Thread:Pigletisbacon/@comment-5933172-20140630024637/@comment-27818776-20140630033755

Again, they were never implied to have been diagnosed as mentally ill. The problem here is the heinous standard for this series. You see, we have two villains that are believed to have done far worse than the Bullies and Tomoo combined. One antagonist is a known pedophile and rapist, and the other is a genocidal, misanthropic god-wannabe who wanted the Diclonii to be the superior race. However, it's worth mentioning that even though Tomoo killed a dog, killing the dog isn't the issue here. I believe that the reasons as to why Tomoo and his cohorts had killed the dog was much, much worse than killing it for the sake of killing it. Lucy at that time was a seemingly emotionless young girl. They thought that killing the puppy would invoke some kind of reaction from her, and they only went through with the dog's murder, because they wanted to hurt Lucy even more. You could make the argument that they only act that way, because they were forced to live in an orphanage, and even if this were true, their backstories are never played for sympathetic reasons, much like with Lotso from Toy Story 3. Therefore, going by what the show tells us about these young boys, they are, without a doubt, evil, and wholesomely deserve to be called complete monsters.