Thread:AustinDR/@comment-1762629-20150123032931/@comment-2059440-20150123053759

simply put Robin, they can't but they still symbolize horrible things and some of them did show a basic understanding of "good" (as applied to their current culture / time-period) but outright rejected it.

fairy tales, by nature, have some of the largest collection of "cackling madmen" type villains.. it's just how far they go in their sadism that determines which are worse (until, of course, you get to the later fairy tales - which tend towards more complex characters but lots of the original violence / gore is taken out).