Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25266931-20161112032800/@comment-26018514-20161115184454

KNN005 wrote:

Would you read that story? Where the hero runs off scared saving himself and we all die and evil wins and kills him too (because he'll be all alone once the villain finally arrives after killing humanity). 1. I'm pretty sure I have... and it was a good story

2.  Alternatively I've read the second method, and it is almost always utter crap that eventually fails because:

A. You don't connect to the MC, so you end up wishing ANY other character could jump ship and take the reins(assuming you are invested in the world at all).

B. The villains look utterly incompetent... seriously I've seen stories where villain A and villain B should have crossed paths before and 1 should have killed or neutralized the other because of how weak but situationally detrimental he is to the others plans, yet both get killed by the hero they both should have and could have ignored, who easily kills them.

and/or

C. The hero either ends up with no real drive to do anything, or kills all challengers.