Design your own villain
Task 1: Finish the following sentence in your own words to create a personal definition:
A villain is .................................................................................................................................................
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Task 2: Look at the selection of images and quotes below, annotating them with your first
impressions in terms of the idea of villainy.
“Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and
everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos…” The Joker,
Batman: The Dark Knight
“You underestimate the power of the dark side… If you will not fight,
then you will meet your destiny.” Darth Vader, The Return of the
Jedi
“Don’t you turn your back on me, Harry Potter! I want you to look at
me when I kill you! I want to see the light leave your eyes!” Lord
Voldemort, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J. K. Rowling)
“He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of
the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its
web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every
quiver of each of them.” Sherlock Holmes describing Professor
Moriarty, The Final Problem (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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Design your own villain
Task 3: Having considered the quotations above – what do you think are the five most important
traits of a villain?
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Task 4: Now, have a go at designing your own villain. You could do this entirely from your own
imagination, or you could do so by taking aspects of different well known villains to ‘collage’
together your baddie. Choose whether you wish to draw and annotate, or to write a descriptive
paragraph, for your villain. You should consider their: age, gender, profession, status, appearance,
clothing and personality.
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