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30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title That woman who spilled McDonald’s coffee on her lap.

Final score:

447points

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Loverboy 1 year ago

She didn't even ask for that much, just enough to cover her medical bills. McDonalds refused, so she sued and ended up winning a few hundred thousand. McDonald's knew damn well their coffee was way hotter than legally allowed, but instead of just accepting it they slandered this poor lady. Her genitals melted. Melted, for f***s sake.

308points

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title A dingo really ate her baby.

B3atrixK1ddo , en.wikipedia.org Report

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364points

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Loverboy 1 year ago

Imagine going through that incredible loss and being blamed for it for many many years.

194points

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title That woman who was accused of kidnapping children because her kids didn't have her DNA, but in fact her uterus had different DNA than the rest of her body.

gavlegoat Report

Final score:

337points

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KDS 1 year ago

This is called Human Chimera I always thought this was fascinating but it was horrible that they thought her children wasn’t hers.

169points

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30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Monica Lewinsky

Final score:

323points

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Loverboy 1 year ago

She's doing great now, too. She really went through all that and came out just as strong.

105points

paige_______ , Laura Poitras / Praxis Films Report

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Edward Snowden. The NSA deserved to be called out. Whistleblowers should not be chased out of the country.

Final score:

299points

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Phoenix 1 year ago

I've never thought of him as the bad guy. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I know the government is not on the up and up.

100points

So I grew up in a Christian school with a Christian history curriculum printed out of Pensacola Florida. They were dead set on convincing us that JIMMY CARTER is a villain in American history. It was a pretty hollow and nationalistic argument based almost solely on the signing away of the Panama canal.

S**t aged like milk in my head because jimmy lives on as the greatest former president to be around during my lifetime

anon Report

Final score:

284points

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Garry Cowan 1 year ago

Can't see any of the bush or trump building houses for the homeless with their own hands ..bravo Mr Carter

21points

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30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Richard Jewell. Security guard at the Atlanta Olympic who was blamed for the bombing.

Final score:

250points

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Tee Rat 1 year ago

That case was screwed from the beginning. To make it worse they only say"black eye for the FBI." Come on, you threw Richard Jewell under the bus name the agents.

6points

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Pharaoh Cleopatra, she was actually a pretty good ruler with her focusing more on her nation than just abusing her position for her own benefit, there’s even some records saying that she wasn’t even all that beautiful, she was however very intelligent with stuff like how she learned around 10 different languages

No_Prize9794 , en.wikipedia.org Report

Final score:

234points

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

And let's face it, she recognized how powerful Rome was and tried to keep Egypt independent. It was just rotten luck that all this was happening at the same time as Rome was having an internal power struggle.

90points

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#10

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Janet Jackson deserved exactly none of the backlash she received for that Half Time Show disaster.

Everyone acted like her breast being exposed was an intentional part of the act despite how obviously it f*****g wasn't.

Meanwhile, Justin Timberlake gave the most bare minimum "I'm sorry you got offended" b******t ever, but he gets no punishment because he's a sexy white dude.

Final score:

225points

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Daniel Atkins 1 year ago

I have always thought it was planned. That when the backlash happened then everyone started backpedaling. She took the brunt of the blame but he is responsible too.

40points

#11

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Captain Hazelwood of the Exxon Valdez.

He is often pictured on the helm of the Exxon swaying drunkenly going full throttle into the reef talking like a "pirate."

What actually happened.

Valdez's critical navigation equipment was out of commission, faxs sent to Exxon and Exxon told them to sail instead.

Coast guard budget cuts removed vessel tracking in the area.

Green and tired crew was on duty, request was made to relief crew. It was denied.

XO who was on Conn at the time was inexperienced on the passage and neither requested pilotage.

While Hazelwood did drink that day he was not in command of the conn at the time and was in his quarters resting.

Hazelwood made a comment that "He needed a drink." Because of how upset he was over the situation.

Exxon's PR paid off the media to blame Hazelwood.

However Hazelwood was charged with only one charge which was for pollution. He proved he was not a drunkard and retained his captain's license. Even getting offers to sail again which he turned down.

The real villains are mass media, False News, and comedians but Exxon's PRs spending power to keep the blame off them.

Hazelwood passed away last year after the annv of the spill.

Random fact the Valdez sailed until 2008 under different name Oriental Nicety

Iuka297 , en.wikipedia.org Report

Final score:

201points

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Tina Smith 1 year ago

A family member was on the jury at Captain Hazelwood's trial and they said Hazelwood was completely thrown under the bus by Exxon.

83points

#12

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Amanda Knox. She was accused of [taking out] her college study abroad roommate after extremely sloppy investigation, WILD claims, cruel tabloid journals calling her all kinds of s**t shaming names and asserting that she [unalived] the roommate because she (roommate) wouldn’t agree to a threesome, the true [criminal’s] DNA being all over the damn place, etc. etc.

She was cleared of all charges later on but she and her equally innocent beau spent YEARS in prison in Italy for it.

caribou91 , Geraldbostrum Report

Final score:

190points

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Rylee Evergreen 🇺🇦 1 year ago

bro. what is up with this censoring. I can't even understand this anymore, [taking out] sounds like a date fr and I started reading it like why would they be mad about a date??

167points

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#13

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Niccolo Machiavelli.
Machiavelli didn't invent the idea of lying or ruthlessness. He made an observation about what worked and tried to get a new gig.

Now his name is synonymous with "heartless manipulator".

Final score:

177points

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Loverboy 1 year ago

He observed, that was all he did. People had been lying and deceiving for way longer than him. That's like saying Newton invented gravity because he was the first to document and really think about it.

82points

#14

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Hades

He barely cheated on his wife and was loyal.
He only kidnapped Persephone because Zeus told him to.
He's a good father.
He doesn't cause death, only what happens after.
Also he named his Dog Spot, adorable.

People always act like he's evil and malicious. But in all reality he's a sweet guy.

Ok-Parsnip4681 , Carole Raddato Report

Final score:

171points

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Loverboy 1 year ago

I wouldn't say he's a sweet guy, but he's a very misunderstood one. Zeus was an absolute menace, if it had a hole he had a goal.

191points

martymcmatrix 1 year ago

I absolutely agree with you. Better ask which characters have not been straddled by Zeus, because this list is finished faster. Hades is a 'dark' god because, after all, no ray of the sun (Helios) ever falls on his realm. But he is always righteous and he is someone who never gets loud, where others would already blow a fuse. But which dog did he call "Spot"? The biter, which greets the arriving shadows at the bank of the Styx wagging his tail, is still called Kerberos, isn't it? According to Hesiod, Kerberos is a son of Echidna and Typhon, but that would lead too far now...

24points

LonelyWriter 1 year ago

As an avid reader of Percy Jackson, I can lead this farther. Echidna is the mother of all monsters... so Hades' dog, famously known as Kerberos or Cerberus, is definitely not called Spot? However, basically all the Greek Gods are at least a bit messed up. Even the ones that people usually consider wise, say, Athena, are not that perfect. E.g., Athena blinded a dude who ACCIDENTALLY saw her bathing in a waterfall. in a place that doesn't belong to her. Instead of giving his sight back, she gave him BIRDS THAT WILL GUIDE HIM. But I digress.

4points

and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago

Tbh most of the Greek gods were flaming a******s and serial rapists.

8points

XenoMurph 1 year ago

He also doesn't exist, so..

7points

Mother Jester Jewery 1 year ago

Hades wasn't Zeus he just did what Zeus told him to do

1point

Duuuuuuude 1 year ago

He "barely" cheated? Is that like being "barely" pregnant?

32points

Wise Turtle 1 year ago

I think it’s in comparison to other gods who aren’t as villainised, eg. Zeus.

12points

Glengoolie Blue 1 year ago

Cheating is an absolute, like pregnancy, death or chewing gum in your hair.

3points

Raccoon Queen 1 year ago

There’s only one story of him cheating, rather than 400 hundred

2points

Sharon Kapon 1 year ago

Well, you know, in comparison to Zeus who was an a*****e. But I get your point

1point

Duuuuuuude 1 year ago

To those trying to explain that the statement is relative: I get that it's a relative statement, but it still doesn't make it any less ridiculous. I don't think the person being cheated on finds it a comfort. You either cheated or didn't. There is no barely.

0points

Alex Mont 1 year ago

How do you "barely" cheat on your wife?

15points

Jennifer Clark 1 year ago

Well compared to Zeus...

10points

Sharon Kapon 1 year ago

Meaning cheated but not as much as Zeus

1point

Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)

By being naked while you're doing it. Quite common, in fact. (Posting for a friend, of course.)

1point

Did I say that out loud? 1 year ago

You only shag her mom and sister perhaps?

0points

EmbersAreOut 1 year ago

Hades was honestly one of the best gods in Greek myths. He didn’t procreate with any thing and everything that breathed, he didn’t kill people unnecessarily, he didn’t curse many people. He’s still not a perfect role model or anything, but compared to the other gods, he is semi-decent.

13points

Team Jay 1 year ago

Y'all know they weren't real people, right?

9points

SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

And Lore Olympus is a pretty awesome take on the Hades/Persephone story!

8points

Rylee Evergreen 🇺🇦 1 year ago

I ADORE Lore Olympus, I fully spent 24hours one week binging it because man It's so good

5points

i believe in dendro supremacy 1 year ago

YESSSS, HECATE >>>

1point

TheWeirdoBean️‍ 1 year ago

It is SO GOOD 🥺🥺🥺

0points

Lia is a platypus 1 year ago

Hades and Hestia are my favourite gods/goddesses. Zeus is just a jerk and a cheater.

8points

SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

When my sister was in high school, her English class had a unit on Greek mythology. The quiz at the end was a fill-in-the-blank, like "Hades was ______" and you'd answer god of the Underworld. So for "Zeus was," she answered "a man-whore." Partial credit. XD

14points

ThatRandomGuy 1 year ago

Hades is actually a very neutral god, sure he's done somethings that are moderately annoying but Zeus is the one who cheated on Hera all those times because he's always horny and also unloyal

5points

Libstak 1 year ago

He "barely" cheated on his wife? Fair play though the Greek God's nailed anything with a pulse. Some poor nymph had to turn herself into a tree to escape Apollos attentions.

4points

Alewa 1 year ago

"Barely cheated" basically makes you a saint in Greek mythology 😁

3points

Sue User 1 year ago

Yes, they were written as pretty terrible people.

1point

Joanne O'Brien 1 year ago

Zeus is the bad guy

3points

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Moo 1 year ago

I always liked Hades. He wasn't perfect but he's much better than his brothers.

2points

the_avenging_knight 1 year ago

Hades is the only God to make your role model. Now the goddesses on the other hand....

1point

martymcmatrix 1 year ago

Anyone who studies the mythology of the Greeks will quickly notice that there are few stories that do not somehow involve incest, fratricide, b********y, pedophilia and (self-)castration. Happy endings are also extremely rare. "Before the sea and the earth and the all-encompassing sky, there was in the whole district of nature a single sight, called chaos. A raw and disordered lump of discordant seeds and idle loads, tangled in unharmony. Never ever a world-illuminating Titan circled the world, nor did Phoebe renew the moon's growing horns, nor did the earth float in airs poured all around. One was the enemy of the other. In the same body cold fought with hot, wet with dry, the soft wrestled with the hard, and the heavy with the light."

2points

Doctor Strange 1 year ago

The big problem is 'christianization' of every other religion/mythology. You see it constantly in media. Look at Disney's hercules. Because he is the god of the underworld, he must therefor be the equivalent of Satan ruling hell, right?

2points

DJ Doena 1 year ago

Even though Hades (the place) not only contains Tartaros (hell equivalent) but also the Elysian Fields (heaven equivalent).

2points

Timbob 1 year ago

And, AND, he could balance a glass full of water on his HEAD !

1point

Mr.G86 1 year ago

Dudes just trying to do his job yo.

1point

Mike 1 year ago

"He barely cheated on his wife and was loyal." Awww com on honey, even Hades barely cheated.

1point

Greg Wilhelm 1 year ago

He got the raw end of the deal for sure. Zeus and Poseidon screwed him over. I believe he was the oldest and rightful heir to Zeus's throne. May be wrong.

1point

Analyn Lahr 1 year ago

I love Hades, he's awesome. And "barely cheated" is definitely a compliment when it comes to the Olympians.

1point

Elaine Dodge 1 year ago

Barely cheated? No such thing. You either cheated or you didn't. And as for being a 'sweet guy'... In Ancient Greek and Roman texts it is clear that Hades kidnapped Persephone against her will, and forcibly made her his wife = kidnapping and rape. When the god Hermes found Persephone in the underworld with Hades, he demanded she be set free = she was in captivity and didn't want to be there. Hades, knowing that anyone who ate from the depths of hell would be forced to stay there forever, tricked Persephone by giving her a pomegranate and she ate several of its seeds = manipulation and lies. Some say Persephone developed feelings for Hades because of his affair with a young Nymph named Minthe = so yes, he did cheat on his wife. She may have been angry because the old lech was now committing statutory rape. Evil and Malicious? Yes, pretty much all the time. The fact that he named his dog Spot doesn't exonerate him.

0points

Sheena 1 year ago

He is probably the best god, but because he is the god of dead and underground nobody likes him. He is not a “good guy”, but he definitely is from all the gods who is better. A shame he is so underestimated.

0points

Sharon Kapon 1 year ago

After reading how was Zeus behavior and Hercules' stupidness, I think that Disney should change their movie XD

0points

Caroline Overill 1 year ago

People keep equating Hades with the devil but he wasn’t. He was the god of the underworld which included hell known as Tartarus or Diss, and heaven known as the Elysian Fields.

0points

Margaret Weaver 1 year ago

Barely cheated? Uhh... you need to revisit the pantheon; restraint was not in the nature of these gods, and that was precisely their purpose.

0points

Gypsy Lee 1 year ago

Barely cheated on his wife. And the Erinyes barely killed men.

0points

Christina Keenan 1 year ago

So is death. Death is sometimes a friend, but still just doing what he was meant to do.

0points

Jake stenhouse 1 year ago

Guess we’ll all find out if he’s really a sweet guy sooner or later

0points

Brittany Copeland 1 year ago

In the grand scheme of the entire Greek pantheon, Hades might as well have been a saint. In comparison to literally every other god and/or goddess that I know about, he was probably the nicest and tapestries.

0points

PBnJGuitarist 1 year ago

Satan is the guy of Hell who tells you to solve a billion piece puzzle to go to heaven and has a piece missing permanently without telling you. Hades is the guy who hid the piece under a rock

0points

Shawn Barry 1 year ago

Much like Lucifer, an Angel, who's job is to punish the wicked/evil.

0points

Tushar Roy Mukherjee 1 year ago

Didn't Persephone actually wander into the underworld and be like " Yo, nice place you got. I'm living here. " .

0points

Saint Tim the Godless 1 year ago

Barely?

0points

The Mom 1 year ago

You can not barely cheat. Either you do or you don't.

0points

Dragons Exist 1 year ago

He did it far less then the other Olympians

2points

Kat SonofMuns 1 year ago

How do you "barely cheat" on someone? lol

0points

Linda Arnold 1 year ago

Ha, ha, "barely cheated". Is that like being a little bit pregnant?

0points

Data1001 1 year ago

character who is very literally *MYTHICAL* = "in all reality" he's a sweet guy

0points

Carla Campbell 1 year ago

Barely cheated on his wife? Seriously?

0points

noturmum 1 year ago

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0points

DJ Doena 1 year ago

And he helped (passively) Harry Dresden!

0points

Boatswain Bill 1 year ago

More than anything, he got a bum deal.

0points

Susan Robinson 1 year ago

This sounds like something I would write…

0points

Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago

Whereas Zeus is the BIGGEST b*tthole ever.

0points

Dave Hanel 1 year ago

Barely cheated? If you hired a nanny that barely hit your kids, is that okay too?

-1point

LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago

I think someone has read way too much of that Lore Olympus comic….

-1point

noturmum 1 year ago

nah, lore olympus is wrong and just bad. this is from actual mythology and beliefs people have.

0points

Susan Bosse 1 year ago

Barely cheated. Lmfao

-1point

Michael Largey 1 year ago

Hades? The hell with him!

-1point

Fish Fingers 1 year ago

Hold up, are we talking about made-up imaginary people now? Cause I have some points to make about Hannibal Lecter and Paddington Bear 🙄

-2points

Tiny Tiger 1 year ago

There's no such thing as "barely" cheating on some one. Either you do, or you don't. End of story.

-2points

Cat lover 1 year ago

Hades is not a real one. How come this put in this lost?

-2points

Kim2 1 year ago

'in reality'? He's a mythological figure.

-3points

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#15

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Marie Antoinette never said “let them eat cake” when she heard that her people couldn’t afford bread.

She was executed out of frustration for how bad things became during the French Revolution and was wrongly misattributed for the ideology of someone in power being out of touch with being poor.

Final score:

170points

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

Well, to be fair, she and the rest of the French nobility actually were absurdly out of touch. That said, the French seem to be willing to riot at the drop of a hat, so there's that, too.

148points

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#16

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Julius Caesar.

His murderers expected the people to rejoice upon being freed from the “tyrant.”
Instead the people wept and rioted, they loved Caesar because (unlike most of the senators) he truly cared for the people and sometimes would spend all night writing up laws, he is the reason the grain bill worked to feed to neediest. He grew up with the common man and it’s often forgotten how much he did for them, there is a reason the people loved him more than the senate.

Was he perfect? No. Did he try and gain power? Yes. But Is an dictatorship worse than an oligarchy? It’s clear that Rome was in much better hands with Caesar than the Senate.

Final score:

161points

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Elizabeth van Oers 1 year ago (edited)

Caesar committed genocides. Yes, that is a plural.

13points

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#17

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Anyone that is familiar with the movie 300 is aware of how it sanitises the Spartans and how it demonises the First Persian Empire.

The reality is that the First Persian Empire or the Achaemenid Empire was pretty forward thinking for the era; this is the empire that freed the Jews from the Babylonians and gave the world the Cyrus Cylinder which some regard as the first bill of rights.

As for Sparta? It was a militaristic society based on Social Darwinism (centuries before the birth of Charles Darwin) and it had a greater percentage of slaves than Persia ever did.

Edit: I am not suggesting that the First Persian Empire was perfect, I am just pointing out the historically inaccurate and racist portrayal of Persia in the movie 300.

TailsxCream4Eva Report

Final score:

145points

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cursedcarver69 🇺🇲 1 year ago

Well I think that with the giant beheading monster in the film they weren't aiming for historical accuracy.

75points

FullMoon_Escapade , Library of Congress. Report

#18

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Malcolm X. History basically taught me he was the gunslinging MLK Jnr. counterpart, but really, they agreed on a ton of s**t and worked together a lot. In fact, Malcolm did a whole lot more outside of just civil rights, and arguably did more than MLK. MLK is remembered more because he was more outspoken (and the speech has kinda been overstated)

Final score:

145points

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

The sad fact is that MLK is held in such high regard because those in power felt less threatened by him. Simply put, he's more palatable for white folks.

112points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#19

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title A lot of the women of history who have been treated as sluts/liars/manipulative/[criminals] etc. Example being Erzabet Bathory - a woman with money and power and her uncle wanted it so she gets locked in a room and goes down in history for bathing in the blood of virgins. Not saying she was a good person necessarily, just that the idea that she[unalived] hundreds of local young women so she could bathe in their blood is bollocks. And there are many more women who gets treated the same.

Really, many of those who lost and whose story gets written by those that won

MsMerete , en.wikipedia.org Report

Final score:

129points

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

There's an excellent book series by Vicki León called "Uppity Women."

53points

#20

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Vlad the Impaler. He was fighting the invading Turks, and resorted to scare tactics. It worked.

Mooniekate , anon Report

Final score:

128points

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Der Kommissar 1 year ago

It was the 1400s. people got away with savagery left and right back then. I don't think Vlad was doing anything worse than, say the Ottomans, who have a long, proud tradition of torture.

82points

#21

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title In the film Titanic the character Murdoch [unalived] someone, took bribes and generally came across as a right s**t. He was a real life person who was actually a hero and saved many lives. His living relatives were so disgusted that the VP of Fox travelled to Dalbeattie to personally apologise and presented a £5000 donation to Dalbeattie High School to boost the school's William Murdoch Memorial Prize.

cooshed , en.wikipedia.org Report

Final score:

121points

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Brobro McDuderson 1 year ago

Unalived...

92points

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#22

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Honestly, I'd say King John of England. Many of the troubles during his reign were directly caused by his brother Richard I preferring to gallivant around Europe and the Middle East.

MJSchooley , Unknown author Report

Final score:

116points

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Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

10,000 upvotes. John ended up paying for Richard's sins/crimes/stupidities/etc. He was very interested in law, in fact, and was known to be very lenient when hearing appeals from commoners, IIRC. He also provided for his out-of-wedlock offspring in an era when most didn't bother to admit they had 'em. And his family dynamic was so f*cked up it's amazing he survived to adulthood, really.

13points

#23

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title In brave heart, William Wallace gets betrayed by Robert the Bruce which never happened, he was loyal to the end

Paskyc Report

Final score:

103points

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Emma S 1 year ago (edited)

Braveheart is 99% fiction. William Wallace was not a commoner, he was an adult when his father died, he never even met Isabella of France much less got her pregnant, his wife (if she existed as that's also in doubt) was called Marion not Murran, he didn't have an Uncle Argyle, kilts weren't worn for about another 300 years after the events of the film. I could go on and on. 😆

139points

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#24

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Not a guy but rather an organisation.

The IRA are practically the sole reason that Ireland is an independent country today, yet their legacy has forever been tainted by an offshoot organisation (the Provisional IRA) to the point that most people outside of Ireland simply view their entire history as terrorists and criminals.

Final score:

99points

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

I mean, *technically*, that's exactly what they were. It's just that they won (mostly). The Sons of Liberty were terrorists in colonial America, but when the Continental Army won, they became founding fathers.

66points

#25

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title All of the Black Panthers.

Any American should see it as reasonable to start a militia in order to protect your family, friends, and community from a corrupt and [criminal] state. [Taking out] cops was justice.

notsoslootyman Report

Final score:

95points

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

Ironically, the Black Panthers are the reason California has such strict gun control laws. They began openly carrying their weapons -- the same kind of "show of force" that police departments put on to intimidate the public into good behavior -- and the state legislators freaked the f**k out and started passing restrictions on gun ownership.

91points

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#26

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title **Herbert Hoover.** He was a lifelong humanitarian and had a reputation as an excellent administrator, which led him to win the Presidency of the U.S in 1928.

- But less than eight months after he took office, the world was rocked by one of the worst economic depressions in history.

- It was also during Hoover’s Presidency that mass media like radio and newsreels started spreading wildly, and Hoover was a breathtakingly awful speaker with poor public relations skills.

So Hoover got trounced in the next election by FDR’s abundant optimism and wide toothy grin, and was forever tarred in history as being the uncaring standoffish bureaucrat who ignored all the hardships of the Great Depression from his White House perch.

Gorf_the_Magnificent , Library of Congress Report

Final score:

73points

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cursedcarver69 🇺🇲 1 year ago

It didn't help that Mafia culture was so strong and that he was prolonging prohibition, if I remember correctly.

34points

#27

Richard III. Demonised by the Tudors, in part due to his curved spine (now confirmed) and their political agendas. He might have been a good King or a bad King/person but it is difficult to determine as the records that followed his death are so incredibly bias.

Tarrybelle , Baggins, Brian Report

Final score:

66points

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Shyla Bouche 1 year ago

Isn't he the one that killed his nephews?

33points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#28

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Caligula.

A lot of the stories of him being mad were just posthumous propaganda by his political opponents. Considering the horrific abuse by Tiberius he suffered as a child, Caligula was remarkable well balanced.

klc81 , PierreSelim Report

Final score:

42points

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Captain Kyra 1 year ago

Environmental factors at the time are known for causing madness. Making his horse a general is funny.

38points

HeiBaisWrath , National Gallery of Art Report

#29

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Napoleon, there wasn't really a ''bad'' or a ''good'' side in the Napoleonic wars

Final score:

20points

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WonderWoman 1 year ago

And he wasn't short!

15points

#30

30 People Who Went Down In History As The 'Bad Guys', But Didn't Actually Deserve That Title Carol Baskin. They found her husband alive . People still think she fed her husband to tigers.

edgarlunar , Michael Noonan Report

Final score:

-28points

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Alisha Teeter 1 year ago

The sheriff's department has stated, as of january 2023, that there is absolutely zero proof that her husband is alive. She stated he was, but what else would she say? Oh, "my husband is dead, I killed him."?

40points