Tumblr has a really weird relationship with villains. They've been so caught up in identity politics that they order we must only currently have villains like Trump (evil racist/sexist/whateverist) and they mustn't be liked, or they must be punished by the narrative.
"Acceptable" villains are characters like Loki, who will murder and deceive anyone nearby, but give him a tragic backstory and make him "hot", and tumblr will cry for him to be redeemed. OTOH, the Joker is a shitlord not for killing and torturing so many innocent people, but for only abusing women (crippling Batgirl, his abuse of Harley). And obviously, anyone who likes the Joker is an evil misogynist who should be doxxed.
IDK if this post makes any sense but I guess that's a correct statement of the whole deals with morality in tumblr regarding fictional characters. I just think the trope page has always been rather dumb and childish and TVTropes would be better off without it.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
I checked, we at ATT have this page too, and while I'd still argue it deserves to exist, since it is a valid type of villain in media, Tumblr is ironically asking for the Hays Code to make its revival in media, where if a villain was this type, they would be punished for it and could not escape negative consequences no matter what, which, if you want to be realistic, doesn't always happen. Sometimes these sorts of villains succeed and are never punished, that's true in reality, and for fiction to be realistic when depicting plausible villains, it must do likewise on occasion.
If anything, the feels over reals crowd is actually justifying the existence of this character archetype by their complaining, because if the villain triggered your political sensitivity, they did their job in making the audience mad, which is the point. The fact that hurts their feelings is irrelevant, that's the raison d'etre for the villain existing, whining about it is like griping that people have to breathe air.
And persecuting people for liking the villain is just idiotic. Fictional people are like real people, they can have their virtues and their horrors, sometimes in equal measure. The Joker is hilarious, but he's also abusive. I can laugh at his funny moments, but be disgusted by the abusive moments, and Tumblr is infantile if they can't accept fictional people, to be realistic in depiction, need to be like people in real life, with both redeemable (or at least neutral) qualities as well as despicable ones.
At the same time, fiction can be boring if these are the only villains you want, especially if you want a fictional strawman to stand in for real life people you hate. Fiction is not solely propaganda to make you feel better, nor should it always be, otherwise it will not challenge your feelings and emotions and make you think, and Tumblr is a hive of close minded fools if they believe otherwise.
And the trend of lionizing monsters if they look good and have tragic pasts is really stupid, and suggests to me a lot of Tumblr users have a twisted sense of morality if all it takes to accept a genocidal lunatic is a pretty face and a sob story.
