In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.
I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.
I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.
Sometimes you hate villains, but you love that you hate them, and it finds this happy medium where you enjoy the process of loathing them so much that you want them to be there. It's such a weird, twisted thing that our minds do.
To me, the more interesting villains are the ones you can, in some sense, relate to or sympathize with at times. Maybe you sympathize with them one moment; the next moment, they do something truly atrocious, and you feel bad you ever sympathized with them in the first place.
I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.
I think, to me, I was always taught you never approach any character as a villain. Every human being on earth really believes that they're doing the best thing. We all have our rationalizations.
Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.