User blog comment:Itay66647/Pure Evil Proposal: Commander Lyle Rourke/@comment-25906608-20191012200202

Absolutely. I know we don't do votes based on TV Tropes but that site gave a pretty decent summary of why Rourke qualifies.

"Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke is a tomb-robbing mercenary (or, as he insists, "adventure capitalist") solely in the Atlantis operation for profit. The leader of the expedition sent to find Atlantis, Rourke maintains a gruff, militaristic indifference to the lives of those lost to the Leviathan and upon seeing the Heart of Atlantis, plans to confiscate it and sell it for double the money he'd receive. Knowing full well this will kill every Atlantean, when he's confronted on this Rourke threatens to shoot Princess Kida and shortly thereafter murders her father, never dropping his friendly façade. Rourke was concerned for little else but himself and the potential profit he could reap from Atlantis, to the point where he tosses Helga off a blimp to her death for a minor benefit to his escape, and was greedy enough in the end to make his entire party turn against him."

I couldn't have said it better myself. But I'll try just to ensure my vote qualifies.

For my persnal opinion, I'd say yes because as explained above, he was willing to condemn the Atanteans to death out of pure greed and felt no remorse for it whatsoever. He also has a cruel and sadistic sense of humor as he made a sadistic joke about gutting the king and punching Milo in the face. His deplorable actions caused everyone to turn on him. He even shows no remorse to betraying his own crew. If that ain't PE I dunno what is!