Talk:(Free Join Roleplay) Villains Pub/@comment-25048520-20160614010948/@comment-4107522-20160618054032

I think the only time one-demensional villains work are when they're effective in how much they intimidate you, and/or how they add to the protagonist. Monsters in horror movies are still effective even though they're usually just "RAWR I CHASE YOU!" and if you take a character like one of Spider-Man's villains, while a good number of them DO have deep personalities, they're often used to reflect more character on to Spider-Man, NOT to seem deep themselves.

If the point of your villain is to add to your hero, you can get away without adding too much to them, but if you want to be able to have people dissect and grow around this character, adding more depth and realism to them is important.

It's always best to make a character as well-thought-out as you can. They do NOT have to be deep characters with twists and inner-meanings behind them to be GREAT characters. For instance, in the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon, the villain SANDMAN is a crook that just wants money. He doesn't want to be some big crime lord, and we don't find out anything about him having some deep history. HOWEVER, because we spend some more time with him, and get to see how he does have a conscience about innocents, even sacrificing himself at some point in one of the episodes, he's shown to still be a very impressionable and interesting character.