Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-29414935-20191217152856/@comment-29414935-20191229122012

What do you think, does it ruin a villain who is Pure Evil if he later somehow shows positive factors and so isn't counting anymore?

Mostly in my stories, if a villain is irredeemable evil, he/she stays that way. Because why would they change if they don't show any empathy or positive factor in their first appearance?

But with one villain, I have done it now. The lizard general who worked together with the master robot to try to commit mass genocide. Remember the two? I ask you if they would count. Now the lizard general can't count anymore, just the robot. Because in the later parts I make him more complex and positive. Even if it's "just" for a video game story. But something inside of me, always wanted him to feel some remorse for his actions. So I think I'm gonna give him a tragedy, a backstory that explains why he has so much anger and hatred inside of him, so we can understand him a little bit, even if he is still very evil. He shows remorse in killing Kate's parents in a war because they were outstanders and maybe it wasn't his intention. And he shows that he has honor and fights fair.

So would this ruin his first heartless and cruel personality if I would give him these many positive factors?

I mean, I just had it with one villain, the other way around. With him, it was that he was a generic villain at the beginning of the story but got worse and worse in the course of it, at the point he was so vengeful and his hatred for the protagonist became so big so he just wanted to destroy the entire universe. It's the alien warlord, the main antagonist of the one story, if you remember him.