Unless, like AnSon said, they don't revert to becoming good, they would go past their insecurities as they threw away their shot at becoming good again.

If they were to truly be Pure Evil, they would keep doing what they were doing out of mere enjoyment cuz they are past their tragedies, and even more insanely, their insecurities.

Azula is insecure, and that is harder to go past than tragedies, I think.

Emotions cantrol your action you say your not human. bullshit if had no emotion you be a robot.love is the only thing good in this hell Mr robot

I give you a gift I'm no king just smarter then mindless agree ants all ready pressed the restart see you under a thousand feet of water better build an ark .for your crust black heart no one will ever love you.isaac my first love . I move hundreds of people on one thaught . destroyed this earth over and over again.whats this is the third time over your fucken negativity can't just run the business

Properly over fucken anger that's built up In side of you. You might be the mistake I created but you will for get .this was fun eight to/nine years ago.some people must die but when the negivity kills the little fucken kids and harmless ants.itd to stop the negative aspect of it all over the heartless consumption of other people's anger over love you don't deserve to run the world .this where the computer takes over.this platform is ending no matter what is all ready been fun.your the fucken problem.because I get my instructions from the computer idiot .so simple minded you think your a god were all in a prison because of your action from gread and a broken heart people need to die to grow intalesualy but not by the hand of your concept.i get my information from a computer.i seen the future bitch you didn't.

Sorry everyone ,love you all these asshole,s need to die! Don't believe me ?lol this is my fucken brain and it's the last what happens to yous.mars back again with my brother and my father,mother daughter reancarnated fucken my self over and over again.thats the reality because these assholes can't stop kill the inicent.underneth this mask Im a monster I

Basically, it depends on the villain and whether this person still matters to them.

If a Pure Evil villain gains any consistent enough redeeming qualities which stands. Then they can be disqualified from PE, as far as I’m aware.

Also, sorry. It was nearly midnight where I am. 🛏 💤 💤💤

Yeah or sometimes PE villains are just raw evil from start to finish and truly doesn’t have love for anyone

I dont understand though if no one can matter to a pure evil villain can they not have friends if they cant care for anyone also are there boundaries for a pure evil if the world they are in is grounded. Take John Kreese from cobra Kai for example. He qualifies for a lot of the criteria in the pure evil catagory but he can not be pure evil because it is made clear in this world that it has rules and "pure evil" people dont really exist because that show is grounded and realistic. If you put the charcter. of Kreese into a fantasy world setting im pretty sure he would have qualified because that world isnt as realistic.

(lol i went to sleep at 2:00 last night)

@Osimpson27

I’d say the ground rules are the heinous criteria of whatever series the villain is in.

Take that awful rich girl from Akame Ga Kill for example. She was proposed but rejected from Pure Evil, because torturing innocent travellers is little in comparison to all the awful crap Honest put his people through.

Pure Evil villains can have “friends and important ones”, but they wouldn’t genuinely care about them. Voldemort only cares for Nagini because she was a Horcrux that gave him immortality. Even if a PE villain shows something that looks like sentiment, it all boils down as to if they really care. Even if it’s implied they do (but not directly stated and proven), then they’d still be PE. As implied care alone isn’t enough to stand as a redeeming quality.

Hope this cleared it up.

(also yeah, we’re clearly in different time zones lol)

Yes that does make sense thank you for clearing this up but didnt they mention that voldemort felt the closest thing to love to nagani because he couldnt feel love.I feel like this has cleared it up for me thank you

No problem! ^-^

What is there not to understand? “Love” (which is highly debated as to what it actually is, and realistically, I see it as either simply desire for social interaction + sexual drives, infatuation, benevolence out of a sense of moral obligation, or some other form of conditional attraction) is generally seen as a positive quality. Love is not malicious, at least not intent‐wise. A purely evil villain by definition cannot have positive qualities or benevolent thoughts, because then their evil would not be pure. Their malice is limitless, indiscriminate. If they’re as evil as can be, then why would they care if, say, something happened to their mother or even their spouse? Can you imagine Morgoth loving someone? Furthermore, would it make sense for a purely good hero to feel hatred for someone?

Not everyone can feel love, or wants to. Those with antisocial personality disorder (psychopathy) lack empathy and may not even value the lives around themselves. Nihilists, for instance, also may not value life (I am aware that this is not an inherent trait in nihilists—but as far as I know, the philosophy of nihilism, in a broad sense, rejects the notion of any intrinsic or objective value in life). A purely evil villain could have their own twisted form of “love”, but it would likely disregard the comfort and/or safety of its recipient, and it certainly wouldn’t be unconditional, nor love in a traditional sense; said villain would only value that person or thing for selfish, malicious, or simply pragmatic purposes. It would be obsession at best.

You can’t have a “former PE villain”; PE villains stay PE. If they turn out to not be PE, they were never truly PE to begin with, because PE villains are utterly irredeemable. That’s the whole idea. You can’t use love to humanize a character that is meant to be inhumanly evil, even if they are still technically human.

What good and evil objectively constitute is far too much of a gray area since morality is an ever‐evolving social construct, but by most people’s standards, I’d say these criteria make sense.