Special:Badtitle/NS90:Talk:Complete Monster/The Elder Scrolls/Having some doubts.

I don't know if anyone's going to read this, but I've been looking back over this page with the intention of rewritting the Oblivion entries (and adding one, maybe), and I happened to look down at the Skyrim page and I'm starting to have some doubts as to if Mercer Frey truly belongs in this trope.

I've played the games and actually added him myself because of how much of a scumbag he is, but after comparing him to the rest of the entries on this list I'm wondering if he truly stands out among them. You've got Elenwen who can be described as an Andross type villain (pretty hands off, but responsible for most of what goes wrong in the game's story) with a nice big portion of Nazi-esque crimes against humanity under her belt, Ancano who goes full-on omnicidal maniac, Arondil and Sild who cover two different types of serial murder and soul enslavement, Thonar who is by all purposes a medieval crime lord who uses a hold's local savages as his brutal enforcers, vicious cultists Rahgot and Hevnoraak, as well as Potema the psychotic undead warlord. Does an asshole who betrays everyone he meets out of greed really count?

I mean, what he does is pretty nasty: he sets up a guild full of people who trust him to failure, murdered one of his closest allies, pinned the murder on another comrade who was the dead guy's lover, reduced the lover to living a life of a refugee constantly being wrongfully hunted down, comitted blasphemy by using his goddess's artifact for his own selfish ends, tried to murder the player character when he had no reason to do so, and plans on running off with said artifact (Which he uses to increase his strength to ridiculous levels) so he can abuse it to his heart's content... but is he what would be considered a Complete Monster?

I mean, he is loathed by those who really know what he's up to, his crimes are treated as being particularly bad in regards to the Thieves' Guild questline, and he makes it very clear that he lacks redeeming features (And in fact is quite proud of being an amoral scumbag), so I guess he technically qualifies... I don't know if I'm just overthinking this and he truly counts based on the scale that he operates on, but I just want to give him a proper look over just to see if adding him was the right decision.