Your average blockbuster is fraught with legal dilemmas. Sure, a gang of superheroes have just saved the world, but does that let them off the hook for destroying downtown? Does the heir of an ...

Fiction has always been a sanctuary for exploring the darker corners of our personality. Through complex and morally ambiguous characters, we can confront aspects of ourselves that we might otherwise ...

Entertaining stories, both fictional and ostensibly real, usually rely on a balance of likable characters you can root for and dastardly villains you can hate. More accurately, they rely on villains ...

Vince Gilligan, who created one of the most iconic villains of all time in Walter White, is calling for creators to make more "old fashioned" heroes to contrast the real world "where bad guys, the ...

Redemption arcs in fiction are supposed to mark growth, but some characters seem to get handed a redemption badge without doing much of anything to deserve it. They help the heroes once, maybe twice, ...

From a very young age, we’re socialised to view the world as being made up of “goodies” and “baddies”. When you’re a child fooling around with your friends in the playground, nobody ever wants to be ...