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Like Fire Eater said you hit the nail square on the head with this explanation, Mal had a whole lot of potential that was outright wasted by the incompetent writers.

Also, I am under the assumption that Mal was not even an entirely original concept. You probably never heard of it, but there is a story on FF known as "Mad Mikey" by Rufus T. Serenity. As with Mal, the story features an alternative personality of Mike as the main antagonist. Here is a particular noteworthy excerpt from chapter 1:

Did you know that they say that the eyes are the windows into the soul?

I don't think I need to explain how this relates to a certain statement spoken in "Suckers Punched". The reason as to why I pointed this out was that the first chapter of that story was published on June 1st 2012, well over a year before "Suckers punched" even aired. With that combined with the "dumbing down" of the contestants makes me highly doubt that the season writers thought up that statement on their own.