User blog comment:DarkClaw3/PE Proposal: Black Wolf/@comment-1894820-20200102073753/@comment-30634893-20200102141853

That's not entirely true. There's a big difference between predators who act as villains are predators who are unquestionably villains. A predator who hunts and kills for food will almost certainly find themselves opposing the main characters or otherwise causing harm in a story. If all they do for the most part is try to survive while having a negative impact, then they can't really qualify as being Pure Evil (Sabor seems to be a good example of this; as, despite being a child-murderer with a bodycount, she doesn't show much awareness about her actions and furthermore lacks sapience compared to the other animals in the film, thus meaning she can't qualify).

However, villains like Scar, or Dag, or Fagin, etc are functionally predators (as in they must hunt to survive) but their given personalities and the scale of their actions push them into PE territory. After all, Black Wolf starts out as just wanting to eat Niko's herd or any other prey he can to survive (for the most part, given the sadistic manner he goes about trying to eat Essie), but later plots to not just to kill Santa and his reindeer for food, but usurping their position to have children to eat in excess. That's not just trying to survive, it's boarder-line monstrous. He's not only portrayed as a sadist and taken seriously by the story, but openly plotting to step out of the boundaries of his environment and create mass death across the world for his own benefit. That's why he, as a predator villain, qualifies as PE.