User blog:Harry.taylor.9085/Pure Evil Proposal- Aldrich Killian (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

What’s the Work?

Aldrich Killian is the Big Bad of Iron Man 3. The Iron Man series is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and there have been a handful of villains who have qualified as pure evil.

Who is the candidate/what they’ve done-

Aldrich Killian was a scientist, he had a disability, as a young adult, he met his idol, Tony Stark and after Stark ignored him, Killian became evil. He has committed several crimes that have crossed the Moral Event Horizon, such as destroying Tony Starks home, Drugging Pepper Potts against her will by injecting extremis (a painful drug which will grant the user super powers) into her, murdering his own right hand woman when she disagrees with his plan, torturing James Rhodes by melting down his Iron Patriot armor and planning the same fate for the president, attempting to murder many civilians aboard the presidents plane by having his dragon Eric Savin blow open a hole in the side and having an actor disguise himself as the Mandarin to mask his true nature and crimes.

Freudian Excuse/Mitigating Factors-

People may argue that he does not qualify because of how he was in his younger years, before he cured his disability. He initially went after Tony Stark for lying to him by saying he will meet him on the rooftop, but he never turned up. I can already see that the character is in the ‘Insecure’ category, but is really acting to get noticed ? It goes way beyond what Tony Stark said years ago, I mean he tried to have the president killed so he can take over the United States himself, personally, I think he is even more pure evil than Obadiah Stane, The already established pure evil villain in the Iron Man trilogy (who I made a removal proposal for recently but it got rejected). All in all, Being rejected by a weapons dealer is not an excuse for the crimes he has committed.

Heinous Standard-

Aldrich Killian’s acts definitely top any evil deed that Obadiah Stane or Ivan Vanko have committed, the former’s most heinous act was holding up a car with a family and throwing it at Tony Stark, The latter doesn’t even come close to pure evil.

Final Verdict-

I believe he qualifies.