How do you create dialogue for heroes, villains, and sidekicks?

Write out a bio for your character before you start writing their dialogue. Explain where they’re from, what they’re like, and what events from their past might shape who they are now. With that bio in mind, write their dialogue.

I write my heroes as if i am talking but much cooler. I write the villains in the voice of my last boss and i write sidekicks in the voice of one of my “funny” friends

People in life don't thoughtlessly disgorge dialogue in order to drive forward some cosmically written plot, and neither should characters on the page. They should always speak based off their persona and experiences reacting to the situation at hand. If their voices don't come to you naturally, then get to know your characters by writing their biographies—as deeply and as detailed as you can, from their histories to their relationships to their values, dreams and fears—up to the moment they appear on the page. Then write the history of your fictional town, world, and/or universe all the way to the end of your script. Become omniscient to every event, and you will always know what every character could possibly say at any given moment.

We use our Story Atlas to guide crafting the story world's narrative. This includes several writer's room exercises designed to build rich and emotionally mature characters that can connect with an audience. We start with a basic frame for the character but dive deep into the back story and the details that make a character who they are and influence our story. When you know a character, you are much better suited to write about how they would react to the conflict and resolve or not the issues posed in the plot lines.

No hay luz sin oscuridad... Para crear un Villano... Hace falta un héroe... Y para crear un diálogo... Es necesario un Guión. Toda creación siempre empieza por una idea... Y el guión es la herramienta perfecta para plasmar esas ideas y llevarlas a la ejecución. Es importante siempre buscar referencias, inspiraciones, realizar estudios, mientras vas creando y formando tu idea para un dialogo entre villanos, héroes, y compa?eros.

Una cosa a tener en cuenta a la hora de crear personajes, es que los personajes más interesantes son aquellos que tienen contradicciones internas. Un héroe completamente noble, un villano 100% malo, terminan siendo algo aburridos, insulsos, pero un héroe que a lo largo de la historia lucha contra sus propias debilidades, o villano que siente algún remordimiento, pueden resultar mucho más atrapantes, ya que agregan una nuevas capas a la historia. Tener en cuenta los dobleces de los personajes nos puede permitir a pensar líneas argumentales mucho más ricas e impredecibles.

Some writers are great at technical writing; others can write the hell out of some dialogue. I want you to know that understanding how your writing team can best be utilized is crucial in crafting a cohesive narrative and story world that people want to engage with. You can find your writers who can write as we speak. This is more challenging than it sounds. Dialogue that is not "natural" feels stilted and disingenuous. Also, if the scenic description could be more flush with technical detail, the reader/viewer would feel flat and shallow. Finding a balance of details with a natural language flow is something that we strive for collectively, and as a writer, I work on it all the time. Keep practicing. It gets better.

Before you spring the dialogue on another human, consider using a synthetic voice to read it to you. I'm not sold on AI, but because the voices are generated from millions of existing samples, they can sometimes flush out clumsy dialogue. Certain voices in macOS can sound surprisingly natural. If a line of dialogue spoken by one doesn't sound natural, think about rewriting it. It's similar to when a live actor has trouble with a line. Sometimes it's the actor, but often it's the line.

We constantly remind ourselves to write for the Collective Journey when writing characters. An evolution of the Hero's Journey that includes the audience participation model and applies a transmedia framework to the story. Understanding the story is evolving along with its media-savvy consumers, and we must allow them to embrace our hero and relish in our villain while attaining a sense of ownership or fandom. Building gamified interfaces and rich characters in our world allows our modern audiences to move through our stories and effect outcomes with interactive mechanics and community support.

I've found that a lot of companies have a 'character bible' which has an overview of each character and their character outline. This doesn't specifically tell you how to craft dialogue or the character per-se, what it does do, is give you the established rules of the character, it's then up to you how you write the dialogue. For example: "'The Joker' is a psychotic, utterly insane, homicidal manic with absolutely no reasoning. His hideous, contorted clowns face, yellowed teeth and bright green hair terrify his victims. His bright tailored suit includes an acid squirting flower. His shrill laughter send a cold shiver running down his victims spines." Now it would be up to you to decide on your own terms how to portray the character...