Talk:Rachel/@comment-28568301-20170522073856/@comment-36131522-20190808073253

"Villains act, Heroes react" is an interesting insight which kind of helps to deconstruct the whole duality to some extent and should get you to question what it really means to be considered a "Villain" or "Hero".

"Hero" is just a character that gets widely accepted by others within their universe for their behavior, while "Villain" is one that is negatively judged. That is the only objective way to understand the terms since different readers will have very different moral judgements and interpretations of characters and there is no absolute way to determine who is Good or Evil.

In most stories "Heroes" do all sorts of shady or messed-up things but since they are accepted overall it's ignored. While "Villains" can have noble goals but it's ignored. So there is a lot going on in these ideas.

"A hero is a villain with good PR" is one way to think about it if you ask me.

There is also the case that in many of these manga and manhwa the typical hero is super naive sheltered buffoonish, and kind of drifts about randomly just responding to whatever is right in front of them. While a "villain" may be far more intelligent and wise and executing a long term plan. Yet we are supposed to side with the foolish character? It's bizarre.