When have you felt sorry for the villain?

HAL 9000 in 2001 A Space Odyssey

I was 100% on the side of Rebecca De Mornay’s character in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and Glenn Close’s character in Fatal Attraction. People shouldn’t be allowed to go on with their lives after they have hurt you. The two characters sought justice against the real villains.

Sarah Newlin in True Blood

She always went easy on her foes, which was why she was known as "Mildly" de Winter.

Our Faye is so beautiful in that role.

It’s so funny that the producers hired the actors for one film, knowing full well they’d actually be shooting two. The performers vaguely felt they were filming an AWFUL LOT of footage but assumed much would be cut.

Then at the world premiere they were all shocked when THE THREE MUSKETEERS ended with an invitation to look out for PART II, complete with flashy footage from the second part of the story.

A lot of theatrical agents were yelled at the next day.

Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest……

Lara Parker as Angelique

Wile E. Coyote

All the cats chasing mice (Tom and Jerry) or annoying little birds (Tweety) in the toons.

Frankenstein’s monster

King Kong

R2 you know what’s funny. That fact that you may not being sarcastic but serious.

Superman II

Hillary Clinton when she lost.

Strangers on a Train.

Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction." That scene in which she's sitting on the sofa turning the lamp on and off, on and off, on and off.

Been there, done that.

Sylvester the cat

Alexandra Cabot, from the Josie and the Pussycats cartoon. She was fun and interesting. Josie was the only character with no distinct personality, yet she was the star of the show. I always wanted Alexandra to blow her up.

I always felt sorry for Eleanor Parker as the Baroness in The Sound of Music. She was a helluva lot more fun than Maria, and she hated those warbling little rugrats. I identified with her.

Good ones r17 and r18. I didn't sympathize with The Wicked Witch in THE WIZARD OF OZ but I felt so sorry for her when she melted. I was a preschooler and it was the first death on TV that I understood.

I had seen Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald live on tv by then and it was shocking and real, but the witch dying hit me more.

And I always sided with the soap opera bitches of old. In the late 1960s-early '70s I was always GO RACHEL on Another World, for example. That was before the soap super villains who got away with murder, rape.

[quote] Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction." That scene in which she's sitting on the sofa turning the lamp on and off, on and off, on and off. Been there, done that.

Exactly. Her being so relatable is why it’s easy to root for her to get righteous vengeance.

Alex Forrest is a fantasy many of us never dared to indulge. Vicarious.

She is sympathetic up until a point. But by the time she boils the bunny and comes to their home. Bitch bye.

Fair enough r22.

Fatal Attraction deserves a re-do with a gay male Alex falling for a so-called str8 married Dan.

With Alex as the protagonist.

We Dataloungers could probably write it with precise accuracy.

[quote] Alex Forrest is a fantasy many of us never dared to indulge. Vicarious.

I’ve raised appropriate fear in a few people, but didn’t cross into anything illegal. Still, people must learn the lesson that there are consequences when toying with someone’s affections.

To me it is sexist to women to see Alex as some victim; she knew he was married and came on to him. Thats what true feminism is all about. For a woman to engage in an extra marital affair without catching feelings. When did Dan ever present this would be anything more than a weekend romp.

[quote] When did Dan ever present this would be anything more than a weekend romp.

That he regarded it as only a weekend romp is the problem.

R26 Im a guy and the problem is that she DOESN’T see it that way.

R27, if you do the same thing to people that was done to her, don’t be surprised if one of them appropriately lets you know they are not going to be ignored or tossed aside.

I'd watch that!!

R28 G was a dumb ho. She could have still had some hot dick on the side. No, what she wanted was more of his time than he was able to provide. Did she expect he was going to cancel all the pre-arranged plans he and wifey made. He still had to play hubby. Furthermore, he realize that bitch was batshit after the heart attack prank. Didn’t she lie after she really was all worked up and then he discovered her dad really did die from a heart attack. She should have just owned the truth that the prank really scared her and he would have apologized and consoled her.

I sympathized with Michael Douglas in A Perfect Murder. That cheating b*tch! How dare she?

Eric Cartman.

The more one is ignored by the person they think they love, the more the try to hold on… I really did feel for Alex in FA too.

Here’s a hint:

“I’m melting. What a world!”

My younger brother used to feel sorry for Dick Dastardly for always losing the Wacky Races.

Another vote for Robert Walker in " Strangers On A Train", the birds in " The Birds", Estelle Parsons in " Bonnie and Clyde"( more so as I have grown older.), and oddly James Mason in " North By Northwest". I think it's because he is so cultured and smart but so evil and cold at his center. I also feel for Tony Perkins in " Psycho " because I know he is mentally ill. And finally Mayella Ewell. She is a victim of every type of abuse. When she takes that stands the only power she has is the commonality of being white. She is such a tragic part of the movie. When her father is killed all I can think of is the hardship it will bring to her. I wish someone had written a book about her.

I didn’t feel sorry for Alex at all. What did she expect from a married man? Men don’t leave.

Martha in Baby Reindeer

Team Norma.

Wilder's, not Thalberg's.

Nor Bellini's.

When I got caught and paid.

Montgomery Clift when he drowned the fat girl. Gene Tierney when she drowned that little whiny bitch brother.

Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman in "Batman Returns."

R42 I felt sorry for Sharon Stone’s career after watching Halle Berry’s catwoman.

I almost always root for the villain.

Warden Sorenson

Bronislav "Bronek" Korchinsky played by Horst Buchholz in the film Tiger Bay. He gives up his freedom to save a lying street urchin played by Hailey Mills from drowning in the sea. It’s an older, relatively obscure film, but the ending was touching.

To hell with Sharon. Patsy Stone was the villain I always rooted for.

R5 Faye photographed beautifully in those old Musketeers films. I enjoyed the scene where she tries to kill Michale York’s character with a glass dagger full of acid, and then another scene where her maid enables York’s character to escape through a window as Faye’s pursued him. In that latter scene, Faye slaps and punches the maid around her head and shoulders. The actress playing the maid appears to struggle keeping her wig on as Faye wallops her.

I’d say it was probably when Jennifer said “Yes” to Ben’s “Will you?” for the second time, no?

I was rooting for Kevin Bacon in Hollow Man. Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin were kinda cunts once they realized they couldn't revert him back. He was a lunatic but I wanted him to kill at least one of them.

Tom In The Talented Mr. Ripley

Not only are you a lazy, lazy creepy creep, OP, you are also probably a person who buys out the redskin creamy potato salad at Gelson's WHEN YOU SHOULD KNOW THURSDAY IS MY DAY. And you don't even care about my character's name or the fact that it is CAPITALIZED,

[bold]when you imply libelously that I am a villain.[/bold]

I spit in your face. SPLKK.

(Don't step on my teef!)

AND FOR GOD SAKE'S PICK UP THOSE VCR TAPES IN YOU PARKING LOT.

I feel bad for Armie Hammer.

Godzilla

King Kong

Melania in 'The Third Wife of Donald Trump'.

Lucille Wexler

[quote]R39 Team Norma. Wilder's, not Thalberg's.

That cross eyed, no talent cunt.

NeNe Leakes

Especially now that the bitch is broke and doing cheap make-up modeling for Halloween on the end caps of my local Walmart.

Well R42 Catwoman didn't really die in Batman Returns (as we see her shadowy form pop up at the end).

I'm surprised no DLer aid The Penguin's watery death with his penguin buds coming to him.

No other '89-'97 Batman villain death bothered me.

^ "said" not "aid".

Raygun, Paris 2024.

Peter Lorre in M He was a sick man who couldn't control his compulsion to murder

Katherine Parker should have kept her job in ‘Working Girl’. She didn’t deserve to be fired after that low class slut Tess McGill rifled through her desk!

Oliver quick Saltburn

James Mason in Lolita (1962)

Pearl

Armie Hammer did not deserve to be cancelled for writing weird texts and fucking a grown woman.

Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons was much more interesting than the insipid goodies. I felt really riveted and strangelysympathetic to her at the end.

And embarrassingly, there are many, many villains who I am sympathetic to just because I thought they were very, very hot: Billy Zane being psycho in Dead Calm and being moustache-twirlingly sneery in Titanic. William Zabka beating up that annoying twerp Daniel in The Karate Kid, etc. etc.

[quote]R66 James Mason in Lolita (1962)

OMG, the last scene!

There’s an interesting series called The Lolita Podcast that goes into the novel and its adaptations. They point out that you can’t get a clear picture of the heroine’s character because the story’s told from Humbert’s point of view.

Plus in all the movie and stage versions Dolores isn’t depicted as 12… so the horror of what happens to this child is diffused.

But yes, James Mason is superb in that!

69 entries and no Beth Jarrett?

Marnie's mother

[quote] 69 entries and no Beth Jarrett?

DLers like her as a villainess, but I don’t think I’ve seen people feel sorry for her.

It’s really important to try to hurt me, isn’t it?

R72 Actually that’s a good choice. I swear Beth is the white upper middle class Frau version of my own Ma, just with no edge and only one son. You can’t heat French toast bitch. And I did for sorry for her because Buck was the son my mom never got.

I'm not sure I would classify King Kong as a villain. He is more of a victim. Ok he kills a few people but still.

Sometimes I feel sorry for Trump, who is definitely a villain. If only his father could have shown him some love, he wouldn't be this needy, horrible person who attacks anyone who doesn't bow before him and who sucks up to foreign dictators.

R76 Fuck that shit. No sympathy for the devil.

Kevin Costner in A Perfect World. He was really good in this, too.

Jaws in Jaws

I always feel sorry for Lina Lamont when she's humiliated at the end of "Singin' in the Rain." She's the most fun character in the movie, and I couldn't care less about Debbie Reynolds' dreary romance with hambone Gene Kelly.

The vampire in Fright Night. The version with Chris Sarandon.

Poor Osa Massen bitch-slapped by Joan Crawford in A Woman's Face.

Maybe not a villain but Jonah Ryan in Veep was treated very cruelly. But then the TV show was big on humiliating people as comedy.

Was Dawn Weiner a villian?

Not felt sorry for but I MARY myself when Amber and Velma see the error of their ways at the end of the Musical Hairspray.

Crystal Allen in The Women.

There's a name for you ladies.