Marta Silva

“Villains' backstories are all about opportunities and choices. Throughout, we are shown the various crossroads where they could have turned back and continued to live a life of good. We, the audience, are torn between wanting them to cross over to the dark side and hoping that maybe this time they won't. Characters with agency are more complex, which is why I love them so much. Villains do horrible things, and we still root for them in spite of that. We are drawn to people who make mistakes, like us. Very few of us are stalwart and true 100 percent of the time. Villains represent what we cannot and will not do in real life.”
― Samantha Lane, Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

“Over the years, our society has become fascinated with characters who are not fully evil or fully good, but instead lie somewhere in the middle. Our obsession with antiheroes and antivillains is a result of social ideals being rewritten. We are unmaking the concept of wickedness. As the popularity of the 'heroes' in Batman, The Punisher, and Suicide Squad shows, the lines between heroes and villains have become blurred.”
― Samantha Lane, Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

“If other's people's bodies are temples, yours is a war machine with built-in traps, baby.”
― Steph Sinclair, Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

“And sometimes the princess needs to get off her ass, pick up a sword, and slay the dragon herself.”
― Ameriie, Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy