User blog comment:Ngh93/What REALLY makes a villain a Complete Monster?/@comment-27818776-20150326235216/@comment-1672596-20150328160452

"I can't say much due to not playing Metal Gear but the Boss caring for Snake and having a degree of honor makes it impossible for her while Volgin didn't seem to have any. Both followed their orders but Volgin was ruthless and no good qualities if a CM. The Philospher Legacy gives money which equals power and influence. Nuclear War would obviously have no winner but if it doesn't happen fear of it would make it illegal globally. "

Caring for Snake? It was clear that if Snake didn't kill her, she'd kill him with zero hesitation, and even had MiGs come bomb the area they were in to heck before their final battle just to ensure only one of them can come out of it alive.

And honor? Selling out the closest you've got to family for a mission (she admitted that she sold out the Cobra Unit to their deaths), often trying to beat down Snake when he least expects it, and basically blowing up her technical allies isn't exactly honorable. Nor is trying to steal the legacy or risking nuclear war (even if you claim that she had no way of knowing Volgin would do such an act, she'd at least anticipate it considering that the CIA knew about his other crimes based on Zero's description of him in the Virtuous Mission), especially when she claimed she wanted world peace and to prevent change according to MGS4.

And aren't claiming that Snake fighting him is "a once in a lifetime battle", actually allowing Snake access to his weapons to give him some even ground (and it's not like he didn't know about Snake's use of CQC, considering Big Boss had earlier forcibly introduced him to the concept) and, heck, actually wanting to reunite the Philosophers considered good qualities? If they are good qualities for The Boss, they're most certainly good qualities for Volgin. And believe me, considering that Che Guevara (a true monster who is ironically treated in a very positive light in Peace Walker, being as bad as if not even worse than Volgin) often dithers when someone who is armed, even from his own men, actually protests his orders even when he himself is armed, and his [Che's] favorite hobby is butchering completely defenseless people, that's definitely honorable by comparison, even if he does use sith lightning tactics during the battle. And I'm not contesting that Volgin's a CM, BTW. Actually, the incident with the Sokolov Research Facility definitely marks him as one, not to mention his overall nature, that's why I'm irritated that The Boss isn't considered one DESPITE being the same.