I think this is also something to remember when doing anything creative that involves the portrayal of "villains"; (and yes, I actually checked last year and the semi-colon really does belong outside the quotation marks, unlick the comma and the period. Too bizarre) the more "real" the villain in a book or movie, the scarier they are. Real villains don't know that they are bad/evil/villainous; to them, everything they do makes perfect sense and is logical and good. That is what makes them so scary...that their minds can be so twisted that they see their actions as good.

I'm going to strive for this in my work, but I'm not sure I'm going to succeed.