by Takarious » Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:49 am
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Evil
e·vil ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vl)
adj. e·vil·er, e·vil·est
Morally bad or wrong; wicked: an evil tyrant.
Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful: the evil effects of a poor diet.
Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous: evil omens.
Bad or blameworthy by report; infamous: an evil reputation.
Characterized by anger or spite; malicious: an evil temper.
n.
The quality of being morally bad or wrong; wickedness.
That which causes harm, misfortune, or destruction: a leader's power to do both good and evil.
An evil force, power, or personification.
Something that is a cause or source of suffering, injury, or destruction: the social evils of poverty and injustice.
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Darth Vader was about as evil as you can get, his final act of redemption does not change that. The same applies to Strata, and in some cases even Rue. He put's his wanderlust of Serena above all else and as a result, people around him suffer for his cause. For the most part that's pretty evil.
And to add a further note, life is the biggest cliche of them all. So it's sort of hard to base a story about a person without including any of these. I'm quite sure that every story holds at least one "cliche", that's why I try to avoid using the word because it's so losely defined by nature. Most anything can be pointed out and labeled as a "cliche".