A True Villain is a antagonist who is the true villain of the film, comic book, television show, or book. It could a villain that was revealed to be the antagonist towards either the end or during the course of the film. A villain who was promoted or believed to be a hero, but eventfully was revealed as evil.
A great villain should be a strong and worthy adversary to your hero. They shouldn't be weak and easily beaten, nor should they be so powerful that they can only be defeated by random chance. In Sherlock Holmes, his arch-nemesis Moriarty is a criminal mastermind who is every bit as smart as Sherlock.
a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel. a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.
The Pure Evil villain is a type of villain that is considered to be one of, if not the most evil character(s) in the story with no redeeming qualities. A villain who is Pure Evil is completely evil.
1. Count Dracula, the Dracula films (1931–present) Dracula is the most influential horror villain of all time. The Count stalks like a slasher, murders in droves like a serial killer, and is the inspiration for every single vampire movie made after 1931.
As in the comics, Loki has generally been a villain in the MCU, variously attempting to conquer Asgard or Earth, and having allied himself with more powerful villains to achieve his aims.
A character that another hero mistakenly believes is trying to kill them but then it turns out that they're actually on their side and, more often than not, trying to protect them from a real antagonist.
An "antagonist" doesn't have to be a bad guy. He could be a very good guy. All he has to do is to stand in the way of your hero, sometime for the noblest of motives.
Crucially, Kjeldgaard-Christiansen argues that a wicked laugh offers one of the clearest signs that a villain harbors such evil, gaining what Arthur Schopenhauer called “open and candid enjoyment” from others' suffering–moreover, fiction writers know this intuitively, time and again using the malevolent cackle to ...
The Joker has one of the largest numbers of different incarnations of a character who simultaneously counts as Pure Evil, rivaling multiple villains such as Satan, Sauron, Green Goblin, Red Skull, Ultron, Ghidorah, Carnage, Nyarlathotep, William Afton, Darkseid, Brainiac, Shredder, Megatron, Hugo Strange and Count ...
The Soulless Villain is an Exobyte enhanced New Villain who has lost his soul thanks to Felix Faust's magic. Once an ordinary citizen until Future Lex Luthor unleashed a wave of Exobytes upon the Earth, he now walks as a member of the Forces of the Undead.
