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Nearly every conflict in fiction is caused by the Big Bad, the character directly responsible for the plot and likely sending out various minions and lieutenants to make the hero's life busy. But what about a greater enemy that is indirectly responsible for the plot? That's where this trope comes in. A Greater-Scope Villain is a threat/villainous presence that's more dangerous, affects more people, or is more significant than the story's current Big Bad in the setting as a whole, but isn't causing the conflict of the immediate story (and may have little to do with it at all). While the Big Bad is directly responsible for the current story — the Big Bad is the villain whom the heroes are attempting to defeat — a Greater-Scope Villain isn't a major force in the plot, only a major force in the background. They are just responsible for anything evil or fueling at least a part of the fictional setting (how much of it depends on the scale of the Greater-Scope Villain's influence) in which the story takes place. A Greater-Scope Villain may be the Big Bad's superior, but just as often they're completely unrelated — indeed, a Greater-Scope Villain may threaten the Big Bad just as much as they threaten the heroes. Whatever the relationship between the Big Bad and Greater-Scope Villain, the Greater-Scope Villain is always Out of Focus — the threat they pose is general and in the background, while the threat posed by the Big Bad is specific and immediate. This is not a Sub-Trope of Big Bad. A Greater-Scope Villain is a more threatening force of evil in the setting and overshadows it, but due to various factors, it is disconnected on a personal level from the main plot, which is caused by the Big Bad. There are different ways this may manifest, for example: A Sealed Evil in a Can which is several steps above the strength of the characters, but the current villain is obsessed with them either to be released or as a threat to everyone else. If they are released, the Big Bad may learn that Evil Is Not a Toy. A demon lord, archdevil, God of Evil, or Eldritch Abomination — perhaps even The Anti-God — with a Religion of Evil and/or Path of Inspiration built around them, if they do not appear directly. Their threat is indirect; they work through lesser villains by encouraging them to do evil and their power may be proportional to the evil that is caused, with the Big Bad likely to be the head of their religion. Satan is often portrayed as such with a Christian bent. A Dreaded Warlord who has much deeper resources or area of influence, inspiring immense fear (or even admiration) from the current but either due to location or the immediate conflict being Beneath Notice neither are quite yet on each other's radar. This furthers the idea that they are on a different level of villainy. The Evil Overlord, The Emperor, The Generalissimo, the Evil Chancellor, or President Evil in a dystopia or war/spy story that focuses on a specific conflict within a much larger military or political situation. Adolf Hitler may play this role in a World War II story in which the villain is a Nazi general; the conflict of the story is merely one aspect of an immense war machine and Hitler may be acknowledged peripherally. An N.G.O. Superpower or Nebulous Evil Organisation that is aware of and possibly sponsoring/employing the villain but has little connection to the story's specific conflict. The apparent lack of a centralized leadership or location makes it difficult to identify what they are trying to accomplish or if they even exist as an organized committee. A Sentient Cosmic Force (e.g., The Dark Side) that can't, by any realistic stretch of the definition, be considered a character. It may be a Background Magic Field that has made a conflict possible, with others mulling that it may be better if it never existed so that the villain wasn't empowered. An Outside-Context Problem that may not be fully accounted for by either the hero or the previous villains, but may have been subtly foreshadowed to emerge as a distant consequence of their actions. Sometimes abstract dangers occur as the underlying threat everyone was trying to avoid, compare Space Whale Aesop. An evil character who wronged the other villain(s) and kicked off their initial evil. They may be dealing with their own problems and unaware that the brat they kicked became a rabid monster. Depending on the order various installments were released, the main villain of a prequel may be revealed to have set in motion the events of a work released chronologically earlier but did not appear or is only mentioned briefly in the earlier work. This may also be used when the authors want a villain that can be defeated or avoid conflict with a Foregone Conclusion. Conversely, the main villain of the original installment can become a Greater-Scope Villain of the sequel after their defeat, as they may influence a loyal minion to become the new villain in their stead. A Greater-Scope Villain doesn't always have to remain a Greater-Scope Villain. Hinting towards a greater enemy is a common method of foreshadowing who the next Big Bad is going to be, if the current Big Bad is defeated and the Sorting Algorithm of Evil kicks in to provide a bigger threat for the heroes to face. Alternatively, the Greater-Scope Villain could show up and try to ruin everyone's day, becoming the new Big Bad and possibly forcing an Enemy Mine situation between the heroes and the previous villain. Inversely, a Big Bad can be Kicked Upstairs to become a Greater-Scope Villain. There can also be more than one Greater-Scope Villain — either multiple Greater-Scope Villains working together (a la Big Bad Duumvirate), multiple Greater-Scope Villains each with their own agenda (a la Big Bad Ensemble), or in multiple layers of Greater-Scope Villains, each bigger than the last (e.g., the Big Bad threatens a city, the first Greater-Scope Villain threatens the country, and an Even Greater-Scope Villain threatens the whole world). In a general sense this should also not be considered the same as The Man Behind the Man, because if they are behind the plot they would be a Big Bad. However, the Man Behind the Man and Greater-Scope Villain can overlap if the Man Behind the Man remains distant enough from the story. The Greater-Scope Villain must not give specific orders to the Big Bad (at least no orders with relevance to the plot), but they can corrupt the Big Bad to make the Big Bad work for them. They allow the Big Bad to act on their own initiative, even if the Big Bad finds it more convenient to claim to be Just Following Orders, and don't interfere unless it's in their interests to do so. A Greater-Scope Villain is a frequent Conflict Killer or arc welding machine, especially when used under the right circumstances. The Greater-Scope Villain, if taking advantage of the original Big Bad, may create a Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain dynamic if the Big Bad becomes more sympathetic and reconsiders their villainy. Contrast Greater-Scope Paragon, which is the Good Counterpart of this trope. Compare Villainous Legacy, where a villain serves this type of role long after their defeat and/or death. May also overlap with Predecessor Villain, if the predecessor was significantly worse than the current Big Bad and still exists in some form. Suitably powerful Greater-Scope Villains can count as Powers That Be. If the villain is said to exist somewhere but doesn't appear in person at any point, this overlaps with The Ghost. Can also overlap with Villain of Another Story if the Greater-Scope Villain doesn't antagonize the current story. If they aren't The Unfought in a video game, then they are usually the True Final Boss. Compare Not the First Victim, when the scope of the villain's damage done to other characters was undiscovered for a period of time, but their goal or intention is not necessarily wider. The mere existence of these villains are often plot-twists, so Beware of Unmarked Spoilers. |
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The Elements of Friendship: It's implied that The Omniscient Council of Vagueness that Moondancer is part of is in service to one of these, and are manipulating events as part of some plan they put in place long ago. | |
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Tyrant and the King in Winter of Citadel. One holds the entire population of Europe in mental thrall while the other is responsible for freezing a large chunk of the Northern Hemisphere. | |
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The prisoners from Megamind are the reason for the titular Villain Protagonist becoming a supervillain, due to him being raised by them as a child. | |
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Worm: Empire 88 are an offshoot of a more established German organisation called Gesellschaft, who sometimes send cape assistance over but are never confronted directly by Taylor. Cauldron is this for a large part of the story. Long before they directly come into the picture, they indirectly aid and abet a lot of the antagonists. The Simurgh is a greater scope villain for much of Arcs 17-30, since her actions of providing the Travellers with Cauldron vials in Madison eventually results in the reveal of the Triumvirate's association with Cauldron and significantly weakens the Protectorate. Moreover, the Simurgh's screams reminds Tattletale of her brother's death and Taylor of Dinah's note, thus resulting in the Rise of Khepri and the eventual defeat of Scion. |
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In The Equestrian Wind Mage, Majora is this for the first two seasons, being responsible for Ganondorf's arrival in Equestria, as well as ordering Dethl to revive and recruit various antagonists. In Season 3 Majora officially takes over as the Big Bad. | |
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Wolf Song: The Movie: Cerberus is the one who tasks the Death Alpha with collecting 3 important items to escape, kickstarting the plot by doing so. He is indirectly behind all the conflict in the film, yet it’s his brother The Death Alpha who the heroes are trying to beat. It is implied that Cerberus is even more dangerous than his brother should he leave the Gates of Hell There's a group of humans known as the hunters. We don’t know who they are, how many they are and their entire motive and they aren’t even seen in the film, only being mentioned in a single conversation, but the fact that the protagonists, two dogs, are content with going with joining a wolf pack, really says something, especially as one of them mentions the hunters possibly gunning them down without second thoughts clearly shows just how bad those guys are. And this is a film about wolves where one greater scope villain has no qualms with killing dogs, it really shows how even off screen antagonists are forces of evil not to be trifled with. Sure, the hunters aren’t as prominent as Cerberus, but their impact in a single decision in the film, though indirect, ultimately sets in motion almost every event after this. They are also the only antagonists with no connections with the Death Alpha, meaning that Wolf Song technically has an albeit loose Big Bad Ensemble. Until a sequel for Wolf Song is made, we may never know who they are or why they are doing what they’re doing, or what else they have in store. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): One could make an argument that Mammoth Mogul is this. Thousands of years ago, he founded the Order of Ixis, which eventually led to the creation of Ixis Naugus, whose actions, which may include starting the Great War, in turn led to Dr. Robotnik's rise to power, who's death ultimately led to nearly every villain in the book today, with Naugus :responsible for the ones that aren't Mogul. Naugus and Robotnik are still quite active (and are, in fact, the current top two villains of the series), whereas Mogul has semi-retired from active villainy, running a casino and deciding to use his immortality to outlive the heroes and make his move then.note Though with the Ken Penders lawsuit causing all of Penders' creations, including Mogul, to be Exiled from Continuity, this isn't the case any more. Funnily, the only thing that could stop Mogul was real life. | |
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The Lord of the Locusts in Bone. | |
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X-Men: The "Here Comes Tomorrow" story arc of New X-Men gave us the original character John Sublime, who was introduced with the strong suggestion that he may be the greatest overarching threat permeating the X-mythos. A sentient colony of bacteria almost as old as the Earth itself, Sublime was revealed to have orchestrated many major events in the X-Men's past, including the creation of the Weapon X program, all in a bid to wipe the mutant race from the Earth (as they are the only species immune to his mind control). It's implied that he may have even manipulated humanity to create the very idea of anti-mutant prejudice in the first place, thus making him the one villain who has managed to consistently keep the heat up on the X-Men since Day 1. Apocalypse is this in Uncanny X-Force. He himself is killed effortlessly in the very first arc as a result of rejuvenating himself into a helpless child body, but almost every subsequent villain is working to either recreate him or find a successor for him. The arc even carried over into Remender's new book, Uncanny Avengers. Most X-Men adaptations set Apocalypse up as this as well. Due to the chaotic nature of creative teams on the books at the time, the comics of the '90s featured a lot of these, with a writer introducing a mysterious mastermind character of some sort, then abruptly leaving or being kicked off the book shortly afterward, with the next creative team deciding not to follow up on the plotlines of the previous and aborting the entire arc. These characters are typically never so much as mentioned again, although Peter David got to revisit one he created, the Isolationist/Armageddon, nearly twenty years after the fact. The Wolverine comics revealed not only that Weapon X is in fact controlled by an organization of greater scope villains called Weapon Plus, a secret governmental organization hellbent on eradicating mutants, who is responsible (directly or indirectly) for a lot of the crappy stuff that Wolverine went through in his life, but also that they are (directly or indirectly) responsible for the existence of many heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe, not just Wolverine himself. They created project rebirth, which makes them indirectly responsible for the creation of Captain America and Isaiah Bradley (or, to be more specific, the super soldier serum, a.k.a. Weapon I). They also created Weapon II (a weird squirrel with Wolverine's powers), The Skinless Man (Weapon III), Nuke (one of Daredevil's villains and Weapon VII), X-23, Deadpool, Huntsman (Weapon XII), Fantomex (Weapon XIII), The Stepford Cuckoos (clones of Emma Frost and Weapon XIV), Ultimaton (Weapon XV), Allgod (Weapon XVI) and according to Word of God, they are also responsible for creating or empowering many more unknown characters, both heroes and villains. They also created Project:Gladiator, which makes them indirectly responsible for creating Man-Thing. In some comics, it's also implied that they might have been involved with the prison experiments that gave Luke Cage his powers, the program that created the Sentinels and the Red Room Black Widow Ops organization that created the multiple Black Widows (like Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova). The organization has also been known to work with and provide money and resources to other villainous organizations (especially those that hate the X-Men) like A.I.M., HYDRA, the Hellfire Club, ROXXON, The Purifiers, OSCORP, etc. Later on, it's revealed that Weapon Plus was created and controlled by an even greater Greater-Scope Villain known as Romulus. He claims to be responsible for everything that happened in Logan's life and more, with plenty of evidence to back up this claim (such as immense and intimate knowledge of Wolverine's life, for example). The aforementioned John Sublime was pulling strings in the program as well, and to make things even more confusing, Word of God from the writer of the very first Weapon X story indicated that the original greater scope villain was going to be Apocalypse, but this never saw print for unknown reasons. |
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In Sluggy Freelance the Demon King of the Dimension of Pain generally plays this part in Dimension of Pain arcs. The demon lord Horribus serves as Big Bad. Presumably Psykosis will be replacing him in future Dimension of Pain appearances. | |
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In both Shadowchasers: Torment and Shadowchasers: Ascension, this role is filled by the Mad God Tharizdun. In the former fic, the villains are cultists trying to free him from his prison where the other gods sent him. In the latter fic, the Big Bad plots to kill him to usurp his powers to become a god himself, only to realize, too later, he’s in far over his head. | |
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Roar Omega Roar from Monsters University appear to be this to Randall Boggs by the time the events of Monsters, Inc. take place, being the reason why he hates both Sulley and Mike in the present day. | |
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In Usagi Yojimbo, Lord Hikiji, the warlord who killed Usagi's lord, started off as the main villain, but as the story's focus shifted elsewhere, he settled into this role. Nowadays, his plots and schemes are largely relegated to the background and they rarely ever directly affect the main characters. Hikiji himself almost never appears in person anymore with lackeys like Lord Hebi being dispatched to do his bidding for him. | |
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Morgoth in The Heart Trilogy, a series of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson versions) fics. Kathryn sees him in her visions repeatedly, leading her to learn of his imprisonment in the void. Gandalf states that should the first Dark Lord ever return, then Sauron, the current Dark Lord, would bow to him once again. The main goal of Kathryn's main enemy, Fankil, is to release his father Morgoth by using Kathryn's powers to locate the void's entrance, the Door of Night. | |
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RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: Tirek, who has long been sealed away inside Tartarus, and doesn't actually want to leave after Princess Luna stole most of his power. That said, before he was sealed, he planted fragments of his soul everywhere, which cause trouble on more than one occasion. He also backed Grogar's attempt to gain immortality, and indirectly responsible for the creation of Cadence. | |
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The Death of Superman/Reign of the Supermen sees Darkseid as the one responsible for both Doomsday and Cyborg-Superman. | |
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Saving the Boy: President Snow. For all that Misu and the other tributes are threats to Peeta in the arena, Katniss, Haymitch, and the other Victors are well aware that all of them are still at the mercy of the Capitol. To that end, Katniss does everything she can to please Snow, knowing that doing otherwise could doom Peeta like it did Gale. | |
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All Dogs Go to Heaven: While Carface is Charlie's rival and the villain of the story, after Charlie uses the divine watch to restart his life, giving up his place in Heaven in the process, he starts having nightmares about a terrifying Satan figure—depicted as a titanic Big Red Devil resembling an unholy mix of a dragon and a hellhound—waiting for him in Fire and Brimstone Hell. It appears after the watch fills with water and stops, ending his life, to take him to Hell. Fortunately, he died trying to save Anne-Marie, which restores his place in Heaven, and the whippet angel drives the beast away. There's also Red's "boss" who "yanks his leash" near the end of the sequel, who may or may not be the same demonic creature described above. |
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All Dogs Go to Heaven | hasFeature |
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The Royal Masquerade has Damon Fierro, who motivated his daughter Renza to become queen at all costs. | |
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Disney Animated Canon as a whole seems to have the Chernabog from Fantasia, who appears to be the Disney version of Satan. In The Black Cauldron, the spirit trapped inside the titular Black Cauldron is one. The Horned King wants to use the cauldron to Take Over the World with an undead army. Treasure Planet: Captain Flint. A fearsome Space Pirate who terrorized ships for years, the treasure he took from those ships is the stuff of legends and the MacGuffin for the entire plot. Then, it turns out that he rigged the entire planet to explode if anyone found the treasure, and escaping the planet before it explodes becomes the object of the climax. The king of France in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He may not appear in person in the film, only ever being mentioned once by Esmerelda in a passing comment, but surely everyone, including Big Bad Judge Claude Frollo, is subordinate to him, and he's either, at best, completely ignorant of Frollo's oppression of the Gypsies, or at worst, fully endorsing it. On top of that, while Frollo is merely a Minister of Justice and his atrocities are mostly limited to Paris and the surrounding countryside, the king is.... well, the ruler of all of France, so there's probably a lot more Roma and minorities being mistreated under his rule throughout the whole country. Lilo & Stitch: The Direct to Video sequel introduces Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, Jumba's former partner and the one who funded all of his experiments. He ratted his partner out in an attempt to steal the experiments for himself to have an army to conquer the universe. If it weren't for him, Stitch would never have come to Earth. He remains the Big Bad for the rest of the franchise. Wreck-It Ralph has the Cy-Bugs from the game Hero's Duty, who are powerful and a great threat as a whole, while just being a threat in Ralph's quest and having nothing to do with the situation at Sugar Rush. However, they come back in the climax, when they begin to destroy Sugar Rush, and the Big Bad even fuses with one of them! Frozen II: While King Runeard died long before Elsa and Anna were even born, it is his crimes against the Northuldrans, mainly that he killed their unarmed leader in cold-blood and built a dam to subjugate Northuldra, that instigates the natural imbalance that causes the second film's conflict. It's also revealed that the spirits behind Northuldra's power are the source of Elsa's powers, making him this for the first movie too. Scar becomes this in both The Lion King sequels: In The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, his death is the reason why his former mate Zira and her pride are plotting to get revenge on Simba by killing him and replacing him with Kovu as Scar's successor, while in The Lion King Oneanda Half, Scar is reduced to a voiceless cameo in the climax due to him being too busy fighting Simba like in the first movie, while his hyena henchmen become the main threat to Timon and Pumbaa in this movie. |
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The Freshman The Freshman: Book 1 has Shannon Davenport, who is a Villainy-Free Villain but raised Becca to be a Jerkass. The Freshman: Book 2 has a duumvirate formed by Dorian Delacroix and Nathan Sterling, both being the motivation for Sebastian's actions. |
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In Earth's Alien History, the Daleks are this, as the Time Lords are merging universes for the purpose of making humanity into the perfect soldiers to face them in the Time War. Thanos seems set up to be this in the Andromeda Dreams spinoff, given that his presence has already been felt via his minions, in both the Klingon and Romulan storylines, but he's currently occupied in his own fiefdom on the other side of the galaxy. |
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Earth's Alien History (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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The Crown & the Flame has Azura, who was in conflict with the Nevrakises before the events of the series, thus originating the conflict between them and the Ryses. She later becomes the Big Bad of Book 3. | |
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Sub-Mariner has Set, the ancient serpent god loosely adapted from Conan the Barbarian. Namor has rarely fought Set in person, but Set's servants Paul Destine, Naga, Llyra, and Ghaur have been involved in many of the terrible things that have happened to him and Atlantis over the years. | |
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The Gorg from Home (2015). The conflict of the film is because of the Boov finding refuge from them. | |
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Home (2015) | hasFeature |
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Unwanted Houseguest: The Shadow Demon was apparently summoned by one of these. The phone line is cut before Doctor Wolfula can reveal who or what it is. | |
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There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton: As per MCU canon, Thanos and his Black Order are the greatest threat looming on the horizon. Even more so here, as he has indirectly caused the actions of at least two other Big Bads — Vilgax's own rampages have been for the sake of getting strong enough to defeat him for revenge, while Doctor Doom's actions are driven by a need to prevent Thanos from devastating Earth with the Snap the way he did in Doom's original timeline. | |
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Desire & Decorum has Rupert Foredale, who forced the marriage between his son Vincent and Henrietta after annulling the former's previous marriage to Mary and Duke Richards was his protege, thus originating all the problems Clara has to face. | |
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Raptors has Don Miguel Y Cera as the leader of the vampire conspiracy that controls the world and kickstarted the plot by killing Drago and Camilla's parents, pushing the twins to get revenge against him and his minions. With that said, he leaves his Council of Vampires to handle the day-to-day politics and deal with this threat while he stays in his little corner feasting on any food that his servants bring him. In the end, the protagonists don't even kill him, he is dispatched by completely unrelated minor characters. | |
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Arby 'n' the Chief Seasons 6 and 7 both had Justin, the programmer who developed the Fragban hacks that Chaos Theosis used in Season 6, and which Colin Hunt used as the basis to create his own "Fragban 2.0" in Season 7. The finale of Season 8 reveals Adam McIntyre got his Evil Plan and the resources needed to complete it from Colin Hunt, who devised it as a means to get revenge on Arbiter and Master Chief. And right after that Arbiter and Chief meet the even bigger force behind everything they've faced — the creator of the series, Jon Graham. |
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Glitchtale has two examples. The creator behind Bête Noire (Season 2's Big Bad) and the reason for her evil actions is Agate Lightvale, the Wizard of Bravery who reversed her magic trait to Fear and made Bête using her own soul to carry out her will to wipe out monsterkind (and therefore Agate has control over Betty by technically being part of her). The second one, which counts as an example for the entire series, is HATE, a fully sentient Eldritch Abomination and Omnicidal Maniac spoken of by Agate as a power greater than Fear that Betty may use to gain control over the entire planet. HATE was behind Chara's corruption in Season 1 and gains physical form in Season 2 after absorbing Betty's remains and magic, desiring nothing less than the complete and total erasure of absolutely everything in existence. |
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Wreck-It Ralph has the Cy-Bugs from the game Hero's Duty, who are powerful and a great threat as a whole, while just being a threat in Ralph's quest and having nothing to do with the situation at Sugar Rush. However, they come back in the climax, when they begin to destroy Sugar Rush, and the Big Bad even fuses with one of them! | |
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Wreck-It Ralph | hasFeature |
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A Diplomatic Visit: In the sequel Diplomat at Large, the Storm King's unidentified master, whose existence is only revealed with his whispered dying words. The epilogue of the fourth story, The Diplomat's Life, reveals that Lady Aputsiaq is working for one; on the same level as the Storm King's unidentified master. | |
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Apocalypse is this in Uncanny X-Force. He himself is killed effortlessly in the very first arc as a result of rejuvenating himself into a helpless child body, but almost every subsequent villain is working to either recreate him or find a successor for him. The arc even carried over into Remender's new book, Uncanny Avengers. Most X-Men adaptations set Apocalypse up as this as well. | |
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The Lord Vyce story arc of Atop the Fourth Wall has the Multiversal Conqueror Lord Vyce the Big Bad, but his goal in conquering is to in fact protect dimensions from, and eventually track down and kill an Eldritch Abomination that he simply refers to as "The Entity", which devours entire planets, and eventually universes. Later it turns out the Entity came to our universe as a Batman Gambit in hopes Linkara would defeat Lord Vyce, since it considered fighting him to be too inconvenient. | |
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The cause for Krypton's destruction tends to vary from incarnation to incarnation. however, sometimes, a villain is directly responsible for destroying said planet (Especially Brainiac). Said villain then becomes the indirect cause of Superman's story by causing Jor-El to send his son to earth to protect him and by killing Superman's biological parents. This would also by extension make them a greater scope villain for Supergirl too. | |
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Chaos of 8-Bit Theater is an evil Eldritch Abomination and embodiment of decay that is the whole reason behind the Light Warriors' quest. Although he does desire to end (and eternally torment, however that works) existence for no real reason, he does not come into play until the real Big Bad, Sarda, accidentally brings him about. Who was himself indirectly created by Black Mage. | |
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Following this, Young Justice Titans has another Greater Scope Villain in the form of Trigon. The new secondary villains, the Church of Blood, are dedicating their efforts to finding a way to release him on Earth. | |
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General James Ironwood serves as this for Volume 1 of A Girl and Her Bike. He doesn't have much presence in the story and isn't directly involved in the ongoing plot, but Winter is present on Patch on his orders to investigate the "Mantlite bomb" (aka Bumblebee) and he does have his soldiers form an alliance with the Decepticons to pursue whom they believe is a wanted criminal, meaning that his actions are ultimately what help drive the conflict for the first Volume. | |
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RWBY (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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Twitch Plays Pokémon saw some weird ROM glitches in each of the first two runs of Season 2, but it was only in the third runnote Which, while randomized, didn't really have any noticeable glitches...at least, they wouldn't have been noticeable if the starter hadn't evolved into a Defeatist Lampent, necessitating the acquisition of a Dusk Stone that the events were tied together and their cause also retroactively blamed for something in the fifth run of Season 1. The exact identity of this guiding force, however, remained unnamed until the beginning of Season 3, when it finally intervened with a protagonist directly. Complicating matters further was that the timeline, muddled as it may be, seemed to place the start of Season 3 chronologically before most of Season 2, so OLDEN not being defeated was a Foregone Conclusion. Evan becoming a servant of OLDEN, whether willingly or forcibly, though...that was still a twist. | |
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Autobot Academy: While Megatron is the Big Bad of the present, he's ultimately overshadowed by Great Convoy, who not only killed him, but became a ruler so tyrannical that the only way to stop him was using time travel to ensure he could never rise to power. | |
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Autobot Academy (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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The king of France in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He may not appear in person in the film, only ever being mentioned once by Esmerelda in a passing comment, but surely everyone, including Big Bad Judge Claude Frollo, is subordinate to him, and he's either, at best, completely ignorant of Frollo's oppression of the Gypsies, or at worst, fully endorsing it. On top of that, while Frollo is merely a Minister of Justice and his atrocities are mostly limited to Paris and the surrounding countryside, the king is.... well, the ruler of all of France, so there's probably a lot more Roma and minorities being mistreated under his rule throughout the whole country. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney) | hasFeature |
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The Evil Entity of Markiplier Manor is this in DAMIEN, one of the side stories of Who Killed Markiplier?. While they were responsible for all of the events of Who Killed Markiplier?, they really aren't present in DAMIEN; rather, it's Mark the Actor who is responsible for the main conflict in that story | |
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Who Killed Markiplier? (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations: Case 3: Recipe for Turnabout, has Bruto Cadaverini, The Don of The Mafia (the Yakuza in the original Japanese version). The killer, Furio Tigre, is driven to murder to repay his debts to Bruto, but he is The Ghost and not directly involved in the murder. The final case revolves around a Benevolent Conspiracy to protect Maya Fey from the murderous spirit of her cousin, Dahlia Hawthorne, who was in turn following the plans of her mother and Maya's evil aunt Morgan Fey (who was arrested in the previous game). |
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SMG4 has Zero, a malevolent virus from an alternate universe who has been going around destroying universes for god knows how long. However, the destruction of one specific universe (SMG1 and SMG2’s universe) would cause Luke Lerdwichagul to create the SMG4 universe, which would cause the events of the series. | |
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Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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Veil of Secrets has Margaret Sterling, who ordered the hit on Jeff's mother, making him become the Big Bad. | |
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide, SEELE. While Gendo only wanted to save his wife, they wanted to merge all human souls to create a new god. They were the real employers of Kluge, who spent the whole story looking for ways to destroy NERV. In the final chapter though, they are all Out-Gambitted by the mad A.I., the Emerald Tablet, who usurps the role as the true Big Bad of the story from right underneath them. | |
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In the Medaka Box fanfic World as Myth, Ihiko Shishime seems to be this, as his existence is heavily implied to be the reason for the Big Bad's plans. | |
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The SCP Foundation's lack of canon means that it lacks a true Big Bad, but there are several characters that are implied to be behind some of the worst SCPs but are beyond the Foundation's reach. MEKHANE and Yaldabaoth, gods of technology, reason, logic and sapience and flesh, instinct, nature and savagery respectively. Some of the most powerful and dangerous objects in the Foundation are creations of either them or their cults. Often subverted, however, as both are frequently portrayed in a more positive light; MEKHANE gave humans sapience, and is interested in keeping them alive. He even "broke" himself to protect us, thus why he is referred to as the "Broken God". His artifacts are only dangerous when misused by people who don't know what they're doing. Yaldabaoth, on the other hand, is truly mindless and doesn't understand that it is threatening humanity. It merely exists and eats, like a wild animal. Its cultists, Sarkicism, is far more dangerous. The Scarlet King plays the trope entirely straight. Depending on your preferred canon, he's either a member of The Old Gods who believe that existence is suffering and wants to end it all, or a personification of the chaos and destruction caused by the conflict between modernism and pre-modernism. Either way, several extremely dangerous SCP's are associated with him. The evil psychosphere entity that plagues humanity, as revealed in the now-erased timeline of SCP 5000, also plays this trope straight. It was able to ensure it’s existence and grand plan by manipulating Pietro Wilson into resetting the timeline before it was discovered by the Foundation. Despite only having one prominent role, the entity is considered one of the overarching antagonists of the entire SCP mythos, due to still being at large with the Foundation none the wiser. It is also heavily implied to be the reason why 682 is violently appalled by mankind, making the entity indirectly responsible for ALL of 682’s atrocities. |
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There's also Red's "boss" who "yanks his leash" near the end of the sequel, who may or may not be the same demonic creature described above. | |
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Ever17 has No Antagonist, but there is plenty of Offscreen Villainy provided by Megacorp Leiblich Pharmaceutical, which serves as backstory for several characters. Among others they were studying Tief Blau virus to sell it as bioweapon, which made them responsible (by negligence, not malice, but still) for outbreak that killed several thousands of poeple including You's parents and experiments related to Cure virus on Tsugumi and later her children. | |
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In both games of Kyle Hyde's story, the criminal organization Nile is the one responsible for the character's woes despite never being confronted in-game. Hotel Dusk: Room 215 has them be the ones behind the murders that ultimately set off the plot while Last Window shows them as The Man Behind the Man for the Condor group. | |
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Sentinels of the Multiverse: OblivAeon. Some heroes and villains are only around because of him - Parse gained improved powers from his upgrade of Omnitron into Cosmic Omnitron (with some parallel universe Parses being directly empowered by shards), the Void Guard, Proletariat, Infinitor and Captain Cosmic are all empowered by OblivAeon shards, and Visionary, Iron Legacy and Omnitron-X could only travel in time and between dimensions because he shattered the timelines. He upgraded Omnitron to Cosmic Omnitron, he created Progeny as one of his Scions, and his whispers drove Infinitor to madness. His Scions also destroyed the Procitor homeworld, the sole survivor of which would attack Earth as Deadline and then try to save it as Lifeline, and corrupted the organisation FILTER to become OblivAeon's pawn. And then he launched his big apocalyptic attack in the OblivAeon expansion. | |
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Kung Fu Panda 2 has Lord Shen, whose actions shaped the story of the film trilogy as we know it. Had he not done what he did, the story of Kung Fu (and Po's destiny) probably would have turned out FAR different. | |
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The Child of Love: SEELE. In the first story they were behind Gendo, ordering him around and watching him to ensure he fulfilled their goals, knowing fully well he had an agenda of his and being aware of his project to create a new lifeform to fight them with. In the sequel they remained in the shadow, sending their agents to spy on the heroes and destabilize them as they get ready to fight them and carry forward his plot to create a new god. | |
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Green Lantern baddie Krona may well be the Greater-Scope Villain responsible for almost everything wrong with The DCU. While he's not the most powerful villain in the setting (though he's close; in a crossover with the Marvel Universe, he curb-stomps Galactus), he's the man behind Parallax, the Manhunters, and (indirectly) the Anti-Monitor, as his experiment was the thing that fractured the original Monitor probe in two. In turn, he thus unintentionally caused virtually every Crisis Crossover the DC heroes have ever faced. In his early appearances, it was actually stated that his experiment created evil itself, though this has since fallen by the wayside and may be Canon Discontinuity. | |
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Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: The supposedly Medieval Stasis town of Labyrinthia was funded by the British Government (whose Prime Minister might be the same one from Layton's Unwound Future, see the Video Games section) as an experiment on Mass Hypnosis. The game's actual antagonists have much more personal reasons for maintaining the ruse, which form the main conflict of the story. | |
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Altair in White Dark Life is a far more villainous character than Dark Matt or Artemis. The latter are simply selfish and commit evil to keep Dark Matt from being erased once he is finally purified and are rather comical at times. The former on the other hand wants to murder all the demons, little children included. | |
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The Order of the Stick: The Snarl, a God-killing Eldritch Abomination, is the most powerful and malevolent presence in the series, and the whole reason everything is happening, but appears to have no real mind or personality of its own; there are some hints as of this comic (major spoilers ahoy) that this might not be the case. The IFCC Directors are three fiends who are rather, were The Man Behind the Man to the Linear Guild, but they themselves refer to more powerful fiends ("the Lower Downs") from whom they are attempting to gain support for their venture, using their corruption of Vaarsuvius as proof of concept. |
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The Masks We Wear (Teen Titans): Samantha Vanaver is the true villain, forcing John Grayson to be her assassin since Dick Grayson was born leads to him betraying the Court of Owls and creating the identity of Slade. She also plans to kill all the Titans using her Talons by pretending to be their friend and installing a security system owned by one of her companies in Titans Tower so the Talons can infiltrate Titans Tower and kill them all. | |
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Inkopolis Chaos: If not for Magentark Clover, Natalie wouldn’t have been framed, and as a result, she wouldn’t have met Samuel. Not only that, but his death caused Cyalux’s descent into Villainy, so if not for him, The Octobusters wouldn’t have been founded, so Luke wouldn’t have met Summer. Melissa likely wouldn’t have changed her views on octolings either, as a result of no octobusters for Ruby to save her from. As a result, if not for him, the majority of the events in the story wouldn’t have happened. He gaslighted his brother into hating octolings, was responsible for Natalie being framed, tried to kill a dozen octolings, and even in death, his actions haunt the story, with Cyalux being so stubborn in believing octolings were bad, and Ruby feeling responsible for everything. Heck, even Ruby’s emotional breakdown in the oneshot “A Burden To Bear� really solidifies this guy as a scumbag, even though we never see him. |
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: Arturo Ui's rise takes place at the same time as that of Adolf Hitler, and almost everything he does is a smaller-scale version of something Hitler actually did. However, Hitler never actually appears. | |
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In The Lunar Guardsman, as more and more is revealed about the rifts that Raegdan came through, there come hints that there is something out there that specifically uses them to destroy worlds, and an organization in another world that uses these rifts to explore is starting to research this possibility. Raegdan might have come into contact with this, and might have either served it voluntarily or not, but he believes it was just something his mind made up. He doesn't believe it was real because going by the description it was Morgoth. | |
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In Turning Red, Grandma Wu serves as a Greater Scope Antivillain as she was the reason why Ming turned out the way she did. Wu antagonized Ming the same way Ming antagonizes Mei. | |
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The Wolverine comics revealed not only that Weapon X is in fact controlled by an organization of greater scope villains called Weapon Plus, a secret governmental organization hellbent on eradicating mutants, who is responsible (directly or indirectly) for a lot of the crappy stuff that Wolverine went through in his life, but also that they are (directly or indirectly) responsible for the existence of many heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe, not just Wolverine himself. They created project rebirth, which makes them indirectly responsible for the creation of Captain America and Isaiah Bradley (or, to be more specific, the super soldier serum, a.k.a. Weapon I). They also created Weapon II (a weird squirrel with Wolverine's powers), The Skinless Man (Weapon III), Nuke (one of Daredevil's villains and Weapon VII), X-23, Deadpool, Huntsman (Weapon XII), Fantomex (Weapon XIII), The Stepford Cuckoos (clones of Emma Frost and Weapon XIV), Ultimaton (Weapon XV), Allgod (Weapon XVI) and according to Word of God, they are also responsible for creating or empowering many more unknown characters, both heroes and villains. They also created Project:Gladiator, which makes them indirectly responsible for creating Man-Thing. In some comics, it's also implied that they might have been involved with the prison experiments that gave Luke Cage his powers, the program that created the Sentinels and the Red Room Black Widow Ops organization that created the multiple Black Widows (like Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova). The organization has also been known to work with and provide money and resources to other villainous organizations (especially those that hate the X-Men) like A.I.M., HYDRA, the Hellfire Club, ROXXON, The Purifiers, OSCORP, etc. Later on, it's revealed that Weapon Plus was created and controlled by an even greater Greater-Scope Villain known as Romulus. He claims to be responsible for everything that happened in Logan's life and more, with plenty of evidence to back up this claim (such as immense and intimate knowledge of Wolverine's life, for example). The aforementioned John Sublime was pulling strings in the program as well, and to make things even more confusing, Word of God from the writer of the very first Weapon X story indicated that the original greater scope villain was going to be Apocalypse, but this never saw print for unknown reasons. | |
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The Royal Romance has the Queen Sigrid Runarsdottir who literally rules the world via the Via Imperii secret society, which is responsible for each and every threat to Cordonia. The society in which she is leader chooses "the right people" to rule a monarchy and these people are those that belong to the society. Beyond her is Julius Caesar, the Big Bad of A Courtesan of Rome, who was revealed to be a member of Via Imperii and since no older members are known, he might be the founder. | |
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The "Here Comes Tomorrow" story arc of New X-Men gave us the original character John Sublime, who was introduced with the strong suggestion that he may be the greatest overarching threat permeating the X-mythos. A sentient colony of bacteria almost as old as the Earth itself, Sublime was revealed to have orchestrated many major events in the X-Men's past, including the creation of the Weapon X program, all in a bid to wipe the mutant race from the Earth (as they are the only species immune to his mind control). It's implied that he may have even manipulated humanity to create the very idea of anti-mutant prejudice in the first place, thus making him the one villain who has managed to consistently keep the heat up on the X-Men since Day 1. | |
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The Deathlords of Exalted are Omnicidal Maniac ghosts granted power by the Neverborn in the name of destroying Creation. The Neverborn themselves, however, aren't much a threat; they're busier spending time coping with the pain of being eternally-dying-but-never-truly-dead and sending strange messages to their servants. A far straighter example is the Ebon Dragon, a Yozi (Primordials who, unlike their Neverborn brothers and sisters, survived their overthrowing at the hands their servants the Gods and the Exalted who the Gods made for doing this) who is plotting to take over everything and is egging the Neverborn and the rest of the Yozi (who are stuck in hell) along to spread more misery and to distract them from his plans. |
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The Avatar in Perfection Is Overrated, having created the SUEs and the Usurper as a means of testing whether a Canon Foreigner could compete with a canon character on equal terms, is this. | |
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Laika: Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, is the one who insists that the scientists have to build and launch Sputnik 2 in less than a month, with Laika aboard, in time for the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution. The tight deadline means they can only build a satellite that can go into space, but not come back—meaning Laika will die in it. | |
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In the New 52, Darkseid is the first villain faced by the Justice League, has been conquering the multiverse, and is responsible for the invasion and subsequent destruction of Earth-2. In turn, there are two Greater-Scope Villains behind his villainy. Believe it or not, there's someone who even Darkseid is afraid of: his father, Yuga Khan. Thankfully for the universe at large, all he cares about is learning the truth about the Source, and was trapped, as most everybody else is, attempting to penetrate it. However, when he freed himself, he briefly terrorized Apokolips even worse than his son did and caused Darkseid to attempt to hide. His reign ended when, having learned nothing from his previous attempt, he once again attempted to invade the Source and ended up once again trapped. The Anti-Life Equation that he is constantly after. If Darkseid finally finds it, it would make him gain knowledge to make everyone lose hope and become his slaves. |
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Always Visible: In Galbraith's eyes, this is exactly how doctor Baselard. | |
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Klonoa: Dream Crusaders: While Tenebrae Hue drives the plot with his mysterious, ambitious plans, Claire the Ancient is a far more evil being who was sealed away long ago, and easily attacks Hue when she is released. | |
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Satan's Hollow: Satan and the four members of his court. While they're the benefactor of the Shadow Man, who is trying to release them onto Earth in exchange for power, they spend their entire screentime in Hell waiting for the portal to be opened. | |
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Rules of Engagement has Jonathan, Mallory's ex-boyfriend, who convinced her that her family didn't love her, turning her into the Big Bad of the series. | |
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The Path of Lila's Karma: Karma is essentially the overall true villain of The Karma of Lies and the various Recursive Fanfiction, not only twisting various characters into worse versions of themselves in both the first story and Karmic Backlash but also setting up the entire show by manipulating Master Fu into creating Feast and set it out to devour the Guardians, which would lead to Gabriel and Emilie finding the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculous. This ultimately backfires, as one of his Unwitting Pawns, Lila Rossi, would become an even more terrifying force that turns him into her slave and turns the world into her hellish playground. | |
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Pathfinder: Kazavon in the Curse of the Crimson Throne campaign, where defeating even a small part of his legacy is an epic adventure for a group of 17th level characters. A monstrous Blue Dragon and Psycho for Hire who once served as Zon-Kuthon's Champion, Kazavon was killed long before the story began. His evil persists however, in the form of seven Artifacts Of Doom made out of his bones, which are so contaminated by the pure evil of his soul that they corrupt all they touch, exacerbating the evil that is already there in the human soul. Queen Illeosa, the Big Bad of the setting, is wearing the Crown of Fangs carved out of his teeth; with her defeat the story is over, but the possibility of someone else picking up the Crown (or one of the other six items) remains a very real threat. Queen Abrogail II of Cheliax takes on this role in Skull & Shackles. Your main foe in the campaign, and the one responsible for almost everything, from Captain Barnabas Harrigan's treachery, to the confrontation you are forced into with Kerdak Bonefist at the end, is Abrogail's cousin Admiral Druvalia Thrune of the Chelish Navy, who is acting independently of the crown. While Druvalia's defeat will solve most of their problems, the PCs should step lightly — flaunting their victory overly much can result in a new war with Abrogail once the campaign comes to an end. In Iron Gods, the Big Bad Unity became evil after an encounter with the Dominion of the Black, an interstellar empire of Eldritch Abominations. Though the players only fight a small expeditionary force, the threat of the Dominion hangs over the entire campaign. In fact, the Dominion can be considered this for the entirety of Golarion, as several adventures have hinted that a full-scale invasion is coming very soon. Asmodeus, the King of Hell, has made it his personal mission to prove The Evils of Free Will — and then expunge it from the universe. The god Zon-Kuthon himself has a Greater Scope Villain, being a formerly Good deity who was corrupted by something from beyond the multiverse. |
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Thanos maintains this status from the canon MCU. In addition to having sent Loki and the Chitauri to invade Earth in The Avengers, it's implied that he also sent Gravemoss to Earth as well, confirmed in-universe to have been behind the destruction of Krypton, and Word of God is that he also has a connection to Gorr the God Butcher, who Thor fought in the past (and is still traumatized by). Strange eventually reveals that the entire Gambit Roulette Long Game that he's playing is designed to prepare Earth for when Thanos eventually comes for it, which suggests that he'll be the Final Boss of the series. | |
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In The Lion King Adventures, the Writer, an Author Avatar of ThatPersonYouMightKnow's dark side, created the entire universe and all the characters in it, as a means of having his own world in which to create chaos and destruction. | |
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Senator Roark and Mob Boss Wallenquist in Sin City. The former is an immensely powerful and unashamedly Corrupt Politician who can get away with anything while the latter is an immensely powerful crime lord controlling most of the organized crime in the city. While both men are responsible for the greatest evils in Basin City and perpetuate the Crapsack World itself, neither would really qualify as the main villain in any of the stories. Their organizations and influence are so vast that they're usually concerned with larger matters than direct confrontation with the (Anti-)heroes. | |
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An Italian Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs sequel, "Menace of the Witch's Ruby", has the Evil Queen being revealed as merely an underling to the Witch Empress Mammona, with the queen's revenge scheme being an effort to get back into her good graces. | |
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Treasure Planet: Captain Flint. A fearsome Space Pirate who terrorized ships for years, the treasure he took from those ships is the stuff of legends and the MacGuffin for the entire plot. Then, it turns out that he rigged the entire planet to explode if anyone found the treasure, and escaping the planet before it explodes becomes the object of the climax. | |
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Queen of Shadows has Shendu. His actions kicked off the plot, and in the new reality, he's the Evil Overlord of half of Asia. However, he hasn't really done anything since reality was altered, and it's not even clear yet if the Shendu in the new reality is the same one who damaged the Book of Ages. | |
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Himmler in the Hitler Rants parodies is this, having been the one that mentored and teached antics to Fegelein, the series' Big Bad and resident troll. | |
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Minotaur Hotel: The ancient gods, who created the labyrinth to imprison Asterion for all eternity, and make him a slave for any human that comes across him. The lack of free will Asterion has because of them combined with how he's been abused over centuries shows how ruthless the gods were towards Asterion. In the main route, it's in the best interest for the protagonist to figure out enough loopholes in the system to get Asterion out of the cycle. Clement. Although there were mean and abusive masters before him, he's particularly awful in that he kicked out all the guests and employees out of the hotel, without paying them, and keeping Asterion in a cold room for over half a century. Not only did this remove all the progress the hotel has made over the centuries, but it also caused Pedro's grandfather to have a major falling out with his family and make everyone in it hate each other, on top of whatever happened to the numerous other guests and employees. His actions more or less kickstart the events of the game, as you would have never become the master and restore the hotel, and Pedro would have never started his journey to look for the hotel where his supposed inheritance laid. The worst part about him is that he's so old and senile at the start of the game, that doing anything to him (killing him, punishing him, imprisoning him, etc.) would be utterly pointless besides some small catharsis. It says something that even the hint that he's still alive is enough to send Asterion into a funk. |
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The Paul Mask of Llamas with Hats, as it's the one ordering Carl around from episode 8 onwards. | |
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In Delta Green, Nyarlathotep inspired and guided the creations of the Cult of Transcendence, The Fate and Karotechia. Although it mostly stays in the background and leaves the affairs of the cults to its subordinates. | |
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Science Adventure Series has the always offscreen Committee of 300 who plan to reduce humanity to a population of one billion and unite the remainder under a single totalitarian government. Although they are directly responsible for Project Noah, Project Mars, Project Atom and Sern's Z-Program they only act by proxy and are never shown or identified. | |
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For most of the story in Amulet, all the strife is caused by the Elf King waging war...until it's revealed that the spirit of the Amulet (who so far has been a guide of sorts, if somewhat evil in its own special way) is the real cause behind everything. To top it all off, this isn't the first time the Amulet spirit has done this either, having done the exact same thing 500 years prior. | |
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Batman: In Batman (Grant Morrison), Dr. Hurt is the main Big Bad, but is revealed to have a Greater-Scope Villain controlling him, who he thinks is the demon Barbatos, but is actually a weapon Darkseid sent back to the dawn of man when Batman was hit by the Omega Effect in Final Crisis. Later on, it's retroactively revealed that Barbatos was Real After All. Barbatos is an ancient cosmic entity that rules and resides in the Dark Multiverse, the dark side of The Multiverse. He's also an object of worship for the Court of Owls, making him the Greater-Scope Villain to them too. In Dark Nights: Metal, he finally decides to make his move and attacks the regular multiverse with seven evil Batmen from the Dark Multiverse. It's heavily hinted that he may or may not be directly or indirectly responsible for every bad thing that has happened to Batman in his life, to the point that he even calls himself the "father of Batman" and claims to have been the bat which flew in through the window on the night that Bruce declared "Yes, Father. I shall become a Bat". Obviously, Bruce did not know which 'father' he was speaking to during that night... |
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Metal Sonic in Mario and Sonic: Heroes Unite!. His power is claimed in the description to be "bigger than Eggman and Bowser's powers combined". | |
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On Mystara this is built in the system of attaining its equivalent of godhood, Immortality - to become Immortal, you need to pass tests and trials set up by another Immortal, who is your sponsor. This means that pretty much all Immortals from evil Sphere of Enthropy have their sponsor serving as this trope and are this to anyone they may be recently sponsoring or probing to see if they're a good cadidate. However, even among them, Thanatos, possibly the eldest Immortal of the Sphere, stands out. Not only has he personally sponsored all big names and main active villains of the Sphere, including Alphaks, Atzanteotl, Demogorgon, Loki and Orcus but also is still active himself. He is responsible for corruption and eventually destruction of both Taymoran and Nithian empires. He created the Burrowers, the main threat to the destruction of the Hollow World and Night Dragons, with their Queen, Synn (Big Bad of Shadow Over Mystara) currently being his candidate to Immortality. He is also behind Storm Soldiers, whose influence has corrupted both entire Hattian culture and the Heldannic Order (Fantasy Counterpart Culture for Prussians and Teutonic Knights, respectively). It is easier to list bad things in the setting that aren't somehow tied back to him, that those that are. And these are things we know about. By a principle, only small handful of candidates to Immortality actually succeeds. Him having succesfully sponsored so many Immortals implies a horrifying number of mass murderers, Evil Overlords, warlords, mages and other monsters who failed to meet his expectations. |
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In The End of Ends, Trigon created the Dark Prognosticus, thus giving rise to Logan’s power. | |
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High School Story Book 1 has Rodger and Loretta Crandall, the Big Bad Duumvirate of Class Act, Book 3, who raised their son Brian to be a Jerkass. Book 2 has Blackbird and Phantom, two criminals Big Bad Principal Isa became indebted with. |
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Girl Genius: Subverted with the Other, who plays a nebulous background role through Volumes I-IV. All that we know about them is that they created the slaver wasps & revenants our heroes fight and that they caused the terrible war that Baron Wulfenbach had to stop. But then in Volume V, the Other steps on the stage in person - or rather in a person - serving as the Big Bad for the rest of the comic. However, even then they are mostly stuck manipulating events whenever they get the chance to. Played straight, albiet to a downplayed degree, with Dr. Dimitri Vapnoople. He was the teacher of Arc Villain Martellus von Blitzengaard, knew many of the Old Heterodynes and Mongfishes personally (even creating the Sparkhounds that Dr. Mongfish used as Elite Mooks), and was aware of Lucrezia Mongfish's true identity as the Other. |
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The Wyrm was this for Werewolf: The Apocalypse. | |
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Macbeth has the witches, whose Self-Fulfilling Prophecy causes Macbeth's Face–Heel Turn. | |
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Most fics in the Shadowchasers Series have one: In the original fic, the true Big Bad ultimately answers to the Light of Ruin, who had demanded Athentia accept Jamor's challenge in the first place. As Ember guesses, the Earth's destruction suits a being like this just fine. In Shadowchasers: Power Primordial, The Big Bad’s ultimate goal is to free an imprisoned being called Pandorym, who mastered the Power Primordial better than almost any other being, and used it to challenge the Hebdomad, but lost. In both Shadowchasers: Torment and Shadowchasers: Ascension, this role is filled by the Mad God Tharizdun. In the former fic, the villains are cultists trying to free him from his prison where the other gods sent him. In the latter fic, the Big Bad plots to kill him to usurp his powers to become a god himself, only to realize, too later, he’s in far over his head. The series as a whole seems to have an overall Greater Scope Villain, as it is revealed in Ascension that Tharizdun is a Barrier Maiden of sorts keeping an even greater destructive force, the Great Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos from regaining the power they endowed him with. |
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As revealed during Fear Itself, the real Satan. The other demon lords hold meetings around his throne sometimes, but it's stated that all of them, including, apparently, cosmically-powered ones like Shuma-Gorath and the aforementioned Dormammu, are terrified of even trying to sit on it. He's been gone from this plane of existence so long that even among the demons themselves it's a common belief that he doesn't actually exist. | |
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Superman: Brainiac, easily number in the top three on this list for The DCU (along with Darkseid and the Anti-Monitor), has a true form as a giant artificial entity, capturing cities from different timelines and universes before their destruction. The Vril Dox Brainiac is just one of his avatars, similar to the retcon made about Darkseid's nature in Final Crisis. Brainiac's true form (dubbed "Blood Moon Brainiac" or "Future's End Brainiac" by fans) serves as Greater Scope Villain in Convergence, as the reason for why Telos is doing what it's doing. Telos even refers to him as "the master", as he is in charge of every other Brainiac. Speaking of Vril Dox, the true Brainiac prior to this story (and his current incarnation as of Rebirth) qualifies. An enormously powerful alien scientist turned conqueror equipped with super strength and toughness surpassing Superman's, psychic powers strong enough to warp reality, super intelligence sufficient to let him store exabytes of data in his brain and build just about anything, and toting some of the most potent tech in the DCU, he was revealed as The Man Behind the Man to all previous versions of Brainiac in the Superman: Brainiac story arc. The pants-less mad scientist in the flying saucer? The Skele Bot? The nanites possessing Milton Fine? The scrawny green guy with the goatee, telekinesis, and cape? The seven-foot tall purple and green humanoid robot? The nanoswarm? All of them and more, despite acting as the Big Bad in various storylines from Panic in the Sky to Doomsday Wars, were simply techno-organic probes being controlled by the real Brainiac. The cause for Krypton's destruction tends to vary from incarnation to incarnation. however, sometimes, a villain is directly responsible for destroying said planet (Especially Brainiac). Said villain then becomes the indirect cause of Superman's story by causing Jor-El to send his son to earth to protect him and by killing Superman's biological parents. This would also by extension make them a greater scope villain for Supergirl too. In the Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis eras, it was Black Zero. In the former era, it was the name of a supervillain whose modus operandi revolved around rigging planets to explode for hire. In the latter era, it was the name of a terrorist organization that fought in a war over the rights of the clones the Kryptonians used as organ banks. They were eventually defeated, but not before they initiated the chain reaction that would destroy Krypton thousands of years later. Lex Luthor can be this in some interpretations of several of Superman's Rogues Gallery: through LexCorp he has an either direct or indirect involvement in the origins of the Parasite, Metallo, Bizarro, etc. who pester Superman with or without Luthor's knowledge or involvement. |
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Ask That Guy with the Glasses: The series doesn't really have a plot, so it's hard to call any character the Big Bad, but the closest thing is the titular Ask That Guy. However, even Ask That Guy is horrified by the depravity of Bennett the Sage. Satan also appears as a background character. |
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Scar becomes this in both The Lion King sequels: In The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, his death is the reason why his former mate Zira and her pride are plotting to get revenge on Simba by killing him and replacing him with Kovu as Scar's successor, while in The Lion King Oneanda Half, Scar is reduced to a voiceless cameo in the climax due to him being too busy fighting Simba like in the first movie, while his hyena henchmen become the main threat to Timon and Pumbaa in this movie. | |
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Being Dead Ain't Easy has the Big Five. They're technically behind a lot of major events in the story, as they're responsible for sabotaging KaibaCorp and siccing Morrison on Kaiba — inadvertently starting the entire plot — but aren't personally involved or seen at all. At most, they get a couple mentions. | |
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In Dark Nights: Death Metal, it's revealed that Perpetua is the creator/mother of the Monitor, the Anti-Monitor and the World Forger. Her goal was to trick her sons into freeing her from her prison by destroying the current multiverse. When the Anti-Monitor was defeated during the first Crisis on Infinite Earths, she chose other "agents" to do her will and she subconsciously influenced them the same way she did for her son. Parallax, the Alex Luthor of Earth-3 and Superboy-Prime, Darkseid and Mandrakk, and Barbatos were all influenced by Perpetua to destroy the multiverse, which makes her retroactively responsible for Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis and Dark Nights: Metal. The mainline Luthor is also trying to revive Perpetua, which culminated in Justice League (2018) and DC Year of the Villain. | |
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Red vs. Blue: The Director, as most of the things that happened to the Blood Gulch Crew and Freelancers were caused by him and his plans. The Chairman serves as a Hero Antagonist Greater Scope Villain when he sends that Big Bad Duumvirate of Wash and the Meta to find Epsilon with the ultimate goal of arresting the Director. Actually, he's not a hero at all when the Season 12 finale reveals that he was the Big Bad "Control". He is also the Greater Scope Villain for the overall series when it's revealed that he funded the Insurrection that the Freelancers fought against. Flashbacks in Season 10 show that the A.I. Sigma qualifies for the Recollection Trilogy as a whole; he's technically the Big Bad of Reconstruction, but he is killed after those events. However, his influence on the Meta still remains in Recreation and Revelation. In Seasons 11 and 12, General Doyle takes this role on the account of being the leader of the Federation Army. However, he can be hardly be considered a fighter, and he has no control over Locus. Locus is working under the orders of the Big Bad, Control, and Doyle's role is subverted when it's revealed that Locus and Felix are manipulating the Civil War on the planet Chorus under Control's orders. Played with later on in season 15 with the Blues and Reds, the Evil(?) Counterparts of the Reds and Blues. While they didn't cause the main events of the series, they would be used as models for every subsequent simulation outpost, which plays a big hand in the events that would follow over the years. This also means that they were indirectly responsible for the formation of the Blood Gulch Crew. |
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Arrow: Rebirth: While Malcolm Merlyn and Tempest are, naturally, the primary threats of the first story, Oliver also has to deal with them while not tipping off the other future threats, among them Slade, H.I.V.E., and the Ninth Circle. Most of all, he goes through great pains not to piss off the League of Assassins, because unlike the other organizations, they're integral to the balance of the world, so he can't do anything to get rid of them this time around. | |
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The Transformers (IDW): Shockwave. While Megatron or Scorponok or any other Decepticon are always front and center as the Big Bad, Shockwave has always worked behind the scenes with his regenesis project, which is a number of energies which bond to planets and create different Ore. This kicks off the earth conflict, which he is absent for, as the empowering Ore is there and everyone is fighting over it. It kicks off Spotlight Kup, which he is also absent for, because it drives Kup crazy. It is the reason behind the Syndromica arc, which he has very little to do with. In addition his projects have been behind the destruction of numerous civilizations, which he was also absent for because the Dynobots got to him before he could stabilize them. As of The Transformers: Dark Cybertron he has subverted the Trope, and stepped up as the major threat, requiring all the Transformers to unite against him. The Dead Universe and alternate universe that seeks to consume the one present and mind controls anyone it can reach, even controlling the Decepticons to do its bidding. Later we learn that Shockwave is responsible for its existence. In James Roberts and John Barber's run, the role is given to Onyx Prime. He's responsible for a great many things that happen over the course of the series, both good and bad. Garrison Blackrock, the Headmasters, Chela, the Talisman, Eukaris, the Axalon and its crew, Galvatron and Arcee, the Dark Cybertron Prophecy, the Torchbearers, Infraspace, and the Beastformer army were all either indirectly created by his machinations or served him directly. Then it's revealed that, through a complicated series of Stable Time Loops, Onyx is Shockwave... |
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The Bridge (MLP): While Bagan is the Big Bad of the main story, the side story The Bridge: Humanity's Stand has him in this role, as the primary antagonists are the Red Dawn Apocalypse Cult he created. And in A Shimmer in the Dark, the crossover with The Shimmerverse, he acts via his Aspect Mizu as the benefactor of Countess Mircalla's last remaining remnant of the Nightmare Army. Grogar is this for King Sombra, having taught him Dark Magic as his Evil Mentor. It eventually turns out that Lord Tirek, Queen Chrysalis, and Discord all learned it from him as well, and he's implied to be the true cause of the outbreak of horrible evils a thousand years ago. More importantly, he's the Nexus of Dark Magic, just like Harmony and Bagan are for their respective magics implying he's on the same tier, and Chrysalis is currently attempting to exploit her Villain Team-Up with Bagan to restore Grogar to his full power. |
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Kill Six Billion Demons: With the reveals in Breaker of Infinities, Metatron 1 is revealed to be either this, or a very twisted form of Big Good. He gave the Master Key to creation to Zoss, and through him controls the Eternal Recurrence the universe is stuck in, but cannot get directly involved in the plot due to being The Fettered. With his current motivations for permanently sticking the multiverse in 'reset mode' unknown, and direct confrontation with him still a far way away (Metatron is likely the most powerful currently living being in the setting because he possesses YISUN's true voice), whether or not he'll transition into an actual Big Bad of the story is unknown. | |
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In the first Shrek film, it is briefly mentioned that the curse that causes Princess Fiona to become an ogre every night was placed on her by an evil witch, but said witch never makes an appearance at all in the franchise, leaving her identity and motives unknown. (Some fans have theorized that it was actually the Fairy Godmother who placed a curse on her, but it is never been directly evidenced.) | |
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Madness Combat has the Higher Powers, unseen entities who pull the strings behind the world and occasionally revive the main characters to allow them to continue fighting, for no other reason than they find their constant violence amusing. | |
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Played with in the case of the Witch from Brave. Her magic was responsible for creating the movie's "villain", Mordu and turning the protagonist's mother into a bear, and she's hardly involved the movie's main conflict, but she hardly has any malicious intentions and just seems to misinterpret her patrons' requests. | |
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Thanos seems set up to be this in the Andromeda Dreams spinoff, given that his presence has already been felt via his minions, in both the Klingon and Romulan storylines, but he's currently occupied in his own fiefdom on the other side of the galaxy. | |
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The Multiversity: The Empty Hand, the sinister entity that led the Gentry to the invasion of the DC Multiverse. Currently, it's just decided to wait. Probably qualifies as THE Greatest Scope Villain in DC. | |
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Despicable Me: Mr. Perkins, the head of the Bank of Evil, is the largest threat in the franchise because he can finance whatever evil scheme he wishes and, therefore, has the entire criminal underworld in his pocket. | |
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In Lanterns of Equestria: Blackest Night, the Black is the true villain, while the Black Lantern of Commander Hurricane serves it and acts as the de facto Big Bad of the story. | |
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Although the story has yet to get very far, the appointments of the main characters by Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf in the Pokémon fic series Unwilling Service is a clear indicator that they will eventually travel to Sinnoh to fight against Team Galactic. | |
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Brainiac, easily number in the top three on this list for The DCU (along with Darkseid and the Anti-Monitor), has a true form as a giant artificial entity, capturing cities from different timelines and universes before their destruction. The Vril Dox Brainiac is just one of his avatars, similar to the retcon made about Darkseid's nature in Final Crisis. Brainiac's true form (dubbed "Blood Moon Brainiac" or "Future's End Brainiac" by fans) serves as Greater Scope Villain in Convergence, as the reason for why Telos is doing what it's doing. Telos even refers to him as "the master", as he is in charge of every other Brainiac. | |
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Many of the villains Tintin faces are in fact agents working for a superior that either serves as a secondary briefly encountered villain or is never even seen. Marshal Kûrvi-Tasch, the dictator of Borduria, is the ultimate authority behind any Bordurian agent Tintin fights over the course of his adventures (with the possible exception of King Ottokar's Sceptre, in which he doesn't seem to already be in power). However, he also never directly takes part in the plans of his subordinates and never makes an appearance outside of the occasional statue or portrait. Tom in Tintin in the Congo is working for Al Capone. Allan in The Crab with the Golden Claws operates a drug smuggling business on behalf of Omar Ben Salaad, a wealthy merchant of the fictional port of Bagghar. |
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Daisy's parents from Toy Story 3, by replacing the first Lotso with another after their daughter accidentally left her favorite toy behind during a camping trip, is the reason why Lotso is a cruel, remorseless tyrant who constantly abuses the toys at Sunnyside Daycare in the first place. | |
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The humans in the first Ice Age movie. They were the ones who killed Manny's family, and them wiping out half the saber-toothed tigers' pack is ultimately what drives the latter to commit the heinous acts that set the plot in motion, namely trying to steal and kill the baby out of spite. Plus, as we all know, in real life, they were (largely) responsible for the extinction of all mammoths. | |
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The conflicts of Black Science revolve around jump-to-jump survival and interpersonal strife within the team. In the background is Mr. Block, who financed the pillar's research specifically to steal technology and dominate multiple dimensions. | |
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Ask Jappleack: Applelox is revealed to be the father of Discord and Wolfilor, and the one who sent them to Equestria, making him directly responsible for the events in PONY.MOV. | |
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Theogony has the primordial deities Ouranos and Gaea serve as this role during the Titanomachy and Typhon's assault respectively. Cronus is the Big Bad of the Titanomacy due to eating and opposing Zeus and his other children, however Cronus was motivated to do so by his own father Ouranos making him paranoid his children would overthrow him like he did to save his own siblings. And while Typhon directly opposes the gods and spawns legions of monsters to later trouble them, Gaea spawned him in the first place out of revenge for the Titans' imprisonment. While they never directly oppose the Olympians (with Ouranos permamently indisposed), the Divine Conflict can be linked back to them. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: On Zendikar it's the Eldrazi, until Rise of the Eldrazi when they actually show up. Yawgmoth, who had a similar treatment. For most of the original storyline, the various Evincars of Rath were the setting's primary antagonists, especially Volrath. Rath and its Evincars were essentially satellites to Phyrexia and Yawgmoth, its ruler. While Phyrexia turned up quite a bit throughout the game's history (going at least as far back as Gate to Phyrexia in Antiquities), Yawgmoth himself didn't take center stage until the Urza's Block and then not again until Invasion. In many blocks, Nicol Bolas takes this role. While he himself rarely appears, his minions (such as Sarkhan Vol) often do. In the Khans of Tarkir block, he briefly appears in the backstory, killing the Big Good Ugin, setting up the block's situation; Sarkhan (now his own agent) stopping it to Set Right What Once Went Wrong causes Fate Reforged; and Ugin still being in a magical coma a millennium later results in the situation in Dragons of Tarkir. |
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The Dark Powers in the Ravenloft setting can play this role depending on what type of game the DM is running. On the one hand, they maintain a prison of extremely powerful and evil entities. On the other, for every Darklord trapped in an Ironic Hell, there are thousands upon thousands of regular people trapped alongside them as unwitting extras in the ghastly charade, stuck at the bottom of the food chain in a Crapsack World and subservient to the Darklord's whims. | |
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In Violine, Muller and Marushka are the main villains in the plot, driving much of the backstory as well as Violine's adventures, especially Muller who actively hunts her and her father down. | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who Divergent Universe arc the Kro'ka controls where the Doctor, Charley, and C'rizz go but is working for the Divergence. In Caerdroia he is revealed to be working for Rassilon, who meets the Doctor in the next story.]] | |
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Alya and the Harem Reality: The new reality created by the Wish introduces an unseen individual that wiped out the Guardians 200 years ago. A young Fu managed to escape with the Chinese Miraculous Box but lost the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculouses in the struggle, which ended up in the hand of the Agrestes. The entity would soon return in the present day, forcing Fu to scatter and hide the Miraculouses for their potential chosen to find them before he is killed fighting the entity. | |
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The Cadanceverse has Nemesis, the entity/force that corrupted Celestia and Luna, and is still free and on the loose even after they're purified by the Elements of Harmony. | |
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Mad World (Invader Zim) has The Thing in the Wall, which spends the whole story manipulating Dib as it did Nny, but due to being sealed, it can't directly interact with the real world. Until it gets loose during the climax. | |
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The Twilight Man: Kars still plays the role of Greater-Scope Villain in the Phantom Blood adaptation Blood Obligation, not only creating the stone mask that is used to create the vampires plaguing England, but assigning the Pillar Man Santanta to create the vampires and kill their Arch-Enemy Wamuu. | |
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has Bad Horse, leader of the Evil League of Evil the titular (Ineffectual Sympathetic) Villain Protagonist wants to join. | |
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Fate/stay night gradually reveals over the three routes that the source of the Grail's corruption is Angra Mainyu, who will be reborn if any of the Big Bads succeed in their plans. | |
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In Critical Role, the lich Vecna is the greater scope villain for the married evil aristocrats Silas and Delilah Briarwood. It's eventually revealed that the reason they conquered Whitestone is because there's a corrupted temple to the goddess Ioun beneath Whitestone's royal castle and they plan to use it to help him become a full-fledged god. Vecna himself is the villain of the final story arc of the first campaign, and the Briarwoods return as some of his Co-Dragons. | |
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Multiple examples from the Zero Escape series: Lord Gordain, a British Lord who survived the sinking of the Titanic, became obsessed with the ship that he tried to collect anything related to it, including one of its sister ships, the Gigantic. He created the Nonary Games as a means of getting young English men to work off their debts, making it a major source of entertainment for the British Peerage. Gentarou Hongou, the CEO of Cradle Pharmaceutical, wanted to test a particular phenomenon. So, to do that, he set up the Nonary Game from 9 years ago, which got one of his subjects killed. The current Nonary Game is to both Set Right What Once Went Wrong as well as to get Revenge upon him. Subverted a bit - he was also a Nonary Game player back when Gordain ran the show and the Big Bad of the current Nonary Game when Zero isn't running the show. Brother is the leader of Free the Soul and is responsible for the events of the trilogy, indirectly so for Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtue's Last Reward, and directly so for Zero Time Dilemma. Most of his motives and backstory are explained in Zero Time Dilemma. In ZTD, he calls himself Q, and is later revealed to be Zero II, the Big Bad of the game, and Delta, Phi's twin brother and Diana and Sigma's son. He was born in 2029, November 16, and was sent to the past with his newborn sister, to 1904. He was adopted by a couple of researchers and their son, Left. In 1920, Left is murdered, and it leads Delta into creating the Free The Soul organization. Free The Soul then funds Gentarou Hongou's Nonary game, which leads into the events of 999. In 2028, through the Decision Game described in Zero Time Dilemma, Delta also liberates the Radical-6 virus, thus leading to the events of Virtue's Last Reward. His motive for releasing the virus is that it could kill a religious fanatic that would, through butterfly effect, lead mankind to destruction, but it is unknown if he tells the truth or not. Another of his motives to creating the Decision Game is so that he could be born, as Diana and Sigma give birth to Phi and Delta during one of the timelines described in the game. |
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We Are All Pokémon Trainers: Cipher serves as one for the entire RP in general, often acting through proxies instead of fighting the J-Team directly, having a hand in the backstories of several characters, and even created 'M which antagonized the J-Team during the Unova arc. For Orre they end up becoming the Big Bad of the arc. OLD MAN's nemesis, the Magikarp Salesman, a powerful demon who doesn't really concern himself with the J-Team's antics at all. The Seven Jerk Dragons serve as this for the PMD-R arc. While they don't make a direct appearance, their actions are directly responsible for the state of PMD-B when J-Team members visit it. |
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Warhammer/Warhammer 40,000: The Chaos Gods rarely pay any attention to mortal affairs, spending the vast majority of their time fighting each other, but the powers that are available to mortals because of their very existence (and the corruption and madness that results from them) are the cause of multiple evil factions in both settings. 40K has the even Greater Scope Villain of the C'tan, who created the Necrons, indirectly created Chaos with their war against the Old Ones (which in turn allowed the Chaos Gods to be born later), and indirectly led to the creation of the Orks and Eldar (as the Old Ones created them to fight against the C'tan). Originally they served as part of the Big Bad Ensemble, but then the 5th Edition Retcon had them be shattered into pieces millions of years ago. There have been vague but definitely existent hints that the Tyranids are invading our galaxy because they're on the run from something even worse in their own. |
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Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights: Chaos, mentioned above, is one of these not only to the Sailor Moon universe, but to every magical girl universe, claiming to be the ultimate source of all evil and darkness. | |
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The Legend of Spyro: Zonoya's Revenge: Not only was Malefor responsible for everything that happened in the games, he brainwashed Cynder into slashing out the eye of Zonoya, her best friend, which was Zonoya's Start of Darkness. Zonoya was also in love with him, leading to many of her actions in addition to her revenge plot, making him responsible for most of the plot. | |
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In The Prince of Egypt, Pharaoh Seti I is the main villain during the first half and the man directly responsible for the massacre of Hebrew slaves that led to Moses coming into his care, but he dies offscreen during Moses' exile and it's ultimately Rameses who takes center stage as the antagonist. | |
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Dracula, the Monster Progenitor for the European vampires and regarded as the most powerful and dangerous vampire in the world. He is referred in a ominous and dreadful manner by those who know him for committing genocide against other vampire species and slaughtering countless vampire hunters. In fact, Skinner (and the entire American bloodline subsequently) owes his existence to Dracula since the vampire who unintentionally sired him belonged to his bloodline. With that said, Dracula is never actually fought by him nor by Pearl Jones (he is confronted on a spin-off series focusing on supporting characters) but his shadow falls upon them regardless. In addition to his effect in the storyline, he also served this role for Jack the Ripper of all people, having driven Albert, Duke of Clarence to madness and made him target prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London. | |
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Asterix: Even when other Romans are the episode's main antagonists, Julius Caesar is very often behind their actions directly or indirectly. | |
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Prehistoric Earth has Percival von Grimm. He's the man that Duncan Kent reports to and helps to attempt to sabotage the titular park for, serves directly as The Man Behind the Man for Frank, and is the one who both set up the prehistoric animal smuggling ring that Frank serves as immediate supervisor for as well as helped orchestrate a mass breakout at the park for the sake of an attempt at allowing Duncan to get ahold of the main portal technology to use as a replacement for an inferior jury rigged copy that the smuggling ring is forced to use in its place. He eventually graduates to full on Big Bad once enough things start heading south to make him feel its time to get directly involved. | |
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Nemesis (Mark Millar) features a sinister organization that helps supply the titular supervillain in his criminal activities, but otherwise is never identified or encountered. They send Officer Morrow a letter congratulating him on his victory against Nemesis and promise to leave him and his family alone. However, they also state they will expand their operations and provide bored rich people the opportunity to become super-villains and carry out their psychopathic impulses. He only receives this letter at the very end of the comic. | |
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Child of the Storm: Thanos maintains this status from the canon MCU. In addition to having sent Loki and the Chitauri to invade Earth in The Avengers, it's implied that he also sent Gravemoss to Earth as well, confirmed in-universe to have been behind the destruction of Krypton, and Word of God is that he also has a connection to Gorr the God Butcher, who Thor fought in the past (and is still traumatized by). Strange eventually reveals that the entire Gambit Roulette Long Game that he's playing is designed to prepare Earth for when Thanos eventually comes for it, which suggests that he'll be the Final Boss of the series. There's also Chthon. Gravemoss's use of the Darkhold is allowing his influence to spread throughout the universe, breaking down the dimensional barriers separating Earth from all kinds of scary shit, both of Chthon's making and of various other evil deities (the side story Chaos Reigns is about one such infestation). There's also the fact that while the various villainous factions at play (the active Death Eater/HYDRA alliance, and all those powers working in the shadows) are fairly limited in scope, only wanting to control Earth, Chthon would destroy and dominate everything. During the Final Battle of Book 1, he seizes control of Gravemoss amidst the chaos of HYDRA's downfall, serving as the Book's Final Boss. Ghosts of the Past brings in Surtur a.k.a. the first Dark Phoenix. His rampage across the universe millions of years ago is what led to the creation of Yggdrasil (as the complex locking mechanism on his prison) and the ascension of the Asgardians to godhood. And now cracks have started forming in his prison as a result of Chthon's actions in the previous book, hinting that soon Harry and co will have to deal with him too. |
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie introduced the legendary "Cyclops" as this to the SpongeBob SquarePants universe as a whole. The Big Bad of the movie is Plankton, with Dennis serving as The Dragon, but when we finally meet the Cyclops, he absolutely dwarfs them in scale in a Humans Are Cthulhu kind of way — he's actually the owner of a seaside gift shop that sells dried-out fish and other marine life as souvenirs. Fortunately, the heroes only meet him briefly and manage to escape — but it's really tense for a moment there. | |
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A somewhat complicated case in Against the Dark Yogi, since the Greater Scope Villain is technically not born yet. Geli the Demon Raja is prophesised to be born as the last of the Eighteen Wicked Kings, and to overthrow the gods and rule for a thousand years of sin and degradation, after which the world will finally end. That makes him a great deal badder than the Big Bad of the game, Tamapara the Dark Yogi. However, while Geli's eventual birth is inevitable, it can happen in a few generations (which is Tamapara's goal) or it can be in a distant future (as the player characters are assumed to be trying to make the case by stopping Tamapara). | |
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Hardcore Leveling Warrior: The Witch, who is behind the existence of Lucid Adventure, and whose motives remain largely unknown except for her vague interest in seeing how things turn out. In season 2, she seems to be aware that her actions will have consequences that could potentially destroy both worlds, the game one and the real one. | |
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Transformers: Generation 2 has the Liege Maximo, founder of Jhiaxus's Decepticons (and, possibly, all Decepticons). Later, Unicron, Eldritch Abomination and Satan-figure, to the franchise as a whole. | |
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Abominable has the mysterious client who hired Dr. Zara and the Captain to steal Everest the Yeti from Mr. Burnish. They're only ever referred to as "the buyer" and nothing else is ever revealed about them (except that they plan on chopping Everest up for their "experiments" once they get their hands on him), but the fact that they were apparently able to give the two villains a better offer than a billionaire like Burnish certainly implies they're very, very rich and powerful. | |
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In Young Justice: Darkness Falls: Darkseid serves this role to the first 2 seasons of the show, as Vandal Savage's endgame involved him, making him an essential part of the plan. He also serves as one to Superman, as he was actually behind the destruction of Krypton as well. Although, once his invasion of earth begins, he takes on the role of Big Bad as well. Following this, Young Justice Titans has another Greater Scope Villain in the form of Trigon. The new secondary villains, the Church of Blood, are dedicating their efforts to finding a way to release him on Earth. |
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Ignited Spark, has the Inner Circle, a Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy led by All for One, and composed of the Meta Liberation Army, Humarise and the Hero Commission, and those are just the villains we are aware of. The Inner Circle's power also seems to extend beyond Japan, with Vigilantes confirming their activities around China. | |
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In The Black Cauldron, the spirit trapped inside the titular Black Cauldron is one. The Horned King wants to use the cauldron to Take Over the World with an undead army. | |
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Justice League of Equestria would appear to have Darkseid for the series as a whole, judging by Athena's comments about the War in Heaven against his forces. Mare of Steel ends with him opening a boomtube to Equestria, setting him up to be the Big Bad of the main Justice League of Equestria story. | |
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Sonic X: Dark Chaos has several of these. Maledict is quickly revealed to be this to Tsali and becomes one of the primary villains. However, it's also shown that Jesus and Allysion had quite a large part to do with the Metarex War and the Crapsack World as well. And of course, there's Dark Tails, who eventually becomes the Big Bad everyone else winds up fighting. | |
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Blue Rose has the seven Exarchs of Shadow, though it's never stated explicitly whether they actually exist or are just a myth. | |
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The Fallen was revealed in The Transformers: Titans Return to be the one responsible for Trypticon's rampage, Overlord's plans, and the events of the prior series The Transformers: Combiner Wars before becoming the main villain of The Transformers: Power of the Primes. | |
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In the original fic, the true Big Bad ultimately answers to the Light of Ruin, who had demanded Athentia accept Jamor's challenge in the first place. As Ember guesses, the Earth's destruction suits a being like this just fine. | |
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Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends: Lex is working on behalf of an unnamed new Tallest who has taken over since Red and Purple were lost in the Florpus, and is now working to stop the Empire's decline and revitalize it, which somehow requires Minimoose's power source. | |
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Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island has the honor of having two greater-scope villains: Morgan Moonscar, who invaded the island with his crew and slaughtered all of the inhabitants except for Simone and Lena and thus is the very reason the latter two became werecats to begin with, and the cat god who cursed them all. | |
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Mischief (MHA), has Thanos, who isthe one in control of the Big Bad Ensemble between his forces, Loki, All for One and Ultron, and seeks the power of the Infinity Stones for himself. | |
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron has the US government as the greater scope villains, as the actual villains are the US Military. Though they are never seen, the actual Big Bad, The Colonel comments that there are those among the US government who doubt that the West can be settled. Given that the US army is a long way from Washington, there are obviously those in Washington who disagree, so it's a rare case of where a Greater-Scope Evil is at odds with itself. It might be safer to say that the ACTUAL greater-scope villains are the government members who endorse the Colonel's campaign and actions. | |
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In Erfworld, the eponymous world is heavily implied to be a Genius Loci. Fate, the guiding intelligence behind this world, manipulates events to enforce prophecies like a Railroading game master. Charlie, the Big Bad, is responsible for many reprehensible acts, but he wishes Parson, the protagonist, no personal harm, and is only trying to stall Parson's fate to kill him for as long as he can. But as long as Fate continues to manipulate events, conflict between him and Parson is inevitable. | |
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Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger: While Darth Nihilus is the undisputed Big Bad of the story, there are several Greater-Scope Villains present in the setting. Next to Nihilus, Salem is one of the greatest threats to humanity's existence on Remnant. Ozpin's focus is on defeating her and Cinder is ultimately carrying out her orders. Then there's also the God of Darkness. The terentatek that attacked and nearly killed Jaune in "Fear" was a Super Prototype he made while experimenting around with various Dark Side creatures prior to his creation of the Grimm. The Temple of Shadows — a death cult mentioned in "Dance" and which appears in "Legends" — worshipped him and carried out countless brutal murders in his name. Nihilus's spirit impersonated him after his mask was found by one of the cult's monks and he used his identity to have the cult bring him hundreds of victims to consume during the Great War. Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire. Despite only being mentioned once during a flashback, the whole reason that a team of adventurers dumped Nihilus's mask on Remnant was to hide the dark artifact from them. |
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Cyrus to Ash in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines. While he was the one who set the events of the story in motion (by virtue of causing the collapse of the previous reality), he's not the current main active threat, with that role filled by Giovanni and Team Rocket, and the Bloodline King. It's almost a Foregone Conclusion that Ash will eventually have to face Cyrus when he gets to Sinnoh, though. | |
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Carmen in Hottie 4: Even Better Sequel, who was also the Big Bad in Hottie and the last chapters of Hottie 3: The Best Fan Fic in the World. | |
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In Bloodbound, the Greater Scope Villain of each book becomes the Big Bad in the next one. Book 1 has Gaius Augustine, who, among other things, ordered Jameson to bite Lily. Dark Solstice has Count Grisha Nikolaus, whose amulet was stolen by Greg Pfoznik, turning him into the new Red Saint. Book 2 has Rheya Apostolous, who motivated all of Gaius' evil actions. Book 3 has the Sons of Ares, who attacked Rheya's village, thus turning her into the evil monster she was. Then there's the one who started it all: King Kaelisus of Mydiea, who made unwanted advances towards Rheya and exiled her when she rejected him, resulting in her discovering the Tree of Life and becoming the First Vampire. |
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In The LEGO Movie, Lord Business' actions are metaphorically linked to the actions of "The Man Upstairs", a human whom the LEGO people regard as a godlike figure. The Kragle is only one of many tubes of Krazy Glue in his possession. | |
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The Mice Templar has the evil serpent spirit Donas, who controls the Nathair and wants to destroy the world through Karic. | |
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In Anastasia, there's the Dark Forces that Rasputin sold his soul to and gained most of his powers from to get revenge on the Romanov family. The deal he made with them spectacularly backfires; first he's reduced to a decaying zombie stuck in limbo after he drowns and stuck like that until the last Romanov dies, and when his reliquary is destroyed they immediately claim him, and he dies a rather horrific death. | |
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The early Conan the Barbarian comics from Marvel Comics often had the royal family from the Kingdom of Turan. | |
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Nomad of Nowhere: King El Rey is the one who actually wants the Nomad Of Nowhere, but being the king, and therefore presumably handling other matters, he's mostly just mentioned in passing and Don Paragon, the tyrannical ruler of the Oasis, is the one sending his soldiers and offering rewards to bounty hunters to capture the Nomad, pretty much just because he knows the king wants him and he hopes to become one of The King's Co-Dragons, as a reward for his capture. | |
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Extra Case: My Girlfriend's Secrets: Nya is the one sending Marty back in time whenever he regrets his decisions. Additionally, their cult recruited Sally's mother and caused the latter to neglect her daughters, depriving Sally and Seira of the emotional support they needed, which contributed to Sally developing a violent Split Personality, Shadow, out of the belief that she isn't loved. However, Shadow herself is killing Sally's boyfriends for her own purposes and has no direct connection to Nya. | |
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In The Gamer's Alliance, the Nameless Evil, which later took over the god Dreamweaver's body and became known as Death, has been behind all atrocities which have taken place in various eras, subtly influencing events to its liking. | |
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Ace Attorney In Ace Attorney Investigations 2 the president of Zheng-Fa had an unnamed Body Double. The latter had powerful associates in the Prison and Legal systems of Japan/the USA, to the point where one of the Big Bads and his second-in-command are subordinates of his. However, despite being an important figure in the game’s plot, he mostly doesn’t directly antagonize Edgeworth, leaving that to Blaise, and his actions also lead to his death at the hands of the other Big Bad Simon Keyes. The game also introduces former chief prosecutor Bansai Ichiyanagi/Blaise Debeste, the aformentioned subordinate, who has his fair share of responsibility for the whole series happening. Manfred von Karma, Big Bad of the first Ace Attorney game, ended up using evidence forged by Blaise in court, and when Gregory pointed it out, Blaise had to penalize Von Karma in order to divert the blame from himself, leading the perfectionist prosecutor to start the DL-6 incident, which would change the lives of Miles Edgeworth (and Phoenix Wright by association) and Mia Fey (who also had considerable influence over Phoenix), as well as the rest of the Fey Clan (Misty went missing because of her involvement in the DL-6 incident, which caused the clan to lose prestige and Mia to become an attorney; Morgan and her daughter Dahlia would also have life-changing events happen to them because of this) and Godot/Diego. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations: Case 3: Recipe for Turnabout, has Bruto Cadaverini, The Don of The Mafia (the Yakuza in the original Japanese version). The killer, Furio Tigre, is driven to murder to repay his debts to Bruto, but he is The Ghost and not directly involved in the murder. The final case revolves around a Benevolent Conspiracy to protect Maya Fey from the murderous spirit of her cousin, Dahlia Hawthorne, who was in turn following the plans of her mother and Maya's evil aunt Morgan Fey (who was arrested in the previous game). |
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King Gidorah takes this role in The New Age of Monsters. While he hasn't shown up yet due to being stuck frozen on Mars, he is clearly being built up as the greatest threat to earth out there and even the other antagonists are wary of him. | |
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Demon: The Descent introduced the concept of God-Machine as the primary antagonist. But the thing is, it is not a single entity that can be confronted, but rather an overarching system encompassing the entire setting, the sum of all its parts composed of Infrastructures, Occult Matrices, and Outputs. Although, to call it a 'villain' might not give it enough credit, as the rulebook states that at times it works to protect the earth itself. | |
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Code Prime: After hints dropped throughout R1, its final chapter confirms that Unicron is the greatest threat in the setting, beyond the Britannians and even the Decepticons. The Thirteen Primes state to C.C. their belief that Unicron is somehow the source of Geass, which would indirectly make him responsible for much of the plot, while Word of God confirms that he's still sealed in the Earth's core, leaving him as a looming threat vs the Deceptions immediate threat. With Megatron dead and the Decepticon army decapitated by the end of R2, Unicron is now setting himself up as the Final Boss for the last chapter of the story. | |
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Mage: The Awakening: The Exarchs, who stormed the Supernal realms and broke reality in the time of Atlantis. Together all eleven of them form the main villains of the setting, responsible for both the Abyss and the depressing state of the world. The Greater Abyssal Powers are gangrenous, semi-real universes using lesser entities to spread their influence to the real world; if their servants can be believed, the Anunnaki are even more powerful. |
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Alma: Who on earth is running the toy shop that traps children and turns them into dolls? We have no idea. | |
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Gaming All-Stars: Andross serves as a powerful but largely indirect threat for much of the story. He pulls the strings on the entire plot by waiting for one of the lesser villains to pull the moon into Earth's orbit so he can cause a worldwide cataclysm, crafts an alliance with Polygon Man under the pretense that the latter would grant said lesser villain a massive power boost, and yet he doesn't get himself directly involved in the heroes' affairs until all is said and done. | |
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Psycholonials: Z is a Villain Protagonist, but much of her evil comes at the urging of Riotus, who interacts with the story only through her dreams. Riotus is the avatar of an ancient cosmic force, the spirit of evil clown culture, who seeks to spread his ways throughout the galaxies. At the end of the story, Z turns away from the ways of the Jubilities and declines to become the Successor to Riotus, but the ending shows the spirit of the Jubilites spreading from planet to planet regardless. | |
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In Batman (Grant Morrison), Dr. Hurt is the main Big Bad, but is revealed to have a Greater-Scope Villain controlling him, who he thinks is the demon Barbatos, but is actually a weapon Darkseid sent back to the dawn of man when Batman was hit by the Omega Effect in Final Crisis. | |
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Billy Elliot: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is the one who sets the conflict in motion with her privatization of the British mining industry, but none of the on-stage characters so much as lay eyes on her and her stage presence is limited to a giant, caricatured puppet the community builds to make fun of her. | |
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Billy Elliot | hasFeature |
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Solus in Spider-Verse. He is father to Morlun and all the other Inheritors, but doesn't take part in the Great Hunt for totemic beings himself. He also turns out to be a cosmic-scale threat capable of going toe-to-toe with the Spider-Man of Earth-13, a reality where he kept his Captain Universe powers. | |
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It Lives It Lives in the Woods has Douglas Redfield, the original Mr. Red. Jane takes his place after her death. |
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The Supreme Monstrosity in Dinosaurs Attack!, also named by fans, "Dinosaur Satan." | |
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Young Frankenstein: The songs "The Happiest Town in Town" and "He Vas My Boyfriend" make it clear that the recently departed Victor Frankenstein was a domestic abuser who relished his experiments, got people killed and maimed, and made the villagers' "lives a living Hell" for decades before leaving a will that will lure his reluctant grandson into the family business. | |
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Ratatouille: Ego is indirectly responsible for Gusteau's death and, consequently, his restaurant's downfall, allowing Skinner to take over the business. | |
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Brother is the leader of Free the Soul and is responsible for the events of the trilogy, indirectly so for Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtue's Last Reward, and directly so for Zero Time Dilemma. Most of his motives and backstory are explained in Zero Time Dilemma. In ZTD, he calls himself Q, and is later revealed to be Zero II, the Big Bad of the game, and Delta, Phi's twin brother and Diana and Sigma's son. He was born in 2029, November 16, and was sent to the past with his newborn sister, to 1904. He was adopted by a couple of researchers and their son, Left. In 1920, Left is murdered, and it leads Delta into creating the Free The Soul organization. Free The Soul then funds Gentarou Hongou's Nonary game, which leads into the events of 999. In 2028, through the Decision Game described in Zero Time Dilemma, Delta also liberates the Radical-6 virus, thus leading to the events of Virtue's Last Reward. His motive for releasing the virus is that it could kill a religious fanatic that would, through butterfly effect, lead mankind to destruction, but it is unknown if he tells the truth or not. Another of his motives to creating the Decision Game is so that he could be born, as Diana and Sigma give birth to Phi and Delta during one of the timelines described in the game. | |
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Hero House gives us both Dio and Big Boss who seem to be operating on a scope well beyond Kratos. | |
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Locke & Key: The Big Bad is Dodge; the Greater Scope Villains are the Eldritch Abominations behind the Black Door that he wants to release one of which corrupted him in the first place. | |
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Frozen II: While King Runeard died long before Elsa and Anna were even born, it is his crimes against the Northuldrans, mainly that he killed their unarmed leader in cold-blood and built a dam to subjugate Northuldra, that instigates the natural imbalance that causes the second film's conflict. It's also revealed that the spirits behind Northuldra's power are the source of Elsa's powers, making him this for the first movie too. | |
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Satan is this in The Prayer Warriors, since he is said to have created the false gods and had a hand in the rise of communism in Russia, but hardly ever appears. | |
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Lilo & Stitch: The Direct to Video sequel introduces Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, Jumba's former partner and the one who funded all of his experiments. He ratted his partner out in an attempt to steal the experiments for himself to have an army to conquer the universe. If it weren't for him, Stitch would never have come to Earth. He remains the Big Bad for the rest of the franchise. | |
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Choices: Stories You Play The Crown & the Flame has Azura, who was in conflict with the Nevrakises before the events of the series, thus originating the conflict between them and the Ryses. She later becomes the Big Bad of Book 3. The Freshman The Freshman: Book 1 has Shannon Davenport, who is a Villainy-Free Villain but raised Becca to be a Jerkass. The Freshman: Book 2 has a duumvirate formed by Dorian Delacroix and Nathan Sterling, both being the motivation for Sebastian's actions. Desire & Decorum has Rupert Foredale, who forced the marriage between his son Vincent and Henrietta after annulling the former's previous marriage to Mary and Duke Richards was his protege, thus originating all the problems Clara has to face. Rules of Engagement has Jonathan, Mallory's ex-boyfriend, who convinced her that her family didn't love her, turning her into the Big Bad of the series. The Royal Masquerade has Damon Fierro, who motivated his daughter Renza to become queen at all costs. The Royal Romance has the Queen Sigrid Runarsdottir who literally rules the world via the Via Imperii secret society, which is responsible for each and every threat to Cordonia. The society in which she is leader chooses "the right people" to rule a monarchy and these people are those that belong to the society. Beyond her is Julius Caesar, the Big Bad of A Courtesan of Rome, who was revealed to be a member of Via Imperii and since no older members are known, he might be the founder. High School Story Book 1 has Rodger and Loretta Crandall, the Big Bad Duumvirate of Class Act, Book 3, who raised their son Brian to be a Jerkass. Book 2 has Blackbird and Phantom, two criminals Big Bad Principal Isa became indebted with. It Lives It Lives in the Woods has Douglas Redfield, the original Mr. Red. Jane takes his place after her death. In Bloodbound, the Greater Scope Villain of each book becomes the Big Bad in the next one. Book 1 has Gaius Augustine, who, among other things, ordered Jameson to bite Lily. Dark Solstice has Count Grisha Nikolaus, whose amulet was stolen by Greg Pfoznik, turning him into the new Red Saint. Book 2 has Rheya Apostolous, who motivated all of Gaius' evil actions. Book 3 has the Sons of Ares, who attacked Rheya's village, thus turning her into the evil monster she was. Then there's the one who started it all: King Kaelisus of Mydiea, who made unwanted advances towards Rheya and exiled her when she rejected him, resulting in her discovering the Tree of Life and becoming the First Vampire. Nightbound has the shadow monster who killed Thomas and his family, causing him to hate all the supernatural creatures. Since Josephine Vance's appearance suggests the book takes place before It Lives Beneath, and thus before The Elementalists, Book 1, this shadow monster might have been summoned by Raife Highmore. Veil of Secrets has Margaret Sterling, who ordered the hit on Jeff's mother, making him become the Big Bad. |
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Cinderjuice and its sequels increasingly suggest, if not outright state, that the plot is the ultimate enemy of the heroes. It's treated more and more as a Sentient Cosmic Force as the stories progress, with Beetlejuice in particular accusing it of Comedic Sociopathy for its own amusement. The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You is invoked more than once, implying that even the author is not safe from the machinations of the plot. | |
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In Margin for Error, Adolf Hitler is obviously the power behind the German Consul, but his presence in the play is limited to a bronze bust and a Dropped-in Speech Clip. (Stage directions regarding the latter generally refer to Hitler as the "Awful Voice.") | |
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All For Luz: Tyler Wittebane is this in Season 1, helping Antagonistic Governor Rodger Maxwell offscreen to set up the Death Camp for superhuman kids and sent his own daughter, who gained a quirk of her own, there to die. Emperor Belos serves as this during Season 2. He's working with his descendant Tyler Wittebane to kill off people with superpowers, including the new All For One, who he even takes a personal interest in having fought her predecessor a decade before the story started. The town of Gravesfield is this even more so than canon. Its Luz's and Belos' hometown, is the reason why Luz has self-esteem issues and the Wittebanes are such genocidal, supernatural-hating maniacs. Gravesfield's modern society sees Luz as a weirdo that needs to conform to society by any means necessary, namely forcing her to go to Reality Check Camp, which Antagonistic Governor Maxwell took over as a Death Camp which causes Luz's permanent mental damage in the first place that All For One takes full advantage of. Gravesfield is also revealed to have an unsavory history of witch hunting during 17th century, which is referred as the town's favorite tradition. This time period is where Belos originally came from and Tyler Wittebane tries to restart this only with Quirk users instead of witches. Its eventually this Fantastic Racism that leads to the town's demise, due to Luz's destructive fights with Wittebane's superhuman assassins. |
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Nightbound has the shadow monster who killed Thomas and his family, causing him to hate all the supernatural creatures. Since Josephine Vance's appearance suggests the book takes place before It Lives Beneath, and thus before The Elementalists, Book 1, this shadow monster might have been summoned by Raife Highmore. | |
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