As Machiavellian as they are, some villains manage to move us. Indeed, there are characters to whom we can forgive almost everything. Some villains have such a sad childhood, filled with abuse, loss and unbearable and traumatic experiences, that it is impossible to blame them for their bad deeds. Very often, these destructive events in their past alone explain their pessimistic view of the world. Discover, in this article, 10 villains whose bad deeds are hard to blame.
We would like to point out that this ranking does not reflect the opinion of our editors. For the order, we based ourselves on the votes of thousands of anime fans around the world, who were able to give their opinions on the site Ranker. This top is therefore likely to change over time. At the time of writing this article, he was next.
#10 TSUBAKI KASUGANO (FUTURE DIARY)
Tsubaki Kasugano’s parents placed their daughter at the center of a cult, which was called “the cult of the Sacred Eye”. They then claimed that Tsubaki, who was born with sight problems, had gifts of clairvoyance.
All of this was obviously untrue, but Tsubaki didn’t think, at the time, that it would cause him any trouble. When his parents will die betrayed by a member of the sect, it will develop a deep hatred of the outside world and of its own worship. This will be exacerbated by the multiple rapes she will suffer from his followers, who will take advantage of his poor eyesight to “expiate their sins”.
#9 Isabella (The Promised Neverland)
isabella is the manager of the Grace Field House orphanage. In this establishment, she claims to prepare children to be welcomed into their adoptive family, but this is in reality only a pretext for sell them as food to demons.
If it seems difficult to excuse such actions on board, we understand by exploring her past that she does not act like this of her own free will. In the old days, she too had found herself in the place of these children. He was then given a choice: to serve as food for the demons or to perpetuate the system put in place by selling the children. Seeing no other way out, she ended up agree to become “Mom”.
#8 NINE and TWELVE (TERROR IN RESONANCE)
When they were younger, Nine and Twelve were part of Project Athena, whose supposed purpose was to educate a group of children with high potential. However, the reality was quite different. In the shadows, the instigators of this project used orphans to develop a dangerous drug for body and mind.
Nine and Twelve are the few survivors of this project. They managed to escape from where they were being held prisoner by starting a fire. After that, the two boys decided to form Sphinx, a pseudo-terrorist group aimed at making the government pay the death of the 23 orphans who died during Project Athena.
#7 Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z)
If Vegeta is not really considered a villain anymore, there was a time when the Saiyan Prince did not hesitate to kill, and to vent his hatred and frustration on innocent people. Today, and has been for several arcs now, he helps Goku and the other Earth fighters to fight against the forces of evil.
When he was a child, Vegeta was forced to join Frieza’s forces to save his father’s life. Then he had to submit to him when the galactic conqueror finally decided to execute his father, annihilate his planet and exterminate his entire species. Knowing that he couldn’t defeat Frieza as it was, he decided to become ruthless to gain power.
#6 JUZO (TOKYO GHOUL)
Rei Suzuya was an ordinary child, before to be kidnapped by Big Madam. The ghoul made him his pet human, and profoundly changed him. Rei was trained to become a ruthless killer. With time, he could no longer discern right from wrong.
Rei was tortured daily by Big Madam. He was suspended by goads that were stuck in his flesh, and enjoyed it. Later, Big Madam decided to castrate him by smashing his genitals with a hammer. She considered Rei to be better as a girl than a boy… As you can imagine, all this left important sequelae to one that was eventually renamed Juzo by the GCC.
#5 SHIRO (DEADMAN WONDERLAND)
Shiro was adopted by Sorae Igarashi for the sole purpose to serve as a guinea pig for his experiments. From an early age, Shiro was the subject of many experiments aimed at determining how to boost a human’s immune system.
These were excruciatingly painful for the young girl. She also lost some of its members in the process, which therefore had to be sewn back on to him. The pain she was going through was so great that Shiro eventually developed a personality disorder to protect himself. At times, she transformed into “The Man in Red”, a murderer capable of the worst atrocities.
#4 CRONA (SOUL EATER)
Crona never had his heart set on being a villain. It was his mother who coerced him, including replacing his blood with “black blood”, which made him more powerful, but which also impacted his mental state.
As a child, Crona was pushed by his mother to commit very bad deeds. He was forced to kill from an early age, on pain of being placed in a dark room and deprived of food. For a time, Crona tried to resist her mother’s manipulations. Corn the mistreatment she will inflict on him and the deplorable way she will bring him up will ultimately get the better of his sanity.
#3 LUCY (ELFEIN LIED)
Say that Lucy didn’t have an easy childhood would be a mild understatement. In reality, it is much worse than that. Lucy is what we call a Diclonius, that is, a being capable of using telekinetic abilities. For this reason, the girl was placed in a specialized center when she was just a child. She suffered horrific experiences there.
To escape from this establishment, Lucy had no choice but to take a large number of lives. Once she finally got there, Lucy wanted to grow up like all the other kids and decided to join an orphanage. There, she was treated like a monster, because of her horns. When a group of kids decided to go after a dog she had become attached to, Lucy couldn’t stand it and let her rage explode. The girl then did a veritable bloodbath.
#2 ZElEph (FAIRY TAIL)
Zeref is surely one of the series’ most iconic villains Fairy Tail. However, his actions were motivated by a somewhat darker and deeper past than the rest of the anime’s antagonists.
Almost 400 years before the events of the main plot, Zeref has lost his family in a dragon attack. He then looked for a way to bring his younger brother back to life. For this, he invented the R system and the Eclipse Gate. This action earned him incur the wrath of the god Ankseramwho cast a curse on him consisting of decimate all people around him. Having no control over his power, Zeref sowed desolation wherever he went. He then wanted to die, but that was impossible for him since he had been made immortal by the curse. For several centuries, Zeref had to stop valuing human life, this being the one and only solution to not kill anyone around him…
#1 Itachi Uchiha (Naruto)
The big bad guys naruto have often had their share of sad events, which alone justify all their bad actions. But among the most tragic stories told in anime, Itachi’s remains the one that resonates the most in the hearts of fans.
Itachi was only four years old when the events of the Third Great Ninja War took place. He saw several members of his clan die and was largely traumatized by these losses. In his mind, this will result in giving birth to a deep obsession with pacifism.
Itachi was an incredibly talented ninja. He quickly rose through the ranks, and was charged to spy on the actions of his clan, who was planning a coup in secret. To nip the revolt in the bud, Konoha’s leaders asked Itachi to exterminate the members of his clan, including his parents. The ninja agreed to be considered for life as a traitor and a renegade, besides being hated by the only member of his family he was allowed to leave alive, in order to preserve the peace of his village.
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