User blog:Scottish-Terror/Pure Evil Removal: Darin MacNamara

well, here's one for the list.. a removal based on what others have told me on the series and what heinous standards are like, surprised it got put on Pure Evil.

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Darin_MacNamara

Darin MacNamara is from the Buffy spin-off series Angel and is introduced as a power-hungry and sadist crime lord who runs an underground fighting ring where he forces demons to fight in gladiator battles via the use of magic collars that will disintegrate them if they disobey.

He is most known for shooting his own brother after Angel tries to use said brother as a shield, thinking Darin would hesitate - instead he replied with "now he's my dead brother".

the thing is other human antagonists such as Ryan Anderson have been bluntly stated to NOT qualify as Pure Evil because the heinous standards of Buffyverse is so high.. Ryan was said to be so bad the demon trying to possess him wanted to die rather than stay within him, describing him as "destroying not for the sake of evil but for no reason at all".

Yet we're meant to believe Darin is somewhow worse than this and somehow able to be seen as Pure Evil alongside Angelus etc?

seems pretty iffy - to disqualify one and yet the other is somehow a "greater evil" : Darin is just what Ryan and the like would become as a grown-up and Darin is basically just your typical big bad crime boss.

in a show like Angel that has been stated not to be enough so I say he needs to be cut.

He's a hate-sink, we hate him because he kills his brother and tortures Angel but that's all he is.. a hate sink - he fails the heinous standards of the franchise since it is said that other characters do worse.