How To Make A Great Villain ?

>>79453234
by making them really cool with good writing, good character design and good acting. it also helps if you have strong source material to pool from.

He has to be intelligent, a bit nihilistic, and have a wicked sense of humour

Write him as a protagonist of his own story

draw all your influences from da joker

>>79453234
The ultimate villain is the one who believes he is the hero

IM DA JOKAH BABY

be an obnoxious contrarian faggot?

>>79453820
>The ultimate villain is the one who actually is the hero

Ftfy

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>>79453234

Be willing to cross limits of acceptable behaviour.

>>79453729
>>79453820

This desu.

>>79453605
>a bit nihilistic

Is that really required? Can there be no such thing as a principaled bad guy?

>>79455501
It's a meme, you dip.

>>79453234
One who'd challenge hero's motives and ideals.

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>>79456696
>It's a meme. It's a reference

Go back

>>79453234
They need to have valid motives that are reasonably justified from his/her point of view. If they are simply doing things out of spite or something retarded like that, you immediately lose all respect for them.