This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Argument: Red is not really that evil. He's INSANE, and everyone in the lab is. What proof is there for him being evil? Laughing at Stitches? He threatened Ruby several times, but there's no real proof that he actually would have killed Ruby if she annoyed him enough. Besides, he knew better than anyone that killing her was a GOOD thing, as the growing mutations and insanity reset after death.
Red killed Ruby a few days after she went insane, but, again, he knew she would revive, and he killed her out of mercy, freeing her from whatever possessed her, not maliciousness or revenge. In the scene where his face got slashed by Ruby, his face is not one of anger, but sadness. Concern. Worry.
He was worried about his research, but Red is just as much a victim as Ruby or Tom. He's not evil and I don't see why everyone believes he is. If he was evil, he wouldn't have done things for Ruby that he knew would let her escape in the long run.
- Then remove the Affably Evil. It was added there in the beginning of this article anyway, and no one ever bothered to remove it.
Why is everyone talking about Daisy in the ending? It never bothered me. What annoyed me, and what's for some reason more or less ignored in this article, is the fact that there were like million questions left unanswered, not to mention that the pasts of the main characters were left entirely in the shadow (except that they were probably both blind in the past, Tom used to be really dangerous at one point, and they might have had a romantic relationship): When someone has an amnesia, you're bloody well supposed to learn about his or her past at some point!
The Gunheart: Wait...Rover? I kinda have to wonder, since Tom wasn't Subject 5, could this be some kind of hint that Rover was in fact his real name? Most of the fanart matches his color scheme pretty well...
- Nah, that was just a reference to this old game Rescue Rover. Meanwhile, there really was a cat named Tom in Animal Crossing, so it was his real name after all. Rover is his alternate reality counterpart, and none of his adventured were canon.
Haven: Eh, I think Red is probably still evil. Even if you choose to handwave everything he did with "he's just crazy", the fact that, before the insanity set in, he started this mess by ordering everyone except himself receive the treatment is a more rational sort of evil. But I just had a moment of Fridge Brilliance: since Word of God confirms that death resets the mutations, Filbert's "cut away the bad" plan was actually pretty close to the mark.
