Near Pure Evil

Near Pure Evil (also known as Almost Pure Evil) are villains who came close to being Pure Evil but failed to due to having some minor preventions in their character that prevent them from being so. Either due to having a redeemable quality, being insufficiently heinous but not too much, or being a minor amoral. However, in order for a villain with PE preventions to qualify as NPE, their PE preventions must be kept at minimum and not be too severe.

Villains who are not NPE can sometimes qualify as this if they have an almost completely evil personality.

Note: Just because these villains aren't Pure Evil, who are downright horrible people, it does NOT mean they aren't as dangerous. And despite the fact that Near Pure Evil may have some redeeming qualities, this doesn't automatically redeem them as good, as doing evil for Near Pure Evils is as natural as breathing with doing good being unnatural for them.