Tips How to Write a Villain Readers Truly Hate
Are you tired of not knowing exactly how to make your villain believable and despicable?
It’s a common problem, but one that has a solution.
Write a villain that is so despicable, so loathed, that your readers will be looking for them to lose or mad at you if you don’t write their downfall before the story is ended.
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Tips How to write a villain Readers Truly Hate:
# 1 Tips How to Write a Villain Readers Truly Hate: Make them brutal
Make your villain brutal.
Make them a tyrant in their own right.
Make their cruelty have no bounds.
Example: Create an underground children’s hospital and have them find it and attack it.
Write them abusing the weak and the helpless. Your reader will hate them instantly.
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# 2 Tips How to Write a Villain Readers Truly Hate: Make them love power over all else
Make them addicted to power and willing to do anything to get it.
Make their motivation power, greed, and wealth.
They can love money or weapons. They can be trying to gather armies. Whatever it may be, write them attacking the innocent, the weak, and the vulnerable to acquire their power and wealth.
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They are willing to do whatever it takes to get what they want and they don’t feel bad at all.
# 3 Tips How to Write a Villain Readers Truly Hate: Make them think that they are in the right about their evil choices
A villain that is going to be hated is going to feel no remorse for their evil acts.
And not only should they be completely remorseless about what they have done they should feel completely right and justified about doing it.
Example: If they attack a helpless village with their troops, they should feel like the worthless village deserved it for betraying them for wanting to be “disloyal” and wanting to be free of their tyrannical reign.
They are going to need to be cold and any interaction they have with any other person needs to have them show that they are relentless. They need to do several acts of violent behavior that makes them hateable. One act of violence is probably not enough to be believable.
To be believable our reader needs to see them carry out cruel acts a couple of times over.
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# 4 Tips How to Write a Villain Readers Truly Hate: They should be completely irrational.
Your villain should be irrational. People around them should try to tell them how wrong they are.
It could be a spouse or a parent or sibling of the villain that tries to tell them how wrong they are and how irrational they are being.
After an encounter like this, the villain should throw them into prison or have them killed or beaten because of disloyalty and give them a line like “I loved you. I never thought you would betray me too.”
Look for inspiration to create your most hated villain.
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I hope this helps! Now get out there and write something!
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I think it’s easy to create a character like this. It’s historical & the government treated Native Americans this way. Much like a Nazi would.
Dyanna, thank you for your thought. I couldn’t agree more that some of the best stories are inspired by real-life events and history. If we as writers can find a way to use real-life in our fiction the story will come alive in a much more convincing and compelling way. Great add.