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Hidden Villain

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Hidden Villain	label	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain	page	HiddenVillain
Hidden Villain	comment	A situation where a Story Arc contains a Big Bad whose identity is not known until much later. This could be a result of the heroes going against The Faceless, requiring only a look under the mask to understand everything. In most cases, this is an inversion of the Hidden Agenda Villain, where we know that something bad is happening and the Driving Question is the one behind it all. Usually a Magnificent Bastard post reveal. Compare The Man Behind the Man, except without the first man, and The Man in Front of the Man, who is Hidden in Plain Sight. It can only overlap if the first man is obviously a Disc-One Final Boss. If the Hidden Villain turns out to be a previously known antagonist, see Hijacked by Ganon. If it was someone who was never suspected at all, then The Dog Was the Mastermind. Not to be confused with Evil All Along, where a seemingly good character turns out to be evil. The Reveal may involve a dramatic Emerging from the Shadows.
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Hidden Villain / int_114401d2	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_114401d2	comment	In Pretty Little Liars, 'A' is a hidden villain and the main antagonist of the show.
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Hidden Villain / int_12300cc3	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_12300cc3	comment	The Comedian's murderer and the person responsible for the events of Watchmen. It turns out that Adrian Veidt AKA Ozymandias is behind it, all in the name of world peace of course.
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Hidden Villain / int_13616bef	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_13616bef	comment	Most of the plotline of the Inda series is driven by Evil Sorcerer Erkric's scheming, as he's the one driving the Venn to be more warlike and expansionistic, but he's not directly introduced until the last third of the second book and his central role doesn't become apparent until later. This is at least in part because the Venn are initially portrayed as a faceless military juggernaut, though — he's introduced at the same time as Prince Rajnir and Commander Durasnir, the other two main Venn characters.
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Hidden Villain / int_147c3902	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_147c3902	comment	In Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume, we know that Hel is the Big Bad of the game having orchestrated all of the events for Wylfred to wreak as much sin as possible, and give Garm some fun. However; Hel is only mentioned, and when she talks, we never see her. She does show up in the first game when she is stopped by the Einherjar that have been sent to Valhalla. Easy to miss if you don't realize that each line of text in the review has a cutscene associated with it.
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Hidden Villain / int_16aa3232	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_16aa3232	comment	Desperate Housewives used this several times. The identity of the aggressor in Season 6 was hidden this way until the reveal that he was a serial killer and actually one of Porter's friends.
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Hidden Villain / int_17293dfa	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_17293dfa	comment	Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony has, as always, a spy working with Monokuma. It's Tsumugi Shirogane, who works for Team Danganronpa and is a Loony Fan of Junko. She is also the true killer of Rantaro, with Kaede being victim to a Frame-Up.
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Hidden Villain / int_18f97b3c	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_18f97b3c	comment	In Valentine, it quickly becomes apparent that the Cupid-faced serial killer weaving in and out of the main quintet's lives is Jeremy Melton, who was framed for sexual assault by four of the friends as a boy. This detail is clarified by the killer's bleeding nose, a trait Jeremy suffers from while under stress. However, Jeremy hasn't been seen in years; the real trouble is figuring out which character is Jeremy's public identity before he completes his vendetta.
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Hidden Villain / int_1a5d84af	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_1a5d84af	comment	The central mystery of 20th Century Boys is who lies under the mask that Friend wears.
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Hidden Villain / int_1b7f85df	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_1b7f85df	comment	In the first season of K, the events were all secretly orchestrated by the Green King, who becomes the main antagonist of the second season.
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Hidden Villain / int_1cc09117	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: One of the shinigami, Sosuke Aizen. This particular Reveal was quite the Wham Episode.
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Hidden Villain / int_1db412d3	comment	It was very obvious from the beginning of Mistborn that the Lord Ruler won his position by saving the world from something even worse. In the second book, it was revealed that this entity was still around, and it was freed from its prison at the climax. In the third book, the entity was revealed as Ruin, primordial god of entropy and destruction.
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Hidden Villain / int_22147342	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_22147342	comment	Arrow: As Season 6 goes on, it becomes increasingly clear that the apparent new Big Bad, Cayden James, is an Unwitting Pawn of someone else, who's manipulated him into thinking that Green Arrow killed his son and sent him on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Team Arrow. Midway through the season, it's revealed that this true Big Bad is Ricardo Diaz, one of James' own supposed underlings.
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Hidden Villain / int_22211d68	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_22211d68	comment	Bones did this with the serial killer Gormagon as well as the Gravedigger. Their identities were only revealed late or in the end of the story arcs.
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Hidden Villain / int_2250e67e	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_2250e67e	comment	In the Temporal Cold War arc in Star Trek: Enterprise, there is the mysterious humanoid only known as "Future Guy", so named because he is communicating with his Suliban henchmen from somewhere in the future. Within the whole run of the series, it's never revealed who Future Guy actually is, though.
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Hidden Villain / int_2442edf2	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_2442edf2	comment	For the first three-quarters of the first book of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, it's obvious that there is a Big Bad (Evil Sorcerer Pryrates is an obvious villain, but as he's getting his power through a Deal with the Devil he's also obviously not the ultimate string puller) but none of the main characters know who he is. It turns out to be the vengeful Sithi prince Ineluki, resurrected as the undead entity called the Storm King, who had only been mentioned in scraps of legends prior to The Reveal.
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Hidden Villain / int_2675c915	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_2675c915	comment	In the first season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the figure behind Project Centipede (and other antagonists of the week) was a supposed psychic who could see the future known only as "The Clairvoyant" even though psychic powers don't seem to exist in this universe. It's eventually revealed that the Clairvoyant is Thomas Nash, a man who is completely paralyzed and requires a ventilator and electronic voice box except not really; Nash is just a decoy for the true Clairvoyant who is actually a SHIELD operative/HYDRA mole named John Garrett, who while not actually being psychic, does have high-level SHIELD clearances which give him access to all the information he needs to appear psychic. And in even more of a twist, it's also revealed late in the season that Agent Grant Ward, a handpicked member of Coulson's own team, has actually been working for Garrett the whole time.
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Hidden Villain / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug has Hawk Moth (Le Papillion), The Corrupter who transforms innocent people into deranged villains and monsters from his hidden lair. While his stated goal is to steal the power sources of Ladybug and Cat Noir, why he wants them is never touched upon, and it's only very late in the first season and the beginning of the second that viewers are given even an inkling on who Hawk Moth is or his motivation. It's Gabriel Agreste, Adrien's emotionally distant father, and it's strongly implied that Adrien's Missing Mom is the center of Gabriel's obsession.
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Hidden Villain / int_2efce5b0	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_2efce5b0	comment	Deadly Premonition has this with George Woodman & Kaysen but alludes to the Raincoat Killer many times as being some unknown entity.
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Hidden Villain / int_39fe00f1	comment	The Elder One of Dragon Age: Inquisition is kept a mystery for the first act of the game, until the quest "In Your Heart Shall Burn" where it is revealed to be none other than Corypheus, the villain of the Legacy DLC of Dragon Age II. And then Trespasser reveals Solas was the villain all along: he manipulated Corypheus into unlocking his orb, thinking it would destroy him so that he could use it to remove the Veil and make a better world for the elves. When that backfired spectacularly, he is forced to assist the Inquisition in defeating him, even if only to reassert control so that his rebellion can help put his plans back into action.
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Hidden Villain / int_3bce4381	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_3bce4381	comment	Trigun appears to have an obvious big bad at first: a nihilistic killer with psychic powers named Legato Bluesummers, who has seemingly assembled a private army just to destroy Vash. Midway through the Legato arc, we're given a flashback episode that reveals the existence of Vash's brother Knives. A few episodes later, we finally learn that Legato has been acting under Knives' orders all along, and his true objective isn't to kill Vash, but to force Vash to kill Legato.
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Hidden Villain / int_3e0d6d5e	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_3e0d6d5e	comment	In Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, Mr. Black is initially seen as faceless, but eventually his face, backstory, and name are slowly revealed, as well as his motivations and target. The Conduit, his boss, is also this to a greater degree, having several decoys at hand. His true identity as Lex Loath was only revealed just before the arc where he's defeated.
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Hidden Villain / int_40b716af	comment	Al Mualim and Prince Ahmet from Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed: Revelations, respectively.
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Hidden Villain / int_41b0198a	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_41b0198a	comment	In The Dresden Files, it isn't even hinted that there might be something moving behind the scenes until the end of the second book. Said Hidden Villain was chased after for over ten years, and the most tangible evidence that they existed was the traitor Peabody, who was immediately removed from the equation. It is finally confirmed in Cold Days, and it is implied the villain may not even be from our reality. Then the aftermath of the final battle in Battle Ground reveals that "Nemesis" has been the Greater-Scope Villain of the series all along, and The Man Behind the Man towards Ethniu (using the Titan as its Unwitting Pawn), when Harry manages to put the pieces together, with only he and Lara Raith being aware of its involvement. Its true identity is "He Who Walks Beside", one of the three Walkers who serve the Outsiders — beings from outside reality and seek to bring about the end of all Creation.
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Hidden Villain / int_43576f5	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: The show's initial story arc is the boys' quest to find their father John Winchester, who has been kidnapped by an unknown entity, and to avenge the deaths of their mother Mary and Sam's girlfriend Jessica. It isn't until late in Season 1 that we and the Winchesters find out the identity of the entity behind this, the Yellow-Eyed Demon/Azazel.
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Hidden Villain / int_44483156	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_44483156	comment	The Element of Crime, made worse by the fact that the elusive child killer may actually have been dead even before the events portrayed in the movie. And the whole movie is a flashback.
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Hidden Villain / int_45fe22b9	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_45fe22b9	comment	In University Ever After Rose Red of all people is the Big Bad of Season 2, despite being presented as one of Ella's friends from the very beginning.
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Hidden Villain / int_4698fe1a	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_4698fe1a	comment	A Little Something Special: The team-up between the Beagle Boys, Flintheart Glomgold, and Magica DeSpell on Scrooge's 50th anniversary in Duckburg is orchestrated from afar by Duckburg's first citizen: Grandpa Blackheart Beagle.
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Hidden Villain / int_476bc61d	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_476bc61d	comment	Kid Icarus: Uprising features Hades, who doesn't even make an appearance until apparent Big Bad Medusa is taken out in Chapter 9.
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Hidden Villain / int_47dfc6f	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_47dfc6f	comment	Downplayed in one episode of the first season of the Canadian sort-of-parody Total Drama, "Basic Straining". It's revealed at the very end that Harold was responsible for Courtney's elimination. He rigged the votes to have her eliminated without anyone's knowledge(well, anyone except for the non-contestants, that is) and to save himself from getting eliminated. Bonus points for having a Slasher Smile at the end that signifies how much he enjoyed making Duncan and Courtney suffer. After all the things Duncan did to him, it's not surprising to see Harold wanting to get some revenge.
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Hidden Villain / int_4b790c7b	comment	Aldrich Killian in Iron Man 3, who was the real Big Bad behind the fake Mandarin.
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Hidden Villain / int_4d5b6107	comment	In The Usual Suspects, the mythical Keyser Soze is mentioned right from the beginning, yet his involvement in the events isn't at least somewhat understood until the climax, and only fully comprehensible at the very end.
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Hidden Villain / int_4e98bd99	comment	Petscop: In video 5, a character named "Marvin" is revealed, who is described as hitting a child, Mike, with a tool for having his PlayStation on. From this it can be assumed he is an evil person, but there is not much else known about Marvin. In video 8, however, a representation of Marvin seems to appear — and he looks the exact same as the player character's sprite, but with some sort of green object replacing/covering the head.
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Hidden Villain / int_52646e97	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_52646e97	comment	In Kamen Rider Blade, Hiroshi Tennoji turns out to be the one responsible for the release of the Undead, having set up the Battle Fight so he could rig it in his favor.
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Hidden Villain / int_52837809	comment	Kamen Rider Drive has a hidden Greater-Scope Villain in Tenjuro Banno, whose abuse and tampering with the Roidmudes caused their uprising, and who was secretly plotting his own scheme to forcibly digitize everyone.
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Hidden Villain / int_534f0200	comment	Much of Kamen Rider Saber is the protagonists trying to uncover the traitor in Sword of Logos responisible for corrupting Kamen Rider Calibur, releasing the Megid and setting in motion the plot. The traitor eventually turns out to be none other than the leader of Sword of Logos, Master Logos.
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Hidden Villain / int_577a9b24	comment	In Wolverine and the X-Men (2009), pretty much the whole first season was masterminded by the Inner Circle, who wanted to get their hands on the Phoenix. They're not introduced until just before the Grand Finale, and aren't truly The Man Behind the Man because the only character they were directly controlling was one of the heroes.
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Hidden Villain / int_58808436	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_58808436	comment	Higurashi: When They Cry has Oyashiro-sama, who is repeatedly mentioned as the Big Bad behind the strange events but never shown. Oyashiro's true identity — both the real, innocent one (Hanyuu Furude) and the fake, evil one (Miyo Takano) — is only revealed late into the 7th novel. However, clever readers could identify the true nature of the mastermind as early as the 3rd novel due to cryptic hints.
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Hidden Villain / int_5921531b	comment	The Inaba killer in Persona 4. It's Detective Adachi. Foreshadowed quite well due to the game being (except Knox's 2nd due to its nature) very compliant to the concept of Fair Play Mystery. Who's even more hidden is Izanami, aka the nameless gas station attendant, who gave Adachi, Nametame and the protagonist their powers in order to test humanity. In Persona 4: Arena, The Eerie Voice and Malevolent Entity Hi-No-Kagutsuchi.
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Hidden Villain / int_5ada53ed	type	Hidden Villain
Hidden Villain / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond Milos Columbo seems to be the villain of For Your Eyes Only at first, but he's just a Red Herring to cover up the real mastermind: Aris Kristatos. The identity of "Janus", the leader of The Syndicate in GoldenEye is kept hidden in the beginning, but is eventually revealed to be Alec Trevelyn, James Bond's former partner and best friend. Pictured above: the Big Bad of the movie Spectre is Franz Oberhauser, who briefly appears early in the film, but his true name Ernst Stavro Blofeld, isn't revealed until his later appearance near the climax, as is his status as The Man Behind the Man for the previous antagonists in the rebooted series.
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Hidden Villain / int_5e16d550	comment	Lucius Zogratis from Black Clover is the overarching villain of the story, having infiltrated the Clover Kingdom as Julius Novachrono and groomed his younger siblings the Dark Triad to become devil hosts and form the Tree of Qliphoth. The existence of the eldest Zogratis is shown quite some time after the Dark Triad's introduction. And then he's revealed to be the other soul of Julius, who was introduced in the very first chapter, and planned for the magic knights to defeat Lucifero to obtain his heart. With his hijacking of their body from Julius after Damnatio confronts Julius about being the devil host of Astaroth, he states that "the time has come", stepping into the Big Bad role for the final arc.
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Hidden Villain / int_625f8f3	comment	In the anime/manga of The Heroic Legend of Arslan, only Silvermask/Hilmes is aware of the full involvement of the Zahhak sorcerers in the story. Otherwise, the sorcerers take great lengths to avoid being seen or witnessed by others, in order to divide the fractions of Pars (and Lusitania) against each other, rather than for both kingdoms to recognize them as a common enemy. Arslan's group has seen and survived encounters with the sorcerers and even managed to kill a few but they remain completely in the dark as to who the sorcerers are and what their purpose and plans are.
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Hidden Villain / int_6bcd58c7	comment	The first Sin City story hid the Serial Killer Kevin until halfway through. Because of the movie, which actually shows him performing the killing of Goldie, most people realize who he is, but it was a specific mystery at first.
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Hidden Villain / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: The mysterious backer of all the attempts to loot off-world sites and waylay the second Stargate isn't revealed until halfway through the series as the Committee, and they aren't at all what Stargate Command was expecting. The organization reformed itself into the Trust later without a single, clear leader.
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Hidden Villain / int_73383fee	comment	Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc has an interesting example: While Monokuma is the Big Bad, he eventually reveals that he has a spy hidden amongst the group. Itâ€™s Sakura Ogami, but she was being extorted into it. The real example is when Monokuma is revealed to be a robot facade controlled by the mysterious true mastermind. It takes a few more chapters until, at the end of the game, we find out that someone is Junko Enoshima, who was Faking the Dead throughout the game, and inserted her twin sister Mukuro Ikusaba as the second mole before killing her off.
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Hidden Villain / int_74aab514	comment	KanColle: If there is a high command, The Man Behind the Monsters, Eldritch Abomination or other authority in charge of the Abyssals, they have yet to appear onscreen.
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Hidden Villain / int_796b8ac	comment	In Persona 4: Arena, The Eerie Voice and Malevolent Entity Hi-No-Kagutsuchi.
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Hidden Villain / int_79ab0b3c	comment	Tortall Universe: The second book of the Beka Cooper trilogy, Bloodhound, is about an investigation into a counterfeit epidemic. While they know that Pearl Skinner's behind it and are mostly trying to find a way to stop her, Beka doesn't learn until near the end that the idea came from Hanse Remy, who is trying to repay the entire realm for being Ungrateful Bastards after his long military service.
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Hidden Villain / int_7cda381e	comment	Assassin's Creed: Odyssey has the Ghost of Kosmos, the true leader of the Cult of Kosmos (the local proto-Templar group). In order to reveal their identity, you must hunt down and deal with every other member of the cult (most of whom are largely optional). After you hunt the rest of the Cult, the Ghost is revealed to be none other than Perikles' wife Aspasia.
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Hidden Villain / int_7d6985b4	comment	Ace Savvy: A New Hope: For a time, the true cause of Ace Savvy's death was unknown. It isn't until much later when it is revealed that Lord Tetherby was the one who arranged his death.
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Hidden Villain / int_7f9dbbce	comment	Pagan Min in Far Cry 4, where he is depicted as a Big Bad who rules Kyrat with an iron fist with The Golden Path being the ones fighting against his rule led by Amita or Sabal. When you complete the game however, either leader you side with will reveal their true colours to the player, as they either turn Kyrat into a theocratic nation where non-believers and non-supporters of the Golden Path are killed for their 'betrayal' against their nation, or a quasi-socialist state that recalls aspects of The Khmer Rouge along with the recruitment of Child Soldiers for the sake of protecting their drug industry. This revelation show that they're similar to Pagan Min's rule, and this can all be prevented if Ajay Ghale were to just sit down and enjoy that Crab Rangoon.
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Hidden Villain / int_817acecf	comment	Fables: There is an "emperor" (known to the Fables as "The Adversary") and his identity is a secret for a large part of the comic's run, until we find out it's Geppetto of all people.
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Hidden Villain / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider: In Kamen Rider Blade, Hiroshi Tennoji turns out to be the one responsible for the release of the Undead, having set up the Battle Fight so he could rig it in his favor. It isn't until the final third of Kamen Rider Den-O that we meet the true mastermind behind the Imagin attacks - Kai the Singularity Point. The identity of Wiseman, the leader of the Phantoms, is kept hidden for most of Kamen Rider Wizard, with him either giving orders from behind a curtain or only appearing in his Phantom form. It takes until the final few episodes for us to learn his true identity, where he's revealed to be Sou Fueki aka the White Wizard, the ostensible Big Good of the series. Kamen Rider Drive has a hidden Greater-Scope Villain in Tenjuro Banno, whose abuse and tampering with the Roidmudes caused their uprising, and who was secretly plotting his own scheme to forcibly digitize everyone. Much of Kamen Rider Saber is the protagonists trying to uncover the traitor in Sword of Logos responisible for corrupting Kamen Rider Calibur, releasing the Megid and setting in motion the plot. The traitor eventually turns out to be none other than the leader of Sword of Logos, Master Logos.
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Hidden Villain / int_85eced19	comment	Love & Pies: When Amelia answers her mother Freya's call and tells her that she caught the culprit of the cafÃ© arson, Freya warns her that they're "just a puppet" and that someone else is "pulling the strings". However, Freya doesn't tell her their identity because she believes that it would put Amelia in danger. The anonymous caller who claims to be Amelia's frenemy and was the one who sabotaged Esme's van refuses to reveal their identity because it would be "a lot less fun". While it's not Edwina because she was in the same room as Amelia when the latter received the call, Yuka at least knows that they're from Global Megacorp because the threat letter they sent to Eve was made of high-quality paper, had "beautiful" ink on it, and had the company's logo ripped from its top.
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Hidden Villain / int_87e00d8e	comment	Slade in Teen Titans (2003) starts out like this, being introduced in the first episode as a shadowy Chessmaster, but not even named or revealed to the heroes until later (and it's even longer before they meet him face-to-face and learn of his plans). Also a Hidden Agenda Villain, ironically — meaning that for his first few appearances, all we know about him is that he exists and is up to no good.
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Hidden Villain / int_8d318bad	comment	In Super Mario RPG, it's known from the start that the Big Bad is Smithy, but he doesn't make an actual appearance until the Final Battle. Many first time players and even some characters in the game mistake Exor, the sword that crashes into Bowser's Keep, as Smithy. It didn't help that when Exor speaks in the game's start, it says how Bowser's castle "now belongs to the Smithy gang", which had people assume the sword was Smithy.
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Hidden Villain / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost, in which the fact that there even is a Big Bad is not immediately stated. After several possible major antagonists are introduced over the first five seasons, the true Big Bad is not revealed until the Season 5 finale.
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Hidden Villain / int_8f25225c	comment	Danganronpa: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc has an interesting example: While Monokuma is the Big Bad, he eventually reveals that he has a spy hidden amongst the group. Itâ€™s Sakura Ogami, but she was being extorted into it. The real example is when Monokuma is revealed to be a robot facade controlled by the mysterious true mastermind. It takes a few more chapters until, at the end of the game, we find out that someone is Junko Enoshima, who was Faking the Dead throughout the game, and inserted her twin sister Mukuro Ikusaba as the second mole before killing her off. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair has Monokuma again, and he reveals that the new cast has a traitor among them as well, but since Sakura, Mukuro, and Junko are a little too busy being dead, it can't possibly still be them. Indeed Sakura and Mukuro are dead, and the traitor this time (for a given value of traitor) is Chiaki Nanami. As for Monokuma, it's Junko again, converted into an AI program of her, and there is another mastermind: Izuru Kamukura, the real identity of the main character Hajime Hinata pre-mindwipe. Danganronpa 3's Future Arc has the â€œattackerâ€�, Monokuma's spy among the Future Foundation council who is killing the others. This time, itâ€™s Kazuo Tengan, who set up videos that drive whoever sees it to suicide. Monokuma/Junko isnâ€™t directly involved, as the one shown here is a recording, but did set the whole thing up through Chisa Yukizome. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony has, as always, a spy working with Monokuma. It's Tsumugi Shirogane, who works for Team Danganronpa and is a Loony Fan of Junko. She is also the true killer of Rantaro, with Kaede being victim to a Frame-Up.
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Hidden Villain / int_924b6d63	comment	In Xenogears Miang, the avatar of Deus is the Big Bad who has been manipulating events for the last 10,000 years in preparation for Deus' rebirth.
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Hidden Villain / int_924bb56e	comment	The identity of just who was really behind the Dollhouse and the Rossum Corporation had a very high "Holy Shit!" Quotient when it was revealed late in Season Two.
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Hidden Villain / int_9284ad43	comment	The Phantom from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Dual Destinies. Also Simon Keyes in Ace Attorney Investigations 2, who manipulates almost every case behind the scenes, the only case he doesn't manipulate is still incredibly important to him, and all the while masking it as an innocent defendant who you actually prove innocent at one point. Every Ace Attorney game, due to being a murder mystery series, has both the individual cases (except for the Reverse Whodunnits) and the overall story that always hides the true Big Bad until the last case. The main prosecutors are almost always decoys, with the exception of Klavier Gavin who is never positioned as a villain. The one main prosecutor who is a final boss is Godot. The Big Bad of Dual Destinies is the ultimate cause of most of Athena and Simon's misfortunes, but remains hidden throughout the game until the protagonists are able to drag them to court in the final case. He's actually Hidden in Plain Sight as Bobby Fulbright, the game's main detective.
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Hidden Villain / int_93d6ffd3	comment	In Assassin's Creed Origins, Flavius Metellus is the man responsible for the murder of Bayek and Aya's son Khemu.
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Hidden Villain / int_986e857e	comment	During the third season of Ben 10, horror monster-themed aliens show up performing seemingly random tasks through several episodes. During the season finale, they are revealed to have been building a superweapon to allow Ghostfreak to achieve world domination.
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Hidden Villain / int_992e16dc	comment	JoJolion: Josuke and his allies come into conflict with the Rock Humans when their smuggling ring seeks the Locacaca branch. After discovering a connection at T.G. University Hospital, they figure that the head doctor, Satoru Akefu, is the one calling the shots. Then, it is revealed that Satoru is actually the Stand of the real leader, Toru, who acts as the hospital's seemingly well-meaning intern to cover his true identity.
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Hidden Villain / int_994e32db	comment	In the Rango fanfic Old West, mercenaries harass the people of Mud, Grace Glossy's lands are wanted by someone, and Mud's water supply is blocked in order to drive the people away while a large gold deposit underneath the town is being harvested. It's not until the 13th chapter that the mastermind behind everything appears.
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Hidden Villain / int_99949d04	comment	Until Episode 20, it wasn't certain that Season 2 of Wakfu even had a real Big Bad, just a bunch of minor arc villains causing trouble with the majority of them being Shushus. Qilby the Traitor was manipulating everyone all along from the very moment he appeared.
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Hidden Villain / int_9b81bf3b	comment	MAG ISA — Look at these guys with darkened faces sitting around a table planning nefarious schemes for you and me...
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Hidden Villain / int_9d47a2a2	comment	It's already established in A Song of Ice and Fire how Littlefinger is a villain who betrayed Ned Stark out of personal jealousy, but the ending chapters of A Storm of Swords escalates his role to show that he wasn't just a mere opportunist who's a little shady, but is directly responsible for the War of Five Kings.
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Hidden Villain / int_9d7ec380	comment	The Good Place: The show reveals around Eleanor who is mistakenly sent to the Good Place, as well as her trying to evade Michael, the Good Place Architect who is sure that she's a good person. Eventually Eleanor is discovered and Michael brings in Shawn, The Almighty Judge on High of All Beings Living and Dead for All Eternity in order to convince him that Eleanor belongs in the Good Place. In the Season 1 finale, however, Eleanor finds out that they are all in the Bad Place due to her finding out flaws that would definitely not be present in the Good Place, where Michael promptly drops the charade and reveals himself to be one of the Architects of the Bad Place and their main torturer, and then Shawn is revealed to be his boss, and definitely not the Judge in any sense.
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Hidden Villain / int_9e61f125	comment	The villain of Card Force Infection, the source of the eponymous infection, is unknown, but it's been determined that it's definitely an intelligent and malevolent entity (as opposed to something like a law of nature). Since nobody knows who this is, they just call them "the devil" for now.
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Hidden Villain / int_a2c37f38	comment	Planescape: Torment: The player character, The Nameless One, is really the bad guy but doesn't know it. In actual truth, The Transcendent One, the mortal aspect of The Nameless One, is the bad guy. It gets confusing. Long story short...the player character was an evil douche, and the mortal aspect of him was split away, leaving The Nameless One. The game also Deconstructs the trope. Finding out why a villain chooses to remain hidden will reveal its weakness. In this case, The Transcendent One fears to be rejoined with The Nameless One, not only due to how much it loathes him, but also facing eternal damnation.
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Hidden Villain / int_a3748187	comment	The main villain of Golden Wind, Diavolo, is only known as The Boss of Passione for the majority of the arc, and in all his appearances until near the very end, he's either The Faceless with his face completely shadowed over, or appearing as his Split Personality Vinegar Doppio (who he physically morphs into, so Doppio doesn't even look like him). In this case, he wants to be a completely hidden to maintain his power forever, to the point of killing anyone, even his own daughter, who could possibly threaten his rule, be it someone who tries to find out anything about him, has even seen his face, or shares his own blood.
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Hidden Villain / int_a725fd30	comment	Milos Columbo seems to be the villain of For Your Eyes Only at first, but he's just a Red Herring to cover up the real mastermind: Aris Kristatos.
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Hidden Villain / int_ad2b7696	comment	Other stories set in the same multiverse, including the final stories of the Doa-verse and Diplomacy-verse have revealed the existence of a mysterious villain who exists in the Place Between Realms, the Void Between Dimensions, but whom none of the protagonists (save one who died shortly after finding out they existed, though not much more than that) know about.
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Hidden Villain / int_aea45493	comment	Happened in Gekisou Sentai Carranger by half of the season the Bowzocks were believed to be the main bad guy's until Exhaus is shown to be the real Big Bad.
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Hidden Villain / int_aef91161	comment	For most of Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, you're attempting to uncover the titular Red Mercury, a prototype nuclear bomb, who has fallen into possession of feared international terrorist Vladimir Styanovich. Alas, Vladimir is just a Disc-One Final Boss who dies halfway through - your CIA handler and liaison, Kate Daniels, is the game's true Big Bad who is in cahoots with Vladimir the whole time. You eventually uncover the truth a few missions later when she reveals herself and leaves you to die in a train filled with bombs.
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Hidden Villain / int_b6c9037f	comment	For its first four seasons, The Magnus Archives appears to be a Rogues Gallery with no true Big Bad — there are fourteen evil Entities trying to bring about world-ending rituals, but none of them seem to be more or less powerful than each other, and the protagonists are able to disrupt all of their plans. Until the end of Season 4, when the Big Bad is revealed to be none other than Jonah Magnus, the original founder of the Magnus Institute. He's been possessing Elias Bouchard since before the start of the series, and has orchestrated all of the protagonists' victories in order to make way for the Beholding ritual, the Watcher's Crown. Which he forces Jon to successfully perform in the Season 4 finale.
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Hidden Villain / int_b7776ed1	comment	Daemon: The Major is only the Dragon-in-Chief/Heavy of the duology. We never get to meet the true face of the conspiracy he is an enforcer for.
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Hidden Villain / int_b8c3cc30	comment	In Young Justice (2010), the seven leaders of The Light had their images hidden when communicating to their operatives. It wasn't until the episode "Revelation" that they are revealed to be Vandal Savage, Lex Luthor, Ra's Ahl Gul, Queen Bee, Ocean Master, The Brain, and Klarion, all who had appeared or were mentioned with the exception of Savage.
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Hidden Villain / int_b914e7b3	comment	In Fate: Zero Sanity, there is another presence within the Grail alongside Angra Mainyu, but aside from some names that have some ties to him (Reaper, Grey), the presence's true name isn't revealed until the very end by Angra Mainyu at his own request. Who is it? Prometheus.
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Hidden Villain / int_b962c879	comment	In Fairy Tail, the Dark Guild Tartaros is led by E.N.D., the mightiest of all of Zeref's demons, powerful enough to fight The Fire Dragon King Igneel and one of the few beings in existence with the power to actually kill Zeref himself. Despite this, we never see E.N.D. in person throughout the eponymous arc, due to being sealed away within his Book of Zeref, the opening of which is the crux behind the villains' actions throughout. By the end, Tartaros is defeated, but Zeref shows up to take E.N.D.'s book before it can be destroyed by the heroes. At the very end, alone, Zeref reveals that E.N.D. is actually a character we've seen in the series already, his powers and memory allegedly within the book and he himself unaware of his own existence as a demon. That person? Natsu Dragneel himself, as shown by E.N.D.'s full name being Etherious Natsu Dragneel and Zeref referring to both of them as the same person, yet at the same time different.
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Hidden Villain / int_b97b924a	comment	Heroverse: Ace Savvy: A New Hope: For a time, the true cause of Ace Savvy's death was unknown. It isn't until much later when it is revealed that Lord Tetherby was the one who arranged his death. Power Chord: High School Musical: One of the big mysteries of the fic is who is the person behind the mysterious affiliations of the students that cause them to reveal their biggest secrets. At the end, it's revealed that it is Luan, who wants revenge for her mistreatment.
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Hidden Villain / int_c1c5b260	comment	Danganronpa 3's Future Arc has the â€œattackerâ€�, Monokuma's spy among the Future Foundation council who is killing the others. This time, itâ€™s Kazuo Tengan, who set up videos that drive whoever sees it to suicide. Monokuma/Junko isnâ€™t directly involved, as the one shown here is a recording, but did set the whole thing up through Chisa Yukizome.
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Hidden Villain / int_c34f83b2	comment	Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair has Monokuma again, and he reveals that the new cast has a traitor among them as well, but since Sakura, Mukuro, and Junko are a little too busy being dead, it can't possibly still be them. Indeed Sakura and Mukuro are dead, and the traitor this time (for a given value of traitor) is Chiaki Nanami. As for Monokuma, it's Junko again, converted into an AI program of her, and there is another mastermind: Izuru Kamukura, the real identity of the main character Hajime Hinata pre-mindwipe.
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Hidden Villain / int_c4282b71	comment	Averted in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic according to Word of God. Lauren Faust claimed that originally something corrupted Princess Luna into Nightmare Moon and also aided in her release, and fans speculated this same force aided in Discord's release as well. However with Faust's departure from the show, this plot point was dropped completely and never so much as touched on again. The Expanded Universe picked this up with the existence of the Nightmare Forces being responsible for the corruption, but later episodes of the main series seem to contradict this.
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Hidden Villain / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: During Series 3, the subplots taking place in present day London throw around the name Mr. Saxon. In the three-parter that ends the season, he is revealed to be none other than the Doctor's arch nemesis, the Master, who stole the Doctor's TARDIS and traveled 18 months before Martha was introduced, and in that time took on the Mr. Saxon identity and became Prime Minister. The events of series 5 are caused by someone or something capable of making the TARDIS explode, accompanied by the Arc Words "silence will fall". It isn't until the following series that we meet the Silence, a religious order of supposedly Well Intentioned Extremists whose motives â€” they believe the Doctor is destined to answer the question "Doctor who?", which will end the universe â€” aren't revealed until the very end of that series. And it isn't confirmed that they blew up the TARDIS until the Eleventh Doctor's very last episode, which aired three years later. Series 9 has the entity who made a deal with Ashildr to lure the Doctor into a trap, revealed in the finale to be Rassilon and the Time Lords, who sought to interrogate the Doctor for information on the Hybrid.
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Hidden Villain / int_c4b82575	comment	In Underworld (2003), although Lucian is set up as the main villain he turns out to be a Disc-One Final Boss while Viktor, the assumed Big Good, is revealed to be the one really responsible for the conflict between vampires and Lycans.
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Hidden Villain / int_c75d67d	comment	At least two members of the Person of Interest Rogues Gallery finally appeared onscreen, after several episodes of Foreshadowing and references, as that week's person of interest in disguise. Namely, Elias (in "Witness") and Root (in "Firewall"). A third, Control, makes their appearance as the loving family member of the week's actual person of interest.
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Hidden Villain / int_cd1550c5	comment	The Dark Tower: The Crimson King isn't mentioned till Book 4. From that point on details are given bit by bit.
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Hidden Villain / int_cecc0e2	comment	Chouseishin Gransazer: The Warp Monarch are a faceless threat for most of the series, so it's unknown who the specific individual behind their attack on Earth is. Eventually it's revealed Belzeus is the one solely responsible, convincing the rest of Warp Monarch that humans are Bosquito descendants so he'd have the justification to invade and seize power.
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Hidden Villain / int_d010a732	comment	Sir Lancelot in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, though he does pull a Heelâ€“Face Turn in the climax.
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Hidden Villain / int_d966b18e	comment	In the first of the Otherland books, the focus occasionally shifts to an Egyptian simulation ruled by someone using Osiris as an avatar, who gives out orders and makes commentary that bears suspicious relation to other events in the book, but these connections are never actually stated. Late in the volume, the user is revealed to be a man named Felix Jongleur, leader of the Grail Brotherhood and creator of the Otherland system.
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Hidden Villain / int_db57550f	comment	Detonator (2003): In the end, Robert Brickland is exposed as the main antagonist of the film for he orchestrated the events to further his career in the FBI.
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Hidden Villain / int_dc217e32	comment	The sidestory "Shadows of the Jungle" of PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines is told in an Apocalyptic Log format, and it's not revealed until the very final entry who's the one behind the vicious Bug PokÃ©mon attacks. It's a female bloodliner who controls them like a goddess or Hive Queen of sorts, and not a Legendary PokÃ©mon as the crew had initially assumed.
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Hidden Villain / int_dfb24eb9	comment	In Season 2 of 2009 reboot of Strawberry Shortcake, the Slinking Slinker in episode "On the Road" comes from one of Blueberry's books, the Slinking Slinker actually a "villain" and it don't exist in reality.
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Hidden Villain / int_e4501142	comment	Ms. Marvel (2014): The Inventor is first mentioned in #3 by Vick and #4 by his henchmen. In #5, his face is revealed to the readers for the first time, and in #6, Kamala encounters a holographic projection of him. The two finally meet face-to-giant robot-piloting face in #10.
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Hidden Villain / int_e4b5f973	comment	Used to create a new villain in X-Factor. There was a shadowy villain pulling the strings for several issues, and it was originally intended to be the Owl. For various reasons, this was nixed, and when the reveal came, prolific X-Men nemesis Apocalypse made his debut.
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Hidden Villain / int_e59216c7	comment	In The Gamer's Alliance, the Master of the Totenkopfs, one of the more dangerous villains, has been travelling with the heroes all along while furthering the Totenkopfs' sinister agenda, and the heroes are unaware of having the Master being so close to them. Another example is Ax's longtime friend and ally Vaetris who turns out to be one of the four archdemons in disguise.
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Hidden Villain / int_e5feb1e	comment	Every Ace Attorney game, due to being a murder mystery series, has both the individual cases (except for the Reverse Whodunnits) and the overall story that always hides the true Big Bad until the last case. The main prosecutors are almost always decoys, with the exception of Klavier Gavin who is never positioned as a villain. The one main prosecutor who is a final boss is Godot.
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Hidden Villain / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: In Fate of the Jedi, from the very first book something has started to make various Jedi go crazy, but none of the already introduced villains (President Evil Daala and an isolated but ambitious cult of Sith) seem to have the power to cause it. In the third book, readers are introduced to an enigmatic woman with tremendous Force powers named Abeloth. Turns out that she's the avatar of an Eldritch Abomination who has been subtly influencing galactic events for a while now — and by the end of the book she's out of her can and ready to take the position of Big Bad full time.
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Hidden Villain / int_ebadd9a4	comment	Discord is responsible for pretty much everything in Diaries of a Madman, but only the reader is aware of his involvement until much later on in the story.
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Hidden Villain / int_eef77dd5	comment	Lear Dunham from Broken Saints, who was faking his own death.
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Hidden Villain / int_f0c816fb	comment	A really bizarre example comes from Breaking Bad, where the main character, Walter White, is the Hidden Villain Protagonist to his own brother-in-law, Hero Antagonist DEA Agent Hank Schrader, until "Gliding Over All".
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Hidden Villain / int_f1737cb0	comment	Subverted in Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. It's obvious from early in the first book that someone is conspiring against the House of Dare, but exactly who's in charge is left vague, though hints point towards a single mastermind. This turns out to be a Red Herring, as the conspiracy is actually composed of several loosely-aligned factions working together for their own gain but with distinct goals, and the hints towards a mastermind were actually about several different people. Robert, Praifec Hespero and the Black Jester all hand their hands in different parts, but represent distinct threats.
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Hidden Villain / int_f186f924	comment	Horizon Zero Dawn: Whatever sent the signal that turned GAIA's subfunctions into independent entities. In the sequel, it was Nemesis
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Hidden Villain / int_f1aaff66	comment	The head of Leviathan in Batman, Inc. is shown as a mysterious figure in white robes and a skull mask, until The Reveal in Leviathan Strikes! that her identity is Talia al Ghul.
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Hidden Villain / int_f4abd380	comment	BlazBlue: The Big Bad isn't revealed until the console-only True Ending of Calamity Trigger, and isn't fought until Continuum Shift. And even then, that game's True Ending reveals him to be a Disc-One Final Boss, and it goes straight into The Dog Was the Mastermind. And then All There in the Manual suggests that no; he was the Big Bad all along. And then in Chronophantasma, it turns out that his so-called puppet was the real mastermind all along and the Terumi was her Unwitting Pawn. Why? Because the puppet is possessed by the 'thing' Terumi and Relius called forth: The Goddess of Death, Izanami. And for the record, yes, Izanami does all the planning backstage, leading you to believe that Terumi really look like the Big Bad in charge. She might not be so hidden if you have read the aforementioned All There in the Manual, but still. The last installment, Central Fiction, finally puts the matter to rest. Terumi — or rather his true identity the Susanoo Unit — is and always has been the true villain.
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Hidden Villain / int_f4e799ee	comment	In Burn Notice, a Client of the Week turns out to be the head of the Organization that got Michael thrown out of the CIA and forcibly recruited into their group. Later, Michael's trainer Tom Card who is initially a valuable contact and resource for multiple episodes, sends Michael on a Suicide Mission without Michael ever realizing what was going on.
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Hidden Villain / int_f50072b	comment	The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: The Big Bad of the story, whose existence is revealed relatively early on, but whose identity isn't revealed until the final arc of the first story. It's the Nightmare, the same entity that once possessed Princess Luna and turned her into Nightmare Moon, and is currently possessing the King of Equestria. Other stories set in the same multiverse, including the final stories of the Doa-verse and Diplomacy-verse have revealed the existence of a mysterious villain who exists in the Place Between Realms, the Void Between Dimensions, but whom none of the protagonists (save one who died shortly after finding out they existed, though not much more than that) know about.
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Hidden Villain / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Starting in Chain of Memories, certain Organization XIII members occasionally mention their leader, "The Superior." In Kingdom Hearts II, The Superior turns out to be a Literal Split Personality counterpart of the Final Boss from the original Kingdom Hearts game.
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Hidden Villain / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Assassin's Creed: Al Mualim and Prince Ahmet from Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed: Revelations, respectively. In Assassin's Creed Origins, Flavius Metellus is the man responsible for the murder of Bayek and Aya's son Khemu. Assassin's Creed: Odyssey has the Ghost of Kosmos, the true leader of the Cult of Kosmos (the local proto-Templar group). In order to reveal their identity, you must hunt down and deal with every other member of the cult (most of whom are largely optional). After you hunt the rest of the Cult, the Ghost is revealed to be none other than Perikles' wife Aspasia.
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Hidden Villain / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In the Star Trek: The Next Generation two-parter "Redemption", the Duras sisters are conspiring with a female Romulan officer hidden in the shadows, whose face gets revealed in the end. While she is a new character, it's still a Mind Screw Wham Shot for first time viewers, because she looks exactly like the deceased Enterprise crew member Tasha Yar. It turns out later that she is the daughter of a time-displaced alternate reality version of Tasha.
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Hidden Villain	processingCategory2	Gambit Index
Hidden Villain	processingCategory2	Mystery Tropes
Hidden Villain	processingCategory2	Villains
Blood-C / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Endro~! / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Last Hope (2018) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Rage of Bahamut: Genesis / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Shinzo / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Texhnolyze / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
A Little Something Special (Comic Book) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Batman: Hush (Comic Book) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Captain America: Steve Rogers (Comic Book) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Fables (Comic Book) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Mickey Mouse Comic Universe (Comic Book) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Sin City (Comic Book) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Spider-Man: Blue (Comic Book) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Superman (Phillip Kennedy Johnson) (Comic Book) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Tales to Astonish (Comic Book) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) (Comic Book) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Tomboy (Sterling) (Comic Book) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Delenda Est / Fan Fic / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Kingdom Hearts: Forgotten Worlds / Fan Fic / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
MyHostageNotYours	seeAlso	Hidden Villain
TheEdEddNEddyProject	seeAlso	Hidden Villain
Total Drama Switcheroo / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Hidden Villain
A Knight's Tale as Inquisitor (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
ADORA: Vagabond of the Etherian Cosmos (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
An Eagle Among Lions (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Atonement (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Atonement (Worm) (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Becoming a True Invader (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Demon In Fodlan (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Fallout: Equestria - Empty Quiver (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Fate: Zero Sanity (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Friendship Is Magical Girls (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
GregoryDespairShow	seeAlso	Hidden Villain
"Heroes" Series (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
However Improbable (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
MarioFan's What If? (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Marooned in Madagascar (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
My Hostage, Not Yours (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Old West (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Pacifica's Revenge (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Shen vs. Kai: When Evil Collides (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Super Mario Galaxy Rebirth Saga (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Big Four Cjupsher Series (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Bridge (MLP) (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Flight of the Alicorn (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Two earths (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
When You're Ahead, She's Coming After (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
A Bride's Revenge / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Death Warrant / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Escape Room (2019) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Iron Man 3 / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Memories of Murder / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Mindhunters / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Murder by Death / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Spectre / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Suddenly / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Condemned (1976) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Dark Knight Rises / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Game Changer / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Mermaid / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Power (1968) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Proud Youth / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Tower of Death / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Valentine / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Watch Me When I Kill / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
BlazBlue (Franchise) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Faction Paradox (Franchise) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Magical Girl Raising Project / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
A Tale of Time City / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Beka Cooper / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Bone Chillers / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Drassil / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Eisenhorn / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Er Ha He Ta De Bai Mao Shi Zun / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Fool Moon / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Magical Girl Raising Project / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Millennium Series / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
No Game No Life / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Otherland / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Pretty Little Liars / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Saga of Soul / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Saikyou Juzoku Tensei / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Storm Front / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Storm Front (Dresden Files) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Dark Tower / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Divine Cities / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Dungeon Cleaning Life Of A Once Genius Hunter / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Lightlark Saga / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Lost Fleet / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Sittaford Mystery / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Warbreaker / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Words of Radiance / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
BadIsland	seeAlso	Hidden Villain
BellaSquare	seeAlso	Hidden Villain
SuperTeensStuff	seeAlso	Hidden Villain
Aka Akatoretachi no Monogatari (Manga) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
EDENS ZERO (Manga) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Galaxy Express 999 (Manga) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Gintama (Manga) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Karakurizoushi Ayatsuri Sakon (Manga) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Seven Deadly Sins (Manga) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon (Manhwa) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Master of Puppets (Music) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Metallica (Music) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Magnus Archives (Podcast) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Class Trials ET 5 (Roleplay) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Class Trials Season 3 (Roleplay) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Comic Fury Werewolf (Roleplay) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Communication (Roleplay) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Gravestonecemetery (Roleplay) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Heartfelt (Roleplay) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Gamer's Alliance (Roleplay) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Who Needs Harmony (Roleplay) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Cloak & Dagger (2018) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Creamerie / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Dexter / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Eureka / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Girl from Nowhere / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
House of Anubis / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Human Target / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
iZombie / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Loki (2021) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Once Upon a Time in Saengchori / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Orphan Black / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Pretty Little Liars / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Primeval / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Salvation / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Stargirl (2020) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Americans / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Brothers Sun / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Magicians (2016) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Twin Peaks / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Blood Knights (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Bloodborne (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Creature Shock (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Doom (2016) (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
007 Racing (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Dread Templar (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Dreamkiller (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Gene Troopers (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Heavy Rain (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
KanColle (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Last Rites (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Laura Bow (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Love & Pies (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Lunarosse (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Metal Marines (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
NanoBreaker (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
1bit Heart (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Outcore (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Planescape: Torment (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Ripper (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Silent Bomber (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Spider-Man (PS4) (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Caligula Effect 2 (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Crown Of Wu (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Sakabashira Game (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Touhou LostWord (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Unavowed (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Until Dawn (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Zombie Infection (Video Game) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Chaos;Child (Visual Novel) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Echoes of the Fey (Visual Novel) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Devil on G-String (Visual Novel) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Zodiac Trial (Visual Novel) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Alternate History Of Europe (Brazilian Mapping) (Web Animation) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Broken Saints (Web Animation) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Turnabout Jackpot (Web Animation) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
A Story Of Fire (Webcomic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
A Killer Party (Web Video) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure (Web Video) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Pop Arena (Web Video) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
MAG-ISA (Webcomic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Batman: The Long Halloween / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Dofus / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Extinct (2021) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Paradise PD / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Tintin and the Lake of Sharks / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Voltron: Legendary Defender / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Great Slave King (Fanfic) / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Atlas Shrugged / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Moonstone / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain

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