Thread:Wikikinetic/@comment-27032473-20190514161149/@comment-32712012-20190514211016

Ominous's plan appears to be so flawless that I barely understand how he's still a villain at all and not a hero. The only thing that seems like it might make Ominous at all villainous would be if Ominous's sense of "good" that he attempts to change the world to were somehow misguided, and I get the impression that you don't even think that that's true, leaving Ominous as a flawlessly good and uncorrupt character.

You might ask yourself what purpose Ominous is meant to serve in your stories: is he meant to be a hero, or is he meant to be an villain?

If the latter, even if he is meant to be an anti-villain, then there must be some reason why he is fundamentally opposed to the heroes. Sure, there can be tragic anti-villains who would rather not fight the heroes but are stuck on the opposite side, and there can be anti-villains whose goals are the same as the heroes' but whose means are deplorable (or vice versa), but you can't pit your beacon of shining goodness against the heroes without a really good reason why they're fighting (like one of the above), and as I see it, Ominous has no reasons why he'd be on the opposite side.

Now, if all you want is for Ominous to be that beacon I referred to earlier, and you don't care about having him be a villain, go for it; just bear in mind that he's no longer a villain or even an anti-villain, he's a hero now, and people won't believe him fighting the heroes.

One more thing: Since Ominous's goals are to make the universe into your personal brand of utopia, then you've essentially limited your choice of stories to two types: And you've got five available endings to choose from, most of which imply one of the two above stories: If these stories and/or endings aren't what you're heading for, you might reconsider why you want Ominous to be how he is, or how you'd want to change him to be.
 * 1) Anti-villain route: Ominous is trying to achieve utopia, but his means are so bad that the end does not justify the means, forcing the heroes to stop him.
 * 2) Hero route: Ominous is trying to achieve utopia, and his means are heroic, just hard. Ergo, he or one of his cohorts is the hero of the story, and it will follow their adventures as they try to achieve this noble end.
 * 1) Pure Hero ending: Hero Ominous achieves his goals. Yay, the universe is perfect now.
 * 2) Hero Ending: Villain Ominous achieves his goes anyway, but they purify everything so yay.
 * 3) Normal ending: Villain Ominous's plans are stopped. Yay, now he's not doing that villainous stuff any more.
 * 4) Dark ending: Hero Ominous's plans are stopped. Aw.
 * 5) Pure Dark ending: Either incarnation achieves his goals, but there turns out to be something flawed about the utopia, with varying levels of tragedy and/or followups depending on how reversible this "utopia" that now affects all reality turns out to be.

If you have any questions on this, please let me know.