User blog comment:AdrianC385/Villains that should be added as Pure Evil/@comment-9415978-20180319214138/@comment-14660436-20180324043551

My post on Teengohan's blog about Porky pretty much summarizes my thoughts on Porky being a potential candidate for being PE, so I'll just paste it here:

Concerning Porky and the PE category, I think two major reasons have come into play which have been preventing him from being labeled as such (one of which I can argue against, however):

1. Implied to have strict and abusive parents, which is most prominently seen where his dad supposedly beats or scolds him and Picky off-screen, which is a point which frequently gets brought up. However, Purely Evil villains can have traumatic experiences in their lives under the right circumstances (if their past misfortunes aren't used as a device to make viewers/readers/players etc. have sympathy for them, and if they go completely beyond the point of tragedy).

Now naturally, Porky receiving bad parenting could disqualify him as being PE...if it's even played for sympathy in the first place, which is why I disagree with the whole abusive parents point. Yeah, it could have shaped how Porky became the vicious little brat he was, but EarthBound really doesn't go that much into depth with it. Hell, I can't even recall it being used to make the players feel sympathy for him, even after playing EarthBound quite a few times now.

Regardless of it being a factor or not, it's mostly his actions in Mother 3 which makes some people (including you and myself) think he could be PE, which is years and years beyond Porky's life with his family and even Giygas' potential influence on him. Which brings up my final question: Does having strict parents really justify a man-child creating a hegemonic, animal abusive dictatorship that caters only to him out of spite for everyone else in the world? Seems more petty than justifiable in my opinion.

2. Dr Andonuts' pity for Porky. Somewhat self-explanatory. After Porky is defeated and essentially condemns himself to suffering a fate worse than death (considering he is nigh-immortal) by sealing himself inside the Absolutely Safe Capsule where he can't break himself out from, but keeps him, well, "Absolutely Safe", Dr. Andonuts shows up and says that he feels sorry for Porky now, considering he made the capsule for Porky and even tried to warn him Porky of what would happen if he tried to seal himself inside. Dr Andonuts then questions if this is what Porky wanted all along. This does seem like the game is trying to get players to sympathize with Porky since it really is a fate worse than death to be trapped inside an inescapable capsule where nothing can harm you, all while being immortal.

In conclusion: I don't know really. Maybe I'm just biased over the fact that Porky has grown on me as a villain I love to despise. And at the end of the day, personal bias against a character is the last thing you really need at all to argue for a villain to qualify as a CM/PE. At the very least, Porky definitely crosses the MEH.

TL;DR: I personally don't think Porky being mistreated by his parents works as a disqualifier for him being PE, since I never recalled EarthBound or Mother 3 using the abuse as a sympathy-net or even a justifiable excuse for his horrid actions in Mother 3. However, a major character in the games feels pity for Porky after the latter is defeated (for which he receives a fate worse than death in the process), which is a potentially valid point arguing against Porky being PE. Personal bias aside, even if he can't be PE, I think he at least crosses the MEH in Mother 3.