Thread:ShadowFire10/@comment-30048375-20170809055614/@comment-1824169-20170809160429

The idea is to go for a motivation that people can relate to in some capacity. Doing good because it's good and avenging your family are neat but they're not super relatable to the average layman. Saving the world can still be interesting depending on the exact motivation for doing it; if it falls into the "doing good because it's good" category it's difficult to pull off well, but more selfish motivations like "I live here goddammit" are fairly relatable.

Really any character motivation can be interesting assuming it's presented well and feels realistically relatable in some capacity. Cliche motivations are harder to do this with for sure, but not impossible by any means.