User blog comment:Death horseman94/Character Sheet 3/@comment-4867780-20150407002535/@comment-4867780-20150408223107

True, good villains are usually much more than that, with considerable redeeming features, and that what we like in them ^ ^ Card-carrying villains break the immersion too much in serious works as you mentionned (Arkham Asylum is memetically ridiculous on this regard, the least they could do is adopt an "evasion=execution next time" policy), and their tendency to be complete Karma Houdini serial killers makes the heroes efforts painfully meaningless on the long run.

And yeah, while characters do reflect their writer, there are many other factors at work, which seems only natural considering virtually any story has its share of both good and evil characters. It's only when one side is overly favorised that authoresque features really start showing.