Villains Before the 'Sad Incident' Backstory Trend
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The villains in films before the "sad incident" were like:
Overview
This meme jokes about the modern trend in cinema where almost every film villain gets a tragic, sympathetic backstory (the referenced "sad incident") that explains why they became evil. The meme uses an edited image of Gru from Despicable Me, with his face photoshopped onto a real person's body grinning widely and giving a thumbs-up, to represent how villains were portrayed before this trend became common: unapologetically evil with no tragic backstory to justify their actions.
Origin notes
This meme originates from Reddit as noted in the provided source information. It is an edited photoshopped meme that comments on a common trope shift in modern film storytelling, using the popular edited human-body Gru meme format to deliver the joke.
