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A Pure Evil Proposal for Hardgear from Maetel Legend.

What is the work?
Maetel Legend is 2000 OVA anime and prequel to Galaxy Express 999. It shows how planet La Metal becomes the Machine Empire and how Queen Promethium becomes who she is, with Space Symphony Maetel as a continuation.

Who is he? What has he done?
Hardgear is the main antagonist of Maetel Legend. He is a scientist from Metanoid Empire who had establish and trade with La Metal's ruler Queen Promethium. When the artificial sun was starting to fading, Promethium had her husband, Dr. Ban, to start the experimental process of converting to Machine Bodies. Her daughters Maetel and Emeraldas were against this, even their father was against this, but Promethium was dead set on the course. Ban tried to use a more mental link with his wife and use his consciousness uploaded into nanomachines for Promethium's mechanization to convince her of other ways besides just mechanization.

But as the process went wrong due to robotic scientist Hardgear interfered, Promethium became a cold-hearted machine and using her last of her free will to sent her daughters away on the Galaxy Express train 999. When Hardgear tried to have Promethium integrated into him, the artificial queen was working against him and had Hardgear assimilated into her, becoming a evil tyrant forcibly promoting mechanization under the illusion of choice.

Freudian Excuse? Mitigating factors?
While most of his background unknown, but it is implied that his race was generally influenced major political powers for their personal gain, most of their motives are only confirmed by creator Leiji Matsumoto or the creative teams behind their appearances.

Heinous standard
He at first he was a loyal man to his word to "save" humanity from the cold and starvation. But in reality, he was shown to be a manipulative, supremacist and hegemonic scientist with no redeeming qualities, no sympathetic motives and aiming to takeover the entire universe. He has no excuse for horrible crimes and lack of empathy, even towards his own subordinates and treating humanity and possibly other races like garbage. He has no hesitation about turning men, women, children or even infants into mindless machines, having their souls floating away and dumping their previous bodies into a wasteland while the rats feed on the corpses.

Conclusion
It took me sometime to considered whether or not doing a proposal for him, but thought about it and I think it's a yes.