How to Write a Story from the Villain’s Point of View

How to Write a Story from the Villain's Point of View
How to Write a Story from the Villain's Point of View

How to Write a Story from the Villain’s Point of View

Most stories are written from the hero’s point of view, but every once in a blue moon we see a story set from the villain’s perspective.

We can or may not know at the outset that we are following the villain. In my opinion, the more secrecy the better. But you can do it however you like.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

This saying ultimately means that the character didn’t mean to be evil. They ultimately meant to do good.

They had good intentions, but in the end they made some REALLY questionable choices that lead to the ruin of one or more characters.

Spoiler alert for: The Talented Mr. Ripley.

This reminds me of The Talented Mr. Ripley. He ultimately meant to do good and to find a happy life for himself and others, but he kept using murder to solve his problems AKA people.

Other people kept getting in the way of his goals and instead of working it out he would end up killing them. 

Even though his original intentions were good, he ultimately turns out to be the villain.

Spoiler alert for: Mr. Brooks.

This story is fantastic. It’s one of my favorites. We follow Mr. Brooks most of the story who is a loving, caring, and gentle father, but soon we find out he’s also a recovering serial killer.

A recovering serial killer?

That’s correct, we follow him in his journey to try to not do something he’s addicted to, which is to kill people in certain ways.

The way they portray all the characters in this story is fantastic.

If you want to write a villain that’s trying to be good but is ultimately evil this is a good story to study how to write it from his or her point of view.

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The end justifies the means.

This saying means, “the end result justifies what you do along the way, even if some of your choices are morally suspect.”

An easy “end justifies the means” villain is Thanos in Infinity Wars. He justifies the mass slaughtering of trillions and ultimately half the universe to give the other half abundance of living.

He’s not exactly Daddy warbucks, but he ultimately has a good end in mind for some beings. His way of getting there is morally questionable.

Your villain can be an end justifies the means villain or an evil intentions villain, but how do we show this from their perspective?

Malicious intent.

Spoiler alert for: The Perfect Getaway

If you haven’t seen it. I recommend watching it before reading the rest of this post. You have been warned. 😬

One of the best stories I’ve seen where we follow the Villain’s point of view is: The Perfect Getaway.

One reason is that it’s an amazing twist. The second reason is the villain is completely evil and ultimately selfish.

I don’t always appreciate the villain that “has good intentions,” but ultimately ends up making bad choices.

I like it black and white sometimes. 

There are so many “misunderstood” villain stories these days, that finding one where the writer says, this guy or girl is purely evil is actually refreshing (In a strange way.)

This story is amazing for writing a villain’s story from their point of view, because the entire time we follow the story it’s from the villain’s perspective but we absolutely have no clue.

This makes it a great story to follow the villain’s journey and makes a wonderfully fun twist towards the end.

You have to choose.

You ultimately have to choose if your villain is deliberately evil or if they are trying to be good and failing.

If you are going to write it from your villain’s point of view I recommend that being a twist (But it doesn’t have to be. Think The Joker.) Study some of the stories I’ve mentioned here to grasp how that is done well.

Hide your villain in a good person’s story.

The Getaway works so well because, the entire journey we are led to believe that the two characters we are following are two newlyweds on their honeymoon in Hawaii.

Who is more innocent then two young newlyweds?

Use ideas like this. Place your villain into a normally good person’s life.

Your villain loves their family. They pay the rent. They are a hard worker. They help the elderly cross the street. They pay all their taxes.

In their personal community, they’re an upstanding citizen.

Find ways to make your villain look like the naïve innocent person where you reveal their evil intentions or choices later.

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Revenge is easy, not sweet.

In Sweeney Todd, we actually end up following the evil intentions of two villains (not just one) from their perspectives.

They both justify the evil they do to survive in a harsh environment. And Sweeney ultimately justifies everything horrible he does to anyone with his only goal, which is revenge.

It’s honestly a very tragic tail but worth a good study for writing from the villain’s point of view.

Revenge is actually one of the easiest motives to give your villain for them to justify every evil act they do.

What is your villain’s motive?

In order for your audience to enjoy your villain from the villain’s perspective they have to believe the villain’s motive is powerful enough to justify their actions or it just doesn’t work.

Some believable villain motives are:

  • greed 
  • revenge
  • saving someone 
  • saving themselves
  • selfishness 

There are actually many good motives to work from, you just have to decide which best fits your villain.

Remember that the anti-hero is not a villain.

The anti-hero is more the character where the end justifies the means but in a different way.

A good way to think of it is this:

The anti-hero will torture a bad guy to save the innocent.

The villain will torture the innocent to save someone they love or themselves.

The anti-hero uses questionable tactics to save the innocent.

The villain carries out evil to acquire their goal, even if their goal ends up being very bad for others. They usually lack sympathy and don’t value human life.

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Final Thoughts

When writing from the villain’s perspective we have to decide if we tell the audience or if it becomes a main twist.

Villains need to be villains, not vigilantes.

Villains need to have powerful motives just like any other main character.

Some great stories to study: 

  • The Perfect Getaway
  • Mr. Brooks
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley
  • The Joker
  • Sweeney Todd
  • Nightcrawler

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All villains start in the same place. They start off living in our heads. And that’s their only beginning until they start to make it on the page with our writing.

If we don’t take the time to sit down and actually write about them and play with their thoughts abilities and lives, they will never become anything more than just a passing thought in our heads.

So how do we get our villains from our heads into our readers’ imaginations?

We start by getting to know them and the only way we’ll truly get to know them it’s by spending some quality time with our villains.

How to write from your villain’s Mind:

# 1 How to Write From Your Villain’s Mind: Write short stories about your villains

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Take time to sit down and write about your villains. You might be surprised at what they do in front of you. 

Sometimes they are smarter than you knew and sometimes they have extra vulnerabilities you didn’t anticipate.

Write about them in different scenarios other than just your main idea and see if you can see more about them.

Putting them in other stories may show you how flexible they are or how not flexible they are.

Depending on your original ideas of your villains they may end up creating the same mischevious accts no matter what scenario they are in.

# 2 How to Write From Your Villain’s Mind: Imagine what your villain does as a hobby

Does your villain watch Netflix?

Do they play videogames?

Do they cook?

Do they love their job?

Do they have a normal skill like woodworking?

Do they play tennis or soccer?



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# 3 How to Write From Your Villain’s Mind: What do they have in their closet

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Have you ever tried to know someone by seeing what is in their drawers or closet?

A closet can have items from there past that may be key to understand who they are, like old trophies or photos.

# 4 How to Write From Your Villain’s Mind: What do they love to eat?

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Pizza?

Health food junkie?

Foodie?

# 5 How to Write From Your Villain’s Mind: Do they have any illnesses?

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Diet issues?

Chronic issues?

Do they need prescriptions?

Do they need special equipment? 

# 6 How to Write From Your Villain’s Mind: What is your villain’s level of education?

Are they a super genius?

Are they a savant?

Did they graduate high school?

College?

Does their education hold them back or push them forward above and beyond their superiors?

Try to get into your villain’s head by spending time with them in various life scenarios. How would they act and what would they say?

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I think we can all agree that the reason most readers love stories is because we want to feel something.

We want the good guy to win and the bad guy to lose or if the bad guy wins we want to feel for the good people and hurt with them or experience their emotional hurt.

We want to be able to experience those good and bad emotional feelings without real-life fallout or consequences.

In other words, we want to make sure as good writers that we are tugging heartstrings.

How are we tugging heartstrings?

We create emotional connection and attachment for readers by setting it up from the start.

# 1 How to write a Story that is tugging Heartstrings: We make a character that we want the audience to love or hate.

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The last thing we want to do is create a character that is likable, but forgettable.

No, in order to be tugging heartstrings there must be emotional consequences at risk.

We want our readers to feel mad, upset, or unfair about the character we have made them hate getting away with injustice.

We want them to feel sad at the loss of our character that they love is experiencing.

Disney does this SOOO well at this skill in many of their stories. They create a character that we love and then they KILL them or kill someone they love! (Bambi, Lion King, Good Dinosaur, Frozen, Guardians 2, just to name a few…) You can look at tons of their stories and you will find beloved characters’ dead bodies strewn all over the battlefield of story and cinema.

Even if we create a character that they hate this is also good because they will still be emotionally invested to find out if that hated character gets away with “it” or not.

This is called tugging heartstrings.

We make people feel something by getting them attached to characters in our stories by the feelings of love and hate.


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We do the same thing in real life.

We naturally love ourselves and our own stories so we psychologically as humans hate when bad things happen to us (lose money, get cut off on the road, are late, get punished, loss of a loved one), but love when good things happen to us (get promoted, catch every green light, make a new friend, receive a gift, win the lottery.)

Taking it a step further, we hate when bad things happen to others that we love and we love when good things happen to them.

In this same way if we are going to be tugging heartstrings we MUST create characters that are either loved or hated, nothing in between. 

Indifference about your character is the enemy of good storytelling.

If your reader feels indifference about your Character that is BAD.

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# 2 How to write a Story that is tugging Heartstrings: If we are going to be tugging heartstrings, our readers must care about the relationships we build for our characters.

Not nearly as important point #1 but to be taken into account is that our relationships must be interesting to our readers.

# 1 plays into this though. 

If we do a good job creating characters that are loved or hated then readers are more than likely going to care more about the relationships they are caught up in, and we don’t just mean romantic relationships.

They are to be emotionally invested in their relationships with their parents, friends, enemies, sidekicks, romances, pets, any relationship you can think up.

A good way to make any relationship interesting is to bring good times into it and bad times into it.

We are always interested to see how a fight between two friends or lovers will turn out.

Will they be together after? Or will they part ways? Will it end peacefully or ugly? Will there be theft or even murder involved?

All of these ideas make for interesting relationships between characters.

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I hope this helps!

Now get out there and write something!

What would you add to help other writers in tugging heartstrings with their stories?

Are you working on a story right now that’s quite conflicting and really gets the emotions going?

Do you have questions about how to write a story?

Do you know the dynamics of how to write a story?

Do you know the building blocks for how to write a story?

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10 Tips How to Write Villains that Play Mind Games with Their Victims

Tips How to Write Villains that Play Mind Games with Their Victims

Not everyone likes the idea of a villain that steps into the bank with an eyepatch, a cigar hanging out of their mouth, and an uzi in their hand.

Some writers like to write methodical villains. Some writers like to write villains that use their minds to dispense their evil deeds upon their victims.

If you are one of those writers than this post is for you.


# 1 Villains that methodically play mind games with their victims are often JEALOUS

Unrestrained jealousy can grow into some pretty evil thoughts and actions. A jealous person can let all kinds of things occur to themselves and especially unchecked jealousy. A jealous villain might plot out how to TAKE the thing they are jealous of and in the midst of taking it they may put their victim through terrible pain while taking it.

In the TV show Longmire, the antagonist wants to take the hero’s land. He not only tries to take his land, but he takes him to court and being a lawyer he drags the hero’s character through the mud with lies and tortures him along the way in the process and you can tell he enjoys every moment of it.

The villain was jealous of his land so he took time to develop a plan to take Longmire to court and create nasty stories about him to make it legally possible to sue him for his land. 

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# 2 Mentally Abusive Villains are Full of Relentless Incomprehensible Hate

Hate that seems so ridiculous that it is hard to understand why the person is that hateful is hard for us as humans to understand. I mean have you ever met someone so uncharacteristically hateful and you find yourself perplexed almost thinking out loud, “why are you so mean and hateful?”

This happens to poor Peeta in The Hunger Games.

His mother happens to be a hateful villain that hates her own circumstances in life so she takes it out on her son in cruel ways. And none of it is his fault or because anything he’s done. His Mother beats him for small things like burning bread or giving it to someone starving instead of the pigs.

And being ultimately mentally abusive she hopes that Katniss wins over Peeta implying that if he died in the Hunger Games she would be happier than if he came back alive.

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# 3 How to Write Villains that Like to Play Mind Games: Creates Division Amongst Allies

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A master manipulative villain that enjoys playing mind games will enjoy creating division among those against his goals.

The villain will enjoy watching allies tear each other apart all while getting away with their ultimate goals. 

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# 4 How to Write Villains that Like to Play Mind Games: Often Times They Were Abused

Villains that abuse others were often abused themselves at some point in their life.

People assume this means it has to be that their parents abused them or that they were abused as a child, but this doesn’t always have to be the case.

They could have been abused by a sibling, family friend, an uncle, or spouse.

They could have been taken advantage of by a co-worker or boss, or by many people along their journey, and this could have to lead them to an emotional breakdown, or seeing all people as bad because they have never met a good person in their life.

Whatever the case may be for your character, having them be abused as a part of their origin story is a good way to help readers understand why they are acting the way they are.

# 5 How to Write Villains that Like to Play Mind Games: They Target the People the Hero Loves

IF you are a hero that has a mom, girlfriend, or any loved one watch them closely.

Villains love to beat up the hero emotionally by inflicting as much pain as possible on those they love.

If you’re going to make your villain stab your hero through the heart you will find ways for them to hurt and torment those that your hero loves.


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# 6 How to Write Villains that Like to Play Mind Games: Mind Game Villains Know How to Use the Heros words against them.

The villain will look for opportunities to use the hero’s own words against them. 

If they can twist their words they will.

# 7 How to Write Villains that Like to Play Mind Games: Mind Game Villains Know How to Use the Heros Beliefs against them.

A true Villain will make fun of the Hero and make jest of their core beliefs.

If it ever appears that the Hero is about to lose and the villain wins, the Emoaiotnally abusive villain will take pleasure in reminding the hero of how ridiculous their beliefs are and how inferior that makes the hero compared to them.

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# 8 How to Write Villains that Like to Play Mind Games: Mind Game Villains Know How to Use whatever you love against you.

A truly manipulative villain will use whatever advantage they have against the hero to ensure victory.

They might even call it collateral damage. 

The true villain isn’t afraid to kill or hurt someone the hero loves to use them against the hero to make sure they accomplish whatever their goal is.

In the movie “Angel Has Fallen” the main antagonist sends his men to take the hero’s wife and daughter as “insurance” to make sure that he has the advantage over the hero.

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# 9 How to Write Villains that Like to Play Mind Games: Mind Game Villains Will Try to Make the Hero Look Like the Bad Guy.

The main villain will hatch a plan to make the hero look like the bad guy.

If they need someone to be the “fall guy” for their evil plan to succeed the hero is the optimal person to frame.

This puts the good guy out of the way and lets the villain get away with their evil plot.

By making the hero look bad the villain can enjoy the “goody-two-shoes” hero looking bad in the beloved publics’ eyes.

# 10 How to Write Villains that Like to Play Mind Games: Mind Game Villains Will Try to Make Themselves Look Like the Hero.

The manipulative villain loves to make themselves look like the hero while making the hero look evil.

The villain wants to have all the recognition and all the glory. They usually are very jealous of the hero and the fact that the hero is loved.

The villain wants to be loved but socially doesn’t know how to be selfless and gain respect and love from others.

The villain is usually extremely selfish and doesn’t know how to give love and therefore hates the hero for giving and receiving love.

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