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This question came to my mind after watching the latest episode of Date A Live where in, spoilers
Same with another Villain who has similar parallels to Mio Takamiya, named, Otto Apocalypse from Honkai Impact 3rd. Another beautifully written villain with the same goal of reviving his loved one by any means necessary.
Then I took a look at the TV drama villains and noticed that they're pretty stale. Like they don't have any reason to act villainous other than pride, envy or just being a bad person. They constantly remind you that "Hey, this is the bad guy. Hate this guy" by making said villain do bad things 24/7 everyday and being just an unlikeable prick.
So this constitutes the question, What's the difference between a badly written villain and a good written villain? I like to see what everyone's opinion on this is.
My opinion, is depth. When writing a Villain, make his/her's reason to doing the terrible things, a rational one. Give them more emotion than just being villainous 24/7 like focusing on their relationships to other characters as well as giving them screentime to make the readers understand how much of a threat he/her is in a story and expose the human part of them. After all, in some stories, the villain is just a regular person who is subject to regular emotions and regular existence. So humanize them to make them not annoying, which causes readers to skip chapters, but also make readers enjoy when they're represented in a chapter. By doing these things, the readers start to care and understand the intensions of the Villain making them feel conflicted, this could lead to satisfying endings where both the hero and the villain would get what they want, but only the villain would find out too late that achieving their goals has an enormous price to pay.
So now it's your turn. What separates a good written villain to a badly written one? What are the types of tropes you want to see in your ideal Villain? And How do you propose writing a good villain? I really wanna see all your answers down below!
The antagonist is an all powerful spirit known as Mio Takamiya, her goal is to kill off the main cast, gaining their power and erasing the memories of the main character. Why? It's because the person she fell in love with died and the only way to revive him is to basically give birth to him, thats our main character Shido. Now the he is at the right age, Mio has come to take whats hers and bring back the love of her life.
Same with another Villain who has similar parallels to Mio Takamiya, named, Otto Apocalypse from Honkai Impact 3rd. Another beautifully written villain with the same goal of reviving his loved one by any means necessary.
Then I took a look at the TV drama villains and noticed that they're pretty stale. Like they don't have any reason to act villainous other than pride, envy or just being a bad person. They constantly remind you that "Hey, this is the bad guy. Hate this guy" by making said villain do bad things 24/7 everyday and being just an unlikeable prick.
So this constitutes the question, What's the difference between a badly written villain and a good written villain? I like to see what everyone's opinion on this is.
My opinion, is depth. When writing a Villain, make his/her's reason to doing the terrible things, a rational one. Give them more emotion than just being villainous 24/7 like focusing on their relationships to other characters as well as giving them screentime to make the readers understand how much of a threat he/her is in a story and expose the human part of them. After all, in some stories, the villain is just a regular person who is subject to regular emotions and regular existence. So humanize them to make them not annoying, which causes readers to skip chapters, but also make readers enjoy when they're represented in a chapter. By doing these things, the readers start to care and understand the intensions of the Villain making them feel conflicted, this could lead to satisfying endings where both the hero and the villain would get what they want, but only the villain would find out too late that achieving their goals has an enormous price to pay.
So now it's your turn. What separates a good written villain to a badly written one? What are the types of tropes you want to see in your ideal Villain? And How do you propose writing a good villain? I really wanna see all your answers down below!
