User blog comment:X9 The Android/PE Proposal: Armando Salazar/@comment-39032584-20190831125200

Hmm... I've honestly wondered if Salazar coudl qualify since initially seeing the movie. He's a bit of a tough case; on the one hand, he definitely takes his hate for pirates way too far to the point he comes off as more of a "knight templar" rather than a "well-intentioned extremist", and attempted genocide is going to be quite high up there in terms of heinousness regardless of the work. Coversely though, he didn't comes off as malicious as Beckett or Blackbeard, and still seemed to genuinely believe that his cause was just, which isn't entirely unreasonable since, as other people noted, pirates are indeed portrayed as very amoral criminals in this series. It's hard to specify, but somehow, despite going to the extremes regarding exterminatign pirates that he did, he felt like he was lacking a certain edge compared to those other villains.

Hmm... count me as undecided for now. All I can really determine is that he's one of those less clear-cut cases since he definitely has some heinous credentials and no solid disqualifying features, but he still comes off as comparably less nasty, at least senselessly so, as well as more well-intentioned in comparison to the villains from POTC that qualify.