Tragic Villain/Playing With

Basic Trope: A villain who is completely aware of their evil, but knows it's too late for redemption.
 * Straight: Marty is a serial killer who wants to stop murdering people, but thinks he does not deserve redemption.
 * Justified: Marty's victims are Asshole Victims who have wronged him, so he is driven to do evil things to those victims.
 * Exaggerated: Marty is a genocidal maniac who was screwed over by the nation he seeks to destroy.
 * Parodied: Marty is a pest controller who wants to stop murdering cockroaches, but thinks he does not deserve redemption.
 * Subverted: Marty still kills people regardless of whether they have wronged him or not.
 * Marty is offered forgiveness by The Hero, and does a Heel Face Turn.
 * Double Subverted: Marty is also killing innocents because he wants people to hate him enough to want to kill him, since he can't live with himself.
 * Marty's redemption is temporary, and, soon, he goes back to killing people because he thinks that his methods of justice are better than the heroes, even if his methods are evil.
 * Averted: There is nothing sympathetic or tragic about Marty's actions.
 * Inverted: Karma Houdini
 * Deconstructed: ???
 * Reconstructed: ???
 * Zig Zagged: Heel Face Revolving Door
 * Enforced: The author wants to make their villain more sympathetic to the viewers.
 * Lampshaded: "Marty may be a villain, but the world has wronged him in so many ways that I can't hate him for it."
 * Invoked: ???
 * Defied: "I don't care whether Marty's victims are assholes or whether he knows he is wrong. He is still a bad guy, and he must be stopped!"
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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