Since the 1980s, pop culture has focused on what makes a villain a villain.
Various incarnations of Lucifer/Satan have even gone so far as to explore the very foundations o.
Additionally, such bad Guys as Angelus from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Barnabas Collins from Dark Shadows have emphasized the desire for redemption--in even the darkest of villains.
The Joker, Darth Vader, and Hannibal Lecter have all been placed under the microscope to get to the origins of their villainy.
Since the 1980s, pop culture has focused on what makes a villain a villain