User blog:JoxFox2109/PE Proposal: Clifford Blossom

Another Pure Evil Proposal from me. The first in 2020.



Who is he and what has he done?
Clifford Blossom is the main antagonist in the first season of the soap opera series, Riverdale. He is a rich man and business man who makes his money with his "Blossom Syrup". He is also the father of Cheryl Blossom and Jason Blossom, and the husband of Penelope Blossom. In reality, he was a drug lord who smuggled drugs in Riverdale. When his son find out about it, Clifford wanted him to become his business partner. But Jason refused and tried to run away with his girlfriend Polly Cooper and his two unborn children. But Clifford hired an southside serpent member, named Mustang, to kidnap and torture Jason. When he was done, Clifford coldly killed his own son with an headshot. After that, he killed Mustang with an drug overdose to hide his secrets and blamed Hiram Lodge for it. He also was the reason why Hiram got arrested. Then he tried to frame FP Jones for the murder of Jason and put his revolver in FPs home. So FP was arrested. When he met FP in on the police station, he blackmailed him and forced him to confess or else he would kill him and his son Jughead. But because Archie and co. find a USB-stick in Jason's jacket who showed were the real murderer was, Clifford killed himself to escape justice and the police (what was not really suicide because it is later revealed that his own wife killed him and let it looked like an suicide). We also see what his crimes do have an tragic impact on his daughter Cheryl. Like when she wanted to commit suicide in drowning, or in season 4 where she struggles a lot with her brothers death and has an mental breakdown to the point of becoming insane and keeping his corpse in the house.

Mitigating Factors
None. He is never shown to feel sadness or remorse over what he did or to care about his other family members. The only thing that is in his mind is to get more and more money, and he just cares about his business.

Heinous Standard
While the heinous standard of Riverdale is higher and there are many heinous villains like serial killers, drug dealers or rapists, I still think Clifford stands out as one of the worst. While the other villains often have mitigrating factors and also have tragic stories, Clifford has none of it. What makes him stand out is his crime of filicide, what is instantly an heinous MEH crossing, but also that he mentally destroyed his own daughter because of his actions. He is even worse than Hiram Lodge in some cases.

Final Verdict
Clearly a big yes.