Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-25008763-20170725225546/@comment-366087-20170726112240

Love Robin wrote: Nothing Chi-Fu does is Villainous. Women were *property*. Why did Mulan have to HIDE the fact she was a woman? Because for a woman to serve in the army was against the Law and punishable by death. Her father feared that fate for her. It was against the Law for a woman to pretend to BE a man.

Anyone found to be a party to either thing was to be put to death. That included not only Shang and the men, but Chi-Fu himself.

Was Chi-Fu a JERK? Yes, he was. But Jerks are not enough to qualify as Villains. We have discussed before on other threads how the customs of a culture need to be taken into consideration. Chi-Fu was an arrogant prick, but he nonetheless was following and enforcing the Law.

The only one able to overturn the Law or provide pardons was the Emperor. Same as Governors and Presidents in American culture can hand out pardons to anyone. Chi-Fu could not LEGALLY do it, neither could Shang or any of the men do it. Only the Emperor.

And as pointed out, Chi-Fu was fired from his position. THAT WAS ALL. Not jailed or anything else. Had the Emperor found Chi-Fu guilty of anything else, more would have happened to him.

Chi-Fu is not a Villain. Antagonistic as all hell, but not villainous.