Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4851935-20161220152123/@comment-2059440-20170217120321

if an author creates a character purely for shock value that character tends to fail when observed by people who have seen more developed characters, by its nature CM can be difficult to give personality and depth, yet it can be done and makes for interesting observations of the worst in humanity..

a character written simply to shock an audience is easy to do, just break taboos and be "edgey" - making a character who speaks against a social ill is harder and often much more effective: for every Hostel-style slasher and gore-monger we can counter with things like AM (the terrors of humanity's enslavement to its own technology) or Big Brother (a character that is prophetic, especially in today's society where many of Big Brother's traits can be seen in the real-world).

a truly evil character is not whoever does the most disgusting acts, it is whoever makes you fear because you see how the lines of fiction and fact can so easilyn merge.. we'll never see an Isaac in reality but we can, in our darkest nightmares, envision something like Big Brother or AM existing and that is true evil.