Thread:Eddiebox28/@comment-24783341-20191001134556/@comment-24783341-20191008185527

I'd argue the distinction is not actually necessary, something that I've gradually realized when thinking about this topic. It ultimately boils down to the fact that "Heroes" are a class. Hero token, Hero Hunt, Hero Showdown, New Heroes, even just Heroes in the Collection menu. Villains don't have anything different about them from Light Side heroes other than affiliation, and so I offer that it's not actually necessary to use a completely different term to clarify such an ultimately surface-level distinction. Dark Side hero (or any variation of that...Separatist, Galactic Empire, First Order hero) not only immediately conveys affiliation and class type, but that they function/play similarly to Light Side heroes. Using "villain" is just a bit more vague and for readers who might not be too familiar with the game or the terminology we use on the wiki, might read the distinction between "heroes" and "villains" when flipping through say Anakin Skywalker/DICE and Count Dooku/DICE and equate the two different terms to two different styles of play such as those present between the two trooper classes "Assault" and "Officer," when such a drastic difference does not actually exist.