Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2059440-20160822192203/@comment-26884760-20161120212031

Love Robin, here is a slight hitch in the usually sound rule of "authors decide who is a villain or not" - in some work, like horror and exploitation, writers make a character that they personally declare a hero or don't say either way yet the character is shown to be so horrible by the general public that they can not only become seen as a villain in the public-eye but very well tread into tropes like "Complete Monster".

a good example would be Alan Yates and his crew from Cannibal Holocaust, the author does not say they are villains but they engage in such horrible acts that they may as well be villains (Alan actually counts as a psychopath due to how badly his character is depicted) - you can argue all the actions were telling us they are "bad" but if you go by the "word of God" Alan and crew are not declared as villains (there are other works were protagonists commit unspeakable acts and are treated as "good guys" by authors (either due to shock value or the author having very.. unorthodox.. morality (or nihilistic thinking) - like if a Klansman made a book in which a Nazi was a hero and glorified their horrific acts..).