Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24308881-20170612184142/@comment-1705775-20170626220632

ScaryMovie53 wrote: You're talking about becoming the monster you are fighting againts. A valid point, but it's not wishing to become like the villain.

I was saying that it is very easy for CM / Pure Evil to have tragic, even heartbreaking backstories, but they invalidate alll of them when they go to certain extremes.. Superboy Prime from DC comics had his entire world destroyed and his life ruined, normally even as a villain those extraordinary tragedies would make him invalid for Pure Evil but his original incarnation proceeded to go to such vile, horrendous ends to lash out at the world that he was nothing but a terrorist.. to be frank almost all villains short of the "cackling madman" has tragedy as a key of their creation, just like heroes.. Freddy Krueger was abused horrifically by his father, as an example, yet like most sociopaths Freddy's crimes against complete innocents invalidates any shred of "sympathy" his otherwise tragic upbringing may of done.

the only guys who *want* to become villains are the criminally insane, the "rebels who know no better" and a very select minority who actually view evil as a philosophical ideal.. every other villain, no matter how grotesque, started off as a good or neutral person.. tragedy creates villains as much as it creates heroes and just as "pure good" can come from horrific tragedy (Superman, Batman etc) so can "pure evil" come from horrific tragedy.. the difference is good / neutral characters don't use tragedy as an excuse to harm others, evil characters do.. hence the "birth" of villainy.. when a character decides to harm the world rather than heal.