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First Draft: Put Audiences in Your Characters’ Shoes With These Seven Ways to Elicit Empathy in Your Screenplay

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Ken Miyamoto

5. Showcasing Loyalty

A character that displays devout loyalty to his or her own family, friends, mentors, or peers has a character trait that audience members respect and cherish—loyalty.

The antihero Wolverine/Logan in Logan displays his sheer antihero qualities that were a staple for his character in all of the X-Men movies in full force. In the timeline of this film, he’s all about self-preservation. He doesn’t even care about the little girl at first. But we learn that his self-preservation is accompanied by his loyalty for an aging Professor Xavier—the only man that ever showed faith in him as a human being when we first met him in the first X-Men movie.

He could just have easily been left Professor Xavier to die—the world would have been safer if he had—but instead, he suffered through a thankless limo driving job to afford the drugs that the Professor needed and he did everything he could to keep him safe.

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