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** [[Tim Curry]] in general inspires this in fans, making is somewhat of a bad idea to cast him as a villain since it means that fans will prefer him more than the protagonists.
** As the Prince of Darkness in ''[[Legend]]'', in spite of Hollywood makeup and latex's every attempt to make him look bestial and demonic he might as well have been wearing leather pants ''all over his body''. And on his head.
* Deliberately played with in William Castle's ''Mr.Sardonicus''. The title character is quite similar to a [[The Phantom of the Opera|Phantom of the Opera]] before becoming [[Progressively Prettier]] (driven insane by a disfigurement, searching for love, etc.). Reportedly, two endings were filmed: a [[Good Ending]] where Sardonicus is cured and redeemed, and a [[Bad Ending]] where he dies. This being a William Castle movie, audiences were allowed to vote on whether they thought the character deserved mercy. ''Every damn time'', they killed him, and it looks like the mercy ending is lost forever, if it ever existed. Sounds harsh? It turns out that a guy who looks like [https://web.archive.org/web/20110630045504/http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/69/230x306/69397_gerard-butler-as-the-phantom.jpg this] is easier to forgive than a guy who looks like [http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2364/2186924247_5cb2d6583f.jpg?v=0 this].
* Tavington in [[The Patriot]] has no shortage of swoony fans. (The shaving scene!) Again, this is probably due to the [[Anvilicious]] presentation of Mel-Gibson-as-reluctant-messiah-[[Braveheart|again]] and Tavington as a ridiculously [[Evil Brit]] leading people to [[Rooting for the Empire|Root For The Empire]] (plus he's played by Jason Isaacs).
* [[The Dark Knight|The Joker]] and [[Batman Begins|the Scarecrow]] seem to get this a lot in Batman fanfiction. Leave it to crazed fangirls to pick two of the most evil characters in a series that actually has several sympathetic (or in the case of the ordinary mobsters, at least normal) villains to crush on. This is made even more bizarre by their neglect of Two-Face, who is actually sympathetic.
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