Types of Characters

## Heroes

### A

* Adaptational Heroism: Heroes who are either not good in their original source material or are more heroic than their original versions.
* Addicts: Heroes who have struggled with addictions in the past, such as drug addictions and alcoholism.
* Adventurers: Heroes who live for adventure and tend to have little to no superhuman abilities but rather rely on cunning, skill or sheer luck.
* Aliens: A being that does not come from the planet Earth.
* Alter-Ego: Heroes who are a second self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or original personality, including other good guys.
* Alternate Reality Heroes: Heroes who live in an alternate reality, dimension, or universe.
* Amazons: Heroines who are strong, stand up for themselves, are seductive (though some can be masculine) and even confront dangers, showing incredible courage. Basically, the exact opposite of a damsel in distress.
* Amnesiac: Heroes who have suffered memory loss.
* Angels: Heroes that are **angels** or angelic-like.
* Animals: A hero who is an animal, anthropomorphic or otherwise. (Note: animal heroes are not creatures.)
* Animal Kindness: Heroes who are kind and friendly to animals.
* Antagonists: The heroes who are the antagonists in a story, as in, they are the opposing force to main characters.
* Anthropomorphic: Non-human characters, generally animals that act as if they were human.
* Anti-Heroes: Characters who are the opposition to the antagonists or heroes of the story, but provides villainous qualities.
* Anti-Nihilists: Heroes who accept that the world is horrible, but they still see the good in it.
* Apprentice of Villain: Heroes who served as an apprentice to a villain at any point of their lives. They may have been forced to be an apprentice to a villain under some certain circumstances, not aware that their mentors are villains or simply lost their way.
* Archenemy: A hero who is the main enemy of the main antagonist.
* Aristocrats: Heroes and heroines that are members of nobility and part of royalty.
* Arrogant: Heroes who are cocky and self-centered and think they know better than other people, but mostly not very much.
* Arthurian: Heroes who are from the age of King Arthur.
* Artificial Intelligence: Heroes who are not always in robotic forms, but are still sentient technology-based entities, like many computer programs that became too powerful.
* Assassins: Heroes that commit the act of assassination, which is a pre-meditated killing of another person that is usually done in either a discreet or particularly audacious manner (such as killing them in front of a crowd for example).

### B

* Benefactors: Characters who lend support, even financial support for a cause.
* Benevolent Rulers: Heroes who care about their loyal subjects and treat them fairly.
* Berserkers: Heroes who use their unrelenting rage to increase their power.
* Betrayed: Heroes who have been betrayed by their former friends, allies, relatives and/or lovers; who are usually turned out to be villainous.
* Big Good: A character who is the main protagonist of the story/stories in which he/she/they appear(s).
* Bigger Good: A character who is a greater paragon than the main character or characters, who usually qualify as simply the "Big Good".
* Bio-Engineered: Heroes who have either been created or enhanced through biological science.
* Bond Creator: Heroes who are willing to form bonds with other people.
* Bond Protector: Heroes who are trying to protect the bonds between comrades, friends, and loved ones from being destroyed.
* Brutes: Heroes who are capable of beyond normal strength, to point that can be unlimited.
* Businessmen: Heroes who excel in the workplace, rather than on the battlefield.

### C

* Casanova: A hero who likes pretty girls and beautiful women.
* Charismatic: Heroes who have good socializing skills, as they use natural charm, empathy or diplomacy to their advantage.
* Chaste: A male or female hero who is either partially or completely oblivious to the appeal of women or men.
* Chaotic Good: A hero who favors following their own rules and creates a natural society for the better.
* Chaotic Neutral: A hero who does not actively seek to build society and order, but do not follow regular ethical values either.
* Clones: Heroes who are created from already existing beings.
* Comic Relief: Comedic characters and/or sidekicks who always are the center of attention, and is always trying help the hero by cheering up with some comedy.
* Contradictory: Heroes that are supposed to represent innocence and friendship with the use of common themes, such as angels, fairies, puppets, clowns, toys, elves, etc.
* Control Freaks: Heroes who tend to be dominating towards others probably because they think their protecting them or teaching them to do the right thing.
* Controversial: Heroes who are controversial by actions or appearances, or simply appear in media that is controversial.
* Cosmic Entity: Heroes who have near God-Like power that uses it to protect the universe.
* Cosmic Protection: Heroes who protect the galaxy or a multiverse from threats.
* Counterpart: Heroes who serve as the opposite of the other hero, and sometimes the heroic counterpart of a villain.
* Counter-Terrorists: Heroes that are members of a specialized team of military personnel who fight terrorism head-on or in the shadows.
* Cowards: Heroes who will run from the problems instead of facing them. They are not very brave, but they still save the day.
* Criminals: Heroes who may sometimes commit crimes such as murder, theft, terrorism, vandalism, etc., but that still help save the day.
* Crossover Heroes: Heroes that are seen through dimensions, video games, shows, time eras, etc.
* Cure-Bringers: Heroes who bring medicine to cure illness or disease.
* Cursed: Heroes who have fallen victim to a curse.

### D

* Damsels: A hero (usually a female) who is often placed in danger.
* Deal Makers: A hero who makes a deal with a character or villain.
* Death Gods: Deities in charge of guarding souls in the afterlife, guiding them there or other deathly duties which they execute with fairness and even kindness rather than cruelty.
* Deceased: Heroes that have died and have remained dead.
* Defectors: Heroes who originally worked for evil, but left when they realized they were on the wrong side.
* Deities: A hero who is a or considered a god.
* Demons: A infernal creature, normally a force for evil, some however chose to be a force for good.
* Determinators: Heroes who don't give up regardless of how hard the situation gets.
* Dimension Travelers: Heroes who travel between two or more dimensions.
* Dimwits: A hero who rarely (or never) uses their heads.
* Disciplinarians: A hero or heroes who instill discipline to those who act out or to those that are immature.
* Dissociative: Heroes who have or at least appear to have more than one personality.
* Doctors: A hero, who is trained in medicine and uses their skills to help people.
* Dragons: A fantasy monster who breathes fire and also portrayed as heroes in cartoons, movies, and video games.
* Dreaded: Heroes who are the most feared characters and also recognized as well as feared for their great skills and for their legendary achievements in their lives.

### E

* Egalitarian: A hero who believes in (and often fights for) equality and freedom for all.
* Egomaniacs: Heroes who are completely obsessed with themselves.
* Elderly: Heroes over the age of sixty, who continue to do good.
* Elementals: A hero who can manipulate the elements.
* Elves: A hero who is an elf.
* Envious: Heroes who are jealous over someone or something they don't have and will do anything to have it.
* Exorcists: A Hero who actively combats otherworldly evil trying to gain an anchor in the physical world. Such as Ghosts, Demons, etc.
* Extravagant: Heroes who live in excess, usually but not always, wealthy.
* Extremists: Anti-heroes who take extreme measures to accomplish their goals. Their goals are compared to the Knight Templar.

### F

* Failure-Intolerant: A hero who will not expect a single loss to evil.
* Fairies: A hero who belongs to the class of magical beings called fairies.
* Fallen: A hero who has lost their way and potentially been corrupted.
* False Antagonist: A hero who initially appears to be antagonistic but turns out to be good.
* Falsely Accused: A hero who is accused of a crime they did not commit.
* Families: A group of family members who fight for the greater good.
* Famous: Heroes who are famed in their world for their virtues.
* Female: Heroes who are women or girls.
* Feminists: A hero who loves and respects women, and strongly believes in their rights.
* Ferals: A hero who lacks obvious intelligence, and acts animalistic.
* Fictional Fictional Heroes: A hero who is fictional in the world they are in.
* Fictionalized: A fictionalized version of a real life person depicted in literature & entertainment as a hero.
* Fighters: A hero skilled in hand to hand combat who uses their skills to fight evil.
* Foods: A hero who is composed of food.
* Force of Nature: A hero that embodies nature itself.
* Fortune Hunters: Heroes who possess the vice of greed, often as a main flaw.
* Fragmental: A hero who is the embodiment or fraction of other characters.
* Freedom Fighters: A hero who fights against oppression and for freedom.
* Friend of a Villain: A hero who is or was a friend of the villain, confrontations with the villain can be particularly hard because of this, but its also possible there friendship can sometimes redeem the villain.

### G

* Game Changer: A hero who is notably darker and more ruthless than most other heroes in the story.
* Genderless: A hero who has no known gender.
* Genies: Heroes who are mystical beings who grant wishes.
* Genius: A hero who possesses an incredibly high intelligence and does a good job of utilizing their gifts for righteousness rather than using it for wickedness.
* Gentle Giants: A hero who is of giant stature, but a kind and friendly individual.
* Gladiators: Heroes who are Roman gladiators or fight in this manner.
* Global Protection: Heroes who protect their home planet or other planets.
* Golems: Heroes who are large possessed objects that usually act as a guardian or enforcer.
* Good Vs. Good: A hero who fights another hero.
* Guardians: Heroes whose duty or job it is to protect something in particulars.

### H

* Harbingers: Heroes that serve as messengers or heralds, either for a greater hero or for a force of nature.
* Harmonizers: Heroes who bring peace, order and stability within their world.
* Healers: A hero who has the power to heal.
* Heroes by Proxy: Heroes who have no desire to be heroes, but were forced into it by circumstance or a story's unique angle.
* Heroes from the Past: Heroes who have performed heroic deeds and/or saved the world in the past (decades or centuries ago), but who were incarcerated, forgotten, locked away, exiled, killed, or died.
* Heroic Creation: A hero who is an artificial creation.
* Heroic Creators: A hero who creates others beings for good.
* Heroic Hegemony: A hero who seek to take over or rule his respective world, but continue to do heroic deeds.
* Heroic Heretics: A hero who oppose a major religion, deity, or a cult is questionable or extremely harmful to the people at stake.
* Heroic Species: Any group of creatures that are friendly towards humans/society.
* Homage: Heroes who pay respect to another fictional or real life figure, and are taken seriously.
* Honest: Heroes who are obligated to tell the truth.
* Honorable: Heroes who is categorized by their strong sense of honor and fair play.
* Hope Bringer: A type of hero who brings hope to the world and its inhabitants in its darkest hour. They also represent being the determinator in many fictional stories as heroes who will bring hope to the world and not look into the despair of their current dilemma.
* Humanoid: A hero who resembles a human, but is not at least completely human.
* Hybrids: A hero who is the combination of more than one thing.
* Hypnotists: A Hero who hypnotizes or brainwashes others.

### I

* Immortals: A hero who can or will live forever.
* Incompetent: A hero who is not very good at being a hero.
* Inconclusive: A hero whose fate is largely unknown because the author has stopped writing stories or the TV show, movie, or video game has been canceled.
* In Love: A hero who is in love with another one.
* Insecure: A hero who lacks self-esteem or confidence and have a bad habit of saying things about themselves that they don't actually believe. Usually, all these characters need are a friend or loved one.
* Inventors: A hero with a skill with technology, who has a career inventing things.

### J

* Jerks: Heroes who are mean or aloof to their friends and allies, but still stand for good.

### K

* Keeper of Secret Identity: A friend of the hero, who guards their secret identity.
* Kids: A hero who is 12 years old or younger.
* Knights: A warrior, who embodies the rank and heroism of the order of knights.

### L

* Last of Kind: A hero who is presumably the sole survivor of his particular species, clan, family, organization, ability wielders, etc.
* Lawful Good: A hero who uses law to protect and benefit others.
* Lawful Neutral: A hero who prefers to blindly follow law more than the morals of right and wrong.
* Leaders: A hero who have been placed in a role of supreme authority, but not really considered a monarch or an official.
* Legacy: A hero whose mantle has carried on under others.
* Legendary Heroes: A hero whose deeds of gallantry and valor are renowned and admired.
* Lethal: Heroes who are willing to kill their enemies.
* Liars: A hero usually lies to others and themselves, but can only lie when trying to mislead a villain by saving himself and/or herself from any type of danger.
* Localized Protection: Heroes who save a local area of civilization, be it a village, town, or city.
* Love Rivals: Heroes who compete with another person, be they another hero or even a villain, to win over someone.
* Loyal: Heroes who show loyalty to their companions or team.

### M

* Magic: A hero who uses magic for the greater good.
* Magical Girls: Heroines who possess magical powers, which they use to fight evil.
* Male: Heroes who are men or boys.
* Martial Artists: Heroes who possess martial arts skills, and utilize these skills against evil.
* Martyr: A Hero who dies for their cause, or suffers many physical injuries.
* Mascots: Heroes who are the Mascot of their company.
* Master of a Villain: A hero whose the villain is initially their student or such, before their pupils turn to the dark path.
* Mastermind: A hero who is considered a genius among geniuses, meaning they are among the most intelligent beings in existence and are characterised by a personality in which they will plan things to amazing lengths and always have a backup plan.
* Master Orator A hero who has a large vocabulary and a poetic speech pattern.
* Mentally Ill: Characters that suffers from mental illness or mental disorders that affects their personality and behavior.
* Mechanically Modified: Characters that have been enhanced by technology (i.e. cyborgs or likewise) either to increase their abilities, replacing of a certain lost body part, or to keep themselves alive.
* Mentor: A Hero who teaches other heroes their skills.
* Mercenaries: Characters who take part in an armed conflict who aren't a national or party to the conflict and are motivated to take part in the hostilities by desire for private gain.
* Merciful: A hero who show mercy to other people and sometimes villains.
* Merfolk: A Hero who belongs to the race of Merfolk.
* Military: Heroes who are members of the armed forces.
* Misanthropes: Heroes who hate mankind.
* Mischievous: Heroes who have a sense of humor and enjoy jokes and pranks.
* Misguided: Heroes who do the wrong thing when they should know better.
* Monarchs: A hero who is the ruling member of the royal family.
* Monsters: A hero who is not a human but a creature, but can still save the world and humanity from threats.
* Monster Slayers: A hero who fights monsters and other supernatural forces of evil.
* Multi-beings: Heroes who are an amalgamate of more than one entity, wether on a physical or mental level, if not both.
* Mutants: A Hero who is a mutant.
* Mutated: A Hero who mutates over the course of their story.
* Mute: Heroes who never speak, either out of conscious choice or inability.
* Mysterious: A Hero in which very few details about them are ever revealed.
* Mythology: Heroes who come from a culture’s mythology.

### N

* Nameless: Heroes whose real, given names are unknown.
* Nature-Lovers: A Hero known for their love and respect for nature, who normally fights for its protection.
* Nemesis: A hero who has been wronged by a villain.
* Neutral Good: A hero who is guided by their conscience and acting with active concern while disregarding rules and traditions.
* Nihilistic: Heroes who consider things meaningless, such as emotion, fun, and even life.
* Ninjas: A Hero who uses the arts of Ninjutsu for good.
* Non-Action: A Hero who lacks any form of physical or combat skills, and utilizes other methods to face evil.
* Noncorporeal: Ghosts, spirits, and wraiths that can pass through solid matter.
* Nurturer: A Hero who cares for and helps others in need, with emotional or other such problems.

### O

* Obsessed: Heroes who are obsessed with something or someone.
* Officials: A Hero who possess a rank of power and authority, and uses said position for good.
* Omnipotents: Heroes who possess unlimited powers.
* Omniscient: A Hero who knows everything that there is to know.
* On & Off: A Hero who alters between being antagonistic and friendly.
* One-Man Army: Heroes who possess incredible fighting powers or skills, so much that they can take on many opponents without the help of their comrades or allies.
* One-Shot: A hero who only appears once and then disappears, never to be seen again.
* Optimists: Heroes that expect that the favorable outcome will be the result in the actions they commit.
* Organizations An organization or company that is run by heroic influences. Often the main hero of the story is affiliated with an heroic organization that is present in the same story.
* Orphans: Heroes who lost both parents in their young age.

### P

* Pacifists: Heroes who make a conscious choice to avoid using violence to fight evil.
* Paragon: A Hero who is considered the champion of truth, justice and honor.
* Paranoid: A hero who is deeply influenced by anxiety/fear to the point of delusion.
* Paranormal: Heroes not of the natural world, but difficult to class into traditional roles.
* Paranormal Investigators: Heroes who hunt for ghosts, poltergeist activity, etc.
* Parents: Heroes who nurture and take good care of their children and protect them with their lives.
* Parody: Heroes that parody another fictional or real life figure, usually for laughs and not meant to be taken seriously.
* Partners in Training: A duo or trio of heroes, who work together for good.
* Passionate Learners: A Hero who loves to learn in at least one field, either academic or otherwise.
* Patriots: A Hero who has a deep love for their mother country.
* Pawn of the Villain: A Hero who is manipulated by the villain.
* Pessimists: Heroes who anticipate undesirable outcomes, or "the worse".
* Philanthropists: Rich heroes, who generously donate large amounts of their money to worthwhile causes.
* Pirates: Heroes who engage in piracy, although anti-heroic they stop themselves crossing the line and becoming evil.
* Poor: Hero who live in poverty and live in a low economic level.
* Possessed Objects: Heroes who are living objects.
* Possessed/Brainwashed: Heroes who are brainwashed or controlled by the villain.
* Possessors: Heroes who have the supernatural ability to possess other beings.
* Posthumous: Heroes, even after death, still have a significant impact on the characters.
* Power Hungry: A Hero who has the desire to rule, often their ambition will be their fatal flaw.
* Pragmatists: Heroes who follow and guided more by practical considerations than by traditional morals, values, ideals, or taboos. They are generally willing to cheat, lie, steal, in generally play dirty.
* Predator: is a creature who must hunt for food.
* Predecessor: Heroes who got replaced by another hero.
* Presumed Deceased: A Hero who appears to have died but it is not confirmed.
* Priests: Heroes who are priests in any religion in whatever media they're in.
* Princess Warriors: Princess heroes who are NOT damsels, and are capable of standing up for themselves while helping other people.
* Protectors: Heroes who work to defend people from various threats.
* Protector of Innocence: A Hero who protects the innocence, hope and goodness of another.
* Provoker: A Hero whose actions (unintentionally or otherwise) created the villain.
* Psychics: Heroes with psychic powers such as telepathy, telekinesis, or psychokinesis.
* Pure Good: Heroes, or lesser known as Complete Angels, are the best type of all heroes: heroes who are above petty and selfish behaviors, will always do the right thing and are motivated solely by their conscience. Beings of pure good or complete angels who lack even the slightest of corrupting influence; but if the hero is somewhat to incredibly admirable, they can still be classified as that in their type of hero section.

### R

* Reality Warper: A Hero who possesses the power to manipulate reality.
* Rebellion Heroes: Heroes that fight against tyrannical governments and systems that hurt them and others.
* Redeemed Villains: Characters who started off as villains, but changed sides along the way and became good guys.
* Related to Villain: A hero who is part of the same family as the villain.
* Reluctant Heroes: A Hero, who initally didn't want to be the hero.
* Reporter: A hero who works for a TV News Network to keep everyone up to date on the latest events.
* Rescuers: A Hero who risk life and limb, to save others who are in danger.
* Retired: A Hero who has retired from active heroism.
* Revived: A hero who is brought back to life after dying.
* Right-Hand: A Hero who is second in command of their team.
* Rivals: A Hero that engages in a rivalry with either a hero or the villain.
* Rogues: Heroes who prefer to work alone.
* Role Models: Heroes who others look up to, and are inspired by them.

### S

* Samurais: Heroes who are warriors/soldiers of Japan that hold the leadership of a clan of ninjas.
* Satan: A being who is the devil king Satan who is portrayed as being good or close to good and sometimes being cast as a Promethean figure trying to unshackle humanity from the tyranny of an unjust God or starts redeeming himself.
* Saved Souls: Heroes who are able to go to heaven and move on to the next life after death.
* Scapegoat: Heroes who unfairly suffer in the most severe of circumstances.
* Scientists: Geniuses who uses scientific field and skills to benefit themselves or others.
* Secret Agents: Heroes who work in espionage, and often to keep their homelands safe.
* Seductresses: Heroines who use the benign power of their sexuality in order to ensnare the hapless villain into danger.
* Self-Aware: A hero who is aware that they are fictional.
* Selfless: A Hero who cares for others more than they care for their own life.
* Sentient Weapons: Artificial intellectual weapons that are capable of free will.
* Servant of a Villain: Heroes who work for the villain, most of often either unwillingly or unknowingly.
* Siblings: Heroes who are brothers or sisters of other characters.
* Sidekicks: A Hero who is the partner or companion of the main hero.
* Sophisticated: Heroes who are very cultivated and refined in the pursuit of confronting problems or overcoming evil.
* Skeletons: Heroes who are or possess the body of a skeleton.
* Soul Searchers: Heroes who are largely on a journey of self discovery.
* Spoiled Sweet: Heroes who are humble, modest and nice to just about everybody, despite having grown up in a rich or aristocratic background and having everything they could possibly want.
* Spouses: Heroes who are married to each other.
* Stalkers: Heroes who keep an eye on others or another person, either out of obsession, concern, searching, or spying.
* Status Dependent upon Player Choice: Video Game heroes in types of video games where the player's choices that determine the fate of the characters.
* Status Dependent on Version: Heroes whose stories have different endings with the heroes ended up in various circumstances.
* Stock Characters: A type of hero who appears in multiple different forms of media.
* Strategists: Heroes who prefer to plan out their choice of battle rather than rush into it head-on.
* Strong-Willed: Heroes who refuse to bow to the will of villains or anyone else.
* Successful: A Hero who succeeds in their goals.
* Successors: A Hero who has succeeded another hero.
* Suicidal: A Hero who has attempted or committed suicide.
* Summoners: Heroes who are capable of bringing forth any entity or person from anywhere else and have them assist the summoner whether it be for battle, doing errands, distractions, or trying to solve mysteries and gain knowledge.
* Superheroes: A hero who possesses supernatural or superhuman powers and is dedicated to fighting crime, protecting the public, and usually battling supervillains.
* Superorganism: A heroic species that possesses a hive mind, or rather, work together.
* Supporters: A Hero who helps an important protagonist complete their quest(s).
* Supreme Beings: Heroes who are the most powerful beings in all existence.
* Symbolic: A Hero who represents something else all together.
* Sympathetic: Heroes who show sympathy to others, even the villain in many instances.

### T

* Teams: A group or teams of heroes.
* Teenagers: Heroes who are between 13 and 19.
* The Chosen One: A Hero destined to perform a deed of great heroism.
* The Hero: The specific main hero and often protagonist of the story, resolving to defeat the main villain.
* The Icon: The hero, who is considered the principle of heroism in universe.
* The Messiah: Similar to the chosen one, this type of hero is destined to save all mankind. They exist to bring redemption to all, even sometimes the villain.
* Thieves: Heroes who are thieves.
* Thought-Forms: Heroes who belong to the realm of dreams or imagination rather than reality, or appear in visions or dreams of other characters.
* Thrill-Seekers: Heroes who not only embrace the dangers but enjoy them to.
* Titular: Heroes who are mentioned in the title.
* Tragic: Heroes who are doomed to misery due to a fatal flaw they possess, or alternatively simply heroes whose lives are tragic.
* Traitor: Heroes who have betrayed others, normally an evil organization they once pledged allegiance to before realizing who they were.
* Tricksters: Heroes who use trickery and deception to overcome opponents.
* True Neutral: Heroes and organizations whose moral alignment is clearly unknown, whether serving both sides or they are heroic or villainous.
* Truth-Seekers: Heroes who try to search for the truth and expose it, even if no one else believes them.
* Twins: Heroes who have a sibling who is a twin, be they identical, non-identical or fraternal.
* Type Dependent on Version: Heroes who have multiple different incarnations.

### U

* Undead: Heroes who are caught in between life and death.
* Unseen: Heroes whose appearance is kept hidden from the audience for good part of the story, if not all of it.
* Unwanted: A Hero who is despised and unwanted by the society they try and save. Often due to misunderstanding and paranoia.

### V

* Vampires: Heroes who despite being bloodsucking creatures, fight for good.
* Vengeful: Heroes who are driven to gain vengeance for wrongs committed against them.
* Victims: A hero who is the victim of the villain(s).
* Vigilante: Heroes who take the law into there own hands, and try and do good outside the law.
* Villain's Lover: Heroes who were or still are in a relationship with a villain.
* Virtually Resourceful: A hero who it is necessary for them to continue existing.
* Voice of Reason: A hero who is smart and sensible and speaks their mind about what's best for everyone.

### W

* War Heroes: A Hero who has fought or participated in a war to battle against those that would threaten their country or the world.
* Warriors: A heroic barbarian who lives a life of war and combat, while also maintaining honour, justice and often freedom.
* Wayward Heroes: Heroes who despise having anyone make decisions for them, feeling confined in a tight space, and so are willing to defy set expectations.
* Weaklings: A hero who is physically weak and thus unable to be much help in combat. Thus they rely on other methods to fight evil.
* Wealthy: A Hero who has a lot of money or has a wealthy background.
* Western Heroes: A hero who lives and acts in the old west (or a setting similiar to or inspired by it).
* Wise: A hero who possesses much wisdom and understanding to being aware about what happen to them or around them.
* Wrathful: A hero who struggles with controlling their temper or violence; which is quite often their fatal flaw.
* Wrestlers: A Hero who is a wrestler or is skilled in wrestling.

### X

* Xenophobes: Characters who harbor a deep hatred towards a certain race.

### Y

* Youkai: Heroes based on creatures from ancient Japanese mythology.

## Villains

### A

* Abusers: Villains who abuse their own family members, or other innocent characters.
* Adaptational Villainy: Villains who are either not evil in their original source material or are more vile than what they are in their original versions.
* Action Villains: villains in the bigger-than-life world of adventure and mayhem and are often just as over-the-top with a tendency to carry big weapons and even bigger attitude
* Addicts: Villains who are addicted to drugs or substances.
* Adulterers: Villains who cheat upon and misuse their lovers.
* Affably Evil: Villains who are genuinely nice and polite, sometimes even friendly, towards people, as long as they don't stand in their way. They generally bear little ill will to their enemies and respect them.
* Aliens: Extraterrestrial villains or villains not from the planet on which the story takes place.
* Alter-Ego: Alter-Egos of characters who take on a different role when in pursuit of their hobbies.
* Alternate Reality Villains: Villains either hailing from an alternate reality, dimension or universe or live in one after permanently altering the space-time continuum or due to some disaster that forced them to leave their original timestream.
* Anarchist: A villain who seeks to destroy order and install chaos.
* Animal Cruelty: Villains that are abusive and cruel to animals.
* Animals: A villain who is an animal, anthropomorphic or otherwise.
* Anime Villains: Villains who appear in foreign animations or their adaptations.
* Anthropomorphic: Villains who are animals, sentient objects or sometimes even food, but act the way a human does. Wearing clothes, walking on two legs and speaking.
* Anti-Villain: A character who is in opposition to the protagonist or hero of the story but possesses noble goals and heroic qualities. Anti-villains generally have the sympathy of the audience.
* Archenemy: A villain who serves as the primary enemy to a specific hero.
* Arena Masters: Villains who force people into combat situations often for their own amusement.
* Aristocrats: Villains who are aristocratic or noble. Aristocrats are not a part of royalty.
* Arrogant: Villains who are overconfident in their abilities and often underestimate the protagonist(s).
* Arthurian: Villains from the age and legends of King Arthur who opposed the medieval British hero.
* Artificial Intelligence: Villains who are artificial beings with a non-biological and inorganic form of self-awareness. They are not necessarily robots or cyborgs.
* Assassins: Villains who are hired (generally by the main villain) to carry out premeditated killings of specific targets (generally the hero) in a discreet or egregiously audacious manner.

### B

* Barbarian: A violent warrior who relies on physical force and generally not technology to conquer peoples and other lands.
* Beat'em Up Villains: Villains featured in sidescrolling/overhead Beat'em Up games.
* Betrayed: Villains who were betrayed.
* Big Bads: The most powerful and important villain of all in the story, for whom most or all of the other antagonists work. Note that this category is restricted only to franchises with many villains.
* Bigger Bads: Villains considered to be more powerful than the Big Bad, but usually an antagonist that is unimportant to the main story. Often serves as an unseen character or is revealed at the very end of the story.
* Bio-Engineered: Villains who have been either created or enhanced through biological science which includes cloning and/or the manipulation of genes.
* Black Widows: Female villains that make a habit of marrying men and then killing them.
* Blackmailers: Villains that use threats in order to gain something.
* Bogeymen: Demonic beings or creatures who prey on children.
* Bond Destroyers: Villains who turn people against each other.
* Book Villains: Villains who are a part of literature.
* Brainwashers: Villains who can take control of other people, usually through magic or hypnosis.
* Brute: A villain with exceptional and/or superhuman levels of physical strength.
* Burglar: A villain who breaks into an victim's home and steals valuables, this usually happens while the victim is away or enthralled.
* Businessmen: A villain who uses immoral or criminal methods to further their own business. These can also be villains who own a business or are business moguls.

### C

* Cannibals: Villains who eat others who are the same species as them.
* Cartoon Villains: Villains who appear in cartoons.
* Cataclysm: A villain who causes an apocalyptic event that destroys most of the world; and usually seeks to destroy the entire world.
* Chaotic Neutral: A villain who does not follow regular ethical values but do not actively seek to destroy society and order either.
* Chaotic Evil: Villains who oppose and destroy the natural society and have no value for law and order.
* Charismatic: A villain that pretends to be allied with the hero in order to further his/her own goals.
* Cheater: A villain who resort in deception or dirty tactics in order to win.
* Chopsocky Villains: Villains from media that have a strong focus on martial arts.
* Collector of Souls: A villain who steals souls from their victims.
* Comedy Villains: A villain who commits funny misdeeds or is otherwise played for laughs. Generally not a serious threat to the hero.
* Comic Book Villains: Villains that appear in comic books and graphic novels.
* Comic Relief: Villains who provide a comical presence that are considerably more light-hearted than the stories they appear in.
* Commercial Villains: Villains who originate from commercials.
* Con Artists: Villains who regularly try to con people out of their money or valuables.
* Conspirators: Characters who have been heavily involved in conspiracies. For the sake of this wiki, "conspiracy" shall be defined as an agreement between two or more people to deceive, mislead, or defraud others of their legal rights, or to gain an unfair advantage.
* Contradictory: Villains who are surprisingly more menacing despite whatever silly or harmless-sounding name they process or even their appearance alone. Typically include possessed objects such as toys and evil clowns.
* Control Freaks: Villains that feel the need to control everything and be in control all the time.
* Corporations: Corporations that are fronts for nefarious activities.
* Corrupt Official: Villains that are evil teachers, politicians, professors, or businessmen or in another position of authority.
* Corrupting Influence: Villains who turn others evil through persuasion or manipulation.
* Cosmic Entity: Cosmic Entities are extremely powerful beings that can be classed as aliens of exceptional strength, godlike beings or superhuman characters who surpass the usual levels of power found in superhero fiction. They are generally omnipotent and have great influence over the events of the entire universe.
* Coward: A villain who is more prone to run away from danger rather than fight it.
* Crackers: Villains who use their knowledge of computers to steal valuables, disrupt systems or accuse others of crimes they didn't commit. Examples include hacking computer systems with malicious intent.
* Creepypasta Villains: Villains from stories of the Creepypasta genre.
* Crime Lord: A villain that serves as the leader of a crime syndicate/organization.
* Crossover Villains: Villains who appear in crossovers of movies, TV shows, video games, etc.
* Cults: A crew of people who follow a god or cult leader, in many terror stories they will to do sacrifices of people who don't pertain the cult
* Cult Leaders: Villains that are the leader of a cult of some kind.

### D

* Damned Souls: Villains who have not only died, but have also been banished to hell or similar realms. Either that or they sold their souls to the devil and/or demons in exchange for immortality
* Dark Fantasy Villains: Villains from a combination of fantasy with strong horror and/or gothic elements.
* Dark Form: Any manifestation of dark/evil energy.
* Dark Knights: A Dark Knight is an evil or misguided knight of an army, whether it be a traditional medieval knight or a knight of a fantasy equivalent (Star Wars Sith for example).
* Dark Messiah: A villain who is seen as a god or messianic figure by a significant following.
* Dark Priest: A villain who takes the role of a corrupt or evil member of any religious clergy.
* Deal Makers: Villains who make deals or have a penchant for bargains or gambling. The deals are generally seen as very beneficial until the person who makes the deal needs to pay up. The deal maker villain is often undone by the hero making a deal and then finding a loophole in the agreement.
* Death Gods: Supernatural beings connected to death, who bring about people's demise and/or collect dead souls.
* Deceased: Villains that have died and have *remained* dead.
* Defilers: Villains that stain, vandalize or destroy an area considered as "sacred" in a religious, political or symbolic way.
* Deities: Villains who are deities (gods), and villains who become deities in the course of the story. These are some of the most powerful villains of all due to their nature, and (usually) cannot be beaten unless by another deity or with magical weapons.
* Delusional: A villain that believes he or she is in the right, despite his or her horrible actions, whose justifications make sense only to him or her.
* Demons: A supernatural, malevolent being that possesses great power and came from Hell (or any evil-realm), and usually seek chaos.
* Destroyer of Innocence: A villain who is responsible for a "loss of innocence" (such as raping/killing children, committing war crimes or ruining lives in general).
* Destroyers: Villains that engage in destructive rampages, usually with very little (if any) rest between said rampages, and cannot be reasoned.
* Dimwit: A villain who not often (or never) uses its head. They are also called "Idiots".
* Disciplinarians: Tyrannical villains who empathizes extremely harsh punishment and enforcement of unfair laws.
* Dissociative: Villains who suffer from dissociative identity disorder (or multiple personality disorder) and often adopt and switch between different personalities.
* Dissolved Organizations: evil organizations that are defeated, disbanded and/or destroyed by the end of a story.
* Doctors and Scientists - Villains who are practitioners in medical or scientific fields.
* Dragons: A fantasy monster who breathes fire and also portrayed as villains in cartoons, movies, and video games. They are considered as typical villains in fairy tales.
* Drug Dealers: Villains that make a living in the sale and distribution of illegal drugs. Drug Dealers are almost always criminals or crime lords.

### E

* Egotists: Villains who are completely obsessed with themselves and usually suffer from mental illness. They should not be confused with Arrogant Villains.
* Elderly: Villains who are over elderly (> 60 yo) or aged.
* Elementals: Villains who command, are formed out of, or are empowered by the elements of nature.
* Elitist: Villains who believe in the superiority of those with a higher social status and a greater amount of wealth.
* Embezzlers: Villains who dishonestly withhold assets for the purpose of conversion (theft) of such assets by one or more individuals to whom such assets have been entrusted, to be held and/or used for other purposes.
* Energy Beings: Villains that are made wholly or partly out of pure energy. Not to be confused with elemental beings.
* Enforcers: Villains who enforce the will of a greater villain. Often they tend to be the right-hand of a main villain, but can also be hired muscle.
* Enigmatic: Enigmatic villains are characters surrounded in mystery. They often appear out of nowhere or very suddenly. Their name, their true nature, or even their motives are unknown.
* Ensemble: Villains that have many different roles and or traits due to Inconsistent Continuities
* Envious: Villains who are driven or consumed with Envy.
* Evil Creation: A villain that has been created by another villain. Could be a biological being (i.e. Frankenstein) or a robot.
* Evil Creators: An evil being who has created another being or robot.
* Evil Vs. Evil: A villain who (at least at one) point fights another villain.
* Evil from the Past: A villain who has been defeated long before, either killed or made dormant, and returns for revenge.
* Exploitation Villains: Villains from often extremely controversial and dealing with taboo subject matter this media often merges with horror stories, black comedies and adult entertainment;
* Extortionists: Villains who force others into unfair deals usually for monetary or political gain
* Extravagants: Villains who have an extravagant life-style or extravagant life-goals.
* Extremists: Villains who use extreme methods or ultimate ends to pursue their well intentional goals. The opposite of Delusional, although many Extremists eventually qualify for both.

### F

* Failure-Intolerant: A villain with little to no tolerance for failure who punishes his/her minions for their failure to do as he/she orders, most commonly by acting in rage towards them or even killing them.
* Fallen Heroes: Villains who primarily were protagonists, or at least fought for the side of good before being corrupted.
* Families: Groups of villains who are related through bloodline. Some families consist of villains who work together in order to accomplish certain goals.
* Fanatics: Villains that are devoted to a religion or a cause to such degree, they verge upon insanity. They often believe they are doing good and therefore they can also be delusional.
* Fantasy Villains: villains who exist in fantasy settings
* Faux Affably Evil: Villains who appear to be Affably Evil, but with a lack of sincerity of their affable nature. Either they will feign friendliness to harm people or sound polite while torturing someone.
* Female: Villains who are female.
* Femme Fatale: A villainess who manipulate the hapless hero and others into danger using the malign power of their sexuality and seduction.
* Ferals: A villain that embrace a savage, animalistic lifestyle or belief system.
* Fictional Fictional: Villains who appear **within** another work of fiction. They might slip into the main protagonist's world and cause havoc there or they might remain in their own respective worlds and cause trouble.
* Fictionalized: Villains that were *based* on actual people and events, but fictionalized and exaggerated in the process.
* Fighters: A villain whose power lies in their combat skills, whose primary purpose is to fight.
* Flashback Villains: Villains who only appear in tales of prior events and never in actual stories.
* Food: Villains who are foods (vegetables, candy, meat, etc.)
* Force of Nature: Villains who are treated akin to a mysteriously unknown force rather than an individual with a distinct personality
* Forgers: Villains who create forgeries, such as counterfeit money or art. Alternative it can also be used to create fake evidence to frame others.
* Fragmental: villains who are fractions or parts of Multi-Beings
* Friend of a Hero: A villain who at some point was friend with a hero. Not to be confused with villains that become friends with the protagonists after turning good.

G

* Gamblers: Villains that enjoy gambling, live on gambling, or just frequently partake in gambling.
* Game Bosses: Villains who are also bosses in video games.
* Game Changer: A villain who is taken extremely seriously in a light hearted or kid friendly work and changes the mood as a result.
* Gamebooks Villains: Villains who appear in gamebooks: a book of which the reader is the hero, which offers a setting and several situation and choices, like a one-person role playing game.
* Gangs: Groups of criminals who commit crimes ranging from robbery to extortion. Not to be confused with Organizations.
* Gangsters: Criminal villains who lead a life in the "underworld", that is, raised in an environment filled with gangs, drug dealing and poverty.
* Gaolers: Villains that guard prisoners or are in charge of facilities that hold prisoners. Also known as wardens or jailers.
* Genderless: Villains who don't have a gender. Typically include Demons and Robots.
* Genie: A villain that is often modeled after a typical genie - though they don't always have to be, they either twist wishes out of malice or are used as tools by another villain to commit evil.
* Genocidal: Villains that murder a large number of a certain race or species.
* Giants: Villains who are of exceptional size and strength.
* Goblins: Ugly, malicious monsters, very similar to Trolls and Gremlins or villains that possess goblin-like qualities or dress as them.
* God Wannabe: A villain who attempts to become an omnipotent deity in some manner, or whose incredible power makes him/her/it consider him/her/itself as god and demands to be treated as such by his/her/its subjects, usually with worship.
* Golddiggers: Villains who partake in romantic relationships, purely to gain their partner's money.
* Golems: Large, humanoid and possessed objects who are usually used as guardians.
* Grave Robbers: Villains that steal dead bodies from graves and often defile grave sites.
* Greedy: Villains that have uncontrollable greed and would do just about anything to get what they want.
* Gremlins: Small mythical green monsters who cause trouble and mischief.
* Grey Zone: Villains whose exact alignment is unknown and debatable (villainous or heroic), or who serve the two sides.
* Guardians: Villains that stand guard over a certain area or treasure.

### H

* Harbinger for Rebirth: Villains who long to bring society or even the world down, so it can be rebuilt a new.
* Harbingers: Villains that serve as messengers or heralds, either for a greater villain or for a force of nature.
* Hegemony: Villains who have the desire to take over or rule the world, whether it is the actual Earth or their own world. On larger scales, some try to take over or rule their universe or even the omniverse.
* Heretics: Villains who oppose the mainstream religious or political system and try to replace it with their own.
* Hero's Lover: A villain that serves as the lover of a hero at some point in time.
* Homicidal: Villains who are willing to kill.
* Honorable: A villain who proves to be a worthy opponent and follows a code of honor.
* Horror Villain: A villain who is scary such as, Monsters, ghosts, ghouls, vampires, zombies, demons, werewolves, cannibals, psychopaths and aliens.
* Hostile Species: Any group of creatures who are naturally hostile to humans/societies.
* Humanoids: Villains that are not human but resemble humans in some way. Generally they are bipedal, have a head with two eyes a nose and a mouth, walk upright, etc.
* Hybrids: Villains who are mixtures of different breeds, races, or species.
* Hypocrites: Villains that impose a standard on others, and punish people for violating it, yet also do the very same things they claim to be against.

### I

* Immortality Seeker: Villains who seek eternal life.
* Immortal: A villain who can't be killed, or at least will never die unless specific circumstances are met (which is usually extremely difficult).
* Imperialists: Villainous regimes that favor aggressive expansion.
* Imprisoned: A villain that ends up imprisoned within a jail or prison of some kind.
* In Love: A villain that is motivated to win the love of another or at least force someone to marry him or her.
* Incompetent: A villain who often or always fails miserably and isn't really dangerous but can be annoying.
* Inconclusive: Villains whose fates are left truly unknown because authors are not making more stories or the TV shows, movies and/or games were cancelled; this can also apply if the villain's fate was never properly disclosed or followed up on at any point later in the series.
* Incriminators: A villain who frames the hero for their evilness, whether by murder, robbery, etc.
* Indie/Doujin Villains: Villains who appear in series created by independent developers.
* Inmates: Villains that are imprisoned, but have considerable influence within the prison or jail that they are held.
* Insecure: A villain that is not truly evil, but is acting out in order to be noticed.
* Internet Villains‏‎: Villains commonly (sometimes exclusively) found on the Internet.

### J

* Jingoists: Villains that are patriotic to an extreme. These villains hold their country or movement to be the greatest and will adopt aggressive and sometimes downright criminal behavior in defense of these ideas.
* Juvenile Delinquents: Villains under 18 years of age that commit crimes.

### K

* Karma Houdini: A villain who receives no comeuppance for their crimes, **and** who are still in position to pursue their evil ways when the story ends.
* Kidnapper: A villain who kidnaps any innocent being.

### L

* Lawful Evil: Villains who use law to oppress and manipulate others.
* Lawful Neutral: Villains who value the law more than right and wrong and follow and enforce it almost blindly.
* Leaders: Villains that have a large following or lead a group, organization or species.
* Legacy: Villains that have been portrayed by more than one individual or villains that have been passed down through a family.
* Liars: Villains who regularly lie for other villains or for themselves, and are often very hard to trust and are dislikeable to others.
* Liches: Undead necromancers, often skeletal in appearance. Less specifically, a lich can be an undead sorcerer wielding Dark Magic, but not specifically necromancy.
* Live Action Villains: Villains that appear in live action media.
* Love Rivals: Villains who compete with the protagonist over the love interest. They generally try to gain the respect of the one they are pursuing but use less than reputable means.
* Lovecraftian Horrors: Villains that have been inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft; meaning that these are beings too alien for humans to understand, whose appearance is repulsive, hard to describe and maddening; and whose mere existence is hardly conceivable.
* Lover Stealers: A Love Rival who won't take no for an answer and abduct their love interest, forcing the hero to rescue them. Some extreme cases are willing to kill their love interest if they cannot have them.
* Lycanthropes: Villains who change, temporary or permanently, into werebeasts such as werewolves, werecats, werehyenas, wererabbits, or werebears.

M

* Magic: A villain who wields magical powers or abilities.
* Male: A villain who is a male.
* Man-Eaters‏‎: Non-Humans known to prominently feed on human flesh
* Manga Villains: Villains who have appeared in manga.
* Martial Artist: A villain who is very skilled at martial arts or any form of hand-to-hand combat.
* Mascots: Villains who are the Mascot of their company.
* Master Manipulator: A villain who is very good at manipulating people and getting what they want.
* Master Orators: A villain who is very skilled at speaking and uses persuasion to get what they want.
* Master of Hero: Villains who have acted as a mentor, boss or other authority figure to a hero at some point.
* Mastermind: A being of perfect intelligence and very scheming nature, who devises complicated plans, notices the smallest details and skillfully manipulates people.
* Mechanically Modified: A cyborg or person with robotic attachments which give them superhuman abilities.
* Medusas/Gorgons: Villainesses who are like the snake-haired witch-like creatures from mythology that can turn people into stone or use witchcraft and shape-shift.
* Mentally Ill: Villains who have any type of psychological disorder or commit extremely atrocious acts that no sane individuals would think it acceptable to take villainy to the degree that they do. They can be very tragic, since the trait of being mentally unstable is being unable to tell right from wrong; nevertheless, many of them are also Pure Evil.
* Mercenaries: Villains who work primarily for monetary gain and are willing to serve whoever pays them the most.
* Merfolk: Villains who are half-men, half-fish such as gill-men and mermaids.
* Military: Any villain who is in the military.
* Mind-Breakers: Villains who drive people insane with evil psychics or torture.
* Minion: Someone who serves directly under a more powerful villain and is considered insignificant in comparison.
* Misogynist: A villain who has an open hatred or disrespect of women.
* Misandrist: A villain who has an open hatred or disrespect of men. The gender-bent version of the above type.
* Misanthrope: A villain who openly hates or despises humanity.
* Mischievous: Villains who are playful and rowdy.
* Monarchs: Villains who are monarchs or have a royal title.
* Mongers: Villains who promote detrimental activities or feelings in order to get what they want.
* Monster Master: A villain who controls monsters.
* Monster: Any villain who is a non–humanoid creature not resembling anything existing in real life, such as aliens, demons and fantasy creatures.
* Movie Villains: Villains who have starred in movies
* Multi-Beings: Villains with more than one entity whether it is mental or physical.
* Mummies: Undead villains whom usually depicted as reanimated corpses that are preserved via mummification.
* Murderer: Any villain who kills an innocent person or any other being. Not to be mistaken with Serial Killers who kill several people.
* Muses: Individuals or organizations who inspire others despite their villainous traits.
* Music Villains: Villains who appear in songs or music videos.
* Mutants: Villains born or created with unique genetic defects that often result in highly abnormal traits and even superhuman abilities.
* Mutated: Villains who undergo a mutation/transformation during the course of a story. This is not to be confused with Mutants, who are established as being born with their mutated properties.
* Mute: A villain who either rarely speaks or does not speak at all.
* Mutilators: Villains who are extremely dangerous and mutilate their victims.
* Mythology Villains: Villains who appear in real-world mythology, as well as characters who are inspired by such myths.

### N

* Nameless: Villains without names, or whose names remain unknown at the end of the story.
* Necessary Evil: Villains that serve a very important function and need to be kept around, no matters how bloodthirsty they are.
* Necromancers: Evil sorcerers or witches with power over death and the departed, able to raise undead and drain life.
* Nemesis: A villain that the protagonist somehow helped to create by some past action.
* Neutral Evil: Villains that are primarily concerned with their own schemes and will employ whatever means are necessary to succeed
* Nihilist: A villain who believes that life has no purpose and no meaning, including their own. Many of them can be Pure Evil as they usually have no standards.
* Ninja: A villain who is a ninja.
* Non-Action: a villain who has little to no significant fighting skills and relies on other people to do the dirty work.
* Noncorporeal: Spirits, Ghosts, Wraiths, and anything or anyone that can walk through walls and other forms of solid. Usually deceased, but can be from a realm not completely in-phase with ours.

### O

* Obsessed: Villains who are completely obsessed with something other than power.
* Ogres: Villains who are Ogres
* Omniscient: Villains who are capable of unlimited knowledge and know literally anything and everything.
* On & Off: A character who alternates between being antagonistic or friendly.
* One-Man Army: A villain who poses a serious threat to dozens, if not hundreds, of enemies of the same strength without the aid of allies.
* One-Shot: Villains who appear only in a single part of an episodic series.
* Opportunists: Villains who exploit circumstances to gain immediate advantage rather than being guided by consistent principles or plans.
* Oppressors: Villains who demean, victimize and/or demoralize entire societies.
* Organizations: An organization or company that is run by evil influences. Often the main villain of the story is affiliated with an evil organization that is present in the same story.
* Outcasts: A villain who has no status in society, often exiled by the people, and is despised by many.

### P

* Paranoid: Villains who live in deep fear of being harmed or weakened by someone.
* Paranormal‏‎: Villains that defy our currently-accepted laws of science or reason, yet cannot be easily classified into traditional roles such as ghosts, demons, angels, or undead.
* Parasite: Parasitical life forms live off an unfortunate host to survive. Parasites generally are also greedy and small in size. This wiki also includes bacteria and viruses in this category since they often function similarly to parasites.
* Parents: Villains who are parents. Adoptive and step-parents also qualify.
* Parody/Homage:
	+ Parodies: villains who are direct parodies of other villains, heroes, or real-world figures. Parodies are done only for comedy purposes and, as such, are not to be taken too seriously.
	+ Homages: villains that pay homage to another villain, hero, or real-life figure. Unlike parodies, homages are done respectfully or intensified. Homage villains are usually taken seriously, sometimes even more so than their originals.
* Partners in Crime: A duo or trio of villains that work together to cause evil, terror, crime, and mayhem.
* Pawns: A villain that is being manipulated by another villain. Pawns are generally controlled unknowingly.
* Perverts: Villains who have abnormal sexual behavior.
* Pimps: Villains who dress elegantly and are always surrounded by women.
* Pirate: A villain who is a pirate that comes in many variety of forms and ways and engage in criminal activity like piracy, kidnapping, murder, and theft, usually for financial gain.
* Poachers: Villains who engage in immoral or illegal hunting, frequently for prey that is endangered or otherwise protected by the law, with the primary goal of making money for themselves.
* Polluters: Villains who harm the environment, whether out of genuine malice or disrespectful greed.
* Possessed/Brainwashed: A villain who have been possessed/brainwashed by another villain to do his/her bidding.
* Possessed Objects: Objects that are somehow alive, can range from things as small as a music-box to as large as an entire town.
* Possessor: Villains who have the supernatural ability to possess others.
* Posthumous A villain who is dead and stayed dead yet still has an affect on the story.
* Power Hungry: Villains whose main goal is getting obtaining power, whether it be by manipulation or sheer force.
* Predator: A villainous creature who hunts for prey and tries to kill it.
* Presumed Deceased: Villains who are *expected* to be dead, but their deaths haven't been fully confirmed yet.
* Propagandists: Villains that use propaganda to influence the masses towards a particular goal, ideal, cause, or position.
* Protagonist: A villain who is the main character of their story.
* Protective: Villains who take care of someone (usually their loved one's, or minions).
* Provoker: A villain who has wronged the hero so badly that it makes a more personal rivalry between them. The hero will often act on rage to stop this villain and not just for defensive purposes.
* Psychics: Villains who use their mind as their most important weapon, including reading minds and manipulating thoughts.
* Psychological Abusers: Villains who abuse others psychologically, convincing their victims that they are ugly, disgusting, worthless, etc.
* Psychopaths: Villains show traits and symptoms of antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, or paranoid personality disorder, defined by a lack of empathy. Often disturbed and vile.
	+ Sociopaths go under psychopaths, but can be added in the "Type of Villain" section as well. They are similar to psychopaths due to their lack of empathy, but the sociopath is also more common to lie, con, and/or faking emotions.
* Psychotic: Villains who are too mentally unstable to control their behaviour and understand reality.
* Pure Evil: The worst kind of villain. Complete monsters who lack even the slightest of redeeming qualities, this should rarely if ever be used in the type of villain section, but if the villain is extremely heinous, they can still be classified as that in their type of villain section.

### R

* Rapists: Villains who commit rape.
* Reality-Warpers: Villains capable of altering or bending reality itself.
* Reality Show Villains: A television program/show in which ordinary villains are continuously filmed, designed to be entertaining rather than informative.
* Redeemed: Villains that have "turned to good" or are at least no longer evil. This can include those who were and are no longer possessed by an evil force or those who have decided to join the hero.
* Related to Hero: Villains who are *biologically* in the same family as the protagonist.
* Remorseful: Villains who feel guilt, remorse and/or sorrow for the crimes they have done, but have not necessarily "turned good".
* Revived: Villains who previously died, but were somehow brought back to life.
* Right-Hand: The personal assistant and adviser to a major villain, often their second–in–command. Right-hands can serve as major villains in their own right.
* Rivals: Villains that are a type of archenemy who causes problems for a hero but often shares a mutual respect for his or her opponent.
* Rogues: A villain who works alone. They commit their evil without any help from henchmen or an army.

### S

* Saboteurs: Villains who offer their services to others with the intention of betraying them later.
* Sadists: Villains who take pleasure from making people suffer.
* Sadomasochists: Villains who love causing pain to others **and** themselves.
* Samurai: Villains who are armored Asian knights and soldiers; others are Rōnin
* Satan: The in-universe depiction of Satan or its **closest** counterpart. The ultimate source of Evil, who controls all demons and malevolent beings, and most often ruler of Hell or any hellish-related dimension.
* Satanism: Villains that practice Devil-worship.
* Scapegoat: A villain that is punished way more than he or she would actually deserve, which is the exact opposite of a Karma Houdini. Include villains who have a horrible life, who are unfairly abused or killed by their masters or have a frightful and gruesome fate.
* Science Fantasy Villains: Science Fiction and Fantasy combined
* Science Fiction Villains: Villains from Science-Fiction (Sci-Fi for short) genre works - science-fiction is based on scientifically-possible worlds or settings without the use of fantastical elements such as magic or the supernatural.
* Self-Aware: Villains who are aware of there own fiction existence.
* Sentient Weapons: Villains who are capable of independently thinking as weapons with functionalities and self-awareness with a higher intelligence than artificially intelligent beings and golems. They are also known as Weapon of Mass Destruction.
* Serial Killer: A villain who kills several people, often choosing specific targets and/or using an established pattern between murders.
* Servants of Heroes: Villains who served as some kind of subordinate to the hero.
* Shmup Villains: Villains featured in shmup (shoot 'em up) video games.
* Siblings: Villains who have brothers/sisters.
* Sitcom Villains: Villains who have appeared in television sitcoms.
* Skeletons: Villains who are animated skeletons
* Slaver: Villains who take part in the act of owning and using slaves, forcing others into physical labor.
* Smugglers: Villains who are involved in secretly transporting illegal goods from one place to another.
* Snuff Filmers: Villains who combine murder and film into an even more serious crime.
* Soap Opera Villains: Villains who are in Soap Opera's
* Social Darwinists: Villains who believe in "survival of the fittest" and often seek to create a society or world in which only the most ruthless of individuals would exist to father the next generation.
* Sophisticated: Villains who are very cultivated and refined, often coming from high social status.
* Spouses: Married villains.
* Spies‏‎: A villain who uses espionage tactics to spy on others and gather information about them without the target knowing.
* Stalkers: Villains who like to stalk certain people, either by obsessive or murderous reasons.
* Starvers: Villains who cause others to starve to death, either through cruelty or negligence.
* Status Dependent on Version: Villains whose stories have had multiple versions/adaptations, and whose fates have differed in some of the different versions.
* Status Dependent upon Player Choice: Villains whose fate is different dependant on the player's choice in a video game.
* Stock Characters: Villains who appear in many different media.
* Strategic: Villains who use strategy to take out their foes instead of facing their enemies head-on.
* Successful: A villain who succeeds in his/her goals. This usually isn't added in the type of villain sections, but if a villain is extremely successful in all of their goals, then this might be added.
* Suicidal: Villains who try to take their own lives or succeed in that attempt.
* Summoners: villains capable of either bringing in people and/or creatures under their command.
* Superorganisms: a type of Hostile Species believed to have a "Hive-Mind Mentality" capable of working as a whole rather than individually and being extremely powerful as a result.
* Supervillain: The opposite of a superhero, who has incredible and unique abilities, either through actual superpowers or use of gadgets. Supervillains make numerous appearances and often will win against the hero on occasion.
* Supremacist: A villain who believes his or her species / ideology / religion is inherently superior to all others. Classic examples could be racists.
* Supreme Being: Similar to Satan, this is the in-universe depiction of the traditional monotheistic God of most western religions, **but** as a villain.
* Symbolic: a villain representing an entirely larger concept than themselves.

### T

* Tabletop Games Villains: Villains from tabletop games. This category also includes gamebooks, pen and paper RPGs, and card games.
* Teams: A group of villains who work together.
* Terrorists: Villains who commit unforgivable atrocities for political, religious gain, or simply by madness. Include mass-killers who randomly slaughter people in the streets or detonate buildings.
* The Heavy: The villain with the most influence on the plot, and the evil counterpart of the Hero.
* Theatrical Villains: villains that have originated or appeared in plays, opera, and other media that often predates television or movies.
* Theme Park Villains: Villains who have originated on theme park rides, attractions, haunted houses, shows, or simply were mascots or characters.
* Theology Villains: Characters who originate in works based upon the religions of the real world.
* Thief: Villains who are common crooks who just steal things from others and they can be from petty to extreme (it can range from minor thugs to organized robbers). Such characters sometimes suffers from kleptomania (the compulsive obsession to steal).
* Thought-Forms: Villains who appear in the mind.
* Thrill-Seekers: Villains who are addicted to danger or fast-paced action, often to the detriment of others; they may view danger as an addiction or simply are just criminally insane with no regard for personal safety (or those of others).
* Thriller Villains: villains from movies whose main elements are tension, suspense, and (to match it) excitement.
* Thugs: Common kinds of criminals who treat others disrespectfully and are often (if not always) willing to fight.
* Titular: Villains who are referred to in the very titles of the works in which they appear.
* Tokusatsu: villains from the Japanese Tokusatsu TV genre.
* Torturer: A villain who tortures others, whether it be physically, mentally, or emotionally.
* Totalitarian: a villain who favours and shares beliefs of a system in which the state has unlimited power over every aspect of public and private life, often run by a "supreme dictator", and often envisioned as an evil empire, new world order, or dictator-wannabe.
* Tragic: A villain who has suffered events in the past that have caused them to become evil or seek vengeance, or who are possessed/brainwashed. Tragic villains often have the sympathy of the audience and the hero often is reluctant to confront them.
* Traitor: A villain who betrays their allies, whether it be for personal gain or some other factor.
* Trickster: A villain that uses trickery to fool their enemies and/or the heroes using cunning strategies and deceptive techniques.
* Trolls: Villains who are are ugly and malicious goblin-like creatures originating from Norse mythology.
* Twins/Clones: A copy of another character, usually the main hero, who has similar abilities and often fools other characters into thinking that they are their counterpart.
* Type Dependent on Version: Villains who have alternate versions and interpretations with different characteristics of their original selves. These can range from Villains who have incarnations from alternate universes, Legacies whose various interpretations have different personalities and commit different felonies.
* TV Show Villain: A villain who is found in an animated or live-action TV show.
* Tyrants: Villains who rule over a country, territory or area (or several) with an iron fist and often seek to conquer more territory for themselves.

### U

* Undead: A villain who is a ghost or zombie, or any similar creature.
* Unseen: Villains who prefer to remain hidden or are not actually seen up until a certain point. These come in two types which often overlap, villains who are not or have yet to be seen or who lurk in and strike from the shadows
* Urban Legends: Urban Legends are a specific sub-genre of the "Villains of Folklore" that includes recent editions, often with a modern-take on much older concept, like Cryptids for example.
* Usurpers: Villains who seize a position of power (normally) from a more benevolent ruler by force.

### V

* Vampire: An undead humanoid who is a bloodthirsty monster, usually has the power to turn into a bat and is often portrayed as a villain in any movie.
* Vandal: A villain who commits vandalism, such as defacing public property (spray painting graffiti).
* Vengeful: A villain who wants to avenge one or more of their colleagues or relatives, or seeks to get back at someone who wronged them.
* Video Game Villains: Villains that originated in video games and their game systems.
* Vigilantes: A villain who takes justice (at least what they call justice) into his or her own hands, and usually deals it in violent and unforgiving ways.
* Vikings: villains that are or resemble the Norse barbarians and pirates from the Dark Ages.
* Villains of Folklore: Villains who appear in the folklore of varied societies.
* Villains by Proxy: Villains who are villains because of the circumstances they were put into beyond their control.
* Voodoo: Villains who or are associated with voodoo.

### W

* Warlords: Villains who are high-ranking military commanders that thrive on war.
* Weaklings: Villains who lack physical strength and can be easily defeated in a melee-fight.
* Wealthy: Villains who possess large sums of money. These types are likely to bribe someone and/or fund an evil project.
* Weapons Dealers: Villains who sell weapons to other villains. Similar to warlords in that they take advantage of war for the purpose of making a profit.
* Webcomic Villains: Villains who appear in online comic strips.
* Western Villains: Criminals from the Wild West and other functionally similar settings.
* Wrathful: Villains driven by or consumed by wrath.
* Wrestlers: Villains that are skilled in either traditional wrestling or modified versions of the sport;

### X

* Xenophobe: A villain who has an intense hatred/fear of other cultures, races or species.

### Y

* Youkai: Supernatural creatures that originate from Japanese mythology. They were infamous for their alien nature, with some being dangerous to humans and almost all of them being beyond human understanding - they varied from spirits of the dead to possessed objects or lesser deities and have become a prominent part of Japanese culture.
* Youtube Movie Villains: Villains that exclusively appeared on YouTube movies

### Z

* Zombie: A type of undead monster or alternatively a being that is not dead but infected with some strange virus or parasite - there are also zombies created via mind-washing and whatnot.