Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2175012-20170507201405/@comment-25305244-20170510024328

AustinDR wrote: I still think we should use the heinous standard when determining what villain counts: the baseline and the relative heinousness. For instance, with baseline, we can expect for a villain to try to kill the heroes or kill a few people, but this is what separates a normal villain from a pure evil one. Their actions need to be seen as heinous by the narrative, and their actions must be nasty by the standards of their work (relative). For instance, in DBZ where planets are destroyed on a daily basis, the villain has to be especially evil to stand out. Threatening to destroy a planet is commonplace at this point.

I agree. We should look at both standards. Both standards are necessary to determine what is pure evil from what is not. Each story has its own individual standard (Dragon Ball and Game of Thrones having higher standards than some other stories) while there is a overall standard that separates a villain from the pure evil one.