What does it say about us when we fall in love with a bad guy? Compelling villains can have a powerful appeal and are often more popular than the hero. But one person’s favorite villain may disgust ...

Fiction has always been a sanctuary for exploring the darker corners of our personality. Through complex and morally ambiguous characters, we can confront aspects of ourselves that we might otherwise ...

Entertaining stories, both fictional and ostensibly real, usually rely on a balance of likable characters you can root for and dastardly villains you can hate. More accurately, they rely on villains ...

Redemption arcs in fiction are supposed to mark growth, but some characters seem to get handed a redemption badge without doing much of anything to deserve it. They help the heroes once, maybe twice, ...

Vince Gilligan, who created one of the most iconic villains of all time in Walter White, is calling for creators to make more "old fashioned" heroes to contrast the real world "where bad guys, the ...

From a very young age, we’re socialised to view the world as being made up of “goodies” and “baddies”. When you’re a child fooling around with your friends in the playground, nobody ever wants to be ...