Thread:Mimic45/@comment-27818776-20151119191810/@comment-1705775-20151119193435

an animal that kills for food is not a villain and popular opinion means nothing, a few thousand years ago the majority believed you could cure a headache via drilling a hole in the skull - it doesn't mean it worked.. many are still ill-informed or childish in regards to animals and view nature as "mean" because they are so far removed from a survival situation they fail to see nature is not antagonistic, it simply is..

in order to qualify a predator must DEFY nature rather than work with it, this means beings like Jaws are included because they act COMPLETELY ABNORMAL FOR THEIR SPECIES.. no real Great White is as deliberately malicious as Jaws, no real pirahna swarms innocents and flies out of water to strip victims flesh off in seconds. VERY few bee species gather in massive armies and deliberately sting every living thing in sight to death etc.. etc..

these "predators" are monsters rather than animals, they act so abnormal they no longer work with but rather against nature.. same as "rabid" or "rogue" animals.. they no longer function as nature intended them to and that is a MAJOR factor you should look at when judging a character.

Otherwise we degrade ourselves to children by pointing at an animal seeking to survive and calling it a "monster" when the term "monster" is a frightening being that goes AGAINST nature not simple a frightening being in nature we happen to find "scary".