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The Villains Series

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The Villains Series	comment	The Villains series is a duology of books by V. E. Schwab which includes Vicious (2013) and Vengeful (2018).Vicious begins the story of Victor Vale and Eliot "Eli" Cardale, two academic rivals and best friends, who are working on their senior theses when a shared research interest leads them to a working theory about the adrenaline response of near-death experiences as a possible origin of super-powered individuals note (called EOs in this setting, short for ExtraOrdinary). In a fit of drunken impulsiveness, they decide to test the theory on themselves, with predictably tragic results. Ten years later, Victor escapes prison with his cellmate, a talented hacker named Mitch Turner, and embarks on a revenge-fueled quest to hunt down his former friend, now known as Eli Ever. On the outskirts of a city called Merit, their path crosses with Sydney Clarke, an almost-thirteen-year-old with a bullet wound in her arm, a personal interest in seeing Eli Ever pay for his crimes, and the ability to raise the dead, sending them all speeding down a path towards an explosive showdown.Vengeful picks up five years later, with the surviving characters dealing with the aftermath of the first book and the choices they all made that fateful night. Meanwhile, things are once again shaking up in Merit, with the sudden rise of a powerful and ambitious new EO named Marcella Morgan. The wife of a recently deceased mob boss, Marcella has been biding her time at her husband's side and formulating her own ideas about how the city should be run... ideas that put her on the radar of a shadowy new organization known as EON.Schwab has announced plans for a third entry in the series — tentatively titled Victorious — with an unknown release date.A Comic Book series set in the five years between Vicious and Vengeful called ExtraOrdinary was published by Titan Comics in 2021.This article contains unmarked spoilers for Vicious.
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The Villains Series / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
The Villains Series / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Poor Angie. Her death is what begins this entire shitshow.
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The Villains Series / int_19211122	type	Feel No Pain
The Villains Series / int_19211122	comment	Feel No Pain: Victor's powers give him the ability to modulate or fully shut down his level of pain. He can extend this to either increase or reduce pain levels in other people as well.
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The Villains Series / int_1b44c21	type	GrayAndGreyMorality
The Villains Series / int_1b44c21	comment	Gray-and-Grey Morality: The entire plot. No one's fully good or fully bad, and everyone is in it for their own selfish reasons (except maybe Sydney, since she got dragged into this mess by circumstance).
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The Villains Series / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Villains Series / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: One of Victor's flaws. He was irritated by and envious of Eli and Angie's romantic relationship, because they made him feel left out. This also bleeds into his jealousy over Eli discovering how to create superpowers, and drove him to even more reckless risks in an attempt to get some for himself.
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The Villains Series / int_1da46897	type	Lady Macbeth
The Villains Series / int_1da46897	comment	Lady Macbeth: Marcella was a classic example to her mobster husband, pushing him to get further into the business so they (or rather, she) could gain more power. After becoming an EO, she kills him and seizes control herself.
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The Villains Series / int_203bb427	type	Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand
The Villains Series / int_203bb427	comment	Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: Mitch and Victor, respectively, when it comes to Sydney. Mitch is in general extremely kind to her, focusing on her education and trying to be understanding when she's being rebellious. Victor, though he does genuinely care for Sydney, is quite harsh and doesn't hesitate to lay down the law, or spell out unpleasant realities.
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The Villains Series / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
The Villains Series / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: Mitch, Victor, and Sydney are this by the second book, with Dominic as their extended family. (Good luck getting Victor to admit it, of course.) Mitch and Dominic have no living family, and Victor and Sydney aren't really on good terms with theirs, but they all stick together and act like an odd combination of two dads and their daughter, and two older siblings raising their younger sister (with Dominic as the long-distance uncle). Sydney even calls the guys her family multiple times. June is also a firm believer in this trope, saying families that are chosen are more valuable than ones forced on you by blood, and she wants Sydney to choose to be part of her family.
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The Villains Series / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
The Villains Series / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Eli hasn't physically aged since the night he gained his powers, meaning that he still looks like a 22 year old college student fifteen years later. As noted above Sydney does age, but at a much slower rate than normal, meaning she still appears to be in her early teens and probably will for quite a while.
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The Villains Series / int_314c56b9	type	Time Stands Still
The Villains Series / int_314c56b9	comment	Time Stands Still: Dominic's power appears to be a form of teleportation, but it actually consists of him stopping time and walking somewhere else.
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The Villains Series / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Villains Series / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Stell isn't a good guy, but he finds Dr. Haverty's actions in imprisoning and experimenting on Eli to be morally reprehensible, and pulls strings to get Eli assigned to work for him, instead. Eli's still a prisoner, but at least he's not being tortured anymore.
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The Villains Series / int_326a44a1	type	Create Your Own Villain
The Villains Series / int_326a44a1	comment	Create Your Own Villain: Victor's accidental killing of Angie is what sets Eli on his path, though Eli clearly had a screw loose from the word "go." On the flip-side, Eli getting Victor sent to jail sets Victor on his path.
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The Villains Series / int_330a3b9c	type	Differently Powered Individual
The Villains Series / int_330a3b9c	comment	Differently Powered Individual: Referred to as EOs, short for Extra Ordinary.
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The Villains Series / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
The Villains Series / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: Victor spends his ten years in prison dreaming of the day that he can finally look Eli in the eye and put three bullets into his chest, like Eli once did to him, and once he finally gets the opportunity to do so he's delighted to find out the experience lived up to his imagination.
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The Villains Series / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
The Villains Series / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Victor and Eli, technically. Their process for discovering EOs is very scientific, as well as very dangerous and quite insane. Dr Haverty is a more straight example.
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The Villains Series / int_37fcf16	type	Death Is Cheap
The Villains Series / int_37fcf16	comment	Death Is Cheap: If Sydney is around, the first death is, anyway. Anything over one is much harder. And maybe not so cheap after all if you're already an EO when she resurrects you.
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The Villains Series / int_38f3321	type	Compelling Voice
The Villains Series / int_38f3321	comment	"Serena" is very close to "Sirena," a Greek name that references the sirens — beautiful women who used their Compelling Voices to lure people to their doom. Just like Serena Clarke.
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The Villains Series / int_39c6cac7	type	Shed the Family Name
The Villains Series / int_39c6cac7	comment	Eli changed his last name from Cardale to Ever, partially to shed his connection to his abusive family and partially because he thinks all the best superheroes have alliterative names.
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The Villains Series / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Villains Series / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Serena finds that life isn't very fulfilling when everyone in the world is forced to obey/try to please her. As stated under Beware the Nice Ones, Sydney's plan for Eli at the ending of the first book implies this fate awaits him in prison. Keep in mind, Eli's abilities don't prevent him from feeling pain, so while he will undoubtedly survive whatever punishment comes his way, he'll still feel all of it. In the second book, we find out the reality was even worse; a Mad Scientist got hold of him and studied him via vivisection. Without anesthesia.
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The Villains Series / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Villains Series / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Due to the number of assassination attempts on her life, Marcella grows increasingly paranoid as the story progresses, leading her to start killing underlings for slight — or even perceived — insults.
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The Villains Series / int_3cc3ed1d	type	Abuse Mistake
The Villains Series / int_3cc3ed1d	comment	Abuse Mistake: After learning that Victor's power is hurting people, June asks Sydney if Victor has ever hurt her, and Sydney initially says "no" before amending it to "not on purpose". Sydney is being literal: Victor's powers have caused her pain on a few occasions, but it's due to his Power Incontinence going off while she's in the room. She doesn't clarify the situation though, so June interprets it as Sydney making apologies for a man who is physically abusing her.
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The Villains Series / int_3d455888	type	Then Let Me Be Evil
The Villains Series / int_3d455888	comment	Then Let Me Be Evil: After years of everyone assuming he was up to no good, despite him being a nice, upstanding sort of guy, Mitch decided to rob a bank. This lands him in jail... where he meets Victor. When Victor learns that the public considers Eli to be a hero and that opposing him would make Victor a villain, his response is basically, "Sure, why not?"
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The Villains Series / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Villains Series / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Sydney cuts ties with her parents and remains with Mitch and Victor after the events of the first book, with them both filling the parent role. Mitch looks after her the closest, even taking it upon himself to home-school her, while Victor is parental towards her in his own way, but is a significantly less... nurturing presence.
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The Villains Series / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Villains Series / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Victor Vale is an expert at getting under people's skins and then manipulating them like puppets in his grand schemes. See the Thanatos Gambit listed below for his ultimate example.
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The Villains Series / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Villains Series / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Victor and Eli's relationship is a little too personally fraught to really count — they're so laser-focused on each other that nothing else was ever an option — but Victor definitely sees Serena as this. Dominic expresses surprise after getting a good look at her the first time after helping Victor kill her, commenting that she's "just a girl", but Victor sharply contradicts him, telling him that far from being just anything, Serena is the most powerful woman in Merit.
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The Villains Series / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Villains Series / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The way Eli sees it, if you're an EO, you have to die. Even if you're a defenseless twelve-year-old girl.
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The Villains Series / int_485d09ab	type	Creator In-Joke
The Villains Series / int_485d09ab	comment	Creator In-Joke: At the Halloween party Sydney tries to go to in the second book, she spots a boy in a red coat making out with a girl in a horned mask, a reference to Kell and Lila
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The Villains Series / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
The Villains Series / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Eli's various foster families are all an improvement over his abusive birth family, but he's at his happiest during his time with his aunt and uncle.
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The Villains Series / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
The Villains Series / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Victor and Eli were once best friends. To say they're no longer on good terms is a massive understatement. Perhaps worse is Sydney and Serena. The two sisters were once thick as thieves. Now they're on opposing sides, and Serena attempts to have Eli kill Sydney.
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The Villains Series / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
The Villains Series / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: The details are left deliberately vague, but June is introduced near the end of her personal quest to hunt down the group of men who assaulted her and left her for dead.
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The Villains Series / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Villains Series / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Victor Vale is calm, methodical and polite to everyone around him and genuinely cares about his loved ones but he has a very devious mind and is The Unfettered when it comes to getting revenge.
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The Villains Series / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
The Villains Series / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: While Victor is able to keep a very tight reign on his powers while he's awake, he isn't able to maintain that same level of control while he's asleep, and this sometimes results in uncontrolled surges of pain that affect anyone close-by, as Sydney discovers when she accidentally wakes him while he's in the middle of a traumatic nightmare/flashback about the night Angie died. He doesn't sleep much as a result. In Vengeful, Victor's powers are on the fritz after his resurrection, causing episodes where they will suddenly overload and explode in violent bursts of energy that temporarily stop his heart and can cause serious damage to anyone in his immediate vicinity. His health suffers severely because of this.
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The Villains Series / int_5838c7c4	type	Hunter of His Own Kind
The Villains Series / int_5838c7c4	comment	Hunter of His Own Kind: Eli's an EO on a killing spree against all other EOs. Stell's second, Rios turns out to be an EO working for EON.
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The Villains Series / int_5a371c8f	type	Opportunistic Bastard
The Villains Series / int_5a371c8f	comment	Opportunistic Bastard: Eli, as demonstrated in Vengeful, had to be this way in order to make his way in life, because he started with basically nothing. While he's willing to callously dump his girlfriend in exchange for a bribe from her father and has other displays of Lack of Empathy, it's somewhat understandable, at least up to a point.
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The Villains Series / int_5edb884e	type	Face of a Thug
The Villains Series / int_5edb884e	comment	Face of a Thug: Mitch looks like he's up to no good, which makes everyone assume that that's actually in the case, when in reality, he's a nice guy with an unfortunate habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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The Villains Series / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
The Villains Series / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In a way. Why doesn't June just force Sydney away from Victor, as she clearly thinks would be best for her, and she later demonstrates she is capable of doing? Because June wants her to choose to come with her, of her own free will, not be forced into it.
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The Villains Series / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
The Villains Series / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: A variant, as June doesn't need to kidnap someone to hurt them—all she needs to do is be able to assume their form, and then hurt herself, as injuries are always transferred to the original. She forces Victor to help her take down Marcella by turning into Mitch and holding a gun to her own head.
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The Villains Series / int_622d4676	type	Mistaken for Suicidal
The Villains Series / int_622d4676	comment	Mistaken for Suicidal: Victor's first attempt at a near death experience in order to gain superpowers ends up landing him in therapy, under the belief that he's become suicidal.
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The Villains Series / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Villains Series / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Victor's is assisted by his ability to generate physical discomfort in the person he's glaring at, which makes it especially effective.
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The Villains Series / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Villains Series / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Marcella responds to evidence of her husband's infidelity by immediately grabbing the nearest steak knife and trying to kill him. After waking up in the hospital with superpowers that are fueled by her rage, her temper grows progressively shorter as a lifetime of being underestimated and overlooked finally catches up to her, and she proceeds to carve a path of death and destruction through the city of Merit.
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The Villains Series / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Villains Series / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Victor genuinely cares about Mitch and Sydney, especially the latter. And, at one point, he and Eli were best friends. Just about Serena's only saving grace is that she truly loves Sydney. Not that it stops her from letting Eli try to kill her. Eli genuinely loved his mother, as well as his aunt and uncle. If they hadn't all died, he might have gone down a better path. Marcella did love her husband... which is why she's so, so utterly pissed when she finds out he's cheating, as she's always been faithful to him. And then he tries to kill her, which pretty much ends the romance for good.
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The Villains Series / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
The Villains Series / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: It's what EOs give up for power, along with compassion and a general ability to care about others. Victor and Eli are the most glaring examples and both have routines or rules they follow to emulate empathy. However, it is not complete as the Even Evil Has Loved Ones examples above show.
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The Villains Series / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Villains Series / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Victor shares his first name with Dr. Doom, of whom he is an Expy. Dominic Rusher has powers that make him appear as though he's teleporting. "Serena" is very close to "Sirena," a Greek name that references the sirens — beautiful women who used their Compelling Voices to lure people to their doom. Just like Serena Clarke. "Angie," as in "Angelica," which, of course, means "Angel." Angie Knight dies. "Marcella" ultimately derives from "Mars", the Roman god of war. You do not want to mess with her.
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The Villains Series / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Villains Series / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Eli's mother killed herself when he was young.
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The Villains Series / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
The Villains Series / int_6f33059b	comment	Iconic Outfit: You will be hard-pressed to find fan art of Victor Vale in which he is not dressed in head-to-toe black and wearing a Badass Longcoat.
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The Villains Series / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
The Villains Series / int_7301ae04	comment	Victor's a self-centered douche who has no qualms about manipulating people to get what he wants, and Eli's a Serial Killer with delusions of grandeur. Our protagonists, ladies and gentlemen!
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The Villains Series / int_73418f96	comment	Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Serena attempts this on Mitch, but he knew that she would and had already triple checked to make sure his gun wasn't loaded before she arrived.
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The Villains Series / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: His mother was already dead, but Eli finishes the job by shoving his father down a flight of stairs and waiting until his breathing stopped before calling for help. It's hard to feel at all bad about this.
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The Villains Series / int_8186d60d	type	Not Growing Up Sucks
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The Villains Series / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Villains Series / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: The events just before and during the novel shatter Sydney's respect and near-idolization of her older sister, Serena. Of course, your sister trying to have you killed tends to do that.
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The Villains Series / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Villains Series / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Two very good ones, in rapid succession.
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The Villains Series / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Villains Series / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Eli has this in the first book, thanks to Serena's influence over the Merit Police Department. Subverted once she's dispatched by Victor, nullifying her influence, and Eli's subsequently caught red-handed at a murder scene.
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The Villains Series / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: The Series! Mitch summed it up perfectly when he told Sydney "there are no good men in this game." Victor's a self-centered douche who has no qualms about manipulating people to get what he wants, and Eli's a Serial Killer with delusions of grandeur. Our protagonists, ladies and gentlemen! The second book introduces Marcella, who is a highly ambitious mob wife-turned-Serial Killer.
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The Villains Series / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
The Villains Series / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The first book's narrative jumps all over the timeline, in all covering a span of about ten years. The second book is told in a similar style, but the main story-line takes place over five years, not including the flashbacks of Eli's childhood.
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The Villains Series / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
The Villains Series / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Victor was by no means a saint in the first book, but he was at least focusing his worst impulses on his rivalry with Eli and was still doing what he could to avoid harming civilians or innocent bystanders. In Vengeful, the combined anxiety over his escalating health problems and the constant threat of being hunted down by EON sends him into darker territory, leading to his decision to kill everyone he'd previously sought out for help in order to eliminate potential witnesses. Worse, when Sydney objects to his becoming a serial killer, he forces her to choose between their safety or the lives of the people who could identify them.
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The Villains Series / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
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The Villains Series / int_8e04fdd7	type	Dragon with an Agenda
The Villains Series / int_8e04fdd7	comment	Dragon with an Agenda: Serena is Eli's right hand only because she knows that if she doesn't help him with his crusade, and isn't always around so she can continually order him to not kill her, she's going to find herself on the wrong end of his gun. (Multiple characters note that, although it seems like Eli is using the police, in actuality she is using them, just for him.) Needless to say, the second she finds a way she can get rid of him, she turns on him.
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The Villains Series / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Villains Series / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Marcella's husband tries to kill her. She winds up coming back as an EO, and kills him instead. Very, very painfully.
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The Villains Series / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
The Villains Series / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: Part of the reason Serena dislikes her powers so much is that she knows her passive "you want to please me" aura interferes with a person's agency even if she avoids imperatives — so she can never be certain a sex partner is 100% willing. Since Eli will murder her if she goes too long without ordering him not to, however, she’s fine ignoring this issue when it comes to him.
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The Villains Series / int_945dd99a	type	Cape Busters
The Villains Series / int_945dd99a	comment	Cape Busters: Most police departments have officers trained to deal with EOs. Additionally, ExtraOrdinary Observation and Neutralization (EON) in the second book.
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The Villains Series / int_9b73b497	type	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
The Villains Series / int_9b73b497	comment	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Eli and Victor are both very insistent that they take the other out. In a twist, Sydney is the one who ultimately pulls the trigger on Eli in Vengeful, putting him down (at least for now). Fitting, considering that he tried to execute her when she was only twelve and she's been haunted by nightmares about it ever since.
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The Villains Series / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Villains Series / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: With Sydney around, burning a corpse is the only way to ensure that a person will actually stay dead. Victor and Mitch dispose of Serena's body in this fashion specifically to prevent Sydney from resurrecting her, and Eli begs his arresting officers to burn Victor's body for this same reason (luckily for Victor, they don't listen).
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The Villains Series / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
The Villains Series / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Eli doesn't see EOs as human, but as unholy abominations wearing human skin, and thus feels no guilt for killing them.
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The Villains Series / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Villains Series / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Vicious one of Victor's blackout poems results in the phrase "We...ruin...all...we touch." In Vengeful, he meets Marcella, a woman with the power to literally bring ruin to anything she touches. June tells Marcella she should really try to figure out the limits of her powers, and Marcella speculates that she might not actually have any. In the end, she really seems not to, but that actually gets her killed because she doesn't realize she needs to rein herself in. At the end of Vicious, Sydney decides to leak information about Eli's Healing Factor to whatever prison he ends up in, figuring that that'll turn him into a human pincushion. In Vengeful, Eli ends up as the sole guinea pig of a Mad Scientist, who continually operates on and even vivisects him... which is more or less exactly what Sydney hoped for. Though what Dr. Haverty does to Eli is so horrible, it's unlikely that Sydney would've wished it on anyone.
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The Villains Series / int_9d61fd2c	type	Traumatic Superpower Awakening
The Villains Series / int_9d61fd2c	comment	Traumatic Superpower Awakening: A near death experience is required for someone to become an EO, with their resulting superpower being linked to the final thought or desire that helped them to pull through. Eli and Victor invoke this by, respectively, drowning in an ice-bath (Eli), and being tortured with electricity until his body gave out (Victor). Sydney and Serena's powers are the result of falling through a frozen lake and drowning/freezing to death. Dominic spent weeks in a coma after surviving an IED blast that left him with severe chronic pain. Marcella's husband attempted to burn their house down with her inside after she discovered his infidelity and attacked him in a fit of rage. June's backstory is vague, but her powers are the result swearing that she would never be hurt again after surviving a violent assault.
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The Villains Series / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
The Villains Series / int_9e1e14ea	comment	The second book introduces Marcella, who is a highly ambitious mob wife-turned-Serial Killer.
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The Villains Series / int_9e776765	type	Churchgoing Villain
The Villains Series / int_9e776765	comment	Churchgoing Villain: Eli is extremely religious, and views his quest as a holy Mission from God.
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The Villains Series / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Villains Series / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Serena gets hit with this about a half-second before Eli tries to kill Sydney.
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The Villains Series / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
The Villains Series / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Sydney's parents were absent for most of her childhood, to the point that Serena used to comfort Sydney by making up stories about them being adopted. She tells Victor in the present day that they left her alone at the hospital after she drowned because they had to work, and that they won't notice or care that she's missing. It's one of the first things she and Victor are able to bond over. Parental Substitute: Sydney cuts ties with her parents and remains with Mitch and Victor after the events of the first book, with them both filling the parent role. Mitch looks after her the closest, even taking it upon himself to home-school her, while Victor is parental towards her in his own way, but is a significantly less... nurturing presence.
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The Villains Series / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
The Villains Series / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Eli's power. He is able to heal from injuries almost instantaneously, unless the object causing the injury isn't removed or it's too large for his body to heal around.
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The Villains Series / int_a7016efe	type	Lonely Rich Kid
The Villains Series / int_a7016efe	comment	Lonely Rich Kid: Victor's parents are bestselling authors and quite wealthy, but they were distant and rarely around while he was growing up, resulting in a strained relationship — at best — with their son. He's also naturally a loner, which means he has very few friends. He doesn't dwell on it much.
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The Villains Series / int_abdf1659	type	Bodyguarding a Badass
The Villains Series / int_abdf1659	comment	Bodyguarding a Badass: Mitch takes it upon himself to look out for his newest cellmate, a quiet and unassuming fellow named Victor Vale, only to see first-hand several days later that Victor is more than capable of taking care of himself. Victor, however, invites him to keep on watching his back so that other people don't realize what he's capable of as well. After EON starts sending hit squads after Marcella, June recommends hiring an EO named Jonathan as her personal bodyguard, just in case one of the goons ever manages to get lucky. Jonathan's powers? The ability to throw a deflector shield around himself and anyone in his line of sight. Marcella hires him immediately, and he's at her side for the rest of the book.
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The Villains Series / int_ad94c7a0	type	Scars are Forever
The Villains Series / int_ad94c7a0	comment	Scars are Forever: Although Eli's healing factor prevents him from acquiring any new scars, it can't do anything about the web of scars that cover his back as a result of his father's beatings when he was a child. Sydney's resurrection of Victor at the end of Vicious erases all of the damage he sustained at Eli's hands during their battle at the Falcon Price, but he still has three bullet wound scars on his chest, courtesy of Eli's first attempt at killing him in their dorm room.
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The Villains Series / int_ae372576	type	I Warned You
The Villains Series / int_ae372576	comment	I Warned You: In Vengeful, Eli is unsympathetic when EON has difficulty capturing Victor — as he continually points out, he told them to burn his body five years ago.
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The Villains Series / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Villains Series / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Eli succeeds in killing Victor, but thanks to Sydney, it doesn't stick. He ends the first novel in jail, without Serena, and everything he worked for being for naught.
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The Villains Series / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Villains Series / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Eli tells Victor that his choice of last name, "Ever", is because he doesn't want to be forgotten. He's going to be remembered forever as a Serial Killer.
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The Villains Series / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Villains Series / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Eli suffered a violent childhood at the hands of his father, a preacher, who justified his constant beatings by claiming it was necessary to cleanse him of sin.
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The Villains Series / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
The Villains Series / int_b983a56b	comment	Came Back Wrong: Eli believes this is true of all EOs. He thinks they aren't really people, just pale imitations, and that he, as the only EO he knows whose power can only be used on himself, has been given a mission by God to destroy them. While the latter part is a delusion, he does have a point about the former; all EOs in Vicious except Sydney show a conspicuous Lack of Empathy. Both Serena and Victor agree that coming back takes something away from them, it's just that Victor doesn't care. This is an unfortunate side-effect for EO's resurrected by Sydney, who experience difficulty controlling their powers, as they discover once she resurrects Barry Lynch. This is her biggest fear regarding her resurrection of Victor; physically, he comes back fine, and his power initially appears to be intact, but a few weeks later it begins to go on the fritz. See the entry under Power Incontinence for how that turns out.
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The Villains Series / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Villains Series / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Eli sees other EOs as evil by definition. He sees his killings as not just good, but holy.
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The Villains Series / int_bce728ca	type	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
The Villains Series / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: June turns on Marcella when the latter threatens Sydney's life, which ultimately gets Marcella killed.
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The Villains Series / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
The Villains Series / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Eli and Victor both had romantic feelings for Angie Knight in the past, but their relationship with each other is very intense, both when they're best friends and when they're trying to kill each other.
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The Villains Series / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The Villains Series / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Victor Vale. Eli Ever, though this is an assumed name. Marcella Morgan, which is her maiden name and she reclaims it after she murders her cheating husband.
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The Villains Series / int_c3b9f30	type	The Team Normal
The Villains Series / int_c3b9f30	comment	The Team Normal: Mitch is abnormally unlucky, but this doesn't appear to have a supernatural cause.
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The Villains Series / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Villains Series / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Mitch is a genuinely friendly, nice person who just so happens to have phenomenally bad luck. It's very telling that even when he decided Then Let Me Be Evil, he chose a crime in which no one would be hurt.
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The Villains Series / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
The Villains Series / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Sydney looks exactly like her older sister Serena, just seven years younger.
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The Villains Series / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
The Villains Series / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killer: June. Her ability to shapeshift into anyone she's ever touched, plus the fact that she cannot be hurt while shapeshifted (the person whose face she's wearing sustains all damage she takes), makes her especially effective.
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The Villains Series / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Villains Series / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Victor borrows Spike Spiegel's iconic finger gun in Vengeful. It's not even required for his super-power to work, he's clearly just showing off. Another key scene in Vengeful takes place at a hotel called "The Continental", which the author has confirmed is a deliberate nod.
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The Villains Series / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Villains Series / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Eli's father was physically and emotionally abusive, which might explain a lot of his issues.
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The Villains Series / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
The Villains Series / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: So far, Eli, Marcella, Stell, Dominic, and Serena are all dead-for-real. Eli, Stell, and Dominic still have bodies intact as of the end of Vengeful, meaning they conceivably could come back in any future installments, but Serena and Marcella aren't so lucky.
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The Villains Series / int_d3aad64a	comment	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Victor would be this, except the prison sentence prevented him from getting his doctorate. He's a touch bitter about this. Dr. Haverty, who experiments on and vivisects Eli, among others, in the second book.
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The Villains Series / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Eli is thoroughly convinced EOs are an affront against God and need to be put down... except him. He's fine, and in fact, has been chosen to carry out His bloody crusade.
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The Villains Series / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Marcella's gala at the Old Courthouse serves as the climax of Vengeful, with all the major characters and their various motivations colliding all at once. Marcella plans to unveil her vision for the future of Merit at the event, while a team from EON is there to finally put a stop to her growing body count — with Eli in tow to land the killing blow, since he's the only person alive who has a chance to withstand her powers. Eli, however, is planning to use the chaos of the event to make his escape instead. Meanwhile, Victor gate-crashes the party with the single-minded goal of killing Eli, but is first intercepted by June who blackmails him into helping her take Marcella down to keep Sydney safe. The whole situation results in a Mêlée à Trois, with Eli and Marcella locked in a battle to the death, Victor and Stell briefly teaming up to take down her EO bodyguard, all while Victor is also simultaneously ducking various EON goons and keeping an eye open for a chance to take his shot at Eli.
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The Villains Series / int_e18675e6	comment	Word Salad Lyrics: Victor's favorite pastime is using his parent's self-help books for blackout poetry, with some of the results landing in this territory for maximum insult.
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The Villains Series / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: Subverted. Eli thinks he's having these with Victor in prison, going so far as to think Victor's ghost may be haunting him. Then he finds out Victor is alive...
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The Villains Series / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Sydney is pretty much the heart of the series because of this trope. She brings out whatever good is left in Victor. He even admits to her that he won't tell her exactly what he's up to, because he's afraid it'd make her lose respect in him. Serena also truly loves her... though it's subverted in that she agrees to let Eli kill her. She does have some reservations about it, though, and does try to protect her in the climax. Ultimately, she loves Sydney, but not enough for it to make any real difference in the end. In the second book, she also wins June's affection and protection. It's less obvious, but Victor does genuinely care quite a bit about Mitch, and he realizes too late that he should have appreciated Dominic more.
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The Villains Series / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Victor and Eli for Dr. Doom and Reed Richards — two brilliant former best friends who clash over science theories and a girl. Except for the fact that they're both bad guys, with Victor actually being slightly better.
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The Villains Series / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: Eli changed his last name from Cardale to Ever, partially to shed his connection to his abusive family and partially because he thinks all the best superheroes have alliterative names. Marcella goes back to using her maiden name of Morgan after her husband's attempt to murder her.
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The Villains Series / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Angie gets a text from Victor asking for help, and without a second thought, drops everything to help her friend. This sets off a chain of events that gets her killed. Dominic blows his cover at EON to save Victor's life and suffers a fatal gunshot wound during their ensuing escape.
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