Thread:Prime ShockWaveTX/@comment-27729149-20151101185255/@comment-26205772-20160327235641

Honestly... no, I'm not seeing any invalidation. Let's look back a little from what I remember; Paul was a perfectly well-adjusted man who accidentally ended up killing one of his own children and reacted appropriately. He was driven out of town by jackass citizens and put to the point of starvation where he was desperate enough to kill someone.

At that point, I have no inclination to believe that Paul didn't end up completely succumbing to a mixture of insanity and desperation. That's an excuse that hurtled Paul to a point of no return through a genuinely tragic circumstance to me. A Monster with an genuine Freudian Excuse has to do more than simply be evil enough to the point where their actions are no longer justified by the excuse; the tragedy surrounding the initial incident itself has to be thoroughly invalidated, and while Paul is a twisted excuse for a human being, I'm finding how he ended up at that point to be a little too "Jesus, poor fellow" to truly consider him a Complete Monster.