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Compelling villains are written with a deeper motivation for their actions than just 'hurt people' or 'be evil' and they have a tendency to challenge the status quo in some way. Such villains become sympathetic because the current status quo is oppressive.
It must be very difficult to write a villain for a contemporary piece of media because they can very quickly become a hero of the people.
Proof that neither following the law nor traditional morality are being appreciated by today's youth.
The reason for that should be obvious.
You can always fish out of water a villain. Their solution could sound reasonable where they come from, but during the quest for enlightenment be made clearly wrong, and they refuse to change. Breaking that step can turn the audience.
The problem is you can also make the villain a manchild whos sick of people not agreeing with him and the internet will call him based
based jack horner