Thread:BeholderofStuff/@comment-2059440-20181104050249/@comment-3581997-20181105210858

What about identifying the cause of conflict and then who plays a part in starting it and carrying it out? Magus of Chrono Trigger for example, turns out to be a decoy antagonist with only good goals. But for a large section of the game he still drives the plot and creates enmity with our protagonists. Even with it being a misunderstanding and him being "morally on the level" from a pure story-telling perspective he is the source of the first half of our game's immediate conflict and he is still here on Villain's Wiki. That sort of source 'A creates effect B', removes us from having to defend or assert our own morals, and those morals can instead be channeled for more constructive purposes like inspiring the article itself if it makes it in.