"To be a villain is to be a minority, a black and white stereotype packaged into a box marked 'keep away, toxic.'" Bitter and dry-humored down to his very last bone, Wayne Keller is not the person his parents expected. With his wicked wit and morbid interest in chaos, all it takes is one thing to push him off that final ledge into accepting his true nature. Now all he's got to do is hide it, pretend like he's not beginning his own rise to infamy and planning a space for himself beside all the great villains of the time. The way to do it? Easy, follow the one simple, unspoken rule of his Illinois town: don't be yourself. And then there's Elliot Romano, an Italian boy who can't seem to be anything but his clumsy self.