Thread:Overseer80/@comment-1672596-20131208215055/@comment-1672596-20131209003530

Remorse simply means you intensely fear a more powerful person/entity punishing you for doing bad things/disobeying said more powerful entity, and you know you are completely incapable of even landing a scratch on said powerful entity otherwise. If you're the higher person, period, you literally have nothing to fear, hence no remorse. In other words, God Himself IS remorseless in any acts he commits, no matter how contradictory to the 10 Commandments or His own word. Think along the lines of Kefka if you want to get into remorselessness, where he had absolutely no remorse for committing genocide, betraying and murdering even someone higher in rank than him, just because he had godlike powers by that point and at his core enjoyed chaos, destruction, and human suffering (and BTW, Kefka qualified as a Complete Monster, even more than Frollo did). If you have any fear of punishment, ESPECIALLY from someone you are fully aware is more powerful than you and break you like a twig effortlessly, yes, that IS remorse, period. Otherwise, Frollo would have NOT hesitated AT ALL in killing Quasimodo when he had the chance, even cackling at the idea of killing him, and telling the Archbishop that he has no power over him and kills him as well proving how powerless the Archbishop and even God is over him. Heck, look at how The Joker behaves for a good idea of lacking of remorse, as in most incarnations, he literally lacks fear, period (best demonstrated when he got a dose of Fear Toxin from Scarecrow, and is heavily implied with most sources to be the reason why he is a grave threat to Batman and Gotham and the number one in his rogues gallery).

And I remember one person stating TVTropes was incorrect in various areas as well, being too strict and all that.