Top 2 Reasons why Villains make better Heroes

Writing more memorable characters

Stephen T. Harper
Curiosity Never Killed the Writer
10 min readMay 12, 2020

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Tony Stark, Sam Spade, Rhett Butler, James Bond, Jack Sparrow, Han Solo… what do these characters have in common?

Answer: All of them are basically bad guys. They are selfish, dangerous, ‘do unto others before they can do unto you’ types, but with one unforgivable character flaw for a villain. They all…

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