Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20160128170019/@comment-3581997-20160521095134

Broken Aesop just means that the moral doesn't work. Family Unfriendly Aesop means it defies what is normally acceptable morals to give the audience. "Jesus is the messiah": Broken Aesop, since a messiah redeems man kind and humanity isn't perfect yet. "Satan is awsome": Family Unfriendly Aesop. Not the sort of message that goes over well or works in the everyday context.

And most complete monsters don't have those sorts of things added but try background information. Freeza blows up planets for fun, pretty monstrous and doesn't try to make excuses for it. He also is very transfixed with immortality, he has a brother who is also an evil galactic overlord who picks on him and considers Freeza a spoiled brat cause he gets whatever he wants from their father. Freeza is not lessened in anyway but we still get background information on him from both his father and brother, one of whom loves him, the other of whom hates him.

There is also Michael Myers. A deranged serial killer who escaped from a mental ward. Most of the info on him we get from his psychologist, the rest of the time it is just some masked guy with a knife stalking people and killing them off.

Adding background info via a third party can expand on you villains without detracting from them. It gives the audience information but since the antagonist is not concerned with making others understand them, we don't diminish the loathsomeness of the deeds being done.