So, this is my last column. In my first, I wrote about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s being the best film released in 2018, and in my second, I took a look at the history of Marvel comics and the ...

What makes a good reality TV villain? What impact does young marriage have on people? Latter-day Saint Rebbie Brassfield and ...

Kelly is a South African writer and gamer who loves all things fantasy. Her favorite games include WoW, BG3 and Elder Scrolls. World of Warcraft boasts some of the fantasy world’s greatest villains, ...

Watching “Superman” last Sunday reminded me of something I missed very dearly: I missed hating a fictional villain so much that I can feel the hatred in my bones. Lex Luthor is undoubtedly one of ...

Welcome to Derry, Margo Banks from Hunting Wives, Vecna from Stranger Things, and more make our list of the best 2025 TV ...

It isn’t hard to write a good anime villain—there are countless examples of brilliantly bone-chilling anime villains—but it’s hard to write one of the best. The simple truth is that there are a lot of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about women in comedy. Sometimes it is more fun to be evil. Movie villains are often the best part of the film. The best ...

One of the most crucial parts of any piece of narrative fiction is to introduce some external force that gives the main characters trouble for one reason or another. This can be anything from abstract ...

There’s nothing worse than a bad villain. I’m not talking about villains we “love to hate”—pure evil, effective, terrifying. I’m talking about stock bad guys. Flat, forgettable foils. Paint-by-numbers ...