User blog comment:EvilLamp/Category Suggestions/@comment-26205772-20160418222431/@comment-26884760-20160418222820

maniac is really only ever suitable if applied to someone suffering manic outbursts, even then it's kind of a slur these days.. insane is very specific thing as well and I don't think many villainous characters can actually be classed as geniunely insane (not able to know what they do is wrong).. take Freddy for example, he is labelled a "homicidal maniac" but he's by no means actually insane.. no thrill-killer is.. they know what they do is wrong, they just don't seem to care (or if they are like Henry in Portrait of a Serial Killer they have a compulsion to kill, which is still not true insanity).