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Some antagonists are expected to be only a minor threat to the story's main characters, something they can be expected to defeat time and again. Threats that the heroes have dealt with many times before, and are used to show how much they have grown, because those antagonists are annoyances at best. Except something happened, and they're not minor threats anymore. These minor antagonists have found some way to penetrate the main character's defenses, through some sort of Upgrade or Training. Or they're used to introduce new characters, maybe even more dangerous members of the same team or other criminals, by beating them so badly that the heroes must come to their aid. Heck, it can even be against a Villain Protagonist. The alignment of their foes doesn't matter, what matters is that the normally incompetent villains manage to score one odd moment of glory. Regardless of how these antagonists win, it serves as a call to training/focus by the protagonists, after which, the antagonists are defeated as easily as they were before the Team Rocket Win. Note that the antagonists must win, then later lose again in order to qualify. If it looks like they will win but are defeated at the last minute, then that's a Near-Villain Victory. If the bad guys win and the work ends, then it's also The Bad Guy Wins. If the hero sees the bad guys win in the future, then it's a Bad Future. If the bad guys winning just once irretrievably ruins the heroes' world for good, it's Evil Only Has to Win Once. Contrast Big Bad Wannabe, which may at times overlap. As this is a Victory Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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Happens yet again with Axel in Disgaea 4. And when he wins this time, he really wins. | |
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Megamind's plot starts rolling when Megamind finally (Or so Metro Man made him think) defeats his arch-nemesis Metro Man, which is lampshaded by both Megamind's sidekick and the entirety of Metro City early on and Metro Man much later. | |
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In Sonic Unleashed, he actually manages to defeat Super Sonic, steal the Chaos Emeralds from him, and tear apart the planet, then sends Sonic flying helplessly out into space. | |
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In the Crash Bandicoot Party Game Crash Bash it is possible to win Adventure Mode as Dr. Cortex or one of his cronies, giving a bad ending where Uka Uka gains ownership of all of the crystals "and all of the POWER!!!" This is done in a more direct sense if you play the Adventure Mode in two player co-op with a good and evil player, allowing access to a hidden deathmatch where the two of you fight to determine the ending, thus get the extra reward of kicking Crash or Coco's ass as one of the Rogues Gallery before taking over the world. | |
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Disgaea: Losing to the Mini-Boss in Disgaea gives you a "secret ending". Losing to Axel in Disgaea 2 at any point nets you an ending as well. Losing to Raspberyl in Disgaea 3 also gives you an ending. Happens yet again with Axel in Disgaea 4. And when he wins this time, he really wins. |
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Since they're playable characters, it's possible in the Ranma ½ video games for even complete scrubs like the Card King to kick everyone's ass and, at least in theory, get what they've been after all this time. Since the source material is a Sadist Show, of course, it never really works out — with the exception of Herb, who successfully conquers the world. | |
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The Dimension of Pain demons from Sluggy Freelance, from their inception, had been largely Harmless Villains. When Torg wound up in their dimension, he easily withstood their attempts at torture, outwitted them, and escaped. After that they repeatedly tried to recapture him every year, but they could only send one demon at a time, only on Halloween night, and it could only stay until sunrise, and they inevitably failed in humiliating ways, to the point where Torg threw Halloween parties with the demons advertised as the main attraction. Throw in their wacky antics during the "Meanwhile In The Dimension of Pain ..." strips, and no one really took them seriously. Then "That Which Redeems" came along, and with the demons finding a way to bypass their previous limitations, suddenly they're conquering entire countries, butchering helpless bystanders, and outnumbering Torg 1000 to 1. Not to mention killing off Alt-Zoe. | |
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After Seth Rollins betrayed SHIELD-mates Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose to join The Authority, and then went on to win the Money In The Bank briefcase, he declared would face a special opponent, worthy of his greatness, in an exhibition match. In true dickhead heel fashion, the "mighty" opponent he picked was notorious jobber, Heath Slater. But Dean Ambrose was still incredibly bent out of shape over Rollins stabbing him in the back, and shortly after the match started, came down to the ring to heckle Rollins and mess with the Money In The Bank briefcase. These distractions kept letting Slater get the upper hand temporarily, and ultimately lead to Slater pinning Rollins in the middle of the ring, to the extreme delight of the crowd, and Ambrose absconding with the briefcase in order to further screw with Rollins. | |
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Kingdom Hearts II introduces Pete, who spends the first half of the game as a Harmless Villain who Sora and his friends encounter several times and easily defeat, and he even gets A Day in the Limelight in Timeless River. However, during the events of Port Royal, Pete finally scores a victory against Sora through an alliance with Captain Barbossa, capturing Will and denying his demands, and leaves the Keybearer tied up and left to die on a ship rigged with gunpowder. | |
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In Power Rangers Turbo, Divatox does the same thing. | |
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Zig-zagged with Wreck-It Ralph. The title character, a figure in a 30-year-old video game is tired of being the "bad guy" and schemes to get a medal to prove he can be a good guy. After accidentally landing in another game, Sugar Rush, he helps an outcast little girl, Vanellope Von Schweetz, win a race, but he has to deal with the game's evil boss and a swarm of cy-bugs which were brought in from another game to this one. | |
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In the SD Gundam Force episode "Attack of the Big-Zam!", the Dark Axis Trio use the titular super-tank to attack the SDG Base, planning it to bring it down onto Neotopia. And though the SDG is able to move the base away from the city, the base still comes down...right onto the Big Zam itself, trapping the Trio and putting them out of commission for the rest of the arc. However, they still accomplished their mission, and with the SDG away to do repairs, the rest of the Dark Axis is able to invade Neotopia en masse. | |
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In the musical Pokémon Live!, Jessie and James actually brought Pikachu to Giovanni, and they suffer no consequences for it. Likewise, you also have Giovanni's MechaMew2 defeating hundreds of trainers in a single day to capture the fighting skills and abilities of their Pokemon. | |
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In School Rumble, Tennouji beats Harima once when the latter was in despair after finding out Tenma liked Karasuma…though he wasn't able to enjoy it because of how easy it was. | |
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In Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, in episode 9 Cut Man, Guts Man, and other Robot Masters defeat Mega Man. | |
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Power Rangers in Space has an all out attack on the galaxy with the Space Rangers and their allies all losing. They only survive because of Zordon's Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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Power Rangers: In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Zedd and Rita would pull this off at least once a season. This usually involved the zords being destroyed and re-formed, and as such, usually happened when they had run out of Sentai footage and/or just in time for an action-figure shopping season. Topped by the series finale of Mighty Morphin, as the two actually do succeed in not only leaving the Rangers powerless, but also destroying the Command Center. Damn. In Power Rangers Turbo, Divatox does the same thing. Power Rangers in Space has an all out attack on the galaxy with the Space Rangers and their allies all losing. They only survive because of Zordon's Heroic Sacrifice. And in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Psycho Pink manages to actually kill a Power Ranger. She stabs a morpher with the Savage Sword, which created a massive vortex that threatened to destroy Terra Venture. The only way to stop it was Kendrix crawling inside and hitting it with the Quasar Sabre which killed her. Of course Psycho Pink is quickly defeated by the other rangers in their Megazord. |
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In Yousei Daisensou ~ Touhou Sangetsusei, Cirno is the main character. While she mostly spends the game fighting her fellow fairies (hence the name), the EX stage boss is Marisa. Since canonically the main character(s) always win... | |
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In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Zedd and Rita would pull this off at least once a season. This usually involved the zords being destroyed and re-formed, and as such, usually happened when they had run out of Sentai footage and/or just in time for an action-figure shopping season. Topped by the series finale of Mighty Morphin, as the two actually do succeed in not only leaving the Rangers powerless, but also destroying the Command Center. Damn. | |
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Tentai Senshi Sunred: Florsheim once brought a werewolf to do battle against Astro Fighter Sunred… On an overcast night. After spending several hours waiting for the beast to transform, Sunred had had enough and went home. Vamp wonders if they can call this a 'win' until one of his combat goons tells him they probably can't. In another story, new, more evil-oriented villains invade the neighborhood, only to discover that the Florsheim minions are Not So Harmless Villains. Armor Tiger wasn't even wearing his armor at the time! |
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Magical Troubleshooting Crossover Fighting Federation Ultra, a tournament with a crossover cast of various anime series, actually has Team Rocket win at least once, much to their own shock. | |
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The two muggers from Epic NPC Man are constantly trying to mug someone and keep getting their asses handed to them. They finally get a successful robbery when they decide to mug a wagon. (It should be noted that they were not mugging a driver, but the wagon itself) | |
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And Sonic Forces, well... Where to begin?!? The game marks the closest Eggman has come to world domination to date, with Infinite defeating and capturing Sonic early on, allowing Eggman to take over 99.9% of the planet in a matter of months. The only thing preventing this from being a total victory on Eggman's part is the Resistance and the unexpected arrival of a second Sonic. | |
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In Sonic Adventure 2, this happens a couple of times — the destruction of Prison Island, the firing of the Eclipse Cannon, and the scene where Sonic nearly dies (and is conveniently saved because Sonic somehow knew how to use Chaos Control after watching Shadow use the ability). | |
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The Mad Scientists' Club: More than half of the stories involve the Mad Scientists' Club getting into some competition or Battle of Wits with Harmon Muldoon and completely outclassing him and his friends. However, in "The Cool Caravan" he is two steps ahead of them the whole time, outsmarts them, and lets the whole town know how he tricked them. Charlie describes the conclusion of this experience as the first time club leader Henry ever lost his temper. Harmon also comes out of "The Big Chief Rainmaker" with his dignity intact, but only because his gang and the Mad Scientists' Club decide to cooperate over a money-making venture that time. |
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When WSU was acquired by Beyond Wrestling, they proceeded to run over the Beyond Roster, including sweeping the guys in a face off. When CZW acquired WSU, the Juicy Product actually won the tag team title belts though. | |
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Losing to Raspberyl in Disgaea 3 also gives you an ending. | |
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Losing to Axel in Disgaea 2 at any point nets you an ending as well. | |
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At one point in Plague's Misadventures, one of the hosted comics in Bob and George, Sigma, who in this series is pretty much a nuisance Harmless Villain, actually succeeds in bringing down the space colony and bringing about the end of the world when the heroes shoot it down with the giant canon. | |
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In Sonic Riders, Eggman actually defeats Sonic for real, and is rewarded with the Treasure of Babylon for his efforts. Unfortunately, said treasure is a Magic Carpet, which he has no use for, making his victory hollow. | |
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The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Our Man Bashir" combines Teleporter Accident and Holodeck Malfunction to recast several of Bashir's crewmates as characters in his James Bond-esque spy holonovel. The holonovel's script is intended to play out with either the sexy scientist or Femme Fatale Spy being killed, and Bashir killing the Big Bad in retaliation, but as doing so could kill his crewmates, Bashir decides that the only way to win (i.e., rescue them) is to allow the Big Bad to win. | |
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The Nanny: During the later seasons, C.C. Babcock would occassionally score some victories against Niles in their games of wit. Interestingly, this coincided with C.C. becoming a Defrosting Ice Queen, too. | |
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In the Dreamcast and PS2 Wacky Races Licensed Game, the final unlock is the ability to play as Dick Dastardly and Muttley. It's worth going through all the trouble to do so just to win a race as them and hear the announcer's bewildered or disgusted reaction. | |
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The Office (US): After years of being pranked by Jim, Dwight manages to trounce him in a snowball fight. For the rest of the day, Jim is at Dwight's mercy and so shaken from his unexpected defeat that he can't come up with any effective retaliation. | |
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In Paper Mario, Bowser once again starts the game's story by invading Princess Peach's castle. Peach sends Mario on him, predicting the usual result. Then Bowser pulls out the newly stolen Star Rod, boosting his strength. Cue a Hopeless Boss Fight where your only choice is to let Bowser chalk up his first canonical victory against the plumber. Peach and even Bowser himself are completely astonished. | |
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In Final Fantasy VI, Kefka's triumph in Thamasa is a complete surprise to the player. After all, almost every other encounter has consisted of Kefka casting a weak spell and then running away, and when Kefka seems to finally be serious in Narshe, he is still quite beatable. So when he appears in Thamasa, destroying Espers left and right, there is really no precedent. And right after that, Kefka destroys the world. | |
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And in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Psycho Pink manages to actually kill a Power Ranger. She stabs a morpher with the Savage Sword, which created a massive vortex that threatened to destroy Terra Venture. The only way to stop it was Kendrix crawling inside and hitting it with the Quasar Sabre which killed her. Of course Psycho Pink is quickly defeated by the other rangers in their Megazord. | |
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Playing E-102 Gamma's story in Sonic Adventure allows you to battle and win against Sonic in a brief mini-boss battle. Amy stops him just short of finishing the job, however. | |
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A borderline example. In Time Patrol Tai Otasukeman, one of the series from the Time Bokan meta-series, at the end of every episode the chief of the Time Patrol asked the two main groups of the Patrol to pick a choice between two special kinds of training. One group (who really were the heroes of the series, the titular Otasukeman, and always won the battles) always picked the pleasant, relaxing activity, when the other one (who really were the Terrible Trio, the "evil" Ojamaman, and always lost against the Otasukeman) always picked the nasty, gruesome Training from Hell. In one episode, however, the Terrible Trio chose wisely and won a nice boat trip over a calm river, while the heroes found themselves in a Japanese cemetery filled with angry ghosts. In Gyakyten Ippatsuman, another sub-series from Time Bokan, the incompetent Terrible Trio with no superpowers manage to seemingly beat the titular Flying Brick Superhero. However this ends up subverted; not only was it actually the threatening Super Villain that was the one who actually killed Ippatsuman with the Trios attacks having no effect, but it was a Robot Decoy of the SuperHero that was destroyed. |
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In Cars, when Lightning brakes hard at the finish line, reverses, and pushes "The King" across. This time, however, when Hicks wins, he's the only one celebrating and is shocked when everyone starts booing him. Since he cheated by intentionally wrecking "The King" in the first place, he had no business being shocked. | |
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Anytime The Shocker does anything right, it counts as this. But what stands out in particular was his appearance in the Ultimate Spider-Man book, where after countless, effortless losses to Spidey (who slammed the point home by cracking jokes), he managed to knock him unconscious. He then tied him up with chains, ranting and torturing him, and likely would have killed him if not for Kitty Pryde and the NYPD finding his location. | |
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In the DeviantArt entry here, a Xena-like heroine surrenders to a kobold simply out of pity. (NSFW' so view it here with caution.) | |
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While he was working for Fighting Opera HUSTLE, Yoshihiro Tajiri decided to invade New Japan Pro-Wrestling, by himself, and managed to force his way into the 2009 G1 Climax. Despite failing to advance after finishing last in his block, he did manage to defeat the reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi! | |
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Touhou Project has this in the handful of games that you can actually play as Cirno. Or, you know, if you lose to Cirno in the regular games. Cirno's plotlines generally have nothing to do with anything actually going on, and involve her just trying to prove she's "the strongest". Meiling is usually the Butt-Monkey of the Scarlet Devil Cast Herd, but playing as her in Touhou Hisoutensoku ~ Choudokyuu Ginyoru no Nazo o Oe and actually winning makes her declare to her friends that she was holding herself back and playing the fool all along, waiting for a truly dire situation to reveal herself... not that you can necessarily trust that statement. In Yousei Daisensou ~ Touhou Sangetsusei, Cirno is the main character. While she mostly spends the game fighting her fellow fairies (hence the name), the EX stage boss is Marisa. Since canonically the main character(s) always win... |
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In episode 10 of Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure, Kappard, Tenjo, and Aiwarn actually beat the Cures in a fight following a power up and take both the Aries Pen and the Taurus Pen. Of course, being the bad guys, they lose both later into the series- losing the Taurus Pen first following a Fusion Dance in Episode 11, then losing the Aries Pen in episode 24 after Aiwarn is defeated after going One-Winged Angel. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Eggman has typically never bested Sonic in the long run, but there has been a handful of times where he managed to get the upper hand: In Sonic Adventure 2, this happens a couple of times — the destruction of Prison Island, the firing of the Eclipse Cannon, and the scene where Sonic nearly dies (and is conveniently saved because Sonic somehow knew how to use Chaos Control after watching Shadow use the ability). In Sonic Riders, Eggman actually defeats Sonic for real, and is rewarded with the Treasure of Babylon for his efforts. Unfortunately, said treasure is a Magic Carpet, which he has no use for, making his victory hollow. In Sonic Unleashed, he actually manages to defeat Super Sonic, steal the Chaos Emeralds from him, and tear apart the planet, then sends Sonic flying helplessly out into space. And Sonic Forces, well... Where to begin?!? The game marks the closest Eggman has come to world domination to date, with Infinite defeating and capturing Sonic early on, allowing Eggman to take over 99.9% of the planet in a matter of months. The only thing preventing this from being a total victory on Eggman's part is the Resistance and the unexpected arrival of a second Sonic. Though of a nebulous canonicity if not outright non-canon, Sonic Chronicles goes a step further and sees Eggman actually succeed in taking over the world, convincingly pretending to have turned over a new leaf so that Sonic and the gang can entrust him with protecting the planet as they go into the Twilight Cage to defeat Imperator Ix. In doing so, Eggman is able to abuse the Twilight Cage's Year Outside, Hour Inside properties, leaving our heroes with a nasty surprise when they return from dealing with Ix. For a while, a common fan theory was that this Sequel Hook set up the opening sequence of Unleashed. Playing E-102 Gamma's story in Sonic Adventure allows you to battle and win against Sonic in a brief mini-boss battle. Amy stops him just short of finishing the job, however. |
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Spider-Man: Anytime The Shocker does anything right, it counts as this. But what stands out in particular was his appearance in the Ultimate Spider-Man book, where after countless, effortless losses to Spidey (who slammed the point home by cracking jokes), he managed to knock him unconscious. He then tied him up with chains, ranting and torturing him, and likely would have killed him if not for Kitty Pryde and the NYPD finding his location. Spider-Man has been beaten by Stilt-Man twice. (Spidey himself rates the two incidents as numbers 3 and 4 among his "10 Most Embarrassing Moments" in The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #12.) |
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In The Great Race, the main character Leslie stops just short of the finish line and lets the Harmless Villain team win to show the girl that he loves her enough to give up the race. Professor Fate becomes livid about this, and challenges Leslie to another race, despite having spent the entire run of the film cheating as hard as he could physically manage, because he wanted to win on his own terms and not have it handed to him. | |
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Sonic X had this happen once, but not when facing Sonic. Usually Eggman's schemes fail miserably, and his machines and robots are useless, but then he goes up against some Metarex that are attempting to hurt Sonic. Without warning, Boko and Deko, his worst robots, become super strong and beat everyone down, and Bokkun delivers a powerful uppercut kick, clearing a pathway for them all. On several occasions, while never outright defeating Sonic, Eggman managed to distract or overpower him long enough to get away with a Chaos Emerald. He actually gets his hands on all seven at least twice over (though on both occasions uses them on a haphazardous death machine). | |
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Doctor Who: The episode "Victory of the Daleks", which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin; that is to say, that the Daleks manage to accomplish their main goal and escape to tell the tale. Technically, "Asylum of the Daleks" pretty much counts as a win: the Daleks get the Asylum destroyed and all get to live at the end, retaining their (implied) massive space empire, too. They do lose all their memories of the Doctor, but then get those back in short order. |
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Done with some of the early villains in both Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams and Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change With The Light as a means of averting Villain Decay. Some of the earliest villains Sleepwalker and Spider-Woman have fought later defeat the heroes, or defeat other villains, to maintain the badass credentials of the entire Rogues Gallery and make the very clear point that the Sorting Algorithm of Evil does not apply in these two series. | |
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At the end of the first arc of Digimon Fusion, Bagramon easily takes all the Code Crowns and reconfigures the Digital World. Taiki, Akari, Zenjirou, and Shoutmon are blown back to Earth. While they're gone, Kiriha and Nene are forced into hiding, Xros Heart is captured, and the Digital World comes under worse oppression than before. | |
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Team Skull from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky was introduced as an easy first boss. In a later mission where your team is sent out to get Perfect Apples however, Team Skull brings their leader along to defeat your team, take the apples you were supposed to find, and set you up to be punished by Chatot. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In the issue Harmonic Divergence, part of Season Eight of the sequel comic, the vampire Harmony, probably the biggest joke villain in the original series, actually manages (somewhat accidentally) to kill a slayer, Soledad, who tries to assassinate her, and uses media coverage of the attack to become a celebrity vampire rights advocate. | |
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The Pokemon story Common Sense is all about giving Team Rocket a level in badass and becoming a more serious threat from its very first appearance in the canon series. While Jessie, James and Meowth don't win every single time they encounter Ash, they are so devastating in their wins that they have become Ash's personal Knight of Cerebus brigade. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls: In the story "Smart And Smarter" (Cartoon Network Block Party #59), Mojo Jojo outwits Blossom, with her sisters' blessings! Blossom (who let her ego swell after being admitted to a special school) blows her ice breath which Mojo counters with a heat shield. The trail of melted ice reaches Blossom's foot (which she doesn't see) and she emits static electricity from her hands which in turn fries her to a frazzle. The ending panel has Buttercup shaking hands with Mojo. | |
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Happens at least once per season in the Pretty Cure franchise, whenever The Dragon of the Big Bad faces the heroines before The Dragon gets hit by The Worf Effect or Villain Decay. In episode 10 of Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure, Kappard, Tenjo, and Aiwarn actually beat the Cures in a fight following a power up and take both the Aries Pen and the Taurus Pen. Of course, being the bad guys, they lose both later into the series- losing the Taurus Pen first following a Fusion Dance in Episode 11, then losing the Aries Pen in episode 24 after Aiwarn is defeated after going One-Winged Angel. |
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The LazyTown episode "Robbie's Dream Team" has Robbie successfully capture and incapacitate Sportacus when he managed either but not both in previous episodes. His plan only fails because his henchmen fall asleep on guard duty and the kids manage to get Sportacus an apple to regain his strength. | |
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In Street Fighter II, once you can play as M. Bison, this trope can apply. If you win as Bison, his armies take over the world. The arcade release of Street Fighter Alpha 3 takes it even further: Bison's ending is everyone else's Non-Standard Game Over should they lose to him (while Bison's version of the same is Ryu's ending). | |
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The Charmed ones don't always get away without a scratch. The list is actually quite long: Inspector Rodriguez comes very close in the season 1 finale which has a time loop. Phoebe is killed in the first loop and Piper as well in the second. The only thing that helps the sisters is that Phoebe gets strong deja vu vibes whenever time resets. Ginny in "I Dream of Phoebe" wishes the sisters dead. Of course they're still around as ghosts to ensure they don't stay that way. One of them possesses Ginny and tricks her into wishing them alive again (Aladdin rules don't apply here). When Prue is turned into a teenager without her powers, she falls victim to a Dragon Demon and again has to be wished alive by a genie. Phoebe and Paige are killed during a fight with Billie and Christy when the powers being used causes the manor to explode. Time Travel and Billie's projection power come in handy to ensure that it doesn't stay that way. Phoebe and Paige are killed again in "A Witch In Time" when a warlock is able to strip them of their powers and incinerates them. Piper only narrowly escapes when Leo intervenes. Quite possibly the most successful of all. The upper level demon Shax managed to kill Prue at the end of season 3. For good. In the same episode, Piper was also shot dead by a simple human; the second was undone thanks to a deal with the demon Tempus to turn time back by a day, but this resulted in Prue's permanent death. |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation has the episode "Data's Day", in which the Romulans manage to win one of the series' tense Neutral Zone stand-offs, recovering their spy and forcing the Enterprise to retreat. This is lampshaded by Commander Riker who notes "Some days, you get the bear; some days the bear gets you." | |
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