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The Value of The Comic Villain

A good story is only a good story if there is a hero and to have a hero, there must be villain. While the Hero is the person the reader identifies with, it is the villain who drives the plot.

So what makes a good villain in a Comic Book setting? To start, the best villains are typically unconventional, unpredictable, and morally ambiguous. To just create a villain who is evil and predictable will leave your readers bored. Readers tend to enjoy villains who are rebellious, intelligent, and capable. Creating believable, complex, and impressive villains with a sharp sense of cunning, tact, intelligence, takes practice and forethought. So here are a few tips when creating your villain:

1. Intimidating but Not Too Intimidating – What does this mean? You of course want a villain that can intimidate your characters, but don’t make a villain that intimidates you. It will be difficult for you to write about the villain if you find yourself intimidated.

2. Make Your Villain Complex – Remember your villain shouldn’t just be purely evil, give him/her a bit of a good side and in this, the villain will feel more believable to your reader. Just as most humans are complex in real life, so should your villain be.

3. Give Your Villain Motive – What are your villain’s motives in being who or what they are. What happened to make them evil or hateful? Even if your villain is just crazy or a sociopath, providing motive helps move the plot around.

4. Flesh Out Your Villain’s Character – Give your villain some background, an identity, such as – where are they from, small town, large city, a particular planet? How do they speak, carry themselves or behave do to their past. How do they dress and why?

5. Don’t Overdo It – While creating a complex and quirky villain, don’t get too quirky or over do it. Make your villains as evil as they need to be for the storyline, but no more than that; otherwise, they will either ring untrue or they will take over the story, distracting from the hero, heroine, and original plot

6. Don’t Forget About Setting – You Can enhance your villain’s bad behavior through setting. At the same time, setting can help your determine what kind of villain you want to write about. Is your villain from the past, future, present, another place, another time?

7. A Villain’s Demise – Every good story ends with the villain getting their punishment in the end. You have choices here, your villain could disappear, have their power taken away or killed off. Each carries its own weight. For the villain to just disappear, you may leave your reader hanging and take power from the Hero and give too much to the villain. Readers want the satisfaction of a villain conquered, if even for the moment.

Last, do your homework before creating your villain. And remember, you can have more than one villain; you can create what is called an Obstacle Character. The difference between the two is that the Obstacle Character will represent a point of view opposite that of the Hero. While the Obstacle Character can seem quite antagonizing, their role is to push the hero into action, while the villain makes the plot move, creates a problem to be solved.

A good story has many complexities but with a great hero and a great villain, your foundation is set.

About the Author

About the Author: Pam Ravenwood is a freelance writer. Mycomicshop.com is one of the largest retailers of comic books in the world. Mycomicshop is the online presence of Lone Star Comics, a leading retailer of comic books with seven stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. For more information please visit: www.mycomicshop.com http://www.mycomicshop.com.”

all you can play city of villains / heroes with no monthly fee?

any special website or something? I hate paying a dime in fees monthly. or mabe any mmorpg games that is so?

I know of no private Cox server, and even if you can find one, you will not have content Current. It is not like a lot of MMOs you can think of where you have content on the computer and the server is incidental. current content, patches, new issues, not to mention the archetypes enough players in order to enable their entire experience Paragon are all "hosted" on servers in the PlayNC. New upgrade and fixed content is checked and / or downloaded each time you connect to an official server. The only way I can think that you would play and pay and not to play a series of test accounts, but would have to …. limited functionality and no continuity. There's nothing like City of Heroes for free … but they are not free MMO. In my opinion …. you get what you pay for. Good luck \ you!