User blog comment:Ngh93/What REALLY makes a villain a Complete Monster?/@comment-27818776-20150326235216/@comment-1672596-20150327224213

I do know that Knight of Cerebus-type characters are generally dark villains especially for the works they are in and make the work darker by extension. I've never heard of a Knight of Cerebus villain who is extremely silly and light-hearted and very harmless in an otherwise dark work, for example. And it's similar enough in definition to a Complete Monster considering they generally are extremely darker and more heinous in their acts, even when taking into account the story.

I'm more of an absolutist, one who believes in strict objectivity, in a closed loop, that whatever qualifies as a CM is the same for everyone, period, no exceptions. That's why I get irritated with stuff like how Volgin is considered a CM yet The Boss isn't despite both blowing up some people with a Davy Crockett (which the story clearly treated as being especially heinous on Volgin's end, yet ignored that bit with The Boss when she did it), or how Frollo is considered a CM despite actually showing remorse in Hellfire and his even taking in Quasimodo (honestly, they should have made him far more like Phillippe Augustine from Eternal Darkness if they wanted to use the as bad as they go route). Or hey, how Agent Smith is considered a Complete Monster and Neo and his friends aren't despite the fact that the latter clearly lacks remorse for his actions, were overall huge nihilists, and even committed a lot of mass murder in their films and knew full well they were killing lots of innocents (actually, I even tried to make an article on Neo for this wiki, but then the mod MagmaDragoon deleted it for no reason, and this is despite the likes of SpongeBob Squarepants and Frank Miller's Batman getting articles on here).