User blog comment:Argulor/Should species really determine whether a character is a villian or not?/@comment-3462718-20170821140643

Three points which may help clear this up -

A) This isn't a group rights issue. This is a literary fiction site. The labeling has nothing to do with bias, judgment, unfair profiling of a group, etc. It has everything to do with the fact that this is a site with thousands of articles and the categories exist, not to label, but to provide ease of searching/sorting. That is it, plain and simple. To nitpick semantics and definitions, unless it's something as serious as a character's species or gender being incorrect, is only going to make it confusing and unnavigable. Other wikis I'm on suffer from that exact problem because people question things and cross-categorize or add too many categories. This site has a very good classification system compared to most. B) The crows do absolutely nothing redeemable in "Outcast", whatsoever. Yes, Bonebeak argues against her husband, but villain husband-wife couples, in this series, argue all the time (Urgan and Silvamord, for instance.) Furthermore, it is a typical, almost classical, Redwall villain characteristic for there to be villainous characters who still are villains but who question the wisdom of villainous campaigns. A villain species character is only marked 'grey' if they do something truly redeemable (sacrificing themselves, intentionally saving a goodbeast, verbally express intention to be a goodbeast, assist the side of good with no treacherous/selfish intent, etc.) and simply arguing a few sentences against the leader doesn't count. C) The crows are ordered around by a leader who puts bloodlust over any kind of common sense, even his own tribe and his own wife. This is another definite Redwall Villain characteristic. And before you make a comparison to Bloodwrathing good characters, remember that  good characters with Bloodwrath react at their OWN physical cost to DEFEND other creatures from evil. If anyone follows them it is their own choice borne of their own personal sense of duty.