Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27818776-20151122125253/@comment-27560932-20151122202428

Complete Monster, I think can stay, because while it's still fairly subjective... it's still got strict qualifications and standards that still make it measurable as an actual trope. It's an identifiable device; there was an entire anime dedicated to analyzing it, and the "point of irredeemability" is talked about in every medium.

As for Darlene... she's a giant "maybe." I reason this because we have a fairly similar case in the form of Fusilli. Comparing to Bill shouldn't be a problem because it's essentially comparing the god-like main antagonist of the show to a one-off villain. The thing with Darlene, though, is that she's a serial killer; and she's a faux-affably evil sadist too, who, now that I think about it (this was my original reason for skipping over her) goes well beyond the boundaries of just having to hunt for survival, going so far as to mount her victims as mummies in her museum. Now, given how there's about seven or so corpses (we see some more on-screen corpses in her lair; about five or so) and there are new ones daily... well, we're never really giving an exact measurement of how long the Mystery Mountain has been in business, but Stan know the attraction as well as several others from what's implied to be years (since the "every year pranking" thing) and we see Darlene calling Stan "the catch of the day"... Darlene's likely been doing this for a while to be able to sustain that attraction, and she's not stopping any time soon by the time the episode's done.

I may or may not wait for Bill's arc to conclude, because there's a very, very small chance she could be shown again, but I'll wait and see.