User blog comment:B214/Best and Worst Final Antagonists in Fairy Tail/@comment-3061966-20130704203650/@comment-7418318-20130705085157

It doesn't really matter if Laxus originally planed to not kill anybody.

That he even put more than 60.000 innocent lifes (60.000 inhabitants plus all the guests that came to see the parade) at stake for his personal ambition alone is damning enough, but when he cast Fairy Law he was sure he'd kill all those people. No maybe or anything. SURE! And he was also sure that Freed would be able to kill Cana and Juvia, when he ordered him to do so.

That he failed to actually kill them and that he was stressed can't be used as excuses for attempted mass-murder.

I'm all for shades of gray, but Laxus overstepped the line by quite a big margin.

And I am well aware of the meaing of "Villain", but I'm also a big fan of "Judge people by their deeds, not their words". Would the lack of killing intent you attest to him have brought anybody back to life, if his Fairy Law had succeded? Would his lack of killing intent have prevented Freed from killing Cana and Elfman if Mirajane had failed to defeat Freed?

And that's not even considering the injuries and property damage his actions caused.