Thread:Overseer80/@comment-2175012-20170925054838

If you really want to know my thoughts, here:

Baseline: The setting. We can expect villains to kill, rape, do evil things. But for a candidate to qualify, their actions must stick out in comparison to the other villains. Basically before I continue, evey character affects the heinous standard even heroes.

Relative: What is truly heinous in the story. For something like a crime drama, say person A kills 5 people, while person B kills 50. Person B would stand out as more heinous. However, if person B has mitigating factors, neither would qualify, but the latter is still immensely heinous. The tier system, resources and the like can also be factored in here. However, if some villain uses their resources to commit crimes that are commonplace in the setting, they don't stand out there. 