I disagree that villians cant be relatable. I cop it up to three types of villians.Â
Evil Evil - Villians who do evil things because why the hell not? Take Kefka for example, nothing relatable about his goals at ALL. But that's not why he's a good villian. Yes a good villian because when you see what he does you hate him so much you get happy when you finally take down the guy. He draws appeal to people because he is the perfect button pusher. The guy poisoned a entire water supply cause he felt like it.
Wrongly evil - Villians who have a genuine cause to do what they do, but go about it "wrong" to say. Take say, Garlean for example. They WANT to stop primals from killing everything and being summoned. They WANT to bring Eorzea into a technical age and stop any magic catastrophe BUT they are going about it completely the wrong way. With these villians you can understand the Garlean have a noble cause, but the way they're doing it makes them evil and hated. But you KNOW they just want to do the same thing Eorzea does, stop primals and unite everyone.Â
Turned evil - These are my favorite, these villians weren't always villians, but do to events out of their control and manipulation. Â They become tragic villians and must be put down. Sephiroth is a prime example. In Crisis Core he was a great guy and a hero. Everyone liked him. But because of outside aspects *cough* Genesis jealous ass* he was manipulated and would ultimately become a villian. If it wasn't for genesis SEPHIROTH would have probably never did anything wrong.Â
I think a lot of villians can be relatable, but also some just can't. Not every villians a bad guy for no reason.Â
This was mainly to add to a post I saw earlier in this thread. Im done ranting now lol
Evil Evil - Villians who do evil things because why the hell not? Take Kefka for example, nothing relatable about his goals at ALL. But that's not why he's a good villian. Yes a good villian because when you see what he does you hate him so much you get happy when you finally take down the guy. He draws appeal to people because he is the perfect button pusher. The guy poisoned a entire water supply cause he felt like it.
Wrongly evil - Villians who have a genuine cause to do what they do, but go about it "wrong" to say. Take say, Garlean for example. They WANT to stop primals from killing everything and being summoned. They WANT to bring Eorzea into a technical age and stop any magic catastrophe BUT they are going about it completely the wrong way. With these villians you can understand the Garlean have a noble cause, but the way they're doing it makes them evil and hated. But you KNOW they just want to do the same thing Eorzea does, stop primals and unite everyone.Â
Turned evil - These are my favorite, these villians weren't always villians, but do to events out of their control and manipulation. Â They become tragic villians and must be put down. Sephiroth is a prime example. In Crisis Core he was a great guy and a hero. Everyone liked him. But because of outside aspects *cough* Genesis jealous ass* he was manipulated and would ultimately become a villian. If it wasn't for genesis SEPHIROTH would have probably never did anything wrong.Â
I think a lot of villians can be relatable, but also some just can't. Not every villians a bad guy for no reason.Â
This was mainly to add to a post I saw earlier in this thread. Im done ranting now lol
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