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ā€œ Good grief... I know this is blatantly obvious, but you really are a piece of work. What you owe me... can never be paid back with money! ā€ž
~ Jotaro Kujo to Steely Dan before punishing him with a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown

Villainous Benchmarks who have no redeeming qualities of any sort. These characters refuse to reform from their evil ways, feel no remorse for their evil actions, and have complete awareness of their actions being wrong in nature. Regardless, they do not care who they cause harm and are either apathetic, sadistic, or a mix of both in how they go about committing their acts as well as how they regard others. In many cases they make it on the original criteria of pure evil.

Despite their actions, there are four following possibilities that prevent these villains from Pure Evil or Near Pure Evil, as they are generally shown to be by the narrative:

  1. Insufficiently Heinous: Failing the heinous standard of the story. An example would be a serial killer from a franchise full of terrorists, warlords, genocidal maniacs, and dictators (e.g. Donovan, Joe Pratt, Nute Gunray, Does Bad Things Guy, YouTube, and Steely Dan).
  2. Fridge Horror: Villains whose worst actions fall under Fridge Horror if not offstage villainy (e.g. Jafar and Drake).
  3. Individual Capability: Holding back on their resources too much and fail to make the most of them by committing standard crimes in terms of their resources (e.g. Alejandro Sosa).
  4. System Standards: Sharing the same crimes with other villains (e.g. Aria).

Characters with moral agency issues cannot count since they are only following their own natural instincts or programming. This category also excludes characters who are insufficiently characterized since such characters lack defining motives and/or personality.

They are the villainous counterparts of Completely Good Heroic Benchmarks, and the polar opposite of Flawed-Embraced villains, though it is possible for a Villainous Benchmark to be both Flawed-Embraced and Completely Evil at the same time as long as the villain has no redeeming qualities but is too comedic to be Pure Evil or Near Pure Evil (e.g. Vox).

Important: This category is only for Villainous Benchmarks who are made clear to have NO redeeming qualities or issues with moral assessment. Even if some Villainous Benchmarks are treated as completely evil by the story narrative, should they have at least ONE of the redeeming qualities below, they still don't fall into this category. (e.g ChloƩ Bourgeois, Homelander, Basilix, Ganondorf, Johnny Worthington III, and Jeffery Fecalman)

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