Of the characters named, the ones who really only could qualify are Jaime and Cersei, who both perform 'evil' deeds which lead, or should lead, to the deaths of innocence. A lot of the others act without thought for the consequences. Theon is cruel and uncaring, but not evil as such. He spares Bran and Rickon when he had a chance to kill them, for example, and was happy to let the realm condemn him as a child-murderer.
As for Arya, she is becoming increasingly desensitized to violence and is clearly suffering from stress-related disorders, but the people she has directly murdered have been enemies of her house, people trying to kill her or a deserter from the Night's Watch. The only true innocent she might have been said to have killed was the stableboy, but he was trying to kidnap her and she did act in self-defence.
And Robert was on the list but Tywin wasn't? Or Viserys? How does that work out?
And no Littlefinger? By his own admission, he ferments chaos which results in thousands of innocent deaths purely as a game to amuse himself. By that definition, he is the most 'evil' character of them all.
As for Arya, she is becoming increasingly desensitized to violence and is clearly suffering from stress-related disorders, but the people she has directly murdered have been enemies of her house, people trying to kill her or a deserter from the Night's Watch. The only true innocent she might have been said to have killed was the stableboy, but he was trying to kidnap her and she did act in self-defence.
And Robert was on the list but Tywin wasn't? Or Viserys? How does that work out?
And no Littlefinger? By his own admission, he ferments chaos which results in thousands of innocent deaths purely as a game to amuse himself. By that definition, he is the most 'evil' character of them all.
ASoI&F Quickpoll: Evil characters
18/03/2010 02:04:24 PM
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Re: ASoI&F Quickpoll: Evil characters
18/03/2010 02:32:48 PM
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Confusing likability with goodness
18/03/2010 08:59:40 PM
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Arya may not be "good"...
18/03/2010 09:15:46 PM
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Do you think a child can be evil? *NM*
18/03/2010 09:18:06 PM
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We sometimes hear about kids doing horrible things
18/03/2010 09:41:30 PM
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Is that because they may not understand the consequences of their actions?
18/03/2010 09:45:33 PM
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Most likely, yes. Plus their reasons for doing bad things lack deeper inferior motives.
18/03/2010 10:09:25 PM
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Arya is old enough to understand cause and effect...
18/03/2010 11:04:31 PM
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Soldiers do the same thing.
19/03/2010 03:23:35 AM
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Just what I was about to say, yeah *NM*
19/03/2010 07:55:47 AM
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Soldiers kill for the sake of their country, their cause, or their hope...
19/03/2010 11:24:16 PM
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Re: Soldiers kill for the sake of their country, their cause, or their hope...
20/03/2010 12:29:55 AM
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Arya is not a soldier. Soldiers are not individually responsible for the results of war.
20/03/2010 11:22:43 PM
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Arya is legitimately the most evil...
18/03/2010 09:45:04 PM
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No, she's not
18/03/2010 11:45:23 PM
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Cersei doesn't have true justification
18/03/2010 11:47:44 PM
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what he said! especially about Cersei being seriously mentally ill *NM*
19/03/2010 04:38:19 AM
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Re: Arya is legitimately the most evil...
19/03/2010 10:50:56 PM
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I was looking forward to his response as well.
19/03/2010 11:13:35 PM
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to be accurate, the child was not yet disabled when he was pushed from the tower
20/03/2010 10:52:42 PM
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Evil is such a limiting term to use.
20/03/2010 12:18:24 PM
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Try reading the books
20/03/2010 10:50:01 PM
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I've read them a few times.
21/03/2010 01:47:52 PM
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Just a "few" times?
21/03/2010 06:07:14 PM
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Only three times.
21/03/2010 11:20:12 PM
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Jon Connington- Hand to Aerys. Lost to Hoster, Eddard and Robert. Exiled. *NM*
22/03/2010 04:09:59 AM
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people seem to be forgetting
21/03/2010 09:11:04 PM
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ROFLMAO. Most people complain that my values are medieval & out of touch with the modern world!
23/03/2010 01:54:58 AM
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To clarify, "evil" means VERY, VERY BAD.
23/03/2010 01:12:39 AM
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