User blog comment:The Crazy Terror/PE Proposal: Dr. Wily/@comment-1705775-20190917104818

no, he doesn't count - just like Robotnik, Bowser etc these are guys who are in many, many games.. you can't compare the stuff they do in one series with another - remember that we judge characters on what they are mostly depicted as.. any writer can make a monstrous version of any character if they want but they aren't remembered as such..

in almost all of his appearances save a few select exceptions Wily is not Pure Evil.. for a character who has appeared in so many games I'd say that says it all - he's not meant to be seen as Pure Evil, if you ever see Wily being played serious or dark it is the exception to the rule, not the standard for which Wily as a character should be judged.