Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-26200221-20150403132449/@comment-27560932-20150403191325

A heinous standard's fairly versatile when it comes to villains. Fletcher and Burns are at two opposite ends of the spectrum, and each have their own crimes and resources. Burns is clearly the greater threat, but looking at Fletcher I think he does enough to stand out in his own way, especially considering he's nowhere near as deadly as Burns.

His "one atrocity" polevaults him over the MEH; the brutal flogging of a mentally handicapped fourteen-year old with enough force to kill him while townfolk are forced to look on. I believe Fletcher also intentionally lures Burns to the town and orders the wipeout of the Aborignals in the region is heinous even without the "convicted murderer/rapist thing." TV Tropes has him listed anyways. I'm not some fanatical templar making sure everything goes according to how TV Tropes judges things; we're two different websites with different standards for a CM (I personally am a lot more lenient on offscreen villainy) and I don't agree with everything they say. However, discussion took place on the thread and he was deemed to count even by their finicky tight standards.