[ SECRET POST #5175 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5175 ⌋

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Comments

[philstar22]

I love all kinds of villains. I love full-on evil villains. I love villains with sympathetic backstories. I love villains who get redemption stories. They key is that the author makes their character interesting and believable and makes the story work. Any of the archetypes can work if done right. And honestly, even most full-on evil villains will have some sort of backstory. Even the devil does after all. Tolkien gives both his devil-figures backstories.

I think a good author/creator makes a villain compelling for a reader, makes their story interesting. But I also think with a good villain there is often room for more exploration. Because most of the time the perspective of media is the heroes. So fanfic is a great place for exploring the villain further.

And frankly, fans are going to like villains. Villains are interesting. Villains do interesting things. They often have interesting characterization and are fun to explore. Creators making them full on evil isn't going to stop fans from liking them. Look at Paradise Lost poem by Milton and how many people have looked at that or the Bible and gravitated towards the Devil. Look how many people find Dracula a favorite character. Melkor and Sauron are certainly full on evil, but there are plenty of us fans in the Tolkien fandom. Full-on-evil villains are still loved.

[(Anonymous)]

I think we don't talk about catharsis enough. I love a lot of characters who do or say things I never would in a million years, who have none of the remorse or shame I would have if I didn't hold back on my own nastier impulses. Sympathizing with characters like is a socially-acceptable (more or less) way of acknowledging that I'm not 100% good and pure in my thoughts.

Also anyone who's lived long enough has, at one time or another, been a villain in someone else's story. Maybe out of malice, maybe out of ignorance, but it's just not possible to live a life without hurting someone eventually. I think it's healthy and honest to confront that, and seeing stories through a villain's eyes can help to connect with the harm that we've done.