Villain motives

I choose to add a regular god tier of villains with good motives but basically still kill people

"Villains should be hated" "Villains need good motives" "Villains can't be heroes" Everyone has a different opinion on antagonists. Alongside the protagonist, they make up one of the biggest driving forces of a story. It's up to you to decide how evil they are and what they represent. You choose whether they get redemption or whether they are forever despised. But how do you make a villain... well, villainous? Let's take a look at how I make my readers HATE a character – and how you can…

Need to motivate your villain? Here are 39 motivations that can be used in any genre story or novel. | Fiction Note by Darcy Pattison

"Villains should be hated" "Villains need good motives" "Villains can't be heroes" Everyone has a different opinion on antagonists. Alongside the protagonist, they make up one of the biggest driving forces of a story. It's up to you to decide how evil they are and what they represent. You choose whether they get redemption or whether they are forever despised. But how do you make a villain... well, villainous? Let's take a look at how I make my readers HATE a character – and how you can…

Having well developed motives for the villains in our writing gives them depth and makes for a stronger and more interesting story overall.

Villain motives on choosing sides (hero-love removed)

Villain!Raven is like that bc somebody threatened their siblings

Villains have motives. Villains are the hero of their own story. Villains think they’re the protagonist and think the hero is the antagonist. And for some reason, we still hate the villain. W…