Fake Tragic

Entertainingly Detestable characters who wrongly appear to be tragic, when in truth they are not, due to their tragedies either being too small to justify their heinous actions or they are non-existent at all. Some of them can qualify as Debased if they possessed genuine redeeming qualities before becoming evil.

Villains in this category include:

• Villains whose "tragedies" are really petty and laughable excuses for villainy (e.g. Syndrome, Rumpelstiltskin, Tighten, Infinite, Piella Bakewell, Big Jack Horner and Master Control).
• Villains who brought their misery onto themselves while blaming it on someone, or worse, everyone else thus making them lairs who fail to see the responsibilities of their actions (e.g. Judge Claude Frollo, Peter Griffin, Thanos (Squid Game), Lord Shen, Femto and Zurg).
• Villains who felt unloved or underappreciated but became unsympathetic due to the nature of their actions (e.g. Dave, Heather, Roman Bridger, Jill Roberts, Lord Dominator, Mr. Krabs and Turbo).
• Villains who experienced genuine tragedies (e.g. losing their family or loved ones, experiencing prejudice, being bullied/abused, abandoned, tortured, rejected by society, living in poverty, losing friends, having major health issues such as diseases, disorders, disabilities, etc.), but exaggerate how badly it affected them to lie to themselves or make false excuses for their actions or simply immune or no longer affected by what happened to them (e.g. Dahlia Hawthorne, The Cousins, Stu Macher, Bill Cipher, Niles, Dio Brando, Jax and Pythor P. Chumsworth).
• Villains who were exposed to evil forces which brought out their darkest qualities, toxins that were slowly killing them, given powers that were difficult to appropriately use, etc. but instead of searching for help, seeking a proper way to incorporate their powers, or learning self-control, they used it as an excuse to take up villainy (e.g. Light Yagami and Muzan Kibutsuji).
• Villains whose excuse sounds good enough, but there's no in-universe proof it ever happened or if they're even affected by it, or is completely made-up and never happened (e.g. Diavolo, Harley Sawyer, Joker and Junko Enoshima).
• Villains who were already cruel and vile people to begin with before experiencing any form of trauma, whether it was genuine or not. As such, their tragedy is prevented from being a legitimate Freudian excuse in the first place (e.g. Emperor Palpatine, Alex DeLarge and J).