Quote Originally Posted by The World View Post
All sad backstories should be met with a complete and total "nobody cares". You have to stop giving people sympathy so the writers stop using it as a crutch to make you care about characters they're too incompetent to properly develop. I miss the days when people went through stuff and had to learn how to deal with it but the Bat writers have popularized whining about your problems and walking around with a chip on your shoulder.
I no longer believe the villains need to be sympathetic. There are plenty of terrible people out there who are terrible for other reasons than “daddy never loved me”.