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I've done this before, a long time ago, but I enjoyed the responses that I saw. The idea is simple, as a writer in a community of writers I know that every good story of adventure, turmoil, and drama has one thing, a bad guy, there everywhere a character's rival, the person they're seeking revenge on, the person who is trying destroy the world you know thee characters. But we're not talking about the level bad guys, the nats like Lex Luthor, or the Wraith King, were talking the biggest of them all, the head honcho, or the worst nightmare, your Thanos, your Kronos, your Skynet. Who are they, what are their motives, tell us about them what makes them your characters worst-case scenario.

I plan to write a series called Meta in my lifetime, in it is my character John, a character with the ability to control the spirits of creatures who have died. His father works for a man named Tetch, a sadistic man (with goals that I actually haven't decided yet) and the ability to (I also haven't decided, I've only sort of produced him recently, but it's been difficult, cause I don't know what epic ultimate powers he should have so if anyone has ideas, I will kiss you.)

Or there is my character, Stes, The Ghost of The Dark Forest, a man trapped in the Master of Gal The Dark Forest, Ezbul The Desolate Tundra, Rama, The Treacherous Peaks, Manglo, The Seas of Sand, and Ja, The Metal Nightmare. He is an odd entity whose motives are to preserve his world's kill or be killed style, pulling humans from Earth to test their metal. His powers are not clear but seem to include, teleportation, near omniscience, immortality, life creation, world creation, and cross-dimensional manipulation.

My next example remarks on the fact that your big villain doesn't have to be an individual entity or person, but a group or race. My example is AB3, a psychotic battle android, that sees a need to go to war with humans. What he sees as his enemy is the existence of the human race, though as he has grown older, his belief he needed to exterminate all human life has changed to a need to surpass them.

So who is your villain? Who does your character fear most, please let us know, I can't wait. I'd also like to get a conversation on what makes a good villain, or a scary villain, or a relatable villain, and all that.

EDIT: I tentatively finished her!

Marth isnt done yet, but Ive been looking to make her a long time.

Shes the big baddie against my characters from Klurst.

She basically is the leader of a cult that doesnt think Beten is a real goddess. This is because she knows Beten was turned by Fae into what she was.

Beten is still a real goddess.

But heres the thing.

Marth still wants to basically Thanos snap Klurst and dispose of everyone on the island who beleives and worships her. So like 90% of the island goes poof.

Thing is, Marth thinks shes doing the right thing, that if this beleive of Beten grows to be too much all will be lost and the fey will escape their prison on the island and go kill people on the mainland.

Thing is. She couldn't be more wrong.

Beten is utterly peaceful.

The people of the island want nothing more then peace and prosperity.

And Marth is going to be ruining that all. She has the people, the supplise and the kind of power to cause a lot of damage.

So yeah...The children of Twilight cult (name pending). They are the big baddies.

Judas Iscariot Jones. My ultimate villain.

Truthfully, it depends on the type of evil;

If it’s a lawful evil, then Netharan would probably be the crownbearer. His is a tragic story, however, as he was driven from glory to despair.

In the chaotic region, I’d say Retribution. Though with a similar tale as above, his takes a more drastic turn in ways that don’t abide with any moral parameters.

Of all my characters I have here, Halasian has probably done the worst things.

Nathan Collier is pretty bad as well even if his heart is good.

The greatest classicly evil villain I've ever created has to be Deville. She was my main back when my life revolved around WoW. Though I had many other characters, heros and healers and sassy rogues and stubborn dwarves and everything in between, she was always he one people wanted to rp with and I eventually figured out why. In an MMO, everyone wants to be the hero, but what good is a hero if there aren't any villains to fight? I became everyone's villain. She must have died...three? Four times? Canon deaths that I then had to figure out a work around when people wanted her back again. Seriously. The Winchester boys would be proud.

Honestly though, I think the best villains aren't the clichely evil ones. I think they're the personal ones. The ones that strike at the hero's heart rather than threaten to destroy the world. It's why Umbridge scares people more than Voldamort does. I have a idea for a novel in my head and the villain of the over arching plot is really just people's inability to move on from the pain of the past but the face of that villain for the protaganist is her stepmother and they way she defeats her villain is by finally realizing that the battle against her has been futile all along and walking away.

A year on from my last post, I have brought my Middle Earth Haradian Khorghar here and will be developing his bio. He is an evil one, and his pillaging and plundering of Rohan during the war of the ring has him still on a most wanted list in that kingdom. So yeah, he is the baddest...