User blog comment:AustinDR/PE Removal: Iron-Masked Marauder/@comment-39032584-20190930182655

From what I understand, yeah, cut. His actions stood out at the time, but everything he did has been clearly surpassed by other, even worse villains since then. He may be purely evil in the more general sense, but he seems to fall short of the requirement to stand among the worst in the series.

P.S. It's... honestly a liitle unsettling that the heinous standard in Pokemon has increased that much. Then again, it has been running for a very long time, so maybe it was a given that they would eventually introduce larger threats to keep the usual Team Rocket-like threats from getting boring and/or repetitive, and make things more exciing.