Editing Villains (section)

==Responses==
How the authorities handle local villains ranges widely from being [[Kill order|hunted down]] and killed like the Slaughterhouse Nine to being tolerated like [[The Elite]]. Sometimes "villains" will be in ostensible positions of power like in [[South America]].

The public might like villains from a distance but they'll hate confronting them face to face.<ref>“I joined villains because it seemed fun and easy,” Etna said.  “Everything else seemed so much harder.  There’s money in being a villain.  The costumes are better.”<br><br>“Ehh,” I said.  I remembered Etna’s skimpy fire sorceress outfit from Hollow Point, before the weather had cooled.<br>[...]<br>“But it isn’t easier.  It wears on you, you have to worry about being caught.  People will like you from a distance because you’re cool, you’re dark, you’re edgy.  Then they hate you to your face, even if they don’t talk about it because they’re afraid.  I went hero and… they hate us anyway?”<br><br>“Might be because so many people chose being a villain first, because they thought it’d be easier and more fun, even if it meant stepping on the civilians along the way,” I said.<br><br>“Oof,” Etna grunted.  She sounded genuinely wounded as she said, “That’s fair.”<br><br>“It’s fair but a little mean of Antares to say,” Sveta said, poking me.  “She’s in a mood.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/27 Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.5]]</ref>