History Main / PlotIrrelevantVillain

** In ''Fanfic/IfWishesWerePonies'', Voldemorts machinations takes a backseat to the political three-way struggles that occur between The Ministry of Magic, The British Parliament, and [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]] in-regards to the existence and very nature of the Statute of Secrecy. All the while Harry himself focuses primarily on learning Magic and trying to come to terms with how he feels about his friends and [[HumansAreMorons the general idiocy of Wizards]].

* Mrs. Brisby has to deal with a lot of danger to learn the ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'' and save her son. At the same time the rats of NIMH are threatened by the titular organisation and have to take action to survive. The scheming rat Jenner who is a member of the group doesn't have anything to do with either of those plots, as he appears late in the story and tries to merely seize the opportunity to take over. In fact he comes across as very deluded and as vulnerable as the other rodents to the scientists who chase them and his power-hungry plans are doomed from the start, making the threat that he poses to the heroes unreasonable even for a megalomaniac.

* Joe from ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'' became the BigBad of this film because it's the result of the Antidote dropped into the sea by Fly and Chuck accidently while searching for the now starfish Stella which the incident happened because of Stella accidently drank Mackrill's potion, and Joe and his Shark were now Intelligent by the Antidote and they start their Empire, the whole thing would have never happened if Stella never had drank the Potion.

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': {{Downplayed}} with The Wolf. He isn’t directly involved in the main plot, since, unlike the other main villains, he is not interested in the star, but rather, he acts as a catalyst for Puss’s CharacterDevelopment. Throughout the film, he really doesn’t have much presence and doesn’t have much overall impact, but he still chases Puss, and his presence still slows Puss down on his journey. [[spoiler:It turns out that The Wolf is actually [[TheGrimReaper Death]], and the reason that he’s chasing down Puss is because of how [[CatsHaveNineLives he wasted all of his previously lives]] and wanted to take his last as vengeance. When Puss proves that he values his last life, Death leaves him be, and lets him live the last of his days in peace.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'': Not in the first movie, but ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'' features Mesozoic predators who stalk the main characters incidentally and show how out of water the herd really is (the marine reptiles Maelstrom and Cretaceous).

* Unlike Shere Khan, who causes the wolves to send away Mowgli starting the ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'' with his mere presence, Kaa just reminds to everyone that danger lurks everywhere in the jungle, even in trees unapproachable by tigers. King Louie and his monkey subjects exemplify this to an extent even greater than Kaa, by becoming so immersed in their festive mood, that their scheme becomes irrelevant to even themselves.

* The closest ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' has to a villain are the fossa -- but they are a menace that hardly appears, and mainly to hunt lemurs. The major conflict is both the protagonists being stranded in a strange place, and the sole carnivore of them (a lion) [[WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere becoming hungry]].

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has Mao, who merely serves to distract Lelouch from the first season’s real BigBad, his sister Princess Cornelia, for a few episodes, and to provide a bit of exposition (even in this he doesn't actually explain anything himself, but his actions cause others to explain things). In this case, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]], especially as Mao became an EnsembleDarkhorse. However, he's still left out of the {{Compilation Movie}}s.
* In the first season of ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', there was Demack, one of the Dark Signers; while most members of this group had extensive backgrounds, motivations, and some sort of connection to the heroes, Demack had none whatsoever in all three areas. He was a CardCarryingVillain who seemed to despise the Signers for no known reason. (The ''Yu-Gi-Oh! 10th Anniversary Animation Book'' explains that Demack was originally intended to be from a [[ReligionOfEvil demon worshipping cult]] and was [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed to the Earthbound Gods]], but then reborn as a Dark Signer.)

* [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Part 3]] of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has a large amount of mercenaries hired by [[BigBad DIO]]. Most of them have no narrative importance other than slowing the heroes down on their journey. Depending on who you ask, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools this might be a good thing]] as these fights allow the heroes to show off the more creative uses of their seemingly straightforward abilities. Later parts also have a few such enemies, but they make up the minority of encounters.
* ''Anime/TheMysticalLaws'': The reptilian aliens who show up to try and invade Earth while Tathagata is destroying it. They appear in only two scenes and have absolutely no bearing on the main plot of the movie.

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': {{Downplayed}} with The Wolf. He isn’t directly involved in the main plot, since, unlike the other main villains, he is not interested in the star, but rather, he acts as a catalyst for Puss’s CharacterDevelopment. Throughout the film, he really doesn’t have much presence and doesn’t have much overall impact, but he still chases Puss, and his presence still slows Puss down on his journey. [[spoiler: It turns out that The Wolf is actually [[TheGrimReaper Death]], and the reason that he’s chasing down Puss is because of how [[CatsHaveNineLives he wasted all of his previously lives]] and wanted to take his last as vengeance. When Puss proves that he values his last life, Death leaves him be, and lets him live the last of his days in peace]].

* ''Theatre/WesterosAnAmericanMusical'': The play's version of Daenerys Targaryen. "I'll Be Back" reminds the audience that she doesn't have an heir and can't have children. "The Storm's End" has her point out that the turmoil that has happened by the end of Act II would make it a good time for her to try getting the throne... but that she first needs to conquer three different major cities on another continent than the one on which the rest of the characters live. "The Storm's End" is not only the last the audience sees of her, but the last song of the entire play.
* Fortinbras in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is a looming force over the play, but has no direct impact on the main plot of Hamlet plotting his revenge for his father's murder. He shows up at the end to wonder where all the dead bodies came from, but that's about it.

* The Stranger/[[spoiler:Baldur]] from ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' ultimately comes down to this, as the story is about Kratos and Atreus trying to form a stronger father-and son-bond as they embark on a journey together, as well as spread the ashes of Atreus' mother from the highest peak in all of the realms. The Stranger tries to hinder their progress, but his reasons for doing that have nothing to do with Kratos and Atreus personally. [[spoiler:At the end, their final confrontation has nothing to do with their quest or Baldur's own mission, but over something completely unrelated: protecting his mother Freya from him, since he wanted revenge for her curse causing him to FeelNoPain.]]
* ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'': Laharl even named him Midboss because he was a seemingly unimportant villain, and he continually returns to antagonize Laharl's troupe for no apparent real reason. Subverted when it's revealed that [[spoiler:he was helping the seraph's BatmanGambit by monitoring Laharl and co. to make sure everything was going according to plan. He's also the reincarnation of Laharl's father.]]
* Walhart the Conqueror from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' has no connection to the game's main story arc involving Plegia and the ReligionOfEvil that seeks to revive the Fell Dragon Grima, he's simply the ruler of a foreign [[TheEmpire Empire]] who happens to invade at the time. He mainly exists to give the game's second act an ArcVillain, while the main plot of this act involves simply gathering {{MacGuffin}}s for the Fire Emblem. The only real plot relevant role he serves is having someone for Basilio to [[spoiler:pretend to die fighting]], and one of his underlings secretly working for the Grimleal (although this is only revealed in throwaway dialogue and isn't relevant in the grand scheme of things).
* In the ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' game, Shocker qualifies [[VideoGame/SpiderMan2 again]]! Almost every other villain has an important role in the story to some extent. Shocker is just there to get his ass whupped and foreshadow The Demons.
%%* Zed from ''VideoGame/WildArms1'' might qualify, too.

*** Mad Hatter has no actual bearing on the plot, yet his side-quest shows up by actually making you believe the plot is solved. All other sidequest villains, like Deadshot or Hush, don't even bother pretending to belong to the plot. To be fair, they can be mostly ignored. But if it's the first time you're playing the game, ignoring Mad Hatter is really hard to do. [[spoiler: And completing his sidequest reveals that he had an important role in Hugo Strange's rise to power.]]

* Most of the villains in ''VideoGame/LEGOBatman 2'' don't do anything, although most of the Batman villains do at least show up to be beaten up in the first few levels. Overlaps with ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything, considering there's at least two dozen of them.

* ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'': While immensely relevant in the first game, by the second game and especially Infinity, the P'for are completely and utterly irrelevant to the plot, as by that time the game transcends to being about the main character ascending to God hood while jumping dimensions and the P'for just amount to bring obstacles who don't do anything in the plot besides standing in your way.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', Strega actually accomplishes very little beyond being a personal nuisance to SEES and [[spoiler:killing/incapacitating Shinjiro]]. The plot to instigate TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt happens completely outside of their sphere of influence, and during the final months all they really do is start a doomsday cult that amounts to nothing more than background flavor and then fight you on the last day.
* ''VideoGame/Persona4'': The game's TrueFinalBoss is seen by many as this, especially in the original [=PS2=] version as [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere their presence was barely alluded to throughout the game]] before finally being revealed in the last few hours. [[spoiler:By the time you face Izanami, BigBad Tohru Adachi had finally been arrested for the series of murders throughout Inaba that have been the primary focus of the game's story. The game tries to justify this by revealing that Izanami was [[GreaterScopeVillain the source of Yu and Adachi's Personas]], but that falls flat because Yu had his first Velvet Room vision before he even met Izanami. Defeating Izanami is supposed to put an end to the Midnight Channel, but spin-offs render that pointless. You can even skip the fight, and still get the good ending without any indication of negative consequences. Many people believe the game would have been better off if Adachi[=/=]Ameno-sagiri was the game's final boss and Izanami's presence only served [[EndingFatigue to drag the game longer than necessary]].]] This is thankfully rectified in ''Persona 4 Golden,'' where the boss gets foreshadowed much more often.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Spelunker}} Spelunker HD]]'' has the black Spelunker, who steals items you wanted and occasionally makes you run away from a bomb. He does nothing to further the "plot," which is just to explore a dungeon, and you don't even contribute to his defeat.
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''
** The Covenant remnant in ''VideoGame/Halo4'' do nothing important in the main plot aside from being obstacles. The real threat comes from the SealedEvilInACan, the Ur-Didact, who doesn't appear until the third level of the game.
** The same thing applies to the Covies in ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'' ([[spoiler:hell, their leader is killed off at the end of the ''very first level'']]), though they do have a little more importance in the Sanghelios sections.
* [[BigBadWannabe Stretch]] from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' serves as this for Franklin-- while he does cause trouble for Franklin (mainly by tricking and doublecrossing him and [[HotBlooded Lamar]]), Franklin often completely forgets about him in the face of bigger threats. It's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when in the "death wish" ending, Trevor brings him up and Franklin's reaction is "You wanna throw him in?" (since all three protagonists are planning to get back at their respective enemies).

* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' has, along with the main plot of defending his super-suit and rescuing Princess What's-Her-Name from their main enemies, a lot of time-outs in various planets that are not much of a break since he has to contend with a variety of villains who inhabit those planets and wish to either lay claim on the suit or on his flesh. These include: Evil the Cat who welcomes any weapon that can help him into getting the universe into his planet in a handbasket, Bob the Killer Goldfish whose megalomaniacal plans fit perfectly with the suit's powers, the territorial and xenophobic redneck Chuck and Doc Duodenum who is an organ of simple pleasures content with the much humbler life-goal of consuming whatever passes through its domain. Major Mucus isn't a clear case however, as it was his desiring of the Suit and willingness to fight Psycrow over it, that led it into Jim's worm body. And Professor Monkey-for-a-Head doesn’t qualify either, as he was the one who made the suit to begin with- it was just bad luck that Jim wound up in his lair.
** The special addition and the sequel add in addition to the aforementioned ones: the eternally hungry and unstoppable Big Bruty, Pedro the Puppa who is a slimy unicycle-riding maggot with religious fundamentalist issues and a Flamin Yawn for good measure.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'': The B&B Corps are almost entirely irrelevant to the plot, to the point that you could remove almost every single instance of them and nothing would change in the narrative. They exist solely to keep up the series' tradition of having a QuirkyMinibossSquad for boss fights, except that [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid FOXHOUND]], [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Dead Cell]], and the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Cobra Unit]] were all integral to the plot and could not be easily removed.
* ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'': All Royce really serves in the plot is a boss fight at the end of the game and takes some scenes Xenobia had in the original game, and in the end isn't even needed for the story.
* Inverted with the titular antagonist of ''VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage'', as while Ripto definitely is the main threat to Avalar, the individual realms already had problems before he showed up. The most blatant case is Idol Springs, where the idols turn sentient for no reason (although it's [[AllThereInTheManual suggested]] [[AWizardDidIt that Ripto's magic]] [[HandWave caused this]]).
* In the second installment of the ''VideoGame/MegamanBattleNetwork'' series, [[ShearMenace CutMan.EXE]] is this. He only shows up to provide a boss fight and nothing else.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicShuffle'', Dr. Eggman messes around with the heroes on the boards and appears as an opponent in some mini-games, but has no relevance to the story whatsoever and doesn't even appear in Story Mode's cutscenes. The actual BigBad is Void.

* ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'' has Sweetheart. She has nothing to do with the disappearance of Basil (the driving force of Omori's wacky Headspace adventures) and yet her antics make the story longer and only serve to distract the heroes from finding Basil. [[spoiler:This was very likely invoked by Omori, as he is trying to distract Sunny from the AwfulTruth for as long as possible.]]
* ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesShreddersRevenge'' has Captain Zorax of the Triceratons. While every other villain tries to reassemble Krang's body, acts as a line of defense or at least gets in the way on purpose, Zorax spearheads an invasion that has nothing to do with the main scheme, and his troops even ignore the Foot Clan [[GangUpOnTheHuman so they can attack the heroes]]. If nothing else, their level provides a memorable setpiece.
* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': Roque and Dolcinaea, the antagonists for Partitio and Agnea respectively, have nothing to do with [[spoiler:the Moonshade Order and their plot to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, with [[IntrepidReporter Ori]] and [[LoveMartyr Tanzy]] (respectively) being their Moonshade counterparts instead.]]

* The ChristmasSpecial ''Christopher the Christmas Tree'' has a scene where a fox and weasel show up for no reason other than to lend the end of the special a little suspense by planting the idea that Christopher will be chopped down for firewood, rather than picked to be a Christmas tree.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth", where Roger is riding Stan in a horse race ([[ItMakesSenseInContext Stan's mind is temporarily in a horse's body]]). Roger mentions his regret that he doesn't have a rival to race against and make it more exciting, so when Stan points out that it isn't too late, Roger ''deliberately'' picks a fight with another jockey just to create a rival.

* ''WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero'': Rippen is this in "The Ripple Effect". His goal in that episode is to convince the cutelings to move to a planet named Ploopiter and he's not responsible for the catastrophe that made them need to move from their home planet in the first place. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Penn]] is the one who caused the trouble.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWizardOfOz'': The Wicked Witch of the West’s appearance in the episode "The Marvelous Milkmaid of Mechanica" is basically irrelevant to the plot, which is about Tin Man and his lost love Miranda trying to stop the evil ruler of Mechanica, The Clockmaker. Yes it is shown he is in a partnership with the Witch, but she largely contributes nothing to the episode itself.

* ''VideoGame/Marathon'': While immensely relevant in the first game, by the second game and especially Infinity, the P'for are completely and utterly irrelevant to the plot, as by that time the game transcends to being about the main character ascending to God hood while jumping dimensions and the P'for just amount to bring obstacles who don't do anything in the plot besides standing in your way.

* Humma Kavula from the ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' movie. Oh yes. He's given little {{backstory}}, his motives are only hinted at, and seems to exist only to push for the inclusion of the MacGuffin used to save the day at the end. No doubt if sequels were made he'd have a larger role, but sequels seem unlikely at this point. And the most aggravating point is that the movie already ''had'' villains! Do the Vogons chasing Zaphod for kidnapping the President (himself) and stealing a ship not count?

* Beauty's sisters in the original fairy-tale of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Their selfishness and meanness contrast with Beauty's goodness, but apart from manipulating Beauty into extending her home visit too long (leading to the Beast's {{Disney Death}} [[DeathByDespair By Despair]]), they have nothing to do with the central plot, which is Beauty taking her father's place as the Beast's prisoner and then gradually falling in love with him. Their villainy is so plot-irrelevant that adaptations easily leave it out altogether, either making them [[AdaptationalHeroism perfectly nice, loving sisters]] and having {{No Antagonist}} (as in the two Creator/RobinMcKinley retellings), or else replacing them with an entirely new villain like [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Disney's Gaston]].

* Walhart the Conqueror from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' has no connection to the game's main story arc involving Plegia and the ReligionOfEvil that seeks to revive the Fell Dragon Grima, he's simply the ruler of a foreign [[TheEmpire Empire]] who happens to invade at the time. He mainly exists to give the game's second act an ArcVillain, while the main plot of this act involves simply gathering [[{{MacGuffin}} MacGuffins]] for the Fire Emblem. The only real plot relevant role he serves is having someone for Basilio to [[spoiler:pretend to die fighting]], and one of his underlings secretly working for the Grimleal (although this is only revealed in throwaway dialogue and isn't relevant in the grand scheme of things).

* VideoGame/EarthwormJim has, along with the main plot of defending his super-suit and rescuing Princess What's-Her-Name from their main enemies, a lot of time-outs in various planets that are not much of a break since he has to contend with a variety of villains who inhabit those planets and wish to either lay claim on the suit or on his flesh. These include: Evil the Cat who welcomes any weapon that can help him into getting the universe into his planet in a handbasket, Bob the Killer Goldfish whose megalomaniacal plans fit perfectly with the suit's powers, the territorial and xenophobic redneck Chuck and Doc Duodenum who is an organ of simple pleasures content with the much humbler life-goal of consuming whatever passes through its domain. Major Mucus isn't a clear case however, as it was his desiring of the Suit and willingness to fight Psycrow over it, that led it into Jim's worm body. And Professor Monkey-for-a-Head doesn’t qualify either, as he was the one who made the suit to begin with- it was just bad luck that Jim wound up in his lair.

* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' has, along with the main plot of defending his super-suit and rescuing Princess What's-Her-Name from their main enemies, a lot of time-outs in various planets that are not much of a break since he has to contend with a variety of villains who inhabit those planets and wish to either lay claim on the suit or on his flesh. These include: Evil the Cat who welcomes any weapon that can help him into getting the universe into his planet in a handbasket, Bob the Killer Goldfish whose megalomaniacal plans fit perfectly with the suit's powers, the territorial and xenophobic redneck Chuck and Doc Duodenum who is an organ of simple pleasures content with the much humbler life-goal of consuming whatever passes through its domain. Major Mucus isn't a clear case however, as it was his desiring of the Suit and willingness to fight Psycrow over it, that led it into Jim's worm body. And Professor Monkey-for-a-Head doesn’t qualify either, as he was the one who made the suit to begin with- it was just bad luck that Jim wound up in his lair.

*** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'':
*** In a way, ''Bowser'' ends up in this role. His entire story arc basically comes from the fact that somebody else usurped his role of BigBad for the game and Bowser's desperate attempts to make himself relevant to the plot. Aside from serving as a boss fight in Glitzville and when he finally manages to meet Mario at the end of the game, he's around as a comic relief role. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Then he's never mentioned or seen again after Mario defeats him]].
*** Other examples of this trope include Hooktail, who has nothing to do with the BigBad and is simply just a dragon who likes to torment people ([[spoiler:granted, Hooktail, alongside her two older siblings, have connections to the Shadow Queen, but that's about it]]), the chapter 3 antagonist, who just happened to find one of the Crystal Stars and is using it for their own selfish gain, the chapter 4 antagonist [[ItAmusedMe who is just turning people into pigs for his own amusment]] [[spoiler:and steals Mario's body, though he ends up joining the Shadow Sirens after Vivian pulls a HeelFaceTurn on them]], and Cortez is just guarding his treasure.

** The Covenant remnant in ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' do nothing important in the main plot aside from being obstacles. The real threat comes from the SealedEvilInACan, the Ur-Didact, who doesn't appear until the third level of the game.

*** Other examples of this trope include Hooktail, who has nothing to do with the BigBad and is simply just a dragon who likes to torment people ([[spoiler:granted, Hooktail, alongside her two older siblings, have connections to the Shadow Queen, but that's about it]]), the chapter 3 antagonist, who just happened to find one of the Crystal Stars and is using it for their own selfish gain, the chapter 4 antagonist [[ItAmusedMe who is just turning people into pigs for his own amusment]] [[spoiler:and steals Mario's body, though he ends up joining the Shadow Sirens after Vivian pulls a HeelFaceTurn on them]], and Cortez is just guarding his tresure.

* In the movie ''Film/FiredUp'', the [[TheCheerleader stereotypical evil cheerleader captain]] of the OpposingSportsTeam is introduced as a big villain... and does nothing in her five minutes total screen time other than badmouth the good team a couple of times and have sex with the female lead's {{Jerkass}} boyfriend (who the audience knows is sleeping around, so this role could be filled by any random girl).

In other words, Bob is a villain who doesn't do anything essential to the plot.

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'': Not in the first movie, but both ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'' and ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs'' feature Mesozoic predators who stalk the main characters incidentally and show how out of water the herd really is (the marine reptiles Maelstrom and Cretaceous in the former and the ''Baryonyx'' Rudy in the latter). Averted by ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'', where Captain Gutt does directly oppose the heroes at several points, even if it was his fault for capturing them in the first place.

*** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': In a way, ''Bowser'' ends up in this role. His entire story arc basically comes from the fact that somebody else usurped his role of BigBad for the game and Bowser's desperate attempts to make himself relevant to the plot. Aside from serving as a boss fight in Glitzville and when he finally manages to meet Mario at the end of the game, he's around as a comic relief role. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Then he's never mentioned or seen again after Mario defeats him]].

** The [[TerribleTrio Team Rocket]] trio sometimes fall into this, particularly in Hoenn and Sinnoh. While they often help pivot the plot ([[NiceJobFixingItVillain or accidentally solve it]]) through their schemes, sometimes they only show up to keep up appearances, with Ash's team treating them as little more than nuisances to their own situations. Later seasons try to downplay this by [[AbsenteeActor omitting them from the occasional episode where their presence is unnecessary]]. It's played straight though in nearly all the movies, where they usually serve as comic relief.

* ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' is about Kirk and Picard joining forces to stop Soran from destroying a star so that he can rejoin the Nexus. Along the way, the recurring villains from ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' the Duras sisters show up randomly as hired guns for Soran. They could have replaced by any random thugs.

* ''Film/BruceAlmighty'', which is simply about the title character dealing with the responsibilities of being God and has only [[BitPartBadGuy a gang of low-lives]] that threaten and harass Bruce as the last straw that leads him to declare that he would be a better God.