Novelists Need to Know! Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com What is a villain, anyway? What do you think of when you hear the word villain? It's the 'bad guy.' Okay. Yes, but it's more than a bad guy. Villains are without remorse. They. Are. Evil. They have no moral compass. No sense of right and wrong. They are motivated by things we cannot fathom, but we know a villain when we see one. Most of the time. The Literary Terms site indicates that the villain "comes up with plots to somehow cause harm or ruin." There is no good side...