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Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Wednesday, May 12 2004 04:36 Profile Homepage #25 Hell, most FF villains are exact opposites of what you should do; their motivations are power, insanity, insane lust for power, and so on. I'd say that the biggest thing to avoid in making a villain is a lust for power. Unless you can do something unique with his/her methods or give him/her a hell of a backstory, it's pretty much fruitless. Purpose is an important thing, and ruling/destroying the world is a piss-poor and unrealistic purpose. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Vent Warrior Member # 4186	written Saturday, May 15 2004 15:43 Profile #26 Never said never, and look in the future for the long series of movies with a big evil like what you advise to avoid and that will anyway have a bug success. That said, be original is much better if not a necessity but, I'm sure it's still possible even with a classical big evil. I agree that we need fairy tales, at least some. Posts: 175 \| Registered: Friday, April 2 2004 08:00

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Custer

Bob's Big Date

Member # 3151

written Wednesday, May 12 2004 04:36 Profile Homepage #25

Hell, most FF villains are exact opposites of what you should do; their motivations are power, insanity, insane lust for power, and so on.
I'd say that the biggest thing to avoid in making a villain is a lust for power. Unless you can do something unique with his/her methods or give him/her a hell of a backstory, it's pretty much fruitless.

Purpose is an important thing, and ruling/destroying the world is a piss-poor and unrealistic purpose.

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The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest.

Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00

Vent

Warrior

Member # 4186

written Saturday, May 15 2004 15:43 Profile #26

Never said never, and look in the future for the long series of movies with a big evil like what you advise to avoid and that will anyway have a bug success.

That said, be original is much better if not a necessity but, I'm sure it's still possible even with a classical big evil.

I agree that we need fairy tales, at least some.

Posts: 175 | Registered: Friday, April 2 2004 08:00