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You know this guy. You've seen him before. There are a million others like him, and they're all the same. He's just another minor pawn in the Big Bad's army. He probably doesn't even have a name. And yet... Sometimes, a basic generic minion isn't content with remaining so. Instead, this character, initially so insignificant that you might not even think of them as a character, becomes a major antagonist. This may be achieved through actual promotion (Klingon-style or otherwise), through a transformation, or through doing something so vile that they personally become the target of the wrath of the fanbase. Alternatively, the writer may simply give the character more and more lines and appearances until they become a significant villain through sheer familiarity. In video games they may take the form of a regular enemy who functions as a level boss, making them an inversion of Degraded Boss. After all, every villain has to start somewhere. Maybe even the Big Bad was a mook once. Contrast Villain Decay, where a major antagonist becomes less major as a series progresses, as well as Boss in Mook Clothing, where the enemy is clearly meant to be a "basic generic minion" but is as tough as a boss. See also Not-So-Harmless Villain. See Dragon Ascendant for the next step up the career ladder. See also Mauve Shirt and Ascended Extra for a similar promotion to a member of the Redshirt Army. May overlap with Chekhov's Gunman, since the boss looks generic at first, but if he shows up more times he becomes important. Examples |
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Kamen Rider Fourze: Students who use Switches to transform into monsters start as common Zodiarts with the ability to freely change back and forth. After enough use, they evolve into more powerful Last One states that leave them permanently trapped as monsters. Some Zodiarts can push their transformation further still and change their power-granting constellation into one of the twelve zodiac signs, becoming the Horoscopes that serve as the show's generals. Horoscopes in turn can go even further than that and unlock Supernova transformations with sufficient training, though these are temporary super modes. | |
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Kamen Rider Revice: Humans who use Vistamps can conjure their inner demons as origami monsters which they can control to act on their evil impulses. Those willing to sign a contract to forfeit their humanity are capable of merging with their demon instead, becoming a much more powerful monster. | |
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The Waddle Dee in Kirby Super Star Ultra, Revenge of the King. You actually hear King Dedede promote him right before the fight. Said Waddle Dee would actually go on to join King Dedede and Meta Knight as one of Kirby’s closest allies, complete with his own name: Bandana Waddle Dee. | |
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Jerid Messa starts out as a test pilot and bully who once made fun of Kamille's name. He ends up sticking around for the entire show, evolving into Kamille's main rival, and being responsible for the deaths of numerous named characters before making his exit in the penultimate finale. | |
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In Super Robot Wars Z, an anonymous female grunt witnesses her squad wiped out by the time/space bomb at the start of Orguss. She is Xine Espio, Akasim's sidekick. | |
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Hikari Sentai Maskman: Zeba, the Big Bad, is eventually revealed to be basically a Earth Imperial Beast that worked its way up. | |
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Redwall: In Mariel of Redwall, Terramort searats Garrtail and Grimtooth were promoted to Captains following Gabool's slayings of Captains Skullgor and Bludrigg, repectively. Slagar started out as the offspring of the healer employed by the Big Bad in the previous book, then in the intervening fifteen-to-twenty seasons suffered a snakebite to the face, went insane and started working with a child slavery ring. Ripfang in Lord Brocktree. Initially a young ex-searat and recent recruit into Ungatt Trunn's horde, Ripfang's brutality and cleverness enable him to swiftly rise through the ranks, becoming one of Trunn's Co-Dragons alongside Karangool and the Grand Fragorl. By the end, he's the only major villain left (and may go on to become a pirate who threatens Salamandastron on his own in Mossflower depending on who you ask). |
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All of the Chapter 6 Guardians in Dark Cloud 2, which protect the crystals needed to activate the Time Gate, are regular enemies given a massive HP increase. Likewise, the foes that bar the way across the Spiral Of Dreams at the endgame are bigger and badder versions of already difficult mooks. Their tactics remain exactly the same, however. | |
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Star Wars Trilogy Arcade have several AT-STs in the Hoth level as minor enemies. Later when you reach Endor, suddenly a lone AT-ST shows up as a boss that you can't even damage, your only hope being defending yourself from it's attacks while waiting for the shield generator's explosion to take out the boss for you. | |
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The Man Eater, a regular enemy in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, appeared in the Boss Rush for some reason. Possibly as a bane to speedrunners, annoying three-headed bastard... Well technically three-eyed, but you have to kill every one of them. By Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia it's gotten to be a full-fledged boss at the end of the Skeleton Cave. | |
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Inverted in Paranoia, in that it's the players who are the mooks of Friend Computer, promoted up out of Infrared anonymity to be Red-level Troubleshooters. In theory, they could go even higher, but seldom live long enough to do so. Of note, in Alpha Complex, everyone starts at the bottom. NPC Ultraviolets (or even PC Ultraviolets with the High Programmers sourcebook) started out as lowly Infrareds at some point and earned their way to higher clearances. It's just that the nature of Troubleshooters means it's very, very rare for them to survive long enough to be promoted. |
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In the Modern Warfare series, Vladimir Makarov, Big Bad of the second two games, was in fact just another soldier in Zakhaev's army when Price shot his arm off in Chernobyl in 1996. Makarov saved Zakhaev's life and was rewarded as a loyal minion, rising through the ranks of the Ultranationalist command until Soap killed Zakhaev in 2011. Makarov took control of the radical elements of the Ultranationalists, and became a vastly greater threat than his mentor ever was. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ: Glemmy Toto, who begins as a joke pilot in a joke squadron under a joke commander, and ends up as part of the Big Bad Ensemble. | |
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Kamen Rider Drive: Much like Kabuto, each of the 108 Roidmudes can evolve from a generic number-stamped mook into an individualized form by awakening to their driving emotion, then from there into a permanent Golden Super Mode if they absorb vast quantities of that emotion. Only about a quarter of the Roidmudes actually succeed in making even the first transformation, with the rest dying as mooks or accepting a different powerup that turns them into a type of Elite Mook. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: All of the Bugsters are capable of leveling up every time they die, causing the same handful of named monsters to reappear over and over throughout the show with increasingly inflated stats. The Big Bad, Kamen Rider Cronus, is himself a promoted mook twice over: his powers are those of the pitifully weak Ride Players augmented through a special transformation belt into a time-manipulating juggernaut. When those fail, he combines with the final boss of the game he's from into a titanic monster that's really just a promoted version of the early Bugster forms from the first few episodes, and has the same weakness to the Riders dropping themselves to Level 1. | |
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Kamen Rider Ghost: Gamma come in three escalating flavors of eliteness depending on what Eyecon they use to transform, which sometimes changes as a result of promotion through their ranks. Separately from this, many low-class Gamma are granted the powers of various historical figures to transform into unique monster forms. | |
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Kamen Rider Kuuga: The entire plot of the show is driven by the Grongi competing for promotion to higher ranks, which they do by performing serial killings under time restrictions. One mook in particular cheats his way up the ranks by absorbing a chunk of the flesh of their leader. | |
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Redcloak of The Order of the Stick is an archetypal example. Author Rich Burlew at first intended for him to be an ordinary Mook, and indeed the name Redcloak derives from the original Star Trek's tradition of killing off its "redshirt" security officers. The character, however, took on a life of his own and became the living vessel of the will of the god of goblins. Not a bad promotion! Redcloak's right-hand man may be a case of this as well. Word of God suggests that the seemingly various hobgoblins that have filled this position are in fact just one hobgoblin—Jirix—who has been resurrected behind the scenes each time. The wight with Thanh's shoes was one of Tsukiko's generic wights, but he became the only one to survive the encounter and is seen as her Number Two right up to the moment that Redcloak takes control of him and his fellows and has them eat Tsukiko alive. He even gets to hang out with Xykon. |
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In The Godfather movies, Al Neri and Rocco Lampone are minor hitmen in the first movie and are promoted to bigger roles as Michael Corleone's capos in The Godfather Part II. Willie Cicci is also a hitman with few lines in the Part I, then Frank Pentageli's right hand man in Part II. In The Godfather Part III he was supposed to appear again in a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of real life mobster John Gotti but the actor Joe Spinell died before filming began and was replaced by Joe Mantegna playing a new character "Joey Zasa". | |
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While Sarnak was a short-lived villain in the pages of Werewolf by Night, one of his unwilling derelict subjects was hired by The Committee and was given corrosive powers, becoming the villain Tatterdemalion. | |
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Pokémon Adventures plays this forward and backwards in the Ruby/Sapphire arc. For their success in stealing a vital submarine component, Archie promotes Matt, Amber, and Shelly to Admin status, but they have a new mission as a price tag - they failed to bump off Chairman Stone due to the interference of one Sapphire Birch, so their new mission is to put her on ice. The inversion comes after Archie takes Amber and Shelly onto the submarine provided by Maxie 60% of the way through the arc - said sub required the component that was stolen earlier. Archie ordered Matt to stay put and defend the base as a means of demoting him. Prof. Cozmo provided the meteorite to Shelly that Amber used to kill Mt. Chimney, but Sapphire's still alive, right? Then Amber gets demoted and left for dead by Archie...for doing his goddamn job perfectly. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Shredder was conceptualized as little more than a Token Motivational Nemesis, essentially the Turtles' equivalent to Batman's Joe Chill, and swiftly killed off at the end of the first issue. One multi-media franchise later, the Shredder had gone from their Joe Chill to their Joker - the definite Arch-Enemy to which all other members of their Rogues Gallery are compared to. | |
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In Dungeons & Dragons, baatezu and tanar'ri (devils and demons, essentially) "evolve" from weaker forms into truly nasty monsters that are easily a Boss Battle on their own. Except for erinyes, which are born as such but can still evolve higher. In a 3.5 rulebook it is explained that when a Baatezu gets promoted enough it can rise to a rank of 'unique' and be given, uh, unique-ness. As well, a lot of D&D rulebooks, especially 4e, have templates you can apply to bog-standard monsters to make them more challenging. Some NPCs can become this if the party takes a liking to them (there are even rules allowing them to gain useful skills to keep up with the party). |
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Also from The Venture Bros. is Henchman 21, who, as the name indicates, was just another generic henchman until his comrade 24 dies, and after a brief sabbatical, he Took a Level in Badass and became the Monarch's Number Two and eventual Best Friend. | |
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Braca of Farscape has a very interesting career path - he starts off as seemingly just another Red Shirt, but his loyalty to Scorpius, unthreatening demeanor and ruthless opportunism means that by the end of the series, he's gone from being a random mook to having his own command (and even a first name). | |
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In the final season of Smallville, Gordon Godfrey starts out as just one of Darkseid's host bodies, used by him to start an anti-hero Propaganda Machine. However, Darkseid must have liked what he saw in him, because when he's next seen, he's been promoted to Co-Dragon along with Granny Goodness and Desaad. | |
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Juken Sentai Gekiranger: The Beast-Men of the Rin Juken Akugata start out as regular Rinshi (this series' footsoldier mooks) that are stronger than the other Rinshi. They prove their worth by passing through the Chamber of Trials, defeating all the other Rinshi inside single-handedly. Then they can remove their mask and the animal motif on their forehead appears, allowing them to assume the traditional monster form. The same process also appears in Power Rangers Jungle Fury with the Rin Shi Beasts. | |
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Damar in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was first introduced as a random Cardassian bridge officer. In fact, he was always going to be a much meatier role, and was shot like a main character throughout that episode, but that didn't stop the actor nearly turning down the role because he felt it was a meaningless bit part. In fact Damar ends up personally saving his entire planet from the series' Big Bad by leading a rebellion after a Heel–Face Turn and dying a hero. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games: Vire, the miniboss of both games' sixth dungeons, is graphically identical (though tougher and faster) to a regular late-game enemy in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: Minor enemies are occasionally promoted to Giant Mook bosses. In this instance, though, the enemies haven't become more powerful; Link has simply been shrunk to a smaller size. |
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In the fluff of Sword of the Stars, for the Hivers, if your mommy loves you very much, when you die, she'll eat your brain and reincarnate you in a new body, with the chance of being reborn as a Prince. And if you should manage to impress grandma enough, you might even come back as a Princess. | |
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Psychonauts 2: The Lady Luctopus boss has a crown made out of the lightbulbs of Bad Ideas, implying she is a Bad Idea blown up to massive poportions. | |
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Final Fantasy VII Remake takes various regular enemies from the original game, such as Hell House and Eligor, and makes them full-fledged bosses. | |
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Pizza Tower: During the game’s fairly public development, Fake Peppino was initially meant to be a Stalked by the Bell mechanic during Pizza Time in certain levels, like a scrapped level based in a Haunted House. In the game proper, Fake Peppino is the fourth boss, and is the primary threat during an Escape Sequence of his own. | |
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Kamen Rider: Kamen Rider Kuuga: The entire plot of the show is driven by the Grongi competing for promotion to higher ranks, which they do by performing serial killings under time restrictions. One mook in particular cheats his way up the ranks by absorbing a chunk of the flesh of their leader. Kamen Rider Kabuto: Any common Salis Worm can promote into a named Worm by undergoing metamorphosis, unlocking Super Speed along with various unique powers. Kamen Rider Fourze: Students who use Switches to transform into monsters start as common Zodiarts with the ability to freely change back and forth. After enough use, they evolve into more powerful Last One states that leave them permanently trapped as monsters. Some Zodiarts can push their transformation further still and change their power-granting constellation into one of the twelve zodiac signs, becoming the Horoscopes that serve as the show's generals. Horoscopes in turn can go even further than that and unlock Supernova transformations with sufficient training, though these are temporary super modes. Kamen Rider Drive: Much like Kabuto, each of the 108 Roidmudes can evolve from a generic number-stamped mook into an individualized form by awakening to their driving emotion, then from there into a permanent Golden Super Mode if they absorb vast quantities of that emotion. Only about a quarter of the Roidmudes actually succeed in making even the first transformation, with the rest dying as mooks or accepting a different powerup that turns them into a type of Elite Mook. Kamen Rider Ghost: Gamma come in three escalating flavors of eliteness depending on what Eyecon they use to transform, which sometimes changes as a result of promotion through their ranks. Separately from this, many low-class Gamma are granted the powers of various historical figures to transform into unique monster forms. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: All of the Bugsters are capable of leveling up every time they die, causing the same handful of named monsters to reappear over and over throughout the show with increasingly inflated stats. The Big Bad, Kamen Rider Cronus, is himself a promoted mook twice over: his powers are those of the pitifully weak Ride Players augmented through a special transformation belt into a time-manipulating juggernaut. When those fail, he combines with the final boss of the game he's from into a titanic monster that's really just a promoted version of the early Bugster forms from the first few episodes, and has the same weakness to the Riders dropping themselves to Level 1. Kamen Rider Zi-O: This is the premise of the series, as the Time Jackers create Another Riders with the intent that one of them will eventually get promoted to where they can usurp Zi-O as the king of all Riders, allowing the Time Jacker controlling them to use them as a new Puppet King of the Bad Future. It's eventually subverted with the revelation that the Another Riders were never capable of promotion, and the leader of the Time Jackers was just using them to make Zi-O himself into his puppet. Kamen Rider Revice: Humans who use Vistamps can conjure their inner demons as origami monsters which they can control to act on their evil impulses. Those willing to sign a contract to forfeit their humanity are capable of merging with their demon instead, becoming a much more powerful monster. |
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In the Super Mario Bros. franchise: The Goomba King in Paper Mario 64, who begged Bowser to turn him into a king using the Star Rod. Nearly every boss and sub-boss in Yoshi's Island is a common enemy turned giant by Kamek. A beefed-up Hammer Bro. in Super Princess Peach served as the precursor to the Final Battle. Mario Party DS: The Incredible Shrinking Man plot of Story Mode allows for boss roles by a Piranha Plant, Hammer Bro. and Dry Bones. Mario Party 9 also includes a Lakitu, Cheep Cheep, Chain Chomp and Spike. Those two Mandibugs that are stacked on top of each other from Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2. The Fly Guy R Thieves in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. They decide to steal a valuable object the party is after, and then later attack them. They're absolutely no different in appearance or abilities to the normal versions fought a dozen times alrady, with the exception of the boss intro and boss music played throughout the fight. |
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The Goomba King in Paper Mario 64, who begged Bowser to turn him into a king using the Star Rod. | |
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A beefed-up Hammer Bro. in Super Princess Peach served as the precursor to the Final Battle. | |
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Gundam: Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Jerid Messa starts out as a test pilot and bully who once made fun of Kamille's name. He ends up sticking around for the entire show, evolving into Kamille's main rival, and being responsible for the deaths of numerous named characters before making his exit in the penultimate finale. Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ: Glemmy Toto, who begins as a joke pilot in a joke squadron under a joke commander, and ends up as part of the Big Bad Ensemble. |
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Kamen Rider Kabuto: Any common Salis Worm can promote into a named Worm by undergoing metamorphosis, unlocking Super Speed along with various unique powers. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles all minibosses, except Bebop, are promoted mooks. | |
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Harley Quinn from Batman: The Animated Series was originally supposed to be a minor accomplice of the Joker and ended up a full-blown Super Villain, making appearances in numerous other adaptations. | |
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Tom from Animorphs, who becomes an important antagonist late in the series, and a major player in the final battle. | |
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Padan Fain from the Wheel of Time series. Long story short, he was the original Agent Smith. | |
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In Evil Genius, not only you can promote your mooks, it is actually indispensable to do so to get anything over the construction worker mook. | |
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Kamen Rider Zi-O: This is the premise of the series, as the Time Jackers create Another Riders with the intent that one of them will eventually get promoted to where they can usurp Zi-O as the king of all Riders, allowing the Time Jacker controlling them to use them as a new Puppet King of the Bad Future. It's eventually subverted with the revelation that the Another Riders were never capable of promotion, and the leader of the Time Jackers was just using them to make Zi-O himself into his puppet. | |
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Nearly every boss and sub-boss in Yoshi's Island is a common enemy turned giant by Kamek. | |
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Mordheim: City of the Damned: The "Lad's Got Talent" passive skill lets you graduate a basic Henchman into a Hero unit, giving them extra attack and movement points and letting them take master-level skills. | |
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This is one of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's schtick. If a mook manages to kill you, it moves up in the Orcish hierarchy and is promoted to a captain. Said orc can continue moving up all the way up to the rank of Warchief. In fact, one of the in-game achievements involve helping an orc who killed you get promoted all the way to Warchief and subsequently killing him. | |
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At the beginning of Code Geass, Suzaku is a common Britannian mook. Over the course of the series, he becomes the pilot of the Lancelot, then Euphemia's personal knight, then the Knight of Seven (basically the seventh biggest badass in the entire Britannian army), then second in command of all of Britannia, answering only to the Emperor himself. | |
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Johnny Sasaki from Metal Gear Solid. In the first game he was a bid at humanising the mooks by giving one a name and history. In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, he graduated to the role of recurring comic relief character. By Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots he becomes, in a scene that really has to be seen to be believed, a super-smooth action man who helps save the world. And steals Snake's girl. | |
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A rare heroic version of this occurred in The LEGO Movie, where Emmett, just a random, nameless cog in President Business's empire, winds up revealed to be The Special, destined to defeat him. Taking this a step even further, Emmett in reality is just a generic construction-worker that Finn picked up and started playing with, and The Man Upstairs even informs him that rather than being a licensed or special toy like Batman or Superman, Emmett is a nobody. | |
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Super Sentai, and it's American adaptation Power Rangers: Hikari Sentai Maskman: Zeba, the Big Bad, is eventually revealed to be basically a Earth Imperial Beast that worked its way up. Mahou Sentai Magiranger: At some point before the events of the series, Branken, the first Arc Villain, used to be just another High Zobil, but clawed up the ranks to become the short tempered hot head we see him as in the show. Averted with his Power Rangers counterpart Morticon, who doesn't share this origin. GoGo Sentai Boukenger: When Creator King Ryuuwon wants to create one of his Jakuryuu, he has a large group of his Jaryuu soldiers fight each other to the death, with the last one standing being turned into the Jakuryuu. Juken Sentai Gekiranger: The Beast-Men of the Rin Juken Akugata start out as regular Rinshi (this series' footsoldier mooks) that are stronger than the other Rinshi. They prove their worth by passing through the Chamber of Trials, defeating all the other Rinshi inside single-handedly. Then they can remove their mask and the animal motif on their forehead appears, allowing them to assume the traditional monster form. The same process also appears in Power Rangers Jungle Fury with the Rin Shi Beasts. Dobutsu Sentai Zyuohger: Genis, who considers himself a perfect being, is horribly ashamed of the truth that he's actually just several thousand mooks in a trenchcoat. He even kills his own lieutenant when she accidentally discovers this, despite her remaining loyal. |
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The Fly Guy R Thieves in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. They decide to steal a valuable object the party is after, and then later attack them. They're absolutely no different in appearance or abilities to the normal versions fought a dozen times alrady, with the exception of the boss intro and boss music played throughout the fight. | |
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Unusual semi real life example: Feared Warhammer 40,000 Ork Warboss Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka was originally just a regular mook in the army of one of the game developers, with the name created via random generator tables. Over time he was given his own new model and rules as a Warboss, his backstory developed and was eventually resculpted as a giant tank on legs and holds the position of the most feared Greenskin leader in the universe. | |
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Mahou Sentai Magiranger: At some point before the events of the series, Branken, the first Arc Villain, used to be just another High Zobil, but clawed up the ranks to become the short tempered hot head we see him as in the show. Averted with his Power Rangers counterpart Morticon, who doesn't share this origin. | |
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Armies in the Total War series of games will be led by generic "Captain" units when not in the command of a General/family member. Combining this trope with Ascended Extra, the Captain can be promoted to General and adopted into the royal family after winning a major victory. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Boom Town", Margaret Blaine, real name Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, is now the main villain by virtue of being the sole survivor of the Slitheen seen previously in "Aliens of London"/"World War Three". | |
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Those two Mandibugs that are stacked on top of each other from Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2. | |
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Dr. Zin does this twice in Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber Insects. | |
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During the first time of The Avengers, the Nazi fugitive Baron Zemo had a base somewhere in a jungle in South America. Zemo finally died fighting against Captain America. One of his mooks, wandering alone in the jungle, had a great idea: use on himself the machine that Zemo once used over some guy to turn him into Wonder Man. This mook got similar powers, and took the name Power Man (yes, the same former name of Luke Cage: they fought for the name, and Cage won). Some years later, he got size-changing powers. Then, ionic powers. And then he became a super-hero, Atlas of the Thunderbolts. | |
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In Live A Live, in every room of the Technique Dungeon, you will be pursued by an obese, pink guy who seems to be infatuated with your player character, no matter what gender they are. Being caught makes a fight ensue. If you finally find the treasure of the dungeon, he will fight you again for one last time... except the only thing that changes is that the boss song plays. He's still as strong as he was before. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games: Vire, the miniboss of both games' sixth dungeons, is graphically identical (though tougher and faster) to a regular late-game enemy in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. | |
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In an episode of Battlestar Galactica (2003), the Colonials nickname a Cylon Raider with a distinctive wound "Scar" and put a bounty on its head, the only time in the series that they treat a Raider as a distinct individual instead of just another Mook. | |
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Spectral Sword first appeared in Rondo of Blood and was a normal enemy in several games. It finally got promoted to boss status in The Adventure Rebirth. | |
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Mega Man Zero 3: During the mission in Childre Inarabitta's stage, Zero is pursuing a fleeing Dark Elf. Halfway through the level, the Dark Elf powers up a random Pantheon Aqua into the Modified Pantheon Aqua that acts as the mandatory Mini-Boss. | |
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Stanley the Plaid/Tool of Erfworld, the protagonist's Overlord, is revealed in his backstory to have started off as a piker - which amounts to line infantry. That's one hell of a promotion. Technically, Stanley had four promotions: Piker to Warlord, Warlord to Chief Warlord, Chief Warlord to Heir Designate, and finally, Heir Designate to Overlord. And promoting common infantry to Warlords is not that uncommon in Erfworld, and is one of the two ways of becoming a Warlord in Erfworld. The other is being born popped into the position. |
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GoGo Sentai Boukenger: When Creator King Ryuuwon wants to create one of his Jakuryuu, he has a large group of his Jaryuu soldiers fight each other to the death, with the last one standing being turned into the Jakuryuu. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: Minor enemies are occasionally promoted to Giant Mook bosses. In this instance, though, the enemies haven't become more powerful; Link has simply been shrunk to a smaller size. | |
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In The Gamer's Alliance, Zenobia is first introduced as a mere mook in the Totenkopf death cult but she slowly climbs up the hierarchy and eventually becomes one of the Master's Blessed. | |
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The Chess pawns can become more powerful pieces when the player reaches the other side of the board, making this trope Older Than Feudalism. | |
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The backstory of one supervillain NPC from the old GURPS Supers, Darkshell: he was a rather stupid thug hired to test a Powered Armor suit for a Mad Scientist. He slowly becomes smarter, and not only that - he becomes able to read minds. Thus he realises the Mad Scientist hadn't bothered to put in radiation shielding on the suit's Phlebotinum reactor, reasoning it was just a prototype and not caring if his minion died - not counting on the risk of a Freak Lab Accident. Darkshell kills him, now that he is smart enough to handle the armor himself, and sets out to become his own villain. | |
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PJ Masks: In the Season 3 episode "Moon Madness", Luna Girl uses the stolen Moon Crystal to give one of her many moths some powers of her own, as well as a name; Mothzuki. She then becomes Luna Girls Dragon. | |
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In Spyro: Year of the Dragon the bosses are all Mooks which the Big Bad turns into monsters. | |
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Mario Party DS: The Incredible Shrinking Man plot of Story Mode allows for boss roles by a Piranha Plant, Hammer Bro. and Dry Bones. Mario Party 9 also includes a Lakitu, Cheep Cheep, Chain Chomp and Spike. | |
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In The Batman, Black Mask would kill his Number One then point to a random mook and make him or her his new Number One. | |
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Agent Smith from The Matrix starts out as an interchangeable faceless Agent, until he sits down alone with Morpehus and gives his "humans are a virus" speech and begins displaying his own personality and following his own agenda. In the later movies he works against both the humans and the machines, with a black suit rather than dark green and no earpiece, indicating that he is now outside the system. | |
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The Kingdom Hearts series has been, as of late, giving upgrades to the Shadow Heartless, including adding supersized-versions for 358/2 Days, and creating their elite subspecies, the Neoshadows. Then, they have a promoted Neoshadow, called Novashadow, as a boss battle. | |
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The Brain Gremlin in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, as you might suspect from his name, quaffs a randomly-selected intelligence-enhancing formula and instantly becomes the creatures' leader and spokescritter. | |
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In Star Trek: The Next Generation, a Borg drone is given the name Hugh in the episode "I, Borg". He would eventually stir up trouble by getting into a misinformed alliance with Data's Evil Twin Lore in the "Descent" two-parter (he helps the heroes later after he realises Lore's exploiting the drones.) Perhaps the ultimate example—it's harder to get much mookier than a Borg drone without getting into naturally-occurring hive minds. | |
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