Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4851935-20161220152123/@comment-2059440-20170217123624

what I mean is often if an author sets out to make an offensive CM from the get-go and relies on shock they usually end up with stuff like Jeff the Killer.. it takes a special kind of author to write a decent "pure evil" character and most writers don't outright focus on the "let's crank this villainy to 11" nonsense.

CMs, like all characters, need some purpose or meaning - if the only purpose is to "be evil", they've failed as a character.. with some rare exceptions.