You get bored if you do the same thing too much.
I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.
Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.
The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.
Getting to play superheroes is a pretty good job.
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.