User blog comment:AustinDR/PE Removal: Ellen Berent Harland (Leave Her to Heaven)/@comment-33497615-20190516113809/@comment-2175012-20190516215310

But, SlimeShady does have a point. Take Bob Ewell. Nowadays, he probably wouldn't be a "Keep," but take the time the book was written. He came from a relatively looser work that had a relative heinous standard, that is to say that he was heinous enough at the time. There is the baseline heinous standard, your setting, and the relative heinous standard. The baseline is where you can often expect a villain to commit murder, steal, rape, etc. Like say you have a murder mystery. You can expect for a bad guy to be going around killing people, but if the villain killed people in gruesome ways, or if the villain runs a human trafficking organization, that is beyond what the baseline of the show is. That is where the time in which a work had been released can also be put into consideration.

Relative heinous standard is what is heinous by the standards of the work? Here is where Ellen fails. While she is bad in the setting, she otherwise fails the relative heinous standard because of her low body count compounded with her deliberate miscarriage. When you factor in both, she falls short of breaching the baseline of the work.