03-06-2024, 08:34 PM
(02-29-2024, 10:20 AM)Pyrite Wrote: Characters having layers to them is a good thing, for sure, but sometimes evil people are just evil and I'm not a fan of the more recent effort to give every single villain some kind of redeeming feature. There are people who have gone down in history as villains with absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever, and sometimes that should be reflected in fiction. Sure, there can be something that drives the villain to the point where they become irredeemable, but what I tend to like is a contrast between how the villain responds to difficulty to how the hero responds.
I actually think it's more interesting when the hero isn't perfectly good and has to overcome something about themselves. Otherwise, there's no struggle. They start good and they end good. Rather, having the hero and villain both suffering from the same difficult circumstance, but having the hero rise above it and not allow it to turn them into the villain, you're able to show much more of a contrast.
Then you’d have a field day with the live action version of Cobra Commander.
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