Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Trope Talk/Complete Monster YMMV/reply (4)

What I explained elsewhere and what NoxiousSludge stated are correct. Not everyone will agree on a villain counting as a CM. Back when the trope was poorly defined, someone stated that Joker was rarely a CM, and some people don't see The Killing Joke incarnation (in which he paralyzed Babs and used this to mentally torture her father) as being one even though his irredeemable status was the entire point of the character's tragedy by the end of the comic. Walter White's a subjective example since I feel he truly became one by the fourth and fifth seasons of the show and only *slightly* backed away from the trope back into 99% Monster territory in the final three episodes. Light Yagami's a subjective example because there will always be people who see him as having been a Well Intentioned Extremist to the very end even when what's actually in the story by the end is a crazy narcissistic mass murderer with a God Complex and zero humane qualities.

Who does or does not pass the trope should be inarguable, but whether or not that status is totally deserved will always be subjective to tropers.