Villains-humans as well

Villains-they come in the form of drug dealers, murderers, rapists, sadists, Mafia bosses and money-hungry businessman. The stereotype of a villain is a greedy male, usually with some sort of madness for money and women. They are also typically sadists, gaining pleasure from making others suffer but when there own life is threatened, they are terrified, begging for forgiveness. Ernst Stavro Blofeld of the James Bond books and films falls neatly into this category. He is an international criminal who runs a network of terrorism, counter-intelligence and extortion, very willing to order the murders of fellow human beings but in the film For Your Eyes Only, he squeals for mercy as 007 tips him down a giant chimney-stack. The reality is different. The film Scarface portrays gangsters as being romantic figures and the various Mafia syndicates in America and Italy have encouraged this. In Mario Puzo's epic book The Godfather, a Mafia don: Corleone has been shown as a compassionate, kindly man with a ruthless streak who will order the beating or killing of anyone who has offended him or his friends.

Villains love and are loved. No matter how much they have degraded themselves by committing horrendous crimes such as killing a fellow man, they are still one themselves. They have a mother and father. Possibly siblings. In the book Class A by Robert Muchamore, the villain is a cocaine dealer on a massive scale. He has children and takes them and one of their friends on expensive holidays to Miami. He treats the friend as one of his own, paying for his purchases in a shopping centre, having a burping contest in the corridor of a upper-class hotel. Generally being "Dad".

Every villain has someone who loves them and that they love. The film Downfall shows Hitler's last few days leading up to his suicide and the relationships between him, his girlfriend, his secretaries, generals and subordinates. Towards the end at the climax he discusses suicide with a few of the people he kept close to him and eventually gives them cyanide capsules when requested for. As he places one in his closest secretary's hand he says "I wish that I could've given you a better gift". This shows that even one of History's most manic, evil, tyrannical and twisted individuals had at least some shreds of humanity.