User blog comment:Magma MK-II/Complete Monster category: Keep or Delete/@comment-24602967-20160205112951/@comment-26884760-20160207201620

Media, that's all a matter of opinion and frankly just because you view killers and such as heroic doesn't mean they are.. Punisher etc are glorified psychopaths, as is Kratos.. it's not my job to convince you they aren't heroes because "hero" and "villain" depend on culture and personal belief.

originally "heroes" weren't even moral agents, they were simply stronger than most humans - in myth and folklore "heroes" would kill, rape and worse with no care.. doesn't mean we see those values as "heroic".

So yes one man's hero can very well be a sociopath, going around brutally killing those they see as "bad" but equally that same "hero" can easily be seen as a villain by someone not sharing that bloodthirsty view of the world.