User blog comment:Superdawnfan/People Thought To Make Great Main Villains But Wouldn't/@comment-26910203-20161127054235/@comment-11883116-20161127141649

Yes, Courtney was planned to be a villain in the future from the start, as can be seen by her message at the end of the second episode, bossy behavior and unfair elimination (results of it already start showing up in Haute Camp-ture. It's not exaggeration, flanderization or OOC, it's development. Negative one (I mean for a villain), but still.

Mal on the other hand was apparently foreshadowed in the ninth episode of TDRI.