Motives for a villain?

Question

I'm looking for some Motives for a villain, a reason for them to be the antagonist. Cliches are welcome.

Examples: Villain is father trying to rule the world.

I would prefer that they lean towards the villain interfering with my Protagonist and heroes lives, not the other way around. James Bond always goes after a villain to stop them, I want motives for a Villain to attack the Hero instead, but anything is welcome.

Answer 1

I suppose you could have a villain whose only motive is to watch the world cave into itself, sort of like Joker in the batman movies, he plays on human nature rather then elaborate plots to gain money or fame. Now this villain would go after a hero because what's the one thing that can stop anarchy? A Hero, as much as some movies and comics hate to admit, Heroes follow the rules. Therefore a villain whose motive is to cause anarchy, would find a hero quiet annoying, this would lead him/her to seek out the hero, rather then the other way around.

I hopes this helps

Good luck

Answer 2

the protagonist chopped the villains hand off and fed it to a crocidile.

never smile at a crocodile... oh you can't get friendly with a....

Answer 3

You can have the villian and Hero as former best friends ,but now the Villian wants to kill the hero because he has givin up and believes mankind isnt worth savin while the Hero believes in Hope and thinks its worth saving and is a threat to the Villians plans of destruction.

Or they could be Step Bothers and dont see eye to eye and have the same scenario as above.

Answer 4

The villain is upset that everytime he goes to the market they do not have the correct sized block of cheese already packaged.  You know the type, the ones the deli cuts up and puts in saran wrap packaging.  He is obsessed with the number 1.3333, so he is seeking a 1 1/3 lb block of smoked cheddar cheese.  This freakin drives him mad because he can't find it anywhere.  He can not ask for it, as this would hurt his ego.  It needs to be already there ready for him to pick up.

Answer 5

finish what daddy started?

prove somone wrong?

ego?

Power?

dunno what else

Answer 6

Villain paying back a hero for how he ruined the villains life?  

Answer 7

Make the Hero the Villian by how society judges him/her. (IE/ make them Muslim in America, or make them an American in Saudi Arabia etc) play around with your reader's pre-conceptions - that's where the most interesting anti-heroes come from.

Answer 8

all motives for crimes are greed, jealousy, revenge.  you could have a misplaced sense of justice.

Answer 9

have the women that the hero is dating actucally once dated the villian and the hero took her from him and so now he is pissed because he still loves her.  

Answer 10

maybe be cause of jelousy, maybe the villain lead a hard life, no one appreciating him and that, and well the hero had a good life, he didnt apprecitae it at all.

and the villain wants him to suffer because of it.

saying this this the villain should have a bad past, maybe he was a good kid whoalways like to read and lean and his father was a drunk and his mother was a s**t, and they treated him bdly, the vilain feels that people who dont appreciate what they got in life should suffer because of it.

you get the picture lol