Once Upon a Time: What Creates a Villian?
Tonight I finished watching the latest episode of Once Upon a Time, "Sympathy for the De Vil". The episode focused on the backstory of Cruella De Vil and her turn toward darkness and villainy. Now if you are a follower of the show, you will know that the producers make a point that there is no such thing as pure good or pure evil. As Regina says "Evil is not born, it's made, and so is good". Yet in Cruella's case, we end up with a villain who was already evil from birth: the classic bad seed. It seems this classic villain broke the mold the producers created in the first place: good and evil not born but made. Let's take a look at how the villains were created. Regina is a perfect example: a young aristocrat happily in love with a stable boy, enjoys riding horses and enjoying a more simple life. Yet thanks to overbearing mother Cora, Regina is thrown into the path of regality by saving the life of Snow White and marrying her father, King...