Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20160616130448

To say there is a reason for it does not suddenly give the character a redeeming quality. Captain Mako eats people because he was picked on as an orphan kid. This does not mean he is somehow good beneath all that. Note Captain Mako was a CM at first by the way. I removed it though simply because these characters need a very, very high standard. And even eating people, killing things for fun and planning to kill your boss are the sort of things that can serve a purpose and be functional to the issue at hand, at-least as a villain. In-fact Phipps was part of the reason for that. As bad as Mako was it was clear Phipps was worse, not just as a matter of opinion, to the entire player base, comparing that to Mako was no comparison. That is the test to put these characters too. You compare the worst of the worst to each-other. If the psychotic serial killers who eats people still isn't as bad as that other guy, then that means first of all you should probably removed Complete Monster, as bad as he is, as also who ever outshines that, probably does have the title legitimately.

Same thing with comparing General Tarkin, he wipes out planets, snuff out lives as an aside, but you wouldn't give him CM with the Emperor banging around, would you? You can't give Sephiroth Complete Monster while Hojo is out there, body count be damned. Part of complete monster really is comparison, if you can find someone worse, as bad as the one character is, they aren't complete if you can find someone somehow worse. This can sometimes work with two different types of evil, but to those in the same field and racket, you need to draw some hard lines when one outshines the other.