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Minor Major Character

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Minor Major Character	comment	A character who, though holding an important position within the world of the story, holds, at best, a minor role in the narrative and more usually a few lines of dialogue in a single scene. May turn out to be Chekhov's Gunman or become an Ascended Extra in other works. Greater Scope Villains and Greater Scope Paragons usually qualify, as do most members of the Omniscient Council of Vagueness and some occurrences of the Special Guest. Even the Big Bad and Big Good can qualify in some works. Compare Hufflepuff House — which is to groups what this trope is to individual characters. To an extent, this is Truth in Television. How many of us personally know any world leaders, Fortune 500 CEOs, power brokers or other members of the top echelons of business, government and military? Unluckily, if one happens to be one of these characters, one may be the target of being Board to Death. You may also lose out on Nominal Importance. A minor character having a major impact in the story is covered by Small Role, Big Impact. Depending on their role, they may be an Eternal Employee somewhere the main character frequent, like a hospital. Contrast with Ascended Extra, who starts off having a minor role, but is given a more meaningful one in later installments.
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Minor Major Character / int_12300cc3	comment	Hooded Justice in Watchmen only appears in a flashback and is referenced a scant number of times, yet he's also the reason for the setting's Alternate History, since he was the first to truly take up the mantle of a superhero when he stopped a robbery in October 1938, just four months after the release of Action Comics #1.
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Minor Major Character / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, there's the Abaddon entity, a member of the same race as Zion and Eden. It shows up in a single chapter set long before the events of the story and only interacts with one character, yet its actions lead directly to Eden's death, which abort the entities' centuries long plan as Zion can't plan on his own. In short, it's only because of Abaddon's actions that the story happens at all and leaves anyone alive by the end of it all.
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Minor Major Character / int_15a26aad	comment	In Arena, Emperor Uriel Septim VII has been imprisoned in Oblivion and usurped by Big Bad Evil Sorcerer Jagar Tharn. The goal of the main quest is to free him, and your only interaction with him takes place at the end once you've done so.
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Minor Major Character / int_160b4833	comment	Clone High has the Board of Shadowy Figures, the powerful group of men secretly in charge of the school's cloning program, and who constantly have to keep Principal Scudworth in line.
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Minor Major Character / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: The series provides an especially strange example. While the shinigami squad captains (the Soul Society's military) are characterized with enormous detail, the actual government they serve is given a single scene in which all of them are shown to have been secretly murdered by The Mole, and nothing was seen or spoken of it (except some flashbacks of Urahara's backstory and some of the second Non-Serial Movie) until the end of the arc several years later in real-time, reconstituted and passing judgement on that same Big Bad Mole. The Soul King qualifies as well. Apparently, Soul Society wouldn't even exist without him, and Big Bad Aizen spends most of the series trying to usurp his position, and only now, in the very last arc of the series, does the reader get to see what he even looks like. And before he can even do anything or exert power, Yhwach kills him. The Kidou Corps. Nominally, they are an independent group with several important duties. The flashback shows that they are roughly equivalent to a single Division, with two powerful named characters that are captain-level. However, even though they technically should maintain their importance in the present, instead they lack named characters at all.
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Minor Major Character / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light has Liza, Marth's mother and Queen of Altea. In the original, she's named in the very same line that reveals she was Killed Offscreen by a one-shot chapter boss. Even in the remake, she only gets a few mentions in the Prologue, stating she went missing during Altea's invasion and Marth's sister is searching for her. Fire Emblem: Awakening has the Hierarch, a high-ranking official in Ylisse who helped Emmeryn during the latter's early years as Exalt. He only appears in one chapter, in which he betrays Emmeryn to Plegia and gets Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves.
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Minor Major Character / int_22119589	comment	The councils that head the Alliance of Twelve and Prophet Five on Alias. Between them, they're the Big Bads of half the series, but most are never named and the heroes' main foes are "middle management" like Arvin Sloane, who ends up taking out both groups anyway.
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Minor Major Character / int_267cbfa	comment	In Dominic Deegan, Baaleth the Demon of Greed. He serves to empower some Infernomancers who play a more driving role in the plot, shows up at the end of the arc to declare victory in the war, and then gets killed when Karnak blows him up with the very thing he was after.
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Minor Major Character / int_295048d5	comment	Bloodborne is in an interesting position where the lore and backstory of the game is very character-driven, but the game itself has only a few characters of any importance, and is mostly setting-driven. Vicar Amelia is the biggest example. In the lore, she's the leader of the entire healing church and the direct successor to Laurence, but in the game she is fought as a boss once (plus once in the DLC if you believe the theory that the white nun in the Hunter's Nightmare is her) and isn't mentioned outside of that. Provost Willem would qualify as the game's Greater-Scope Villain if he were more malicious. His institution discovered the Old Blood that would eventually lead to the plague of beasts, and the foundation of the Healing Church. He's first seen in a flashback to the most important moment in the game's lore, but when you finally meet him you don't even get a boss-fight. He's just an old man in a wheelchair, unable to do anything but point to the sea, and ceases to have any impact on the plot after that.
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Minor Major Character / int_30940081	comment	Grand Theft Auto V: Martin Madrazo is an important character for the first half of the game, with Michael's debt to him essentially kicking off the entire plot. Despite this, he only appears in three relatively short scenes and completely disappears for the second half of the game.
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Minor Major Character / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: In the series, ou could count the Tailed Beasts and their hosts who aren't the One-, Eight-, and Nine-Tails and their specific hosts. They're a major part of the setting and the goal of main antagonist organization Akatsuki is to capture all of them, yet the Two-Tails and its host are killed in just a couple chapters, the Three-Tails was beaten off-screen and its host was already dead by then (though he turned out to be a semi-important Posthumous Character), and the Four-Tailed host was shown once after being beaten entirely off-screen with the Four-Tails itself never shown, while the Five-, Six-, and Seven-Tails and their deceased hosts were initially relegated to supplementary materials (though the Six-Tailed host got an anime-only filler arc). Eventually, all the dead hosts and their beasts finally appear in the series proper...as super-powered zombies, and though they give the heroes a tough fight, hand Naruto some important plot details and life lessons, and help him achieve his next power-up, the Four-Tails is the only one of them who gets a decent amount of characterization. To a lesser extent is ZÅ�, the white-robed ANBU captain with the cat mask. He's the leader of Konoha's ANBU Black Ops, yet only appears three times (during the Sound invasion, the Third Hokage's funeral, and Pain's destruction of Konoha) and is of no importance to the story. Even his name is only revealed in a databook. The only things in the story itself to hint that he's more than just an ordinary ANBU are the white captain's robe (ordinary ANBU wear black robes) and the fact that he's among the few masked ANBU who doesn't die to show how dangerous a villain is.
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Minor Major Character / int_3790ae45	comment	At the yacht party in Double Homework, the ship is controlled by a fake "sea captain" who memorably refuses to return to port because of "International Sea Law." His reappearance later in the story as a "bus driver" (with the same uniform!) is significant, as it points to Dennis's involvement in what the protagonist is trying to do (specifically, he's trying to stop the protagonist from reaching Barbarossa).
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Minor Major Character / int_3aafea68	comment	Averted with Marcus Banks, another chief of the department, in Spiral (2021). While he's retired at the time of the film's events, his acts back during his tenure are responsible for much of the plot's roots, and he gets a major role in the movie's late half.
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Minor Major Character / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: King Cold in Dragon Ball Z, despite being The Man Behind the Man in Frieza's galaxy-wide empire and his existence a secret known only to his immediate family and a few soldiers, only appears to rescue his son and then get killed by Trunks on Earth. And unlike his son, he never comes Back from the Dead. Raditz. He's Goku's brother and the first Saiyan other than him to appear in the series, as well as the cause of Goku's first death. But despite all that, he's really just used as a stepping stone to introduce the idea of Saiyans and other aliens to the franchise. He's killed off quickly with Vegeta replacing him as the Arc Villain and never appears again, despite the series' frequent use of Death Is Cheap and Defeat Means Friendship on antagonists with far lesser connections to the hero. Bardock: The Father of Goku initially forgot he existed even though Bardock is also his father as well, but he favors Goku over him and neglects to think about Raditz in his own dying moments. Subsequent re-releases had Bardock mention him in a throwaway line, but he still gets no screentime in a special specifically devoted to exploring Goku's family history.
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Minor Major Character / int_3d91c7ce	comment	Riviera: The Promised Land has Seth, the counterpart of Ursula that Hector intends to unseal in order to fuse with her and become a god. When she's finally unsealed, she only has one scene and line of dialogue before Hector fuses with her to become the Final Boss, Seth-Rah.
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Minor Major Character / int_41352473	comment	Parodied in the Excel♡Saga anime, where ACROSS is secretly run by: That Man, That Man Over There, That Man Over Here, This Man, This Man Over Here, and This Man Over There. And other than That Man, they all appear once, for less than a minute, before getting killed by Nabeshin.
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Minor Major Character / int_43576f5	comment	Jesse in Supernatural. You mean he's the Antichrist and super powerful? Wow, he's got to be important. Wait, what do you mean he's only in one episode that doesn't affect the rest of the series?
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Minor Major Character / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion involves Uriel VII's lengthiest appearance, but even then, he is assassinated barely 10 minutes into the tutorial. The main quest involves finding his Hidden Backup Prince bastard son, who plays a much bigger role (though is never technically crowned Emperor).
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Minor Major Character / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: The SEELE Committee seem to basically run the world, but we only see a few of their faces, and only their leader, Keel Lorenz, even has a name.
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Minor Major Character / int_457b671e	comment	24 provides two examples, both of The Omniscient Council of Vagueness variety; In Season 5, Graem Bauer's associates seem to be influential personalities, powerful enough even to scare President Evil Charles Logan, yet never show up again. In Season 7, every single member of Alan Wilson's cabal save Wilson himself qualifies. Though, it's possible they may appear in more major roles in season 8.
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Minor Major Character / int_46aac2a3	comment	The cover character of Elden Ring at first seems like a generic knight, but a deeper investigation reveals that it's an in-game character called Vyke. Lore-wise, he's pretty important, being the Tarnished that got the closest out of anyone to becoming Elden Lord, was an implied lover of an ancient dragon, and was then tempted by the Frenzied Flame into becoming the Lord of Chaos, but failed in that as well. In the game itself, however, he has a grand total of 0 lines, and he's only present in the form of two optional bosses (once in his corrupted Frenzied form and once way later uncorrupted).
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Minor Major Character / int_4e9f355	comment	Before getting his own spin-off game, Zack Fair was very much this to Final Fantasy VII. Zack only appears in two scenes in the 40+ hour game both as part of main characters backstory. It's eventually revealed that after losing his memories, Cloud adapted Zack's past and character as his new identity and assumed it to be the truth.
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Minor Major Character / int_5319ce6c	comment	Spy X Family: Franky Franklin is a minor character appearing quite often to assist Twilight as a knowledge broker, trusted companion, and convenient babysitter for Anya or dogsitter for Bond. However, the chapters detailing Twilight's past reveal that Franky was an Ostanian soldier that had deserted the army when he stumbled across Westalian soldier Twilight. And it was his own realization that the war was pointless because both sides could merely feed information to the masses to get them to rally for the war that ultimately led to Twilight having a similar epiphany and leaving the army to become a spy for WISE. Franky basically caused the creation of Westalis' best spy Twilight, along with the entire series. Donovan Desmond has a similar treatment in terms of his role in the story. He is the target of Operation Strix, the mission that causes the entire series to begin, but very little is ever shown of this guy. Explained in-universe by his being rather paranoid because of his standing in the National Unity Party, so he keeps his public appearances and social circle incredibly small. It takes quite a while for him to appear in person, being previously only shown in information documents or rather caricatured in Anya's imagine spots.
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Minor Major Character / int_531b8f34	comment	Scrapped Princess: Browning is one of two gods in the series, with the other being Mauser. However, while both have religious followings in their name, Browning is nowhere near as significant to the plot as Mauser and only comes into the picture during the final 3 episodes, where his Gigantes are used to battle the Peacemakers.
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Minor Major Character / int_5425ce75	comment	Grand Theft Auto: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Ryder is one of the main members of the Grove Street Families gang and one of CJ's childhood friends who plays an important role in the first half of the storyline in Los Santos. After his betrayal, CJ only talks about Big Smoke betraying the gang and completely ignores Ryder until it's time to kill him, in which the latter's death was so unceremonious it was tantamount to killing a typical target in a vigilante side mission, making him seem more like a minor character. It also doesn't help that other members of Grove Street, such as Sweet, never even ask about Ryder, as if he never even existed in the game to begin with. Grand Theft Auto V: Martin Madrazo is an important character for the first half of the game, with Michael's debt to him essentially kicking off the entire plot. Despite this, he only appears in three relatively short scenes and completely disappears for the second half of the game.
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Minor Major Character / int_55145659	comment	Gyuriedistodiez in So I'm a Spider, So What? is the sole active god of the world, Administrator for the System which governs the skills used by all of its residents, and is undoubtedly the most powerful being in terms of raw strength. Despite this, his indecisiveness and self-recrimination has left him all but inactive both in story and in terms of the world itself. His greatest role is in reacting to the actions of far more important characters such as Kumoko and Shiro.
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Minor Major Character / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim takes place after a 200 year Time Skip following the events of Oblivion, where Titus Mede II (grandson of a Colovian warlord who seized the Imperial Throne in the wake of the chaos follow the Oblivion Crisis) is now the Emperor of the (very much vestigial) Empire. He will only appear in the game if you complete the Dark Brotherhood faction questionline, at the end of which you assassinate him.
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Minor Major Character / int_59151283	comment	The Philosophers and the Wiseman's Committee in Metal Gear — neither are important as anything other than motivation for the more plot-important characters, and the last lot were dead for a hundred years (if they existed at all). Also, Parker and Gardner, or "Anonymous", from Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, who never actually appear in person but drive the events of the whole plot.
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Minor Major Character / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond: The unnamed executives of the Nebulous Evil Organisation SPECTRE, in the film version of Thunderball, one of which gets electrocuted by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. General Chang in Tomorrow Never Dies is Elliot Carver's inside man in the Chinese government and is referred to throughout the film as plotting with Carver to become President of China via eliminating everyone ahead of him in a nuclear strike on Beijing; in exchange for supplying said nuke, Carver would gain exclusive control of China's media once Chang took over. Their relationship is suggested to be a Big Bad Duumvirate... except Chang is only in one scene, where he's seen leaving a meeting with Carver to finalize the plot. This may be down to Chang being a villain of another story; Bond meets his Love Interest, Chinese Intelligence agent Wai Lin, as he works Carver's case and she works Chang's, and they team up upon discovering they're Working the Same Case. Several of the senior members of the Quantum syndicate spotted at the opera house in Lake Constance, Austria, by James Bond during Quantum of Solace, namely Guy Haines, Gregor Karikoff and Moishe Saroff.
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Minor Major Character / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary has Dr. Todd Lazkowicz. He was the Toughs' doctor before he died and they hired Dr. Bunnigus. It is revealed later that he was working on a top-secret nanite-based Super-Soldier experiment, which saved the Toughs on numerous occasions and helped them become recognized throughout the galaxy.
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Minor Major Character / int_6365ff3a	comment	Dragon Quest V: King James doesn't get much screen time, but the mission he sends Pankraz on ends up killing him off and throwing his son Harry and the Hero into slavery. His death during the timeskip also causes the power struggle that sparks one of the first major plots of the game's second act. Despite being the head of the organization responsible for literally every problem in the game, the main character only meets King Korol and Queen Ferz once, shortly before their deaths, after which their entire presence becomes overshadowed by Ladja's.
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Minor Major Character / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra: The past avatars, with only four of their names being revealed in the original show. Working backwards from Aang: it's Roku, Kyoshi, Kuruk, and Yangchen. The one before Yangchen was given the name Szeto in The Shadow of Kyoshi. The Rise of Kyoshi also namedrops one named Salai, who is apparently well-regarded by Kyoshi's friends, but no details about which nation they're from, how long ago they were active, or why they would be well-regarded are given. Many important military officers have been shown in the original, but are rarely given lines let alone names. The most prime example is during the flashback of Zuko speaking out in a war meeting which consisted of about ten high-ranking Fire Nation officers planning a battle, none of them are named nor are they seen again. In Korra, Fire Lord Izumi is both the only world leader and the only one of the original series characters' Spin-Offspring not to be a prominent character. Her son, General Iroh, and her father, ATLA deuteragonist Zuko, both mention her when she's relevant, but she is neither seen nor named until the final season. She and Zuko make a silent cameo at Wu's coronation, and she speaks (and is addressed by name) in a meeting several episodes later. The In-Universe reason given is that she is disinclined to be the aggressor in international affairs, given the wounds of the 100 year war are still fresh in living memory, but the real world reason is that the story didn't have room for her or the Fire Nation. The Book Four artbook states that she was originally intended to have a larger role, but that it was cut for time constraints.
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Minor Major Character / int_74f7210c	comment	In the The Legend of Zelda series, Skyward Sword retroactively makes Fi, the spirit of the Master Sword, this for the whole series. Despite her going to slumber at the end of the aforementioned game, the rest of the series establishes that the Master Sword has a mind of its own, strongly implied to be Fi herself. Fi most directly plays the minor major role in Breath of the Wild, where in the final memory, Fi telepathically contacts Zelda from within the Master Sword, telling the latter that Link is Only Mostly Dead.
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Minor Major Character / int_75149ccd	comment	Sort of lampshaded in Wraith Squadron. A pilot would like to be at least somewhat known. Who remembers the name of the head gunner on Ackbar's flagship, Home One? Wedge Antilles says he does. And lampshaded even before that in Rogue Squadron, when a freighter captain complains to Wedge about how everyone works but all the fame and glory stays on a few figures - from who gets remembered, you'd think that the Clone Wars were won by a handful of Jedi and a dozen pilots.
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Minor Major Character / int_7f6eb95d	comment	The Prince in Romeo and Juliet. He's the ruler of the city, but he only has three brief appearances: one at the beginning of the play to forbid further fighting between the Feuding Families, one around the middle to pass judgment after the edict is inevitably broken, and one at the end.
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Minor Major Character / int_8ba4613a	comment	In Death Note: The President of the United States appears briefly in the Mello arc and does exactly one thing of plot significance: shooting himself to keep Kira from controlling his mind and ordering the launch of a nuclear missile. His intended noble sacrifice backfires twice over: first, unbeknownst to him, the threat was empty, as a Death Note cannot be used to cause a mass-casualty incident like a nuclear strike, since its user must know the same and face of whomever he or she intends to kill. Second, the world subsequently believes that, rather than killing himself, he was killed for defying Kira, and thus all the world's governments decide to defer to him lest they meet the same fate.
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Minor Major Character / int_8c6bc3c2	comment	However, Ryu himself becomes this trope in all of the Street Fighter III games, with Alex becoming The Protagonist in those games; he continues being this in Street Fighter 6, the III series's direct sequel, with either Ken or a player avatar becoming The Protagonist depending on the game mode.
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Minor Major Character / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events gives us Count Olaf's superiors in the arsonists' side of VFD, identified only as The Man With A Beard But No Hair and The Woman With Hair But No Beard. They do get a bit of development later on, when it's revealed that they're the other two judges on the kindly Justice Strauss's High Court but shortly after this revelation they themselves are left to die in a burning building, leaving Olaf as the sole Big Bad in the finale.
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Minor Major Character / int_8ec33a88	comment	Several of the Moebius Consuls from Xenoblade Chronicles 3 had roles in the setup of the setting's Forever War that are not reflected in the screentime they wind up getting in the game itself. The most significant would be Consuls X and Y, who, alongside Z, were the original three Moebius. Little is known as to their origins; it's unclear as to whether they were humans who became Moebius like the rest of the Consuls, or if they were manifestations of human desire like Z. The two were instrumental in establishing the systems that would come to govern the lives of the Kevesi and Agnian colonies; the former presumably devised the colony ranking system by which those colonies that do manage to reach the top Gold rank are basically slaughtered in a harvest of their life force, under the promise that their soldiers would never need to fight anymore, while the latter created the Flame Clocks. However, neither of them are given a dedicated cutscene after you do put them down; they're treated as mere obstacles that you can just walk right past as they say their last words. Additionally, X in particular only shows up in the endgame at all if you already fought her as part of Eunie's Ascension Quest, meaning that it's possible to complete the game without ever even fighting her.
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Minor Major Character / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: As the leader of the Yeerk remnants and the new Big Bad, The One ought to be important, but he shows up for a grand total of four pages and feels tacked on to the story as an afterthought. Visser Two is another example. He doesn't show up until the near the end of the series, despite being the second highest ranking Yeerk general. Instead Vissers Three and One take charge of the conquest of Earth. And if you buy into a certain prominent fan theory, the Visser Two we see may not have actually even been Visser Two until that book!note The theory goes that the Visser Two of that book is actually a promoted Visser Four, as the Visser Two we see is a fanatical sycophant to Visser Three (newly promoted to One) and it's highly unlikely in the ambition-laden Yeerk culture for a Yeerk so long above Visser Three on the totem pole to suddenly become his enthusiastic lackey. Meanwhile, Visser Four was known to be a "friend" of Visser Three. There's also the Council of Thirteen, and among them the Yeerk Emperor, who are the actual leaders of Yeerk society and the ones who perpetuate the war and give orders to the Vissers. They are mentioned only briefly, and their only actual appearance is in a Villain Episode. Further, the Emperor is never even identified, though this one at least is justified (no one knows who the Emperor is other than the Council themselves, as an anti-assassination measure).
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Minor Major Character / int_93fdfb2f	comment	Stranger still, Rose's victory quote against Ken in SSFIV implies he'd actually play a role in the impending final battle against Bison, but come Street Fighter V, it's a Back for the Dead Charlie who weakens Bison just enough for Ryu to finally rid the world of the dictator's presence, and it's Karin who's presented as the Big Good responsible for gathering all the heroes to confront Shadaloo in the first place. Ken, yet again, gets squat.
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Minor Major Character / int_95f45f6b	comment	In both the "Dead Man's Switch" and "Dragonfall" campaigns for Shadowrun Returns, a representative of Saeder-Krupp Heavy Industries named Hans Braukhaus makes an appearance. He doesn't do much aside from provide some exposition in both cases, but it's strongly implied that he's actually the Great Dragon Lofwyr, CEO of S-K and one of the wealthiest and most powerful entities in the Sixth World.
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Minor Major Character / int_99e49e94	comment	Bug Fables: Even though Zaryant is the queen's bodyguard and one of her strongest soldiers, she barely has any presence in the story. For the most part she just hangs around the throne room, even when Elizant leaves the castle and travels to far more dangerous locales.
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Minor Major Character / int_9d34190a	comment	In The Elder Scrolls main series of games, the Emperor of Tamriel, despite being the ruler of the continent on which all of the games take place, only has a very minor role in each. To note: In Arena, Emperor Uriel Septim VII has been imprisoned in Oblivion and usurped by Big Bad Evil Sorcerer Jagar Tharn. The goal of the main quest is to free him, and your only interaction with him takes place at the end once you've done so. In Daggerfall, the Emperor's only direct involvement takes place in the opening cut scene, sending the Player Character (his agent) to the eponymous city to investigate its haunting by its deceased former king. In Morrowind, he doesn't appear at all. According to in-game documents, it is on his orders that the Player Character has been freed from prison with the explicit instruction that he/she be sent to the eponymous province. Oblivion involves Uriel VII's lengthiest appearance, but even then, he is assassinated barely 10 minutes into the tutorial. The main quest involves finding his Hidden Backup Prince bastard son, who plays a much bigger role (though is never technically crowned Emperor). Skyrim takes place after a 200 year Time Skip following the events of Oblivion, where Titus Mede II (grandson of a Colovian warlord who seized the Imperial Throne in the wake of the chaos follow the Oblivion Crisis) is now the Emperor of the (very much vestigial) Empire. He will only appear in the game if you complete the Dark Brotherhood faction questionline, at the end of which you assassinate him.
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Minor Major Character / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Westeros is a huge country, and only part of an even huger world. All of this world is shaped by the various ambitions of the rich and powerful seeking greater wealth and greater power, for many, many, many MANY reasons. Plenty of these people are long dead, and plenty more would rather wait at a distance, feign harmlessness or both. Basically, for every supposed power-figure in the realm, you can usually assume there's at least one other, far-less-obvious character who had (and often has) a vital role in their lives or which said figure may or may not be aware.
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Minor Major Character / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: The Five Elder Stars are a council of five men who sit at the very top of the government. They appear whenever there is a huge change in the world, such as Luffy defeating Crocodile and the death of Whitebeard, but they aren't shown physically doing much or even been named until hundreds of chapters later and yet they decide almost anything related to the Marines, the World Government and the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Subverted when they finally step into the battlefield and become major antagonists in the final saga. Just below them in rank is Commander-in-Chief Kong. He has power over the entire military of the World Government, which includes the Marines, the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and all the branches of Cipher Pol. He has had two appearance so far, one of which was canon but not part of the manga proper.
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Minor Major Character / int_a465e6bd	comment	Jujutsu Kaisen has Master Tengen. An ancient, immortal Jujutsu sorcerer who maintains the barriers around the Jujutsu Schools. Without these barriers, the schools could not exist, as they would be under constant attack from Curses. Without these schools, training new Jujutsu sorcerers would be exponentially more difficult. So already his existence is massively important for the setting. Furthermore, he needs to merge with a special person called a Star Plasma Vessel every 500 years in order to continue on as he is. Failure to do so will likely cause him to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, rendering him unable to maintain the barriers and potentially becoming an existential threat to humanity. In spite of this, he has never spoken nor has he appeared in-person, even during an arc that centered around delivering him a new vessel.
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Minor Major Character / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: Many of the siblings of the Britannian Royal Family, the most powerful dynasty in the story's word. Prince Lelouch, Princess Nunnally, and Princess Euphemia are major protagonists, Prince Schneizel and Princess Cornelia are major antagonists, and the rest are fairly inconsequential. Prince Clovis is the Starter Villain and is killed in episode 2; Crown Prince Odysseus, the eldest, has a couple plot beats of mild importance but is never an active player in the story (to the point that it's mentioned in the series that he's regarded as something of a wimp next to his many impressive younger siblings); and Princesses Guinevere and Carine only get a couple cameos before Lelouch wipes their minds with his Geass, along with Odysseus. It's implied there are many other unseen siblings as well. By the same token as the Royal Siblings are their sworn protectors, the Knights of the Round. Bismarck Waldstein (the leader and Knight of One), Gino Weinberg (Knight of Three) and Anya Alstreim (Six) have decent-sized parts, and The Rival Suzaku Kururugi gets himself appointed Knight of Seven, but the others are extremely minor and are killed shortly after their introductions. In addition, no Knights ranked Two, Five, Eight or Eleven appear at all, and it's never specified whether they're simply offscreen or if those positions are entirely vacant.
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Minor Major Character / int_a4ae80d6	comment	Oddworld: The unnammed Glukkons in the Rupture Farms boardroom in the beginning and climax of Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. Also the unnamed Mudokons that go with you to save Necrum Mines (and you have to save afterwards from a Soulstorm Brew overdose) in Abe's Exoddus.
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Minor Major Character / int_abf4c9b3	comment	Dead or Alive: Hayate is the Muugen Tenshin Clan's leader, a close friend of Ryu Hayabusa, and a pivotal character in each of the DOATEC tournaments. At least, that's what the canon says. But... The fact is, he's had little to do with the actual narrative, since both his younger sisters and his friend have more plot relevance than he does and have each won a tournament. Hayate's the only one in their group who hasn't. Likewise, he's the only one of their group who hasn't been a playable character in Ninja Gaiden, nor does he even get to so much as make an appearance in a single cutscene. Instead, he only gets a brief mention by his sister, Kasumi.
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Minor Major Character / int_b3705007	comment	Saw V introduces the unnamed chief of the Metropolitan Police Department at the time of the first seven films. It should go without saying that he must have given particular attention to the notorious Jigsaw killers, especially once they rack a good body count and show themselves to be competent enough to outsmart the police many times. However, he's only seen at the ceremony held to announce the supposed end of their killing spree in that film, not even returning in later installments once further games pop up or Hoffman is exposed as the killer who's been holding the games since that moment.
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Minor Major Character / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Invader Zim has the Big Bad Duumvirate play this role. The main plot is about Zim, a single Irken agent trying to destroy/conquer Earth; his rulers, the Almighty Tallest, generally only show up when Zim calls them to brag about his "progress". They mostly just snark and stuff their faces, though sometimes they'll set up the plot of an episode in their attempts to hurt Zim for fun.
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Minor Major Character / int_b55b8015	comment	Likewise, he's the only one of their group who hasn't been a playable character in Ninja Gaiden, nor does he even get to so much as make an appearance in a single cutscene. Instead, he only gets a brief mention by his sister, Kasumi.
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Minor Major Character / int_b80e5912	comment	Duke Claes in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! is the main character's father and one of the most important nobles in the kingdom, but has maybe ten or twenty lines throughout the first two novels.
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Minor Major Character / int_bc11fda9	comment	Deadly Rooms of Death: King Dugan, the ruler of Beethro's homeland, makes only a couple of brief appearances, and in The City Beneath we see that he is easily swayed by his advisors and knows nothing of the world-shaking events going on beneath his kingdom. The 'Neather makes only one appearance, as the Final Boss of King Dugan's Dungeon; after his defeat he is never mentioned again. But it's revealed that he was a more important person than Beethro ever realised, namely King Dugan's long-lost brother. The King in Gunthro and the Epic Blunder makes only one appearance: his murder, which sets off the main conflict of that episode. And despite acting in the King's name, the court are firmly pursuing their own agenda.
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Minor Major Character / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Princess Luna in the first season. She was the Big Bad of the pilot episode as Nightmare Moon and after being defeated returned to her position of co-ruler of Equestria with her older sister Princess Celestia. As Luna she got two lines and wasn't even mentioned again until the next season. She did get a focus episode in Season 2 and small parts after Season 1. She also got a rather large part in a Season 3 episode. Princess Celestia. A ruler of the whole setting, a chief Big Good and primary source on Equestrian nemeses (since she was there to personally fight them throughout the history), the premise of the show began from the moment she took on Twilight Sparkle as her student and their relationship.
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Minor Major Character / int_cf69b21e	comment	The Tripredacus Council in Beast Wars are the leaders of the Predacons as a whole, as opposed to the small band that serve Megatron as the show's antagonist. Their only tangible role is in Megatron and Tarantulas' backstories, and sending one agent after Megatron in the second season finale.
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Minor Major Character / int_d56f8815	comment	OMORI: When speaking to the Branch Coral, it makes a point of introducing the three great creatures called the oldest, the wisest and the favorite, a trio of beings whose existences predate Headspace itself. The information seems important, but it never ends up coming into play and it's just a bunch of extraneous lore. The oldest is Humphrey, who is an important character but he hardly matters to the plot, the wisest is Abbi, an Optional Boss who was banished from Headspace before the game began, and the favorite is the Big Yellow Cat in the Neighbor's Room, who is literally just a piece of scenery.
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Minor Major Character / int_d8f7ed7c	comment	John Putnam Thatcher: Francis Devane is a partner at a bank which frequently partners with the Sloan for plot-relevant business deals, but his partner and polar opposite Tom Robichaux is always the one to interact with Thatcher and relay Devane's opinions about business deals or suspects in their social circle. The only book Devane physically appears in is Death Shall Overcome, where he attends the party where the murder takes place. Even then, he doesn't talk with any of the main characters.
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Minor Major Character / int_dcbfeeee	comment	Little Witch Academia (2017) has the Nine Witches, the founders of Luna Nova Academy and some of the most powerful magic users ever. Only two of them are named and are involved in the plot to varying degrees, but nothing is known about the other seven (except for, of all things, their hats).
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Minor Major Character / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All the vampires look up to Dracula. Buffy readies herself for an epic confrontation... and after that episode, he's never seen or spoken of again. Lampshaded early in the episode when Spike thinks he's just better at self-promotion than most thanks to using "gypsy tricks", but everyone else writes that off as sour grapes.
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Minor Major Character / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends had this a fair bit. The New Republic's Chief Of State, almost always Leia Organa Solo, will be known, and Borsk Fey'lya and Admiral Ackbar might show up, and if the author is savvier than most Mon Mothma could come into play, but that's almost inevitably it, and the New Republic is always luckier in that regard than the Empire is. Unless the writer is Timothy Zahn, of course. Stackpole's X-Wing Series, having Council meetings as part of the narrative, also subverts this to a small extent. And in Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, the ranking members of Luke's strike team get an unusual level of attention. Those are the exceptions. Sort of lampshaded in Wraith Squadron. A pilot would like to be at least somewhat known. Who remembers the name of the head gunner on Ackbar's flagship, Home One? Wedge Antilles says he does. And lampshaded even before that in Rogue Squadron, when a freighter captain complains to Wedge about how everyone works but all the fame and glory stays on a few figures - from who gets remembered, you'd think that the Clone Wars were won by a handful of Jedi and a dozen pilots.
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Minor Major Character / int_e9e265b6	comment	Fire Emblem: Awakening has the Hierarch, a high-ranking official in Ylisse who helped Emmeryn during the latter's early years as Exalt. He only appears in one chapter, in which he betrays Emmeryn to Plegia and gets Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves.
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Minor Major Character / int_ea91a4bf	comment	In Daggerfall, the Emperor's only direct involvement takes place in the opening cut scene, sending the Player Character (his agent) to the eponymous city to investigate its haunting by its deceased former king.
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Minor Major Character / int_ec28245c	comment	King Cold in Dragon Ball Z, despite being The Man Behind the Man in Frieza's galaxy-wide empire and his existence a secret known only to his immediate family and a few soldiers, only appears to rescue his son and then get killed by Trunks on Earth. And unlike his son, he never comes Back from the Dead.
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Minor Major Character / int_ef661e97	comment	Street Fighter: Ken Masters's only significance to the plot was being Ryu's best friend and sparring partner. Aside from that, his role in the series was inconsequential until Street Fighter 6 made him The Protagonist. (Luke was hyped as the protagonist, but the plot in all modes make him a Decoy Protagonist.) By contrast, while Ryu is something of a Living MacGuffin and Supporting Protagonist, he is at the center of many major plot relevant events and has either fought, defeated, or been targeted by several major villain. Sagat strives to reclaim his former glory by defeating him, Bison wants to enslave him, Akuma is determined to make Ryu succumb to the Satsui no Hado, and (by the time of SFIII) Oro takes a shine to him and decides to make Ryu his student. Meanwhile, Ken gets stuck dealing with joke characters like Sean and Rufus. It's a telling sign when even characters such as Chun-Li, Guile, Cammy, and Rose, who each debuted as secondary characters, have all risen to prominence in the series canon. They're always directly involved in investigating Shadaloo and are frequent targets of M. Bison, whereas Ken isn't even a blip on Bison's radar. The only connection Ken has with Bison is a tangential one: The Ties That Bind sees Seth, one of Bison's backup bodies, order C. Viper to abduct Eliza in order to lure out — you guessed it — Ryu. Even the fact that Ken taps into the Power of Nothingness more commonly associated with Gouken and Ryu seems to go completely unnoticed. Stranger still, Rose's victory quote against Ken in SSFIV implies he'd actually play a role in the impending final battle against Bison, but come Street Fighter V, it's a Back for the Dead Charlie who weakens Bison just enough for Ryu to finally rid the world of the dictator's presence, and it's Karin who's presented as the Big Good responsible for gathering all the heroes to confront Shadaloo in the first place. Ken, yet again, gets squat. However, Ryu himself becomes this trope in all of the Street Fighter III games, with Alex becoming The Protagonist in those games; he continues being this in Street Fighter 6, the III series's direct sequel, with either Ken or a player avatar becoming The Protagonist depending on the game mode.
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Minor Major Character / int_f4abd380	comment	Bang Shishigami from BlazBlue, up till Continuum Shift he was just a funny background guy who just didn't seem to fit in the major scope of things, ridiculed by many, ignored by others, respected by just a few; to the more perceptive, however, Bang was being built up with strong connections to grand events since Calamity Trigger, starting with Rachel noticing he had an inactive Nox Nyctores, just an easy to miss mention of what would be brought up in-story with much greater importance at the climax of Bang's story in CS. As of CS's end, Bang is now directly and indirectly connected to many plot threads leading to Chronophantasma and even to what may happen in the future. This culminates in Bang having a big moment during the climax of CP (thanks in part to said Nox Nyctores he was entrusted by his late master, the rightful ruler of the NOL)... and then eventually Subverted, as he is back to his usual level of importance (read: nothing more than a funny background guy) in Central Fiction.
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Minor Major Character / int_f6a54e75	comment	The Princess of Hearts in Kingdom Hearts are maidens whose hearts are completely devoid of light which makes them vital for the villains plan and as revealed in Dream Drop Distance, hold the 7 pieces of the X-Blade vital for Xehanort to start the Keyblade War. However aside from Kairi, the Princess themselves makes very sparse appearances, especially after the first game where they only appear in their own respective worlds. This is especially true for the New Seven Hearts of III where even though they are potential backups should the heroes fail to gather the Guardians of Light, said concept was quietly abandoned by the Final Battle and even after Xehanort's defeat, ended up knowing none the wiser about their status.
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Minor Major Character / int_f7c8e36e	comment	Octopath Traveler has Pontiff Julius, the head of the Order of the Sacred Flame and the equivalent of the Pope. While Archbishop Josef is a major influence on his adopted daughter Ophilia, and Ophilia meets Bishop Bartolo and Bishop Donovan during her travels, she only sees the Pontiff once at the end of her journey.
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Minor Major Character / int_f91de837	comment	In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the unnamed muggle Prime Minister of the UK gets one scene to himself, but no mention afterwards. Also, after the end of the series, Kingsley Shacklebolt, a minor but positive character, becomes Minister of Magic.
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Minor Major Character / int_faea2e0	comment	General Chang in Tomorrow Never Dies is Elliot Carver's inside man in the Chinese government and is referred to throughout the film as plotting with Carver to become President of China via eliminating everyone ahead of him in a nuclear strike on Beijing; in exchange for supplying said nuke, Carver would gain exclusive control of China's media once Chang took over. Their relationship is suggested to be a Big Bad Duumvirate... except Chang is only in one scene, where he's seen leaving a meeting with Carver to finalize the plot. This may be down to Chang being a villain of another story; Bond meets his Love Interest, Chinese Intelligence agent Wai Lin, as he works Carver's case and she works Chang's, and they team up upon discovering they're Working the Same Case.
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Minor Major Character / int_fb873b86	comment	Saw: Saw V introduces the unnamed chief of the Metropolitan Police Department at the time of the first seven films. It should go without saying that he must have given particular attention to the notorious Jigsaw killers, especially once they rack a good body count and show themselves to be competent enough to outsmart the police many times. However, he's only seen at the ceremony held to announce the supposed end of their killing spree in that film, not even returning in later installments once further games pop up or Hoffman is exposed as the killer who's been holding the games since that moment. Averted with Marcus Banks, another chief of the department, in Spiral (2021). While he's retired at the time of the film's events, his acts back during his tenure are responsible for much of the plot's roots, and he gets a major role in the movie's late half.
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Minor Major Character / int_fb9c177d	comment	The Transformers' Physical God Primus, when he appears at all, is usually a minor character, despite being responsible for keeping the universe in balance and all of that jazz. He usually doesn't intervene directly, but through objects like the Matrix of Leadership. Unicron, his Evil Counterpart, generally takes a more active role by comparison.
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Galactic Voyage: Transformers (Roleplay) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Band of Brothers / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Luck & Logic (Tabletop Game) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Curtains (Theatre) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Fences (Theatre) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Deadly Rooms of Death (Video Game) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Video Game) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Medarot: Kabuto and Kuwagata (Video Game) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Secret of Mana (Video Game) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Shadows Over Loathing (Video Game) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
The Ascent (Video Game) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
TRON 2.0 (Video Game) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth (Video Game) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Omori (Video Game) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Double Homework (Visual Novel) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito (Visual Novel) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
PokÃ©mon Generations (Web Animation) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Furry Fight Chronicles (Webcomic) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Well That Was Unexpected (Webcomic) / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Codename: Kids Next Door / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character
Snow Business / int_fd69ea80	type	Minor Major Character

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