[Dngrsone]

Well, there are no villians, really-- I mean, there are damn few people who decide, "Oh, think I will be evil today."

There are people who earn or are given a label as villian, but in their minds, they are still the hero of their own story.

Especially now, when classic villians are getting their own stories (Maleficent for example), it is necessary to treat them not as 'black hats' or 'evil villians' but as adversaries in the story currently being written.

I say it is necessary because you don't know when you will have to come back and look at the other side of the story. It is necessary so you know how that character will act as the plot advances; otherwise you are just checking boxes and the story suffers (any way I can convince script writers of this?).