Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20160128170019/@comment-3581997-20160503194317

Hasn't bothered to kill anyone himself. He orders an orphanage to be burned down at one point. That aside there is more to a Complete Monster than a body count. Captain Mako, I thought at first was a CM too. But the category was removed a while a go, saying all the evil he does is to people that get in his way. And I had to concede that point, Mako kills people, enjoys killing people and will even turn on his own men if the mode strikes him, but is primarily concerned with getting more power. Everything he does is in pursuit of that, or he is just hungry. Lord Recluse kills lots of people, but almost never civilians, he dislikes civilian casualties and knows even low ranking generic soldiers by name. He also wants Nazis shot on site because, well they are Nazis, that is no where close to Complete Monster.

The part about Nazis genocidal aliens and serial killers says that even with such people at large Phipps was considered one of the few people most players were too disgusted by to work with. It is a comparison. Phipps destroys lives because he hates the concept of others being happy. He has nothing to gain for most of it and he parades tragedy around proudly to destroy the hopes of the poor and down-trodden. Even if we were to disregard the folks he has had killed as being death by his hands, there is more to a Complete Monster than a body count. It is about the level of harm done combined with an utter lack of redeeming qualities, I dare you to find one thing Phipps does that shows a redeeming characteristic, and the number of lives destroyed speaks for itself.

As a simple point of comparison Captain Mako eats his own men for giving him bad news, Westin Phipps poisons a food drives storage, because he hates the idea of charities giving people relief.

The Council are reformed Nazis who want to make everyone part of a master race by merging them with alien parasites that give them super powers, those who refuse are part of the lesser races and there for must be killed. Westin Phipps has an orphanage, with children still inside, burned down, because it is a beacon of hope for people and there for it can not be allowed to exist.

The Circle of Thorns steal peoples bodies and then ritually sacrifice the friends and family of the former body owners because they have a standing contract with a devil they need to fulfill in order to be free of their ghost like state, Westin Phipps has one of two star crossed lovers killed in front of his girlfriend and then sends the girlfriend off to be tortured because, he felt like it.

See the difference?