10 Villain Origins That Actually Make Sense

Pop acculturation is full ofweak villainswith folderal origins . And the late James Bond film , Spectre , wasExhibit A for “ scoundrel ruined by pathetic unexampled backstories . ”But it does n’t have to be this way . Here are 10 villains who actually have origins that make them well and more grotesque .

Spoilers ahead , obviously .

Loki ’s backstory is a twofer of things that should n’t form : sibling rivalry and daddy issues . Being constantly in Thor ’s shadow is n’t good for Loki ’s overall genial wellness , and finding out that he ’s adopted does n’t help . This is a backstory that works , though — because it actually does enrich Loki ’s actions , and because it actually works as an initial motivation . Otherwise , you ’re left with Loki go after Thor “ because you ’re there , ” and that ’s not nearly as interesting .

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Mr. Freeze is one of the few times a scoundrel ’s chronicle has been retconned successfully . For the first 30 years of his existence , Mr. Freeze was just a Barman blood line scoundrel with an ice fetish , until Batman the Animated Series last added depth to the character . In “ Heart of Ice , ” Paul Dini gave Mr. Freeze a terminally - ominous , cryogenically - quick-frozen married woman . This is exactly the kind of thing that only works for comic - book fictitious character , but it gave the graphic symbol much needed deepness . And an actual account for his fixation on ice rink .

In Avatar : The Last Airbender , Zuko begins his journey as the primary antagonist searching for our heroes in a bid to restore his honour . His classifiable scarring is the event of refusing to struggle his Padre over a fight programme , which manages to tell you a lot about both characters , even if you ’ve never seen the show . His resulting ostracism provides his motivation , and the complicated kinsfolk story cause it possible for him to have veritable changes of heart in a credible direction .

There are a pot of intellect why Harley Quinn is so popular , but her backstory is definitely one of them . The eventual costume - scoundrel start out as Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel , an intern at Arkham . transfixed by the Joker , she volunteers to analyze him . Which of course does more to her than it does him : she falls in making love with him and perish mad , leading to a life of crime .

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It ’s very nearly unsufferable to separate Magneto from his life story . Magneto ’s childhood in Nazi Germany , watching his parent killed and then being sent to Auschwitz , are the basis of his philosophy . It ’s also what fuels his determination to protect the interests of mutants , above all else . And it ’s this point of view that drove his split from Charles Xavier , the other stop of his yesteryear that makes his villain status more interesting than the usual .

One of the rationality — but so much not even secretive to the only one — that the treatment of Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness was such a muckle was that the original Khan had a superb story when he was introduced in the Star Trek episode “ Space Seed . ” He was a genetically enhance superhuman who conquer a huge swath of Earth during the Eugenics Wars of the nineties ( yes , recollect when we battled genetically enhance superman in the 90s ? The Clinton geological era was a godforsaken time ) . He and a few twelve of his followers escaped justness aboard a sleeper ship . This backstory explained how a humankind who ’s centuries displaced from his own time is such a threat . And it gives him a real motivation . allow ’s add , too , that “ Space Seed ” acts as a great backstory to Wrath of Khan , give depth to the blood feud that drives that moving-picture show .

One of the most impressive bit about Harry Potter ’s gravid badness is actually the manner that Voldemort ’s pre - series life is slow - work . The first record book tells us all about his campaign to take over the wizarding world , and his purebred beliefs . The next Christian Bible tells us what he was like in school . By the end of the series , we ’ve learned all about how he secede his soul and basically engineer Harry becoming his scourge . With the realisation that Voldemort was at the same time the descendant of one of the most illustrious British wizards and a bigoted human family unit , everything else he does come into astute focal point .

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While comics - verse Deathstroke has a pretty seemly backstory , Arrow upped the game by making Slade Wilson into Oliver Queen ’s true booster and ally back on the island of Lian Yu . Slade ’s reveal as Deathstroke was all the more devastating because the show had shown , in painstaking point , how firmly the route for the two had been .

While not the main scoundrel of either The Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings , Gollum as an opponent was by all odds improved by further understanding where he came from . In The Hobbit , he ’s a vicious little hoarder who lives in a cave . Through The Lord of the Rings we acknowledge that Gollum used to be a hobbit named Sméagol , and that his new comportment is the result of the spell the One Ring had on him . It ’s a narrative that not only adds depth to Gollum ’s actions , but also act as a horrifying trailer into what could happen to Frodo .

You ’ve got to hand it to Adventure Time for bothering to actually excuse the “ kidnapping princess ” obsession we ’ve seen in fiction always . Originally , the Ice King was just normal human Simon Petrikov — an archaist with a fiancée whom he called “ Princess . ” His acquisition of a crest have him to experience visual sense and bleak out , scaring away his fiancée . Even though he ’s now completely dissociated from the old Simon , his princess obsession remain .

Photo: Jae C. Hong

Additional coverage by Charlie Jane Anders and Rob Bricken

Image credit : Loki from Thor : The Dark World Poster , Marvel / Disney ; Screenshot from Batman The Animated Series viaDCAU Wiki ; Zuko screencap viaFanpop ; Harley and the Joker screencap viaDCAU Wiki ; Magneto viaMarvel Wiki ; Promotional Still from The Wrath of Khan , Paramount , viaTrekCore ; Deathly Hallows Part 2 Poster , Warner Bros. viaFanpop ; Promotional Still from Arrow , The CW ; Screencap from Return of the King viaScreencapped.net ; Ice King viaAdventure Time Wiki

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