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Okay.

And another thing that makes Syndrome a villain (and a Complete Monster, IMO*) is that he specifically programmed the Omnidroid to go on a destructive rampage that he could conveniently "stop", plus there's the whole plane destruction scene. Sure, the murder of those heroes occured off-screen, but his on-screen actions were sadistic and malevolent.

While I do think Amazing knew for a fact that Casanova would do something nefarious (which would make him liable, or at least guilty of manslaughter at the very least), you bring up a good point that he did not deliberately goad Casanova into blowing up the asylum or arrange for him to commit a specific crime.


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