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A villain is a bad person, especially in fiction. Villains are the fictional characters, or perhaps fictionalized characters, in drama and melodrama who do evil deliberately and work against of the hero. As such, villains are an almost inevitable plot device, and more than the heroes, the villains are the crucial elements upon which plots turn.
The etymology of the word is from Old FrenchOld French is a term sometimes used to refer to the langue d'oil, the continuum of varieties of Romance language spoken in territories corresponding roughly to the northern half of modern France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland during the period rough villein, in turn from Late LatinAlternative meanings: See Latin (disambiguation Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and ma villanus, meaning serfA serf is a laborer who is bound to the land. Serfs differ from slaves in that serfs cannot be sold apart from the land which they work. Typically, when serfdom prevailed, the land itself could not be sold because it was associated with political powers ( or peasantA peasant from 15th century French paisant from Latin pagus country district, is someone who lives in the country either working for others or, more specifically, owning or renting and working by his own labour a small plot of ground. Peasants depend econ, someone who is bound to the soil of a villa, which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantationA Plantation is a deliberately cultivated area, for example: a large farm, growing one species of plant only, eg. Pine plantations produce raw material for paper-making. Tobacco and coffee also grow on plantations. During the 1800s, Slave labour typically in late Antiquity, in Italy or Gaul. Poverty was equated with moral turpitude. Thus usually the word villain suggests that the villain's schemes stem from their own moral indifference or perversity of characterMoral character or character is an abstract evaluation of a person's moral and mental qualities. Such an evaluation is subjective one person may evaluate someone's character on the basis of their virtue, another may consider their fortitude, courage, lo. SupervillainFictional supervillains are the foils to comic-book superheroes and other fictional heroes. The typical supervillain is an evil genius. They are villains, but with extraordinary power or ability which makes them viable antagonists for the most gifted heros are found in the melodramatic environs of superhero comic books, where an evil person with super powers is needed to be a realistic foil for the mighty heroes. These supervillains usually have recurring roles; some villains in more down to earth literature have become so popular that they have been reused in later works as well.