Create Your Own Villain: Difference between revisions

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[[Superhero]]es try to rid the world of villains. Unfortunately, sometimes they have the opposite effect.

Maybe [[The Hero]] accidentally wronged some [[Innocent Bystander]]~~—say~~, they or their loved ones were casualties in the [[Hero Insurance|collateral damage from a super-battle]]~~—and~~ said bystander decides to turn evil to settle the grudge. Alternatively, the character may already be evil, but the Hero's intervention results in the villain gaining superpowers, and [[It's Personal|a super-grudge]] to boot.

Maybe [[The Hero]] accidentally wronged some [[Innocent Bystander]] — say, they or their loved ones were casualties in the [[Hero Insurance|collateral damage from a super-battle]] — and said bystander decides to turn evil to settle the grudge. Alternatively, the character may already be evil, but the Hero's intervention results in the villain gaining superpowers, and [[It's Personal|a super-grudge]] to boot.

In a parody or deconstruction of this trope, it might go on to reveal that the actions of the hero were actually irrelevant in terms of the individual's true nature. They were ultimately a disturbed individual who was looking for the first excuse they could find to justify their evil behavior.

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Naturally, this is common in comic books. In many cases, however, the villain's [[Start of Darkness|origin story]] isn't even hinted at in their first appearance—it's only after the villain becomes popular that they're given a personal tie to the Hero via [[Retroactive Continuity]].

One of the causes of the [[Superhero Paradox]]. See also [[Disproportionate Retribution]], [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]. Contrast with [[Weirdness Magnet]], where the Hero doesn't ''create'' the villains, but seems to ''attract'' them all the same.

One of the causes of the [[Superhero Paradox]]. See also [[Disproportionate Retribution]] and [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]. Contrast with [[Weirdness Magnet]], where the Hero doesn't ''create'' the villains, but seems to ''attract'' them all the same.

== Anime and Manga ==

* {{spoiler|Beyond Birthday}} in the spin-off prequel novel of ''[[Death Note]]'' was the result of {{spoiler|L and Watari}}’s [[Tyke Bomb]] production program.

** As was {{spoiler|Kimiko Kujo}} in the [[Alternate Continuity]] Film ''[[L: Change the World]]''.

* {{spoiler|Inverted}} in ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''. {{spoiler|The last original founder of Amalgam, Mr. Mercury, was so disgusted with what his organization had become that he ''created'' Mithril to oppose them.}}

* ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'s'' [[Hero Antagonist]] {{spoiler|Shinn Asuka}} was molded to the man he is when his family was killed by a stray shot in the [[Gundam Seed|previous series]] {{spoiler|during the fight between Kira Yamato and Orga of the Druggie Trio.}}

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Yami Bakura]] from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' became Yami Yugi{{spoiler|/Pharaon Atem}}'s archnemesis after Yami Yugi in his past life in Ancient Egypt raided Yami Bakura's home village.

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* Inverted in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'': Dumbledore underlines the fact that Voldemort created his own foe. Villain creating his own hero.

* In ''[[Seven Sorcerers]]'' by Caro King, the titular sorcerers are responsible for [[From Nobody to Nightmare|transforming]] Arafin Struud from an ordinary human into the [[Complete Monster]] [[Big Bad]] that he is by {{spoiler|first letting him drink from a potion that makes him fully immortal, and then torturing and mutilating him horribly to see [[Gone Horribly Right|just how good]] the potion works. And then trying to make amends with a simple "Sorry".}}

* This is basically the plot of ''[[Hench]]'': When the hero refuses to allow any negative publicity about a rescue operation that left the protagonist crippled, the protagonist find out who else has been screwed over by the hero, and then makes it her life's work to take him down.

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== Live-Action TV ==

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== Live Action TV ==

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', The Trio was created because of Buffy. Admittedly, Johnathan (who would have killed himself if it weren't for her, the ungrateful bastard) and Andrew were just in it for the taking over Sunnydale part, but Warren completely was in it for the killing Buffy due to her tracking down the origins of his sexbot April which caused his girlfriend to leave him (admittedly, a bitchy move). Over time he becomes worse in worse, going from jerkass to evil Jerkass to homicidal evil Jerkass to murdering evil Jerkass to his S8 appearance as a genocidal skinless Jerkass.

** Warren is both on the creating and created side, really. He attempts to murder Buffy, accidently killing Tara, sending Willow, one of the most powerful witches in exsistance, into a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] that including Warren being skinned alive. However, Warren survived the skinning due to another witch, Amy, who had turned evil out of jealousy for Willow having so much power without having to work at it (so Amy's another example). Warren then changed his hatred for Buffy into hatred from Willow.

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* The 1960's ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV show. In the [[Backstory]] to episode "Instant Freeze", Batman turned Dr. Schiml into Mr. Freeze by accidentally knocking a beaker of Instant Freeze on him, which warped his mind and turned him to a life of crime.

* While John Corben was actually turned into Metallo by Zod in [[Smallville]], he already had a hatred for the [[Superman|Red-Blue Blur]] after one of the criminals saved from a prison bus crash by the Blur murdered his sister.

== [[Video Games]] ==

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* Played extremely literally in Disgaea3. {{spoiler|Super Hero Aurum, having defeated Mao's Overlord father, found that he had run out of strong, evil opponents. So what does he do? He takes the guise of Mao's butler and heaps loads of mental issues and scewed opinions onto his already strained psyche to make his into an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] for him to beat and have a chance of being a hero again.}}

* The ''[[Ultima]]'' series is notorious for this. The only games in the main series in which the problems the Avatar has to solve are not the direct or indirect result of something he did in a previous game are the first and fourth.

== Web Comics ==

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* In ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' Sarda definitely qualifies, as the less-than-heroic actions of the Warriors of Light eventually results in Sarda learning how to warp reality and going back into the past to make their lives a living hell.

* The LOL Bat from ''[[PvP (webcomic)|Pv P]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120125041400/http://www.pvponline.com/2011/08/10/anger-management-part-three/ beats up a guy when he accidentally commits theft.] The courts mistake him for a budding supervillain due to his friends calling him the "Mad Hater" as a joke and place him in an insane asylum. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120124041307/http://www.pvponline.com/2011/08/11/anger-management-part-four/ The guy goes mad for real and takes his pre-existing grudge with LOL Bat to murderous levels.]

== Web Original ==

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* The villainous speedster Slipstream blames the [[Global Guardians PBEM Universe|Global Guardians]] for the death of his father, the superhero Dogfight (a former member of the Guardians himself) in the 9/11 attacks. Slipstream has sworn vengeance.

* In ''[[StarCraft]]'' Mengsk was responsible for making Kerrigan the Queen of Blades by leaving her to the Zerg.

== Western Animation ==

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* The ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' episode "Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed" actually begins with the title superhero accidentally creating the title weed by knocking a plant off a building and onto some power lines.

* [[The Venture Brothers|Doc Venture]] has a singular talent for this. Baron Ünderbheit became his enemy after an unspecified lab experiment blew off his jaw, The Monarch—probably justifiably—blames him for some college [[Noodle Incident]] that ruined his life, and Richard Impossible lost his mind after his wife tried to leave him for Rusty.

== Real Life ==

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