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{{trope}}
{{quote|''See, my sister got raped
''So a man got killed
''A local boy went to prison
''The man was buried on the hill.''
|'''The Tragically Hip''', "38 Years Old"}}
Sometimes, in a mystery, or a [[Police Procedural|Police]] or [[Law Procedural]], the writers will have a criminal who is intentionally sympathetic to the audience; sometimes to amplify the drama, sometimes to make the problem a true moral dilemma, and sometimes just because the story is [[Ripped from the Headlines]], and the sympathetic part is necessary to get to the Headline in question.
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See also [[Manslaughter Provocation]], and [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] for those who put the "pathetic" in "sympathetic".
If the character was introduced and fleshed out ''before'' he was revealed to be a murderer, it's [[Sympathetic Murder Backstory|Sympathetic Murder Backstory.]]
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Elfen Lied|Lucy]]. [[Broken Bird|Dear]] ''[[Break the Cutie|God]]'', [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Lucy!]] Even being a mass murderer with a penchant for [[Slasher Smile]]s and [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] isn't enough to keep her from being sympathetic; her backstory is ''just that crappy'' that you can't help but want to give her a hug even when she's in the middle of eviscerating some innocent or not-so-innocent soul.
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