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    What do you think makes a good villain?

    Literally all of the Top 10 highest grossing movies of all time are over 2 hours, excluding The Lion King, a kids movie. Many of them are substantially over two hours. Kids movies tend to not be long for obvious reasons (kids have shorter attention spans, and almost no kid or parent wants to...
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    What do you think makes a good villain?

    I think Lung from Worm is a great example. He's considered a terrifying villain who's very much feared. In his first fight with Skitter she's bailed out by the Undersiders; the second time by Newter. He loses hard, but he still works well as a villain, and plays up the theme of brute...
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    What do you think makes a good villain?

    Eh... From a moral perspective, Vader is a villain, but he's not much of a villain from a writing perspective, just an antagonist. Indeed, Orson Scott Card once said that in his opinion, Vader is the protagonist of the original Star Wars trilogy - Luke is just the hero and viewpoint character.
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    What do you think makes a good villain?

    Even then, if the only person I care about is the villain, that usually means they've made a bad villain, because they've failed to convince me that the villain is evil or doing bad things that should be stopped. And if there's nothing the villain is doing that is bad and needs to be stopped...
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