Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2175012-20171129183922/@comment-15895329-20171130004741

AustinDR wrote: The thing, though again has to do with the heinous standard of the work. If murder is commonplace (like if a person murdered two people or three), compared to someone who had murdered over twenty people, but they have redeeming traits, the oen without redeeming traits is eclipsed because of the low bodycount. I don't even agree with this, actually, at least not all the time. If a villain is sufficiently vile, then it ought not to matter if another villain has killed even more, so long as they have redeeming traits. That's needlessly restrictive, and, honestly, it's not a mentality TV Tropes seems to hold to. Ultimate Reed Richards killed more people than some other Marvel villains who are nevertheless seen as pure evil. And why? Because they didn't NEED to kill as many people as he did to be bad enough, especially when they don't have the sympathetic qualities that he did.

Again, let's just drop the pretenses and admit to having a "TV Tropes is always right" rule. Just put it on the books, and we can be honest about how things are here. I have little interest in continuing to debate this topic, since the futility of doing so has been made clear to me countless times now.