Need a masterlist of character motivation ideas?
Here’s 97 different character motivations you can use for anything from your hero, side-characters, villain, or even to craft smaller subplots. Save this post for later!
Saving a family member from capture
Saving a sibling from disease
Saving the world from ruin
Saving a friend from heartbreak
Saving the town from financial ruin
Saving friends from dangerous deadly situations
Saving a love interest from dying
Saving themselves in a dangerous world
Saving a community from falling apart
Saving a child from a potentially dangerous circumstance
Saving a place or location from evil forces
Saving a ghost from limbo
Overcoming marital struggles
Finding a significant other
Finding a new family (not blood-related)
Finding true biological family
Finding out an old secret
Reconnecting with long-lost friends
Getting out of a dark state of mind
Forming a peaceful community
Bringing someone back to life
Escaping a location of capture
Proving a political point
Winning a political campaign
Find the answer to a mystery
Discover ancient sites & secret histories
Perform a successful ritual
Save a country from dictatorship
Become the most powerful in a community
Outshine a family member in business success
Win prize money to help someone in need
Get revenge on someone who wronged them
Find the person who wronged them
Develop significant scientific progress
Move on from a painful death
Keep their community alive
Preserve a species (animal, alien, plant…)
Get recognition for hard work
Get rich to prove themselves to people who doubted them
Challenge the status quo of a community
Take over a location to rule
Find out truth behind old legends
Help someone get over their struggles
Prove their worth to an external party
Become a supernatural creature
Keep something from falling into the wrong hands
Protect the only person they care about
Give top-secret information to an enemy as revenge
Kill an ex-lovers current partner
Make it to a location in a strict time period
Find out more about the afterlife
Have a child of their own
Run away from past struggles
Reinvent themselves as a new person
Impress a colleague or boss
Avoid a fight or war breaking out
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