Cartoon/fairytale villains you think were wronged

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For me, it’s the witch in Hansel and Gretel.

Independent lady living her life in her dream cottage when two snivelling brats come and try to eat her house.

I would agree if it were not for the fact that her entire house is a lure for said snivelling brats because she wants to eat their livers with some fava beans.

Maleficent, she was just angry that she was snubbed from the party... bit rude really

I liked the scene in Shrek (3?) where Prince Charming talks with the baddie fairytale characters about their sense of injustice and disappointed lives. It's very clever.

This whole thread will be victim blaming.

The three bears. They were victims of a house breaker who damaged their furniture and ate their food. When I did this story with my Reception class I always took another look at it from the bears' point of view.

The three bears. Goldilocks is a little shit, breaking and entering, stealing and destruction of property.

Maleficent

He cut off her wings. 😱 He butchered her, and everyone still thought Maleficent was a baddie.

Dick Dastardly. If only the organisers of the Whacky Races had bothered to take him aside and explain, 'Look, Dick me old mate, here are the rules. When you're ahead in the race, just keep going.'

The witch in Rapunzel. I mean, pregnancy cravings aren’t really an excuse for repeatedly robbing your neighbour’s garden. Ok, taking their baby in exchange for some greens might be a bit much, but then the ungrateful little hussy grows up and elopes with a passing prince. The ingratitude.

I've never forgotten the one where he nearly won but ran out of petrol just before the finish line!

Edgar the Butler - flipping posh cats !

Mr McGregor, those rabbits keep stealing his radishes, no wonder he's always moody and trying to catch them.

Also the wicked stepsisters. They had a narcissistic mum who held them to unrealistic beauty standards and her disappointment in them was obvious.

Ok, so they were mean to Cinderella, but she had the privilege of beauty, and they were never going to bag a prince with their massive hooves.

Not a cartoon or a fairytale but Baroness Elsa von Schraeder in the Sound of Music.

She put in so much work to land that grumpy man only for some nun to come along and seduce him with her wholesome bloody ways. So unsisterly, Sister Maria.

Rumplestiltskin.
The miller tells a stupid lie which gets his daughter into a terrible fix, R bails her out. Then she tries to renege on the agreement she'd made with him, he gives her a chance to escape his terms. But she doesn't play fair and guess, she sneaks about and cheats.

I always felt sorry for the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk as he gets his stuff stolen, but then I read the original and understand he killed Jack's dad and his poor wife is terrified of him.

The old man faking ghosts in a deserted fairground in order to recoup a fraction of the money he ploughed into it, probably in order to afford some simple health insurance and a basic retirement.

I'd have been been cursing the pesky kids who ruined the plan, too. A bunch of weird young adults turning up uninvited in their flower power campervan with a huge off-lead dog? Fuck that shit.

@AutumnCrow That is the best thing I have read for quite a while.

Sid from Toy Story. That kid is the only character in the whole schmaltzy mess with an ounce of creativity and an original mind. Give me Sid over the other mawkish whiny brat any day.

You can deal firmly with burglars without resorting to cannibalism. And the brats in question didn't really have the best start in life.

The so called Wicked Witch of the West. She wuz robbed, those shoes were hers! (You know, this story might have legs, I could see it as a long running stage musical)

Not quite what the op asked but it always stays with me about the bed bound grandparents in charlie and the chocolate factory who get up and start dancing when they find out Charlie is rich.

Charlie's mother has been nursemaid to her parents and her in laws and the buggers could walk all the time.

Yes! That poor woman was run ragged caring for them all and Grandpa Joe practically did handstands to get out of bed when there was a whiff of a day out.

All he was short was the Daily Mail sad face.

I agreed about the 3 bears, the Wicked Witch of the West and the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk.

A friend of mine agreed with you, went to a Singalong Sound of Music dressed as the Baroness (I was a brown paper package tied up with string) when we were students, and managed to get a large portion of the crowd cheering on the Baroness with cries of ‘You’re too good for him, love!’ and hissing Maria when she danced with Captain Von Trapp.