User blog comment:Scottish-Terror/Pure Evil Removal: Darin MacNamara/@comment-1705775-20190526222149

I know you're not very happy about Ryan being seen as not PE (though personally I think you should of kept the proposal up and let it run its course either way) but Darin is worse by virtue of screen time, what he achieves and what the audience gets to interact with.

Darin has torture, multiple-murders (one against a close family member), enslavement and more under his belt : he's also represented as a greedy, ruthless and sadistic man while Ryan was devoid of emotion : also Ryan is not really "human" by standards of Buffyverse, he was born with no soul.. which I'd argue gives Ryan some serious moral agency issues : he was literally *born* evil ("Ryan is bad, Ryan has always been bad").

Darin is shown to be fully human, presumably has a soul but decides to be evil - that makes him pretty bad (though really it's Buffyverse.. the heinous levels are insane..).

what could also disqualify him other than Buffyverse being a HIGH heinous level franchise (to put it nicely) is that his brother Jack was also a very sadistic torturer - though he was less intelligent than Darin (sociopath versus psychopath).