User blog:AustinDR/Heinous Standard of Criminal Case

I have been watching gameplays of the games for quite some time, so I feel that I have some idea of what the heinous standard for the game is. Now, the heinous standard is a 2 term concept. First is the baseline. Now, considering that CC is a crime series, murder is pretty commonplace. From what I had seen and read so far, there seems to be only four serial killers throughout the games (I haven't watched them all yet, but I'll get there), while a majority of the suspects commit one or three murders. So basically, as a crime game, we expect for the villains to murder someone. Now, I will additionally say that all characters affect the heinous standard, from the heroes down to the bad guys. The baseline standard is meant to separate normal baddies from the Complete Monsters. Basically ask yourself does this villain do anything that differentiates them from the other villains in the setting? In a murder story, we expect for the villain to kill people, but say if they killed more, killed a few in an absurdly terrible way, or run business that amount to slavery or human trafficking, that puts them over the baseline.

The second part is the relative heinous standard. It is essentially what is heinous by the story's standards. As I have said, murder is commonplace in the CC series, thus making it hard for those who had killed one or two people pass the heinous standard. So far the two keepers that I had the pleasure of proposing on the TV Tropes Subpages Cleanup: Complete Monster forum were Ayush Patil and Albert Tesla. While he lacks in resources that organizations like SOMBRA or the Crimson Order have, Ayush still manages to kill hundreds of people through the epidemic, that and he was hoping that it became global. Tesla has amassed several resources; not only does he control all of the technology in Pacific Bay, but he had also attempted to destroy the entire region, which would leave him with a body count in the thousands. This part is called the "resources test" essentially meaning is the villain as bad as he or she can be with their resources? Of course, that doesn't automatically put the villain on the trope if their deeds amount to commonplace.