User blog comment:BigBadSquid/PE Proposal: ENeMeE/Lord Nightmare/@comment-39032584-20191113203307

Yes, absolutely does he qualify. He's an extremely vicious, sadistic, and of course, nightmarish mastermind who's behind almost all the conflict, and unlike King Dedede along with many of the monsters that he sic sagainst Kirby, he's played absolutely seriously,. He also has no mitigating traits whatsoever and is astonishingly dark and vile for the setting in general. Aspiring to conquer the universe, waging wars that claimed innumerable lives in that pursuit, speeding up an asteroid to destroy Popstar just to get rid of Kirby, laying waste to Cappy Town, and even torturing Tiff, again, just to get to Kirby? He's so at odds with the usual tone of the show that he feels like he belongs in a much darker and edgier setting altogether.