Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-28151492-20160424222115/@comment-26205772-20160424222608

The thing is, there's something in a given work like Judge Dredd you have to take into consideration when measuring Monsters. That's the heinous standard; eventually, crimes like that become so commonplace in the setting that a Monster has to go beyond what's already become the norm for villainy in the setting. It goes without saying every villain is nasty in Judge Dredd; it's a setting where even the protagonists are morally dubious bastards. However, we can't go ahead marking every villain without redeeming qualities as a Monster. Only the absolute worst of the worst of those nasty villains will qualify as Monsters, and Shojun falls pretty pitifull short if you ask me. He'd easily count in other settings, but not in a setting where the attempted murder of thousands is dealt with every other week.