Thread:AustinDR/@comment-39489712-20190517000340

"Fairy Tail is a light-hearted Fighting Shounen about friendship and similar stuff. Forward to the Grand Magic Games arc, we meet our candidate, the Guild Master of one of the antagonizing guilds.

Who is he? What has he done?

Jiemma is the Guild Master of Sabertooth. He has a Social Darwinist attitude towards his members. If they do, what he wants, then they are welcome, if they fail to meet his expectations, he will expell them for failing to meet his expectations.

He forces Yukino to strip in front of her guild mates after she failed to defeat her opponent and expels her right after. After Sting and Rogue are beaten he prepares to expell them as well. Then, Lector tries to reason with him, but Jiemma notices the guild mark and nearly erases Lector from existence, just because an "animal" (Lector is a sapient animal!) is wearing his guild mark. Sting, however wounds Jiemma critically and Jiemma ends up thrown away by his daughter Minerva, ending in Sting taking control of the guild.

Some arcs later, we get some flashbacks of him abusing his daughter (calling her weak, refusing to see her as his daughter, slapping her for crying, forcing her to strip and/or abandoning her in a forest).

Forward to Tartaros arc, he choose himself to be a demon and was also turned into one. He swears to Mard Geer to try to usurp him for calling him a servant, but not before trying to kill Sting and Rogue for ruining his ideals and taking over his guild, but ends up taken down by them.

Heinousness?

Pretty high. That he forces to strips someone for losing, nearly murders a cat and abuses his daughter make him a nasty piece of work. He has no high bodycount, but the fact, that he abuses some of his members for failing him make him roughly as heinous in-universe. Also, Jose has no high bodycount either, but stands out in how petty and sadistic he is. He is sort-of a cold psychopath variation of Jose and has also pettiness to his name. And his actions are also treated very serious, evoking fear and loathing.

Freudian Excuse or any Mitigating Factor?

None on Freudian Excuse. As for mitigating factors, there is the fact, that he wants to make a strong guild, but at the end, it's clear that's only an excuse for his pride and nothing more. He would abuse anyone, who fails to meet his expectation and he later even abandons his old guild and attempts to murder some of his older members with no regret. He is generally portrayed as a cold-hearted psychopath with no regrets whatsoever, willing to do anything to be the strongest and leading the strongest guild, even if it is a dark guild. Moral agency? Nothing suggests, he doesn't know, what he does. It's similar to that of Light Yagami or Shou Tucker: He doesn't care, if what he does is immoral or not, he only wants to be the strongest, who leads the strongest guild.

Verdict?

He's possibly a borderline monster or on the lower totem, because he lacks a high bodycount, but for Fairy Tail, he seems to be at least bad enough. But what do you say?"

Could you bring this to the TV-Tropes Complete Monster cleanup thread? There is a write-up somewhere on another wiki, that is currently not present, however. 