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Re: What makes villains appealing to you? everynametaken Send a noteboard - 23/12/2009 04:24:04 AM
What makes a villain a villain? Human qualities? Lack of? I'm curious to know. Should they have redeeming qualities? Should they just be completely sinister?


I am not a big fan of villains that are pure eeeeeviiilll or anything dumb like that. I like to see something believable, some sense of humanity and the path of corruption that is available to mankind. A true villain had a choice but has chosen the corrupt. And I want to know why the villain chose that path. What is the villain's motivations and how am I faced with such possibilities in my own life. What if I was i9n the villain's shoes, am I really confident that I would choose the path of the hero? Or might I be willing to compromise and take the path of villainy?
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What makes villains appealing to you? Ryan - 21/12/2009 06:17:23 PM 636 Views
Something works only as well as it is written. Jacob - 21/12/2009 06:36:48 PM 470 Views
I'm going for the human side Ryan - 21/12/2009 06:40:47 PM 424 Views
What Jacob said sounds about right... A Deathwatch Guard - 21/12/2009 07:16:12 PM 483 Views
Reasonable cause for being a villain. jh - 21/12/2009 08:19:26 PM 499 Views
Hmmm Camilla - 21/12/2009 08:34:11 PM 429 Views
I've got several villains Ryan - 22/12/2009 05:55:03 AM 529 Views
Intelligence Palatine - 22/12/2009 05:13:05 PM 424 Views
Ah, but a question for you Ryan - 22/12/2009 06:39:04 PM 403 Views
Don't like him. Palatine - 23/12/2009 05:12:57 PM 444 Views
The same thing as with any other character, believability Mark - 22/12/2009 05:43:21 PM 489 Views
I agree Ryan - 22/12/2009 06:35:38 PM 408 Views
Motivation... Phelix - 22/12/2009 07:33:27 PM 591 Views
Amen. everynametaken - 23/12/2009 04:30:37 AM 456 Views
Neither good nor bad. rebelaessedai - 23/12/2009 03:13:22 AM 410 Views
That makes me enjoy a story more. Jaimie in the Song of Ice and Fire series was a great example. *NM* Tashmere - 30/12/2009 03:44:23 AM 213 Views
*NM* rebelaessedai - 31/12/2009 04:20:44 AM 232 Views
Re: What makes villains appealing to you? everynametaken - 23/12/2009 04:24:04 AM 489 Views
Alien and unrelatable villains can be awesome. Gher - 24/12/2009 07:45:15 PM 436 Views
Yeah as for Moridin BlackAdder - 31/12/2009 05:24:35 AM 438 Views
He has a good scene in TGS too. *NM* Gher - 09/01/2010 06:33:26 AM 219 Views
They actions should make sense from their POV *NM* AgentOrange - 24/12/2009 10:31:36 PM 233 Views
Real motivations that make sense Sir Tybalt - 25/12/2009 03:52:07 AM 424 Views
Cool Ryan - 25/12/2009 05:54:40 AM 438 Views
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