Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-26884760-20150814233218/@comment-1705775-20150814233901

actually you miss the point of Affable.. it doesn't mean acting nice.. it means a character that while "bad" still has some empathy and understanding of "right" versus "wrong".

psychopaths by very definition can't understand empathy and will hurt you for very petty reasons.. an Affable villain is reluctant to harm unless necessary, a psychopath pretty much exists to harm everyone they can.. repeatedly.

Also neither Yates or Stegman are really that charming if you watch the films, they are both smug, crazed and by no means "friendly" (and remember Stegman's "can I be in the band, teach?" was followed immediatedly by him yelling "can I be in the F***ING band!?" - Stegman especially is just plain deranged.. which is not an Affable trait)