Thread:Lucentstar/@comment-27032473-20190516020429/@comment-32766427-20190517232757

Let me see if this answers your question. For the hero to be able to solve the problem and defeat the villain, the hero must have good traits, like being resourceful and good at making friends, because those are the kinds of things that lead to being able to successfully solve problems. These good traits generally go along with the hero having good aims (although they don't have to) – aims such as saving the world and helping people.

The villain, by definition, is an obstacle in the hero's way toward the hero's aims. If the hero's aims are good, then the villain's aims, which must get in the way of the hero's aims, are generally selfish, not good. The kind of person who has selfish plots to do things that will cause problems for people trying to do good generally has certain character traits. Foremost among these is the desire to show off. People who care about their own desires above those of everybody else generally want the power to fulfill those desires, and they want people to know they have it, too. This can lead to the drawing attention to themselves that you mentioned, and their ultimate defeat.

If that doesn't answer your question, I will happily try again later.