Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-1705775-20171125192926/@comment-25305244-20171125223106

Misry6 wrote: I wonder if it's about the requirements for Complete Monsters/Pure Evils.
 * They commit acts that are atrocious by the standards of the story, and have crossed the Moral Event Horizon. Villains who have only crossed the MEH once usually do not qualify, although rare examples exist.
 * They are taken seriously, causing fear, revulsion, and hatred from other characters in the story. Therefore, villains that fall under Comic Relief can never qualify.
 * They are never presented in a positive way.
 * They can never feel love for others. If they claim to have love for anyone, that "love" would merely be either perversion, possessiveness, or obsession.
 * They are completely beyond redemption and absolutely nothing justifies their heinous crimes.
 * They display no sense of remorse towards those who they have hurt nor do they express any empathy for others as well.

I think these requirements are important as well.

Yes, those are just a basic overview of the category. It is important but it is not like a detailed criteria of the category like considering story standards, off-screen villainy, moral agency, etc. A list of criteria similar to the one on LucidPigeon's profile page, for example, would be helpful requirements as it provides how a villain can count why they can or cannot count and so on.