Need help beating my villain.

like the title said, I'm currently writing a story and I've hit a block. I can't find a justifiable way for my hero to beat the villain.

Basicly my hero is young adult female Artificial Human, created by said villain. She was "rescued" right after her "creation" and given a normal life. Unknown what she was.

Currently she's been captured by the villain who's a Evilutionary Biologist, that augmented himself. stronger, faster and immume to bullets. + he has several "less perfect" minions ala Frankenstein's monster. He wants to experiment on her, ask her questions, bascilly know/learn how she developed.

The hero only real advantages are that she's being kept alive and a good dose of Dangerously Genre-Savvy.

in short im looking for a way for her to beat/kill the villain in a indirect way ala guile heroine.

edited 15th Nov '15 2:48:05 PM by DemonCow

I'll start by asking if it's necessary for your hero to beat the villain at this point; so, is it?

Because sometimes it's better if the hero doesn't manage to win but just to escape; I'd even say that there is a lesson to be learned here. And if you cannot think of a way for the hero to defeat their adversary, maybe at that point it simply was not meant to be.

Bring down the whole structure!

Is your villain allergic to something?

I have a super in my setting, basically superman, die when a mercenary exploited her allergy to peanuts. May be a bit of a cop out, but who ever thinks of removing there allergy to peanuts when they can become the hulk, bit low down the priority tree when your splicing your self into the final evolution of humanity.

As for weaponizing it: a 12 gage shot gun shell loaded with peanuts.

Is she kept in a cage, tied up, shackled? If so, maybe she could convince the villain to show her around his facility? If he's an Evilutionary Biologist who's creating life, then I'm guessing he's prideful and hungry for praise and recognition of his achievements. If your heroine plays it right, she might end up being released and taken on a tour, probably with her hands tied and a pair or trio of Frankensteins to watch over her.

If she has her hands tied in front of her, with (relative) freedom of movement, she can wait until he's got his back to her before throwing her tied hands over his neck and starting to strangle him (like what Leia does to Jabba in Return of the Jedi, though I suppose a shorter chain would be sufficient). If she throws herself at him, eg. wrapping her legs around his torso, then she could use surprise, momentum and mass to turn him around so that Frankensteins wouldn't be able to get to her without going through their master first (and the villain trashing around would probably make it harder as well). If she manages to hold onto the villain, she could believably strangle him.

If you'd rather prolong the fight, she might not succeed at strangling him, but she could trick him into using his strength against him, eg. ripping her shackles' chain in two in his attempts to get her off his neck. Once she has full freedom of movement, she can use whatever is at hand, and labs can have a lot of dangerous things at hand, from scalpels to needles and syringes. If the lab is crowded and she more nimble than Frankensteins, then her pursuers' larger size and numbers would work against them in their attempts to catch her.

The villain is a bigger concern. If she attacks rather than fleeing, she should probably try to strike from distance and never let herself be pinned down. I assume he'd much rather keep her alive, so that's one thing in her favour. And if he does manage to pin her down, she can still use any sharp object in vicinity to stab him. I know he's bulletproof, but there's a reason why bulletproof vests and stab vests aren't one and the same thing.

Hope that helps.

thanks for your advice guys.

@ Kazeto: Well, should she only escape. he'd just hunt her down again and possibly kill a bunch of her friends to do so.

@ dragonkingofthestars: I guessing he'd probably already fixed whatever alargy's he might have had.

@ Kakai: that's actually a really good idea, and I'll definetly look into it a little further.

Well, I am not saying it can't happen or that just running away is optimal.

But still, if you as the author can't envision the hero winning against the villain at this very moment, I do say the hero probably can't either so if she is in any way sane she'd concentrate on escaping and maybe or maybe not start thinking about how to defeat the villain at the moment when she can consider the escape a success.

And, you know, it's much easier to win against someone who does not wish to kill you but only to subdue you if you can prepare the battlefield beforehand and provide some distractions to allow you a little bit more wiggle room, so to say. And escaping and then engaging the foe at whatever nearby location you'd managed to get to with a few moments to spare would be much better than trying to do that at the place the foe had prepared, in that regard.

Not to mention that, depending on how you write it, in the process of running away the hero might stumble onto whatever information, tool, or trinket of power, that would allow her to defeat the adversary she'd previously been incapable of facing; including the villain this is about.

So if anything, I say do concentrate on the hero escaping. If it so happens that something during the escape or shortly afterwards causes the defeat of the villain, then so be it, but looking at it from the perspective of the hero it's not a foe she can match and therefore it's not a foe she should fight before either other options are discarded or she gets an opportunity that could turn the situation to her favour; and if not fight, then escape for now is what anyone would do if they could.

edited 16th Nov '15 9:37:39 AM by Kazeto