Thread:Demonicjester01/@comment-26494264-20160705042815/@comment-28884330-20160705051532

I think I understand what you mean. Just like the "Pure Good" seen in many white knight MCs, "Pure Evil", IMO, is boring. Your kind of villain is one I enjoy a lot, though it's not necessary for the protagonist to be evil in order for the villain to not be. Both of them can have their share of good and evil (kinda like Lelouch and Suzaku in Code Geass, sorry if you don't know the series). For example, let's take a story about three childhood friends: Eventually, one of them has to be killed in order to avoid a humongous disaster, and out of the two remaining friends, one wants to save the dangerous friend at any cost, while the other believes his friend must die to prevent that disaster. There you have a hero and a villain who aren't completely good or completely evil.

As for the second question, I agree totally.