User blog comment:X9 The Android/PE Proposal: Russel Van Pelt/@comment-30634893-20191215144400

When you really break it down, Van Pelt is little more than a generic and uninteresting template of a villain than a truly irredeemably evil character. Aside from killing that one henchman (and even then, killing off a single minion for failure is pretty generic by the standards of most villains) all he does is try to kill the protagonists and take over the game's world, which has been done to death by almost every villain imaginable. And beyond that, its made pretty clear that the NPC characters in the game can't really act outside their programming, making Van Pelt more of amoral.