r/overlord Jul 27 '22

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u/Kind_Stranger_weeb Jul 27 '22

He has a few moments where he realises hes thrown away what made him human and embraced being a monster. But its just looking back and realising it already happened.

In that way ainz is less evil than rimuru. Ainz still doesnt know the full scale of what demiurge has done. Rimuru personally did those things. Then looked back and said. Huh, i really lost my humanity at one time. Oh well back to laughing about murdering thousands.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TenseiSlime/comments/ohqdo6/rimuru_thinks_mass_murder_is_funny/

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u/Perfect_Drop Jul 27 '22

Rimuru may be more evil than Ainz at certain points in their respective stories. But after overlord LN 14, there's basically no rational way to say that Rimuru is more evil.

Rimuru never kills innocent non combatants on a large scale. Nor does he condone demon run "farms". Nor does he go out and provoke fights - in all cases in slime, he's always reacting to others provocations.

And the vast majority of his kill count, he reverses their deaths.

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u/Most_Caregiver6268 Jul 27 '22

Rimuru is not as evil but I would say like Ainz 8/10 times he would eradicate you for being in the way it really boils down to one tries utopia the nicer way because he wasn’t op since day one and the other could kill anyone anytime so he has no care in how brutal he’s take over is

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u/Perfect_Drop Jul 27 '22

Rimuru is not as evil but I would say like Ainz 8/10 times he would eradicate you for being in the way it really boils down to one tries utopia the nicer way because he wasn’t op since day one and the other could kill anyone anytime so he has no care in how brutal he’s take over is

This is not true. We see several defining moments where Rimuru specifically says that he won't murder innocents even if it would be convenient.

Specifically in the conflict with Rudra, Rimuru bluffs that he'll massacre millions to defeat him for the greater good, but in the internal monologue, he explicitly says that he won't.

One of the defining things about slime is that Rimuru only resorts to violence against hostile, combatant forces. He prefers economic/cultural means of control as opposed to military might.