Draco in Leather Pants/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

** The only recurring villains who aren't in some way sympathetic are [[Even the Guys Want Him|Tony Dracon]] and [[Tim Curry|Sevarius]], and even ''they'' sometimes gets the DILP effect simply because of the former's looks, and the latter because he reminds us of a certain... ''familiar'' mad scientist with a suspiciously similar voice.

* Fanfics about ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' often depict the [[Rogues Gallery]] as a fun-loving bunch of lovable misfits who are unfairly and brutally harassed by [[Ron the Death Eater|the humourless Caped Crusader]]. Never mind that even in the kids' show's context, most of the Rogues were originally apprehended for attempting ruthless murders on hapless civilians for imagined or exaggerated slights, and that when Batman was put on trial for supposedly creating his foes, the jury of villains found him ''not guilty'' in the end and decided that they were responsible for their own messed-up behavior. Then they try to kill Batman anyway.

** It may be worth noting that in the late ''New Batman Adventures'' (a continuation of the first one) episode "Mad Love", Dr. Quinzel goes through ''exactly'' this process and falls in a twisted "love" with the Joker. A disturbing amount of fans see no problem with this. Meanwhile, on ''The Batman'''s side, Riddler's third appearance did give him a sympathetic backstory... but he also has a thin physique, a goth look, and the voice of Robert Englund, so that might have something to do with it.

** Disturbingly, there are clips from the show on Youtube that show Joker being verbally and physically abusive to Harley with comments sections filled with glowing adoration of Joker and jealousy of Harley.

* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' fandom does this to hell and back with Evil Flippy, insisting that he's really just misunderstood and needs the TRU WUV of [[Shrinking Violet|Flaky]], [[Mary Sue|some terrible OC]], or [[Screw Yourself|his good side]] in order to become an upstanding member of society. Never mind that [[Fan Dumb|they've already got Good Flippy to toy with.]]

* Dag from ''[[Back at the Barnyard|Barnyard]]'' could be justified by the fact that coyotes have to eat, but did he really have to antagonize that one farm in particular, kill Ben, make Otis feel small and attack during the day when no one was expecting them? [[Sarcasm Mode|I'm sure the fangirls wouldn't hold it against him]].

* Duncan from ''[[Total Drama Island]],'' oh so very much. It's invariably difficult to keep him in character seeing as his softer side overrules his bad-boy charm in the eyes of most fans. If you find a fanfic involving Duncan/Courtney, Duncan/Gwen, Duncan/ANYBODY, expect [[Draco in Leather Pants]] to come into play. (Although, those that ship him with Gwen do have some justified argument, she is the only one he is rather [[Morality Pet|nice to]].)

** Sierra. She is often toned down when paired up with Cody, losing almost all stalker traits and just becoming a normal girl who happens to like him. Never mind that her stalking habits ''were her entire purpose for the majority of the third season''.

* Marceline the Vampire Queen from ''[[Adventure Time]]'' [[The Hedonist|does whatever she feels like, whenever she feels like it]]. Unfortunately, while she sometimes feels like doing good things, what she feels like also tends to be things like stealing and attempting to vampirize people's beloved dogs without any provocation. Despite this, she has a massive fanbase who are busy justifying her actions. That she herself claims she's not evil, just [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|so old]] that she's [[Blue and Orange Morality|lost track of her ethical code]], the fact that vampires in the land of Ooo [[Our Vampires Are Different|drink the color red rather than blood specifically]], and her father is... ''[[Eldritch Abomination|that]]''... don't exactly help this treatment.

* Van Kleiss of ''[[Generator Rex]]'', largely because of his [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] claims and the fact that his opposing number [[Big Good|White Knight]] is an asshole.

** The rate of Van Kliess being given leather pants has died down, mostly becuase he's gotten more [[Kick the Dog]] moments while white Knight has been more sympathtic and gotten character development. More people are fans of him becuase he's a good villain than becuase of sympathy now. His new powers, disregard for his subordinates, massive use of the [[Mind Screw]] / [[Hannibal Lecture]] and intent to have EVOs rule the world while he rules the EVOs becoming clear have made him more the type of villain you love to hate.

* Tom of ''[[Tom and Jerry]]''. While something of an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]], fans have taken to downplaying his flaws ''completely'' and treat [[Ron the Death Eater|Jerry]] as if he's the bad guy in all their altercations. The truth is that neither one is by any means innocent, being victim and provocator in almost equal measure, but Tom just gets the DILP pass because the writers worked so hard to depict that ''Jerry'' (who, at the time at least, automatically got audience sympathy by [[Cats Are Mean|not being Tom]]) wasn't.

* Many [[Fan-Preferred Couple|Waul/Tanya]] shippers in the ''[[An American Tail]]'' fandom tend to get this way, and seem to gloss over the fact Waul tried to kill and eat Tanya's family.

* Murdoc of the ''[[Gorillaz]]'' is often seen this way, despite being a canonically alcoholic, exhibitionist, verbally and physically abusive megalomaniac.

* Plankton in ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''. It has been established that he's evil as he continued to try to take Krabs' secret formula in myriad ways. One episode even had him as a [[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk]] with him saying [[Card-Carrying Villain|"Being evil is just too much fun."]] He's also been shown to be a big [[Jerkass]] with all his screaming and being angry. In [[The Movie]], he had definitely crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. But due to [[Flanderization]] and [[Took a Level in Jerkass]] on the parts of the main characters in the later seasons (especially Mr. Krabs, who has become ''worse'' than Plankton now!), some fans sided with Plankton, forgetting all the evil and nasty stuff he did in the earlier seasons.

** It sometimes seems that the ''writers'' forgot all the evil and nasty stuff he did in earlier seasons. Plankton's evil schemes once involved him trying to [[Take Over the World]], but in later episodes all he wants to do is compete with the Krusty Krab. Not even destroy them or run them out of business; just ''compete''. As in, do something that would economically benefit all of Bikini Bottom. Meanwhile, Mr. Krabs is the one trying to monopolize business, and has gone as low as charging money from applicants who want to work with him for the fist couple of sessions, and charging money for ([[Fridge Logic|presumably fresh, otherwise nobody would pay for it]]) water. Who's really evil, here?