History BigBad / LiveACtionTV

* ''Film/CitizenX'': Andrei Chikatilo, a SerialKiller of children in Soviet Russia.

** Season 4: Vecna, a HumanoidAbomination from the Upside-Down who [[EmotionEater feeds on people's trauma]] before killing them, going on a spree in Hawkins. [[spoiler: He [[WasOnceAMan used to be]] Henry Creel, aka One, the first of Brenner's test subjects. After he killed the other subjects and tried to [[WeCouldRuleTogether convince Eleven to join him]] in [[MisanthropeSupreme wiping out humanity]], she responded by banishing him to the Upside-Down, where he mutated. He's also revealed to be the true master of the Upside-Down, having [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan created the Mind Flayer as an avatar]], making him the ultimate antagonist of the series.]] There's [[BigBadEnsemble also]] some normal human antagonists causing problems for the protagonists as well -- [[KnightTemplar Lieutenant Colonel Sullivan]] is hunting down Eleven at all costs, while [[TeensAreMonsters Jason Carver]] stirs up a SatanicPanic [[TorchesAndPitchforks mob mentality]] in Hawkins in response to Vecna's rampage, which targets the Party because of their love of D&D.

** Season 3: A BigBadEnsemble between [[spoiler:Señor Chang]], who takes over the school and tries to kill the study group, [[LargeAndInCharge Vice-Dean Robert Laybourne]] who whants to force Troy to join the AC Repair School and Evil Abed, an ImaginaryEnemy who is supposedly Abed from the Darkest Timeline trying to corrupt the Prime Timeline, but who poses a real danger when Abed starts behaving like him due to thinking he's possessed by his EvilDoppelganger.
** Season 4: A BigBadEnsemble between Dean Spreck who uses [[spoiler:Chang, who is faking amnesia (or Changnesia as he calls it)]] to hurt Greendale from the inside and the Evil Study Group from the Darkest Timeline, led by Evil Jeff, who invade the Prime Timeline in the finale [[spoiler:but it's revealed to be all in Jeff's head as a manifestation of his insecurities of becoming a scummy lawyer again after graduating]].

** Season 2: A BigBadEnsemble between [[BigBadFriend Pierce]], who becomes increasingly hostile to the rest of the Study Group and [[Evil Principal Stephen Spreck]], the dean of City College who plots to sabotage and eventually destroy Greendale.

%%* ''Series/{{Community}}'' is an interesting case, as most seasons have no big bad for most of the season, only to introduce one in the season finale or shortly before.
%%** Season 1: No big bad.
%%** Season 2: Pierce, [[TookALevelInJerkAss or at least]] [[ManipulativeBastard the closest thing to it]].
%%** Season 3: [[spoiler:Señor Chang]], who takes over the school and tries to kill the study group.
%%** Season 4: [[spoiler:The Evil Study Group]]
%%** Season 5: The Subway executive. Not really evil, but he still [[spoiler:wants to buy Greendale.]]
%%** Season 6: No big bad.

** The Cousins are this for the first half of Season 3. [[spoiler:They later get killed by Gus' schemes, with Gus becoming the main BigBad]].

** Season 4: Victor again, [[Spoiler:until halfway through when he's replaced by the much more involved Kenneth.]]

** Season 1: [[DaChief Captain Sean Reynard], whose machinations to obtain the key form the main subplot.
** Season 2: Sean Reynard, Eric's half-brother and the main instigator in the Royal Families' efforts to dominate world affairs.
** Season 3: Victor Reynard, Eric and Sean's second cousin who takes over the Royal Family after [[spoiler:Eric's death.]]
** Season 4: Victor again, [[Spoiler:until halfway through when he’s replaced by the much more involved Kenneth.]]

** ''Solstice'': The Druid, who killed Kit Jennings [[DistantPrologue a year before the season's main plot]], and who returns on the anniversary to target everyone who witnessed that murder. [[spoiler: In fact, there's not just one Druid — Kit was killed by Wyatt, the jealous boyfriend of his [[AnythingThatMoves latest lover]], while the current killings are being carried out by [[BigBadDuumvirate Connor and Jen Rijkers]], not because the victims witnessed Kit's death, but because they contributed to the cyber-harassment that drove the siblings' mother to suicide.]]

%%* ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' after its premise was changed:
%%** Seasons 1 & 2: Original premise, no Big Bads.
%%** Season 3: Colonel Angus Rickman.
%%** Season 4: The Kromaggs.
%%** Season 5: Doctor Oberon Geiger.

* ''Series/Akumaizer3'' has Mezalord, a military commander of the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Akuma Clan]] and the main instigator of their invasion of the surface, as well as the personal ArchEnemy to our heroes. The final two episodes reveal [[spoiler:he's outranked by two characters - Geberu, the Akuma Clan's strongest division commander, and [[UnseenEvil Gulver]], him and Geberu's [[TheManBehindTheMan secret boss]].]]
** The SequelSeries ''Series/ChoujinBibyun'' has [[spoiler:the aforementioned Gulver, who resurfaces here as the one behind the {{Youkai}} attacks.]]

** ''Series/ChouSeiShinGransazer'': [[spoiler:[[TheChessmaster Belzeus]], a member of the [[TheFederation Warp Monarch]] council who framed humanity in order to justify an invasion of Earth so he could use it as a foothold to "[[GalacticConqueror grasp the universe]]".]]

%%* ''Series/TomicaHeroRescueForce'': Daaen ([[spoiler:killed at the halfway point and succeeded by the true Big Bad [=Maaen/Batsu=]]])

%%* ''{{Series/Primeval}}''
%%** Season 1: The Future Predator.
%%** Season 2: Oliver Leek.
%%** Season 3: Helen Cutter.
%%** Season 4: Ethan Dobrowski/[[spoiler: Patrick Quinn]]
%%** Season 5: Philip Burton.

** ''Guilty Party'': The mysterious figure in a parka who is slowly picking off both the former Camp Motega counselors and the commune members. They’re eventually revealed to be [[spoiler: Judith Berry, acting to avenge her son Owen, who killed himself in prison after the counselors framed him for Talvinder's death]].

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
** Season 1: Regina Mills, the Evil Queen and Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold, who are the only people to be a Big Bad for the entire season [[spoiler: until Season 6]]. Regina is the Evil Queen from the Enchanted Forest and curses everyone and brings them to our world where they don't remember who they are. Rumple gave her the power to do so and has designs of his own.
** Season 2a: Cora Mills, the Queen of Hearts and Regina's mother, she intends on coming to Storybrooke and rekindling her relationship with her daughter, but Regina and Gold will do whatever it takes to stop this. She succeeds and remains the Big Bad until shortly into 2b when [[spoiler: she is killed by Mary Margaret]].
** Season 2b: A BigBadDuumvirate of Tamara and Greg Mendell, a pair of non-fairy tale characters who plan to rid of all the magic in the world and destroy Storybrooke and all of its inhabitants. In the end they fail and kidnap Henry. It is also revealed that they are simply employees of a GreaterScopeVillain, who is [[spoiler: Peter Pan]].
** Season 3a: Peter Pan, who intends to use Henry's heart (that of the Truest Believer) to become truly immortal. It also turns out that he is [[spoiler: the GreaterScopeVillain to Tamara and Greg all along as well as Gold's father]].
** Season 3b: Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West, who plans to create a time spell to travel back to before the Curse was cast, hoping to do it herself. It's also revealed that she is [[spoiler: Regina's half-sister]].
** Season 4a: Ingrid, the Snow Queen and Elsa and Anna's aunt. She comes to Storybrooke in hopes of casting a curse on everyone and making Emma and Elsa her replacement sisters. She ultimately has a HeelFaceTurn upon getting what she always wanted. At the same time Gold plans to free himself from the Dark One's dagger making him the Final Boss.
** Season 4b: A BigBadDuumvirate between Mr. Gold and Maleficent of the [[TerribleTrio Queens of Darkness]] (consisting of herself, Ursula, and Cruella De Vil), working in tandem to get villains a happy ending by finding the Author. Eventually, the partnership ends when Ursula leaves, Cruella [[spoiler: dies]] and Maleficent senses that Gold will betray her and [[TheStarscream ditches him]], eventually creating an EnemyMine with the heroes in the penultimate episode. After this, we get another BigBadDuumvirate between Rumple and Isaac Heller, the Author, who [[spoiler: rewrite the storybook so that villains are the heroes and heroes are the villains]]. Additionally there's Zelena, who [[spoiler: is actually alive, pregnant and posing as Robin Hood's wife Marian]], though, she's not much of a schemer after they catch her.
** Season 5a: [[spoiler: Emma Swan]], who is now the new Dark One, with [[spoiler: [[KnightTemplar King Arthur]] of Camelot]] having plans of his own, until [[spoiler: they both turn out to be {{Disc One Final Boss}}es to a BigBadDuumvirate of Hook, who became a second new Dark One, and the original Dark One, Nimue, who was the GreaterScopeVillain behind Rumplestiltskin and all other Dark Ones. In the end, Nimue is the true Big Bad of Season 5a and Hook, thanks to Regina, pulls a HeelFaceTurn to destroy her.]]
** Season 5b: Hades, Lord of the Underworld, who manipulates all the souls trapped there (good and evil) in order to escape the Underworld. [[spoiler: [[TooPowerfulToLive He's vaporized by the only weapon that can destroy him just before the finale]], however, creating a PostFinalBoss toss up for the position between Gold, Mr. Hyde, and the Evil Queen (now a [[EnemyWithout separate entity]] from Regina).]]
** Season 6: The Hooded Figure destined to kill Emma in her final battle. The majority of the season has the heroes running a gauntlet of one DiscOneFinalBoss after another, with Mr. Hyde and the Evil Queen returning in a BigBadEnsemble until [[spoiler: both Hyde and [[EvilAllAlong Jekyll]] are killed off four episodes in]], leaving the Queen as sole Big Bad and the prime suspect for being the Hooded Figure - until [[spoiler: episode ten where the actual Hooded Figure turns her into a snake in a cage and reveals himself to be Gideon, son of Mr. Gold and Belle, who was stolen by the mysterious [[GreaterScopeVillain Black Fairy]] and raised in the Dark Realm where time works differently and he lived 28 years under her power, after which he returns to Storybrooke to kill Emma and gain her power as the Savior to free everyone from Black.]] After Emma foils his plans twice, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Gideon was being ForcedIntoEvil the whole time by the Black Fairy using his heart in an attempt to kill Emma and free herself from the Dark Realm (which she did eventually without Emma dying) and his claims were all lies she forced him to say, revealing herself as the true villain Emma will fight in the final battle. Black is arguably the main antagonist of the entire series as she claims to have invented all Dark Magic and created the Dark Curse from experimenting with Black Fairy Dust, as well as the fact that the storybook ends with Emma fighting her]].
** Season 7: Lady Tremaine/Victoria Belfry who desires to find a heart filled with belief so she can revive her daughter Anastasia. In Hyperion Heights, she also seeks to crush the belief of Henry's daughter, Lucy, by separating everyone in her realm from each other. [[spoiler: However, she did not cast the Dark Curse that made Hyperion Heights; that was her daughter Drizella/Ivy, who wants to destroy her mother as revenge for years of neglect and almost using her heart as a means to revive Anastasia. Then it turns out Drizella is just a pawn of the true Big Bad, Mother Gothel, who manipulated everyone for her own ends.]] Things get more complicated in the back half of the season due to the arrival of Baron Samdi/Dr. Facilier, who wants to claim the Dark One Dagger for himself, but stays on the sidelines and being vaguely threatening while the main plot is unfolding. [[spoiler: With Gothel defeated near the end of the season, he seems set to become the FinalBoss, only to [[DroppedABridgeOnHim suddenly be killed]] by the [[AlternateSelf Wish Realm]] version of Rumplestiltskin, who serves as the TrueFinalBoss.]]
* ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'' has a BigBadDuumvirate of Jafar and the Red Queen, Anastasia Tremaine. Though it's a [[TeethClenchedTeamwork tenuous]] alliance, especially what with Jafar seeing himself as superior. It's ultimately broken when [[spoiler: the Red Queen pulls a HeelFaceTurn while Jafar destroys all her assets, leaving him as the sole Big Bad.]]

* ''BigBad/{{Disney}}''

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* Creator/DisneyChannel shows often have Big Bads
** The ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'' movie has Dr. Ronald Olsen, the head of the Gemini Project who seeks world domination through a HiveMind of numerous twins.
** ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''
*** Season 3 had [[spoiler:Stevie Nichols]], who plots to put an end to the wizard competition. [[InformedWrongness That said, the show never elaborates as to why what she's planning is wrong]].
*** Season 4 had Gorog, the series' equivalent of Satan that seeks to plunge the world into darkness and takeover the wizard world. By extension, Gorog is the GreaterScopeVillain of the entire Franchise/DCLAU.
*** ''Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie'' has Gissele, a wizard turned into a parrot who manipulates her boyfriend into getting the wishing stone for herself.
*** ''The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex'' has Domminic, an evil Wiztech member [[AvengingTheVillain and the nephew of Gorog]] who plans to trap all mortal beings in beads and take over the world.
** ''Series/PairOfKings'' had Lanny, the twins' cousin and the next in line for the throne who constantly schemes to get rid of them. [[spoiler:He eventually has a HeelFaceTurn and the role is usurped by Kaita, the vile leader of the tarantula people and the murderer o the kings' parents.]]
** ''Series/KickinIt'' has Sensei Ty, the instructor of the Black Dragons Dojo, the Wasabi Warriors' main rivals.
** ''Series/ANTFarm'' has a BigBadEnsemble of [[AlphaBitch Lexi Reed]] and [[SadistTeacher Principal Susan Skidmore]]. Out of the two, Skidmore is the best candidate for Big Bad, having founded A.N.T Farm for the sole purpose of exploited the students' talents. In contrast, Lexi softened into more of a LovableAlphaBitch overtime. Season 3 had [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck Hashimoto]], a CorruptCorporateExecutive bent on bringing down A.N.T. Farm.
** ''Series/MyBabysittersAVampire''
*** The PilotMovie has Jesse, Sarah's vampire ex-boyfriend that sired her against her will and the leader of a vampiric cult who seeks to control all of Whitechapel and force Sarah to be his. [[spoiler:He eventually back from the dead and acts as the FinalBoss of season one.]]
*** Season 2 has [[spoiler: Vice Principal Stern]], a sorcerer that spends the season plotting the destruction of every vampire, [[FantasticRacism good and evil]], in Whitechapel.
** ''Series/LabRats'':
*** Marcus Davenport during the end of Season 1 through the middle of Season 2. Marcus pretends to befriend Adam, Bree, and Chase, much to Leo’s suspicion, so he can set up a spy camera in the Davenport laboratory.
*** The real threat in Season 2 turned out to be Douglas Davenport, Donald’s younger brother who ordered his android son Marcus to gather intelligence on the Lab Rats, then captured Donald in an attempt to lure the Rats to his lair so he could reclaim them.
*** In Season 3, [[spoiler:Douglas [[HeelFaceTurn turns good]]]] and the role shifts to Victor Krane, Douglas Davenport's benefactor who used Davenport technology to create a bionic army.
*** In Season 4, this role is first taken by Sebastian, a protege of Chase’s who convinces the other bionic students to rebel against the Davenports. Later this role goes to Giselle, a scientist who wants to replace bionic humans with androids, and Dr. Gao, who tries to inject liquid bionics into humans.
** ''Series/MightyMed''
*** Season 1 has Catastrophe, the world's greatest villain who plots to destroy Mighty Med [[spoiler:by combining his two separated halves, Walter and Clyde.]]
*** The first half of Season 2 has The Annihilator, a ruthless mutant villain that brainwashes Skylar and plots to use her to bring all of Mighty Med's heroes under his control.
*** The second half of Season 2 has Mr. Terror/[[spoiler:Oliver's mom Bridget]], a criminal super genius who is searching for the Arcturion, which will give them unlimited power [[spoiler:in a twisted attempt at making the world a safer place for her son.]]
%%** ''Series/KCUndercover'' has Zane from the "Double Crossed" arc, Victor from "Operation Other Side", and Ursula from "The Final Chapter".
** ''Series/BestFriendsWhenever'' has Janet Smythe, a MadScientist responsible for the future lab and spends the series tracking the girls down so she can obtain their time travel abilities and use them to rewrite history as she sees fit.
* Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}
** ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack'' has Danielle Atron, the greedy and vicious CEO of the Paradise Valley Chemical Plant, who looks to hunt down and experiment on Alex.
%%** The movie ''Drake and Josh Go Hollywood'' has Milo [=McCary=]. The next movie ''Really Big Shrimp'' has Alan Krim. The third one has parole officer Perry J. Gilbert, the only one who does a HeelFaceTurn in the end.
** ''Series/TheTroop'' has Augustus, a nerdy boy with the power to control some of the most powerful monsters on the planet and uses them for his own evil purposes.
** ''Series/BigTimeRush'': Season 1 has George Hawk the producer of Hawk Records who aims to bring Gustavo down and to ruin the boys' careers.
*** ''Big Time Movie'' has Atticus Moon, a Bond-esque villain who kidnaps Katie after Kendall accidentally takes the Beetle and wants to use it to take over the world.
** ''Series/EveryWitchWay'': Season one has Principal Torres, a former witch who seeks to regain her powers not matter what. Season two has [[spoiler: a BigBadEnsemble between Desdemona, Jax Nova and Evil!Emma. Season three has Mia.]]
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* ''Series/{{Revenge}}'': For most of season 1, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Conrad]] and [[EvilMatriarch Victoria]] Grayson, being at the center of the conspiracy to frame David Clarke for their own crimes, hold this position by default. However, by the end of the season it's clear they were ultimately just pawns of the EvilerThanThou [[NebulousEvilOrganization Americon Initiative]], who now serve as the GreaterScopeVillain of the series. As of a few episodes into season 2, the Initiative seems to be taking more active steps and moving down into the actual Big Bad role. Then the season finale reveals that [[spoiler: the Initiative is just a cover for a group of {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s making money from their acts of terror... and Conrad is now in their inner circle]]. This definitely puts Conrad right back into the role of Big Bad, pushing out even the [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrified]] Victoria.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Lestat de Lioncourt is the main villain of Season 1. He's a DomesticAbuser and an AbusiveParent, and by episode 7, his [[ILoveYouVampireSon lover/vampire son]] Louis de Pointe du Lac and his vampire daughter Claudia are captives in his GildedCage.

** Season Five: Decker returns from the Season 4 finale as the apparent main antagonist. [[spoiler:However, he's blown up less than halfway through the season and supplanted by Robin Cunnings, who is defeated in the same episode she's introduced, but not without freeing the true mastermind behind the conspiracy to bring down Chuck...]]

%%* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': None present in Season One, but subsequent seasons had them:
%%** Season Two: Ted Roark.
%%** Season Three: [[spoiler: Daniel Shaw]]
%%** Season Four: Alexei Volkoff
%%*** [[spoiler:Supplanted by his daughter Vivian Volkoff in the second half of the season.]]
%%** Season Five: Decker
%%*** [[spoiler:Seeing as he's been blown up, he's been supplanted by Daniel Shaw, the real person behind the conspiracy to bring down Chuck.]]
%%*** [[spoiler: With Shaw depowered and imprisoned, he's been supplanted by Nicholas Quinn, who will be the series's final Big Bad.]]
%%** Ted Roark and many season one villains were part of Fulcrum, which in turn was part of The Ring, which was run by The Director and The Elders in season three, and was responsible for [[spoiler: Daniel Shaw]]'s [[FaceHeelTurn fall to evil.]]

%%* ''[[Series/LoisAndClark Lois and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman]]'':
%%** Season 1: ComicBook/LexLuthor.
%%** Season 2: Intergang, led by Bill Church and his son Billy Jr.
%%** Season 3: No overall Big Bad. Minnie Church takes over as head of Intergang, but that ends up being an AbortedArc. Lex Luthor makes a BackForTheDead return in a mid-season trilogy and the final two episodes set up Lord Nor as a GreaterScopeVillain.
%%** Season 4: After Lord Nor is defeated in the opening two-parter, time travelling criminal Tempus (who has been part of the show's RoguesGallery since Season 2) becomes the most persistent villain.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Lestat de Lioncourt is the main villain of Season 1. He's a DomesticAbuser and an AbusiveParent, and by episode 7, his [[ILoveYouVampireSon lover/vampire son]] Louis de Lioncourt and his vampire daughter Claudia are captives in his GildedCage.

** Season 5 had a BigBadEnsemble as a whole. For the first half and most of the second half, [[spoiler:[[VillainProtagonist Walter White / Heisenberg]] is [[HeroAntagonist Hank]]'s main target after he discovers that ''he is'' Heisenberg. However, after "Ozymandias", he loses the position to Jack and the Neonazis, with Walt being eventually reduced to TheAtoner and ExBigBad. As for Lydia, she's part of the BigBadDuumvirate with Jack during the season as a whole]].

** Season 1: Didn't seem to have a Big Bad originally. The most reoccuring antagonist that season was The Smoke Monster, who seemed more like a rampaging beast, with Ethan being a runner-up, though it's clear he was just a spy [[spoiler:and he's killed by Charlie a few episodes before the finale]], and it's only in the finale that we see other, well, Others, including Tom Friendly, but they only appear in one scene [[spoiler: to kidnap Walt]]. [[spoiler:Though it turns out this season DID have a Big Bad, as the Smoke Monster was the Big Bad of the entire series]]

%%* ''Series/Charmed1998'', after it partially abandoned its MonsterOfTheWeek premise in season 3:
%%** Season 1: To some extent, Rex Buckland and Hannah Webster in the first half of the season and Inspector Rodriguez in the second half.
%%** Season 2: No Big Bads.
%%** Season 3: The Triad & Cole Turner, although by the end of the season GreaterScopeVillain the Source has become more of a direct threat.
%%** Season 4: The Source (both the original and Cole) and ultimately the Seer in the end.
%%** Season 5: Cole eventually becomes this for the first half.
%%** Season 6: Gideon.
%%** Season 7: The Avatars (''[[WellIntentionedExtremist sort of]]''), Zankou from the demons and Inspector Sheridan in the "real world".
%%** Season 8: The resurrected Triad, with Dumain as their DragonInChief and Christy Jenkins as TheHeavy.

* ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Queen]], the student and heir of the original Evil Queen from ''Literature/SnowWhite'', [[spoiler: aka Christine Lewis, the main character, Virginia's, missing mother]].