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* Bishop Patricius in The Mists of Avalon. Granted, he was very lawful and by-the-book. And he was the head of Christianity, which was the new "invading" religion, as compared to the Druidism that the Lady of the Lake and the Merlin were the heads of. But did he really deserve such a horrendous portrayal?
* [[The Bible]] has numerous examples of misunderstood people whose actions make them out to be villains. Potiphar, for example, may have had Joseph jailed on trumped-up charges, but he's portrayed as a faithful husband to his not-so-faithful wife nonetheless, and he apparently wasn't thinking very clearly.
* Marietta Edgecomb and Cho Chang in [[Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix.]]. While we can all agree that Marietta attempting to rat out Dumbledore's Army wasn't a wise move, we're supposed to believe that she deserved to be deformed for it. This is especially jarring since it was heavily implied that she did it out of fear that her mother would lose her job at the Ministry of Magic. Cho is this because she actually dared to speak against Hermione for setting up the Jynx. We're supposed to think that Harry's breakup with her was justified, but Cho had every right to call Hermione out for something a Death Eater would do.
 
 
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