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You made me this way and you get to be the good guy!?
~ Catra to Shadow Weaver
Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzs' were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Schtumpel and eat Doonkelberries, I would stand for hours.
~ Heinz Doofenshmirtz recalling how he was forced to spend countless hours of his childhood acting as a lawn gnome.
I sacrificed everything, and it meant nothing.
~ Wanda Maximoff talking about how she killed Vision with her own hands only for Thanos to rewind time and take the Mind Stone from him.

Inconsistently Heinous villains who are punished much more than they really deserve, for some cases in extremely or even disproportionately cruel measures, to the point where It often feels unfair and unnecessary and It attracts great amounts of sympathy for them. Note: Not all villains who are tragic qualify as scapegoats because in some cases their tragedy, while still holding up, might not be quite bad enough to make them scapegoats (e.g. Walter White). It depends on case by case but for someone to be a scapegoat, they need to have suffered immensely throughout their life and not just have a tragic backstory which motivates their actions.

Similarly, villains can be prevented from being scapegoats if they commit crimes that outweigh their fates even if they are tragic, insecure, villains by proxy or all (e.g. Thanos, Davy Jones, Henry J. Waternoose III, Dracula, Bryce Walker, Haggar, Scott Shelby, Mina Loveberry, El Macho, Count Dooku, Tyler Howard, and Koba).

Another way a villain is prevented from being a scapegoat is if they are tragic but then redeem themselves before completely rising above their tragedies and getting better lives. (e.g. Noodle Burger Boy, Dagur the Deranged and Sunset Shimmer.)

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