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What makes a villain likeable?
Make Them Cool and Competent It’s hard to hate a villain with style. If your villain has a knock-out costume, crazy cool gadgets, and memorable one-liners, your audience will hope they stick around. A touch of cool factor can also make a protagonist likable, but don’t overdo it.
What are some good villain ideas?
Fiction Notes
- Romance: I want to marry the princess.
- Revenge – ruin a hero: I want to ruin the King.
- To distinguish oneself: I want the princess to respect me.
- To fit in/gain acceptance: I want to attend the princess’ coronation and eat at her table.
- Justice: The king killed my mother, so the king must die.
How would you describe a villain?
a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel. a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.
How do you motivate a villain?
5 Tips for Writing Villain Motivations
- Use backstory to explain your villain’s motivation.
- Explain your villain’s relationship to power.
- Give your villain a strong connection to the protagonist.
- Make sure your villain has weaknesses or vulnerabilities.
- Root your villain’s motivations in real life.
How do you make a super villain?
Here are ten tips to create your most wicked villain:
- Know your supervillain’s category.
- Create your own supervillain that readers will both love and hate.
- Focus on your villain’s motivations and desires.
- Your supervillain should have a weakness that still reveals what it means to be human.
How do you make a fantasy villain?
How to Create Fantasy Villains
- Give them a goal and establish their moral code.
- Explore that goal in their background.
- Explain their relationship with magic.
- Give them a weaknesses.
- Make them evolve and stack up with the heroes.
- Make them fun, interesting, & unique.
What do villains usually want?
Most villains share a desire to obtain power. Some villains only want to have power over your main character. Others want to take over the world and achieve ultimate power. When crafting your big bad, you should analyze your evil villain’s relationship to power.
What do super villains do?
A supervillain is the antithesis of a superhero. In instances where the supervillain does not have superhuman, mystical, or alien powers, the supervillain may possess a genius intellect or a skill set that allows him to draft complex schemes or commit crimes in a way normal humans cannot.
How do you motivate a good villain?
Who are the best horror villains?
Pennywise (IT)
What makes Sauron a good villain?
Sauron possesses all the characteristics of a great villain. He can invoke terror, sympathy, fascination, and abhorrence all at once. At the end of The Return of the King, he is reduced to “a spirit of malice that gnaws itself in the shadows.” It’s a great fall for a being of Sauron’s power.
What qualities make a villain a good antagonist?
Readers look for a villain who is stronger than their hero, both physically and mentally. He has to be more resourceful, more powerful, more determined than the hero. Just as the hero loses everything if he fails, so should the villain. These antagonists are the ones we will always remember.
Who are the most iconic villains?
Darth Vader