Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27818776-20151025041231

OK, I had watched the film The Last Witch Hunter, and I wanted to discuss the Witch Queen. According to the film, witches co-existed with the human race centuries ago, and the Witch Queen creates the Black Death as a means of wiping out the human race. Kaulder tries to avenge the deaths of his wife and daughter by slaying the queen, but she curses him to live forever. After that, a truce was made between the humans and the witches, and the witches weren't allowed to use magic in front of people.

Years later, followers of the Witch Queen attempted to revive her. It's revealed that the queen's heart wasn't destroyed, and that she had given Kaulder immortality, so that her power could linger on. The Witch Queen gets revived, and she tries to recreate the plague to destroy humanity. She also psychologically torments Kaulder by bringing up his losses, and she uses Chloe (in the film, she was a dream-walker; a being that could enter into someone's dreams) to finish the chant (in the film, the Witch Queen had several flies within a coccoon, and she needed the other witches to chant in order release the swarm onto the world). She is, of course, defeated, and her heart gets sealed away.

Okay, let's talk about the heinous standard: There's Belial, an avid supporter of the Witch Queen who wishes to return the world to the way it was before the truce was made, Ellic, a shape-shifting witch who uses candy as a means of luring children to their dooms, and the 37th Dolan, who betrayed the 36th Dolan, and whose plan was to acquire magical powers. The Witch Queen has attempted to commit genocide on the humans twice, and she's the root of nearly every bad thing that happens in the film.

As for mitigating factors, she has none. She never shows any affection for the other witches, and she only seems to be driven by her deep resentment for humanity. She was only concerned for herself.

If you have seen the film, what do you think about her. I had also seen the 2015 film adaptation of Goosebumps, and Slappy doesn't qualify in that, mostly since he has a legitimate reason for hating R. L. Stine, and there was the fact that Stine created him originally as a thought, so that might throw his moral agency into question. 