The tendency of many people to view villains, from relatively mild ones to the real Big Bad ones, as one-dimensional "all evil all the time" cartoon villains. Who have no life outside of their ten minutes in canon. Who never have a... thought in their head that isn't given or implied in pure canon, because it's not like the guy is 50 (or 5000) and had more of a life than the ten minutes we're given, and it's not like he could, on occasion, not act 100% according to script. In short, they treat those characters as if they were characters, rather than people. It's an annoying mistake in fanfic, but even more annoying when it appears in SO MANY canons I happen to bump into when watching Real (=paid for) television and other media.
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Date: 2007-07-01 04:53 pm (UTC)Phew.