Thread:Inferno Pendragon/@comment-30079834-20180403011402/@comment-1705775-20180403015623

not familiar with the story but for animals here's how it should work:

if they act like normal animals, even vicious animals, they can't count.. so let's say a tiger goes and kills people, eats them etc but the tiger is rabid or rogue or so on it does not apply as a "villain", a good example is the little acid-spitting dinosaur in Jurassic Park that kills of Nedry.. Nedry was stupid enough to go into the animal's enclosure and provoke it, thus the little dinosaur, while dangerous, is a carnivorous animal doing what carnivores do.

now let's take Jaws, it does count because it is shown to have malicious intent and "monstrous" qualities beyond being a simple animal - a normal shark will seek easy prey, Jaws seeks out humans even when easier prey is available.. Jaws also doesn't back off when people attack, Jaws is a monster and as such kills humans because it is a monstrous killing machine rather than just plain survival.

some animals blur the line, such as chimps and so on, because chimps can actually do some malicious acts - the trick is how the media portrays them.. if they are deliberately made monstrous and intelligent enough to understand basic right and wrong, yes, they apply.. if they can't understand right from wrong then no.. villains need to at least understand that their is good and bad, usually they side with bad or their actions lead them inevitably to the side of "bad" (like Anakin wanted to do good but his actions led him to being Darth Vader).