For me, the relation between the villain and the hero is allegory of the relation between the teacher and the student, the villain is either stronger, smarter or have more experience than the hero, a good hero is a hero who is weaker, naive, or have less experience than the villain, and the job of the villain is putting Obstacles for the hero to overcome, putting heroes under pressure, in order to grow and have a better understanding of life and reality..
so, in the end of the story, a good hero will outsmart the villain or overpower them, thus learning their lesson.
What if the hero too strong or too smart in comparison with the villain?
In such case the student is too smart to attend such class, so there are two ways, either the hero get out of the class, and you kill the character, or the student become the teacher and turn into villain, and if the hero refused to turn into villain or leave the class, the result would be that their fellow students who admired how smart and strong the heroes are will turn against them, the heroes will be seeing as arrogant who only attend the class not to learn but to show off..
What if the hero took too long learning the lesson?
If the hero took too long to learn the lesson that should be easily understood, the hero will be seen as..
What if the villain is unable to teach the heroes a lesson?
In this case the villain is a bad teacher, they need to be taught themselves and such thing apply on many mainstream shows and movies, when you have a villain show but replace the heroes with other villains who are more evil, and in such case the villains are as useless as the heroes, so they need to sit in the heroes place and be taught.
The relation between the hero and the villain is what makes a good movie or show, the villain should always work on testing the heroes physically or mentally or both, putting them through tests that get harder and harder over time, paying attention to their progress and weaknesses, fixing their flaws, making sure you they stay focus in order to understand their lesson, so by the end the villain have nothing to teach the hero, and then they can leave the class,.
Basically, heroes are as good as their teachers, the better teachers they have, the better heroes they become, And whenever the teacher get disrespected, everything falls apart.
Let’s see some examples
Jack Carter played by Oliver Bennett in Miss Scarlet and the Duke
The protagonist faces a financial problems to keep her business running, so she decide to take the case of Jack Carter to find his stolen diamond, The protagonist discovered that Jack Carter is from one of the most notorious crime family in England.
So The protagonist decided to not take his case, Jack Carter then went to face her saying that such insult isn’t acceptable, and not only she will find his diamond, but she will do it for free..
The villain in the story used the circumstances in his favor, he wanted to find his jewel and pay the protagonist, but when he found out that there’s a discrimination against him, he exploited the situation in his favor, using such discrimination against heroine as advantages to get her jewel and not paying anything for them.
Later The protagonist found out the jewel, and the villain asks her to tell him who took it, she refuses, and she demand him to pay her in order to give him the jewel.
The villain teaches The protagonist the art of negotiation, and the reward of learning the lesson is saving her business.
Natasha played by Celeste Dodwell in The Castaways
Natasha meets the protagonist, telling her that she’s looking for her father, the protagonist trusts her, and help her to find her father, later the protagonist found out that Natasha isn’t what she claimed to be, and only using her to achieve her evil goals.
After the protagonist manged to escape from Natasha, the villainess, Natasha exploited her emotions again, to see if she fully understood the lesson, she didn’t, and then comes the consequences .
The villainess teach the protagonist to not be deceived by appearances, and to keep your enemies closer than your friends.
The reward managing to save her sister, doing exactly what the villainess taught her.
Rosamund Pike as Miranda Frost in Die Another Day
The same principles apply on fights and how good the fight can be, and in case Rosamund Pike and her fight with the heroine, you can see how she's teaching, and pushing the heroine and giving her a hint in order to be better and understand the lesson, as a good teacher she's pushing her student harder and harder to make her better and better, instead of giving her the answer in a very stupid way, she indirectly mention reading to help the heroine win the fight.
Ok, all of that was about how to fix The Marvels from a villain point of view, and here's the thing, Carol Danvers AKA Captain Marvel is too strong to be a student, with her being a student make her only seen as chauvinistic and egoistic character, so, it makes sense that such character isn't likeable or popular, either she became the teacher and turn evil and teach other students get better, or she leave the classroom and die, she can't be both the teacher and the student at the same time.
