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What is a hero without a villain?
Useless.What is a villain without a hero?
Successful.Not successful, bored.
Well, that depends on what the villain wants.
Okay, wait, this is actually a great question for writers. What IS your villain without the hero?
In Star Wars, Palpatine was successful. He was just where he wanted to be, till the hero came along and stirred up his desire to collect the whole set. Vader, though? Without the hero, what he was was lost.
Moriarty, now: he was bored.
But in Farscape, the villain needed the hero to succeed! And that engine–because it was a need, as intense for Scorpius as eating or breathing–drove a lot of the series.
And then you’ve got those villains who, without the hero, would be smaller than they are, or–particularly tragically–maybe wouldn’t even be villains at all. Batman’s Rogues Gallery is famous for this, with Two Face a great example of the latter. The recent movie’s Ultron is another.
Or there’s Loki, for whom the question is the entire point. What would Loki be without Thor? Would he be better? Worse? The fact that none of them will ever know haunts them all.
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