User blog comment:Ordeaux26/PE Proposal James Gillies (Murdoch Mysteries)/@comment-5959298-20190629183441/@comment-31249551-20190629190055

yes it is possible for someone who was betrayed before becoming Pure Evil to be Pure Evil look at the Freind of the hero category it says purely evil villains can qualify if they were once true friends of the hero/heroes although Gillies would not apply to this category since Robert Perry isn't a hero

the main thing im think of though is despite the fact he was betrayed he never shows the same kind of mercy for his pawns regualry betraying and killing then when they no longer have any use to him as show espicialy in "The Murdoch Trap" so this fact dosent make him sympathetic to any extant, and also the murder was his idea

even if his relationship with robert perry was genuine i doesn't really matter anymore beacuse he is long since past that for it to matter or be a redeeming quality of any kind, and he has never had a geniune freindship with anybody since then