Special:Badtitle/NS90:User talk:NoxiousSludge/Ghetsis/reply (9)

He IS high up in this franchise's heinous standard. Pokemon isn't a franchise with a heinous standard that bases itself on who DOES the most objectively worst things, but rather who has the worst motivations for committing wide-scale atrocities. Cyrus and Lysandre committed extreme horrific acts in the name of their goals, but said goals were extreme in and of themselves so it comes as no surprise that they'd sink to such lengths. Ghetsis's goals was petty world domination, motivated by power lust and a sense of entitlement - there's nothing suggesting he'd have to sink to the lengths he did in order to achieve that, yet he did anyway because he's an irredeemable scumbag who gets off on being extra cruel and bringing others down. This disconnect between motives and methods is what qualify Ghetsis.

Also, for as grandiose as Cyrus, Lysandre, and even the members of Cipher's plans were, they never resorted to ordering their Pokemon to directly attack an adolescent human being without any proper battle preceding it. Ghetsis did, showing that in his mind, there are no lines to not cross. That's why he's so dangerous.