[ SECRET POST #4882 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4882 ⌋

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Comments

[melissatreglia]

I'm kinda this but the opposite, in not one but TWO different ways, if that makes any sense. Small-scale villains being bad and big nasties having redemption arcs are my current jam. And these are two completely separate things, just to be clear.

In the one corner, you have the small-scale villains. These are the ones that have a comparatively small goal, and their sense of melodrama is at such a larger scale than the thing they're aiming for. For example: the bratty, entitled girl running for student council who wants to win AT ANY COST (Reese Witherspoon's character in "Election"). This is fairly typical in comedies (and comedy-based episodes of longer-running shows), I think, than in dramas.

In the other, there's the formerly big nasties getting redemption arcs. I've seen this done better in fanfic than in any given source material, tbh, so I don't think it's really there yet as a thing. Basically, someone who was genuinely 100% horrible goes through a slowburn in character development to become... well, not a hero really, but certainly no longer awful. They question their old ways, and slowly learn to walk a new, less violent and despot-y, path. And it's not just "oh, they were once bad, but they're good now and here's the things they learned from their Bad Old Days". You actually get to SEE the change in the character, one step by painstaking step, occasionally backsliding into their evil, evil ways. (And no, Thanos doesn't count. Like, at all.)