Who do you generally find more interesting, heroes or villians?

[TallAndNerdy]

Villians

Heroes

[MCheetah]

Both. Heroes, because they sacrifice and often have to give up their personal happiness in order to do the right thing. And (well written) villains, because they are often victims of harsh circumstances and would likely not be villains if the world was just a bit nicer; meaning their origins are not 100% their own fault.

I could see myself being the hero, or the villain. ... Or, both.

[TheFlak38]

Villains who are in kind of "anti-hero" role. For example Thanos who kills of half the life in every planet. doesn't make much sense for us but makes sense for him.

[TallAndNerdy]

Was going to use him as the example when it came to modern good movie villains

[EmbraceThePain]

Voted “Villains” by accident.


To me, heroes are usually more interesting, especially if there’s some gray morality within the story or actions of the hero. A hero story where the hero knows he or she is capable of great evil, similar to or more so than the villain is another appeal of the hero to me. The hero is someone who tries to do good and is orientation is generally good, but has life is complex and being rigid in one’s thinking is usually not a possible thing. I think a general trajectory to heroism is the way to go, but the specific acts one does has to be reasonable depending on the situations. In some movies, you see the protagonist or hero doing questionable things within certain situations. Everyone knows this person is good, but they are conflicted over the things he or she does in certain situations which creates more of an ambiguity around the character’s moral philosophies and most importantly in my opinion, doesn’t lend himself to the label of a stereotypical hero.

[InventorofWarp]

Heroes can be interesting if they're done realistically.
Example: In Unknown we follow an amnesiac man who turns out to have been an international terrorist and mass murderer who ends up deciding even after learning this after a pep talk from his new paramour lady that "fuck the past, I can be what I want" and goes to stop the villains from blowing shit up and killing people instead.
That's interesting. Shows he can change from being a villainous asshole and he was someone and something completely different beforehand.
It's so much "heroes" and "villains" being interesting in one vein or the other.
It's "dynamic" versus "static".
Even characters and heroes who look static can also be dynamic: Captain America/Steve Rogers goes from a blindly loyal, idealistic young man who just wants to fight the bad guys and stop people from being hurt to a somewhat more cynical, tested and hurt man who realizes he can no longer trust the institutions that he once looked to for orders to keep him and other safe and trusts no one's hands but his own and his friends while choosing his past over his future and refusing to let go and further realizing that he may in fact be responsible for a lot of the horrible things that have happened.
His story ends when he finally chooses selfishness over selflessness, the complete opposite of Tony Stark.

[Kaneki05]

Villains at least that's what other's call them traditionally. But i am more interested in the hero's or morally grey portrayed as villains because for some reason your right away a Villain just for doing a bad thing to any human.
For example Poison ivy, from a human perspective well sure she is gonna kill you but think and stop from her perspective she is just saving plants from humans that's killed tons and hurt many of them. Who's has the right to really call her evil when a both her and humans are looking out for there own selfish needs of there species.

[FriendlyDrugDealer]

It really doesn’t matter, I like an interesting backstory, motivation and why they have the position they hold. Usually I enjoy anti heroes the most because they’re usually the most complex and fascinating because they’re facing difficult choices all the time.


I enjoy heroes like Captain America, Batman, The mandalorian, etc. I want them to explore the human element which is the most interesting part why someone puts on their suit or whatever. Anti heroes like The punisher, John Constantine, Wolverine, etc are usually complex characters who try to do the right thing in a messy way because they’re battling their own internal problems and that’s what makes their stories unique and insightful.

[Agape93]

Villains. Villains reasons can be quite complex, and even merging into hero territory for their own group. But heroes motives are usually quite simple.


After all, one sides hero is another’s villain.


A good example of this could be the protagonist of fallout 4. The normal gameplay has you fighting bad guys and saving the commonwealth. Well, ever wonder how the world may see you? The institute probably sees you as some violent raider that was allowed in to murder them all, innocent scientists and even your synth kid. Or the brotherhood of steel, perhaps they see you as some degenerate ghoul fucker stopping them from saving the commonwealth? So on and so forth. You see the perspective you want to see because of forced perspective. But you don’t look into other ones until you choose to do so.

[Anonymous]

a lot of heros i can't stand. superman and captain america i despise because they're to much of a goodie two shoes who can do no wrong and have to have court justice prevail and won't take justice into their own hands. i won't even watch a captain america movie anymore unless he's part of the avengers then i'm forced to watch his character. batman isn't even a super hero or an anti hero he's just some weirdo with psychiatric problems who dresses as a bat has no super powers and uses grappling hooks and boomerangs to fight crime. and in reality if batman was a real person he would have died on the third day of fighting crime which was documented by the people who created batman.

[BazookaTrouper]

I will admit it tends to be villains, unless they're poorly written. In a lot of franchises, villains have a side of the story that is not usually focused on as much as the heroes because the heroes are protagonists in stories as a rule. Of course, there are exceptions...

[TallAnon]

Villains because a hero does good without expecting a positive return and the whole motivation is to "just do good". A good villain has a good reason why he specifically wants to do a specific act of evil which makes sense because of his backstory and makes you think.

[Andres77]

Heroes.
There's tragedy everywhere.
In the backstory, at some point, the character consciously decides to protect the innocent or harm them.
Those that willingly bring harm to the innocent and helpless...
The villian should fear someone.

[Smoke-n-Growls]

I find villains much more compelling.

Their motivations, the way they often twist things to see themselves as heroes, etc.

[AlexanderAnttila]

That depends. I'm interested in good characters surrounded by villains, and I find some villains fascinating that consider their actions good.

[JosyJosy]

Villains always. It honestly bothers me a little when the heroes win. That's why I liked Infinity War a lot. The villain won for once

[Varanus]

I'm a sucker for a conflicted villain, especially if they think they're doing the right thing.

[exitseven]

Heroes have a bad side that they control. They derive strength from that part of their personality. They are usually very conflicted.

[Somegirl408]

villains, but i wonder if bad people find heroes interesting

[rienna888]

Villains cuz they’re usually hotter and they’re more mysterious. You just wanna learn about their past and what made them turn out that way.

[marc94]

What a world, uh. Villian worshippers... yep, things are fucked up. But there will always be Howard Roark-like heroes around.

[Curmudgeon]

But don't you see, we are now in a world where the Ellsworth Toohey scumbags are made out to be heroes and the Goward Roarks are made out to be villains.

[Curmudgeon]

Ugh, Howard Roarks, typos

[Still-alive]

well most fiction tends to be boring af without a fun or entertaining villain. they are pretty essential in that way

[Siren777]

Villains - why they do the things they do. Mainly their backstory. With heroes you know the reasoning.

[Starwitch23]

Villains. They have amazing jawline. Most of the time