User blog comment:Sppople/Satan or Complete Monster/@comment-1705775-20150131014048

Complete Monster - many portrayals of Satan are "necessary evil" or similar.. since Satan is often used in a monothestic belief system and is thus always inferior to God (whom Satan can only oppose because said God allows it) or an agent of God who tempts mankind but is still part of a cosmic role.

Even at his worst Satan can only be an Anti-God, which while horrible is often beyond our understanding as an equal to God (or God itself if you go by maltheism) - Complete Monsters however have no cosmic role and are often so corrupt and evil that they must be destroyed entirely for even a remote chance of a "happy ending".

Alan Yates, for example, had to die in order for the jungle to properly heal itself after his rampage and he's (while infamous) still pretty tame in the realms of CM.. they are that bad.