User blog comment:Inferno Pendragon/PE Proposal: Joe (Help! I'm a Fish)/@comment-2059440-20190823171746

yes - he goes beyond what is expected for the time and it doesn't matter if the children are the heroes of the story, they are all minors who were threatened with death and enslavement for no reason other than the fact Joe saw humans as a way to fuel his own God Complex.. he wanted to conquer the world and his ruling style was openly homicidal - he ordered executions at the slightest whims and betrayed his allies whenever possible.

I fail to see how this is all "generic".. even if it was, PE doesn't mean a character has to have complex meanings or reasons.. he is brutal enough for the setting.