Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2175012-20170823181810/@comment-2175012-20170920172741

You have the tier system when it comes to PE. It ranges from power, resources, intelligence, etc. Basically, besides the baseline heinous standard, there is the relative heinous standard. For instance, a serial killer could count in the same work as an evil overlord thanks to the tier system. With the relative heinous standard, this is where resources factor in. However, just because a villain is heinous enough with their resources does not mean that they automatically are PE. If they use their resources to commit atrocities that are commonplace or happenstance of the work, they do not stick out enough. Basically, if all of the villains in a work try to destroy planets, none of them would stand out.