Talk:Johan Liebert/@comment-4722656-20150721185625/@comment-2236907-20150726041654

It is never specified whether Johan developed into a monster from the moment he was conceived (or as some fateful result of his mother's desire to avenge her situation, ie. her promise to Franz Bonaparta) or as a specific result of one of the innumerable traumas he (or his sister) was subjected to later on. The ending of the series and the events that chronologically took place after the revelations in the final episode would imply that it was the Sophie's Choice presented to his mother by Franz Bonaparta and Peter Čapek that pushed him over the edge into pure evil territory (since his mother was seemingly willing to reject one of her own children and may not have realized/cared which was which since they were dressed identically, from his perspective); after all, Johan is not shown to have committed any murders prior to his escape from Prague with his sister.

Of course, a reconciliation of all of these considerations is that Johan may have always had a latent monstrous side, but it was awakened by his mother's seeming rejection and worsened with each subsequent trauma he was subjected to (eg. what he experienced at Kinderheim 511).