Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-29414935-20190706142344/@comment-29414935-20190827201025

I always thought if I sometimes unnecessairly make my villains to murderers. Because it sometimes feels like that and I sometimes also think it's overused in media. I know it's the worst and most unforggetable crime (even if I think torture and rape are worse) but it seems lame to say like "he/she is a murder because they are evil!". So I was thinking, does some of my villains in media mostly for children need to kill someone? See, in video games for children it's always hard to tell if you as the player really are killing the enemies or just knock them out, because they just disappear. I always think it's not murder and you are not killing them. So would be Bowser a murderer or not? You can play as him in some games, and he maybe kills the enemies but we don't know for sure. The only villain he really kills for sure, is the Dark Star. So that's why I think he is a murderer.

But back to my villain. He is also in a story mostly for children, what was my first story ever. It's similar to Mario, Sonic, Banjo-Kazooie, Rayman etc. I always imagine it to become a jump 'n' run game. So I made it like, that the hero isn't killing the enemies but knocks them out. So the villain would do the same, because you can also play as him at times. But I wanted him to commit murder or manslaughter for no special reason, just to portray him more evil and cruel than villains like Bowser, King K. Rool or Dr.Eggman, even if he also switches sides sometimes. So I can do just murder or manslaughter or both. Manslaughter would be something like, he kills one of his henchmen by accident, and for the murder I have something special. He kills one of the protagonists friends by breathing fire at him, a huge fire ball that explodes. So he is burned. And then, because their is magic in the story, the protagonist is able to steal the evil magic and revives him.

So yeah, what do you think? Should I do it like that or leave him as not a murderer?