According to Madam Kovarian from Doctor Who, "Good men have too many rules." But the truth is, villains too have their own rules; they have their favorite ways to be evil.
1. Disguises (e.g., put on a disguise before you are known to be a villain so that later, people will go "No! He was right under our noses!")
2. Set up your rule in such a way that you even step over your own people. (This frustrates your enemies because then you are too unpredictable.)
3. Blow up a planet.
4. Devise some clever scheme so that it is very difficult for you to die.
5. Commit a crime that is incredibly obvious, then find a way to be declared innocent.
6. Pretend you've changed your ways until you've convinced everyone, then go back to being evil.
7. An extreme version of #1 - pretend you are the hero for most of the story, until a plot twist reveals that you are actually the bad guy.
8. Make people think you are defeated, then come back.
(I was going to put examples for each one, but too many contained spoilers, and I couldn't figure out how to code the html to hide spoilers until you click on them. If anyone knows how to do that, please let me know.)
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