10 Comic Villains With The Best Motivations
1. Amanda Waller
Amanda Waller may not be the greatest supervillain of all time - or even a villain in the traditional sense - but she absolutely does have one of the best motivations going.
The handler of Task Force-X, aka the Suicide Squad, Waller presides over one of the US Government's most secretive black ops units and does so because she believes it's in her country's best interests. All Waller wants to do is safeguard her nation's security, but of course, it's the way she goes about it that proves to be an issue.
Supervillains though they may be, Waller's treatment of DC's Dirty Dozen violates every law in the book and promises the false hope of a pardon in exchange for embarking on near-impossible missions. Not only that, but should they disobey in the field, they get treated to an explosive collar, killing them in an instant.
Never mind the fact she's matched wits with Batman, the fact Waller straddles a moral grey area makes her all the more compelling, whether or not you deem her brand of evil necessary.