@Jonny_Anonymous said:
Yea, I think that idea that a villain can only hold an ongoing if he becomes a good guy is false
They have to be in the morally grey, otherwise the book would have to be non-canon or set in its own universe (as other publishers where there is no established universe it is much more common to get a villain ongoing)
The simple fact of the matter being that you think these villains are cool but if you were to actually read a comic featuring the stories from their perspective, it would get pretty boring seeing them get locked up and defeated all the time, there's no character development. The key to any good ongoing comic is character development, true, many comics get by without it but they aren't good either. So if a villain is just pure evil, there's no development. You could have a book that ends in someone becoming evil, or have a villain as the secondary protagonist but otherwise you have to go with a villain who is kind of good (which most of the popular villains are). Even Joker shows an indication he's good in the stories of his that are considered essential like The Killing Joke for example.
Lucifer was a series featuring for all intents and purposes a villain, but it worked because there was character development and he wasn't always a villain. Having set the ongoing back when he was just busy being Lord of Hell and not changing his style for millions of years would be so boring and never have lasted.
I don't agree with this, I don't believe in absolute evil or absolute good ether. You don't have to show the bad guy getting beat all the time because you don't have to have them fight good guys or at least popular good guys. A Darth Vader ongoing is perfectly feasible with him going about killing Jedi.
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