Should Singed's new lore make him morally grey or straight-up evil?

darkdill··7 votes·1,414 views

Personally, I'd like it more if he were straight-up evil because if we have too many morally grey backgrounds, it'll get boring. Sometimes you gotta have characters who have few (if any) redeeming qualities, and end up just being complete bad guys. Singed could fit this bill nicely, IMO, as Zaun's major villain.

But that's just my opinion.

16 Comments

HalfTangible4 votes

Go read Engineering the Nightmare

And you tell me Singed isn't a horrible evil bastard

darkdill1 votes

But was he always like that?

My hope is 'yes', but Riot might say "no, he might've been a decent guy in the past".

Beyond Legends2 votes

I don't think Singed would be not uncaring sociopathic. Riot hasn't been making character all “good” to make them grey, in fact Gankplank currently is far more cruel then his former selves.

XIII Vanitas2 votes

But he was cruel for a very specific reason, which was keeping order in the lawless Bilgewater.

He is a lawful evil character.

GreenLore1 votes

Well Lawful evil is still evil...

GreenLore1 votes

While they made some villains more grey(and Warwick even became an anti-hero) I doubt that Singed will become Gray. I mean seriously,Singed kidnapped and tortured Warwick pretty much just "for science".

And riot has shown already that they are fine with making morally black champions I mean Hecarim and Mordekaiser are nothing but evil(and they were like this already when they were alive)

Escheton1 votes

The torture was a side-effect though. Much like previous subjects dying. But yes, full on sociopath/psychopath. Doesn't mean he can't be an interesting character or likable. And the recent Viktor fan service seems to indicate that Riot is capable of showing both. So thats nice.

Trolosaurus1 votes

Evil. He's always been in the pitch black on the moral scale

XIII Vanitas1 votes

Do you know how Singed is played?

Singed doesn't give a flying fuck about anything, teammates or morals alike. He just does what he wants.

6FlagsFunnelCake1 votes

I hope Singed becomes a villainous character in Zaun. Not gonna lie, I was slightly dissapointed by Warwick turning into an Anti-Hero, but reading his lore it pretty much makes sense. I also hope they keep Leblanc evil and not morally gray.

Craft Zeppelin1 votes

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I hope Singed becomes a villainous character in Zaun. Not gonna lie, I was slightly dissapointed by Warwick turning into an Anti-Hero, but reading his lore it pretty much makes sense. I also hope they keep Leblanc evil and not morally gray.

I always thought of the black rose as a noxian magician CIA rather than evil.

Meep Man1 votes

I've noticed that basically everyone in Zaun is morally grey or somewhere in between Neutral Good and Chaotic Good. If Singed is Evil, he will be our first truly evil person from Zaun. (Twitch is an animal that can talk, that would be like calling a wild wolf evil for killing someone to get food)

Shadowkirby141 votes

You forgot Dr. Mundo (Chaotic Evil) and Jinx (Chaotic Neutral).

GreenLore1 votes

I'd argue that Jinx is still chaotic evil,as causing destruction for the sake of destruction is usually considered evil.

She is just a more "light" version of chaotic evil.

Wrathof3001 votes

Think of Singed as the Viktor of chem-tech. If Viktor somehow servives for another century he would be a morally black character pushing his ideals of the Glorious Evolution onto all. This is probably where Singed is at in current time (he is over a century old btw) choosing to experiment and push the boundaries of chem-tech, which may be for selfish/cruel reasons now, but every mad scientist has a humble beginning. Although, this means nothing now because we know that he has killed 1087 persons before he 'succeeded' on Warwick. And there is a possibility that this was 1087 persons killed from this specific experiment, and he has killed hundreds of thousands more, on other experiments. So my guess is that he will be morally black, but with a vague, distant, irrelevant grey past. Inb4 Singed created Urgot.

Mogarl1 votes

Is Singed evil? Or does he just do what he must because he can? Singed isn't Morally grey, his morals simply don't exist. As far as Singed is concerned there's no price to steep and no blood to precious for triumph in the name of science. I don't think Singed has ever been not a bad guy. Especially since he took over Warwicks bit in the lore. He turned people into piles of goop not even because someone paid him too, but, as Engineering the Nightmare pointed out, in the name of scientific discovery.

As far as being The Villain I don't know. Singed seems fairly self centered in his experiments, and so unless he makes you involved it's unlikely you will be. For a champion to be The Villain they would have to be antagonistic to nearly every other champion in the city state. However Singed only has relations to two other Zaunites according to his Universe page.

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