Most of the people hate villains, because they are anti-hero, they do morally incorrect things, have always caused havoc in lives of innocent people, always have a sinister laugh and more.
Well, heroes are mostly praised and looked up to as they always do good deeds, help people, look good and always pity other people including villain (even if he has murdered his whole family).
But this scene is not always true, villains are bad not because of their deeds but because of their theories and way of seeing things around them. Nobody is a born criminal (okay, most are not).
So here we are counting upon our list of Top 10 Best Villains Who Actually Had A Point behind their work and morally unethical ways. In this list both movie and cartoon character are included.
Now you must buckle up as we're diving straight to the list.
#10. Tom
This little cute house cat was a dutiful pet. He relaxed, he did his own thing. He even had little dates with female cats. Jerry was a little pest who always intruded and annoyed Tom.
Tom belonged in the house. He was wanted. Jerry moved in just because he could and stayed as a bully would. Tom was dutiful and performed rodent control duties.
Noticing the show, you would realize that Tom was always doing the duty, while Jerry was the person who almost always teased Tom and made him suffer.
#9. Tyler Durden
Let me point out his dialogues that addresses the existential barriers of human kind today.
The very first one that will stick with me forever,
This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time
This
powerful line hammers directly on the frozen potential and capability
of the top most species on earth. It’s a wake up call for everyone who
are merely living without any great purpose or dream.
Listen up maggots! You are not special! You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake! You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else! We are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world! We are all part of the same compost keep.
Admiration
of others is the next point this great villain makes in its course of
actions. Everybody is equal, no ones above or below you for any reason.
From the ones who do your laundry to the taxi drivers.
This villain made his point by making us understand the importance of living in the moment.
The things you own end up owning you.
Our
lives are not the amount of riches we earned in our past or future.
Life largely revolves around our enriched present, the fun we have and
the number of lives we can touch and spread the light of happiness to.
In his terms…
You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
The
movie by this character tried to make a statement about today's
generation, on the handcuffs of competition to gain riches, and in that
pursuit their lost inner self, their lost dreams. The lives we are
living are someone else's life, tied by others expectations, miles away
from the that realisation that it doesn't mean anything to us.
#8. Loki
Loki’s actions, before meeting Thanos, were just and fair, and would have led Asgard to a period of prosperity, if only Thor hadn’t ruined his plans.
- He plotted against Thor, managing to vanish him to Earth. This was done for two reasons. Loki knew Thor was a hot-head, irrational and impulsive, not fit to rule Asgard. He also understood that Thor was too short-sighted and would have stepped into his plans.
- He actually accomplished something nobody managed to do before: he tricked and killed king Laufey, thus killing one of the major threat to Asgard stability. It was a difficult decision to make, Laufey was his father after all, but he had to do it, proving once again his greatness.
- He sent the Destroyer to Earth, knowing that stopping Thor was necessary to maintain the peace. What a sacrifice! He decided to kill his beloved brother, knowing that this would have avoided terrible consequences. Maybe this wasn’t the best way to do this, but he did everything for the good of Asgard.
#7. General Zod
This Kryptonian was synthetically manufactured with the genes that was needed to protect and fight for Krypton. And that’s what he did all his life. Fight for his people.
All he wanted was safety and survival of his planet, his species, his people similar to what Superman wanted for his planet, his people.
He
was literally programmed to safeguard krypton and its citizen and he
was unable to do so when he was stripped off his title and then deported
in ships for damnation.
His plan
to destroy earth was 100% justified from his Kryptonians point of view.
He wanted to fulfill his duty and bring back Krypton.
A quote from General Zod (Man of steel)
Look at this. We could have rebuilt Krypton on this planet, but you chose the humans over us. I exist only to protect Krypton. That is the sole purpose for which I was born. And every action I take, no matter how violent or how cruel, is for the greater good of my people. And now, I have no people. My soul, that is what you have taken from me!
#6. Shere Khan
Shere Khan was depicted by Kipling as being born with a crippled leg- royal Bengal tiger .Despite this setback, the Shere Khan character is arrogant and regards himself as the rightful lord of the jungle.
From the very beginning of our childhood Shere Khan had the goal of killing a human kid named Mowgli.
We've
spent childhood has with assuming that he is the bad guy of the jungle.
But when we watch the story again as an adult, we realize that the
tiger had a point.
Seeing to the fact that the story was written in 1800 's, set in post medieval India.
At
that time there was mass poaching of the Royal Bengal Tigers which made
them a endangered species. So, Shere Khan's most of the species has
vanished and he has a hatred for the humans.
Rising
from the scars of his past, he thinks that Mowgli is an intruder in the
jungle and will lead to imbalance in the animal kingdom. He is also of
the opinion that when Mowgli grows he just like other humans will
destroy the jungle (which is a natural instinct, seeing Khan's past).
So, Shere Khan is just a misunderstood villain who is actually thinking for the welfare of the jungle.
#5. Owen Riley
He
just shows the ugly truth / negative side of humans. He puts his
victims in a certain condition where “the victim’s death happens only if
a certain number of views are accounted.”
People are aware of this
condition. Guess what? People are ready to watch you die.
How curious would it be to witness a live death, isn’t it? It is the sick-mindedness of populace that killed people. And they call him a villain. SMH!
Owen Riley:
[watching his victim in a tub filling up with acid] You know if no one
was watching right now, you'd just be sitting in water. But the whole
world wants to watch you die, and they don't even know you.
#4. Harvey "Two-Face" Dent
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
As
Two-Face, he still uses luck to his advantage, but no longer
manipulates it. His point of view was indeed affected by the Joker in
the hospital, especially with the latter referring to anarchy as “fair,”
but he still keeps his own view of things.
Two-Face doesn’t follow the
same anarchist lifestyle the Joker was following, Two-Face still has an
order.
However, his order is almost as unpredictable as the Joker’s
anarchy, because, while you can definitely make a guess as to what the
Joker might do, as you would with a coin flip, you can never guess it
with confidence. You might be right, you might be wrong, but you will
never be sure until it happens.
“The world
is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased.
Unprejudiced. Fair.”
One could argue Harvey was already corrupted to
begin with, and becoming Two-Face actually removed the corruption.
Take a
look at that quote again. When he was Harvey, he took away chance by
making every flip of the coin be 100% in his favor with the two-faced
coin.
But as Two-Face? He brought back the fairness of chance. He didn’t
manipulate it anymore. He used it, but didn’t forge it to be what he
wanted.
He had the power to shoot everyone who caused Rachel’s death and
his deformation, but he gave everyone a fair chance. He didn’t become
corrupted with the power to kill.
Harvey controlled luck, Two-Face just
used it.
#3. Jigsaw
John Kramer was once a noble, well-respected engineer with a loving wife and a baby on the way.
But,
one night a manic drug addict from Jill’s clinic pretty much robbed she
lost the baby when said addict slammed the door in her stomach.
There was no chance of a child, it was lost and so was John.
John
was soon diagnosed with cancer and closed himself off from the world.
An insurance company denied him coverage to try an new treatment for his
cancer. Then, he gets in an accident and is faced with death but he
doesn’t.
This is where his famous “"game master” mentality comes in and he finds the man that pretty much cost him his happiness.
John is a manipulative mastermind who “"never leaves anything to chance”. He teaches people the value of human life through his tests through massive pain a psychological trauma.
Everyone was connected throughout all of his games and no one walked away untested. Those being tested had it coming even though it was gruesome.
Once you dissect it, John Kramer always had a point.
- Follow the rules
- Cherish your life
- Don’t give into temptation
- Expect the unexpected
#2. Lex Luthor
This
guy here was born to a father who owned the rich LexCorp Industries.
His father seemed like a well-meaning businessman, but inside, at home,
he's abusive and offers his son Lex “fists and abominations”.
From then, Lex learned a philosophy:
“If God is all powerful, then he cannot be all good. And if he's all good, then he can't be all powerful.”
He probably prayed to God, but no man in the sky came down to help him.
If God is all powerful, with omnipotent powers, then there's no chance he is incorruptible and won't use it for personal gains.
If God is all good, then he cannot be omnipotent, or otherwise, people's problems would've been solved.
Superman,
however, was the embodiment of the paradox. The people saw him as both
all-powerful and all-good, a god. He sought to disprove that belief by
forcing him to fight Batman, so people would see who he truly is.
Another
reason for his vendetta against Superman is the fact that he's worked
his whole life to become the genius people see him as. The appearance of
Superman, a god-like being, who simply toppled half the buildings in
Metropolis by leaping around, downgraded his ability.
#1. The Joker
He saw that the city of Gotham was chaotic. It was filled with corrupt cops, mob gangs.
He
proved that even the shiniest examples can be corrupted, that the
system, which is the government, is untrustworthy because they're too
easy to be plunged into chaos.
He proved that people are ready to kill
for their own gains, proven when he caused the entire city to turn on
Reese by his threat to blow up a hospital. A guy tried to shoot Reese as
he was leaving the news building. It failed with the two boats, but the
Reese incident was a different thing.
He led to the death of Rachel, ultimately turning Dent into Two-Face. His downfall is proof that the best can be turned.
He showed that the people are bad and corruptible.
In
the end, however, he did clean up the city. He led Dent to kill the
corrupt cops in Gordon's gang, exposing the ones Dent didn't kill.
He
wiped out the mob, including Sal Maroni, Lau and the Russian guy whose
name I forgot. He also led to Batman becoming a suspected full-fledged
criminal, driving the Bat into hiding and a bad guy in everyone's eyes.
In the end, even though the Joker is locked up, he still won. He
proved his points, corrupted and indirectly led to Dent's death, forced
Batman out of business, forced Gordon and Batman to lie to the people
and guilted the former.
Physically, he lost.
But philosophically, he won. And had a point that nobody could deny, deep down.
There you have it, Top 10 Best Villains Who Actually Had A Point.
I hope you liked and understood the mindset behind these villains and if you did, make sure to share it with your friends and family to make them aware about these great, better than hero; villains.
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