User blog:Howling Darkness/Meruem: Good or Evil?

What do you think about Meruem? Was he a truly a "Bad Guy" who had to be killed or was he just another victim to mankind's "inhumanity"?

And do you think Togashi gives us a message through this arc?

I share my thinking with lyraklaude from tumblr :-

I think concept of humanity has been played in this arc. Meruem isn’t particularly a “villain” to be remembered. We’ve seen too many villainous characters who resented humans and thought they were idiots and it’s nothing special. What is special, however, is the way Togashi played on the definition of humanity through this arc.

I didn't think of Meruem as a villain because to him, he is doing the right thing. To him, he is doing no evil. He isn’t some crazed-eye manic-laughing Big-Bad who just wants to destroy humans because of some species war. He legitimately believes the right thing is a world with no humans because it’s the humans who destroy it… and let’s face it, can you really blame him? This whole thing makes Meruem an Anti-Villain. or maybe even an Anti-Hero. Of course, later he discovers that his fault is underestimating humanity. He stops only seeing the limitless malice within humanity, and discovers the limitless goodness that sits directly there beside it within all humans. Good and Bad. We all have that balance. At the end Togashi wants to tell us that there is no evil and there is no good. No villain and no hero. No one is entirely good and no one is entirely bad, there is a bit of both within each and every one of us.

The credit of this paragraph goes to an lyraklaude from tumblr. I made a few edits as I didn't accept the "light and dark" concept. I never believed that "darkness" is "evil" and never will. If you want the unedited version here is the link-http://lyraklaude.tumblr.com/post/81654121043/i-know-the-chimera-ants-arc-isnt-your-favourite-but-is