I dunno. The Complete Monster description specifies that the character must be "truly heinous by the standards of the story." Given the normal standard of Berserk villains, that's a pretty frigging tall order. I'm not sure that those two really stand head and shoulders above the other arc villains.
And Bishop Mozgus definitely fails the third Complete Monster criterion, "They are completely devoid of altruistic qualities."
Edited by hbi2k
Yeah, Mozgus was already disqualified. And Pink Haired Tyrant banned for being a ban evading sockpuppet.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Does Mozgus really have a redeeming feature? Here's what his entry on the list had to say about him;
No Bishop Mozgus? This guy is just as horrible as all of the other Complete Monsters on this list. How? Because despite all of the atrocious things that he's done to the people (which, to sum it up, involves lots and lots and lots of horrible torture), he thinks it's justifed and that some of the people that he inflicts this torture on actually agree. Mozgus is a reflection of a real life Knight Templar religious zealot who uses his status in the church as well as his fundamentalist beliefs to enact whatever punishments that he sees as necessary in order to "save souls". He's on the same level as Judge Claude Frollo, except he seems too consumed with his fundamentalism to actually think about using it for any hidden agenda that he might actually have, which might actually be even worse when you think about it. Oh yeah. He does appear to care for his torturers, which were shunned by everyone else for being The Grotesque, but it's only inasmuch as he considers their deformities God's will that they are meant to be his instruments - he may speak to them in a kindly, smiling Good Shepherd manner, but as he does the same with his victims (as long as they haven't pissed him off) while they're being tortured to death, it doesn't mean much. And might we add that this is all before he became an actual monster?
It does a pretty good job of explaining how his "care" for his servants doesn't disqualify him. One more thing, shouldn't Ganishka be at the bottom of the page? He's the last one to appear in the story.
And ^ is another ban evading sock. Already re-banned.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Does anybody else think Lord Gennon and Bishop Mozgus should be on the page?
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