It’s because a lot of “Villain was right” candidates either
Are a villain protagonist like Kratos, Rick Sanchez, or Bojack Horsemann
Characters who are shown to be “cool”, especially if they have a lot of “Do not do this cool thing!” Energy behind their writing
Rorshach - he is his own category because in Watchmen no one else is proactive in doing… anything… and everyone else is shown to be either worse than him or ineffective… so it’s Alan Moore’s own writing fail that made people like him
Ozai doesn’t really apply anywhere here.
Btw, a lot of later MCU villains are unironically “The villain was right!” Characters… mostly because Hollywood demands heroes only represent the Status Quo, and villains only represent change.
But when the modern status quo is this fucked, it keeps running into “The villain is completely right for 99% of the movie… until near the end when he eats a puppy to prove he was bad all along”
Kilmonger from Black Panther is one of the more blatant “Did nothing wrong, but Hollywood loves status quo” non-villains
It’s because a lot of “Villain was right” candidates either
Are a villain protagonist like Kratos, Rick Sanchez, or Bojack Horsemann
Characters who are shown to be “cool”, especially if they have a lot of “Do not do this cool thing!” Energy behind their writing
Rorshach - he is his own category because in Watchmen no one else is proactive in doing… anything… and everyone else is shown to be either worse than him or ineffective… so it’s Alan Moore’s own writing fail that made people like him
Ozai doesn’t really apply anywhere here.
Btw, a lot of later MCU villains are unironically “The villain was right!” Characters… mostly because Hollywood demands heroes only represent the Status Quo, and villains only represent change.
But when the modern status quo is this fucked, it keeps running into “The villain is completely right for 99% of the movie… until near the end when he eats a puppy to prove he was bad all along”
Kilmonger from Black Panther is one of the more blatant “Did nothing wrong, but Hollywood loves status quo” non-villains