User blog comment:Itay66647/Pure Evil Proposal: Mother Gothel/@comment-39032584-20190927233120/@comment-39032584-20190928152358

Well, I don't know if I would go as far as calling her "tragic". I was just bringing that up as an argument against the statement that "she's evil for the sake of being evil". At the very least, what she was doing was for an important reason from her own perspective, which makes her less evil than many other Disney Animated Canon villains in my opinion.

As for Edgar, yeah, he barely even deserves to be called an antagonist. I mean, come on, who wouldn't feel upset and cheated that the person they've faithfully served for years is leaving their fortune to their pet cats over you? Talk about ludicrous. Anyway, I just brought him up to make the point that unlike him, she's at least a genuine antagonist to a degree, even if she's far from PE.