Pure Evil

Pure Evil, also commonly known as Complete Monsters, are the worst of all villains: An abhorrent monster who is completely atrocious and irredeemable by the standards of their work. For this kind of villain, doing evil for them is as natural as breathing.

They can be recognized by these signs:

• They commit acts that are atrocious by the standards of the story, setting themselves and their wrongdoings apart from regular characters (villains or not) from their work. By default, they have crossed the Moral Event Horizon in the process (note that villains who cross the MEH aren’t always pure evil)
• No Offscreen Villainy: Their crimes must be visible within the story in some way, shape or form. No matter how vile they might sound on paper, crimes that are only mentioned are not applicable to the category's criteria unless evidence or after effects are shown.
• They use whatever resources and time they have in their storyline to be as horrible as possible without holding back.
• They must have a defined personality and motives (e.g. if a villain is destroying anything in their path but has no coherent personality or goals to back up their evil presence, they are a Generic Doomsday Villain, not Pure Evil).
• They are taken seriously, causing fear, revulsion, and hatred from other characters in the story. Therefore, villains that fall under Comic Relief can never qualify.
• They must possess the cognitive ability to know right from wrong yet choose to do wrong anyway.
• They are never presented in a positive or altruistic fashion.
• They can never feel love for others. If they claim to have love for anyone, that "love" would merely be either perversion, possessiveness, or obsession.
• They are completely beyond redemption (if a Pure Evil villain redeems themselves, they must not do so willingly) and absolutely nothing justifies their actions.
• They display no sense of remorse towards those who they have hurt nor do they express any empathy for others as well. If they claim to feel remorse for their actions, then they are faking it.

Categories that cannot qualify (unless in adaptations):

• Affably Evil
• Anti-Villain (Pure Evil antagonists isn’t designed to be sympathetic)
• Protective (a Pure Evil antagonist won’t protect someone unless it’s out of pragmatism)
• Redeemed (a Pure Evil antagonist can be offered redemption, but they won't accept the offer)
• Remorseful (a Pure Evil antagonist will not feel remorse for their actions.)
• Scapegoat
• Tragic (Pure Evil antagonists who present a real tragedy should go under Fake Tragic instead as they are FAR past it, and it does not justify their actions)
• Insecure
• Villains by Proxy
• Honorable
• On & Off (a Pure Evil antagonist will always be evil)
• Animal Kindness antagonists (People who go under Animal Kindness can never qualify as Pure Evil. Pure Evil antagonists are never kind to animals or anybody. However, Near Pure Evils can still count as Animal Kindness.)

They are considered the complete opposite of Pure Good, the heroes that are completely pure and incorruptible.