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[–] KaiReeve@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Compelling villains are written with a deeper motivation for their actions than just 'hurt people' or 'be evil' and they have a tendency to challenge the status quo in some way. Such villains become sympathetic because the current status quo is oppressive.

It must be very difficult to write a villain for a contemporary piece of media because they can very quickly become a hero of the people.

[–] Ilflish@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The problem is you can also make the villain a manchild whos sick of people not agreeing with him and the internet will call him based

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

based jack horner

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