Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-1705775-20160507231933/@comment-7455247-20160508222153

I know that no one is interested in my opinion, but I still think the predators should be considered as villains. Sure, real-life predators can't be considered as evil because they only do what they have to do to survive, but in real-life it's everyone for themselves, while in fiction there are always protagonists for whom we are supposed to root, therefore any character who want to harm them in some way is a Villain by Default (even if this kind of character isn't necessarily evil in real-life). Killing for food is (normally) not bad, however killing the protagonists is definitely bad, or at least it's portrayed as bad in the setting. Even if the attacker isn't intelligent enough to understand the concepts of good of evil, that makes him Obliviously Evil, but he's still portrayed as a villain. Unless maybe if he's portrayed too much sympathetically to be considered a villain, but that's almost never the case with the predators, in the majority of medias they are no different than Always Chaotic Evil monsters. Any of them could have been replaced by a dragon, an ogre or a zombie, it would have made no difference at all. In addition, most of the time they are much more aggressive and persistent than real-life animals, which makes them look more like monstruous killing machines who want to kill people For the Evulz than innocent animals who simply don't want to starve (anyway, it is evident that no media can portrayed animals 100% realistically, for the simple reason that Most Writers Are Human).