User blog comment:Piraka king/How many?/@comment-1610819-20110510224350

We aren't really supposed to refer to characters as "good" or "evil," as that's a violation of the neutrality policy. Anyway, there are probably hundreds of them--stories here as a rule have antagonist characters, though personally I don't see all my antagonists as evil.

Some of my antagonists are outright insane or sadistic (Scorpius) and some are greedy and power-hungry (Mordrax)--Tetrack in his later years is a good example of the two traits in conjunction--but many are more complex than that. For example, there are those that are doing the wrong thing for the right reasons (Antidax and Velnax, at least during the Kodax War), those who are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons (Harini, Sygran, and others), those who are simply on the opposite side by chance, and could just as easily have ended up with the protagonists (Draconius), those who are doing the wrong thing because they have no choice (Nightwatcher, debatably, at least in his new incarnation), and finally those whose side either is unclear or changes often (Harini, again).

Of course, I like to keep my protagonists in shades of gray as well: they range from villain protagonist to wide-eyed idealist, to every place in the spectrum in between the two. In the end, calling someone good or evil (in my storyline, anyway) just doesn't work; it's more complex than that.