Talk:Queen Chrysalis/@comment-26973802-20140706025018/@comment-3261515-20140706070619

It's like the difference between milking an imprisoned cow for food, and bleeding an imprisoned cow for your personal enjoyment.

Despite being evil by our standards, her harshness was a requirement for the continued survival of her kin; compassion for outsiders in such an individual would inevitably result in starvation for her swarm. Tirek, on the other hand, was just a jerk, and his only loyalties were to himself. He was brutish and not very bright, and altogether a different kind of villain.