Ladies and Gentlemen, I am about to set you a challenge. I would like you all to create your own Soap Villain.

It could be anyone, male or female. Any actor, any actress, you think of something, just do it. The Villain you create has to be on one of the 4 big soaps: Emmerdale, Eastenders, Hollyoaks and Coronation Street.

Think you can do it? Have a go!

Mine would be a very very complex character. I would start off by introducing them as a 'tragic hero' who always puts their families needs first by going to. Overtime after so much heartbreak and pain I would have them slowly become a 'tragic villain'. My SL would show what makes a villain. They would be backed into a corner where they have to do the things they do to survive. It will be a slow transformation until they turn full on villain. The charter would already have a rough upbringing so the can handle themselves already and won't be a unbelievable transformation. They would be so complex to the point we won't like what their doing but will understand. The character and SL will be - 'From hero to Villain - what makes a Villain?!'

Mine would be a nasty piece of work who comes to wreak a very specific hell on Walford: he wants to hurt MyLauren and MyCindy. The torment would continue until one day a valiant hero, hypothetically called J-D or D-B or something turns up - very handsome, charming, funny, and oozing sex appeal. He would rescue his Lauren and Cindy from the villain, and that's where things would probably get X-rated.

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I don't think Lauren would appreciate Jim Davidson or Don Brennan changing their arms...

I would go for Bert Bragadaccio. He roams Walford depositing random Carters like triffids....

Anyone else?

Steve George - newcomer to Walford.

Roxy and Jay's lives will never be the same again and Steve will find an arch enemy in Ronnie Mitchell.

Steve George will be played by Daniel Betts.

Would you like to give us all back some feedback. As you started he thread and asking for other posts, let's see what you think of the ones people have been so kindly to respond with.

My villain would appear to be a charismatic and ethical businessman. He moves his party-planning business to Walford and employs a range of locals. The rest of the staff have moved with the business because they love working there.

It's a good job and the boss is generous and interested in his employees. For example, he finds out that Denise has a drink problem which she blames on stress - he talks the Denise and finds out she regards her home-life stressful so he arranges a day at a spa for Denise and sweet-talks Patrick into joining a local pensioners club so he gets to go out and spend sometime with other people and Denise gets an afternoon to herself every week.

It's also quickly apparent that he has some strongly held religious views that mean he will turn down some contracts because they contradict his morals - for example premarital sex is frowned upon so he refuses a baby shower for an underage mother. This also means that he has minor run ins with Phil and Ian about the way they run their businesses/treat their employees.

The boss has two very loyal members of staff who report back on the other workers and local gossip. They are perhaps the first indications that something is rotten as if anyone speaks badly about the boss they freeze them out. No-one who moved to Walford with the business ever talks about where they lived before or what they do at home.

It takes several months for things turn sinister when the Boss refuses to cater/organise a party for a someone who is coming out of prison following a stretch for GBH and admitted he was guilty. The family aren't pleased and the father starts yelling threats. He's later found beaten unconscious and the episode ends with the two especially loyal followers washing up at the Boss's house before he invites them to pray for forgiveness.

We also watch as the boss starts to groom Billy - who's been ousted from the inner Mitchell circle again - as a member of what is a fully fledged cult. They reel him in and isolate him from his family and friends. We also get the sense that something is coming for the cult - their time in "this place" is coming to an end. All of the other cult-members/ workers live together in a large house off the square and we discover that the boss is paying the bills and buys in the food - which is not rationed but there are some exclusions based on their beliefs - and the cult members get £50 a month pocket money, not wages.

Coker & Sons do a funeral for someone who lived locally, but their family is from another part of the UK. The person paying for the funeral visits and remarks in passing to Pam that the Boss looks like "that guy who the taxman's looking for - y'know he was running some sort of cult up by us, not paying his followers and a couple of them died". Pam starts to worry about Billy and approaches Roxy, who is also worried because Lola's been in touch to say Billy has stopped calling her and won't answer her calls.

I'm not sure where it would end - is the cult plotting to move on to avoid the taxman or are they about to go down the mass suicide route? Does Billy get out OK? - I suppose it would depend on the contracts of the characters involved and if anyone wanted to leave.

Very good so far, guys. Keep the ideas coming. I want as many as possible.

Domestic abuse storyline for Roxy that involves Steve as her partner. Jay also falls under Steve spell with devastating consequences.

How come you want so many? Are you planning on creating a villain for something? I hope my idea won't be stolen and used for something...

Very good. Can you give some examples of storylines

More ideas please.

I would create Lydia Grayson (a House of Cards Claire Underwood style ruthless woman) as the mewest resident at Home Farm. She would arrive with her husband and his family. She would be desperate to keep her Lady of the Manor status so when her husbands ex appears and they secretly reunite, she recruits her equally ruthless son and between them they turn the family against each other. When her plan is exposed she is kicked out of the house where she plots her way back into the fold.

She would be calm, dignified and cunning as she makes friends with the locals.



Just an idea

I would have a passed his prime hardmen whos come out of prison after serving a 15 year sentence. Most of his contacts have died in prison or retired. Hes about 53 yrs old and has to start again. After a while we find out he was set up for the crime and has a family thats been brought up by the guy who set him up. So at 53 he makes a phone call to his old friend phil mitchell. Phil then sorts it out for him.

A vicious thug
Lies ,cheats and steals
Attacks women with children
Try's to steal his brothers fiance
Has a massive nose.

Jimmy White
age 40
Owns local night club in Albert square .
Jimmy has mystery about him . Jimmy a nutter . Jimmy only cares about money and does not care about anyone . Jimmy is played by philip brodie

Thank you. I would love to write some of my ideas but the person who started the thread keeps asking for others ideas and I'm starting to think others ideas may be stolen so I think it's best to keep it off. Sorry.


Would you like to explain why you are so desperate for this? It's very clear you're looking to steal others ideas which isn't very nice as its our own, and when u do go to steal it you'll take all the credit!

Tommy Shaw played by Francis Magee (who had an early role as Liam in EE in 93-5)

A stone cold psychopath intelligent, charming and courteous but absolutely dead behind the eyes - think Paul Bettany in Gangster No 1.

Runs a huge Firm although he decided to go into semi retirement even though he is still relatively young.

Has absolutely no compunction about hurting people - he has a minor run in with the Philth on his first day (who does not know who he is) by midnight Mitchell is in hospital with every limb smashed to bits by Tommy with a crowbar (the scene is implied as it is before the watershed).

Shaw likes the personal touch.

King Cockroach never really recovers.

And he knows he got off lightly.

I'm not planning anything, I'm just interested in your ideas for a soap Villain.

Any more ideas?

If you thought the Hollyoaks regular police were bad they can't be anywhere near as bad as the Hoilyoaks fashion police. This is because the fashion police are even more corrupt and are in the pay of a hair and clothes Mr Big whose mission it is to turn all the females into "slurrisome tarts".

This is Silas Blisset's arch nemesis and twin given away at birth (and therefore very vengeful and resentful) Marner Bluffit. Marner has also removed all zippers from the men's trousers to ensure that they can't keep it in their pants.