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I'm teaching a drama class this quarter. Here is a list of a few of the hero-villain scenarios I will use this week. Some are silly, some are more realistic. Adapting a lesson I found on Matt Buchanan's childdrama.com, I plan to have students pair up and choose from a hero or villain index card pile (one chooses a hero, the other a villain). It could mean that Indiana Jones will face off against the shark from Jaws, or Optimus Prime will take on the Wicked Witch of the West. Whatever characters they choose, they must choose from the scenario pile, then plan and act it out. It should be good sport.

The villain has set a house on fire. In it is trapped a baby.
The villain puts poisoned cookies on a children’s plate. The mother is about to serve them.
The villain plans to drop millions of pieces of paper on a crowded city and give paper cuts to all who are in it.
The villain is incredibly intelligent and wants to beat the superhero in chess.
The villain plans to infect the water supply with a virus that will cause the population to become zombies.
The villain wants to destroy a large water tower, which will flood a nearby town.
The villain is planning to attack the president.
The villain is using music to hypnotize a group of people and lead them off of a cliff.
The villain has shut down all the power to the city, trapping people in elevators and subways.
The villain has placed bombs below strategic places in a city and plans to detonate it, sinking the city.
The villain is playing show tunes on a city-wide loud speaker, making the citizens go crazy.
The villain has put kittens in a plastic container and is planning to send them to Antarctica.
The villain has kidnapped the Queen of England and plans to drop her in the ocean.
The villain has hacked into the city’s prison security system and plans to let all the criminals free.
The villain has taken all the musical instruments, radios, and ipods away and plans to destroy music forever.
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