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[momemordrid]

You can even make villains be sympathetic without making the good guys evil!  Sometimes even good guys respond with excessive force, and there's always the fact that they're just plain standing in the way of the villains' plans.  You can have non-evil antagonists.  I'm sick of reading fanfic that gets the villains so spot-on and then suddenly makes the good guys wildly ooc.  I like it when the villains are the fic's protagonists because they're cool and dark and evil, not because they're morally superior!  Not every villain is Dr. Horrible!  Sometimes the opposing "heroes" actually are good guys.  This is ok.

Comments

[laetina.livejournal.com]

Too much bad fanfic? That is a really obnoxious thing to happen. It's right up there with turning the girlfriend of a character into a bitch so you can get two other characters together.

[(Anonymous)]

The worst part is it was *good* fanfic, right up til the point where the "good" guys randomly tried to murder the villain for no real reason. The villains, who the story centered around, were really well done, but the heroes' characterization was all shot to hell. :(
-Mome Lazy