User blog comment:Ngh93/What REALLY makes a villain a Complete Monster?/@comment-27818776-20150326235216/@comment-1672596-20150328145129

What on earth is "well-intentioned" about blowing up your own allies (and even if it was for the purposes of a fake defection, they were still technically allies) and then declaring death to be beautiful? Only a sicko would think that to be beautiful. And for the record, her "good intentions" were a sham considering she did a lot to "change the world" (retrieving the Legacy is by definition "change"), and she didn't even attempt to stop Volgin from committing the act, not even via indirect means. And it goes at odds against her claims of wanting to reunite the world as well.

As far as Palpatine, unfortunately, that's no longer canon thanks to Disney basically reducing the Expanded Universe into Legends category in 2013. And even if it was still canon, there's still some problems with that idea as well. Namely, do you honestly think a man who is deathly terrified (sorry for the pun) of death would even RISK getting killed even to ensure someone is corrupted? No, if anything, if Palpatine was of that type, he'd end up sabotaging his entire Sith philosophy and beg for mercy like a coward (similar to Gaston in Beauty and the Beast in fact). Revenge of the Sith is an especially bad instance of this where he was trying to goad a man he knew full well at that time was twice as powerful as he could ever be even if he were to go all out into killing him specifically to turn him to the dark side, and that's most likely before he started cloning himself. And don't even get me started on his trying to goad Galen Marek into murdering him (and based on his attacking Kota afterwards, he was sincere enough in wanting Marek to kill him that he was outraged that Kota interfered). And the novelization for Revenge of the Sith even implied that he didn't even fear Mace Windu's threatening him and just faked fear in order to garner Anakin's sympathy. Not even Voldemort was willing to risk that, and he literally named himself after his fear of his own death ("Voldemort" is French for "Flight from Death). He's actually far closer to the Joker, in that regard (and keep in mind, the latter is a guy who literally laughs death in the face when it's facing him).