This Troper tends to do this to The Phantom unfortunately.

This Troper does the same, in the fanfic she's currently-kindof-working on. She also makes Raoul a bit of a Ron the Death Eater. What can she say? She doesn't like Raoul.

This troper could never help but romanticize Peter and Paul from {{Funny Games}}. Yes, the psychopathic murderers that the audience is ''supposed'' to despise. She particularly adores Peter- in her eyes he almost obtains woobie status, with the way Paul is constantly making fun of him. This troper and her best friend have long conversations about Peter and Paul's connection, and how Peter is ''obviously'' in unrequited love with Paul, who is entirely aware of it and uses him because he can. Yes, I'm kind of ridiculous.

And, of course, this troper and Leopold and Loeb. Not too far off, there, troper mine. (Of course, unlike most DILP subjects, this troper doesn't even try to retcon or explain away how fucked-up L&L were. In fact, she embraces it like a thing you'd embrace a lot. The psychological equivalent of UglyCute. And it helps that she doesn't forgive the two of them for murdering a child because of their respective fucked-uppedness.)

Rorschach keeps coming up in reference to {{Watchmen}}, but for This Troper, it was...Ozy. Particularly with movie accent. Or maybe not--ThisTroper appreciates his {{Magnificent Bastard}}y rather than writing it off.

For Some reason This Troper has leather pants'd the hell out of Uther Pendragon from the BBC's "{{Series/Merlin}}" despite his repeated Kick the Dog moments and the truth of Arthur's birth, I can't help but kinda sympathize with the guy...this has caused many many arguments with friends.

If there can be any justification for putting Colonel Volgin in leather pants... This troper has a close friend who is very similar to Major Raikov, personality-wise (kinda scary, I know). Said friend therefore very easily identifies with Raikov, and is able to see Volgin through the same rose-colored glasses he does. As for this troper herself... she just got dragged along for the ride. There really is no excuse.

I had a crush for a really cute, but cold as snow boy when I was around 12; he even kinda looked like Draco. Nevermore, please. Really. The boy was cruel to the point of kicking the nerd, I mean, me. Alas, that was the thing that made me stop liking the pest. Since then, I started liking the nerdy, shy boys. Trauma-induced change in preferences.

A huge stretch because she's not really villainous, but for this troper the most attractive character in MulhollandDrive to him wasn't Betty or Rita. It was Watts' other character (and the true main character) Diane Selwyn. Depressed, reclusive, suicidal, borderline psychopathic Diane Selwyn. It's partially because she has an air of maturity and jadedness about her that her fantasy persona Betty lacks, and it's partially her edgier hairstyle, but it's mostly because he just wants to give her a big hug and get her on her feet.

Out of all the characters of ''LordOfTheFlies'', this troper liked Jack the most when forced to read the book for English class because he was ''eeeeeevil'', and therefore so much better than any of the other characters (who got on her nerves). She also pictured him being pretty hot, probably because she thinks redheads are hot.

This Troper finds this amusing because if he remembers correctly, part of the reason Jack was so very, very jealous of Ralph was that Jack was ugly.

This troper is willing to forgive any evil character, no matter how despicable, played by the late Anthony Ainley. Not just The Master, but also Rev. Emilius from ''The Pallisers'', Deitz the treacherous German in ''The Land That Time Forgot'', and even rapist in the movie ''It helped that he was a nice man in real life and sort of a fan letter pen pal. Besides, just look at him. Can you blame me? However, since this troper's focus has shifted to [[RobinWilliams certain other people, she could call her version of this trope "Merritt Rook In Rainbow Suspenders". It's SickAndWrong, I know.

There was also a G-rated version in the above troper's childhood: Evil The Cat from ''EarthwormJim''. She would constantly make up stories in her head about how he's not really evil (even though it's right there in the name). It wasn't sexual at all, she just liked cats. She really could not believe that anyone could hate cats so much to make one truly evil... and was very depressed to find out many years later that it's actually very common.

This troper had a similar motive for suggesting that the Cat O'Nine Tails enemies in Donkey Kong Country II were not evil (it helps that they don't seem to be reptilian, although many other enemies aren't), and assumed they weren't part of the Kremlings' forces.

This Troper hopes to avert this trope as much as possible! Not only is the villain in my story a resident of UncannyValley, but he is a serial rapist who leaves semen-stained underwear for his stalked victims!

Out of all the characters in Tales of Vesperia, perhaps my favourite was Zagi. Zagi was at first a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere but then the current BigBad / ClimaxBoss sics him on you...then he just keeps coming and coming back at you practically out of nowhere. I have no idea why I liked him, for some reason his boss battles seemed funner than most and he loved how mysterious that was. Hey, nothing's wrong with a classic Serial-killer or maniac subvillain now is there?

This Troper knows that May Wong was supposed to be a "villain" (or at least TheLibby) in KaleidoStar...but Jesus she's just so adorable and pretty and...well, {{Moe}}. I honestly can't bring myself to dislike her. I mean for crying out loud they couldn't have at least made her older or less mind-numbingly cute? Really, that's our villain? Really? I'm supposed to hate '''this'''? [[http://silvana-sweet-girl.piczo.com/?g=45493413&cr=7]] She looks like a Barbie doll in a tutu!

She ''does'' go through CharacterDevelopment that makes her less of a {{Libby}} after she breaks her arm. Nothing wrong with liking her after that.

One of this Troper's friends has essentially become a real-life DracoInLeatherPants (and is a bit of a KarmaHoudini). I feel like I'm the only one who can see everything they're doing for what it really is, and it's frustrating and ''painful...''

This Troper's mother and father are huge fans of ''MadMen'', their favorite characters being Don Draper and Pete Cambell, (respectively). Both are willing to go through extremely convoluted mental contortions to justify/excuse their favorite character's numerous KickTheDog moments, while simultaneously condemning the others'. As for ThisTroper, his favorite character is Joan Holloway, whom he freely admits is evil. He is guilty of giving this treatment to Lara Raith and Adelle DeWitt, however.

This troper has always liked foxes, so it's only natural that he sympathized a bit with Sela from {{Redwall}}. Seriously, she's a mercenary healer who's hired to heal the villain...and secretly intends to sell his battle plans to the ''good guys''. Than Constance (still one of my favorite characters, mind you) shows up, beans her over the head and takes the plans without leaving a dime, and she's killed by Cluny shortly afterwards. Of course, Chickenhound can just die in a fire.

Ditto. Stupid {{fantastic racism}} and {{black and white morality}} make any morally grey character with half a brain's worth of sense in their head bite the dust!

This troper tends to reflexively rationalize the misdeeds of evil or morally gray characters he likes (particularly Cornelia from CodeGeass, Soifon from {{Bleach}}, Kariya and Uzuki from TheWorldEndsWithYou) by four major ways 1)often by emphasizing the better parts of their personality(Cornelia's love for her younger sister Euphemia), 2)judging their deeds as less bad as other evil characters, 3)suggesting mitigating circumstances (like Soifon's hostility toward others partly due to how obnoxious her own lieutenant is), or 4)AlternateCharacterInterpretation (suggesting that Soifon is LawfulNeutral as a result of pressure to live up to her family's standards, but that for Yoruichi's sake, she'd willingly turn Neutral or ChaoticGood). His attitude in response to bringing up such characters' transgressions is more often a "Yes, but..." than "That's not true!"

This Troper sometimes catches himself doing this, too. Ben Linus may be a manipulative and borderline sociopathic individual, but the poor guy had such a rough lot in life and still manages to endure almost all of the terrible things which happen to him with a degree of confidence that's undeniably admirable.

This Troper has a bad case of this for Glory of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Yes she's a pure evil arrogant ex-god, but she's so pretty and ditzy and wants to go home! ''Dammit.''

This troper knows full well what a cold-hearted, manipulative, uncaring, two-faced bastard Matt Engarde]] is, and knows full well that he would NEVER experience guilt or remorse, or feel any genuine connection with a woman. That didn't stop her from pairing him [[EnemyWithout evil half, no less!]] with her friend's character in a roleplay. *FacePalm*

This troper (unknown20troper) for Norm the Genie. This troper completely misinterpreted practically everything about him and only realized it when he was put on the DracoInLeatherPants. This troper realizes now that he is a cruel, prideful, jerk and she likes it that way . In fact, this troper now has a terminal fear of writing him even a bit OOC without a good explanation or having any kind of thought about him in which he is OOC. Probably helpful for keeping him InCharacter I guess.

While this troper was creating the antagonist/stalker for her newest series of original fiction, she actually ''tried'' to make him so despicable he'd become a DILP for someone. Let's see, vampire? Check. Rich and well-dressed? Check. Has infinite amounts of HoYay with the hero, who he stalks? Check. His little sister hated him after he was turned, giving him a tragic past? Check. Really, ''really'' good-looking? Check. Rapes and then devours little girls so he can retain his beauty? Che- WAIT A MINUTE.

Note: That sounds freaking awesome. *clap clap clap*

I'm glad you think so! Now just wait until December, when the first novel (my [=NaNoWriMo=] project for this year) is finished and posted...somewhere!

This troper ''still'' thinks Alec Trevelyan from GoldenEye was far, FAR hotter than any of James Bond's multifarious incarnations.

This troper thinks that is a logical corollary of being played by Sean Bean.

This troper, being TheMessiah, can't help but see Sasuke Uchiha from {{Naruto}} as a huge woobie, even with all of his flaws. The reaction most Naruto fans had to Gaara? That's how this troper is about Sasuke. Unfortanately, I have MamaBear tendencies about him, and tend to come off as a rabid {{Fangirl}}...

Same here; although she didn't really consider him a woobie until she saw the flashbacks to the massacre. He's just so adorable and kinda timid and ''has no idea what's going to happen''...

This Troper is pretty sure this counts as DILP, - liking a CompleteMonster like the BigBad of WhenTheyCry certainly ain't looks like watering down something! Yes, Sneebs knows human experimentation, killing children in cold blood and mass murder are NOT socially appropriate or forgivable. But at the same time the back story of said character was so terribly tragic and said character's determination and commitment to their goal was extremely admirable ([[UnderStatement if a bit obsessive); at least, before before crossing the MoralEventHorizon anyhow. Still, that outfit worn once TheReveal happens is pretty stylish, especially that hat. Except for the rather dreadful events that accompanied the revelation, the character had most of the traits of TheWoobie, and (In the best timeline of this series) that character's breakdown after the confrontation with the manifestation of Oyashiro-sama made me hope for a possible recovery and/or redemption (after all, that specific timeline had no major atrocities committed).It made me appreciate the epilogue of the anime's second season all the more. Yay! A happy ending can be possible!]] Still - child evisceration - WTF?!

This troper actually subverts it: yes, Sensui is hot, yes, he's awesome, but he's still a NietzscheWannabe JerkAss, and the '''last thing on Earth''' this troper would want would be for him to be real (unlike most fans of DILP characters who believe that they can fix the evilness out of their fannish desire). He'd lock himself in his basement to save his own rear end from Sensui and/or the demon horde! (To be completely honest, he likes villians not because EvilIsSexy, but because writing a really good, believable, human one is really hard to pull off, and, when done properly, they're easily the most intersting characters in the show.)

Alex from ''AClockworkOrange''. Why yes I do have some issues

And so do I. Pleased to meetcha. (And strangely, it's only for novel Alex-- the one who drugs and rapes twelve year old girls.)

Semi-aversion! I do have a few favorite villains I find interesting. Often because of their personality, competency, presence, sense of style, sheer terrifying evil nature - or all those combined! However, it doesn't mean I'd genuinely like them, want to befriend them, (heavens forbid)look up to them or even want to bump into them, anywhere, ever. Without further blabber, here's my squad of terror: Ringwraiths, Emperor Palpatine, Ser Gregor Clegane, Anton Chigurh, TDK Joker... Who knows if I find more?

This troper always made fun of Draco in Leather Pants people and thought they were kinda dumb. Then she realised she had been doing the same thing for a long time. She has had a huge crush on Babylon}} Seishirou Sakurazuka ever since she first read TokyoBabylon, which extended to {{X}} and {{Tsubasa}}. She got her mom hooked on TRC and they watch it together all the time. So when Sei-chan showed up, I told my mom he was really a nice guy in the original work, knowing she hates scary things so she would never see his original role. She realized she was exactly the same when she recently sifted through her picture collection of CLAMP guys and realized Seishirou, while still hot, kinda...scared her...

NENA.TRINITY. What can I say? The girl's freaking hot, especially when she's crazy.

Believe me, you're not the only one. This Troper is ''very'' averse to the DILP trope, but she can't help adoring both Nena and Rolo from CodeGeass... with the strange twist that she also ''adores'' the people they inflict more suffer on (Louise, for Nena; Shirley, for Rolo. And hell, if loving Suzaku and May Wong from KaleidoStar, as well as not wishing Mayuri's painful demise in the current moment (wait until the HM arc is over, at least) makes me a DILP lover, ''so be it''.

Agreed on Nena. Probably one of the chief reasons this troper loves her is because he can't help but feel she got a raw deal in terms of writing. She's one of the director's favorite characters, so geez, why couldn't they make her actually ''amount'' to something in Season 2?

I say, "Hear, hear".

During Ribbons Almark's final battle with Exia in the finale of season 2, this Troper found himself screaming at the screen, "Go Newtype boy! Show that whelp how they did it in the old days!" And then he lost...

This editor attempted to intentionally do this in a D&D campaign, where one recurring villain was a misunderstood cute tiefling rogue. The players didn't care. Oddly, a later CorruptHick Lizardfolk rage mage was hugely adored by a few of the players, despite her rampant racism and desire to slice up anyone who got in her way.

Well Duh, you really think D&D players (who are mosty male) would care about some Red pretty boy problems wend they could have a CrazyAwesome Lizard Chick?

You don't know this editor's group.

Most of the time, this troper doesn't even find villains sympathetic/affable due to their looks, but simply from how they act

Mayuri Kurotsuchi, for one. People consider him a CompleteMonster KarmaHoudini, but I have always found him such an over-the-top character that even his KickTheDog moments amuse me rather than horrify me, and I was ''immensely'' satisfied by his epic fatality on Szayel Aporro-Grantz.

Also from Bleach are 3rd Espada Tia Harribel, who I find sympathetic due to her MamaBear tendencies (it's nice to see a villain mourn when her friends die, you know?) and her generally honorable nature compared to her compatriots, and Gin, simply because Gin is EvillyAffable while at the same time having some slight humanizing factors in his relationship with Rangiku. He does refuse to consider sympathizing with Starrk DILP, though, because Starrk's ''not a real villain, dammit!''

Seconding the Starrk thing. He wasn't bad, just really really lonely.

Tabitha from AdvanceWars : Days of Ruin was also oddly sympathetic to me. Yes, she has some KickTheDog moments, but given that her father is a CompleteMonster and how AffablyEvil she can be, I get the impression she acts how she does because ''she doesn't know any better.'' It's certainly not helped by the fact she seems like the EvilTwin of L'Arachel, one of my favorite video game girls.

L'Arachel is funny.

Can anyone recommend some good Bellatrix Lestrange fics?

Oh my god, you too? This (female, probably straight) troper just adores her! When you consider the way in which she was brought up (probably similarly to Malfoy,) and the fact that she's totally mental after Azkaban, and the fact that she's played by ''Helena Bonham Carter!'' Yes please.

This female, very young, very straight troper loves Bellatrix, too. I'm very happy she's not real, but I still adore her. She's hot, dammit. And I find her insanity and bloodlust creepy, but also oddly... intriguing. I wouldn't have anything against snogging the hell out of her, despite her being much, much older than me... and a woman. It's my right to snog a completely crazy, middle-aged woman, dammit. And daaaang, her ''hotness''! *squee*(All right, maybe I'm not ''entirely'' straight.)

The nobodies for this troper, or rather, at least some of them. Rather it's mostly the nobodies in general because they just want to get their heart back or don't feel like they do exist, so they try and do stuff to make them believe they exist. Of course, many of the older nobobies usually think the newer ones are laid-back asses.

This troper is almost notorious for being a subversion of this trope. About the first character she ever fangirled, at the age of fifteen, was the Sherriff of Nottingham, played by Alan Rickman, in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"; I think I was starting to grow aware my own inner demons at the time, and I found him weirdly attractive in a "Hey, let's cause some mayhem together" sort of way. Since then, I've had crushes on the Merovingian in TheMatrixReloaded, and in a rare femme-slash moment, Melisande Shahrizai from Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel'sLegacy novels, and my current object of fannish lust is now Muraki from YamiNoMatsuei: I've made jokes about offering him Literature/{{Twilight}} fangirls to experiment on as tokens of my affection

This Troper is NOT FURRY. NO SHE IS NOT. ...But Scar is so... so...!

Draco, actually, for this troper. I blame the fact that Tom Felton is HOT.

This troper tends to assume just about everyone isn't strictly evil, particularly if they look cool. She has a distaste for people who try and excuse away horrible things just because the character doing them is pretty, though, so she tries to keep things in perspective. It's possible to like someone, to know that they're not a cartoon baddie and have actual ''reasons'' behind their actions, but still root for the good guys trying to stop them. Probably the best example is Grand Admiral Thrawn - awesome, ''awesome'' character, morally ambiguous, fascinating, but still far too ruthless and untrustworthy for her to want him to win.

This troper spent the whole summer of '09 making fun of Joker fangirls. Then she rewatched Batman Begins and fell hard for Scarecrow. Also, a very attractive guy played Mordred in her high school's production of Camelot, leading her to have some ... interesting thoughts about the character.

This troper is too terrified and nauseated at the idea that fangirls of Ledger's Joker even ''exist'' to be making fun of them. At the same time, she has kind of a... thing for two-face in many of his incarnations. Call it a combination of {{Woobie}} characterization and a hurt/comfort reflex. As much as I understand the need to keep the rogues gallery intact, I still find myself wishing the guy would get a HeelFaceTurn already. (Fortunately, I realize this is irrational enough that it needs to stay in my own head and well away from fanfiction.net...)

Would love for Ami from {{Toradora}} count? She's not exactly a villain as she is a BitchInSheepsClothing but still...I find her more loveable than the central characters. Go figure. Though it probably helps that Taiga is her main target.

Seconded. I don't hate tsunderes as a whole, but there are those that take it ''way'' too far, and Taiga is one of them. Ami? No matter what she does to Taiga, I'll likely find it justified.

Averted HARD for this troper. Sadism is an INSTANT turn off for this troper, and will turn arousal into Red Haze in no time

This troper was best friends with a real life DracoInLeatherPants for five years. Not only did he emotionally abuse her and stalk her after she left, but he is even worse to his much more timid, compliant new girlfriend (this troper's ex-friend). Another reason Edward from "Twilight" gives her the squicks.

This troper's sister has this for Drakonnan bad. She even insists he is not evil, and just a poor, sad guy with a ruined heart.

Not furry for Flippy NOTFURRYFORFLIPPYNOTFURRYFORFLIPPY NO NO NO ABSOLUTELY NOT NO

This troper feels very pathetic about doing this for ''her own villain characters.'' One of them, an OmnicidalManiac, was really just trying to impress his fiance, and in-RP, has actually accepted that he can never have her. And another character, not quite on the crazy-scale, but close, is currently having a very severe mental breakdown-although he was sympathetic at least a little bit in the beginning, since his StartOfDarkness was caused by him being kicked out of his home because the elders were convinced he'd become evil due to his species. So...yeah.

While {{Peanuts}} does not have a large fanfic writing fandom, there are still enough Lucy-centric fics to cause This Troper to conclude that 90% of all Peanuts fanfic authors will do this to Lucy. Unfortunately, This Troper gets really annoyed when they take it a bit to far and completely ruin the crabbiness that makes Lucy Lucy.

This Troper is a huge fan of Zero. I'm not attracted to it, I just want to give it a hug. I mean, it could never have any friends because it looks like something out of a nightmare. It slipped into a deep depression. Sometimes, when I get upset, I find the happiness of others annoying. Now, multiply that by a million, and I see why Zero did what it did.

This Troper knows it's sickening, but watching ''CriminalMinds'' he ended up gloating along with Karl Arnold aka "The Fox".

This troper feels Caliban doesn't deserve all the hate he gets.

In my opinion, DILP'ing ''fictional'' villains is a harmless outlet as long as the person doing it is reasonably self-aware and able to separate fact from fiction, so I don't understand why some people get so up in arms over the practice. Your kink is not my kink, and that's okay and all that. However, when it's a ''real life'' sicko, criminal or sociopath that gets DILP'ed, I can't help but cringe.

This troper actually ''sorta'' did it for a ''GoldenSun'' fanfic. (Before III was announced, mind you.) Instead of him dying, Alex was sorta petrified inside a giant rock in the crater that was Mt. Aleph (called the "Aleph crater") for a couple hundred years. So after the new set of main characters decide to explore it, they notice a large boulder and knock it over...which breaks and contains...Alex, who suddenly wonders where he is. Everyone follows him because the only thing he can remember (at the moment, since he was more or less going blank once Mt. Aleph collapsed and still thought he was there) is Vale and Mt. Aleph. Not knowing, the characters decide to take him to the "new Vale" (Which they don't know of) and Alex finds out Alchemy has returned...so he immediately decides to, you guessed it, take over the world again...except he's only ''secretly'' plotting it, hoping to instead use the people who saved him as "The new Saturos, Karst, Agatio, and Menardi". Long story short, he eventually decides it's not worth it and reforms.

This also sorta turns out to be a gambit by the Wise One. The Wise One actually released him ''from'' the boulder he was trapped in in the first place because it felt that Alex had reformed and wouldn't try to take over Weyard again. And as a security measure...the dudes who released Alex were capable of killing him if he ''did'' try to become perfect.

This troper wrote a fic where Chaos is the protagonist. Chaos became more of a cynical, DeadpanSnarker with some sadistic tendancies, rather than the original CompleteMonster BigBad. This was obviously not based on appearance, as Chaos is just some giant black void thing (well, shapeshifter in the manga) with no actual gender. It was more based on the fact that in the SailorMoon fandom, evil seems to get no love.

This troper managed to do this quite unknowingly as a young child; I had a Harry Potter Lego set that included a Draco Malfoy figure, which I pretended was a good guy (I even put his head on a Gryffindor body). That was, however, due to insubstantial numbers of good guys.

This troper can't help but see the e Malta Group in CityOfHeroes as a well-intentioned group of freedom fighters, sticking up for the rights of ordinary human beings in a world which worships superheroes as gods. They do the dirty work needed to keep the world safe for democracy, and sometimes that involves a lot of dog-kicking. I know that they topple third-world governments, kidnap and brainwash people, blackmail superheroes and supervillains alike into doing their dirty work, and tried at least twice to kick-start WorldWarIII, but still... they are just too awesome.

This troper is looking at you, Miyo Takano.]] What can I say, I love those busty blondes!

I have written many {{Neighbours}} fanfics with Lisa Jeffries as a sympathetic protagonist. Over the course of them, she has mutated from TheLibby to a KnightInSourArmor. You probably don't want to ask, but just in case you do...

It's more of {{Rooting For The Empire}} than anything else, but lacking a better place to put it I'll admit that part of me wants to root for Story}} The Doctor. What the hell is ''wrong'' with me?!? I also can't help but look at Dellyn Goblinslayer as just doing his job and protecting his people. Making someone a {{Complete Monster}} ''does not work'' on me.

It gets worse: I've done this to real people. As a kid, one of my early ''DungeonsAndDragons'' characters was a paladin based on 15th-century CompleteMonster Gilles de Rais. Why do you think I overlooked all his atrocities? Because he had a cool name and a neat little mustache.

This troper used to do this to Hao, based more on how freakin' awesome Spirit of Fire was and his bitchin' pants than any sort of sexual attraction. On the other hand, there is no excuse for her DILPing of Ultimecia

This troper doesn't have a personal one, but she had a character who was a pretty big {{Jerkass}} but people thought he was pretty darn attractive. So she drew him wearing leather pants.

Tropers/{{JET73L}} discovered the feeling of being the victim of [=DiLP=] Syndrome shortly before cancelling an edit for WesternAnimation/AdventureTime. The edit in question was to have been adding to the DracoInLeatherPants example ("Marceline the Vampire Queen. Of course, YMMV"), "...both for the Leather Pants part, as well as the Draco part". While it ''seemed'' legit based on the episode where her "evil" was actually being nice or just messing with people (especially with Finn), is that not the meaning of DracoInLeatherPants?

This {{Pokemon}} fangirl just does not understand why everyone digs Silver so much. But she becomes quite hypocritical, as she really likes Cyrus, for some reason.

This troper is just as bad; he loves ''alot'' of Pokemon villains (Cyrus included), yet cannot '''stand''' the Draco treatment given to Paul, who, IMHO, has much ''less'' of a reason or excuse to be the way he is than the actual professional ''villains'' of the franchise! He's just a poorly-written borderline sociopath.

Both my younger brothers have this for Azula from Avatar The Last Airbender, to the point of claiming all the good characters are Ron the Death Eater. I kind of regret introducing them to that show, they pretty much ruin it for me by getting into crazy arguments with random people about how Azula isn't really a villain. IT. IS. SO. ANNOYING.

Newsflash to above troper's brothers: a tragic villain is '''still a freaking VILLAIN!'''

I don't know if this counts, since it's not sexual attraction, but I feel so bad for Patrick Hockstetter from Stephen King's IT when he dies. I actually feel pretty bad for everyone in Henry's gang, possibly a little more than the good kids. I don't know why this is, but Sai King's writing really draws my sympathy towards the villain. Maybe because he goes into detail describing how they had a crappy childhood that shaped them, maybe it's because he tortures the shit out of them before they die, but something just makes me feel pity and not glee when the villains finally get what's coming to them in King's work. In fact, the only villains I didn't feel bad for after they were killed were Walter O'Dim and the Crimson King, and that itself is even more confusing(considering how I cried like a baby when Mordred Deschain was killed by his own father's guns). What is it about King's writing that makes his villains so damn sympathetic!

One of my online friends was obsessed with Draco Malfoy for years, even writing a story featuring him in leather pants. She's still sort of in love with him, though not so obsessed as she was a year ago. Poor Christie will NeverLiveItDown.

Exemplifying when my RubyQuest circle starts talking about a certain Dr.Filbert: #QUOTE#'''This Troper + two of her friends:''' Filbert <3 #QUOTE#'''Everyone else:''' *grimaces*

When this troper's old High School took "And Then There Were None" to the State Thespian Conference, the actors and techies were all rather amused at how many girls were giving the actor who played Wargrave goo-goo eyes after the play. He wasn't a bad looking guy by any means, but seriously people?

This tropette is prone to doing this, as villains are just more interesting characters in the first place, especially if they have a TragicBackstory. Off the top of her head, there's Deep Blue (who honestly had a decent excuse--was his planet in the first place, and he just wanted to go home), Algaliarept, Cichol, Zero and Zero-Two... she could go on.

This Troper and her friends were horrified to realize that we/they wanted {{Cillian Murphy}}'s Scarecrow to kill Rachel Dawes simply because Murphy is gorgeous and, as such, should succeed in the end. DracoInLeatherPants isn't always a happy fun time trope...

I don't care what anyone says, my ladyboner for Sephiroth forgives a lot. He's just a fictional character, after all, no actual Aeriths were harmed in the making of this game.

This troper has a bad case of this for Takuma, the AxCrazy kid who piloted The Behemoth, in Fullmetal Panic. Yes, he is an ax crazy little fellow, and a terrorist, but he has a touching love for his sister figure, and, well, fine, I pity him and just want to give the little guy a hug.

This trooper remembers reading a Sec/OC story(Doctor Who) but left aftre '''Dalek'''Sec what OOC(and the rest of the Daleks) noodles to say I left aftre the first chapter here is the link in case you get curies.[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4240924/1/Katie_in_Manhattan]]

This troper never, since childhood, liked the "good guys", while having some weird fascination withbad guys, especially {{Complete Monster}}s.

This tropette enjoys applying (un)healthy doses of the Leather Pants to Ichimaru Gin, Szayel Apporo Granz, and Orochimaru. *{{Squee}}*. They yummeh. You can't spell "BadAss" without "Bad."

Not this troper himself, but someone he knows on a comic book forum takes this UpToEleven where Magneto is concerned. To the point where even the VillainWhitewashingService can't keep up with how much of Maggie's bad deeds he's willing to blame on someone else.

I have a tendency to be really tempted to do this to Scarecrow. Therefore, when I write fanfiction I keep a list handy of the top ten evilest things he's done, just so I don't go overboard with my sympathy for him.

This troper loves to do this to, '''of all people''', Mandark. And of course for Dexter it was the other way around. In fairness and honesty, Mandark is a FetishFuelStationAttendant- AsianAndNerdy, evil, nerdy, ZettaiRyouiki (RareMALEExample!), TallDarkAndSnarky (well, ''sort of''...)

This troper does this in a non-romantic way with the Universal movie monsters. End of BrideOfFrankenstein ? The monster kills himself because the only other creature like him hates him. What does the Mummy want? to be reunited with his lover What happens to the Gill man at the end of The Creature Walks Among Us? he possibly drowns because humanity tried to make more human. The only ones I don't feel sorry for are Dracula and the Invisible Man.

Scorpius/Harvey. He could be scary and as Harvey he could be pretty damn funny. He was ruthless, but he was fighting with a greater evil. He was extremely intelligent and cunning. He was a total woobie. It's obvious that he desperately loved Crichton. And he was menacing even though he wore a ridiculous S&M suit... He's a great sci-fi villain that This Troper prefers even to Darth Vader and Doctor Doom.

Here's a weirder example, Icy Angel from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (a monster of the week nonetheless). But she just had such a sexy secretary/librarian vibe with what looked like gold fashionable glasses. One of the few example of DILP that doesn't turn a hero into Ron the Death Eater, only ones I really blame here are Trakeena and oddly enough, Icy Angel herself for not having a mind of her own like In Space's bee monster Waspicible. Still, I never thought a monster of the week, usually meant to deliberately look bizzare and unattractive, would actually serve as Fetish Fuel.

It could be argued that I DILP Miko Miyazaki of TheOrderOfTheStick. Yes, she's the epitome of LawfulStupid, a bloodthirsty zealot unable to admit she's wrong - and yet I feel a certain sympathy for her due to her total social cluelessness and lonely backstory. (It helps that she's an AntiVillain with some good qualities, such as an unflinching self-sacrificing attitude and ChronicHeroSyndrome.) Admittedly, I also lust after her - she's badass enough to take on the whole Order singlehandedly and win, her stick figure conveys how beautiful she is amazingly well, and she has that adorable confused "hmmm" expression when people tell her she's hot or make sexual references.

Nearly every villain in every movie, show, anything I have ever seen becomes this in my mind some way or another. They are just more entertaining than the heroes and sometimes their villainy is also just an InformedAbility.