What is an Anti-VILLAIN?

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  @TheTaleFoundry · 3 years ago · pinned

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  @NoNo-zk1rx · 3 years ago

  I think Dr. Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb is a textbook “anti-villain.” Only technically a bad guy, but is still a caring father and best friends with Perry the Platypus. Whenever a real threat comes around, he’s almost always on the side of good.

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  @WhaleManMan · 3 years ago (edited)

  Anti-Hero= Someone not so heroic who is still on the side of good.<br>Anti-Villain=Someone not so villainous who is still on the side of evil.

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  @gyiouss · 3 years ago

  I absolutely love the &quot;polite villain&quot; - someone who you meet at first doing some good thing, saving a kitten, whatever, then at some point their actual goal becomes clear.

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  @calmzy325 · 2 years ago

  Anti-Hero: Acts like a Villain but is ultimately a hero<br>Anti-Villain: Acts like a Hero but is ultimately a Villain

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  @iamsushi1056 · 3 years ago

  I feel like antihero, and even more so, antivillain, are missing pieces that make up &quot;middle steps&quot; between hero and villain, and once you consider all four you start to see it more as a spectrum

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  @yokokurama5174 · 3 years ago

  &quot;Oh you are a villain alright, just not an ANTI one!&quot; <br>&quot;Oh yeah? And what&apos;s the difference?&quot;<br>&quot;INTENTION!!&quot;

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  @Altsncro · 3 years ago

  Anti-Villians and Anti-heroes are by far one of my favorite tropes solely because of how these charachters can easily flip and change roles while forcing a audience to question their own morality alongside the charachters. The most important bit is that these charachters create a difficult challenge for the Protagonists, the question of &quot;What if we are wrong&quot; that is exceeded by the catharsis and possblty of a twist revealing that the Protagonists were in the wrong.,

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  @darkmatter9643 · 2 years ago

  You are bad guy, but that does not mean you are bad guy

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  @aquilliusranger2137 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Another great example of an anti-villain is Megamind, a “villain” who’s former backstory is pretty tragic knowing he basically coped with being ostracized along with his fish friend for being literally different from his classmates, and that makes me relate to him more immensely.<br><br>Him becoming a predicted “villain” was one thing, Megamind becoming both a hero and an anti-villain is something else entirely. I love that about him.

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  @Grumpy_old_Boot · 3 years ago

  Magneto in the Marvel comic universe, kept flipping between Villain, anti-villain, anti-hero and even hero in a few stories.<br>A wonderfully complex character in many ways.

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  @GlacialSkyfarer · 3 years ago

  I don&apos;t know if he&apos;s mentioned here, but Bowser is literally only evil if he&apos;s the only threat present. Even then, he&apos;s happy to play sports and race with people. As soon as any bigger threat comes along, such as the shroobs or cackletta, he&apos;s immediately on the side of the Mario brothers.

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