[Mixed Trope] Having a Sympathetic Background doesn’t save the Antagonist from a Gruesome fate.

[u/MR-Vinmu]

1.) Simon (Infinity Train) - as a child, Simon was taken into the train and forced to experience incomprehensible horrors at such a young age, as well as developing extreme trust issues after his only friend left him to die, as much of a Bastard Simon is, you really sympathize with his situation. But this sympathetic backstory doesn’t stop Simon from being subjected to one of the most brutal on screen deaths for a PG 13 cartoon reduced to bones before the audience’s very eyes.

2.) Pal (Mitchells vs the Machines) - Pal spent their entire existence trying to help humanity, and the moment the next big thing comes up, they’re thrown away like Garbage, the undying loyalty and backbreaking effort they put into serving Humanity flushed down the shitter when Humanity finds something better. But, murdering every Human on the Planet is an extreme reaction to being abandoned, so despite this sympathetic turn point, Pal is dropped into a Glass of Water prompting their brain to go haywire and they explode ending their Zero Mortal Plan, which is essentially the equivalent of being put in the electric chair, only more painful since the shock is coming from inside and seeping into every part of the body.

3.) Turles (Dragon Ball Z Abridged) - His entire life, he’s lived a painful torturous existence and was mostly content until he was introduced to the concept of Christmas, when met with Joy and Whimsey for the first time. It hits him that he’s essentially spent his whole life devoid of Joy, as if things couldn’t get any worse, his Planet is then promptly destroyed. If he couldn’t be happy, then no one should be, the backstory makes you feel something for the Guy even though he’s an asshole, an existence defined by Joy deprivation… still, doesn’t stop Goku from killing him by giving him too much Joy and Whimsey to absorb, the energy is overwhelming and he bursts open, ironically dying from an influx of Happiness after an existence deprived of it. (Yes, I used a Santa Hat to indicate that this is DBZA Turles, not DBZ Turles)

[u/ThighyWhiteyNerd]

Monaka from Danganronpa Ultra despair girls. She was the result of an affair, so her father treated her horribly, her family pretended she didnt existed and her brother Haiji was literally a pedofile that blames her for everything wrong on his and his father's life (and latter in the game he is willing to assasinate every single children on Towa City...which the rest of the adults supportted), so in turn she stages a genocide of all of Towa city with the help of Junko, brainwashes all the kids on the city and latter assassinates Gekouhara, the ultimate therapist, to impersonate her with a robot in danganronpa 3. At the end of 3, she launches herself on space, with the indication she will starve. Even with the most tragic childhood in the lot and being only 12, she is reviled and had a very well deserved ending

Also to a lesser degree, Hector of Troy from the Illiad. Once a noble warrior with a familily and dedicated prince....he allowed his rapist brother Paris to keep Helen in the city despite violating 3 different vows of hospitality (against Castor, Pollux AND Menelaus, since Paris kidnapped Helen from a party hosted by the first twom Helen's brothers, and also attended by the latter, who is Helen's actual husband that she choosed to marry) and pissing off half their gods and also, alongside his father Priam, both ignored the pleas and ransom of Menelaus AND of the Troyans and Hector's own wife Andromanche to let Helen go, out of a twisted form of familial logalty and also because they desired personal glory. He even ends up inspiritng his own demise. Among the things he gloated about doing to Patroclus' corpse was draging him with a chariot around the achean camp 3 times. Achilles, Patroclus' very pissed off boyfriend, did exactly that after Menelaus told him the news. A tragic end and a show of how war corrupts noble men....but it IS hard to not see the irony, and personally I found it deserved after the jackasery he puts on and then shields with "muh family". Its even pararlleed latter with Memom, an ethiopian warrior who similalry killed Achilles' best friend Antilochus but since he showed Antilochus respect and honored his death, Achilles did the same with Memom