Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2175012-20171030003307/@comment-3581997-20171030014633

AustinDR wrote: Luthor is often presented as a well-intentioned extremist.

I know, I was using that one as a example. Luthor is one of the most cut and dry, bad-guys out there. He is not a misunderstood soul, he is not an anti-villain (at least not in the main reality), he is not some maverick anti-hero who goes too far, and he does carve jack-o-lantern faces into the stomachs of babies and then send the photos to the parents. He is standard outright evil in most iterations.

My point was, what is to stop people who aren't going to look that hard or who just have a very, very small frame of reference for what actual Pure Evil is, from slapping that category on Lex along with 1000 other villains who are just standard mustache twirlers and not malevolence personified? How do we stop abuse of the category enough to trim it and keep it gone? There is a scale issue here in combination with just contributors who have a very small frame of reference.