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The thing a lot of older stories understood was that while a good villain needs his reasons and emotional depth of character, these weren't meant to be seen as excuses. Nobody was going "OH BOO HOO POOR KANG THERE THERE YOU DIDNU DO NUFFIN." No he was a villain to be stopped. The nuance was there to give us something to reflect on, to see how we might fall so easily without caution and strength of characters. So many villains with backstories like Magneto use it to garner pity and treat it as a get out of jail free card.