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feyre-darling92 · 2 years

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amandaklwrites · 3 years

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Top Ten Favorite Fictional Villains

Another Top Ten! And one of my favorites—my favorite fictional villains! I love villains way too much, and I always look for an interesting one. Villains that are more than just revenge or greed, ones that take another step forward, and I can understand them. So, here you go, with my favorite villains: I hope you enjoy.

1. The Darkling (Grisha Universe)

He was my first experience with loving a villain. In the sense that I wanted to know more about him. I was just out of high school with this series, and from this villain, I learned that you could make your villain so complicated that sometimes they seemed more gray than utter darkness (though I personally don’t think evil = darkness). He inspired my own tastes in villains and how I write villains, and that is why he has a special, dark place in my heart.

2. Maven Calore (Red Queen series)

MAVEN. Talk about an utter complicated, messed up person. You feel sorry for him all throughout the series. At least, I can personally understand how he became a villain, how twisted he became because of complicated, outside sources. But he still made decisions that weren’t right. I think he’s one of my favorites because of the deep, deep layers and scarring attached to him.

3. Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Loki was the first time I fell head over heels for a villain (I still don’t know if that’s a good thing?). He’s snarky as hell, magical, devious, hot as hell, and he’s intelligent. I like villains that are ten steps ahead of everyone (actually, that’s how my brain works, and I share personality types with him, so there’s that…). He’s interesting, complicated, but also flat out mischievous, and he does have a caring heart. I can’t wait to see his new tv series, just to see what they do with the “old Loki.”

4. Rumpelstiltskin (Once Upon a Time series)

I think everyone has a soft place for Rumple. He’s my top villain of the tv series, because he just IS. I know there’s some reasons for his choices, but he ultimately didn’t mean to become the Dark One, not in the way he expected. Yes, he wanted power, he wanted everyone to see him. But once he gets that power, there’s no reason behind it. He just likes to know everything, be ahead of everyone, to be hanging out in the background while the whole world sets itself on fire (yeah, that’s me too). He’s manipulative and cruel, but man, there’s a man beneath the beast, isn’t there?

5. Barbossa (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise)

Who doesn’t love Barbossa? He’s a fantastic pirate villain, one that turns into a frenemy (that’s what I would call him anyway). He completely flips by the fifth movie, but I loved that he was who he was, and he didn’t give a damn what anyone thought. Plus, he’s smart. He had to have some interesting background, because he’s intelligent, he speaks well, and that grammar isn’t one for a pirate. I want to know his past as much as his present, and I love seeing him on screen.

6. Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes fandom)

All Moriarty’s. I love the rich viciousness of this character. The one who likes to play games and watch everything unfold. Honestly, he rarely has his own hands dirty, he’s just the puppetmaster. (Okay, why do I like the villains that are always ahead of everyone else—oh that’s right, because I think of ten different things to say before someone responds, so I know where to turn, what to plan). There is a demented thing to him, and he seems so normal to everyone else around him. And he loves finding someone as smart as he. I’m all for it.

7. Zelena (Once Upon a Time series)

Yes, another ONCE villain. There are so many, but I loved Zelena. I love her transformation, that even though she becomes a “hero,” there are still qualities of her that are just her, even if they could be considered villainous. She’s human, with some magic, and that’s the bottom line. She’s the villain that I connect with, and I love her damn wit and sarcasm.

8. The Headless Horseman (Sleepy Hollow)

He’s scary, that’s the bottom line. And there’s something so mystical and awe-inspiring about him. I love seeing artwork, statues, people dressed as him. My personal favorite is the version from the tv series Sleepy Hollow, because that damn shot of him whipping out an automatic weapon blew my flipping mind.

9. The Devil/Luc (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)

I don’t know if you call him the Devil, as he himself doesn’t, but he technically is, or at least, what we consider the Devil. I like the lusciousness of him, the way he likes to show his smile as he makes your life crumble. He has humanistic qualities, that brings him down from that dais he created, but I like that he fights with himself over it. That he sneers, he stays quiet, he listens and watches, he punishes and delights. He’s just so fascinating and cool.

10. Pitch Black (Rise of the Guardians)

Up front, he would seem simple, which goes against what I said about how I like my villains complicated. He’s evil, he’s darkness, he’s nightmares. He’s the living embodiment of fear. Seems simple right? But I love him because he’s not. He may be terror incarnate, but he has the same desires as the heroes: to be believed in. Though his is for all the wrong reasons, you actually pity him at times. It’s not even necessarily about jealous, he just wants to be believed in. And I like that he’s used as a mirror to Jack Frost—a path Jack could have taken. It’s so interesting and I dig it so much.

Runner Up: Kylo Ren (Star Wars Universe)

Oh, Kylo. The bad boy that everyone loves and hates. I love him because to me, he’s like a scared little boy. He wants power, he wants a voice, he wants to find a place for himself. But he went down the wrong path. And he still reacts like a frightened child. He eventually changes and everything he believed crumbles around him, but he still has that path. It’s different and amazing to watch.

#the darkling #maven calore #loki #rumplestiltskin #captain barbossa #moriarty #zelena #the headless horseman #luc addie larue #pitch black #kylo ren #my top ten favorite villains #I love my villains

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shesmyplusone · 3 years

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i’ve been seeing just endless number of posts on this webbed site lately about villains. and i am Tired. So much endless discourse about “all villains don’t need redemption arcs” or “this villain is evil and i know and i don’t care” or “this villain is evil and i care so much that you like them/ship them with someone else” or “giving this villain depth is just as good as saying they are flawless” or “disney, one of the largest companies in the world, is making movies and i have nothing better to do than complain about it on the internet” and i am. tired.

as someone who’s been around the block too many times with this level of discourse, here’s my two cents: villains/antagonist/whatever you want to call them are important aspects of any story, and most stories need them. depending on the genre of the media, the length, the audience, the creator, the villain(s) will be treated differently, and different people will react to them in different ways. Some people will love them just as they are, a character who creates conflict for the protagonist, and want them to keep doing that. creating chaos. Some people will like the villain and want them to keep making chaos and also maybe kiss someone on the mouth. Sometimes people will want them to be explored more, to see them what put them on a path to create so much conflict. Some people will want to see them grow from antagonism, to either work with the protagonist, or at least not actively attempt to stop them. Others will hate their guts, no matter which of these stories they get, and will not be quiet about it.

the real issues come when people who interpret the character differently interact, which makes sense at some level- “the version of character i’ve made is my head is right and yours in wrong” and all that- but man. i’m tired of generalizations about villains. i saw a post that was saying all villains are being romanticized and named two situations- Kylo Ren (because really, all this villain discourse started with him and it always goes back to him) and a YA series I haven’t engaged with. I would argue back, as i always do, that a star wars character, famously the grandson of a character who died preforming an act of redemption, was ALWAYS going to be redeemed in a sci-fi fairy tale. so, obviously. But there was nothing in the text that “romanticized”his actions as a villains. He only got the girl when he STOPPED being a villain! If anything, that’s the opposite of the argument. People thinking he’s hot does not equal the story itself telling you what he’s doing is to be idealized.

And the YA series I haven’t engaged with, well (It was Sarah J Mass, for reference) I can’t speak to that, but I can speak to another YA fandom, which currently has a mess of a situation going on with their own villain- Shadow and Bone/Grishaverse. I read these books many years ago, and while I always found the Darkling engaging as a villain, I never wanted him to end up with Alina. Their dynamic, while really fun to read about, never had read to me like a healthy dynamic for Alina in the long run, which is one of the most important qualities for me when engaging with fictional relationships. Obviously- plenty of people disagreed! I’ve never (for this pairing or any other) gone out of my way to bug/go after people who liked it, which man, i do wish other people on the internet would also do the same, and honestly, i have no issues with people who like a fictional relationship that i don’t-everyone has different tastes! It’s fine!

The only real complaint I have here isn’t even with people who enjoy Alina and the Darkling, but with people who treat the author of the series like she’s the real antagonist for not getting them together. She had actively written this relationship to parallel her own abusive relationship, and while i don’t think this means you can’t still engage with them differently, it seems. bad taste to me to tell her she wrote her own characters “out of character” in a series of YA novels. This is a case where the text doesn’t romanticize the villain, but the readers/fans do.

the solution here might be to engage with more complex texts, or maybe simply stay out of fandom spaces, or pray for everyone on the internet to gain the ability to see nuance in stories.

I’m not holding my breathe for the last one.

#fandom #mindless ramblings of katie

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antagonistenthusiast · 3 years

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it’s like. kylo ren is barely a villain, you know?

#dash is on one with this subject today and i appreciate all of you #people complain about how awful and evil and horrible he is #and he really could have done so much more but it’s like they were afraid to make too evil #because of his lineage? i guess?#idk like he obviously did fucked up crap but :|#sigh what am i even trying to say #idk ig that people use him as an excuse to cancel fans and then turn around and stan the darkling #which is…a choice #and as always you can’t like the darkling if you hate kylo ren #yes i’m gatekeeping antagonists 🖤 just try to stop me 🖤#BUT JUST SAYING…there are way worse characters in sw and they always get forgiven #but god help anyone who thinks kylo ren’s #moral conflict and manipulation at the hands of snoke/palpatine intersting #put it in a letter jane austen

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polis-fandom · 6 years

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The Last Jedi thoughts

It’s been a week and I’m still on the fence with this movie. Everytime I think I’m getting over the disappointment and starting to enjoy what was good there, I come across some review that’s like “THIS IS THE GREATEST STAR WARS MOVIE EVERRRR!!! ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING!” and it flares up again. I feel like I’m in the Gombrowicz’s tale, “how is it breathtaking, when it’s not breathtaking?! how is it beautiful, when it’s not beautiful? how is Rian Johnson a great director, when he’s the worst one since George Lucas?”. I need to get away from any discourse about this movie, or I’ll end up hating it. And it doesn’t deserve my hatred, because it’s not really a bad movie.

Bitter Me: *whispers* Luke Skywalker.

Me:

So I’ll just put my feelings here and move on. Under the cut, ‘cause lots of spoilers and overhelming bitterness, tho nothing new, others said all that already, so ignore as you wish.

“Star Wars: A New Hope” was the first movie I watched in cinema. No, I mean the remastered version from 1997, I’m not that old. But, yeah, Star Wars were the movies of my childhood, and are still among my favourite stories ever. After surviving the rocky Prequel Trilogy during my teenage years, I was excited to be brought back to the universe, and while The Force Awakens was redundant as far as the storyline goes, it won me over with the visuals. I made a conscious decision not to get attached to any of the new characters, because I felt there wasn’t enough to know about them. Besides, in the past Luke Skywalker didn’t became my favourite character until the second movie, so I figured I had the time to fall in love with them until I saw more.

Nice Me: Look at this one, he’s played by your favourite actor.

Bitter Me: That one is garbage.

Bitter Me: I’ll just wait to see the whole story. Maybe others will do something extra.

Nice Me: Like what? Blow up the Starkiller Base? Risk their life to save friends? Talk to Darth Vader’s helmet?

Bitter Me: Lose a limb.

(Btw, did you notice the advancement of the medical treatment in Last Jedi? The guy gets slashed through the back and wakes up mere days later just fine, other barely gets a scar…

Bitter Me: at least they are consistent with that.)

So, going in to see the Last Jedi, I had open mind, no expectations for the story, because Star Wars - aka the series that always makes it to the top of the lists of biggest plot twists ever - and I knew nothing besides what was shown in the trailer. And yet, I made one mistake. I saw someone’s tweet about how it’s the best Star Wars movie since the Empire…

Bitter Me: …and then I spent first hour trying to understand, where did this guy saw that greatness, because it just wasn’t there.

I’ve got the biggest gripes with the editing, cinematography, and directing in general. You see, this series, however bad the movies were, they at least were visually stunning. They had certain style and flow - despite all the action, there were always slower scenes, a bit more nostalgic, giving you time to soak up the visuals and feel the emotion. Johnson fails at that repeatedly. The edit at the beging is very rushed, the scenes chopped, and set-up of some could’ve been better. Even Ahch-too, which was amazingly shot in previous film, here becomes a more of clustered and claustrophobic set.

Nice Me: But there are some magnificient shots. The admiral Holdo launching into hyperspace - absolutely beautiful. The pretorian guards fight - one of the best lightsabers fights. The Crait scenes with crystals and everything.

Bitter Me: which just angers me more, because if he’s capable of pulling of shots like that, why the whole movie isn’t equally beautiful???

Nice Me: But the Leia in vacuum scene starts beautiful too. I’m ecstatic that we finally have an undisputed proof that Leia is not only force sensitive, but she actually mastered the use of it. It would have been really interesting to see more of her in the next movie, might she have become a teacher Rey needs...

Nice Me:…but then the latter half of that scene is shot in such a way, it comes of as silly and utterly dumb. The guy is just bad at showing visions.

Nice Me: Breath. Just breath.

Bitter Me: …that one was horribly edited.

Nice Me: But the scene at dark place at AhchToo was impressive…

Bitter Me: …as a trick shot with no substance that leads to nowhere. He could have used some of that creative visuals for the Force Skype scenes, they were edited in such bland manner…

Nice Me: …you’re complaining about that because it reminded you of Alina and Darkling having identical force bond in Grisha, down to the shirtless scene…

Bitter Me:… as bad as that was, Bardugo at least gave a good explanation of how it was possible.

Nice Me: Snoke did it.

Bitter Me: I recognize the narrative need to create such connection between them, I just think it could have been done in a more artistic way visually.

Bitter Me: Rian is praised for the daring and innovative writing of this movie. And yet the main plot can be summed as: they are evacuating the rebel resistance base, escape - but not far, cause they can’t enter hyperspace, so they sneak into evil ship and try to turn off tracking beam, and then seek hidding on a nearby planet. Yep, I’ve never seen a star wars movie with a plot like that.

Bitter Me: So what’s so daring here? destroying all the symbols of the star wars franchise? Making Luke grumpy and acting against his very core?

Bitter Me: Look, I’m not so much against making Luke a space hobo hermit, who no longer wants to train Jedi, it‘s possible to have such turn after you tried and failed. But I have everything against Luke trying to murder Ben, because he’s too powerful and tempted to the dark side. Luke did everything he could to save his father, who was far deeper on the Dark side. Luke was himself tempted by it, and resisted it. Luke would have done everything to save Ben, but he would not draw a lightsaber on him…

Nice Me: But he says it was a flitting feeling, just a moment of weakness, he regrets deeply…

Bitter Me: What exactly young Ben Solo had done to lead Luke to even consider such an act? We are only told the dark side was rising in him, and that’s sounds vague as hell.

Look, The Star Wars at it’s core were a story about hope - that there’s good even in a bad person, about redemption, and unwavering familial love. Luke was the embodiment of that, and that scene goes directly against it.

If he so insist on having such a drastic turn for Luke, he should’ve made us understand, how did it happen. We should’ve seen more of young Ben Solo, and their dynamic prior to the break. It would serve both their characters and story overall better than this cheap shot for the shock value, so we, like Rey, would cry: You have created Kylo Ren???

But, honestly, if Rian is oh-so-clever and daring writer, he could’ve come up with a better, more complex backstory for Luke and Ben’s breakdown.

Bitter Me: and besides Luke’s arc here? The big lesson he learns? „the real great master let’s his students grow beyond him.” That’s such a simple one, so obvious, it’s dumb and annoying, not worthy to be Luke’s final arc. He was wiser than that. Luke was never about being great and powerful, he rejected offers to became such through dark side, he left his jedi training because his friends were more important to him. Why would he be afraid of his student becoming more powerful than him?

Nice Me: But Luke is great. Like when he says „what do you expect me to do? show up and wave my lightsaber, and they will all run off scared?”, he might be mocking the heroic ways and everyone’s expectations, but if you look back, he achieved his biggest win in the Original Trilogy by tossing asside the lightsaber and refusing to fight.

Bitter Me: …and then he goes and does excatly, what he mocked: shows up, wave the lightsaber and scare off the pesky First Order.

Nice Me: And it was EPIC! And the shoulder brush! hilarious!

Bitter Me: yeah, yeah. Btw, was that their first meeting since Luke tried to murder Ben? so he just like that, shows up, mocks Kylo’s powerlessness, fights him and then promises to forceghost hunt him for eternity?

Nice Me: What do you want him to do?

Bitter Me: …I don’t know, APOLOGIZE for trying to murder him?

Nice Me: fine, but this is still about redemption and love and hope. Rose says: That’s how we’re gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love. It’s a great quote.

Bitter Me: Then who is saving Kylo? whose there left to love him? Rey, walking off on him, closing door on him? Leia, giving up on him, saying we need to kill him? What mother would say something like that? Leia would say something like that? The princess who was always compassionate, and hugging everyone around? Who spent all the previous film insisting on bringing Ben back?

Nice Me: She says it in a tone that suggests she’s not believing it herself. like she’s trying to convince herself, because others expect that of her, because he’s a threat to them all. And Luke counters it immedietly.

Bitter Me: …It’s still there.

Nice Me: …and there’s still third movie. The story is in progress.

Nice Me: At least Snoke is dead. That was GREAT. He always felt like this unnecessary ouside evil force, that people can conveniently blame for all the bad things done, just kill him and everythings gonna be bright and shiny again. By removing him so early, they made way and time to explore more complex evil inside us, err, characters, or harder to spot like the riches benefiting from the ongoing war. That’s a nice storytelling turn.

Nice Me: And Rey as a random nobody is a joy for my heart, because I’m a bit done with Chosen One trope, where hero’s been destinated for heroics on the qualms of being born a prince or noble or someone powerful. I’ve had hard times connecting with such characters, because I myself never felt born special.

(Bitter Me: Then how did you end up liking Luke, the very icon of Chosen One trope?

Nice Me: Loss of the limb.)

Bitter Me: okay, but that was only told to us, just like Rey’s vision of Kylo’s future. Told, not shown. I mean, given how bad Rian is at visions, it would be cringey, but still it’s a movie, use the visuals to convey the information. Not everything needs to be telegraphed, did we really need that guy liking the rocks on Crait to know it’s salt? Who cares it’s salt? That was distracting.

Nice Me: …that was to bring the attention to the footprint…

Bitter Me: …the big zoom on it did that just fine. The joke was unnecesary.

Bitter Me: Actually half the jokes were unnecessary. The humour was crude, often misplaced and under cutting the drama of the scenes. They say it was needed to balance out the dark themes this movie deals with, but in my opinion the previous movies dealt with the same dark drama, and yet used humour in a less forced nor cynical way. Some say it felt more like a Marvel movie, and true, that’s how it felt.

Nice Me:…but you loved Thor Ragnarok - for it’s humour exactly.

Bitter Me: one, Thor used humour with better placement and sense of purpose, didn’t try to undercut the emotional impact of the scenes with it. Two, it was a Marvel movie - you expect such humour, because that’s their style. Going to the Star Wars you expect Star Wars - great visuals, action scenes, emotions, feelings, not disgusting alien cow. It’s anti-climatic.

Besides, why are we so ashemed of pure emotions and drama, that we need to undercut it with gags and jokes? why there must be a wink, „yeah, we did this serious scene, but we’re not sure we got it good enough, people might mock us for it, better mock ourselves first.” For gods sake, dare to be honest. If it’s serious, heroic, epic, let it be such!

Nice Me: The latter half of the movie was great, tho. Rey using force in non-combat way to move rocks and save friends, nice way to turn joke around into something beautiful. All of them coming together on Millenium Falcon board. Luke’s death with the suns setting, making nice parallel to the sunset at Tatooine long ago at the begining of his journey. That last scene about the power of storytelling, I cried a little, it was so moving…

Bitter Me: … the storytelling about what? Self-righteous jedi deciding who is worthy of forgivness or chance for redemption, and who to finish off while they’re still a kid and asleep? About mothers giving up on their sons? About destroying everything that once was sacred, stripping it of the value? It’s all clever writting, but without understanding the soul of the Star Wars, without keeping it’s core sacred, it came of shallow.

Nice Me: shhh, calm down. It’s just a movie.

Bitter Me: How did we come to the Star Wars being just a movie? just a story? quite ironic, in the context of that ending scene.

Magic is gone.

Nice Me: Come on, Let’s watch it again, maybe you’ll like it better. There’s a cute orange murderball...

Bitter Me: …and my fave actor gets trashed around. Fine, let’s watch it again.

#ps star wars #star wars: the last jedi #tlj spoilers #star wars spoilers #spoilers

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mysoftboybensolo · 7 years

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who are your favorite villain/hero(ine) ships??

Ok, since this is a touchy subject for some people, I am putting this under a cut. Enter at your own risk

I am going to do a top 5 list with a few honorable mentions

5. Darkness and Lili

It is a gothic fairytale, he is a literal devil, in love with the fair maiden. If this isn’t Hades and Persephone with a dark twist, I don’t know what is. Sure it is brief, but it has so much passion and intensity that it is long lasting

“Dreams are my specialty. Through dreams I influence mankind. My dream is of eternity with you. I offer you this rose, Princess. My heart…my soul…my love.”

4. Brian Bois-Guilbert and Rebecca of York from Ivanhoe.

Same old story, he is a man of God, she is a heretic in his eyes. He desires her, she hates him. It is an incredibly charged relationship, especially since Rebecca is so badass and hands Brian is ass so many times, and yet, there always seems to be something there. If only God did not stand in the way for them, they could have had something glorious.

“Rebecca, you must blame the fates that it was I who loved you, and not Ivanhoe - for you were always mine, and only mine - God keep you.”

3. John Jasper and Rosa Bud from the Mystery of Edwin Drood

He is her music teacher, desperately in love with her, but she is betrothed to his nephew. So what does he do? Kills him. It is a great story of one man’s desperate longing and love for a lovely girl, and the lengths he would take to have her.

“If you knew what visions tormented me. I have wandered through paradise and through hell, every night, carrying you in my arms.”

2. The Darkling and Alina from the Grisha Trilogy

They are two powerful beings that the world has difficulty understanding. He longs for her, because she is the only one who can accompany him in his loneliness, but she rejects him, calling him a monster. But that doesn’t stop her from seeing him, dreaming of him or speaking his name in hushed whispers like a woman to her lover.

“‘I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina,’ he said. ‘You and I are going to change the world.’”

Honorable Mentions:

Erik and Christine from the Phantom of the OperaZuko and Katara (still pissed off that they didn’t end up together)Major Surov and Diana Ashmore from The Journey 1959 (if you had always wanted to see Yul Brynner and Debra Kerr kiss, this is your movie)

Ok, number one is….

DUN DUN DUN!

1. Kylo Ren and Rey from Star Wars

They are pretty much what I most expect from a villainous crush, so I am going to go on a long explanation about them.

What always fascinated me about the villainous crush is what they represent. The villain is often the representation of darkness and the hero of light. They believe there is one line, on one side, the good guys, and the other the bad guys. The bad guys believe that the world is cruel so they should be cruel back, while the good guys believe that people are either born good and if they fall, they can never come back.

Most of the time, the villain is tortured, he is stuck in the darkness because it is all that he knows, but a part of him longs for something, whether he ever had it or not. When Kylo Ren meets Rey, he discovers that he is drawn to her because of the light within

“I feel it again, the pull to the light”

Not only is he fascinated by her light, he feels the power within her, it is familiar. Her power is just like his. At last, he has met someone that can understand him.

“Don’t be afraid. I feel it too.”

She is an enemy, but he believes that he could corrupt her enough to make her want him, but he is pulled too much to the goodness in her. What will he do? He can’t go back, he is the villain, villains never get a happy ending, and she will never join him. She thinks he is too much of a monster.

“You’re a monster!”“It’s just us now.”

Rey believes that there is no way he can come back from murdering his own father. To her, that is the worst kind of villain. She struggles against him, not only because he is continually seeks her out, but because there is something in him that she recognizes. She rejects him because he brings something out of her that scares her, her own darkness.

A villainous crush done right to me is when the hero and villain will take a step in the darkness or the light they feared to walk through, exploring sides of themselves they never could imagine they could feel. What the upcoming films, I am hopeful that they will explore not only the powerful dynamics of their relationship, but the idea of how the world must be made of a balance, and the villain and heroine must be the ones to provide that balance.

Thank you for the ask anon, and I hope that had answered your question

#villainous crush

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