[rasobasi420]

Pinhead is neither hero nor villain. He simply is. His role is to simply facilitate an individual's deepest desire, which is to experience the pain that is hell. The villain of Hellraisers 1 and 2 are the ones who either attempt to escape the nature of hell by any means necessary, or to embrace hell, again, by any means necessary.

And I might disagree with the rest of the franchise sucking. I actually enjoyed parts 5 and 6. They went back to the original concept of the Cenobites existing outside of the reality of he who opens the box. The opener creates his own hell and suffers the pain of it alone. Deader was pretty weak, as was Hellworld. The crappy thing about hellworld is that it pulled the F13p5 bullshit where Pinhead wasn't really Pinhead. How lame is that?!

Part 3 was a bit out of character for Pinhead. In that one, he implicitly decided to try to 'take over the world' or some bullshit. The next one was the same, but added the 'In Space' aspect, which was obviously successful for the Leprechaun and Jason... ;)

In summary, Pinhead is neither good nor bad... He just is.