It's weird how nasty characters immediately get popular, in some forums. o.o Watching that happen on a few I joined I just scratched my head, given that it was the players that liked the character and so they maneuvered their own characters to interacting with said nasty, even if the characters wouldn't go within a mile of him.

XD Maybe the players on that board just had a bad boy love or something?

Maybe building up the tension and then finally giving the character his comeuppance is a good way to work it... so long as it's not dragged on and on. I freaking hate when characters that I wanted to see get the hooked cane finally do so, only to come back later (so many TV show characters do this. <_>)