What is your favorite hero and villain rivalry?

[Kathleen]

@devastate-lasting

When reading or watching stories from countries that you don’t usually, it’s kinda fun to see what cliches are consistent globally and what new tropes they like to use often.

But I find there is almost always a different feeling to the stories. Like the author had a different mindset or approach to the story when he or she went to write it. It’s always so interesting and exciting, it’s like you get to see a new side to the world of story-telling that you haven’t seen before.

Many similarities, but at the same time unique.

[Linyang Zhang]

@kathleenramm Exactly! That’s why I love foreign literature.

Lately, it's been on my brain
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[Lydia S.]

@kathleenramm

Agreed!

Oh fun! Hope that goes well for you all. 😀

[Elanor]

Okay, so the first characters that come to my mind with hero-villain rivalry is Sam (does Sam count as a hero? He definitely does in my mind.) and Gollum in the Lord of the Rings. The way they both despise each other, but because of their loyalty to Frodo resist the urge to kill each other. Then the way they banter back and forth with sarcastic comments and blows…  those scenes are like some of my favorite scenes in the Lord of the Rings.

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - Gandalf

[Elfwing]

I’d say Rodolpho and Marcello from River of Time series. (it’s a young adult series)

Rodolpho is on the enemy side, but likes the same girl as his old friend Marcello; he kidnaps her, falls in love with her, almost marries her, then minutes before they would have been in an arranged marriage that she didn’t want to be in, Marcello shows up so he backs off and Marcello marries Gabi, and in the next couple books the two knights are at each other.

It ends up Rodolpho is actually on their side in the end, and a good guy but Gabi and Marcello don’t overly trust him, (can you see why?) so I suppose it’s former villain vs. hero, but it’s still epic

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