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How do you feel about villains who turn out to be antiheroes? Who are your favorites and who are your most hated?
How do you feel about villains who turn out to be antiheroes? Who are your favorites and who are your most hated?,A relatively common type of character in all sorts of fiction is the one who's willing to do terrible things — including opposing the protagonists — in order to stop a much greater evil. I'm talking about characters who are first introduced by doing some manner of awful, truly villainous thing, making the heroes immediately oppose them -- and the audience, or the player, root for their inevitable demise -- only to find out later what that character's real motivation for those crimes were.

How do you feel about villains who turn out to be antiheroes? Who are your favorites and who are your most hated?

A relatively common type of character in all sorts of fiction is the one who’s willing to do terrible things — including opposing the protagonists — in order to stop a much greater evil. I’m talking about characters who are first introduced by doing some manner of awful, truly villainous thing, making the heroes immediately oppose them — and the audience, or the player, root for their inevitable demise — only to find out later what that character’s real motivation for those crimes were.