Symbolic

Symbolic villains are evildoers representing an entirely larger concept than themselves. For example, Madame Defarge of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities is symbolic of the French lower-class hatred of aristocracy as well as the bloodlust driving the French Revolution. Additionally, every major villain in Captain Planet and the Planeteers (e.g. Captain Pollution) symbolized a certain ecological disaster. It's also common for Death Gods to symbolize the concept of death itself.