User blog comment:LoganParvatiTD225/Was SMS Courtney's well deserved TDA karma?/@comment-1764858-20150718125037/@comment-27329394-20150719164805

I don't get how you can look at a character that has 20+ enemies vs only one friend (the worst ratio on the show outside of those having 0 friends and Chris), has tried to kill more people than Scarlett, and has been the main antagonist before and think "she's totally not as evil as Sugar." Courtney's more evil and it's not really that close. Some say her morals shift from good to bad, but they really aren't. Her good deeds are excessively rare (were talking, at best, one minor one per season) and aren't even close to outweighing her bad ones.

Sugar pushed Sky off the cliff to win but Courtney, as MB outlined, does that type stuff more frequently than Sugar. Sugar bullies Ella, but Courtney bullies or beats up several contestants. Sugar ultimately gets along with a higher percentage of the available interactable contestants and generally just either confuses them or grosses them out most of the time. Aside from Sky and Ella, none of them turn into anything major.

Also Courtney trying to slash Cody with the machete or kicking Tyler off the plane weren't related to the money at all. Sometimes she is just doing things like that for no reason other than rage.

Finally, Courtney is pretty clearly treated like at least a minor villain in TDWT and TDAS. Maybe Gwen or Scott don't treat her like it all the time, but you can tell nobody else gets along with her and she doesn't give anyone else any respect either. Without exception, it is at least partially if not completely her fault. And even then these two interactions are up and down throughout both seasons.

tl;dr Courtney is a horrible person. This isn't TDI anymore.