Hello and welcome. My name is John August, and you are listening to Episode 692 of Script Notes.

It's a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. Today on the show,

it is a Villains Compendium. Producer Drew Markport has selected four segments from previous shows

where we celebrate the bad guys. Drew, tell us what we're going to hear today.

Ooh, so we are going to start with episode 75 and get kind of like a Villains 101,

how our bad guys operate in a story. Then we're going to go to episode 590, which is anti-villains,

sort of understanding your villain's motivation with a dozen examples of famous villains and sort of

what makes them tick. I will say here, when we talk about Annie Wilkes,

John, you mentioned that you say something like,

I don't know if she would have been a bad guy,

if she hadn't found the car in the snow.

And we later followed up that, yes, it's established

that she murdered babies, I think, before that.

In her past life as a nurse.

Yeah, we don't need to do any follow-up on that.

Yeah, yeah.

Don't write it again.

Please don't.

Then we'll go to episode 465 about lackeys and henchmen

and making sure that your evil organizations are believable.

And then we'll finish up with episode 257

with our seven tips for unforgettable villains.

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