In most works of fiction, there are villains who we admit are evil, but you can't help but like them. Loki from the Avengers, Jim Moriarity from...
I'm trying to create a complex villain. He doesn't really do anything wrong but rather he gives power to troubled people and does this to see what...
Besides being The Villain, that is? Case in point: Gru, the villain-turned-protagonist in the Despicable Me movies is a stereotypical...
My villain will be a female form of Hades, Spandaramet :cool: but what does she want from my character? What should she? I want something new,...
I'm working on a media/political drama, and while my writing group has largely been giving me positive feedback on the plot, there have been some...
So simply put my villain is boring and plain, just the basic; I'm gonna take over the world, -kind of guy. He's a character I originally made as a...
I was watching The Dark Knight Rises the other day and there's a character called Miranda Tate who is shown the whole time as one of Batman's...
Hello everyone, So I am in the midst of what I think may be my first publishable project. I ran into a problem but I don't know if it is a...
I am in the process of outlining a novel; The King of Maggots (KM for short). KM is centered on Vladislav Tepes, IV, the illegitimate son of...
Ok we've see the cliche many times before, villain needs to kill a large amount of specific people, or even just that one person on that one...
I'm entering a short story writing competition and I'm really stuck on which name to settle on for my heroine. I'm basically just trying to...
My story has a misotheistic theme. Should I go all out and go ahead and advocate all out deicide and have my main characters fight god? Ironically...
In my story, I originally planned to use Doctor Who's villain called the Weeping Angels. But, taking the fact that I would like the publish the...
Just wondering people's thoughts on this. As a reader, what kind of villain do you typically prefer: the one who is a constant presence or the one...
I've decided to make my villain gay. He's a feminine male who is very dramatic and he's not at all stable. He's flirtatious and gets weird looks...
I'm going off a beat sheet here and it says "The Bad Guys close in" happens right after the mid point. Thing is, I don't want to make them too...
So this is a villain I am having trouble with. I have my evil overlord from the third installment in the series and I am happy with him, he has a...
My space pirate storyline has a race of aliens (who are the villains) but they don't have the most original design but I basically made them to...
I'm trying to think of a good moment to introduce my villain I keep thinking chapter one is the best time because this way the reader can get a...
In my first book, the ersatz villain was originally a good guy. But his projects (he was a researcher) for greater good, that he wanted to enforce...
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