Special:Badtitle/NS90:User talk:DocColress/The great big examples suggestions topic 2: The Twin Snakes/reply (13)

Well, the thing with this series is that villains tend to run a range from well-connected and influential, to lowly nobodies who run solo. Basically, most villains will end up killing at least one person, and it's usually due to the fact that they've snapped or are paranoid. When it comes to the more minor villains, I try to separate them from their fellow psycho's not just in their crimes, but with their intent.

Jo for example is a rapist, which most villains in the series can't claim to be. She has four women tied up (A very high intended body count, only eclipsed in the same game outside of Brock Mason and Carlito by a psychotic cult leader who has tons of followers to help him round up victims who add up to around six) and is heavily hinted to have killed and raped other women before that. Hell, before you can find her you can meet a husband and wife who narrowly escaped an encounter with her. Most psychopaths don't show that kind of sadism and only kill to survive (There are a few who do such as Kent from the first game and Leon from the second game, but only end up with one victim).

Jed on the other hand is from a stand-alone DLC. His whole attitude is that he views zombies as being fun to kill, saying in his own words that "It's kinda like shooting people, just without the legal hassle". However, during this DLC's outbreak he has been killing not just zombies, but innocent people who were infected saying that there's no difference between them and the zombies. This may make him sound like he has a point, but as I've established with Marian, there is a drug that people can take that will hold off the disease as long as it's applied regularly, and thus Jed is just trying to justify his sadism. And his main claim to fame regarding this trope however is trying to murder Chuck Greene's very young daughter Katey, and shows a sick joy in getting a child in his collection. It separates him from most psychos because along with T.K., he's the only one who actively tries to murder a child, and for no real reason other than sadism as well.

As for Hilde, she does follow orders that Hemlock gives, which are to hunt down any survivors regardless of the threat they pose. However she shows a sick, twisted pleasure in being able to do this and finds a husband and wife who need her help. When approached, she has her men gun down the wounded wife, and laughs at the husband who is crying in shock and grief before breaking his neck. This amount of sadism is rarely shown by other psychos, and there's also the sexual pleasure she gets from killing them. This hints that she may not need Hemlock's orders to hurt others, and that she'd happily do it if she wasn't working for him since she gets a sexual thrill from it.

So are they cuts or not? I'm sorry if they're bad entries, I just feel that since they are far nastier than their fellow psychopaths and go the extra mile to be heinous in their setting that I at least feel comfortable having a handful of lower level villains qualify.