User blog comment:B214/Best and Worst Final Antagonists in Fairy Tail/@comment-3061966-20130704203650/@comment-3061966-20130705025219

Laxus was not so much trying to kill everyone off as forcing them to bend the knee and recognize him as the new Master. It was clear that he was never intending to kill people, whether with Thunder Palace or Fairy Law -- he was visibly stressed as the actual use of thunder palace became more and more apparent, and he didn't have it in him to wipe everyone off the earth with his perfected Fairy Law. You don't know what villainous is, it would seem.

Now, Zero, he was something else.