayre, Bradford Buzzard, Owlman, Pennywise,Henry Evans and many versions of the Joker).
 * Villains who had a bad life and were given a second chance but dropped the ball on it (e.g. Dio Brando, Kenny Afton,Freddy Krueger,Nightmare,Brother, The Master (Harold Saxon), and Ego).
 * Villains who brought their misery onto themselves while blaming it on someone/everyone else (e.g. Emperor Palpatine, Zhan Tiri, Sir Benedict Cumbersnatch, Hela, Utrom Shredder, Patrick Bateman, Shiro, Dr. Weil, The Thousand, the Rat King, the remake version of Freddy Krueger, Dark Zagi, Jagi, Ultraman Belial, Slagar the Cruel, RAT, Hit The Target,Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear,William Afton, and Dream).
 * Villains who felt unloved or unappreciated, but ended up unsympathetic due to the horrible nature of their actions and how heinous they truly are (e.g. Sir Miles Axlerod, Professor Zündapp, the live-action version of Scar, Jill Roberts, the live-action version of Shredder, Douma, Swartz, Ramsay Bolton, The Kraken, Lucifer, Andross, Amy Hughes, Commodus, Ahmanet and Charles Eborock.)
 * Villains whose tragedies used to be genuine, but their actions are so heinously horrible that it goes against their tragedy and thus, every single ounce of sympathy the audience may have given them was nullified (e.g. Drago Bludvist, Adam Taurus, Kilgrave, Muzan Kibutsuji, Alien Empera, Roman Bridger, Donquixote Doflamingo, THOUGHT, Zoom,Koba, and Cobra Commander).
 * Villains who had a hard life due to traumatic experiences (i.e. losing family members, loved ones and friends, being bullied/abused, outcasts rejected by society, being forced to live in poverty, etc), but they are FAR PAST it as they chose to translate it into causing more harm than what was caused to them, in some cases simply for attention (e.g. Carnage, Jerome Valeska, Lord Voldemort, Femto, Dr. Emilia, the original version of Freddy Krueger, Cinder Fall, Jafar, Agatha Trunchbull, Isaac Ray Peram Westcott, Blackbeard, Seath the Scaleless, Lord Cutler Beckett, Frieza, Herrscher of the Void, Dr. Henry Miller, the Dark Lord, Shiranami, Victor Zsasz, the Clown, Johan Liebert, Warren Mears, Red Skull, Lieutenant Obsidian, the Wasp King, Gul'dan, George Foyet and Porky Minch).
 * Villains who were exposed to forces which brought out their darkest qualities or were slowly killing them, but instead of searching for help used them as excuses to take up villainy (e.g. the animated version of Scar, Geminald, Dix Perdix, Lord Commander, Kraang Prime, Jeremiah Valeska, Sebastian Caine, The Batman Who Laughs,Eleanor, Poison Ivy, Goku Black/Future Zamasu,Broly,Lord Slug,Light Yagami, Arkhamverse Joker,Spongebob, and Angelus).
 * Villains whose excuse sounds good enough, although there is no in-universe way to prove it even happened, at least how it's said it did or is completely faked (e.g. Queen Ingrith, SCP-5045-1,, Isaiah Johnson,Turles,Zalgo, and multiple versions of the Joker).
 * Villains who were awful people even before becoming pure evil, which prevents their tragedy from being a legit Freudian excuse (e.g. Evolt,Thrax, and Andrei Sator).

Mere speculations/implications of a "tragic" past are not enough to qualify a character for this category; they must have an established backstory which must come from an official and trustworthy source.