10 Most Hate-Worthy Villains From Animated TV Shows

Oh boy, this one is never easy. On one side, Zeref is the embodiment of a moral grey area. Centuries ago, driven to despair by the deaths of his parents and beloved younger brother at the hands of dragons, he sets out on a path to challenge death itself.

He begins to dabble in dangerous forms of magic, ignoring all warnings. It soon catches up to him when he’s constant flirting the dark arts brings upon the most cruel of all curses. Any lifeform he loved, would die. On the contrary the less he cared about life, the less potent his waves of destruction. Oh and what’s more, he himself was no longer capable of dying.

As the centuries pass, he becomes more and more indifferent to life; aside from certain periods time to time where he meets someone who brings back his humanity. It is during this period he spawns an entire pseudo-religion where wizards shed immeasurable blood to follow in his footsteps and obtain the kind of power he possessed.

And this is where the magnitude of his sin truly crosses the point of forgiveness. His arrogance and certainty in his knowledge was so great, he simply gave up on the idea of salvaging his situation; despite having all the time and resources to do so. Instead, he set into motion a plan which would destroy the world in exchange for giving him an opportunity at reversing his fate.