Category:Remorse Faker

Pure Evil villains who, before their defeats or deaths, expressed apparent remorse for their actions and plead for mercy. However, given the irredeemably nature of these kind of villains, their remorse isn't genuine at all and they just insist that it's real to trick the heroes or escape punishment for their crimes. Often, these Remorse Fakers are psychopaths pretending to be remorseful just to take advantage of their victims (e.g. The Joker telling his doctor that he regrets his crimes only to then kill him and many more people, Scar pleading Simba for mercy only to then turn back and temporarily blind Simba to attack him or Ego assuring his son Peter Quill that he regrets having killed his mother but dismissing his act of killing her and the rest of his children).

These kind of villains can also regret something evil they did, but instead of being remorseful the way most people would be, it's because they feel they could have made it much worse (e.g. when Darkseid killed Dan Turpin, he later felt that he should have killed many more humans had he known how much Superman would have felt affected by it).

This can also apply to villains who may have once been good or neutral people and regretted something good they made on their lives either by feeling forced to do so or by their own accord (e.g. Judge Claude Frollo taking Quasimodo as his own son in a futile attempt to redeem his soul or Nizam saving his brother from a lioness when they were young but later bitterly realizing that if his brother had died he would have become king instead).

These villains are usually under Faux Affably Evil.

It is the complete opposite of remorseful villains.