User blog comment:FlinkyTheStoat/Essay: On Villain Dynamics in the Redwall Series/@comment-3075225-20100929080734

True, true. Isn't it strange that the main villains are normally one out of two stock characters; the cunning, evil one, and the cunning, evil, nuts one.

Jacques could do with a little bit more variation than that. The same thing's wrong with woodlanders too. It's too predictable.

If I were him, I would concentrate on the characters' goals a little bit more, just to understand them better, why they are evil, or good, or both.

I mean, not all vermin are bad, many of them are in fact only "Punch Clock Villains", while Woodlanders can be quite... "harsh" at times.

But one can still differentiate good from bad, and it is generally more complicated in real life than that.