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Sometimes the Big Bad gets bored doing everything himself. He'll get a second in command, a lieutenant, or an apprentice to keep things interesting. This is the Rule of Two. There are two big bosses, and both have to be taken down. It's usually understood that the two want to keep it that way. Never introduce a third, and quickly replace the other if they go down. Due to infighting or general For the Evulz culture, the Big Bad may decide to dispose of the Dragon himself and get a new one. Similarly The Dragon will overthrow the Big Bad if the opportunity presents itself, and bring on a new Dragon of his own. The tension of this dynamic is that they rely on each other, but both know it's a race to see who will stab whom in the back first. The Hero is usually the prime candidate for the replacement. If The Hero is about to take the Dragon down, expect the Big Bad to try to turn him to The Dark Side. If the Dragon is about to take the hero down, expect him to offer an alliance to overthrow the Big Bad and take his place. Compare and contrast Big Bad Duumvirate, Deceptive Disciple and Bastard Understudy. Not related to Rule of Three. |
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In Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, the Joker keeps Harley as his right hand girl. Even if she's not very good at it. | |
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Almost every villain who takes the lead in Kamen Rider Revice has at least one henchman standing beside them. Aguilera has Olteca and later Julio after Olteca's betrayal, Olteca has Kanae Motomura and Hideo Akaishi goes through Olteca, Vail and Daiji. | |
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Seigi No Symbol Condorman: Each Monster Clan executive has at least one unique henchman who commands their mooks for them or serves as their muscle for holding off Condorman. The only ones who don't are trio of Smogton, Gomigon and Hedoronger, who don't really need one since they already work together. | |
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In Heroes, the Company's rule is "one of them, one of us": "them" being a human with some mutant ability, and "us" being a Muggle whose first loyalty is, always and forever, to the Company. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans has a very developed political setting, with most of the major players (including the protagonists) having their own ace under their wing. Orga has Mikazuki, Naze has Amida, Gaelio gains Ein as one after agreeing to help him, and Rustal has Julieta. Even McGillis, one of the most skilled mobile suit pilots in the show, gains Isurugi in the second season to cover his back. | |
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In Naruto, there's Kabuto and Orochimaru. Before they were introduced, there were Zabuza and Haku. Madara and Obito started like this, but Madara died shortly thereafter, leaving all the work on Obito and when Madara revived, they became Big Bad Duumvirate. Kaguya and Black Zetsu. Although the dynamic isn't really there since Black Zetsu is the one calling the shots, as Kaguya has absolutely no personality at all. |
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Played with in Double Homework. When Dennis starts blackmailing Dr. Mosely/Zeta, she helps him by expelling the protagonist from summer school, arranging a class trip in which he can sleep with all the girls (he thinks), and tells Tamara that she has to come along so he can have his way with her too. However, Dr. Mosely/Zeta is just biding her time until her cleanup crew can neutralize Dennis’s threats to her secrecy. | |
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Rocket Knight Adventures: Regardless of whoever is the Big Bad, they'll always have Axel Gear (the series' sole recurring villain) as their right-hand man. | |
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Conversely, Palpatine began to suspect that Dooku was plotting the same in Star Wars: The Clone Wars with his own assassin, Asajj Ventress, and ordered him to have her killed to prove his loyalty. Dooku followed through with the order but failed to have her killed, resulting in her turning on him. Interestingly, Dooku did not have plans for betraying his master before this event. After this, however, he began to plot against Palpatine. Naturally, we know how this went. | |
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In Melody, Bethany and Steve team up to break up the dream team of the protagonist and title character. | |
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Metal Gear: Similar to Star Wars above, there is only one Boss (Master), and one Snake (Apprentice). Big Boss was once Naked Snake, and his master was the #1 heroine of WWII, The Boss. Then she went rogue, he had to kill her and take the Boss title, which he wasn't happy about. But in a plot twist of epic proportions, Solid Snake was never the apprentice - that was Venom Snake, Big Boss' body double and second-in-command. Snake killed the body double without realizing, and then set the master on fire. Then through sheer coincidence, he became the master of Raiden, who succeeded him non-violently as the master when Snake passed away of Werner Syndrome. | |
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The Last Jedi exposes another flaw in the Rule of Two related to the redemption example above— a Sith apprentice killing his master but then deciding to destroy the entire Sith doctrine out of some sort of principle. While Snoke was not a Sith lord, Kylo Ren still betrayed him, and comes to the realization that both Jedi and Sith doctrines are intrinsically flawed, and that the past should be let go of... by being destroyed completely. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing has a version where nearly every prominent male villain has a female underling. Treize Khushrenada has Lady Une, Zechs Merquise has Lucrezia Noin and Duke Dermail has Dorothy Catalonia. | |
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Subverted in Daughter for Dessert. Cecilia has Saul as her legal muscle when she makes her debut, but he represents the protagonist for free at his criminal trial, and plays dirty to get him a not guilty verdict. | |
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Indiana Jones: Every Big Bad that Indy goes up against has one distinct henchmen who handles most of the dirty work, and who usually acts as a Recurring Boss that Indy must face at multiple points throughout the movie. | |
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Gundam: Every dictator in the franchise usually has an Ace Pilot enforcer (often also a Char Clone) backing them up. Given Gundam's military themes, a series may also have a chain of these. Mobile Suit Gundam: Regardless of whichever member of the Zabi Family is in the lead, they always had Char Aznable as their enforcer. Other Arc Villains like Ramba Ral (as well as Char himself) also came with their own top henchmen. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing has a version where nearly every prominent male villain has a female underling. Treize Khushrenada has Lady Une, Zechs Merquise has Lucrezia Noin and Duke Dermail has Dorothy Catalonia. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans has a very developed political setting, with most of the major players (including the protagonists) having their own ace under their wing. Orga has Mikazuki, Naze has Amida, Gaelio gains Ein as one after agreeing to help him, and Rustal has Julieta. Even McGillis, one of the most skilled mobile suit pilots in the show, gains Isurugi in the second season to cover his back. |
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This is a common theme in Kim Possible. Drakken and Shego, the Seniors, and even Gemini says that he was saving the "Alpha" title for someone special. | |
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Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Black Cross Fuuml;hrer goes through four Dragons across the entire series. Whenever his current Dragon would fail too many times, he'd summon a new one to take his place. | |
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The apprentice (Jen) is a more skilled combatant than the Master (Jade Fox), but the Master is more treacherous. | |
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For that matter, the yin-yang features heavily in Touhou Project; it's even one of Reimu's attack mode. | |
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In Star Wars Tales #17, "The Apprentice", a Sith Master named Finn and his unnamed apprentice are concluding business on some backwater planet when they run into a slave owner Lod and his slave girl Marka. The apprentice ends up killing Lod and freeing Marka out of anger towards Lod (and sympathy towards Marka much to Finn's irritation). It turns out that Marka is powerful in the Force and even mind-tricked the apprentice into taking her with him — Finn suspects that the Force led them to the planet in the first place to find her. When Marka begs him to take her with them so she can learn the ways of the Sith, Finn denies her. He explains that he doesn't need a slave and he already has an apprentice. Marka takes the hint and promptly steals the apprentice's lightsaber and pushes him off the roof to his death. Finn immediately invites his new apprentice aboard his ship. | |
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Prominent in Fate/stay night. Sure, you could just kill the Master and run away from the Servant (it's even repeatedly stated to be the best strategy), but nobody ever does. Most apparent with Kotomine/Gilgamesh and Kuzuki/Caster. Nobody in either pairing is really the boss. Gilgamesh will do what Kotomine says, if he feels like it. Caster would obey Kuzuki's orders, but Kuzuki is too passive to really bother most of the time. Also apparent in Kotomine's fight against True Assassin and Zouken Matou. He's stronger than Assassin, but can't kill him due to him being a Servant, so he has to take out Zouken first and then Assassin would be vulnerable. But Zouken is essentially unkillable by normal means plus Assassin is keeping him busy. | |
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In Star Wars: Legacy, Darth Krayt does away with the Rule of Two, abandoning the Sith's Social Darwinist tenets and instead teaching his followers the Rule of One which revolved around blind obedience to him and the Order. At one point he communes with the spirits of the three greatest Sith Lords, seeking advice; Darth Andeddu, the long-lived progenitor of all Darths, Darth Nihilus, who led the First Jedi Purge, and Darth Bane, the Sith Chosen One who created the Rule in the first place. All three of them then proceed to absolutely lay into him (even The Unintelligible Nihilus), branding him a heretic unworthy of calling himself Sith for arrogantly trying to "improve upon" the teachings that led to them conquering the galaxy and weakening them as a whole by attempting to share power. Krayt tries to argue that power is meaningless without a purpose to apply it toward, only for Bane to angrily retort that power is its own purpose and that Krayt's new order will make the same mistakes Bane instigated the rule to prevent. | |
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Doctor Who: The Master lacks a consistent Dragon across all of his appearances, but in each story he appears in he'll usually have a new henchman or pawn. | |
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Since Star Wars Rebels has canonized the Imperial Inquisition, they are Dark Side Force-sensitives employed by Darth Vader, but are immune to the Rule of Two because they are not Sith. They're purposely trained so as not to reach the power level where they'd run the risk of violating the rule like Asajj Ventress did.note However, this resulted in the Inquisitors having significant weaknesses of their own: since they were trained to not reach the power level of a true Sith, they're able to take out Jedi that were isolated or weak enough to not be in the path of Order 66, but when confronted by prepared and skilled Force-users such as Kanan, Ahsoka or Maul, the Inquisitors are usually defeated quite handily. It's revealed in the season 2 finale that despite having immense rage at the Sith Order as a whole for betraying and discarding him, Maul still adheres to this philosophy. And he's looking to corrupt Ezra into becoming his apprentice. |
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In Star Wars: Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine explains that the master/apprentice arrangement was brought about because the last time the Sith fought the Jedi, they lost because they spent more time fighting each other than they did the Jedi, so this way the competition is kept to a manageable level. However he's lost confidence in Vader after the destruction of the Death Star, so a large part of the plot involves Vader competing with other rivals for the role. When Palpatine claims that Vader's victory over these rivals was All According to Plan, Vader sardonically replies that if any of the others had won, Palpatine would be telling them the same thing. | |
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Every major villain in Chouseishin Gransazer comes with at least one main henchman. Karin has Akira, Logia has Lucia, Brighton has Algol and Belzeus has Gorgion. | |
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Magical Battle Arena has Ruru Gerard and Nowel Diastasis as the two primary antagonists of the game. This is however dropped in the sequel which sees Ruru Put on a Bus. | |
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GoGo Sentai Boukenger: This is played straight by every member of the Big Bad Ensemble except Ryuuwon. Gai has Rei. Gekkou of Illusions has Yaiba of Darkness, with Shizuka of the Wind getting bumped up after Yaiba deserts. After going solo, Yaiba gains his own right-hand in Masumi after corrupting him to The Dark Side. Gajah spends most of the series without any henchmen other than his Mooks, but towards the end he creates Desperado to be his main enforcer. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Regardless of whichever member of the Zabi Family is in the lead, they always had Char Aznable as their enforcer. Other Arc Villains like Ramba Ral (as well as Char himself) also came with their own top henchmen. | |
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The origins of this rule are first explained in the Revenge of the Sith novelization, and explored further in Darth Bane. When the Sith order was originally created, it was indeed an order that had many members, but since they were all steeped in the dark side, they had a collective bad case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. This tendency to betray each other at the drop of a hat weakened the order to the point where the Jedi (who as light-siders were more unified) were gaining the upper hand. Eventually, it all came to a head and a Gambit Pileup gone horribly wrong left a single survivor, Bane. To combat this, Bane decided that there should only be two Sith Lords at one time - a master to have power and an apprentice to covet it. He also decided that they should endeavor to take over the galaxy via subtlety and manipulation (like Palpatine eventually did) instead of outright invasion. Having made up his mind on this, he manipulates all collectivist Sith Lords into committing mass suicide as part of a failed attempt to take the Jedi Order with them during their final battle. | |
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Hellsing: The three major players in the setting (Sir Integra, Enrico Maxwell and The Major) each have their own champion to do battle for them (Alucard, Alexander Anderson and the Captain respectively). | |
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The two major villains of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga are Big Bad Cackletta and The Dragon Fawful. In Bowser's Inside Story, where Fawful is the Big Bad, he gets a Dragon of his own, Midbus. | |
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