The villain in your story.
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He's not cool. He represents an extreme perspective, but not one without a persuasive argument to make. He just acts out on it violently.
Which book lol =P.
In my one book, MIND CORPS, he is unaware of the powers he possesses which makes him even more dangerous than if he did know them. He's not inherently a bad person, just on the wrong side of the law, and he knows that they won't want to be his friend so why even bother. He gets worse as the series goes on, until he finally becomes aware of his powers.
In my other MS, called The Observers, there is not just one "villain" but a group of them called The Fallen (They call themselves "The Followers of Rahn"). They are a segment of an alien race which helped make humanity but splintered off over a disagreement with the rest of their race over interacting with humanity. In the novel they want to kill of humanity so that they can get earth for themeslves as they feel humanity is not worthy of the planet.
I have others but I won't waste your time. lol
In my one book, MIND CORPS, he is unaware of the powers he possesses which makes him even more dangerous than if he did know them. He's not inherently a bad person, just on the wrong side of the law, and he knows that they won't want to be his friend so why even bother. He gets worse as the series goes on, until he finally becomes aware of his powers.
In my other MS, called The Observers, there is not just one "villain" but a group of them called The Fallen (They call themselves "The Followers of Rahn"). They are a segment of an alien race which helped make humanity but splintered off over a disagreement with the rest of their race over interacting with humanity. In the novel they want to kill of humanity so that they can get earth for themeslves as they feel humanity is not worthy of the planet.
I have others but I won't waste your time. lol
I'm not huge on villains. A lot of my books don't have them, or at least the conflict is so complex that it's impossible to speak in terms of 'heroes' and 'villains'.
One of my WIPs with identifiable villains has a group of political extremists using a very unique form of magical terrorism. The twist is that the MC agrees with the villains. They share the same political ideology. However, the MC disagrees that it's worth killing people over. The point is that the ends don't justify the means.
One of my WIPs with identifiable villains has a group of political extremists using a very unique form of magical terrorism. The twist is that the MC agrees with the villains. They share the same political ideology. However, the MC disagrees that it's worth killing people over. The point is that the ends don't justify the means.
Hmmm...to give too much detail would spoil the plot! 
In one of my novels, he is a demon and he is cool because he doesn't reveal himself until near the end, after having carefully manipulated a good character into the role of villain for most of the work.
In other, the villain is two fold. The physical one is already in jail and awaiting trial, and he is not cool at all except for being completely insane. The non-physical one is fear, which is cool by shear power.
In one of my novels, he is a demon and he is cool because he doesn't reveal himself until near the end, after having carefully manipulated a good character into the role of villain for most of the work. In other, the villain is two fold. The physical one is already in jail and awaiting trial, and he is not cool at all except for being completely insane. The non-physical one is fear, which is cool by shear power.
This is probably going to sound cheesy but the villain in my story is me. Yup, I'm the antagonist to my protagonists
Well, he's not immortal, and he doesn't rule the world... but he used to. And now he wants to again, and he's enlisted our friendly neighborhood MC to help him do it.
But in his free time he passes for a loony old man whose hobbies include exotic artifacts and something similar to demonology.
But in his free time he passes for a loony old man whose hobbies include exotic artifacts and something similar to demonology.
Uhhhhh....
My Villain is Jesus, or rather a Jesus clone. He basically likes to sit back after everythign is planted and watch his plans go. He hates it when his predictions are not true, and he calculates the entire plot of the first book just to get all the energy from God into him. He's polite and usually has other people doing his dirty work for him.
Good reason for that, he can't sin. So he can't kill anyone directly but he can inadvertantly kill someone (like having a building cave in and the rubble buries someone), that is until he gets the Judgment imprint excised from him.
Yeah, Cade Vanity is a dick.
In Genocide's history, it's revealed the historic Christ was in fact the man history portrayed until a few days before he was executed...then he got increasingly stranger. That was my way of saying the man in history was pretty cool, but the religious side of it was when things went nuts.
My Villain is Jesus, or rather a Jesus clone. He basically likes to sit back after everythign is planted and watch his plans go. He hates it when his predictions are not true, and he calculates the entire plot of the first book just to get all the energy from God into him. He's polite and usually has other people doing his dirty work for him.
Good reason for that, he can't sin. So he can't kill anyone directly but he can inadvertantly kill someone (like having a building cave in and the rubble buries someone), that is until he gets the Judgment imprint excised from him.
Yeah, Cade Vanity is a dick.
In Genocide's history, it's revealed the historic Christ was in fact the man history portrayed until a few days before he was executed...then he got increasingly stranger. That was my way of saying the man in history was pretty cool, but the religious side of it was when things went nuts.
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My 'villain' is just like everyone else in the story --with needs, wants and expectations that drive him (based how he was raised, what he values, etc). What makes him a villain, so to speak, is that his motivations and morals are at cross-purposes with the MCs.
In the end, they may not like what he does or why he does it but hopefully the reader understands and is sympathetic. He's not just evil for evil sake, yanno?
In the end, they may not like what he does or why he does it but hopefully the reader understands and is sympathetic. He's not just evil for evil sake, yanno?
The antagonist.
To explain without going too deep.
Picture if you will, a set of parents. A mother and a father, raising their girl in an average neighborhood. Except, they are not her parents. They kidnapped her right after she was born. Raising her, carefully programming her through psychological manipulation during the formative years, to be a mother. To give birth to an indestructible army for the purpose of taking over the world.
I won't say if they succeed or not but that's the basic idea.
To explain without going too deep.
Picture if you will, a set of parents. A mother and a father, raising their girl in an average neighborhood. Except, they are not her parents. They kidnapped her right after she was born. Raising her, carefully programming her through psychological manipulation during the formative years, to be a mother. To give birth to an indestructible army for the purpose of taking over the world.
I won't say if they succeed or not but that's the basic idea.
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The ghost of a neanderthal sorcerer, still trapped, thousands of years after his death, in an amulet he created. And a few Cro-magnons who were corrupted by it. Just your typical evil magical object shtick, but it's cool because it isn't obvious what the problem is until way far in. And the MC gets some unusual help. In the sequel, there's bloodthirsty invaders, but they don't have to do much. Most of it involves social and psychological problems. I likes me a little variety.
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Robert Downey Jr. has to play the villian in Capon Frank, and hence coolness. In my YA novel, I want Donald Sutherland to play one of the many bad guuys, and therefore more coolness.
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In my current wip, my villian is Daniel Stryker (not sure about the name) he is a soul stealing demon. By the end of the book however he goes from less of a nasty antagonist. He ends up finding the forgiveness he seaks and has a change of heart about his bad guy demon ways and "does the right thing" in the end.
My real antagonist of my series doesn't even show up until the second book, but still manages to be accounted for most, if not all, of the complications in the first.
The character set up to look like the main antagonist is actually a neurotic mouthpiece--and another "villain", introduced early in the book as something of an abettor to the real villain of the story, and appearing near the end of the first book, is made out to be a more apt adversary; but this perception is radically changed about halfway through the series when his involvement with the MC's parents is revealed.
He turns out to be one of the most interesting, redeemable, multi-faceted characters in the entire series. I would even go so far as to say I prefer him to my MC.
But I made an effort to make the Big Bad different from most of my other villains. He's not described as exceptionally handsome or charming (though I'm not saying he can't be percieved that way).
He's untaunting, and almost has a very wise, mentor-ish feel to him. He never loses his temper, and thinks everything through. I'm not really sure what to make of him, or what it is about him that makes me uneasy--but he manages.
The villain in my short is a giant-voodoo-walking-stick-bug-thing with highbeams for eyes and violin bows for legs that lives in a spider hole-thing.
And he eats people.
There's also Thom, but no matter how much he pretends not to care, he still does.
The character set up to look like the main antagonist is actually a neurotic mouthpiece--and another "villain", introduced early in the book as something of an abettor to the real villain of the story, and appearing near the end of the first book, is made out to be a more apt adversary; but this perception is radically changed about halfway through the series when his involvement with the MC's parents is revealed.
He turns out to be one of the most interesting, redeemable, multi-faceted characters in the entire series. I would even go so far as to say I prefer him to my MC.
But I made an effort to make the Big Bad different from most of my other villains. He's not described as exceptionally handsome or charming (though I'm not saying he can't be percieved that way).
He's untaunting, and almost has a very wise, mentor-ish feel to him. He never loses his temper, and thinks everything through. I'm not really sure what to make of him, or what it is about him that makes me uneasy--but he manages.
The villain in my short is a giant-voodoo-walking-stick-bug-thing with highbeams for eyes and violin bows for legs that lives in a spider hole-thing.
And he eats people.
There's also Thom, but no matter how much he pretends not to care, he still does.
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A psychotic vampire who can't stop killing because she's psychic and never learned to control her powers and now it's making her crazy.
In last book, it was an artificial intelligece bent on wiping out life throughout the Universe.
In previous 2 books, part of a series, the "villain" has been a bracelet and a book respectively, though they're not inherently evil - they just have an unfortunate tendency to threaten the destruction of the world. They're not cool. Well, okay, the book is kind of cool. In the one with the bracelet, I lead the readers to believe that the guy wearing the bracelet is the villain. He's cool because he can't focus on anything whenever something shiny is nearby.
In last book, it was an artificial intelligece bent on wiping out life throughout the Universe.
In previous 2 books, part of a series, the "villain" has been a bracelet and a book respectively, though they're not inherently evil - they just have an unfortunate tendency to threaten the destruction of the world. They're not cool. Well, okay, the book is kind of cool. In the one with the bracelet, I lead the readers to believe that the guy wearing the bracelet is the villain. He's cool because he can't focus on anything whenever something shiny is nearby.
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He almost tops 8 feet and is thousands of years old. I think the age speaks for itself^_~.
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I don't have any villains in my books Well, in my first I've got Bob. In my second I've got Sarah. In my third I've got Terence. But none of them are particularly bad - they just want different things than the MC and isn't too shy about getting in my MCs ways.
Well, in my first I've got Bob. In my second I've got Sarah. In my third I've got Terence. But none of them are particularly bad - they just want different things than the MC and isn't too shy about getting in my MCs ways.
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I've always liked to think of my villains like dobermans - standing right at my side on alert and ready to take someone down whenever I give the word (and before anyone gets remotely offended by my use of dobermans, I used to own some).
Here's a handful of them.
#2, #4 - My black dragon. I friggin' love him. He's a complete bastard, thinks killing is fun (and often funny), likes to possess people, and interested in godpower so he can rule forever. He is the epitome of my mug.
#1H - A species interested in domination and extermination. They think they're better than everything else, ergo everything else should obey them or die.
#1I - The brother of the good guy. Everyone thought the good guy killed him. He is certifiably insane (no one is quite sure why, at best they suppose he was corrupted by dark magic) and wants to turn the entire land into one big magic science experiment. It doesn't help that he's been stuck in his own curse for five years.
#1J - Werewolf who likes being a werewolf and thinks all wolves ought to be werewolves and humans should die (not your typical werewolf story, obviously). She's also dabbled in magic which was a bad choice as it's made her a bit on the loopy side.
Here's a handful of them.
#2, #4 - My black dragon. I friggin' love him. He's a complete bastard, thinks killing is fun (and often funny), likes to possess people, and interested in godpower so he can rule forever. He is the epitome of my mug.
#1H - A species interested in domination and extermination. They think they're better than everything else, ergo everything else should obey them or die.
#1I - The brother of the good guy. Everyone thought the good guy killed him. He is certifiably insane (no one is quite sure why, at best they suppose he was corrupted by dark magic) and wants to turn the entire land into one big magic science experiment. It doesn't help that he's been stuck in his own curse for five years.
#1J - Werewolf who likes being a werewolf and thinks all wolves ought to be werewolves and humans should die (not your typical werewolf story, obviously). She's also dabbled in magic which was a bad choice as it's made her a bit on the loopy side.
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