Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Trope Talk/Complete Monster YMMV/reply

I'm not sure if I'm going to explain this well enough, but I kind of think that this trope qualifies as both YMMV and non-YMMV.

I agree that a lot of stuff here is not subjective in the slightest. For example: after doing things such as brutally murdering Jason Todd and paralyzing Barbara Gordon as well as regularly endangering countless lives in his twisted schemes, pretty much no one is going to think that the Joker from Batman is anything but a Complete Monster.

Yet at the same time, you have characters like Breaking Bad's Walter White or Death Note's Light Yagami, whose status as completely and utterly irredeemable is a hot button topic among many thanks to the very nature of how they are written (People who start off as decent folk but completely and utterly go off the deep end).

Personally, I think that Complete Monster's YMMV status is a sort of case by case basis, if that makes any sense.