Don't forget, also, that sometimes people will do terrible things because they feel there is no other option out there.
Meh, I'm rather loathe to use the term 'villain.' It makes me think of the two in Rocky & Bullwinkle, totally silly and exaggerated. I like there to be reasons behind everything. I mean, hell, you could make a great antagonist by making him a total xenophobe, or a control freak, or an idealist or visionary. In these cases it's not so much about good or bad as how willing he is to step on other people to get what he wants. If he considers himself the gods' greatest gift, then it shouldn't matter if a few people have to die. Even if they're friends or people he respects.
And people don't even have to die directly by his hand. Some pretty nasty social injustices just happen as a byproduct of bureaucracy. Or even just paranoia.
Iunno, bad guys creep me out the most when they do stuff because the feel it has to be done. It's not that they think it's the good or right thing to do, but if they don't do it something even worse will happen, or things will be unbalanced, or maybe he just really believes in anarchy -- however you want to do it.
Or you could take a page out of lovecraft and have him be a cultist for some ancient religion that most people stopped worshiping ages ago. <3 cultists. >>
Meh, I'm rather loathe to use the term 'villain.' It makes me think of the two in Rocky & Bullwinkle, totally silly and exaggerated. I like there to be reasons behind everything. I mean, hell, you could make a great antagonist by making him a total xenophobe, or a control freak, or an idealist or visionary. In these cases it's not so much about good or bad as how willing he is to step on other people to get what he wants. If he considers himself the gods' greatest gift, then it shouldn't matter if a few people have to die. Even if they're friends or people he respects.
And people don't even have to die directly by his hand. Some pretty nasty social injustices just happen as a byproduct of bureaucracy. Or even just paranoia.
Iunno, bad guys creep me out the most when they do stuff because the feel it has to be done. It's not that they think it's the good or right thing to do, but if they don't do it something even worse will happen, or things will be unbalanced, or maybe he just really believes in anarchy -- however you want to do it.
Or you could take a page out of lovecraft and have him be a cultist for some ancient religion that most people stopped worshiping ages ago. <3 cultists. >>
