User blog comment:G-Monster/Pure Evil Proposal Demise/@comment-39032584-20200202131447

Ah, a pair of villains from one of my favorite Zelda games (though honestly, I love pretty much all of the ones I've played). Now this is interesting. For a while, I honestly thought they had both been deemed non-keeps. However, after seeing your arguments, and even though I haven't personally played to the end of this game yet, I'm inclined to give Demise a yes for qualifying. There really doesn't seem to be any explicit proof that he's literally made of evil, despite his obviously demonic appearance, and when you stop to think about it, being responsible for Ganon's whole existence makes him responsible for the countless innocent lives that were affected or outright lost to his atrocities his various incarnations committed throughout the series. Plus, yeah, I think the fact that he cursed Link and Zelda's ancestors to have death and misery follow them in an indefinite cycle pretty much negates the notion of him having any real honor. If anything, it sounds like he simply found Link interesting and entertaining.