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BONUS EPISODE: Crafting Complex and Memorable Characters with Karl Iglesias

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Undeserved Mistreatment and Injustice

Every time you create a scene or an event for a character that is technically a mistreatment of that character, we feel sorry for that character. So show others unjustly mistreating a hero. This creates pity. And also, if you add brutality to that, it bonus points on that. If the character is defenseless, it creates more sympathy. One of the reasons why we felt a little connection to hannibal lector is because he was set up as this totally evil, scary character. But when she got to it, we saw how he was mistreated by the psychology gist. He just lost his wife. His wife just got murdered. The key point here is undes

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