"Innocents? Sheesh, and I'm the person who is literally clinically insane..."
Archfiend shook his head and motioned down to the carnage below. He explained how the people being slaughtered by his many constructs weren't innocents, they were the gang lords and their thugs responsible for turning this part of the city into a stagnant pool of crime, narcotics, and poverty.
"The innocents are there," he finished, pointing up above where there were cages of yellow light keeping people safe from the chaos. Come to think... he was running a crapton of constructs now. Wow, and just a couple of years ago he could barely make a mace....
"If you really want to save the day, you'll let this go, because if you and your friends so much as lift a finger against me now... you'll all be responsible for helping filth to live..."
Of course his actions were not without some question. Archfiend's constructs were terrifying the innocents. The fear they'd experience was meant to ensure they'd never attempt to follow in the footsteps of the people who were being killed now.