I played it a lot when i was young on the Neo-Geo, i still play it from times to times! I’ve been always in love with the characters design of that game! I remember it made an impact to me as a kid!
Looking to develop your villain further? Trying to build a villain for the first time? Look no further for here is a simple guide to building a fearsome villain for your story. Disclaimer: I’m a fantasy writer, this will be fantasy based.
Step 1: Choose a Motivation
While this can be anything, some common motivations are: Power, Legacy, Revenge, Respect, Protectionism, Hate, Love, Indifference, Drive for Utopia, and Infliction of Pain. Now you might be thinking I can understand why the last one is villainous, but some of the others seem okay! Remember, a villains motivations should be understandable, and their goals can be noble, but it is the means that make them “bad.”
Step 2: Decide if They Really are “Bad”
Despite my previous statement, some villains are just trying to achieve noble goals by noble means. This is actually a really good way to get your audience thinking about your theme if it ties in well. The flipside of this is my personal favourite – make the heroes bad too.
Step 3: Design Their Personality
There are a few traits you’ll want to consider in particular and in the extremes. Make sure to chose the side that your hero will struggle with more. Villains should be handcrafted challengers, designed to ruin your hero.
Intelligence vs Stupidity - A villain who can scheme intricate plots is terrifying, but extreme stupidity leads to recklessness and unpredictability, good for control freak heroes.
Short Temper vs Controlled Emotions - Short tempered villains are a threat to anyone close to them, while those that can control their emotions can be highly manipulative.
Calculated vs Irrational - This again leans into the trade off between the unbeatable factor and the unpredictability factor. Both are equally fearsome.
Charismatic vs Black Seep – Why do their followers believe in them? Is it because they can talk the hind legs off a donkey or was your villain an outcast come to take their revenge.
Don’t underestimate the stupid, short tempered, irrational black sheep. They often have intelligent advisors pulling their strings while their stupidity causes chaos like no other.
Step 4: Ask Yourself Why?
Not just Why did my villain set out on this path? orWhy don’t they see the harm they’re causing? but also Why have I reached the end of a post specifically using ‘they’ pronouns and imagine a white man with black hair and dark eyes? Because many of you will have done just that, particularly for the intelligent, manipulative villain with more power than you could ever imagine. Ask yourself why intelligent, charismatic villains with goals outside of revenge and love need always be a man. Some villains are just heroes who don’t understood the cost of their actions. Ask yourself why they shouldn’t be diverse and stereotypical caricatures.
This post is quite long enough. I reckon I’ll do a part 2 if you guys like it :)
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i enjoy playlists what making you feel like a villain and do smth domestic at the same time because maybe i am cutting vegetables but it’s a ✨k n i f e✨ in my hand so you definitely should be scared
I honor of Women’s History month, Iris shares her top five female video game villains.
In honor of Women’s History Month, I put together a list of my favorite female characters in video games: five villains and five heroines.
Now, please keep in mind, this is my personal list of favorites. I apologize in advance if your fave didn’t make the cut or didn’t rank as high as another character. These are just the characters that I happen to love best, and there were plenty more that I…
“A hero? Oh honey, I thought I had taught you better than that. There are no such thing as heroes, as there is no such thing as goodness. What seems heroic to you will always be villainous to someone else. Please remember that.”
3. Nurse Mildred Ratched from Ratched(S2 Release TBD)
4. Sheila from Santa Clarita Diet (Discontinued)
People be too busy all hyped up on Hannibal, Dexter, and Alastor—don’t get me wrong those two are amazing I saved the best for last, but we need more girls in the center like this: relatable, badass, sexy, both crazyorchill.
With bad guys always in the spotlight, the girls are always the pathetic damsels in distress that you know will get killed off the minute they are on screen, or they end up being the annoying petty bitch that you WISH would get killed off.
Like, yeah, I know we got films like Cruella,Maleficent 1 & 2, Birds of Prey, and whatnot, but I’m talking about more full on series that aren’t always discontinued the few times they are made.
