: Re: Non-cheap ways to make villains evil? Do you have any tried and true techniques to make villains of your stories truly hated by the audience? I mean, frequently it's "eh, sure, that's bad,

@Debbie451

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A villain you want to take down is, at his/her core, someone who does not care about the suffering of others.

An evil wizard who wants to murder every witch or wizard who isn't a
"pureblood," regardless of how skilled or what the person has done.
A plutocrat who became rich by destroying businesses, and then dismisses people who don't pay income taxes as "refusing
to take responsibility for their lives."
A religious fanatic who thinks that everyone not of his faith
deserves to die, and that he is fulfilling God's will by killing "the
infidels."
A parent who thinks that his/her child is so tainted and corrupt by
being gay that the child should be shunned, disowned, and thrown out
of the house, never to return.
A bishop who moves a child-molesting priest to a new parish rather
than reporting the crime to the police, and then refuses the victim Communion when he speaks up.

You get the idea: someone without empathy. Someone who either does not see that other people (heroes, villains, NPCs) are also people with feelings, or simply does not care because the villain him/herself is convinced of his/her own absolute and utter superiority.

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