Hey you!
Yes, you!
Are you an aspiring writer on fanpop?
Most likely you are, or you wouldn't be reading this! (ahem) Anyway, this is a guide to all things evil- feel free to skip around for ideas!
PART 1: THE VILLAIN
Every story has a villain. Which one is right for you? We writers have an extensive collection of all villains imaginable! Look down for a few of them.
HARMLESS VILLAIN: Usually used in comedy, a harmless villain creates overly complex plans to commit petty crimes, like stealing a watch or ding-dong ditching. For extra laughs, have the hero/heroine treat the villain as a serious threat.
ALIENS AND MONSTERS: Title says it all. Strange aliens from distant planets come to attack earth, or monsters are coming from the Secret Island of Doom to kill us all. The hero must save us from these monstrosities!
ARTIFACT OF DOOM: An inanimate object of power which is, essentially, the villain (such as the One Ring from Lord of the Rings) The characters must find a way to destroy it as it attemps to possess them, kill them, etc.
AX CRAZY: An "ax crazy" character is someone who is psychologically unstable and presents a clear danger to others. Ax crazies are capable of extreme violence, and with no way of knowing just what will set them off, this makes them extremely frightening to deal with. This mainly differentiates them from other eccentric characters who may themselves be obsessive, weird or seemingly crazy, but use this condition hand in hand with doing good, or at least not being in the way.
Despite the title, ax crazies aren't limited to using axes — most of them favor big knives, straight razors, or other nasty implements of gory death, with the truly crazy among them favoring the chainsaw, and the best of them, chainsaw axes. (Jack Torrance from the Shining is an example)
THE BARONESS: A female villain with a chilly disposition. She usually wears black and has a creepy, odd accent.
THE BIG BAD: The main villain of the story, the most powerful, strong, and (sometimes) the most ugly. S/he is the one behind the hero's whole adventure, the one who sends out the aliens/enemy fighter jets/ghost warriors/evil stealth ninjas/what-have-you. (Voldemort)
THE BIGGER BAD: So Bob protagonist has just defeated the supposed big bad, when suddenly he realizes that this man was actually just a puppet of an even bigger evil force. (ex-Fantastic Four, when the Silver Surfer is caught, it is revealed that the real danger is an alien coming to destroy the planet)
THE BRUTE-A huge, strong, villain who feels no emotion and lives to kill. Usually a gigantic evil beast, but can also be a posessed super powered human.
THE BULLY-The evil kid at school who hurts the protagonist in any way possible, physically and emotionally. NOTE: In order to count as a bully, they do not just sit around and roll their eyes at a character and say "I don't like you"...they must punch people in the eyes and say "I hate you (insert insult)
CIRCUS OF FEAR: Overnight, the circus came to town. But something's wrong — very wrong. The circus music, which should be cheerful, seems menacing. The attractions (especially the freak display) seem off, the cotton candy is a sickly shade of green, the knife thrower doesn't miss, and the clowns...well, the less said about the clowns the better.
And people are disappearing, either consumed by or turned into the circus denizens. The killer amusement park is also like this.
CREEPY CHILDREN: They look sweet, innocent, even angelic, but there's something not quite right about them, they're too calm, too knowing.. They aren't really children anymore; perhaps they're hypnotized. (ex. Esther, from Orphan)
DEADLY DOCTOR: A Deadly Doctor, simply put, is someone who fights or kills with a medical motif, usually using syringes, pills, etc.
ELDCRITCH ABOMINATION: (Explanation from another webstie)How to describe these grotesque absurdities of natural law? There are no words that can encompass such disgusting foulness, not in English or any other human tongue. They are the Other, Alien beyond comprehension, their sole fact that they exist an affront to all the sanity and reason on which we depend. We could speak of painfully dissonant noises and nauseous colours of no physical hue, ichor-dripping vermiform tentacles and abyssal yonic voids, all structured and characterized with complex despicable mathematics, but those are mere superficialities. Monstrous and sick though these stigmata are, they do not define the abominations; they are merely among some of the more common symptoms of their underlying wrongness.
ENEMY WITHIN: Something-a demon, ghost, or other entity-is taking over our protagonist's body. It's getting stronger, s/he's becoming posessed with unexplained rage. May turn into an ax maniac. (Ex.The Shining, again)
EVIL CHEF: Like John Silver in Treasure Island-a chef that is evil. May use cooking skills or tools (big pointy knives) to try to kill the protagonist. Sometimes, they will attempt to poison them.
EVIL OLD GUY: Sauron, witch of the west, and Voldemort's pretty old, isn't he? The evil old guy is anyone who is above sixty and still commiting heinous crimes.
Remember, next time Mr. Jenkins tells you to get off his lawn, listen-he might be hiding a laser under his rocking chair.
EVIL TWIN-Someone who looks exactly like the protagonist, but is evil. Sometimes the good guy will be mistaken for the evil twin and arrested; sometimes the good guys will unknowingly aid the evil twin or the bad guys the good twin.
FRIENDLY ENEMY- A kind, sympathetic villain who the protagonist may care about as they ruin his/her entire operation.
GLORY HOUND-This guy cares nothing about money or gain, just fame and glory, and s/he is willing to kill and sacrifice thousands to get it.
HERO KILLER-The villain who kills heros for the fun of it, or maybe to show off. They also may be the brute.
INVASION OF THE CHILDREN SNATCHERS-the evil, terrible villains (sometimes aliens) who steal hundreds of innocent children.
KILLER FORMER HERO-He used to be a good guy. Then (insert name here) killed (insert friend name here) Now, he's insane and in constant pursuit of revenge, possibly killing his former friends.
MAD SCIENTIST-The man who pursues science so much he goes insane over it. Two examples are: Dr Jekyll and Dr. Frankenstein.
THE MOLE: The traitor who pretends to be loyal to the protagonists while actually loyal to the Big Bad. (Snape, the triple agent, and Peter Pettigrew)
NECROMANTIC-The villain obsessed with trying to bring someone back from the dead.
OPPOSING SPORTS TEAM-The rival soccer/baseball/cricket/football/magical alien basketball team that the protagonists need to beat.
PEOPLE PUPPETS-Bad guys attempt to control someone's body like a pupper. Unlike the Evil WIthin, this danger comes from an outside source.
POISONOUS CAPTIVE: The captive of the protagonists who starts fights, gets ahold of crucial information, messes up some plan, and eventually escapes.
PSYCHO EX-The ex boyfriend or ex girlfriend turns into an ax maniac.
RIVAL TURNED EVIL-What starts out as a friendly competition gets out of hand when a character does something completely terrible and out of hand.
SECRET POLICE: The evil secret police will kidnap, kill, and leave suspicious notes. The protagonist must stop them.
SERIAL KILLER: Someone who kills repeatedly. May be a brute or ax maniac.
STALKER-someone who relentlessly pursues the hero/heroine for some reason. They watch them sleep and attempt to control their actions. May be a member of the secret police.
TYKEBOMB-A villain trained since birth to be evil.
VILLAIN WITH GOOD PUBLICITY-A villain who, for some reason, everyone loves and treats with respect. Except our smart protagonist. S/he is relentlessy criticized for assuming the villain with good publicity is a villain, and ostricized. In the end, s/he's right.
THE VIRUS- A disease spread by villains such as zombies.
WHO'S LAUGHING NOW:A villain who finally gets revenge, say Bob protagonist once pulled a prank on Alice that left her embarassed and humiliated for the rest of her life. He laughed his head off. Now, much later, Alice comes back to him armed with a gigantic steel robot and shouts, as she repeatedly hurts him "WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?!"
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I hope you enjoyed our selection of villains! Evil inc has more availible, just browse the web and you're bound to find all sorts of bad guys for your story!
Evil inc. sells more than just villains, of course! You also need to buy an evil lair. Let's see a few!
BEDLAM HOUSE-An extremely terrible insane asylum straight out of the 19th century, complete with torture devices and bloody walls. The only sounds you'll hear are electric whirrings and screams, and your neighbors will be insane. (50% off!)
HOTEL OF NO RETURN: Deadly hotel, complete with death traps, poltergeist, and the occasional eldcritch abomination and portal to an alternate universe. Our staff consists of oddly quiet men with flickering red eyes who can walk through walls and disappear at odd moments. Stephen King's the Shining took place in one of Evil Inc's finest Hotel of No Return!
OLD DARK HOUSE- It's creepy, abandoned, haunted, probably has dead bodies in the basement, and now its yours for the low low price of zero dollars! Lightning strikes and rainstorms are optional.
TOWN WITH A DARK SECRET- At first, everything here seems ordinary and happy (BORING) and then.........you see the villagers acting strangely. Aliens and eldcritch abominations optional with purchase.
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Here at Evil Inc. we also sell machines of villainy! Here are a few for you:
DESTRUCTO RAY-Maybe it comes from a satellite or gigantic machine, but it can destroy the world! (Unless Alice and Bob protagonist can stop it-but what are the odds?)
HANGING NOOSE-Contrary to popular belief, a noose is not meant to suffocate a person. Its supposed to break their neck. However, hangmen can "fix" the ropes so that the victim will be suffocated-a full set is yours for just nine dollars!
DARK DANK DUNGEON-Where does the villain keep the protagonist while deciding their grusome fate? In the dark dank dungeon in thier dark dank fortress, of course! No hideout is complete without the stone floor, barred cells, rusted chains, scattered bones, and torches in brackets.
:O............:An actual form of torture used by viking Ivar the Boneless,so awful, so disgusting:
(The torso of a living man was cut open while he was still alive. Men would then reach in and pull his lungs to the side, so that they spread out from each other and formed "wings". They did this slowly to inflict as much pain as possible.)Recommended for total beasts ONLY.
GUILLOTINE: Invented during the french revolution, the guillotine is an old device. A head would be placed on top of a wooden slate. A rope was cut, sending a blade down from above and-
BOILING HOT WATER: Want your heros to die slowly? Put them in a locked room slowly filling with boiling water. Not like they'll escape....
SHARK TANK: Hang the protagonist above a tank of sharks (or snakes, or spikes) and then cut the rope. They DEFINITELY won't escape this one.
SHRINK RAY: WAZAM! You just shrunk your fish tank, computer, desk, chair-aren't shrink rays cool?
HYPNOSIS DEVICE: Hypnotizin' time! There's so many villainous things you can do with one of these! Perhaps you can force two heros to fight each other, or take over the world! (on sale!)
SUPER AMAZING FLYING DEVICE OF DOOM: Perhaps its a blimp full of treasure. Perhaps its your own flying city. Perhaps its a flying hypnosis device. Maybe it's all three. :O
NET TRAP: Hero walks in forest. Hero steps on net. Net carries hero up into tree. Easy and cheap.
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We hope you found our various products enticing and cool, and we hope you order some for your novel.
Have any suggestions for other things to add to the Evil inc. Catalogue? Comment below!
Yes, you!
Are you an aspiring writer on fanpop?
Most likely you are, or you wouldn't be reading this! (ahem) Anyway, this is a guide to all things evil- feel free to skip around for ideas!
PART 1: THE VILLAIN
Every story has a villain. Which one is right for you? We writers have an extensive collection of all villains imaginable! Look down for a few of them.
HARMLESS VILLAIN: Usually used in comedy, a harmless villain creates overly complex plans to commit petty crimes, like stealing a watch or ding-dong ditching. For extra laughs, have the hero/heroine treat the villain as a serious threat.
ALIENS AND MONSTERS: Title says it all. Strange aliens from distant planets come to attack earth, or monsters are coming from the Secret Island of Doom to kill us all. The hero must save us from these monstrosities!
ARTIFACT OF DOOM: An inanimate object of power which is, essentially, the villain (such as the One Ring from Lord of the Rings) The characters must find a way to destroy it as it attemps to possess them, kill them, etc.
AX CRAZY: An "ax crazy" character is someone who is psychologically unstable and presents a clear danger to others. Ax crazies are capable of extreme violence, and with no way of knowing just what will set them off, this makes them extremely frightening to deal with. This mainly differentiates them from other eccentric characters who may themselves be obsessive, weird or seemingly crazy, but use this condition hand in hand with doing good, or at least not being in the way.
Despite the title, ax crazies aren't limited to using axes — most of them favor big knives, straight razors, or other nasty implements of gory death, with the truly crazy among them favoring the chainsaw, and the best of them, chainsaw axes. (Jack Torrance from the Shining is an example)
THE BARONESS: A female villain with a chilly disposition. She usually wears black and has a creepy, odd accent.
THE BIG BAD: The main villain of the story, the most powerful, strong, and (sometimes) the most ugly. S/he is the one behind the hero's whole adventure, the one who sends out the aliens/enemy fighter jets/ghost warriors/evil stealth ninjas/what-have-you. (Voldemort)
THE BIGGER BAD: So Bob protagonist has just defeated the supposed big bad, when suddenly he realizes that this man was actually just a puppet of an even bigger evil force. (ex-Fantastic Four, when the Silver Surfer is caught, it is revealed that the real danger is an alien coming to destroy the planet)
THE BRUTE-A huge, strong, villain who feels no emotion and lives to kill. Usually a gigantic evil beast, but can also be a posessed super powered human.
THE BULLY-The evil kid at school who hurts the protagonist in any way possible, physically and emotionally. NOTE: In order to count as a bully, they do not just sit around and roll their eyes at a character and say "I don't like you"...they must punch people in the eyes and say "I hate you (insert insult)
CIRCUS OF FEAR: Overnight, the circus came to town. But something's wrong — very wrong. The circus music, which should be cheerful, seems menacing. The attractions (especially the freak display) seem off, the cotton candy is a sickly shade of green, the knife thrower doesn't miss, and the clowns...well, the less said about the clowns the better.
And people are disappearing, either consumed by or turned into the circus denizens. The killer amusement park is also like this.
CREEPY CHILDREN: They look sweet, innocent, even angelic, but there's something not quite right about them, they're too calm, too knowing.. They aren't really children anymore; perhaps they're hypnotized. (ex. Esther, from Orphan)
DEADLY DOCTOR: A Deadly Doctor, simply put, is someone who fights or kills with a medical motif, usually using syringes, pills, etc.
ELDCRITCH ABOMINATION: (Explanation from another webstie)How to describe these grotesque absurdities of natural law? There are no words that can encompass such disgusting foulness, not in English or any other human tongue. They are the Other, Alien beyond comprehension, their sole fact that they exist an affront to all the sanity and reason on which we depend. We could speak of painfully dissonant noises and nauseous colours of no physical hue, ichor-dripping vermiform tentacles and abyssal yonic voids, all structured and characterized with complex despicable mathematics, but those are mere superficialities. Monstrous and sick though these stigmata are, they do not define the abominations; they are merely among some of the more common symptoms of their underlying wrongness.
ENEMY WITHIN: Something-a demon, ghost, or other entity-is taking over our protagonist's body. It's getting stronger, s/he's becoming posessed with unexplained rage. May turn into an ax maniac. (Ex.The Shining, again)
EVIL CHEF: Like John Silver in Treasure Island-a chef that is evil. May use cooking skills or tools (big pointy knives) to try to kill the protagonist. Sometimes, they will attempt to poison them.
EVIL OLD GUY: Sauron, witch of the west, and Voldemort's pretty old, isn't he? The evil old guy is anyone who is above sixty and still commiting heinous crimes.
Remember, next time Mr. Jenkins tells you to get off his lawn, listen-he might be hiding a laser under his rocking chair.
EVIL TWIN-Someone who looks exactly like the protagonist, but is evil. Sometimes the good guy will be mistaken for the evil twin and arrested; sometimes the good guys will unknowingly aid the evil twin or the bad guys the good twin.
FRIENDLY ENEMY- A kind, sympathetic villain who the protagonist may care about as they ruin his/her entire operation.
GLORY HOUND-This guy cares nothing about money or gain, just fame and glory, and s/he is willing to kill and sacrifice thousands to get it.
HERO KILLER-The villain who kills heros for the fun of it, or maybe to show off. They also may be the brute.
INVASION OF THE CHILDREN SNATCHERS-the evil, terrible villains (sometimes aliens) who steal hundreds of innocent children.
KILLER FORMER HERO-He used to be a good guy. Then (insert name here) killed (insert friend name here) Now, he's insane and in constant pursuit of revenge, possibly killing his former friends.
MAD SCIENTIST-The man who pursues science so much he goes insane over it. Two examples are: Dr Jekyll and Dr. Frankenstein.
THE MOLE: The traitor who pretends to be loyal to the protagonists while actually loyal to the Big Bad. (Snape, the triple agent, and Peter Pettigrew)
NECROMANTIC-The villain obsessed with trying to bring someone back from the dead.
OPPOSING SPORTS TEAM-The rival soccer/baseball/cricket/football/magical alien basketball team that the protagonists need to beat.
PEOPLE PUPPETS-Bad guys attempt to control someone's body like a pupper. Unlike the Evil WIthin, this danger comes from an outside source.
POISONOUS CAPTIVE: The captive of the protagonists who starts fights, gets ahold of crucial information, messes up some plan, and eventually escapes.
PSYCHO EX-The ex boyfriend or ex girlfriend turns into an ax maniac.
RIVAL TURNED EVIL-What starts out as a friendly competition gets out of hand when a character does something completely terrible and out of hand.
SECRET POLICE: The evil secret police will kidnap, kill, and leave suspicious notes. The protagonist must stop them.
SERIAL KILLER: Someone who kills repeatedly. May be a brute or ax maniac.
STALKER-someone who relentlessly pursues the hero/heroine for some reason. They watch them sleep and attempt to control their actions. May be a member of the secret police.
TYKEBOMB-A villain trained since birth to be evil.
VILLAIN WITH GOOD PUBLICITY-A villain who, for some reason, everyone loves and treats with respect. Except our smart protagonist. S/he is relentlessy criticized for assuming the villain with good publicity is a villain, and ostricized. In the end, s/he's right.
THE VIRUS- A disease spread by villains such as zombies.
WHO'S LAUGHING NOW:A villain who finally gets revenge, say Bob protagonist once pulled a prank on Alice that left her embarassed and humiliated for the rest of her life. He laughed his head off. Now, much later, Alice comes back to him armed with a gigantic steel robot and shouts, as she repeatedly hurts him "WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?!"
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I hope you enjoyed our selection of villains! Evil inc has more availible, just browse the web and you're bound to find all sorts of bad guys for your story!
Evil inc. sells more than just villains, of course! You also need to buy an evil lair. Let's see a few!
BEDLAM HOUSE-An extremely terrible insane asylum straight out of the 19th century, complete with torture devices and bloody walls. The only sounds you'll hear are electric whirrings and screams, and your neighbors will be insane. (50% off!)
HOTEL OF NO RETURN: Deadly hotel, complete with death traps, poltergeist, and the occasional eldcritch abomination and portal to an alternate universe. Our staff consists of oddly quiet men with flickering red eyes who can walk through walls and disappear at odd moments. Stephen King's the Shining took place in one of Evil Inc's finest Hotel of No Return!
OLD DARK HOUSE- It's creepy, abandoned, haunted, probably has dead bodies in the basement, and now its yours for the low low price of zero dollars! Lightning strikes and rainstorms are optional.
TOWN WITH A DARK SECRET- At first, everything here seems ordinary and happy (BORING) and then.........you see the villagers acting strangely. Aliens and eldcritch abominations optional with purchase.
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Here at Evil Inc. we also sell machines of villainy! Here are a few for you:
DESTRUCTO RAY-Maybe it comes from a satellite or gigantic machine, but it can destroy the world! (Unless Alice and Bob protagonist can stop it-but what are the odds?)
HANGING NOOSE-Contrary to popular belief, a noose is not meant to suffocate a person. Its supposed to break their neck. However, hangmen can "fix" the ropes so that the victim will be suffocated-a full set is yours for just nine dollars!
DARK DANK DUNGEON-Where does the villain keep the protagonist while deciding their grusome fate? In the dark dank dungeon in thier dark dank fortress, of course! No hideout is complete without the stone floor, barred cells, rusted chains, scattered bones, and torches in brackets.
:O............:An actual form of torture used by viking Ivar the Boneless,so awful, so disgusting:
(The torso of a living man was cut open while he was still alive. Men would then reach in and pull his lungs to the side, so that they spread out from each other and formed "wings". They did this slowly to inflict as much pain as possible.)Recommended for total beasts ONLY.
GUILLOTINE: Invented during the french revolution, the guillotine is an old device. A head would be placed on top of a wooden slate. A rope was cut, sending a blade down from above and-
BOILING HOT WATER: Want your heros to die slowly? Put them in a locked room slowly filling with boiling water. Not like they'll escape....
SHARK TANK: Hang the protagonist above a tank of sharks (or snakes, or spikes) and then cut the rope. They DEFINITELY won't escape this one.
SHRINK RAY: WAZAM! You just shrunk your fish tank, computer, desk, chair-aren't shrink rays cool?
HYPNOSIS DEVICE: Hypnotizin' time! There's so many villainous things you can do with one of these! Perhaps you can force two heros to fight each other, or take over the world! (on sale!)
SUPER AMAZING FLYING DEVICE OF DOOM: Perhaps its a blimp full of treasure. Perhaps its your own flying city. Perhaps its a flying hypnosis device. Maybe it's all three. :O
NET TRAP: Hero walks in forest. Hero steps on net. Net carries hero up into tree. Easy and cheap.
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We hope you found our various products enticing and cool, and we hope you order some for your novel.
Have any suggestions for other things to add to the Evil inc. Catalogue? Comment below!
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