Everyone loves to root for a hero, right? Wrong! Heroes are a dime a dozen, but in most media you so rarely get to see things from a villain's point of view. It is easy to make a villain that is two dimensional and whose only motivation is to be evil. However, when an anime series puts the villain of the series in the main character seat, it is an opportunity to show them as real (fictional) people with actual personalities and motivations for doing what they do. Lost legend mac os. For those that need a little more villainy in their life, try these anime recommendations.
City of Heroes (CoH) was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game which was developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCSOFT.The game was launched in North America on April 28, 2004, and in Europe by NCsoft Europe on February 4, 2005, with English, German and French servers. In the game, players created super-powered player characters that could team up with others to complete. Create your own super-villain. Modify your character's looks, weapons and personality. Over 150 playable villains and heroes, including Mr Freeze, Poison Ivy, Killer Croc, Batman, Wonder Woman and Shazam. Explore locations across the DC universe, from Metropolis to Gotham City. Villain As Protagonist Murder (26) Blood (17) Female Nudity (13) Violence (13) Bare Chested Male (12) Death (12) Gore (12) Bad Guy Wins (10) Cigarette Smoking (10) Husband Wife Relationship (10) Revenge (10) Psychopath (9) Stabbed To Death (9) Bare Breasts (8) Blood Splatter (8) Independent Film (8) Looking At Oneself In A Mirror (8) Mother Son. It is easy to make a villain that is two dimensional and whose only motivation is to be evil. However, when an anime series puts the villain of the series in the main character seat, it is an opportunity to show them as real (fictional) people with actual personalities and motivations for doing what they do.
Death Note
This series is one of two series we need to put on here just to get it out of the way. For many, Death Note was one of their first clear-cut anime series where the main protagonist was overtly the villain. Certainly he might not have started out that way, but the longer Death Note went on, the clearer it became that Light was not a good guy until it reached a feverish crescendo of crazy at the end. Light may have had good intentions at one point, but those intentions deteriorated quickly.
Code Geass
Second on our obligatory mention list of two is Code Geass. Like Death Note, this took a protagonist that may have had nice motivations in the beginning, but lost those along the way. However, Lelouch is a little more ambiguous of a main character villain than Light. He did things, ultimately that would benefit the country, but would also benefit him. Certainly a rebel is not always a villain, but some of the things that Lelouch carried out were nothing short of horrific.
Saga of Tanya the Evil
The title of this series promises a certain something, and it delivers in full. Tanya is not some misunderstood anti-hero. No, she is a straight-up black-hearted, ruthless, loli child soldier that will take any means to fulfill her goal. She a military mastermind and combine that with her cruelty, this series can come up with some completely messed up situations.
Hellsing Ultimate
In Hellsing, the main character can be debatable, but most view it as Alucard. While the original Hellsing animation paints him as more of an anti-hero, Hellsing Ultimate sees him fulfill his manga role as relatively villainous. His attachment to the Hellsing Organization is likely the only reason he doesn't just bugger off an go about his business. However, just because he has to obey certain commands doesn't stop him from enjoying the sheer pleasure of killing. He likes it. He loves it. He lives for killing.
Higurashi: When They Cry
You might be scratching your head a bit here if you have already seen this series, trying to think of how the main characters are evil. However, the girls (and Kenichi) all have distinct moments of evilness for various reasons. Through the different arcs, each girl is placed in the role of the villain, and I think that is very unique and actually what makes the show such a fun watch.
Elfen Lied
Lucy may share the main character stage in the show, but she is a distinctly villainous characters. The show goes well out of its way to make you feel sympathy for her, but she does terrible things. She has reasons for why she does all those terrible things, but she has killed both evil people and relatively innocent children for really quite morally shaky reasons.
Michiko and Hatchin
This series focuses on the titular characters who share the main character role. While Hatchin is relatively good, if only by her sheer innocence, Michiko is not. Sure, she saved Hatchin from an abusive foster family, but she did so for the kid to track down her father for her own vengeance. She is also a criminal that broke out of prison and throughout the series continues to do criminal things.
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Basic Trope: The main character, viewpoint character, and protagonist of a story, is also the story's villain. Confederate express mac os.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz is the protagonist of the story Emperor Evulz Takes Over the World, which contains Exactly What It Says on the Tin (of course). He acts in every way like a traditional Evil OverlordBig Bad, but is the main character who narrates the story.
- Exaggerated: Evulz is a both a Complete Monster and Card-Carrying Villain, who mercilessly and repeatedly breaks the fourth wall to lampshade how he's the villain.
- Downplayed:
- Nominal Hero protagonist
- Anti-Villain Protagonist
- The characters in the story can't be neatly divided into good guys and bad guys, but on the shades of grey within the show, the character is an obviously darker shade.
- The protagonist is a Well-Intentioned Extremist and genuinely believes that his actions will create a better world. He might have been an actual hero, if not for the horrific measures he takes to achieve his goals.
- 'Villain' maybe too strong of a word, but the protagonist is certainly a Jerkass.
Advertisement: - Justified: The story is Evulz writing down his memoirs for posterity: Obviously he'll not be able to use anyone but himself as the viewpoint character.
- Inverted:
- The Hero Antagonist, who is typically the main opponent of a Villain Protagonist.
- Hero Protagonist and Villain Antagonist, the traditional roles for the good guy and bad guy in most stories.
- Subverted:
- The story starts of with Emperor Evulz for the first half of the book, before suddenly switching viewpoint and main-characterhood to Bob Badass instead.
- Emperor Evulz is Good All Along.
- Emperor Evulz does start out as unreptantly evil, but he gradually becomes less evil, or outright makes a Heel–Face Turn.
Advertisement: - Double Subverted:
- It eventually switches back to Evulz for the final chapters, who remains the protagonist for the rest of the book. The parts narrated by Bob turn out to be unimportant in the grand scale of the story's narrative.
- Evulz is an Unreliable Narrator who really is a villain, but has been trying to paint himself more sympathetically.
- Parodied:
- Evulz starts the story by beating up the narrator and taking his protagonist-hood via Hostile Show Takeover. The entire rest of the story concerns Evulz abusing his narrator privileges to turn the narrative into a bad case of Her Code Name Was 'Mary Sue', while the Bob tries to break free from the story and boot Evulz out of the narrator seat.
- Emperor Evulz is a bumbling Harmless Villain and the story is about his repeated failures in proving himself to be more competent than he seems.
- Despite still being villainous and heroic respectively, Evulz constantly makes heroic speeches that would fit right in with The Cape, while the hero Bob cackles and raves like a supervillain on his plans for world peace.
Advertisement: - Zig Zagged:
- The story constantly switches viewpoint characters. Emperor Evulz is only one of them and is only the protagonist ever so often.
- the protagonist is a Heel–Face Revolving Door
- Averted: Emperor Evulz is The Hero. The story is a standard following of his hero's journey to take down Bob Badguy.
- Enforced:
- The writer wants to make a story where the main character is a bad guy who gets defeated at the end so we can see the rise and fall of a villain.
- The writer wants to make the villain the main character for the audience to relate and identify with.
- Lampshaded:Emperor Evulz: 'Admire me? You fools. Do you not know that I'm the villain of this tale.'
- Invoked: The land was taken over by the Forces of Goodness long ago; what with there being no more conflicts, the only way the story can have anything to do is if it follows up-and-coming wannabe Emperor Evulz on his path to upsetting the status quo.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Evulz begins the story by ensuring us all that he is the hero, and this will not be one of those 'follow the villain stories'.
- Discussed: Evulz and Bob have a discussion over the traditional narrative roles of hero and villain, and note that so far Evulz has been the one to go through the traditional hero's journey even though his goal is the evil one.
- Conversed: Evulz and Bob are watching a show where the villain is the main character, and have the above conversation.
- Deconstructed: Having Evulz in charge does in no way lessen his villainy, causing the whole story to turn into a serious case of Black-and-Gray Morality where the distant and ineffectual heroes have no connection to the audience and the only people given care and attention are unsympathetic and evil. All the events that would normally be Offscreen Villainy in a traditional story gets described in livid detail, showcasing just how horrible villains are in such stories and how many lives get lost while the heroes tarry and go through their personal flaws and demons.
- Reconstructed: When the heroes finally turn up, they turn out to be good and nice people, even as Evulz's viewpoint tries (and fails) to paint them in an unflattering light. Evulz eventually gets defeated in a traditional fight in the climax, with the final chapters being him lamenting his position from inside his Tailor-Made Prison and swearing eternal vengeance as goodness and light falls across the liberated land once more.
- Played For Laughs: Emperor Evulz is an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist or a Heroic Comedic Sociopath with a 'villanous' goal, Laughably Evil, or a Harmless Villain whose 'Evil Plan' is villainous but completely harmless.
- Played For Drama: Emperor Evulz does some truly horrifying things. The story treats him with every bit of reverence as deserved and does not sugarcoat any of his horrible deeds.
Movies With Villain Protagonist
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Basic Trope: The main character, viewpoint character, and protagonist of a story, is also the story's villain. Confederate express mac os.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz is the protagonist of the story Emperor Evulz Takes Over the World, which contains Exactly What It Says on the Tin (of course). He acts in every way like a traditional Evil OverlordBig Bad, but is the main character who narrates the story.
- Exaggerated: Evulz is a both a Complete Monster and Card-Carrying Villain, who mercilessly and repeatedly breaks the fourth wall to lampshade how he's the villain.
- Downplayed:
- Nominal Hero protagonist
- Anti-Villain Protagonist
- The characters in the story can't be neatly divided into good guys and bad guys, but on the shades of grey within the show, the character is an obviously darker shade.
- The protagonist is a Well-Intentioned Extremist and genuinely believes that his actions will create a better world. He might have been an actual hero, if not for the horrific measures he takes to achieve his goals.
- 'Villain' maybe too strong of a word, but the protagonist is certainly a Jerkass.
Advertisement: - Justified: The story is Evulz writing down his memoirs for posterity: Obviously he'll not be able to use anyone but himself as the viewpoint character.
- Inverted:
- The Hero Antagonist, who is typically the main opponent of a Villain Protagonist.
- Hero Protagonist and Villain Antagonist, the traditional roles for the good guy and bad guy in most stories.
- Subverted:
- The story starts of with Emperor Evulz for the first half of the book, before suddenly switching viewpoint and main-characterhood to Bob Badass instead.
- Emperor Evulz is Good All Along.
- Emperor Evulz does start out as unreptantly evil, but he gradually becomes less evil, or outright makes a Heel–Face Turn.
Advertisement: - Double Subverted:
- It eventually switches back to Evulz for the final chapters, who remains the protagonist for the rest of the book. The parts narrated by Bob turn out to be unimportant in the grand scale of the story's narrative.
- Evulz is an Unreliable Narrator who really is a villain, but has been trying to paint himself more sympathetically.
- Parodied:
- Evulz starts the story by beating up the narrator and taking his protagonist-hood via Hostile Show Takeover. The entire rest of the story concerns Evulz abusing his narrator privileges to turn the narrative into a bad case of Her Code Name Was 'Mary Sue', while the Bob tries to break free from the story and boot Evulz out of the narrator seat.
- Emperor Evulz is a bumbling Harmless Villain and the story is about his repeated failures in proving himself to be more competent than he seems.
- Despite still being villainous and heroic respectively, Evulz constantly makes heroic speeches that would fit right in with The Cape, while the hero Bob cackles and raves like a supervillain on his plans for world peace.
Advertisement: - Zig Zagged:
- The story constantly switches viewpoint characters. Emperor Evulz is only one of them and is only the protagonist ever so often.
- the protagonist is a Heel–Face Revolving Door
- Averted: Emperor Evulz is The Hero. The story is a standard following of his hero's journey to take down Bob Badguy.
- Enforced:
- The writer wants to make a story where the main character is a bad guy who gets defeated at the end so we can see the rise and fall of a villain.
- The writer wants to make the villain the main character for the audience to relate and identify with.
- Lampshaded:Emperor Evulz: 'Admire me? You fools. Do you not know that I'm the villain of this tale.'
- Invoked: The land was taken over by the Forces of Goodness long ago; what with there being no more conflicts, the only way the story can have anything to do is if it follows up-and-coming wannabe Emperor Evulz on his path to upsetting the status quo.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Evulz begins the story by ensuring us all that he is the hero, and this will not be one of those 'follow the villain stories'.
- Discussed: Evulz and Bob have a discussion over the traditional narrative roles of hero and villain, and note that so far Evulz has been the one to go through the traditional hero's journey even though his goal is the evil one.
- Conversed: Evulz and Bob are watching a show where the villain is the main character, and have the above conversation.
- Deconstructed: Having Evulz in charge does in no way lessen his villainy, causing the whole story to turn into a serious case of Black-and-Gray Morality where the distant and ineffectual heroes have no connection to the audience and the only people given care and attention are unsympathetic and evil. All the events that would normally be Offscreen Villainy in a traditional story gets described in livid detail, showcasing just how horrible villains are in such stories and how many lives get lost while the heroes tarry and go through their personal flaws and demons.
- Reconstructed: When the heroes finally turn up, they turn out to be good and nice people, even as Evulz's viewpoint tries (and fails) to paint them in an unflattering light. Evulz eventually gets defeated in a traditional fight in the climax, with the final chapters being him lamenting his position from inside his Tailor-Made Prison and swearing eternal vengeance as goodness and light falls across the liberated land once more.
- Played For Laughs: Emperor Evulz is an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist or a Heroic Comedic Sociopath with a 'villanous' goal, Laughably Evil, or a Harmless Villain whose 'Evil Plan' is villainous but completely harmless.
- Played For Drama: Emperor Evulz does some truly horrifying things. The story treats him with every bit of reverence as deserved and does not sugarcoat any of his horrible deeds.
Movies With Villain Protagonist
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