Special:Badtitle/NS90:User talk:DocColress/The Great Big Examples Suggestion Topic 3: Snake Eater/reply (5)

If he already had a mental state that would enable being shown up by Batman to hinder his sanity and rationality, then I'd say his Freudian Excuse is enough to justify his behavior (though not excuse his actions) and make him a valid criminally insane villain who could theoretically be rehabilitated one day. So as of now, he's not an example.

Riddler's actions can be added as a Moral Event Horizon example. And Penguin's not to be removed yet because unless we see any redeeming traits from him, he's currently characterized as the guy who would be Gotham's biggest monster if not for the likes of Joker and Zsaz. Likewise Boyle stays because he's a smaller scale version of the trope who uses the best of his abilities and resources to be heinous, and Strange stays because he stepped into the trope's territory by choice as part of his Knight Templar agenda.

Success generally does not matter when judging a CM. However, when someone with a high attempted body count is put against people with higher attempted body counts or high actual body counts, the former will fail to measure up in heinousness, which is how Riddler fares against the monsters currently on that series' page.