Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2175012-20171030003307/@comment-2175012-20171119152440

There are two heinous standards: the baseline and the relative heinous standard. In a work, you can expect the villain to kill people, rob stores or banks, etc. For a villain to pass the baseline, their actions must be differentiated from what can be seen as normal villainy.

The relative heinousness is what ultimately determines whether a candidate meets it or not. Take Tales from the Crypt. Murder itself is commonplace in the show, which means that if a character kills one or maybe two people, they do not count. The only candidate that qualifies was a serial killer who had killed seven people. If you need to think about this, say this: if Bob killed fifteen people, but has redeeming factors, he does not count. Alice kills three people and has no redeeming factors, but ultimately doesn't count, because Bob is more heinous than her despite not qualifying.