Thread:ThatScrewyDuck/@comment-39531022-20191017141124/@comment-39032584-20191017160625

Hm... honestly, I'd say I agree with the verdict on the vast majority of characters that qualify for either one or the other. There are maybe a handful of partial exceptions though, but even then, I don't entirely disagree. For example, I'm not sure Angie from Shark Tale truly qualifies as Pure Good; she's a nice girl... er, fish, but beyond simply appreciating Oscar for who he is and trying to help him get out of debt with Sykes (and even those things are appreciable, but don't seem like PG-caliber actions), she doesn't do much in the way of actual heroics in general.

As for villains who are Pure Evil, one of the only ones I can think of that I kind of have a problem with is Light Yagami from Death Note. Then again, he's a complicated case; for one thing, he doesn't qualify in the anime adapatation, which is the only version I've seen, so naturally, that probably automatically contributes a lot to my point of view. However, from what I understand, his original manga counterpart is almost exactly the same, and while he definitely got pretty bad and corrupt by the end, I'm not very convinced that he ever really abandoned his extreme, but well-intentioned goal of ridding the world of crime by killing all criminals. I think even at his worst, he was truly driven by a sense of justice, which sadly became more and more twisted into a god complex when he was given the ability to play God. But even then, I think he delusionally, but sincerely believed he was the only one willing to do what was necessary to clean the world of evil, and anyone who was against or tried to stop him was a "useless fool" who couldn't understand or appreciate the necessity of it.

Obviously, he still did some things that are pretty unforgivable no matter how you look at them, like his manipulation of and generally bad treatment towards Misa, but it's really hard for me to see him as fully, 100% evil. But again, he 's a complicated case, so I understand why others feel differently.