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

“You can either choose to let the world dominate you, or you can dominate the world”
― Steph Sinclair, 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

“But even an angel has to put her halo down from time to time.”
― Adam Silvera, Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy