Parallel World Characters

This is a basic idea for antagonists that could work in most forms of media. While the entire cast has not been conceptualised, there is a very clear setting for two or four, depending on how you classify the characters.

As the title suggests, the story would take place in two worlds. The first is the standard world we all know and love, where nothing all that extravagant happens to the most common average Joe. We shall call this the mundane world.

The second is basically what would happen if it was created by the god of the geeks, and can be seen as a world of wish fulfilment for the mundane world. Everyone is made amazing, with superheroes and villains extremely common and every aspect of a person's character is stretched to make the character less emotionally deep, but more entertaining. This shall be called the awesome world.

And in the awesome world, every woman is, at the very minimum, Karen Gillan level hot, while the average highschool hottie would be about the level of Katy Perry with the chest of Christina Hendricks, since it's basically a comic book world come true.

Your ego would shatter upon seeing your awesome!counterpart. This makes me sad. Don't do this bit.

...Anyway! Two characters in the mundane world are an engineering student, who's a fairly nice guy when he's not busy working on his tech, and a soul-crushed office worker, who's slowly dying inside every day he has to work with most people and a bit of a dick regardless. I shall dub them Techguy and Officeguy.

Awesome!Techguy is a mad scientist, who is completely wrapped up in his latest inventions to near the point of madness, but still finds ways of controlling himself. He makes loads of awesome gadgets, including a device to jump between the dimensions. This is why we have a plot.

The advantage to the Mundane!Techguy being a nicer guy is it allows the hero to access Awesome!Techguy's systems using Mundane!Techguy's password, to which Mundane!Techguy responds by changing it. But that's only a minor antagonist.

Awesome!Officeguy is a bigger antagonist, in the fact that he is now a supervillain who despises pretty much most people on a small insight. He plans to conquer all he sees before him, and even make an impact on the Mundane world, since they have less irksome superheroes. Naturally, he gets Mundane!Officeguy to help him out, in the vain of "two heads are better than one, especially when it's another head of your own".

Except this gives Mundane!Officeguy power, which he has felt far too deprived of. At first, he invokes his power on petty office stuff, such as forcing his underlings to clean the toilet instead of taking their break or berating them for making the number of photocopies you told them to make when you changed your mind without telling them. Mwa ha ha.

But then, he gets slowly more and more malicious and mad on his new power, to the point where he freaks out, and then usurps, Awesome!Officeguy. Suddenly, the main villain has changed to the originally laughable version of the same character.