Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2059440-20160506190434/@comment-366087-20160507012024

Well, look at it this way… the guy in the bank who shoves you out of the way and makes you go to the back of the line is a jerk and antagonist… but the guy with the gun robbing the place is a villain.

Also, there needs to be recognition when a franchise has little to zero villains. Like *so far* The Big Bang Theory has plenty of jerks and antagonists, but no true villains. So the mentality of "every story has to have a villain" and the practice of focusing on only bad and negative traits of a character so as to "make them the villain" needs to be dropped.