What makes a good villain?
What makes a good villain?
Carson Rivera
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Joseph Morales
Being memorable and able to provoke an intense emotional reaction from the audience (like hatred).
Christian Green
Being entertaining
Being competent
Being a contrast to the hero
Jayden Foster
A villain is good when you feel satisfied when the MC beats the shit out of him.
Joshua Rodriguez
FPBP. It's 80% of the point.
Ryder Johnson
Fuck, these are good too.
Isaac Reed
when you like him more than the MC, like your pic related
Ryder Walker
Charisma
Kevin Morgan
The ability to be threatening, may it be in an instant or a long build up. If you’re not threatened by a villain they’re an after thought.
Levi Sanders
Blake Roberts
>I only poopoo farted for the goooood of The Abyss
Joshua Miller
a combination of good aesthetics, attitude and motive
Carson Anderson
realty
Josiah Hernandez
what is this from? I tried reverse image searching
Jaxon Ramirez
Shin Angyo Onshi.
Ayden Butler
Yeah i would say this more or less is the criteria
I think on top of that its how well the villain executes their own mold, so to speak. Like a villain thats evil just because he is evil can be great, so long as he executes that type of villainy to perfection. Villains that are evil because of apersonal vendetta against the mc like Mahito or Reverse Flash from comics can be good as well, but that is dependent on how much they punish the MC, etc. Then you have villains that are morally grey, call into question efficacy of the characters morality or are idealists like Pain, which again boils down to how well they fit their own mold i.e. do they actually raise legitimate good points about their ideals or are they actually poorly written hypocrites.
Nathaniel Johnson
If I like them, then they're good villains.
if I don't like then, then they're shit villains. Simple as that.
Brody King
They are not truly villains.
Jaxson Butler
Being voiced by Norio Wakamoto
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Nolan Cruz
Based
Brayden Morales
Preferably a character that you hate for his actions/beliefs and not how much the author fellate the character.
Colton Harris
Sad!
Gabriel Evans
Are they fun to watch like DIO or Frieza? This requirement is all you need to fulfill when they're not deep or more sympathetic with their motivations while piling bodies.
John Clark
There's no one right answer. If they're entertaining, they're a good villain.
Cameron Murphy
either an answer to the hero or a question that the hero can answer
Grayson Brown
Villains with depth and sympathetic motivations will always be better than one dimensional shitters like Dio and Frieza.
Connor Nguyen
>he doesn't want to subjugate humanity and live as immortal god emperor of mankind
What are you, a woman?
Joseph Hughes
Nah fuck that. I don't want the author dedicating 80% screentime trying to feel bad about some faggot.
Carson Cooper
big boobs
Brody Myers
B-b-but what about muh gray morality
Isaiah Peterson
This but user forgot the most important ingredient and that's charisma. A villain has to be charismatic and have charm, a dominant personality with a strong ambition. Being ruthless in a cool way is always a plus as well, and a tint of craziness always spices it up.
Dominic Brooks
>being understandable and relatable, without exactly being likeable
>Acts as a foil for the Hero - Who he could have been if he hadn't taken a darker path
>Generally entertaining to watch
Grayson Butler
logic and morals you agree with but actions you don't. basically put them in a moral grey area.