: Re: How do I make the downfall of a character moving without being cliche? So, the character is an anti hero, he loses all his morals, and becomes the very thing he fights against. How can

The plotline you're describing (good guy goes bad) is, in itself, cliche, BUT that doesn't make it intricately a bad thing.

The key to doing this well is to make it believable. To make the reader connect with the character, even as he's turning evil, because the circumstances allow for no other reasonable option. Anything short of that will most likely fail to convey the right amount of angst.

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