Tropes and Cliches

Villain Has A Point

So there are moments where the villain has a good point about something. This will cause a protagonist to question a lot of things, especially their own morality. This normally includes the Well Intentioned Villain/Extremist because there motives are good, but how they went about it is very questionable.

In the recent Black Panther movie,  Erik Killmonger, much like his father N'Jobu, argues that Wakanda is indirectly responsible for the suffering of Africans and those of African descent in other countries, as it has selfishly withheld access to its advanced technology and refused to intervene to assist them. By the end of the film, T'Challa agrees that Erik does indeed have a point, but causing all out war isn't the way to help them. 

The Equalists in Legend of Korra  claims that benders in the United Republic of Nations are forcing non-benders to live as second class citizens. This belief carries some weight since the state is governed entirely by an unelected council that at the time was chaired solely by benders, the heavy hitters in the military and the police are mostly benders, the biggest sport in town is one that only benders can play, and benders apparently get more job opportunities (such as firebenders who power the generators with lightning) than non-benders. Aside from forcing elemental bending away,  the Equalist Revolution did convince the United Republic to abolish its unelected council and replace it with a democratically-elected government implied to be actively addressing the bender/non-bender divide, with the current president himself being a non-bender.

Assassin's Creed: Rogue is a walking example of this trope. Showing that the Assassin's ideals of absolute freedom for everyone ultimately leads to anarchy and lawlessness. While the Templar's desire for power and control is ultimately to spread order and stability. The Assassins are also shown to be just as ruthless as the Templars they oppose as well, targeting innocent people for simply writing articles calling attention to their actions or getting in the way of their agendas. Also ignoring Shay, not cool, thousands of people died in those earthquakes.

Now what makes the villain have a point? Well a lot of things really. Take comic books and take a hero with some pretty tough villains. They make a speech about how society don't care about them or "their kind"( street urchins, drug dealers, basically undesirable situations) and how they only turn to crime so that their family can eat or so that they can have a place to lay their head. How do they have a point? Well, there are low income communities where crime is an easier way to make fast cash versus getting an actual job. 

Now there don't have to be heroes involved. It's just easier that way. For more realism, take the Percy Jackson series, if the gods could put their pettiness aside or popped down to Camp Half Blood for an hour and spent some time with their kids a lot of the events in the series could have been prevented. 

Now writing a villain with a point is a simpler than it sounds. Hell it can even be written in high school drama, depending on the situation. Hell, there are crime dramas that made me question some things. They pulled the "religion is protecting them" card, saying that their victim wasn't as innocent as they claimed to be. And lo and behold the bad guy was right, but still in the wrong. Like the guy killed a priest and they were like "he wasn't the man they saw him as." They search the few things the priest had and found a lot of child porn, some of which were recent and they find a tape that shows him being molested by the priest.So in a way the dude was right to pissed and demand justice, but was in the wrong because he beat the priest to death. This alluding to the many cover ups within the Catholic church...and it was a fanfic.