This is a topic i've been thinking about for a bit now, and I'm wondering what's the tropes you've seen in regards to this.
Examples are: characters being represented as villainous or dubious in nature because of ugliness, mental illness, disability, ETC. (The weirdest example of this i can think of are cats being originally evil or villain-coded?)
I don't have many to put in here but one that annoys me a lot is villains being aroace or headacanoned as aroace
The idea that villains are just- bad, most people are effected by circumstances in their life, leading them to do the things they do.
I'm going to use Maleficent as an example.
I'm not saying putting a curse on a baby because you weren't invited to the christening is an excuse, but if you watch Maleficent, the king (or so done close to the king) cut off Maleficents wings, and this series of actions turned her into what she was in Sleeping Beauty.She
Most people think the villain is just bad because they want to, but most evil actions are cause by sonething, whether it's trauma, hate, anger or the need for revebge
The type of villain that if the are holding a gun to your head and you ask why they are doing what they do they either have a crisis or struggle to respond.
Ok but the mom from turning red and abuala from Encanto are not the villains they are also victims and the didn't do anything wrong they were effected by things they couldn't control and tried to do the best they could but they made mistakes and everyone calls then villains for making mistakes.