In the stereotypical movies we watched growing up, thanks to Disney, we have come to believe that the villain always loses and is never happy. But maybe the villain is having more fun.

1) Heroes don't get to choose their life most of the time. The heroes' purpose is to always stop the villain's plans, which just seems like a burden on the protagonist's life. Heroes do what they do out of moral responsibility, or some legacy they find out they are born into without a choice.

2) Most of the time, the villain is doing what they want, just because they can. They have no responsibilities. They do things simply because they like chaos, or they have a passion to eliminate/acquire something. (AKA Rumple

3) Villains are bound by no moral code. They are only bound by their imagination and will-power. It must truly be a freeing experience.

4) Even villains are loved. Hell, even Hitler had Eva. If you watch ABC's Once Upon A Time, even Hades himself has The Wicked Witch (Sorry! Spoilers!). So if I'm not sacrificing love, I see no reason to not be bad.

5) You have nothing to fear except not accomplishing your next evil plan. The only thing threatening your life is probably your own incompetence (Dr. Drakkon from Kim Possible for example.) Most of the time you're a villain, no one is trying to kill you, only arrest you. So you're in no real danger.

6) Dexter does it, so can I. Okay, Dexter the ginger serial killer only kills bad people. But he still murders people. So logically, he's technically a villain. And if he's a villain, that sort of makes it okay for me to be a villain as well...

7) I feel like most villains are at the least comfortably rich, because they always have money to buy the stuff they need for their "dastardly" plans. I could live with that level of comfort.

8) This totally should have been number one, but Villain Pets!!! Villains always have the best pets! Like a tiger, a shark or a beluga whale. Or even just a dog, but that dog is somehow bad-ass because it understands commands and does above average dog stuff! You know what I mean.

9) In a way, you always help the protagonist of the story learn a lesson. So you're like a life teacher, or inverse parenting. So at the end of the day, you did something helpful even as a villain.

10) You get to blow stuff up and people will blame the superheroes 85% of the time for not being able to save everything and everyone all the time! (Exhibit A, the plot line of Captain America: Civil War.)