Special:Badtitle/NS90:User talk:DocColress/It's relevant question time!/reply (21)

There's another factor that you glanced over but sort of pointed out right at the start - "it's never really explained what it truly is." For all we know, it's in Lily's very nature to nourish itself with the powers that these pirates' possess, and so it's doing what it's doing in order to live and survive the only way it knows how. That would mean it doesn't have the choice to try not eating powerful people, putting it in a Made of Evil territory. So not only does it fail the heinous standard compared to the baron, but it fails moral agency and probable excuse factors as well. So as repellent as it might be, I don't think it counts by the standards or criteria of the trope. Sorry. It and the Baron do seem pretty interesting, so I am glad you brought them to my attention.