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Essential Traits Of An Effective And Memorable Fantasy Fiction Villain

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Essential Traits of an Effective and Memorable Fantasy Fiction Villain
In almost every book I’ve read, there has always been that one character everyone loves to hate and whose punishment or death readers anticipate until the very end of the story. Of course, I’m talking about the antagonists.
In my opinion, a story without an antagonist(s) is boring. The absence of a person we would love to hate when reading a story offers no excitement to readers who always expect a couple of bad guys to give the protagonist(s) a hard time, to make life difficult for the person we would cheer on. Admit it, we greatly dislike the bad guys, but without them, we would not be cheering for the people whom we want to win in the end.
To sum it up, it is the antagonist

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