I just wanted a little advice on something I'm writing. I'm doing a superhero story in my own modern day setting. I've already worked out a lot of things about the main heroine, but at the same time I want to avoid a number of genre cliches. The hero and her arch-nemesis are sisters, I know this trope has been used a lot but I was trying not to be too generic about it. The two have identical powers and when they begin the superhero business they work together, but the hero and villain eventually split over issues of brutality and excessive violence.
Again I know this has been used, where I'm trying to do something different is the villain isn't crazy, power mad, or out to rule/destroy the world. The villain sees the world as broken and the only way to fix it is by destroying governments and hitting the big reset button. The goal I'm trying to work on is moral ambiguity I suppose. The villain considers herself a hero and her sister a blind idiot. However she also has no qualms about collateral damage and killing people she deems deserving of death. They both want a better world, but they take vastly different approaches to it.
Again I know this has been used, where I'm trying to do something different is the villain isn't crazy, power mad, or out to rule/destroy the world. The villain sees the world as broken and the only way to fix it is by destroying governments and hitting the big reset button. The goal I'm trying to work on is moral ambiguity I suppose. The villain considers herself a hero and her sister a blind idiot. However she also has no qualms about collateral damage and killing people she deems deserving of death. They both want a better world, but they take vastly different approaches to it.