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Reasons For Being a Bad Guy or Antagonist
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You pissed me off.
Damn the consequences.
*makes the Empiyah Stahte Beewlding into a gigantic F-A-B (fuel-air-bomb)*
*blows the shit out of neu yahk*
CHRIST, NSA! STOP BLOODY PINGING ME! IT'S JUST A JOKE!
Damn the consequences.
*makes the Empiyah Stahte Beewlding into a gigantic F-A-B (fuel-air-bomb)*
*blows the shit out of neu yahk*
CHRIST, NSA! STOP BLOODY PINGING ME! IT'S JUST A JOKE!
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FinalBoss
#levelupyourgrind
IDK, maybe one interesting reason is that they have some sort of mental illness (Like the antagonist of Battle Royal). One could also be evil for religious reasons (Pit one religion against another religion, or religion vs non religion). I think one of the most interesting reason is that it is later found out that he/she is possessed/brainwashed/manipulated by an outside force.
However, someone who already posted reminded me of a quote that is kinda true. "Justice belongs to the winners who write the history books".
However, someone who already posted reminded me of a quote that is kinda true. "Justice belongs to the winners who write the history books".
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Going sort of off topic of "what I think makes a good villain" but I find it interesting
Sometimes the antagonist is not actually the bad guy. The antagonist could simply be a good person who is getting in the way of the protagonists goals.
Say for instance, a dad has two kids. The daughter is in ballet and the son wants to join her in ballet because he was amazed by the dancing at his sisters recitals. His sister likes the idea of him joining the team so they can spend more time together and have fun doing what they love. While the dad fully supports his daughter in ballet, he is not okay with his son going on stage to preform "such girly dancing" and tries to convince his son to join band instead.
It's not like the father hates his son. The dad will turn out to be a very loving and supporting character for both of the siblings. It's just the fact that he is getting in the way of his son's dreams to dance on stage with his sister that would make him an antagonist in this story. He's not a bad guy, just an obstacle.
Hell, the antagonist could be a freaking wall if you really wanted it to be. Monkey wants banana. Big wall with troll face in way. Boom! Wall is the antagonist, even though the wall has a personality of a load of bricks and mortar. Not a very good character, more like an obstacle, but if that wall doesn't want the monkey to get the banana, then he is the antagonist.
But anyway, I think the best villains and antagonists are the ones you can actually root for. The ones where you'd actually like to see them defeat the hero of the story so that they win. They have to have a good motive, and not just being evil for the sake of evilness.
Sometimes the antagonist is not actually the bad guy. The antagonist could simply be a good person who is getting in the way of the protagonists goals.
Say for instance, a dad has two kids. The daughter is in ballet and the son wants to join her in ballet because he was amazed by the dancing at his sisters recitals. His sister likes the idea of him joining the team so they can spend more time together and have fun doing what they love. While the dad fully supports his daughter in ballet, he is not okay with his son going on stage to preform "such girly dancing" and tries to convince his son to join band instead.
It's not like the father hates his son. The dad will turn out to be a very loving and supporting character for both of the siblings. It's just the fact that he is getting in the way of his son's dreams to dance on stage with his sister that would make him an antagonist in this story. He's not a bad guy, just an obstacle.
Hell, the antagonist could be a freaking wall if you really wanted it to be. Monkey wants banana. Big wall with troll face in way. Boom! Wall is the antagonist, even though the wall has a personality of a load of bricks and mortar. Not a very good character, more like an obstacle, but if that wall doesn't want the monkey to get the banana, then he is the antagonist.
But anyway, I think the best villains and antagonists are the ones you can actually root for. The ones where you'd actually like to see them defeat the hero of the story so that they win. They have to have a good motive, and not just being evil for the sake of evilness.
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If talking about reasons to be a bad guy, probably because with the power to change things one would want to because reasons relating to the current conditions of things, and it may be bad because a lot of people want stability. So as noticed with good guys, they want to keep the peace of people even if nothing happens for hundreds of years. Bad guys while most are senseless and just crave chaos and mayhem, some villains are people who may or not try to force a change because they find the ways things are unfit. Since as said before being an antagonist or villain is not necessarily being evil or wrong, one can be a villain and antagonist by being a "good guy" even. Like for example Kira from Death Note was a villain but he was the protagonist, L was the hero even if he was the antagonist. So it all depends on morals, beliefs, and such. In a world without morals and the like, there would be little to no distinction except are they going to kill me, and if they are, should I really think it wrong. That is my opinion on why a bad guy is not a villain, and heroes are not necessarily good.
