The Complete Monster can sometimes be indicative of lazy writing: a villain with no redeeming qualities can be viewed as exceedingly simplistic. A particularly poorly-executed Complete Monster will fail to engage the audience.
The story's context is important in establishing such characters — what may seem like an act of ultimate evil in one story could be just business as usual in another. The reaction to such acts by other characters is usually most telling.
This trope is strongly associated with propaganda. In most cases, to become extra-evil, a character will be given stereotypically "evil" and unrealistic motivations and prevented from Character Development, thus compromising any real complexity the character could potentially have, to the point that said character has little personality beyond the evil. A particularly poorly-executed Complete Monster will fail to engage the audience and may in particularly bad instances lead to (depending on who the villain is and what their business is) Unfortunate Implications.
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