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** ''FinalFantasyXIII'' has Primarch Galenth Dysley, who is actually [[spoiler:Barthandelus, the fal'cie creator and leader of [[FloatingContinent Cocoon]]. He and Orphan, his fellow fal'cie who powers Cocoon, collaborate together to ensure its destruction.]]
** ''[=~Dissidia: Final Fantasy~=]'' establishes that in the ''FinalFantasy'' multiverse, the evil god Chaos is the biggest BigBad. He bosses around most of the people listed above, and the only ones who tries to double-cross him is [[spoiler:[[TheStarscream Emperor Mateus]], who plans to outlive Chaos to rule the universe]] and [[FinalFantasyIV Golbez]] who, as he was not the BigBad of [[FinalFantasyIV his game]] and decides to help his [[spoiler:brother,]] Cecil in getting the crystal.

** ''Resident Evil: Code Veronica'' has Alexia Ashford [[spoiler:actually her brother Alfred]]

* Captain Syrup is the Big Bad in the first two WarioLand games, although the later ones have one off main villains instead.

* Adam from the first ''TraumaCenter'' game.

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* Uka Uka from Crash Bandicoot. While Dr. Neo Cortex seemingly was behind all the events in the first two Crash games, it was eventually revealed that he did everything under Uka Uka's orders. However, [[spoiler: in Crash: Mind over Mutant, Cortex doublecrosses Uka Uka and becomes the Big Bad himself.]]

** ''Gold/Silver/Crystal'': In the originals, there is no nominated leader of Neo Team Rocket; the final Team Rocket Executive fought in the Radio Tower is the closest the organization has to one. The remakes gave the Rocket Executives names, and so the aforementioned Executive was finally given an identity: Archer.

*** In ''Emerald'', where both teams appear, Archie pretty much edges out Maxie; though Maxie is fought three times as opposed to Archie's one, Archie is introduced to the player much earlier, receives more character development, and the fight with him occurs last (and is much more final from a storyline perspective than any of the Maxie fights.)

** ''Black/White'': The game wants you to think that [[spoiler: [[AntiVillain N]]]] is the {{Big Bad}}. At the last second though, [[spoiler: his father [[CompleteMonster Geetis]] turns out to be the true culprit behind Team Plasma's goals.]]

* ''BlazBlue'' has either Yuuki Terumi, the most proactive and involved of its antagonists, or Imperator Librarius, [[spoiler:the ringleader of the organization that Terumi works "for"]].

** However, the problem as of now is, ''[[MenInBlack to paraphrase Agent J to the Bug]]'' ''[[VillainDecay Big Bad Bowser's got a bit of a soft spot]]''. Because of this, no matter how much he tries, he's an incompetent has-been who is more of a nuisance than a threat. And ''[[SuperMarioGalaxy when he tries to be a threat or a greater evil]]'', ''[[TooDumbToLive he is as much a threat to himself as his intended victims]]''.

** 'Ace Attorney Investigations 2'' has the distinction of having two BigBads. First, [[spoiler: the Fake President of Zeng-Fa and his minions who controlled both Zeng-Fa, and the prison and legal systems of Japan/USA]], Second [[spoiler: Sōta Sarushiro, who killed his former best friend, and the aforementioned president for personal reasons and is the final boss of the game.]]

* Then there's the spin-off series, {{Pokemon Mystery Dungeon}} Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky: [[spoiler: Darkrai, who wanted to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt cover the world in darkness]] and has been manipulating events behind the scenes the whole time, messing with the fabric of time and space as well as appearing in the heroes' dreams to get them to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar kill]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel themselves]].]] If that doesn't qualify as a Big Bad, I don't know what does.

* Rogue turian Spectre Saren Arterius serves as the Big Bad in ''[[MassEffect1 Mass Effect]]''. [[spoiler:Only, [[TheReveal he's not.]] The ''real'' Big Bad is [[SapientShip Sovereign]], Saren's flagship, in reality a fully-sentient member of an ancient race of "machine devils" known as the [[EldritchAbomination Reapers]].]]

* Rogue turian Spectre Saren Arterius serves as the Big Bad in ''[[MassEffect1 Mass Effect]]''. [[spoiler:Only, [[TheReveal he's not.]] The ''real'' Big Bad is his [[SapientShip Sovereign]], Saren's flagship, in reality a fully-sentient member of an ancient race of "machine devils" known as the [[EldritchAbomination Reapers]].]]

* Rogue turian Spectre Saren Arterius serves as the Big Bad in ''[[MassEffect1 Mass Effect]]''. [[spoiler:Only, [[TheReveal he's not.]] The ''real'' Big Bad is his [[LivingShip Sovereign]], Saren's flagship, in reality a fully-sentient member of an ancient race of "machine devils" known as the [[EldritchAbomination Reapers]].]]