![]() ![]() Bison far above the Street Fighter scriptīefore we can cover how to build a memorable villain in prose, we have to understand why they’re so much more common in visual stories. ![]() Why Film Has the Edge Raul Julia’s performance famously elevates M. This conundrum caused me no small amount of angst, but I’ve finally arrived at the conclusion that while film does have an edge in creating memorable villains, novels can do it too with the proper preparation. But if they’re all from a different medium, that might not be very helpful. When giving advice on villains, I want to use the best examples around. Since Mythcreants’ audience contains a lot more novelists than screenwriters, I’ve got a problem. Even in books I generally enjoy, like Curse of Chalion, Legendborn, Three Parts Dead, and most of Discworld, the best I can usually say for the villains is that they’re okay. In most cases, when I remember a book’s villain, it’s because of how memorably bad they were. Azula, Darth Vader, Killmonger, Kuvira, Gul Dukat, Admiral Cain, the list goes on! A few book-based exceptions come to mind, but not many. Every time I sit down to write an article about villains, the same odd fact occurs to me: Nearly every villain I can think of to use as a positive example comes from movies and TV rather than novels. ![]()
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