Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24534644-20170124093450/@comment-24534644-20170127042951

As for my two cents on the matter, you don't make a villain by just tossing a bunch of villain "tropes" onto a blender. You make them the same way you make any character, with depth, personality, and motivation. The only difference is that they're an antagonistic force, and there needs to be a reason for that, just like there needs to be a reason for anyone to do the things they do. No one in any good story is just evil for the sake of being evil. As I said earlier, the only people who are consciously evil are Saturday Morning Cartoon villains, who are all written poorly by definition.