Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-16047389-20131219193422/@comment-218.186.253.234-20131220060244

What I'd say would be a good Villsin is not someone who is a 100% evil bad guy who wants to completely destroy everything and burn the world to the ground. It seems ridiculous, unrealsitic and cliched.

Think about it, all the "evil" people that walked our world, they had so called "noble goals", except that their beliefs and ideals have been warped completely out of bounds and they are willing to resort to immoral ways to commit actions that can fulfill their goal.

This is what a good Villain really is, a sort of semi insane antihero bent on creating a perfect state of being or existance. He/She must have a good reason to do what he/she does, but what seperates a good Villain from an antihero is that an antihero still has limited morals. In this way, you can't just bill the villain as a 100% bad guy who must be destroyed, in fact you could even sympathise with him/her

Lets say, If Alduin came to end the world, and it is indeed time, he is indeed doing his job, and he wasn't a vain, cliched big bad plus the dragonborn is actually screwing up time because of that, it makes him a better antagonist and bad guy, especially if he was potrayed as a good guy is a sort of way, because both sides are fighting for the right thing, just from different perspectives.

I personally like those stories that have no black and white areas, the protagonist is no good guy and the antagonist isn't completely evil. In fact, there is not so much difference between the protagonist and antagonist, just the side they are fighting on.