User blog:Looperreallyreallysucks/Pure Evil Proposal - John Lumic

This character has already been added to the PE category, but I’m just making this EP to make him approved. Here we go.



What's The Work
Doctor Who is a British sci-fi series about a humanoid alien called the Doctor who travels through time and space, fights monsters, and so on.

Who is the Candidate? What Have They Done?
John Lumic is the founder and owner of Cybus Industries, and he serves as the main antagonist of the episodes “Rise of the Cybermen” and “Age of Steel”. In the beginning of “Rise of the Cybermen”, he has one of his minions killed for suggesting that they ask for the government’s approval to create Cybermen (emotionless machines who can only act upon their programming). Later, he has homeless people kidnapped and converted into Cybermen for the sake of experimenting. He sends them to kill the President of Great Britain before attempting to have everyone in London converted into Cybermen, and he has any and all dissidents killed. His ultimately intention is to have the throw world converted. When the Doctor refuses to be Cyber-converted, Lumic tries to kill him.

Freudian Excuse/Mitigating Factors
As for Freudian Excuse, Lumic is suffering from a terminal illness, and he main reason he invented the Cybermen in the first place was so he can never die. But considering all the murders he committed and the fact that he wants the entire population on Earth converted into emotionless machines with no free will, I fail to see how suffering from a terminal illness even serves as an FE at all. As for mitigating factors, Lumic claims that he wants everyone to become immortal, but this comes off as shallow because in the end, the only reason he wants everyone converted is so he can ensure that he can survive, and he is clearly aware that being converted into a Cyberman is a fate worse than death (he even made sure that he only gets converted when he breathes his “final breath”, which shows just how selfish he is). So no, no mitigating factors.

Heinous Standard
Doctor Who has an extremely high heinous standard, and the most basic villains are reality destroyers and all that. But Lumic, for one, doesn’t have that much resources. He’s merely a human who happens to be a successful businessman. And since he appeared early in the modern series when the heinous standards weren’t that high, he stood out enough at the time he appeared. So yes, he’s heinous enough.

Final Verdict
“Keep”.