So, evil exists in so many forms right, but your classic villain has two archetypes, the one who is truly evil but people only see a harmless, lovable larrikin.. and then there's the second one, the one who doesn't even realise he is the bad guy.
This second dubiously nefarious character is becoming an obsession with me, how can he be so blind as to not see that he is the bad guy, everybody knows it, he is the bad guy, the moustache twirling, railroad track tying, cape wrapping, thin legged, creepy cartoon villain.
If you are a bad guy, surly you would know it... right, at some point you would be all like; "Hey, people think I'm evil", but this guy never gets it, he actually thinks he is doing the right things, he goes about making decisions he thinks will help, he may even ask for help with things but when he doesn't get it, rather than stop, he makes a judgement call and it always, always turns out bad, surely he knew it would, why did he pick that path, shouldn't he have gone against his every instinct at that point. He must have some redeeming quality that can set him straight, he obviously wants to be one of the heroes of the story.
So the question is this, you... hopefully having watched a lot of film and/ or television, can you describe how this unknowing bad guy can be made to see that the way he is, is all wrong, and what can he do to become one of the good guys, you know, the guys everybody likes, the ones with the white horse, the ones children dress up as, the ones who have friends and are waved to in the street.
This second dubiously nefarious character is becoming an obsession with me, how can he be so blind as to not see that he is the bad guy, everybody knows it, he is the bad guy, the moustache twirling, railroad track tying, cape wrapping, thin legged, creepy cartoon villain.
If you are a bad guy, surly you would know it... right, at some point you would be all like; "Hey, people think I'm evil", but this guy never gets it, he actually thinks he is doing the right things, he goes about making decisions he thinks will help, he may even ask for help with things but when he doesn't get it, rather than stop, he makes a judgement call and it always, always turns out bad, surely he knew it would, why did he pick that path, shouldn't he have gone against his every instinct at that point. He must have some redeeming quality that can set him straight, he obviously wants to be one of the heroes of the story.
So the question is this, you... hopefully having watched a lot of film and/ or television, can you describe how this unknowing bad guy can be made to see that the way he is, is all wrong, and what can he do to become one of the good guys, you know, the guys everybody likes, the ones with the white horse, the ones children dress up as, the ones who have friends and are waved to in the street.