4 Tips for Writing Foils by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
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4 Tips for Writing Foils
4 Tips for Writing Foils
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Chapter 5 “Characters” – Section 6 “Foils”
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"When you have a Green Lantern mixing with a foil like Batman, you get scenes that are comic-book history. There's the epicness of it all."
-Jim Lee
A Foil, a character that contrasts the protagonist or another major character, is one that most writers and readers do not pay very close attention. This is for two reasons. First, a well-crafted story interweaves the foil so well that he/she is often difficult to identify. Second, the foil always falls into another c