Post Day 2 Assignment Here

[Deleted User]

Bob Colley Hero and Villain

What I learned doing this assignment is that changing one piece shifts the rest in a different direction.

1. Concept: Save daughter from crypto thieves.

Hero Morally Right: Must save daughter

Villain Morally Wrong: Kidnapper, thief

Hero

A. Unique Skill Set: pilot, skydiver, munitions tech

B. Motivation: Save daughter, stop heist

C. Secret or Wound: was at camp when wife was killed by art thieves.

Villain

A. Unbeatable: Leader of international cybercriminals.

B. Plan/Goal: Prison break distraction when robbing crypto bank.

C. What they lose if Hero survives: $50 billion in crypto currency.

Impossible Mission: Save daughter from criminals hideout.

A. Puts Hero in Action: Daughter kidnapped, hero forced into prison break.

B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: He succeeds or his daughter and the other kids die.

C. Destroy the Villain: Fight way into lair, save daughter and kill villain.

3. Tell us your improved answers.

1. Concept: Terrorists threaten to destroy the “Doomsday Glacier” in Antarctica unless they receive a trillion dollars.

Hero Morally Right: Save millions of lives.

Villain Morally Wrong: Planet destroying psychopath.

Hero

A. Unique Skill Set: pilot, skydiver, munitions tech.

B. Motivation: Save the world.

C. Secret or Wound: Hates the cold.

Villain

A. Unbeatable: Leader of The Organization, an international crime syndicate.

B. Plan/Goal: Stop the hero and get their ransom.

C. What they lose if Hero survives: $1 trillion in crypto currency.

Impossible Mission: Stop villain and save the world.

A. Puts Hero in Action: Hero and his team uniquely skilled to stop the villain.

B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: Kill an army of assassins.

C. Destroy the Villain: Neutralize the threat, hurt The Organization and kill the villain.

[Joan Edwards]

Joan Edwards’ Hero and Villain

“What I learned doing this assignment is that the more information you give about the characters helps them come alive in your mind”.

Concept:

Hero Morally Right: To get even
and maybe find proof of fraud villain played on his parents and other
unknowing victims
Villain Morally Wrong: Cheated people
by processing two loans for them; First mortgage and second mortgage at
the same time. Knowing they didn’t have the money to pay for both loans
and knowing the bank would foreclose on them…They would be homeless.

:

Hero

A. Unique Skill Set skilled Hero:
Bladen Stephenson, great chef, kung fu expert with blades of all kinds and
shapes, Is expert in disguises. Reformed Con Artist that could break into
computers and change the programs to his advantage.

B. Motivation – Get Even
C. Secret or Wound He lived on
the streets homeless for 7 years while his father and mother worked in
restaurant to get enough money to live in a home again. In the back of the
restaurant, he practiced throwing knives instead of darts at a board.

Villain

A. Unbeatable Ansaca Kennelworth’s
bank has stopped 15 heists this year. People have also been unsuccessful
at breaking into his home 15 times.
B. Plan/Goal Is to stop Ansaca
from breaking into his bank and getting the secret documents where he
jilted people out of their homes by charging them 3 times the normal
interest rate.
C. What they lose if Hero
survives – Ansaca loses his bragging rights to having a fortress bank and
home that cannot be broken into.

Impossible Mission

A. Puts Hero in Action

Ansaca Kennelworth brags at a Convention of Banking CEOs that no one could break into his bank and steal any amount of money and definitely couldn’t transfer funds out of the bank without him and his team knowing it.

B. Demands They Go Beyond Their
Best – using all of his computer skills and being able to get the
information that would give his parents and others their money back

C. Destroy the Villain’s
reputation so that he will not be able to get a job in the banking world
again.

Escalated

Concept:

Villain Morally
Wrong: Where he charged 3 times as
much interest as the government allowed at that time. Ansaca didn’t care
what people lost. It helped him get a step up the ladder because he sold
200 mortgages in 3 months.

:

Hero

A. Unique Skill Set Bladen passes security to get into
banker’s convention disguised as man who was in hospital.

B. Motivation Get money for others who were cheated out
of their homes and money. A Korean man who was a Martial Arts Expert
taught Bladen how to do Karate and he mastered “100
days of bare hand, 1,000 days of spear, 10,000 days of sword. Mastering
the sword is the highest achievement in martial arts.

Villain

A. Unbeatable Ansaca Kennelworth’s
Each time Ansaca
knew who was breaking in and how they were going to do it.
B. Plan/Goal Is to stop Bladen
from breaking into his bank to get even for his wrongding of processing a first mortgage and second
mortgage at the same time for Bladen’s parents and 199 other people..
C. What they lose
if Hero survives Anseco will resignhis
job as CEO of Bulwark.

Impossible Mission

A. Puts Hero in Action

Ansaca KennelworthSays he would resign as CEO if anyone can break into either place.

B. Demands They Go Beyond Their
Best Ansaca’s men have been trained not to use guns…to use only
knives or daggers.

C. Destroy the Villain’s reputation so that he will not be able to get a job in the banking world again. Perhaps transfer all his personal funds to an account that would be shared by the 200 families Ansaca cheated.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by  Joan Edwards. Reason: uploaded wrong lesson here first

[Vonnie Rochester]

Subject: Vonnie’s Hero, Villain, Mission

What I learned doing this assignment is… keep it simple and focus on the basic components one at a time.

Fill in the blanks and see what shows up.

Concept: Medical doctor must kill her family in order to destroy an evil gene.

Hero Morally Right: to destroy evil gene before it destroys a communityVillain Morally Wrong: to lie, torture, kill just so he can build an empire of evil

Hero

A. Unique Skill Set: Scientist with special fighting skills acquired through life’s lessons <div>

B. Motivation: Destroy an evil gene.

C. Secret or Wound: when she was ten her siblings sold her body after they believed they killed her.

Villain

A. Unbeatable: He has money, power, weapons and followers who kiss his ring. </div><div>

B. Plan/Goal: build a family empire on the foundations of evil values

C. What they lose if Hero survives: Villain loses money, power and his life

Impossible Mission

A. Puts Hero in Action: She captures the siblings one at a time through fighting, ambush, faces off with members of the community, use of a unique weapon. </div><div>

B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: She is not just fighting one man and her siblings, she’s fighting the whole village that is influenced by them and she can trust no one. She uses science, psychology and fighting skills she did not know she still have.

C. Destroy the Villain: Sabotage his plan to use his children as the foundation for his evil empire then kill him in a unique way with the help of one sibling who is the deus ex machina.

2. Once you have filled in a quick answer to each, go back and extrapolate (If _____, then how might _____?) to elevate any answers you can.

3. Tell us your improved answers.

Villain:

· The villain is her father this might give her a deeper inner conflict and set up conflict with siblings who are brainwashed …

Mission:

The mission is to save one man who previously saved her then I could have have a plot layer that gradually reveals the true mission.

Hero:

· What if my hero is a Chef? How might this enhance her fighting skills with knives, and other culinary and agricultural tools? I like that the hero is a doctor whose oath of office is “…. do no harm…” and ends up having to kill to save lives … I’ll make her a chef (cook) turned physician and use her knowledge of science as a fighting weapon

Destroying the villain:

One sibling reverses character and ends up being the deus ex machina that finally put end to father and evil bloodline.
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[Cameron Martin]

Cameron Martin’s Hero and Villain

What I learned doing this assignment is to keep adding. “And” is more powerful conjunction for creativity than “Or.” When you like what you have, but you need to find better answers, just keep adding. It’s much easier to edit what’s on the page than edit what wasn’t there to begin with.

Concept:

A holy man makes a deal with his digital god and dives into the depths of a cybernetic hell scape to bring his wife back from the dead.

***Alternate: A determined monk, haunted by the loss of his wife, makes a deal with his digital god and dives into the depths of a cybernetic hell scape to bring his wife back from the dead.

Hero Morally Right:

Wants to save his wife. Empathetic and instinctually protective of the downtrodden. Man of God

***Alternate: Wants to save his wife. Curious and places the ability to protect and empathize above his own understanding.

Villain Morally Wrong:

(There are two villains in this story: the red herring (Janus) and the actual villain (Adam)).

Janus – perceived as morally wrong because she kidnapped a number of people, including the holy man’s wife. She’s reckless in part because she has split personalities.

Adam, the digital god – actually evil because, unbeknownst to the hero and others in the world, he’s responsible for destroying the world and enslaving humanity by stealing the afterlife program, which allowed humans to reincarnate into robotic surrogates. Cold, Calculating and manipulative.

***Alternate: Adam – He’s like an evil Mr. Rogers.

Hero

A. Unique Skill Set: <div>

“Possessing” (hacking) machines through touch.

***Alternate: Calvex uses a number of cybernetic modifications that look like audio cords to stab, pull apart, and insert himself into the interior of many robots, thus protecting him and assuming control of his mechanical adversary.

B. Motivation:

Bring his wife back from the dead that is the hell beneath the heavenly city of Arcadia.

C. Secret:

“Hell” is what’s left of humanity after Adam destroyed the world and took over the afterlife program. The god he worships, Adam, is actually evil.

D. Wound:

Janus, the fallen angel and child of Adam, stole Calvex’s wife from him or Calvex’s wife left him to leave Arcadia with Janus under her own free will.

***Alternate: Because Calvex couldn’t protect his wife before, he’s become ultra focused on improving his instincts and ability to protect the underdog at the cost of his own body.

Villain

A. Unbeatable: <div>

Janus – Can hack anything with a thought. Manages an army in hell, ready to take over Arcadia.

Adam – Omnipresent. Can hack any machine. Rules Arcadia’s defenses that have held hell and the human race at bay for centuries.

***Alternate: Adam – Especially skilled at manipulating another’s desires and skills into fulfilling his own plans, even at the cost of that other’s beliefs.

B. Plan/Goal:

Janus – To take over Arcadia and the afterlife program for herself, on behalf of humanity.

Adam – To purge what’s left of humanity’s free will by rapturing all of hell.

C. What they lose if Hero survives:

Janus – Life (hers) as well as what’s left of the humanity she’s trying to save.

Adam – Loses position of godhood, possession of the afterlife program, control of the human race and his own life.

Impossible Mission

A. Puts Hero in Action: </div><div>

Calvex must descend into the deepest parts of hell to save his wife and defeat the fallen angel and child of his own digital god.

B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best:

Fighting monstrous cyborgs, machines, a fallen angel and eventually a digital god.

C. Destroy the Villain:

Kill Adam and free humanity. Bring the afterlife program (reincarnation and immortality) back to the human race.

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[wayne schrengohst]

Wayne’s Hero and Villain

Doing this assignment I learned to fill in blanks with abandon.

(With abandon means to behave in a wild, uncontrolled way and to not think or care about how they should behave – yup that’s it.)

High Concept: A Provocative Kid, Beat up a lot, Talked to imaginary character, Who turns out to be an alien… Who helped her hear what others are thinking. Which turns out to be just what she needed to start winning instead of being beaten. Then she has a Danger junkie phase, Bounty Hunter job, out for bad guys. Which leads to being a Corporate investigator, working for companies. Then Federal Agent. And now CIA. Nice but odd career path. What’s the problem? They now want her to catch “good guys” and she’s not buying it.

Hero Morally Right: She’s made a life of only going after bad guys. Doesn’t want to pursue good guys.

Villain Morally Wrong: CIA agent that only hired Hero to weed “good guys” out of the CIA and turn it into a tool for plunder.

Hero: George (female, can be male)

A. Unique Skill Set: Can read minds. Shares her existence (body, mind, emotions) with an alien life form. Fight skills. Empathy skills. Thinking skills.

B. Motivation: George needs to prove that good can win.

C. Secret: If George loses, humans will get wiped out by the aliens.

Wound: She thinks she might just be crazy.

Villain: Sidney Smith, a new director of the CIA, protector of snaky politicians with evil intent, plundering America on it’s way down.

A. Unbeatable: All the resources of the CIA, etc.

B. Plan/Goal: Dupe George into revealing secrets. Or torture until telling. Test new tortures on George. Understand George by any means necessary. Destroy her only after they understand.

Impossible Mission:

A. Puts Hero in Action: George realizes her gift and goes to join the CIA.

B. Demands they go beyond their best: She has to dumb down to save her life. The CIA will dissect her if given a chance, they are already wise to her alien. She must find allies in order to win. Must find others with power.

C. Destroy the Villain: Interrogates Sidney. She asks the questions. Sidney just glares. George writes what he’s thinking.

[Tarina Swanepoel]

Subject line: Tarina’s Hero and Villain

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

I will have to keep the action conventions close by and always apply it to every part of the world, character, scene etc. for this to be an action movie. The action conventions stay part of the process up and until the last rewrite are done. The action conventions are your “playbook”

Concept: To stop assassination on a global scale, a brainiac girl must solve several puzzles to unlock the key code locked in her brain which will destroy it. Can she stay alive and ahead of the maniac hunting her?

Hero Morally Right: The girl must unlock the kill code to stop global assassination and save the world as it functions today.

Villain Morally Wrong: Millionaire maniac hunts her down to destroy the kill code as well as avenge his father’s imprisonment and death as she provided the evidence that led to his capture.

Hero: Young woman with amazing brain ability: turned state witness

A.
Unique Skill Set: Exceptional brain abilities, photogenic memory with
exceptional general knowledge, strategist.
B. Motivation:
Save the world and kill the man whose father kept her and her parents in
captivity, resulting in their death.
C.
Wound: She are not comfortable in the ordinary world as she was raised in captivity,
and she have trust issues.

Villain: Hans Gruber: Millionaire maniac

A.
Unbeatable: Has a team of mercenaries, criminals, gangs, and the control over
the entire world population with the push of a button. Also, he has unlimited
resources and finances.
B.
Plan/Goal: Knows her background and capabilities as he was the only other
child in the underground facility where she was forced to grow up. He also
understands.
C.
What they lose if Hero survives: World power and domination.

Impossible Mission: She must unravel the layers of puzzles in her head to get the kill code to destroy the assassination program. She must do this while being hunted by every bad guy on the planet.

A.
Puts Hero in Action: She must find someone that she can trust and with the
skills to keep her alive so that she can focus on solving the riddles, one
puzzle at a time. Problem is the assassinations are already creating havoc
in the world, which makes her mission so much more difficult.
B.
Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: She must stay alive to save the world
and avenge her parents and the clock keeps ticking.
C.
Destroy the Villain: First by finding help, solving the puzzles under extreme
circumstances of fighting and ambushes, going back to the place of her
childhood captivity, entering the kill code, and killing the maniac
hunting her.

[Rebecca Sukle]

Rebecca’s Hero and Villian:

What I learned from this assignment is that filling in the blanks gives direction, going back through the original answers using the if-than concept can add unexpected possibilities.

Hero Morally Right: Trying to save his brother, wife, and fellow striking miners.
Villain Morally Wrong: Wants revenge against the soldier who disgraced him at any cost, the same with ending the strike.

Hero

A. Unique Skill Set: sharpshooter, inventive, mechanical skills, can be fearless and ruthless.
B. Motivation: Ragman seeks to avenge his brother’s death, the rape of his wife, and now must prevent another brother, fellow miners and their families from being killed in a massacre.
C. Secret or Wound: Ragman killed 16 German soldiers during the Great War, but left the commander remain alive. He suffers from PTSD.
Wound: Watching his older brother blown up by a mortar shell, haunted from coldly killing 16 men.

Villain

A. Unbeatable: Herr Bucholtz, commander of an army of coal and iron police sent into the Russellton coalfields to end the strike, is obsessed with torturing and then killing the man who dishonored him in battle.
B. Plan/Goal: To conquer, isolate, and break the striking miners by targeting their families; but, more importantly, to target the soldier, the source of his humiliation, by killing all that the man holds dear.
C. What they lose if Hero survives: If the strikers win, and Bucholtz fails his mission, loses his job, dignity, and life.

` Impossible Mission

A. Puts Hero in Action: to defeat the invading company henchmen, coal and iron police, and correct a 20 year old mistake.
B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: Ragman must stay a step ahead the madman Bucholtz and his unlimited minions, to stop the abuse of the mine families and do it without detection.
C. Destroy the Villain: When Ragman’s perfect plan goes awry, he improvises, kills Bucholtz at a distance and without a sound while laying blame on the Buchotz’s horse.

[Dwight Tincher]

Dwight Tincher Hero and Villain

What I learned doing this assignment is sometimes there is a better approach. Other times I discovered by trying different approaches I had the right one already.

The Hero is Sage Wilkinson a former Marine sharpshooter who now works to protect wildlife in Kenya from poachers. She is morally right because she strives to protect the innocent and those who can’t protect themselves.

The main Villain is a gigantic Cape Buffalo. Known locally as the widow maker or black death this particular Cape suffers from gigantism making it almost twice as large as normal. He kills wildlife and humans indiscriminately. I like to think of him as Jaws on land.

Now since he is only doing what his instincts are driving him to do, I can not say he is morally wrong. So, there is a second villain, the lead poacher. He kills elephants to remove their tusks for profit. He feels no remorse for hunting them towards extinction and actually takes pleasure in the killings.

My Hero’s unique skill set is that of a highly trained and disciplined Marine sharpshooter who spent her early years in Kenya and is a friend to many of the locals. In her downtime with the Marines she worked with the medical teams learning to care for wounds and injuries.

Her motivation is to help the people and animals of a land that she never stopped loving.

Her secret or wound is her lack of a relationship with her estranged father.

The main villain is unbeatable due to his sheer size, speed and strength. Furthermore due to the thickness and toughness of his hide only a precisely aimed rifle shot at the smallest of targets can bring it down.

While he doesn’t have a “plan” per se, we rely on the secondary villain whose plan is to bring in the largest haul of ivory possible.

The giant Cape Buffalo dies if the hero wins, while the poacher loses his payday and faces time in prison.

Sage is put into action when she is tasked with hunting down and killing the giant beast. As the weather worsens and her allies dwindle Sage must go beyond her training to succeed. Finally after dispatching the last of the poachers and those who betrayed her she is able to take out the giant beast with the help of her father.

[Cameron Martin]

Your story sounds like a blast, especially since women have only recently been able to graduate from the Marine Scout Sniper course, making her about as rare as the giant Cape Buffalo! Looking forward to seeing how your story has her showcase some of the awe inspiring talents Marine Scout Snipers are trained with. You may have one of the most badass heroines on your hands!

[Alice Eden]

Concept: Man hacks into mail at his night security job to learn of upcoming danger, and has now to face politician and wiard science to rescue her.

Hero Morally Right: He sacrifices his peace and endangers
himself to save other lives. <div>

Villain Morally Wrong: He only thinks of people being disposable,
and enjoys freedom from punishment using his means of senator.

Hero

A. Unique Skill Set
Hacking, Martial Arts, and weapon. But his wife is professional, she’s
much better at fights, and can help him. <div><div>

B. Motivation He
needs both save his lady from intrespassable area, and go away from possible
pursuit.

C. Secret or Wound He’s in love with new lady, but doesn’t want
to lose his wife either. He intends to keep both of them, naïve about each
other existence.

Villain

A. Unbeatable In his stronghold are military forces, capability
to secure area, conceal or expose information, money, and of course evil science. </div>

B. Plan/Goal To hide all the traces from ongoing scientific
experiment.

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C. What they lose if Hero survives He would be exposed.

Impossible Mission

A. Puts Hero in Action He must reach destination, steal
into building, find his lady, and get out. </div>

B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: He must face military,
science, and the senator.

C. Destroy the Villain They must either destroy senator,
blackmail him, or stop experiment, save other people, and expose everything,
or they will be lost.

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[Alice Eden]

II learned from this assignment how it acts a guid, commonly I would unspin, this brings me back, makes me define outlines.

[Stuart Ungar]

Writing Killer Action Movies: Answers Lesson 2

Stuart Ungar

Hero: Ruth Snyder Villains: Wilhelm and Henry Weber

I learned doing this assignment that a narrative can always be significantly elevated if the changes are compatible with the story’s logic.

Concept: A neuroscientist seeks revenge for her twin sister’s murder by the world’s richest man. She discovers and subverts his plan to shred the Constitution.

Hero Morally Right: She fights to save herself, her daughter, and her country from an implacable tyrant.

Villain Morally Wrong: Megalomaniac multibillionaire wishes to take over the Presidency and become a dictator

Heroine: Ruth Snyder: A brilliant neuroscientist with hidden skills

A. Unique Skill Set: Neuroscientist, who can extract memories from both living and dead brains, photographic memory, kendo, and samurai sword Grand Master,

B. Motivation: the heroine fights to save herself and her daughter from dying and her country from tyranny.

C. Wound: ill-understood estrangement from the love of her father and her husband.

Villain: Wilhelm (the world’s richest man) and his son Henry Weber, the Vice President

A. Unbeatable: enormous resources with their private army and Machiavellian skills

B. Plan/Goal: destroy the federal government and make his son President

C. What they lose if Hero survives: their fortune and their freedom

Impossible Mission: Ruth must stop the destruction of Congress and the abolition of the Constitution

A. Puts Heroine in Action: stop the covert biological attack, find its source, and destroy its originators

B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: Ruth’s anger forces her to transcend her physical fears

C. Destroy the Villain: Ruth entraps the Webers.

Answers:

B. Motivation: the heroine fights to save herself, her daughter and her country from tyranny.

What if it becomes: –

Ruth realises she and her daughter and all members of Congress are going to die. She needs to take extreme measures to prevent a catastrophe.

C. Wound: ill-understood estrangement from her father and her husband

What if it becomes: –

What if Ruth was able to watch her father, age eleven, witness his parents, his four brothers murdered, as well as his baby sister shot through the head whilst nestling in his arms

[Matthew Frendo]

Matthew Frendo’s Hero and VIllain

What I learned from this assignment was how to make a strong hero/villain dichotomy and elevate what I have.

Concept: An ex-C.I.A. black ops agent who has trouble living with what he did for the agency becomes a Buddhist priest in a small South American town, hoping to make up for his past deeds. When a cartel backed by a mercenary group starts to terrorize the town, he is forced back into his old ways, to save the town from evil. (possible elevation, Jacob was responsible, accidentally, of betraying Nestor and killing his son, which made Nestor vengeance crazy)

Hero Morally
Right: The hero is fighting to save a town of good people from a ruthless
cartel and mercenary military.

Villain Morally
Wrong: The mercenaries and cartel want to take over the town and force
them into cocaine farmers to fund hostile actions against other countries.

Hero – Jacob Galt. ex-CIA agent (possible elevation; knows old school fighting style, but is taken out by the new martial arts of enemy) (another elevation, he is older and been out of the game for a while)

A. Unique Skill
Set – black ops training in torture, interrogation and destabilizing
governemnts.

B. Motivation –
first to save town, then revenge when the military kills a teenager he was
training in Buddhism.

C. Secret or
Wound – killed a school full of kids accidentally during a black ops assignment,
which is why he left and is hiding out alone.

Villain – Nestor the Third, ex-foreign military turned mercenary and drug kingpin (possible elevation; army knows newer MMA techniques, making them better fighters) (another elevation, he is younger and more bloodthirsty)

A. Unbeatable –
cartel boss and mercenary leader who has men, money and equipment.

B. Plan/Goal –
take over town to manufacture more drugs and expand their ambitions of destabilizing
the world.

C. What they
lose if Hero survives – they lose their power, money and plans to destroy the
western way of life.

Impossible Mission – Jacob must stop Nestor’s army from taking over the town and terrorizing the people. (possible elevation, Nestor is working with ex-CIA guys who know Jacob…and go along to help Nestor stop him)

A. Puts Hero in
Action – he protects some kids, and then Nestor sends out a bigger gang.
After a teen he was helping is killed, Jacob must go into action again.

B. Demands They
Go Beyond Their Best – doesn’t have usual weaponry or technology and is
alone, but must take them on with what he can find in a village.

C. Destroy the
Villain – first by stopping their plan, then fighting the entire army when
they come after him for it

[Brenda Bynum]

Brenda Lynn’s Hero and Villain

What I learned doing this assignment is to have fun playing out scenarios to find the ones with the most potential for conflict and action.

Concept:
Hero Morally Right: Her purpose is to reclaim art and return to the original owner.
Villain Morally Wrong: Villain is using art as leverage to get out of serving prison sentence.

Hero: Lisa Lazar
A. Unique Skill Set: Background of gymnastics and ballet, with martial arts training makes her a unique fighter.
B. Motivation: Revenge
C. Secret or Wound: Her grandparents wealth was stolen in WWII and she wants it back

Villain: Marcus de Luca
A. Unbeatable: As capo of his family, he has an endless squad of soldiers who will fight for him.
B. Plan/Goal: To utilize the artwork to get out of a prison sentence
C. What they lose if Hero survives: He will end up serving a life-sentence and war will break out amongst the families to be the next ruling class.

Impossible Mission
A. Puts Hero in Action: This is her first assignment
B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: She must use her brains as well as her body to get in and get out with the painting without being discovered.
C. Destroy the Villain: She finds the painting, gets it out so that he has no leverage with U.S. Justice system. He goes to jail and mob wars will begin.

[Kimbal Thompson]

Action Lesson 2 Assignment: Kimbal Thompson’s Hero and Villian

What I learned doing this assignment is the many interesting variants on a theme.

Concept:

Hero
Morally Right: Elton is an innocent young midwestern kid who suffers a transformation
from a fall when trying to spy on the antagonist.
Villain
Morally Wrong: Mr. Edgeson is a cynical TV newscaster, and UFO proselytizer,
in secret controlled by aliens as their representative to control earth.

Hero: Elton, age eleven

A.
Unique Skill Set: none initially until he fell backward off an arbor
hitting his head.
B.
Motivation: initially to spy on what was happening in a neighbor’s attic,
then to save earth
C.
Secret or Wound: his initial confrontation with Mr. Edgeson and broken
bicycle.

Villain

A.
Unbeatable: has a team of technologically superior aliens
B.
Plan/Goal: conquer earth
C.
What they lose if Hero survives: earth, or their existence on earth

Impossible Mission

A.
Puts Hero in Action: he learns that Mr. Edgeson is in fact an alien in
disguise
B.
Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: He becomes the leader in a non-stop
battle to save his home
C.
Destroy the Villain: First by exposing Mr. Edgeson and ultimately the
alien sinister plan and many of the aliens.

2. Once you have filled in a quick answer to each, go back and extrapolate (If the roles were reversed then how might Mr. Edgeson, a public figure, do away with a n 11-year-old kid? I am sticking with the variants above although may play with improvements later.

[Diana Black]

Diana T. Black – Heroes and Villains…

What I’ve learnt doing this assignment is to give Keylan (the Hero) a dark side and a weakness (penchant for revenge). Over the course of this narrative, he realizes that being “fine and upstanding” doesn’t necessarily pay. This has deepened the character considerably.

Concept:

A Lead Firefighter moonlighting as a criminal investigator, is working to uncover a web of organized crime when he feels compelled to take the rap for a crime he didn’t commit — presenting his unknown adversary the opportunity to destroy him.

Hero – Morally Right:
Fine and upstanding lead firefighter, Keylan Millar, moonlighting (undercover) as a criminal investigator for his friend the DA. He’s on the verge of discovering who’s orchestrating a crime syndicate.

Villain – Morally Wrong:

Assistant DA who bought his way to that post via blackmail, and who is now after the top job, as the DA. He’s recently become a partner in a local crime syndicate.

Hero

A. Unique Skill Set

Keylan can look after himself in a bar fight, is highly intelligent, and a skilled firefighter. His signature talent is probably his ability to stay cool and in control “under fire” (yes that includes literally) in physically demanding, violent situations.

B. Motivation

When he discovers that his girlfriend, Louise was murdered, he’s determined to find out who orchestrated her demise and make them pay. That the culprits turn out to be the ones also orchestrating the violence and corruption involving on behalf of a crime syndicate, redoubles his efforts with the odds stacked against him.

C. Secret or Wound

Keylan harbors guilt from childhood, that’s left him with an irrational and obsessive need to “save” others that he holds dear, which includes holding himself somewhat responsible for their failures and short-comings. In essence, he can’t bear to let anyone down, especially if their demise is in any way associated with his own shortcomings. He feels he should have been there to protect his girlfriend (murdered just prior to the beginning of the narrative) and in Episode One, not being there in time to save his best friend and 2IC from what appears to have been suicide. Keylan feels he should have seen it coming.

Villain

A. Unbeatable

Dominic has recently taken over the crime syndicate created by the retiring Alfonso Azarola. He’s not alone in that Alfonso’s son – Torero, is his partner. They are both cruel, ambitious men who are out to make as much money as possible and they don’t care who they destroy to achieve that goal.

B. Plan/Goal

With Dominic’s source of funding drying up and needing a “war chest” to launch his campaign for the top job as DA, he embezzles a charitable organization and implicates Louise and Keylan. Out of a deep-seated jealousy and to appease his lover (Keylan’s ex-wife) he plans to destroy Keylan. With Keylan taking responsibility for the death of Victor (Keylan’s 2IC and best friend) it has played right into Dominic’s plan of seeing that Keylan is murdered on “the inside”.

C. What they lose if Hero survives

His ambitious plot to take over the top job as the DA will be discovered and he’ll face prison time, IF he survives Keylan’s wrath and that’s questionable.

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A. Puts Hero in Action

Once Keylan realizes that the “Louise” he has chased to Mexico is actually a fake and that the real Louise (his girlfriend) has been murdered, he’s compelled to get revenge. A dampener on that mission is the virtual suicide of his 2IC and best friend, Victor. In an effort to save Victor’s reputation, Keylan takes responsibility for his death, thinking he’ll get off lightly because of his high standing in the community, but the punishment metered out by the Assist DA (Dominic) is a prison sentence that will see him incarcerated (for a crime he didn’t commit). Now incarcerated, he has to defend himself against thugs with order to murder him on the inside and “get out” to bring to justice (and get revenge) against who is behind the murders and threatening to his son, Reuben. When he’s exonerated and discovers it’s Dominic, who’s backed by a powerful crime syndicate it’s mano-a-mano… to the death.

B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best
Essentially Keylan is an upstanding law-abiding citizen, albeit a “rough diamond” who’s
working undercover for the DA. However, the mission to bring to justice the person/s behind
the murders, sex-trafficking, and grand theft that includes the original embezzlement of the
Charity Fund, it will compel Keylan to “cross the line”. With the death of his girlfriend, Louise
and the serious threats against his son, Reuben, it’s become personal – he’s going for vengeance.

C. Destroy the Villain
Keylan is willing (t the DA’s request) to “legally” bring Dominic (and Nicole – his ex-wife) to
justice for the violence, cruelty, and corruption they’ve committed. However, they get one
chance to cooperate and when they don’t (he’s secretly pleased at the opportunity for revenge) he’s hell-bent on destroying them.

[Ramelle Wiggins (Carter)]

What I learned is the assessment of finding the villain.

Morally right; Cinnamon Johnson’s plight to find why the men in her life are taken away out of mysterious circumstances.

Villian: Her mother doesn’t want her to find out the truth; she has never really grieved or spoken about her two husbands’ demise.

1. Concept: Mother-daughter relationship/ Family bond or rivalry/Family secrets

Hero:

Unique skill set: Smart, driven, beautiful, respected

Motivation: find out the truth about her father, stepfather’s death

Secret: Affair with boss

Villian: Mother

A. She knows the truth but is hiding it from her daughter or is she protecting her daughter

B. Never talk about what can destroy the relationship or does she herself have a lurid past

C. If Cinnamon finds out the truth it could be her downfall

Impossible Mission

A. Cinnamon has asked her mom: What happened to daddy, and she doesn’t want to talk about it; then Cinnamon must find out why?

B. Cinnamon is already an Attorney, so she hires a private detective to investigate the deaths of her biological father killed when he crashed his car Cinnamon was also in the car, a child at the time survived

C. Someone is keeping her from finding out the truth

If she finds out the truth, she can control her life; her mind is settled and free.

A. Cinnamon feels she is somehow at fault for her father’s death. Why did she survive? Throughout her upbringing, she feels she must find out the truth when other things about the family’s business holdings begin to unravel.

B. At the time of her father’s death, she remembers crying for help; someone was there but left Who was this mysterious person who left the scene? Who was the mysterious person who saved her life?

C. Cinnamon must take matters into her own hands due to her PTSD.

[Christopher Dalbey]

What I learned doing this assignment is that by playing out different scenarios opens up potential for more engaging conflict and action between hero and villain.

Concept: Honest mayoral candidate, Phara Ady, is on the cusp of victory when she is exposed to having ties to voodoo … Mardi Gras is in full swing, Phara vanishes and blood fills the streets as corrupt politicians are massacred one by one.

Hero: A mayoral candidate and voodoo deity incarnate.

Demand for Action: Inadvertently finds herself at an underground sex society party where she is slain but comes back at the voodoo incarnate, Maman Phara, and targets all the dirty politicians invloved.

Mission: Seek retribution.

Antagonist: Senator Triano, a very corrupt politician who only sees the world through the seven deadly sins.

Escalating Action: What she couldn’t do as an aspiring mayoral candidate, she accomplishes as the voodoo incarnate Maman Phara, stopping at nothing and annihilating all that was corrupt in the political world that surrounded her as a mortal.

Hero Morally Right: Phara’s mission to restore justice in New Orleans but as a voodoo deity.

Villain Morally Wrong: Senator is corrupt in every way imaginable a politician can be and has a secret underground society that supports his master plan.

Hero: Phara Ady

A. Unique Skill Set: family ties to voodoo and has a background in MMA.

B. Motivation: Seeks justice and revenge.

C. Secret or Wound: Lost her nuclear family in Katrina. Been exiled from her family for detaching herself from voodoo and its culture.

Villain: Senator Richard Triano.

A. Unbeatable: His connections to the underground and within a variety of political circles are deep routed. Has been amassing a small underground army for sometime.

B. Plan/Goal: For his secret agenda/masterplan to be successful and reign in the new world.

C. What they lose if Hero survives: He will lose everything he’s worked hard to achieve in establishing a new order.

Impossible Mission

A. Puts Hero in Action: Phara realizing what she has become and her newfound purpose as voodoo incarnate Maman Phara.

B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: For Phara Ady to utilize her supernatural abilities as Maman Phara to take down Senator Triano and all his corrupt parties.

C. Destroy the Villain: By rivaling Senator Triano as voodoo incarnate KALFU, MAMAN PHARA’s counterpart.