Aug 02 2008
The Generic Villain
Born unlucky, gifted with power after a pact with the forces of evil, now serving as a mentor to others who serve the darkness, The Generic Villain writes about the ups and downs of an antagonist’s life.
The Generic Villain on Destroying the World
The Generic Villain on Public Executions
The Generic Villain on Animal Companions
The Generic Villain on Heroes’ Animal Companions
The Generic Villain on Minion Morale
The Generic Villain on When Not to Kill Your Lieutenant
The Generic Villain on Architecture
The Generic Villain Goes on Vacation
The Generic Villain on Women in the Industry
The Generic Villain on Women in the Industry, Part 2
The Generic Villain on Women in the Industry, Part 3
The Generic Villain’s Guest Speaker (On Career Antagonists)
The Generic Villain on Effective Evil Monologues
The Generic Villain on Bargaining With Elder Evils
The Generic Villain on Ex-Protagonists
The Generic Villain: Ex-Protagonists and Ensembles
The Generic Villain’s Pet Peeve
The Generic Villain on Spotting Protagonists
The Generic Villain on Understanding Protagonists
The Generic Villain on Evil Mastermind Courtship Rituals
The Generic Villain on Where Protagonists Come From
The Generic Villain on Creating Your Own Nemesis
The Generic Villain on Immortality
The Generic Villain on Item-Based Weaknesses
The Generic Villain on Being Heard (of) But Not Seen
The Generic Villain on Keeping It Quiet
The Generic Villain on Deceptive Protagonists
The Generic Villain on Not Dying (Yet!)
The Generic Villain on Cheerful Villainy
The Generic Villain on Dealing With Death
The Generic Villain vs. the Plucky Comic Relief
The Generic Villain on Villain Saturation
The Generic Villain on Preemptive Strikes
The Generic Villain on Villainy in Today’s Worlds
The Generic Villain on Grim, Forbidding Castles
The Generic Villain on Secret Underground Lairs
The Generic Villain on Innocuous Dwellings
The Generic Villain on the Qualities of a Good Minion
The Generic Villain on Dealing With the Dead
The Generic Villain on the Next Generation
Now presenting Ask GV: questions for our host from villains like you. Comment here or on one of the posts if you have your own evil queries; not only will you get an answer, you’ll get a link back to your own page.
Ask GV: Stalling for the Low-Resource Antagonist
Ask GV: Heroes Aren’t the Only Ones With a License to Meddle
Ask GV: Never Ask a God to Do a Villain’s Job
Ask GV: Why Do Some of Us Turn Good?
Ask GV: Avoiding Villain Decay
Ask GV: Staying Self-Justified in Villainy
Ask GV: When the Boss Just Can’t Choose His Relationships…
Ask GV: Breaking the Plucky Comic Relief
i just kinda google generic villian and this came up random i kno but hey so is this thread
I’m not sure whether to take that as a compliment or an insult, but eh. Welcome to the blog!
This series is awesome, especially the most recent one on recurring.
Never thought it’d come to this, but I’m in a bit of a desperate situation so I thought I’d come to you for advice. Right now I’ve got a group of human intruders running loose in my base. I set my best assassin on them, and he never came back. I asked the court weaponmaster to take care of them, only you know how it is, conventions of honour and all that, he insisted on fighting them one by one in a fair fight, and that meant when they beat him he had to join them. I even ambushed them with a security robot, and they reduced it to scrap metal. Now there’s nothing left I can do except order my entire army to man the bulkhead these so-called heroes are trying to get past, and if somehow they get past that, I’ll have no choice but to send my ultimate warrior into the field. Something I don’t like to do, because if she fails then it’s game over.
So, where did it all go wrong? At what point should I have realised that it was time to stop notching the challenge up gradually and throw everything and the kitchen sink at them at once? It’s not like I can afford to do that for just any old human who manages to sneak into the base; but how do you distinguish the real heroes from the wannabes?
Yours sincerely, General Tor