The Twist Villain: Thoughts & Problems on a Common Trope

Today I wanted to talk about something that is becoming much more common in fiction these days, and that's the twist villain. If you're unfamiliar, a twist villain is when one character in a story seems to be the villain, but later on it's revealed that another character, usually a character we thought was a…

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