Gonna drop mine in now! As I say, I love villains, so I am used to them being offed. But none of them irked me
until...
Kureo Mado from Tokyo Ghoul. He lasted all of a few chapters at the very beginning of the manga, and honestly, I feel his was the villain the whole story was missing for the rest of the series. He was human, so for him to be a genuine threat to ghouls was a really good dynamic and a fantastic way to stop humans from appearing to be entirely weak. He was an utter psychopath, but the details we got of his backstory gave the reader that unsettling sense of, "Oh God, I see where he is coming from, even though he's going about it in such a horrific way". But most interestingly...he was a good guy to humans. Undoubtedly, Kureo was a villain in the eyes of ghouls and killed the parents of children while laughing. But to humans, he was a loving father who raised a kid on his own while trying to avenge the death of his wife. He protected countless human lives, but at the cost of countless ghoul lives. On more than one occasion, we see him save the life of his work partner. It was such an interesting way of exploring the idea that everyone is a hero on their side of the story, and I think we were robbed of seeing someone as steadfast in his prejudices as Kureo ever being faced with the idea that what he was doing was wrong. That last part was given to his daughter instead later in the manga, but even then, it seemed rushed and a sudden change in view for a woman who had said three panels before that she remembered her father with pride, knowing he had killed another character's parents.
