Category:Necessary Evil

Villains who can actually serve very important purposes and need to be kept alive despite their evil deeds. No matter how sadistic, bloodthirsty, cruel, or even how much they are hated, these villains have to live or something terrible will happen. However, a) once they fulfilled their purposes or if there is a good / less evil alternative and b) they still choose not to redeem themselves, whether they get killed off or suffer a demise no longer matters, as they are no longer needed at that point and still have technically done evil things.

''' Pure Evil villains CAN be necessary, regardless of how wicked they are. Despite being very evil in the setting in which they appear, their status, power, or occupation may be necessary to uphold the order of the place that the story takes place in, thus they are, in a way, "Necessary Evil." Technically, this includes Purely Evil villains who fall under the first, fifth (in circumstances like these, it is considered Evil Vs. Evil), third, sixth, twelfth, or twenty-first criteria - and ONLY these criteria. '''