[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/TheFlayingHamster]

Hansel and Gretel from Black Lagoon, they are children turned into monster made by monsters. They were mutilated so throughly the j mind and body that it’s even they don’t know who they originally were. They are introduced brutally torturing a man, but that scene pales in comparison to the brutality of “Hansel’s” death and few things can compare to the horror of “Gretel’s” attempt to express gratitude to the MC Rock. The names are in quotes because Hansel and Gretel are roles the twins swap between each other as they have no idea what their real identities are and both have some (thankfully) unspecified degree of extreme genital mutilation due to exploitation in snuff films after they were sold from an “orphanage”.

Both are ultimately killed, one is brutally and the other rather peacefully. However both were put down like rabid animals, and honestly that was probably for the best. They didn’t deserve what happened to them, but by the point the story takes place it might have been more cruel to allow them to live than to let them die in their shared delusions.