Do you think that the indiscriminate love for evil characters might have tragic consequences?

No, I happen to love Rumplestiltskin, but would never imagine stealing babies, or anything like that. It's not the show's or the character's or the actor's fault that the person is psycho. They are simply a part of the story, and have never told any member of the audience to follow in their footsteps. If some one chooses to act upon these behaviors it's their fault, they're sick. It's in way shap or form the shows fault

I'm just gonna post our prior discussion (hope you don't mind);

Me - So your personally attacking me now? Do you really think I'm gonna go out and shoot people because I like defending Gina when you (pointlessly) insult her. How about you be more open minded.

That masaqure and my debating are on two totally different levels! I'm not gonna go cut someones heart out to justify Regina lol. And who exactly ate you to say what's right and wrong, someone's a bit full of themselves!

You - killing is wrong. being cruel is wrong. justifying murder and cruelty is wrong. Who says it is wrong?! not me, but the laws of humanity. or.. do you think is right?!
I'm not against liking the way an evil character is show in a show. I just think that justifying and liking, admiring them is so wrong.

I'm not attacking you, just giving you something to think about.

Me - Justify and preforming the act are on whole different levels. Honestly I'm not trying to justify anything, rather I feel sympathy and have an understanding as to why she became that. Laws of humanity varies from country to country. Honestly I have no opinion on right and wrong, it is what it is.

Well can you do so in a less... offensive way please?

To add: No offense but this is a bit ridiculous, it seems like you're taking one man's actions (and possible psychosis, keep in mind he is supposedly a schizophrenia) and stereotyping all villain lovers. As someone who always likes the villains (in shows, books, ect) this really kind of offends me. I think I speak for all, if not, most Regina (or any other villain) fans when I say; we're not just gonna shoot up random buildings to 'justify' villains. Villain fans do have morals you know, we know it's wrong to take a person's life. I for one am not trying to justify their actions I just sympathize and understand their motives. I'm obsessed with Bellatrix Lestrange and I haven't harmed anyone at all because of it. Loving villains doesn't make the tragic consequences, the person doing the loving is what makes them. When making theories like this one mus consider a few things; does the fan in question have an prior mental instabilities, does this fan get too crazily obsessed, is he/she lonely, does he/she have a rough past, ect.

Wrapping things up: To put it simply no, liking villains doesn't make people want to kill or harm anyone. Everyone is different, maybe some people like the man in Colorado will go to extreme to prove their devotion but I would assume most people won't go that far.

I'm with jay1023 and zanhar1. I love disney villains and i love Regina, but that doesn't mean i'm a bad person.
I am a good person who thinks that villains are more interesanting then heroes in movies or stories. I would never REALLY kill anyone.

I am a Colorado girl, so this definitely hit home for me.
But in my opinion, that guy was off his rocker.
I love Rumpelstiltskin to itty bitty pieces, and I do try to justify his actions a lot, but I would never go into a theater in glittery makeup and stab people.
Same goes for Regina. She is one of my absolute favorite characters, but I'm not going to dress up like her and cut people's hearts out.
The shooting in Aurora really did hurt me personally because it had to do with fandom, and fandom is supposed to take you away from reality and to your fairytale land. And this jerk came in and took that away from these people. That's like someone dressing like Regina and shooting me during the OUAT premiere or something. It's horrible, and it's the main reason I hate this guy.
But he just decided to go about it this way, I don't think many other people would. I think he had issues, and tried to resolve them the wrong way.
I could go on about this for days, but I won't. Just...I love everyone in this fandom, Dearies and Evil Regals especially included, and I know you guys would never do that.
*sniffs* okay, I'm done now.