Almost Heinous

Almost Heinous Villainous Benchmarks are characters who only slightly fail the in-story Heinous Standards. They could have qualified as Insufficiently Heinous Near Pure Evils, but also have too many redeeming qualities / mitigating factors to be fully classified as NPE, while the fact that they didn't pass the Heinous Standard also prevents them from counting as Inconsistently Heinous.

An Almost Heinous villain is most of the time Flawed-Embraced, but they may not count if they only have four other preventions and said preventions alone wouldn’t disqualify the villain from NPE, because an NPE can have four preventions if they aren’t too big. Non-Flawed-Embraced Almost Heinous VBs would have been NPE rather than IH if they passed the heinous standard (except if they are redeemed).

They can only be Completely Evil if they are too comedic and/or parodies and thus not taken seriously enough to be Near Pure Evil while having no redeeming qualities or other preventions. (e.g Francis, Tarantulas, and Corset)

Their good counterparts are Almost Admirable Heroic Benchmarks and the polar opposites of Insufficiently Heinous Villainous Benchmarks though it is possible for a Villainous Benchmark to be both Insufficiently Heinous and Almost Heinous at the same time as long as the villain has only five preventions total all of which are minor.