Heroes, Heroines, and Villians Resources

Heroes and Heroines

What is a Heroine? - Caro LaFever
'She must have a kernel of her personality that the reader can grab onto and say; "I understand where she's coming from."
http://www.hodrw.com/whatisheroine.htm

Helping Your Children Choose Their Heroes Through Reading - Family Haven
Writers can grasp what parents look for when choosing childrens books
http://www.familyhaven.com/parenting/readingheroes.html

Heroism, the Anti-Hero, and the Heroic Journey - Lori Bradley
Study materials looks at how heroes have been used, and on finding the hero within
http://www.umassd.edu/SpecialPrograms/ArtsLinks/b2/StudentLessons/lorimenu.html

Children as Heroes - My Word's Worth
http://www.qconline.com/myword/wizards.html

Research Resource - Heroines
http://www.hodrw.com/researchheroines.htm

Villains

A Great Villain with a Great Plan
An exclusive interview with William C. Martell - By Eric Lilleor http://www.screentalk.org/int003.htm

~Villains~ - by Megaera Lorenz
Looks at the different villainous portrayals of Dr. Smiths' of Lost in Space
http://www.heptune.com/villains.html

A Few Bad Men - Creating Bad Movie Villains - Allen B. Ury
http://www.fadeinmag.com/spike/villains.htm

Villain! Evil is for Everyone
http://tilevil.tripod.com/villain/

Believable Villains Feel No Shame
http://wordonfiction.hypermart.net/backarticles/issue008/believable_villians_feel_no_shame.htm

Creating a Villain Worthy of Your Hero
http://www.hodrw.com/creatingavillain.htm

Hero and Villian Generators

Hero Machine - ADF Studios - Jeff Hebert
Amazing Flash program generates viewable characters based on your selections.
http://www.heromachine.com

Lee's (Useless) Super-Hero Generator
Far from useless; Creates lists of names, teams, weapons, vehicles, powers.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/comics/herogen/

Fantasy Name Generator
http://rinkworks.com/namegen/

C.Y.B.O.R.G. - The Brunching Shuttlecocks Toys
Takes a word and creates a cyborg moniker
http://www.brunching.com/toys/toy-cyborger.html