Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-366087-20170520171654/@comment-3581997-20170521195311

For what it is worth, I think the thing to remember here is that some villains need to have their time as heroes given to show why they do the things they do, a fighter for justice that is disheartened and has formed a radically new and villainous outlook, a hero who has split-personality disorder where one persona actively spites the other for the sake of their collective psyche, a villain who eventually becomes a hero in contrast to the type of villain they were, Doc Oc as Spider-man, Jericho, Malaise, Mystique, Destiny, Magneto, Sensui, Scirocco, just to name a few, they all act the way they do because of their time on the other side of the moral fence. But Robin's original point should never be forgotten while giving those accounts of alternate morality - that ultimately we can not forget we are writing about their time as villains, certain deeds need to be addressed, heroic accounts can matter, but don't act as a press agent for their fan-club to the extent you try to validate everything they do. A separation of Church and State if you will - black hats here, white hats there.