How can you bring back a villain? What method would you chose? Scenario: A main villain is killed and all that''s left of him is his head and pieces of his torso and extremities. The ideas I can think of are: (1) Have an android body built using his remains. (2) Combine his remains with a robot or android. (3) Combine his remains with pieces he''s missing from another being or a number of different beings. (4) Have his body restored by a wizard, witch, et cetera. (Ick.) (5) If in a sci-fi setting, clone him. (Ick.) What else can you do?

I think it would depend a lot on whether you wanted the hero to come back as good as new, or with problems. Like you could play frankenstein and now he''d be covered with stitches and his nerves wouldn''t work very well. Cloning would produce a person who looked the same and had generally the same abilities and temperament, but his ideas might be completely different. You could steal a copy of the person from an alternate world, and he would have some wrong assumptions and maybe want to go home. You could search magically or with a computer for the most similar person in the world, then use plastic surgery or magic to make them look exactly like the original. You could look for his reincarnation, if your world has reincarnation. You could go back in time and save him or make a copy of him before he was killed. There''re lots of ways...

There''s always mind swapping. After the villian dies some of his servants download his mind into another persons body. Thus allowing the villian to continue his evil this time in a completely diffrent body. One that the hero wouldn''t recognize, perhaps the villian could even take advantage of that fact to manipluate the hero in to aiding his cause in the guise of doing good.

There''s the bad cliche of you didn''t kill the villian but a shadow/clone/copy/duplicate/twin.

You could incorpate some mystisim into the process by the fact that only the villians body was destroyed. But his soul survied and by sheer force of will, and hate or as the result of some dark ritual you interupted. The villians'' soul remained in this world so in the end by killing the villian you caused him to return far more powerful then you could have ever imagined.

In the end you should just choose a method that fits in well with your story.

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You could search magically or with a computer for the most similar person in the world, then use plastic surgery or magic to make them look exactly like the original.

What would be the point in that?

You could send the player to the realm of the dead where he meets the guy again in dead form. The guy is no different, only he''s dead.

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you can bring him back by keeping him dead.

You killed him but he shows up again becuase he''s still in between the real world and the after life thingy. So when the playes go *gasp* I thought I killed him. You can explain later that he actually is dead, he just hasnt passed over the world of reality or something.

But this kind of thing would really dfepend on the setting of your game. I mean in medievil times you couldnt scientifically explain a dead guy coming back, but you could explain magically.

In a futuristic setting you caould probably explain it scienetifically. It also depends on what the people of your world are capable of. Like if you take Final Fantasy VII and want to explain sephiroth coming back, you can say something like: His lifes stream threads were fused back into his body by using a new powerful materia. Now you couldnt say the same thing for a resident evil game. Becuase the characters/settings/concepts/beliefs are all different.

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you could also not explain at all why he come back and for the hero and the viewer it will be a complete mystery which will remain unsolve, and you can use these arguement bottom because the hero seek how the vilain come back each time he was kill, and then find clue but it''s always wrong at the very end because even when the supposed mecanism is destroy (i e the clone factory is destroy) the bad guy still come back and the hero is drive crazy at the end

another idea is that the bad bad has multiple instance of himself with a common memory but is not aware of that or simply the bad evil is tha hero in a video games and simply respawn when he lose a life (aka can find some item or save point too??)

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be good
be evil
but do it WELL
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you know what?? this vilain is called boomrang whatever you do, no matter how, it will come back

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be good
be evil
but do it WELL
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Mmmh, in the 6th Day (the movie), the bad guy has multiple replica of himself in his cloning facility. He just has to do a transfer of his memory once in a while if he doesnt want to lose too much memory.
In Altered Carbon, the story revolves around why this uber rich guy who has auto upload of his memory chipset to his shard (host) database and unlimited supply of shards to replace his body was killed, and by whom. Normally shooting someone in the chipset makes it impossible to ressuscitate them by plugging them into a new body, but in the case of this man who is so rich, he can afford daily backup of his chipset, so an assassination attempt, even by destroying his chipset, would have been pointless. The only result is that he misses the last twelve hours in his memory (he was killed just before backup).
For most of mankind, he is immortal, a methuselah, he has lived for several hundreds years, ever youthful, ever rich.
In Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita, a manga) the big bad guy is a mad scientist. IIRC at the end of the first serie, the hero, Gunnm, dies (yep that''s right, I think in a huge explosion trying to destroy the baddie).
At the beginning of the next "season" (for lack of a better word) she is ressuscitated because despite the violence of the explosion, some bodily remains could be collected in sufficient quantity to replicate cells and recreate a whole new body.
In the 5th element, one of the holy warriors supposed to defend "the 5th element" that were killed at the beginning of the story is ressuscitated by recreating her body from what they found of her remains : a finger.

Etc,etc... I am sure there are more and more, but those are some extreme examples of "gee, I really thought he was dead this time". And yet, no, they always seem to find a way back

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