Thread:Dual89 Proxima/@comment-29414935-20200201205629/@comment-25305244-20200202023823

I don't know if Akainu or Light were intentionally portrayed to be pure evil by their writers. But, for pure evil villains who are intentionally written to be pure evil like Frieza or Hody Jones, they are often flat and static characters. There is often not much to these types of pure evil villains since they are only extremely cruel. And often times, these types of pure evil villains do not have much depth to their character besides being very wicked.

Plus, with pure evil, a writer may not think the villain they wrote were pure evil but they ended up meeting all the criteria. That tends to happen. It's whether the villain meets the criteria that counts.

With Blackbeard, he seems to respect his own crew, the Blackbeard Pirates. Blackbeard is like the evil counterpart to Luffy. Luffy respects his crew; Blackbeard respects his crew. With me, I think that is debatable since he betrayed his previous crew the Whitebeard Pirates. Plus in Impel Down, he only wanted the strongest members for his pirate crew which was why he had a bunch of prisoners fight and die to prove to him who is the strongest. I think he may not care so much for his crew for their unique personalities like Luffy but only care that they are strong enough to help him find the one piece. He goes beyond the heinous standards but seems to have a redeeming quality.