The Crappy Villains That We See Too Often in Literature (Post 6 of Blog Week 2)(Quickie)
Hello again all. It is currently day three of blog week as I am writing this but I like writing these for some reason so I don't mind writing them early. Today I thought I would talk about villains in literature and why most of them are kinda bland and predictable. This is gonna be a quick one so let's get's going.
The average villain in literature will have some dumb reason for being the enemy of the main character. Most of the time these reasons are brought up throughout the book but rarely do we ever see too much evidence that these events have happened. These villains are fine but not great. They serve their purpose in the book and work most of the time but rarely will you finish a book with one of these villains and remember the villain of the book above all else. Why? Because they are forgettable and they are all the same. Sure, they might vary a little but the most important part of a villain is the motive and when we get a villain with a motive that we don't see any evidence of we start to realize that they are all just there to fight main character and after a while this causes them to blend together.
A good villain will have several meet ups with the main character, they will be connected to them all throughout the story, and they'll have a unique character. The best villains will have a motive that isn't just they have to kill them because their ancestors want them to or something dumb like that but rather because they will have a dream before hand that was interrupted and they need to do something wrong to achieve that goal but the hero of the story needs to stop them because the villain has started caring too much about his goal and has lost sight of what is right.
So there it is. I know that not every story is gonna have a great or even good villain but I think some writers don't try hard enough to create a villain that isn't just average. However, I can't blame them for being cautious. Trying to make a good villain and failing can hurt your story just as much as it would have helped it and sometimes it's better to play it safe. Anyways, thanks for reading my blog and I hope you have been enjoying Blog Week 2.
The average villain in literature will have some dumb reason for being the enemy of the main character. Most of the time these reasons are brought up throughout the book but rarely do we ever see too much evidence that these events have happened. These villains are fine but not great. They serve their purpose in the book and work most of the time but rarely will you finish a book with one of these villains and remember the villain of the book above all else. Why? Because they are forgettable and they are all the same. Sure, they might vary a little but the most important part of a villain is the motive and when we get a villain with a motive that we don't see any evidence of we start to realize that they are all just there to fight main character and after a while this causes them to blend together.
A good villain will have several meet ups with the main character, they will be connected to them all throughout the story, and they'll have a unique character. The best villains will have a motive that isn't just they have to kill them because their ancestors want them to or something dumb like that but rather because they will have a dream before hand that was interrupted and they need to do something wrong to achieve that goal but the hero of the story needs to stop them because the villain has started caring too much about his goal and has lost sight of what is right.
So there it is. I know that not every story is gonna have a great or even good villain but I think some writers don't try hard enough to create a villain that isn't just average. However, I can't blame them for being cautious. Trying to make a good villain and failing can hurt your story just as much as it would have helped it and sometimes it's better to play it safe. Anyways, thanks for reading my blog and I hope you have been enjoying Blog Week 2.
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