Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1031724-20161022235234/@comment-366087-20170206170741

So far as the canon narrative provides, Midnight is nothing more than an unrealized fear. However, if a thought-form exerts any sort of control upon the individual or the real world despite not being realized, it potentially becomes a villain.

For example, in Forbidden Planet the "Krell" Monster from the Id which came out of Morpheus' deep deep deep subconscious qualifies as a villain.

In the above example of a survivor of a shark attack having nightmares of the shark, that nightmare-shark exerts no true control over the survivor other than making him fearful of things in his real life. It cannot otherwise directly harm the dreamer or others about him. Shark is not a villain.

But if the dreamer or others about him began to see/dream and or exhibit actual injuries and damages, then the nightmare-shark has become a thought form with at least a semblance of its own life.