Very interesting. That’s why he’s under “Adaptational Villainy” as well

Light Yagami’s situation makes me truly think about the “Scapegoat” category. Not that he is one, but it does come down to how they go down. I remember back when I did my Governor discussion (man I’ve never felt so ashamed in my life XD) was when I finally wrapped my head around the true difference between a Scapegoat and other redeeming features. Characters with no other redeeming qualities could end up suffering a fate so terrible that Scapegoat is their only true quality. And other times, a character could be something like extremely tragic, but otherwise be so evil they deserved worse than what they probably got.

The ONLY truly positive thing about the category is that it demonstrates that a villain wasn’t bad enough to deserve what they got. Likewise, a tragic, honorable, remorseful, affably evil, lawful neutral anti-villain by proxy could be a karma Houdini despite their redeeming features if they were never punished and didn’t completely redeem themselves, suggesting they were bad enough to deserve to be punished in the first place

Yagami is regarded as a scapegoat because his death is very sympathetic, but the manga Yagami still counts however.

Will anyone also respond to my proposal to remove a villain from Pure Evil? If it doesn’t pass, again at least I can receive closure and not be ignored

Tbf Syndrome was PE in the movie as well.

Speaking of which, I think it is a ’problem’ that if a villain has two different versions (take Syndrome for example) but yet only have one page here. Even if the differences are small but still important enough, it can cause trouble for the debate if the villain should belong to PE.

Don't know if I wholly agree there.

Yes, I agree. It confused me at first. But what about my last question?

I meant about the two versions thing, but at the VERY least, we can specify that they have two versions

Aside from the differences in personality and characterization, there aren't that many changes. Syndrome is depicted as far more malicious than the film, but he mostly commits the same crimes aside from differences such as programming the Omnidroid to explicitly kill civilians.

Alan Yates