User blog comment:AustinDR/PE Proposal: Sir Miles Axlerod and Professor Zündapp/@comment-4708882-20190527000832/@comment-2175012-20190527005109

That's the baseline heinous standard. There, you can expect the bad guy to try to kill the hero or steal, etc. The fact is that Axlerod and Zundapp are seemingly out of place in the series. Nothing of the sort that they had done had been commonplace at that point. It's like how I always say in my murder mystery analogy: while you can expect a villain to kill a few people in a murder mystery, it's a whole other thing that the bad guy has a human trafficking ring or performs snuff films. That makes them stand out from the other baddies in the same setting. Next comes the relative heinous standard I .e. what is heinous by the standards of the story. In this case, causing mass crashes, literally boiling cars alive until they explode, and the lack of concern that several cars can get killed in the crossfire from a bomb is presented as heinous by the setting.