Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1962215-20140317132636/@comment-1894786-20150916030624

I don't think the Darkness is evil at all. It's necessary. Without Darkness, there can be no Light. If there's nothing to compare it to, then Light is just... everything. So how would people know what is what if there's no Darkness?

IDK how to describe it but it's going into some metaphysical topics that even I can't handle and I'm the one who brought them up.

I definitely think it's dangerous, which is why it was tethered to the Dark Ones for eons. But it's not inherently evil. Unless it's shown to be a sentient being with full knowledge of its actions and no remorse, then it would be evil. Using that definition, all of our villains are evil (obviously), but of those, most have shown remorse, compassion or redemption at one point or another (Rumple, Hook, Cora, Regina, Ingrid, Anastasia, Ursula, Maleficent, Sultan). So while those villains were evil, they're not the most evil because they show a human side to them that the others (King George, Peter Pan, Zelena, Jafar, Jabberwocky, Cruella, Isaac) just simply don't.