User blog:Inferno Pendragon/PE Removal Proposal: Evil Spirit (Care Bears)

well this is a relatively rare example of me making a Pure Evil Removal case for an article that was Approved Pure Evil - however this is a special case and I feel it needs to be corrected..

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Evil_Spirit_(Care_Bears)

Who is It?
The Evil Spirit is the main antagonist of the first Care Bears movie, while she is indeed the darkest villain in the franchise she is also the least in terms of backstory and over-all she is a "sealed evil in a can" villain - or rather a book.

Why She Is Disqualified?
despite being manipulative and cruel the Evil Spirit is just that, a nameless entity that has no backstory beyond "evil spirit inside a book" - we don't know if she has moral agency and it is very likely she is a force of nature rather than a truly dimensional character.. everything she does is to spread evil and misery, yes, but we have NO backstory on WHY she wants to do this.. thus we can only assume that this is her nature.. in short she is literally evil.

the Evil Spirit is too vague to count for PE as she never openly chooses to be evil versus good and she doesn't really show that she understands good other than "good things must be destroyed" - instinctively wanting "good" to perish doesn't mean you understand good, it just means you recognize something that has to be gotten rid of, you may not really question why (good example is Doomsday: "you are Superman and I will kill you" "why?" "it's what I am, don't care why") - in other words she likely just wants to get rid of "good" because she knows that this is her purpose.. she doesn't really question it nor show overly complex understanding of what good is versus evil.

so in short Evil Spirit just can't be Pure Evil - we are not given any info on where she came from, what she is (beyond a demonic witch of some description) and even her ultimate plan is vague.. destroying all caring would potentially wipe out life or it could of been a plan for her to conquer the world or it could of been a number of other things.. as stands in the movie her plans were just "make everyone miserable and spread chaos".. which is also what 90 percent of Care Bear villains do.

so while she is definitely the darkest character in Care Bears she's by no means complex enough to be PE - nightmare fuel? yes.. but not PE.