I don't usually hate villains in general, because I can usually understand their point of view and the actions they undertake to advance their interests and said point of view, either fully or at least to a significant extent, even if I don't always agree with their point of view or their actions.
I'm thinking of, for example, a villain from a well-known series who frequently receives massive hatred directed his way - Kyubey in Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, for instance. Didn't hate him at all. Easily understandable. An extremely logical utilitarian creature dedicated to advancement of the greater good - or at least, his and his collective species' leadership's perception or interpretation of the greater good. Bondrewd from Made in Abyss is another. Any knowledge-seeking, scientific research-advancing, transhumanist-type villain is immediately sympathetic to me. Fantasy and Sci-Fi are rife with these figures. Naraku in Inuyasha. Griffith in Berserk. The desire to transcend the flesh and mortal frailty and limitations to seek enlightenment, freedom, immortality, godhood, individual emancipation or collective accelerated evolution.
Or any so-called "villains" - like vampires, alien species, mutants, or highly advanced and autonomous rogue AI (artificial intelligence) machines who are just doing to humans what humans and every other species does to each other in the natural world every single second of every day on a daily basis since the dawn of time. No, a member of a species or that species it belongs to as a whole isn't a "villain" for eradicating any actual or perceived competitor in its ecological niche.
If I'm usually going to have a negative visceral emotional reaction to a character and their actions, it's actually more often either a protagonist or protagonist-adjacent supporting character you're supposed to sympathize with but I find obnoxious beyond belief. Usually because they're revoltingly petty slaves to emotional logic with either immensely high or low self-worth being their primary or only defining character trait who only care about what others think of them and that drives all their words, actions, and behavior like putting others down to puff themselves up and drowning in self-loathing.
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