- Have you ever caught a good guy, like, uh, like a real superhero? - Nah. - Have you ever tried a disguise? - Nah, nah... - Alright! I can see that I will have to teach you how to be villains!
"Whoever takes the napkin first forces the rest to follow whoever took the first napkin, that is society." - Funny Valentine Greatest fat president of all time.
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Every time you do one of these, I really do take away certain things that I can apply to my own bodies of work. I'm so grateful for you, Sir! Also, that is the greatest Joker that's ever been chibi'd!
The reason why the Joker works so well as a villain is because he's what's known as a "Force of Nature." He's not really meant to be a human, but more a human representation of something. He is Chaos incarnate. I can't think of too many other FoN villains off the top of my head, but you can base them off of pretty much anything negative. Destruction, hatred, order. The reason it works is because it's set up so the protagonist isn't fighting a human, they're fighting the force itself.
The only other FoN that I can think about is the villain of Danganronpa, which is kinda Chaos as well (or despair if you wanna get technical), and I see a lot of people really liking them, just like the joker, but there's still a lot of people just saying they are just "evil for being evil" which kinda bothers me thou.
Tyranids from Warhammer 40k. To quote a character from the series: "As I looked into its dead black eyes, I saw the terrible sentience it had in place of a soul. Behind that was the steel will of its leader. Further still, I could feel its primogenitor coldly assessing me from the void. And looking back from the deepest recesses of the alien’s mind, I perceived what I can describe only as an immortal hunger. We can slay the Tyranids on our worlds, blast their fleets from space, grind their armies to torn and ruined fragments. But their hunger? That is beyond our ability to slay."
I find Miyazaki's anime, Kiki's Delivery Service, is a great example of a story without a villain. It's a girl's struggle with herself as she grows up and is one of my favourite movies.
Mark I seriously think you read my mind 😂 I was just wondering how to improve the villain of a story I’m working on... the timing of this video is eerily on point!
In HunterXHunter(2011), the author did a good job with the "2 sides of the same coin" story. It's a little different than usual. If you haven't watched it yet I definitely recommend it.
Joker isn't evil for evil sake. He's evil because he believes that a comic needs a great villain for the hero. And when he thinks that batman died he went back to being a normal person but when he realized that batman lives, he went back to being joker. So essentially, his motivation Is to please the audience
You're sort of speaking of what's called "hypersanity" when sometimes Joker is aware of being a comic book character, but that wasn't always the case, actually it's not even the case anymore in recent comics, so it can only be called "a phase", at least till the status quo changes again. Joker has many faces and it's tricky to try to go for a general explanation (actually he's quite the anomaly in the villain department too because he can appear as evil for evil's sake as intriguing and clear cut at the same time depending of who writes him and yet he is one of the most iconic villains ever), so I'm going to stick to the most recent comic iteration. Joker's motivations come from his own psychological needs. He is a man with a strong antisocial personality disorder, particularly sociopathy and a tendency towards hyperness (also known as mania). That is combined with a strong sense of denial of everything that hurts him (his denial was also always present in older iterations of Joker, but it was more subtle: he used to hit, get rid off or run from everything that made him uncomfortable). It's also important to mention from 2011 and forward (but not exclusively), Joker expresses a sort of territoriality on Batman: kidnapping his Bat-family and torturing them for the sole reason of existing and making *his* Batman weak and unable to give him proper attention (that's dedication right there!). He's also generally more emotional, torturing Harley for "cheating" on him with Deadshot and wanting to abandon him, which is something he cannot let happen seeing how she was the only person providing him acceptance and validation no matter what he did and how he acted. Later on, in an arc called Endgame, Joker also proves a desire for survival; the thrill is fun till it stays fun, but not with his life on the line, which is ironical because he does go sane (and amnesiac) at the end of that arc and finds himself being a nice, calm and polite gentleman, with maybe odd facial expression ticks, but feeling lost and without a purpose, he attempts suicide. So in the end it resumed with Batman being Joker's purpose for living. He finds himself in a world that's broken and that will never see it the way he does and that he'll never be able to be part of anymore, so focusing on Batman and helping him reach his full potential is the "healthiest" way he can imagine of going on with his life. And that's pretty much it, at least till DC Rebirth decides they want to go recreate Joker again, now that they teased the existence of 3 Jokers. xD Sorry for the essay. lol I really love Joker. XD
Actually, to say that mother nature itself is the "bad guy" in a survival-type story is not that much of a stretch as in that case, nature indeed is the antagonist that the main character must overcome and the stakes must be really high if we want the reader to be engaged in the story. Cast Away and The Mountain Between Us are two fine examples of that kind of story.
Your new Chibi Drawing book looks amazing. And, what a frightening Joker Chibi! I didn’t think a scary-looking Chibi was possible but, you proved me wrong.
Aku is the only villain i know who is "evil just to be evil" and it works. He is SUPPOSED to be evil incarnate. (aku=evil in Japanese) The character is also entertaining which also helps.
I've been saying recently, and I think this goes along with point #7, is that no matter what kind of tone you're going for, the villain absolutely has to be a threat in the story. Even the more comical villains (Hades from Disney's Hercules, Dr. Evil from Austin Powers) can sure make you laugh, but in the end (at least with those two examples) you as an audience member still feel like they have the potential to end the world if the hero doesn't get involved. If you try to go too comedic with your villain (Lord Hater from Wander Over Yonder,) you run the risk of having no reason to include the villain other than an often one-note joke.
This really got me thinking about Sweeney Todd (specifically the Tim Burton movie), it really seems to blur the line between protagonist and antagonist. Sweeney Todd does 'bad guy' things but for a really understandable reason. Also, the 'villain' doesn't really seem as bad as Mrs Lovett who's character should be the person helping the protagonist. It makes for really conflicting feelings about who is really the 'bad guy'.
I really do enjoy seeing sympathetic villains in shows, but your villain can be simple and have it work. For example, Eggman from the sonic franchise. He is quite memorable, despite not being too fleshed out. I haven't played every sonic game so please let me know if I miss something.
“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - and quickly.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
I think a good example of conflicts seeming like mere skirmishes until the climax is "The Great Mouse Detective". Throughout most of the movie, Basil and Ratigan are trying to outwit each other more than anything. In the end it all comes down to a showdown on the hands of the Big Ben clock. Ratigan no longer wants to prove himself better than Basil, he wants to outright kill him; we see Basil taking many punches and scratches while seemingly powerless to fight back until he's eventually forced onto the tip of the hour hand, and even appears to fall to his death.
Jeralyn Cabaluna yeah I've always felt that every bad or evil decision has always been made with good intentions, either for themselves, the "good" of another person, even if it wasn't actually morally right
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What about heroes who have a background/role that put them in a difficult position to be seen as a good guy by characters within the story (Hellboy, for example)? Or the other way around where the main villain has hidden intentions that make them portrayed as heroes except for those who know of his true motives?
Hey, quick question. Any tips for writing a bad guy who isn't really "bad"? The antagonist of my story is a prince-type character who basically got depressed because his best friend got amnesia, and he is set to be annihilated because he ran away. I want him to make him sound like a terrible person until the very end, where you find out he really wasn't that bad, and the main character was honestly the "bad" guy, because she kills him. How should I make him sound evil, without making him actually evil?
Perspective is key. With this type of character there needs to be an honest emotion behind his actions that everyone can understand, which in this case is grief. So you basically have enough just don't go over the line with him.
In my experience you need to make their actions have drastic consequences but their motives were of good intent. When you think of the phrase "The path to hell is paved in good intentions", you realize that it's a normal human archetype to be a good guy that ends up doing the "wrong" thing. If he's a prince type character, one would assume he has a lot of power. Maybe he uses his power to get information illegally, or maybe he conspires with a felon and trades a pardon for an illegal act. "If you kill the person that gave my friend amnesia, I will grant you a pardon for your previous crimes". But that's all predicated on your story. A rule of thumb I have for making people who are "villainous" but also "virtuous" is that they always commit their acts out of deception. And that deception usually creates even greater conflict, giving him the aura of a villain that causes harm. For example. Let's say a character A plants a "weapon" somewhere, but it's not really a weapon, it's perceived as such (deception). Character B resolves to destroy the weapon by destroying the immediate vicinity. There are casualties because of this, meaning Character B has now destroyed the "weapon" but also other innocent lives. Character A reveals his "weapon" was actually a tool that could only be beneficial, but he couldn't reveal this because it was a stolen item from Character C. Character C knew it was an item of benefit but he did not want to share. Now you have a story where Character A is less vilified than Character B, even though Character A started it all by stealing. Character C now loses focus on Character A (the thief) and goes after Character B for killing so many, and he seems virtuous even though he was keeping the benefit from the people. So truthfully, in this plot, the good guys lose and the bad guy wins, and the perception of who was "good" or "evil" is twisted due to deception.
Another tip try having a story that’s surrounded around the bad guy like a bounty hunter antagonist is hunting after the protagonist or the protagonist is tasked to capture the antagonist
I was wondering: did you ever put a video about "Rising Tension" or how to make tension rise during a scene? It's something that I'd like to experiment with with my graphic novel and it's always so hard to me to point out the "dos" and "don'ts"... Even films that have tension, I have a hard time decrypting and studying such aspects... or could it be I'm just not made for tension?
I know this is an old comment, but I have a little advice I think can help. When I think of perfect rising tension, I always think of A Storm of Swords and here's what works incredibly well in that book. Put your character(s) in a situation that they think is normal, maybe even celebratory/happy but the reader can deduce something is wrong. Insert subtle details that indicate the situation isn't what it seems, things that the characters can believably disregard without seeming stupid. The reader will be waiting for the other shoe to drop the whole time. Then drop the detail that not even the characters/protagonists can waive off, let the panic/paranoia set in for the character that something is wrong then drop the hammer with whatever big event you want to occur in the story. The only problem with this approach is that it can take a lot of time/words to do properly. I'm not sure how to go about raising tension in a more brief format like graphic novels etc, but I don't read a lot of those. It must be possible though.
Have you ever considered making a comic/manga adapted from someone else's work, such as a regular book or a movie? If so, how would you go about doing that?
Really nice drawing the only thing is the Heath Ledger version of joker doesn't have that much green in his hair just streaks well I guess that depends on what part of the movie you are in lol but thanks for this helpful video
I think a very good example of the 6th one is Telltale Batmans John Doe, who will turn out to be the Joker. He's very supportive of Bruce and he is quite comical and weak. It's pretty interesting to watch how everyone treat John even though they can clearly see he will become Joker :P
I've always wanted to write something where the "bad guy" is the one we're following throughout the story, and everyone reading is rooting for him/her, and then at the end I have this big reveal where you find out that you have been rooting for the wrong side and that the main character is the "bad guy". I always thought that would be a really interesting ending. Might actually get around to writing that one day. XD
My antagonist is my main character who isnt really bad until his jealousy leads him to kill his best freind hence making him spiral into a state of insanity and go mad with his own power
To me, one of my favorite villains is Shin from Fist of the North Star. He is terribly evil, insanity powerful, and he couldn't see the good guys perspective at all, and saw nothing wrong with anything he was doing.
my english is bad but I'll try my best. I have this comic about psychiatric ward, where's common people with the common problems that they have in life. the hospital itself is bad and corrupted, so nothing really works there. no-one checks on the patients or anything, they can chill and do whatever they want, no-one cares unless they make a lot of noise. this also means that one of the patients is there because he is a trans guy, and his parents are snobby rich business people who pay for the hospital to "make her normal", as they call it. bullshit, but whatever. then there is a shy small guy who is schitzofrenic and sees and hears awful stuff, one girl who tried to kill herself by cutting her wrists on bath tub full of water, guy who went there by mistake because he used drugs and medics thought that he was on psychosis, and no-one believes that he is not insane. then there is this dude with schizoid personality disorded that sawed thru his hans with band saw after he killed animals and ripped his own ears away, just because he does not feel or care. just because. and lastly, there is a guy who is reaaally adhd and no-one really knows what's his problem, but he's been there for 16 years, since he was 8. then they put two new patients on the same ward, from way more dangerous ward, because one of them burn their room and hospital needs to fix it. well, the one behind the arson is this tiny but ripped dude who thinks like that there is conspiracy theories and eavesdropping devices etc on his rooms, and he is really violent and paranoid, and he destroys mirrors and furniture just to make himself weapons, because now he's on the ward that does not take care of everyday items "just in case that someone might use them to hurt people". the other patient is this smart charming psychopathic former medical student, who is reeeally into people's eyes, and if he sees eyes that he adores, he.. well.. digs them out of your head. that's why he uses blindfolds and belt cuffs. on the outside he is really sweet and likeable, talks with everyone and asks about their lives, but well, he is really manipulative, and can do whatever he wants with people, and uses the knowledge he gets from them. my story does not really have a "bad guy - bad guy", it's really slice of life, and there's just bad people and bad places. I'm trying to get first part of the comic out in a month, wish me luck! >~>' (it's in finnish and I maybe should translate it someday.)
Going into that last one, how not every story needs z bad guy, I think it's good if your badguy to the MC is a good guy to others. like 2 rival nation's fighting, but neither is cruel to their population.
12:33 what about making one bad guy comic (and mend in the end) and one bad guy serious (so serious he dies in his own planned human sacrifice to Tash)?
maleficent: •her back story is the reason for her being evil •her looks are creative and memorable •she is actually good •the king is the real bad guy now take those notes and boom bad guy
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So. If i study better artists, i cant think of new things. For example, if i see something original, and i sit down at my table, ready to draw something original, that other thing bugs me and "hijacks" my brain whenever i just have an idea in my mind.
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