Random Anime Villains No One Blames For Being Evil (20 items)

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  (#17) Mao - 'Code Geass'

  Mao never would have become a villain if not for C.C. - but he also probably wouldn't have survived his childhood, either. When she found him, he was a helpless six-year-old orphan with no resources whatsoever. She raised him, but she also gave him the Geass power so that he could end her life. 

  His power proved to be uncontrollable. He was unable to stop reading people's minds, and the sensory overload eventually drove him completely insane. Because C.C. was the only person who he could talk to without being bombarded by their thoughts - and because she'd been raising him as her son - he became a lot clingier than she was comfortable with.

  Not wanting to mother this troubled child who couldn't even end her immortality like she asked him to, C.C. left him to his own devices.

  While none of this excuses his abusive behavior toward Shirley and Nunally, it's hard to see how he could have turned out differently. 
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  (#8) Shiro

  • Deadman Wonderland

  When Sorae Igarashi adopted Shiro, it wasn't with the intention of providing a child with a loving home. Instead, it was to use her as experimental fodder because Sorae didn't want to use her biological child, Ganta. The experiments were intended to improve the human immune system, but they were excruciatingly painful for Shiro - in many cases they literally made her arms fall off and her body come apart at the seams.

  To deal with the unbearable pain, Shiro developed an alternate personality called the Wretched Egg. The Wretched Egg was incredibly violent, taking multiiple lives in the goriest ways possible. 
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  (#18) Dilandau Albatau

  • The Vision of Escaflowne, Escaflowne

  When Dilandau Albatou is first introduced as the leader of the Dragon Slayers, he's a violent narcissist with a pathological fear of being alone and a burning desire to destroy Van. But his instability and cruelty stem from an excruciating childhood.

  Once upon a time, Dilandau was actually a girl named Celena Schezar. She was kidnapped and experimented on, a process that created her male identity. Because she didn't actually process what happened to her, she becomes increasingly mentally unstable as the series wears on. Despite this, the other members of the Dragon Slayers are extremely loyal to her. Eventually, she does resume her original idenity and reconnect with her brother Allan, but getting there is no easy task. 
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  (#13) Nine & Twelve - 'Terror In Resonance'

  While the exact motives for Nine and Twelve's acts of terrorism is never directly revealed, it's heavily implied that their motivation was to bring light to their experiences with the Athena Project. 

  The Athena Project was ostensibly supposed to educate gifted children, but the reality was nothing of the kind. The true aim of the project was to test a dangerous drug on children. The drug was supposed to be able to induce Savant Syndrome, a condition in which brain function is elevated in a single area. Those with Savant Syndrome would be used as government tools. The drug proved to be wildly damaging to many of those drafted into the study, permanently destroying their bodies and minds.

  Nine and Twelve were part of the project, and they escaped by setting fire to the institution. 
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  (#20) Yut-Lung Lee - 'Banana Fish'

  Yut-Lung Lee is the youngest member of the Lee family - the biggest crime family in China. He briefly allies himself with Dino Golzine in order to figure out the chemical composition of a drug called Banana Fish, and he repeatedly acts aggressively toward both Ash and Eiji. 

  Why does he want to help a slimebag like Golzine, and why does he hate Ash and Eiji so much? It's because of his horrifically painful childhood. Yut-Lung is the son of a high-ranking member of the Lee family, as well as his teenage mistress. When his father passed away, his older half-brothers assaulted and then killed his mother, leaving him an orphan. Enraged at his brothers, he grew up hoping to get revenge - and the Banana Fish drug was an avenue by which to achieve that. As for Ash and Eiji, he's intensely jealous of the fact that they're actively experiencing love and human connection, and he has none of that in his own life. 
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  (#14) Akito Sohma

  • Fruits Basket

  Heads up - this section is spoiler-heavy if you haven't read the Fruits Basket manga.

  Akito Sohma, the head of the Sohma clan, is a source of constant terror for the rest of the family. But it's hard to fully hold it against her. Why? Because Akito was taught to behave that way by her deeply unstable mother Ren.

  First of all, notice the pronoun 'she.' Akito was born female, but was raised as a boy. Why? Because her mother couldn't stand the idea of her husband Akira loving any woman - even their daughter - as much as he loved her. Akira did love his daughter, but he passed away from undefined ill health - which Akito inherited. Sick, grieving, and alone with a mother who hated her, Akito had a miserable childhood.

  But how does that translate to physically and emotionally abusing her family? Because Akito inherited the 'god position' of the Sohma curse, her father told her that the other cursed members would love her unconditionally. Her father was the only person who treated her well. Meanwhile, her mother, who treated her horribly, told her that everyone hated her and would abandon her. That led to Akito lashing out at the rest of her family in order to keep them from leaving. 

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