Villains: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

[aeriedraconia]

Villains: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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[queenoftheskies]

I love villains, love experimenting with them, making them real.

I recently wrote a short story in first person that was told entirely through the eyes of the villain.

He was an upstanding citizen, a well-respected scientist...but he had no real sense of right and wrong. He saw the world through what he wanted and needed and that drove him to commit terrible acts.

In the end, what made him realize finally that he had committed evil was the fact that the person he had harmed in the story still had enough compassion to save him and his family from death.

It was an interesting story for me to write as he came to the realization that what he had done was wrong and battled the confusion as to why she had forgiven him.

[melissajm]

For me, a villain is any character who considers their wants more important than anything else. My favorite "villains" are human and sometimes even sympathetic, but unable/unwilling to do the right thing. My least favorite ones are characters who are "just bad people."

[frigg]

1. That he doesn't have the self-censorship that should kick in when sometimes the goal really doesn't justify the means. Narrow-mindedness, arrogance

[green_knight]

I don't usually have villains. I have antagonists, who have their own goals and their own ways of doing things, which happens to be opposed to the protagonists; but they are rarely evil.

[barbarienne]

Answering your questions in order