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7	Medias: [[BigBad/AnimeAndManga Anime & Manga]] - '''Comic Books''' - [[BigBad/FanWorks Fan Works]] - [[BigBad/AnimatedFilms Animated Films]] - [[BigBad/LiveActionFilms Live-Action Films]] - [[BigBad/{{Literature}} Literature]] - [[BigBad/LiveActionTV Live-Action TV]] - [[BigBad/ProWrestling Pro Wrestling]] - [[BigBad/TabletopGames Tabletop Games]] - [[BigBad/VideoGames Video Games]] - [[BigBad/VisualNovels Visual Novels]] - [[BigBad/{{Webcomics}} Webcomics]] - [[BigBad/WebOriginal Web Original]] - [[BigBad/WesternAnimation Western Animation]] - [[BigBad/OtherMedia others]] \
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9	"The ultimate villain of the story, who's causing the problem the heroes must solve."
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11	Note that Big Bad is not a catch-all trope for the biggest and ugliest villain of any given story. The BigBad is the one who turns out to be behind several other seemingly independent threats.
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13	!!The following have their own pages:
14	[[index]]
15	* BigBad/TheDCU
16	* BigBad/MarvelUniverse
17	* BigBad/SonicTheHedgehog
18	[[/index]]
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20	!!Other Comics
21	* The BigBad of ''ComicBook/OneHundredBullets'' was for the entirety of the comic's run [[spoiler:Augustus Medici]]. This was in doubt for a while; there was a point where [[spoiler:Megan Dietrich]] seemed to be manipulating him, and toward the end it appeared he'd been OutGambitted by [[spoiler:her and the rest of the younger [[AncientConspiracy Trust]] members]], but the final issue reveals they were playing into his hands the whole time. In the end, though, the one thing he didn't count on was [[spoiler:TheDragon, Agent Graves, having [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]]]].
22	* ''ComicBook/AmericanVampire'' has several characters competing for the spot over its run. Skinner Sweet is originally one, but he is outclassed by other strong contenders such as {{Dracula}} and [[HumanoidAbomination The Gray Trader]]. The role is ultimately taken by [[spoiler:The Beast, an AncientEvil served by the Gray Trader]].
23	* ''ComicBook/AngelCatbird'' has the RatMen-based Dr. A. Muroid. A rat {{Shapeshift\|ing}}er who wants to create a race of rat people who will ingratiate themselves into every level of government, and from there, have them lead a systematic massacre of the cat-people species.
24	* UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar in the ComicBook/{{Asterix}} comics; almost every comic involves undoing one of his schemes to gain control over the village or its powers; however, the series later recasts Brutus as the GreaterScopeVillain, mixing him up a bit with Octavian. And that is without counting all the times that Caesar is the GreaterScopeVillain to some other political leader or prefect and the times that someone acts as TheStarscream to him and is a BigBad of his own accord.
25	* ''ComicBook/TheAtomicThunderbolt'': [[TheDon The Chief]], the crime boss who tried to steal Rhonne's secrets.
26	* ''ComicBook/BackToBrooklyn'': Paul "The Wall" Saetta. When he hears his brother is willing to talk to the cops after finding out his Snuff Film fetish he kidnaps Bob's family.
27	* In ''Beast Wars: The Ascending'', Big Convoy notes that the building they're about to go into has that "Big Bad ambiance."
28	%%* In the AnthologyComic ''ComicBook/TheBeano'', Baby Face Finlayson is used as a Big Bad in a number of the longer strips by the artist Kev F Sutherland.
29	* ''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'':
30	** ''Somewhere Within the Shadows'': [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ivo Statoc]], the one behind Natalia's murder.]]
31	** ''Arctic Nation'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Huk]], the spokesman for the [[TheKlan Arctic Nation]] responsible for Kylie's disappearance.
32	** ''Silent Hell'': [[spoiler:[[SnakeOilSalesman Faust [=LaChapelle=] Dupre]], who orchestrated Sebastian's death in order to prevent him from exposing his corruption.]]
33	* ''ComicBook/CaptainGravity'': Jaeger is a Nazi who tricked Century Films into shooting a movie at the Maya ruins at Chichen Itza to cover up his search for Element 115, which he plans to turn over to his party.
34	* ''ComicBook/CaptainVictory'': Count Ratzig, a Nazi agent trying to make a South American nation join the Axis.
35	* ''ComicBook/{{Chlorophylle}}'': Anthracite is the man behind the murders in "Les Croquillards".
36	* ''ComicBook/DannyPhantomAGlitchInTime'': [[EvilCounterpart Dark Danny]], [[TheHero Danny Phantom's]] [[FutureMeScaresMe evil self from an averted future]], who's accidentally freed from his [[SealedEvilInACan Fenton Thermos]] by Danny's ArchEnemy Vlad Plasmius. After being freed, he proceeds to merge with [[TimeMaster Clockwork]] and uses his new time-manipulating ability and power boost to try to destroy Danny's HappilyEverAfter, having been deprived of his.
37	* ''ComicBook/TheDarkness'': [[LightIsNotGood The Angeulus]], the embodiment of light and is the equal and opposite force of the Darkness.
38	* ''ComicBook/DeathSentence'' has David "Monty" Montgomery, a depraved, self-absorbed comedian who gains the power to force almost anyone to do almost anything.
39	* ''ComicBook/{{Democracy}}'': Echekratis fills this role, which is actually ironic since, in RealLife, Isagoras was Kleisthenis' opponent in politics. However, he has much bigger impact on the protagonist's life (he is the one who ordered his bodyguard to kill Leander's dad) and his rhetoric talks are what convinced the Athenians to vote for Isagoras, making him the reason behind his success.
40	* ''ComicBook/{{Dinocorps}}'' has Jarek, the [[FantasticRacism racist]] OmnicidalManiac who tries to exterminate all humans by blowing up the world.
41	* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Creator/DonRosa's stories tend to have [[EvilOldFolks Blackheart Beagle]], the leader and founder of the Beagle Boys. He even eventually recruits all the other recurring villains into his LegionOfDoom. Flintheart Glomgold would also play this role.
42	* ''ComicBook/ElKuraan'': [[CorruptPolitician The Pasha]] trying to drive the Santar tribe out of their land.
43	* ''ComicBook/ElMarvo'' has Sokrates, who rules over [[AfterTheEnd the Post-Apocalyptic Earth, now known as "Muck"]], with an iron fist.
44	* Winnowill from ''ComicBook/ElfQuest''. She's not behind ''all'' the misery in the series (HumansAreBastards, after all), but close.
45	** Once the humans get technologically advanced enough to become a ''real'' threat for the heroes, Winnowill starts manipulating ''them'' as well.
46	** In the early series [[spoiler: Two Edge]] would be one of these, he manipulates even [[spoiler: his mother, Winnowill]] but is too sympathetic, more of an AntiVillain, turning to AntiHero [[spoiler: after his sanity is restored]]
47	* ''ComicBook/Elsewhere2017'': Lord Kragen is this for the first volume, being TheUsurper to the throne of Korvath who rules over the land with an iron fist.
48	* ''ComicBook/ElvisShrugged'': Col. Parker, who back in the 1970s was trying to keep Elvis from abandoning his status as "the King of Rock N Roll" in order to perform in Sondheim's ''[[Theatre/CompanySondheim Company]]'', and, when he couldn't keep Elvis under his control, created a clone from skin samples.
49	* ''ComicBook/eJunky'' has [[spoiler: Banastre Tarleton]] aka X, the leader of [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters The Guardians of Pain]], a group that believes pain and suffering is essential to survival and intrinsic to the human experience and therefore take [[WellIntentionedExtremist extreme measures]] to [[TransferableMemory share painful and traumatic memories]] with people and prevent the [[OneNationUnderCopyright World Corporation Organization]] from mandating the use of [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul EMO-REGs]]. [[spoiler: Shockingly, the idea behind the [[EvilPlan plot]] was conceived of by [[TheProtagonist protagonist]] [[HardboiledDetective Hector Holmes]], an [[LaserGuidedAmnesia amnesiac]] former member of the Guardians!]]
50	* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'': The Adversary/[[spoiler:Geppeto]], the leader and founder of the Empire and the one who drove the Fables from the Homelands. After his defeat in issue 75 the role shifts to [[spoiler:Mr. Dark]].
51	** "The Great Fable Crossover": [[spoiler:[[ChekhovesGunman Kevin Thorn]], [[GodIsEvil the creator of the Fables and their world]] who begins to exploit his power after his memories are restored, before deciding to destroy the entire universe.]]
52	* ''ComicBook/FairyQuest'': Mister Grimm rules the land of Fablewood like a tyrant, ensuring all its inhabitants follow their stories to the letter. Any who don't do as their stories say are rounded up by Mister Grimm's Think Police and put through the Mind Eraser.
53	* ''ComicBook/TheFoxHunt'': Mr. Smile, the young, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity two-faced]] CEO of Bright Industries who's had his plans thwarted more than once by The Fox. The mini-series sees him place a bounty for The Fox's head, directly causing the primary conflicts of the story, for both The Fox and his son.
54	* In the graphic novel prequel to ''[[Film/Godzilla2014 Godzilla]]'', ''Godzilla: Awakening'', the BigBad is the Shinomura, a [[TheWormThatWalks gestalt being composed of countless smaller organisms]], it's a [[{{Kaiju}} Titan]] that feeds on radiation like [[Characters/MonsterverseGodzilla Godzilla]]. Unlike Godzilla, its voracious hunger leads it to attack humans' nuclear material, with all the horrendous collateral damage that implies. Worse, the more it feeds, the more it grows, and it soon threatens to reach a size that even Godzilla can't overcome.
55	%%* Dreadwing from ''ComicBook/GoldDigger''.
56	* ''ComicBook/TheGreenGiant'': [[TheDon Samuel "Smiley" Gleason]] is the mastermind of the counterfeit ring.
57	* ''ComicBook/GrimmFairyTales''
58	** The Dark One. In other books in the Grimmverse, he's usually being responsible for the BigBad of those title.
59	** The Jabberwocky does the same for most of ''The Wonderland Trilogy'', being sidelined for most of it until ''Escape from Wonderland'' where he takes center stage.
60	* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'': Akakios, AKA [[spoiler:Samhain]], the one who created the Slashers as a whole.
61	* ''ComicBook/HadriansWall'': The BigBad is [[spoiler: Commander Willow, the leader of a group of [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Thetan rebels]] seeking to acquire [[{{Unobtanium}} anzinite]] with which they can [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up Earth]]. However, the [[BigBadDuumvirate Antares Interspace Corporation representative Marshall Cameron and astrophysicist Dr. Selina F. Laurent]] are also [[BigBadEnsemble Big Bads]]. While they're the turncoats trying to sell the anzinite to the rebels, they're actually trying to scam them, as the decay rate of the type of anzinite recovered would render it useless before it can be employed against Earth. Laurent is furthermore the one responsible for the [[DrivingQuestion murder that kickstarts the plot]].]]
62	* ''ComicBook/{{Heathentown}}'': The [[OurZombiesAreDifferent undead]] living in the [[SwampsAreEvil Florida Everglades]] outside the [[TownWithADarkSecret tiny town of Las Flores]], who hunt the protagonist Anna Romano after mistaking her for an initiate into their "community."
63	%%* ''{{ComicBook/Haunt}}'': Mr. Hurg
64	%%* ''{{ComicBook/Hellboy}}'': The Ordru Jahad.
65	* ''ComicBook/HybridForce'': The leader of Testify is Dr. Insomnia, so called because he is unable to sleep. He's an EvilutionaryBiologist who's created an army of [[HalfHumanHybrid human-animal/plant people]] to help him TakeOverTheWorld [[WellIntentionedExtremist for its own good]].
66	* ''ComicBook/HyperThePhenomenal'': Boris, mastermind of the chemical theft.
67	* ''ComicBook/JupiterJet'' has Pluto.
68	* ''ComicBook/JurassicStrikeForceFive'' has Master Zalx, an alien EvilOverlord who wants to take over the universe and will kill anyone in his way.
69	* ''ComicBook/KismetManOfFate'': {{Satan}} himself is the puppet master behind the Third Reich.
70	%%* ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' has a few borderline examples, but the clearest-cut is probably [[spoiler:Moriarty]].
71	* ''{{ComicBook/Invincible}}'': Thragg
72	* ''ComicBook/LockeAndKey'' has [[ManipulativeBastard Dodge]]. The entire plot is driven by his schemes to not only escape his own [[SealedEvilInACan imprisonment]], but to also get ahold of the Omega Key and use it to [[spoiler: unleash the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s behind the Black Door]].
73	* ''ComicBook/LongAgoAndFarAway'' has the Evil Witch-Queen Nexis, whom Jason defeated years ago as a [[KidHero kid]].
74	* Max in ''ComicBook/TheLosers''.
75	* The DarkerAndEdgier ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' album ''The Man Who Shot Lucky Luke'' has a weird case of a character being BigBad without knowing it. [[spoiler: Old man Bones is an AbusiveParent who doesn't actually plan the crime at the centre of the story, but whose behaviour drives his AntiVillain sons into committing it. (He's not the victim, either, but an unknowing beneficiary of the crime.) He's also the one who causes the bad things that happen to his sons, as well as the one who tries to shoot Lucky Luke in the back. So yes, he's basically behind everything, though he only knows about some of it.]]
76	* In the Image series ''Lullaby'', provider of the page quote, the Big Bad is, indeed a book. A mesmerizing book that uses a powerful wizard (who appears to be a male version of the Wicked Witch of the West), captivated by its majesty, to gather power and enforce its will.
77	* The main villain of the ''ComicBook/{{Madballs}}'' comic book published by defunct Creator/MarvelComics subsidiary Star Comics was Dr. Viktor Frankenbeans, a MadScientist who was obsessed with capturing the Madballs so he could study them and make them his slaves.
78	* ''ComicBook/TheMarksman'': [[spoiler:Major Strapp]]/[[DiabolicalMastermind The Sewer Rat]], an underground criminal mastermind trying to rob the United States military.
79	* ''ComicBook/MasterMystic'': [[MadScientist Rango of Slovania]], a MadScientist out to annihilate the countries that stopped his plans to TakeOverTheWorld.
80	%%* ''ComicBook/MegaRoboBros'' has Robot 23 from book 1, and [[spoiler: Wolfram]] from book 2 and book 3.
81	* ''ComicBook/TheMiceTemplar'' has King Icarus, a vicious tyrant who's trying to purge the world of all Templars.
82	* In the ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse, the two most frequent {{Big Bad}}s are {{WesternAnimation/Pete}} and the Phantom Blot, who on occasion form a BigBadDuumvirate -- though Pete sometimes (especially in alternate-continuity series like ''ComicBook/WizardsOfMickey'') gets the role as TheDragon.
83	* The Creator/MilestoneComics universe had a ton of nasty baddies, but the biggest of them was Holocaust, a pyromaniac thug, son of Dakota City's mayor, and former member of Blood Syndicate who later went on to be the most recurring and influential villain within the series and its various titles, butting heads with nearly ''every'' hero at some point. Fittingly, ''Milestone Forever'' ends with his conclusive death. While many of the comic's big titles like ComicBook/{{Static}} and ComicBook/{{Icon}} had no central BigBad, a few of the other titles and arcs had a BigBad of their own:
84	** ''Deathwish'' had Boots, a twisted, albino serial killer and serial rapist with a twisted, murderous obsession with transsexuals -- including the comic's lead, transsexual cop Marisa Rahm -- who's heavily hinted to be transgender himself.
85	** ''ComicBook/Hardware1993'' had Edwin Alva, Hardware's surrogate father, arch-enemy, and a corrupt, powerful CEO who heads Alva Industries. [[spoiler:Interestingly enough, Hardware eventually stopped fighting with him and eventually took him back on his offer to become his heir -- and Alva closed off his arc by sacrificing his life to save countless innocent lives.]]
86	** ''Shadow Cabinet'' had Headmaster during the ''Shadow War'' storyline, a rogue member of Shadow Cabinet who formed Star Chamber, a group of superhumans who aimed for global conquest. [[spoiler:Headmaster is supplanted at the last moment by Dr. Nemo, the inventor of Q Juice, who hijacks Headmaster's own scheme in an attempt to kill ninety percent of humanity and mutate the rest into Bang Babies.]]
87	** ''Worlds Collide'' had Rift, a former mailman named Fred Benten who also happened to live simultaneous lives in both the Milestone universe and the DC universe, leading to characters like Edwin Alva to try and exploit his bizarre powers. This just ended up mutating him into a reality-warping nightmare that threatened ''both'' realities.
88	* ''{{ComicBook/JudgeDredd}}'' has Judge Death leader of the Dark Judges.
89	* In ''ComicBook/NextMen'', Aldus Hiltop appears to be this, but the true Big Bad is [[spoiler: Sathanas]].
90	* ''ComicBook/PhantomFlyer'': [[StupidJetpackHitler Von Trapp]], the Nazi scientist making giant Nazis.
91	* ''ComicBook/{{Reyn}}'' has Brother M'Thall, a prominent figure in the Venn race who has enslaved most of humanity and is trying to drive them to extinction.
92	* ''ComicBook/SavageDragon'': Overlord was the first along with his two sucessors,Then Cyberface,then Damien Darklord,and Finally Emperor Kurr.
93	* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'': Gideon Gordon Graves from who single-handedly founded the League of Evil Exes that Scott must overcome in order to date Ramona.
94	* Herr Wallenquist could likely be considered the main villain in ''ComicBook/SinCity'' since he has had a hand in many of the storyarcs. He was Maxwell Lord's main business partner in ''A Dame To Kill For'', sent Manute to retrieve Jackie Boy's head and take over Old Town in ''Big Fat Kill'', and was the Colonel's boss in ''Hell and Back'' just to name a few. But he's a bit of a NobleDemon in this world, so he rarely comes across as this.
95	* The ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' comics have at least one for each storyline:
96	** ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'' stories: Varied, but the Tagge family and Lumiya were always popping up.
97	** ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire'' and ''Empire's End'': [[YouClonedHitler The cloned Palpatine]].
98	** ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'': Naga Sadow, Exar Kun.
99	** ''Boba Fett'': Orko the Hutt.
100	** ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'': The first half of the series comprises five arcs who each have their own Big Bad (Moff Boren Tascl, Captain Loka Hask, Captain Marl Semtin, Moff Leonia Tavira and Girov Dza'tey). The second half comprises the "Rise of Isard" storyline, which has Ysanne Isard.
101	** ''ComicBook/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'': Prince Xizor.
102	** ''Crimson Empire'': Carnor Jax, though Burr Nolyds and Xandel Carivus took over for very short periods. TheManBehindTheMan for [[UpperClassTwit the latter two]] was Nom Anor of the Yuuzhan Vong.
103	** ''Leviathan'': The titular creature.
104	** ''Mara Jade'': Dequc
105	** ''Republic'': Palpatine overall, with Iaco Stark, Volffe Karkko, Sora Bulq and Count Dooku filling in for stories based on the non-movie characters.
106	** ''Darth Maul'': Alexi Garyn.
107	** ''Jedi Council'': The Yinchorri Council of Elders [[spoiler: manipulated by Palpatine]].
108	** ''Jedi vs. Sith'': Lord Kaan, Darth Bane.
109	** ''Underworld'': Jozzel.
110	** ''Empire'': Grand Moff Trachta.
111	** ''Obsession'': Asajj Ventress, Durge.
112	** ''Rogue Leader'': General Weir.
113	** ''General Grievous'': The title character.
114	** ''Purge'': Darth Vader.
115	** ''Knights of the Old Republic'': [[spoiler: Haazen]] for the Covenant arc, [[spoiler: Demagol]] for the Crucible arc, and [[spoiler: Dorjander Kace]] for the ''War'' miniseries.
116	** ''Rebellion'': The Empire as a whole.
117	** ''Legacy'': Darth Krayt, then Darth Wyyrlok, then [[spoiler: the resurrected Darth Krayt]].
118	** ''Dark Times'': Vader again.
119	** ''Vector'': Karness Muur.
120	** ''The Clone Wars'': Palpatine.
121	** ''Knight Errant'': Most likely [[EvilOldFolks Vilia Calimondra]], the EvilMatriarch behind the feuding sibling and cousin Sith Lords ripping the galaxy apart, although she herself hasn't actually shown up yet.
122	** ''Invasion'': The BigBadDuumvirate of [[BloodKnight Tsalok]] and [[MadScientist Nagme]], with [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership Warmaster Tsavong Lah]] of ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' fame as the GreaterScopeVillain.
123	** ''Dawn of the Jedi'' looks to be setting up a BigBadEnsemble with [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Predor Skal'nas]] and [[FallenHero Daegen Lok]] as the primary players. Though, considering that Daegen Lok became a FallenHero because the the Jedai'i (precursors to the Jedi) dismissed his vision of the coming Rakata (of which Skal'nas is one), and exiled him to the unpopulated moon of Bogan, and considering his intent is to save the Jedai'i (albeit using [[WellIntentionedExtremist extreme methods]]), his status as BigBad is up in the air. Especially now that the Jedai'i leaders have come to realize that Lok's vision is coming true.
124	** ''Lost Tribe of the Sith'' has Baron Remulus Dreypa, one of the twelve founding Sith Lords, coming off of several thousand years [[SealedEvilInACan stuffed in a can]].
125	** ''Blood Ties: A Tale of Jango and Boba Fett'' has the crime lord Tayand, who put a bounty on Connor Freeman, son of one of Fett's clones.
126	** In ''Blood Ties: Boba Fett Is Dead'' [[spoiler: (he's not, of course)]], the BigBad is Purton, governor of Concord Dawn, who wants to kill Fett and all his loved ones (Fett does have a few, believe it or not) because Fett killed his son for "no reason." Fett's ex-wife Sintas Vel reveals to Purton that Fett killed his son because [[spoiler: the younger Purton raped her, and Fett refused to explain to spare Sintas being made a spectacle.]]
127	* ''ComicBook/{{Spook}}'': Mr. Nobody is ultimately behind the attack on NATO, on Calley and all of the other machinations.
128	* ''{{ComicBook/Spawn}}'':Malebolgia,Mammon,and Sinn/Cogliostro
129	* Henry Bendix in [[Creator/WarrenEllis Ellis's]] ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}} and [[Creator/EdBrubaker Brubaker's]] ComicBook/TheAuthority.
130	* ''Malesur'' in ''ComicBook/{{Tellos}}''.
131	* ''{{Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles}}'' usually have Shredder aka Oroku Saki in most versions
132	** The Mirage comics avert this with Shredder being just an arc villain.
133	** The Archie Comics play it straight with Shredder and Krang for the first half then later Null takes over the role.
134	** The IDW version also had Shredder and Krang for the first half then Kitsune takes over before issue 100. Rat King is this in the Armageddon event.
135	** ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesXStrangerThings:'' The Mind Flayer serves as the main antagonist of the comic, as it's responsible for all the bad stuff happening to New York and is planning to drag New York into its realm of the Upside-Down.
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137	** ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesVsStreetFighter:''[[Characters/StreetFighterTheFourKings M. Bison]] is the mastermind behind the plot of the comic to kidnap fighters and siphon their power to use them to create Psycho Bombs to blackmail the world to his will.
138	* Arguably Rastapopolous from ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'', if simply for his sheer number of appearances and the subordinate relationships that many other recurring villains (Allan, M?r, Dawson, etc.) have with him. Rastapopolous is one of the few recurring villains in Tintin; the comics tend to go for a new one every time.
139	* ''ComicBook/TrakkMonsterHunter'' has Vaquoul, a MonsterProgenitor who's used his own blood to create every monster in human mythology.
140	* ''ComicBook/{{The Transformers\|Marvel}}'' went through several Big Bads, due to the frequent changes in leadership of the Decepticons. Megatron, the most iconic of the Decepticon leaders, was only in command for less than a quarter of the book's original run! Shockwave, Ratbat, and Scorponok are the others who led the Earth-bound Decepticons (Soundwave also led them in the UK comic during a period when Megatron and Shockwave were both MIA), Straxus, Thunderwing, and Bludgeon were among the prominent Cybertron-based leaders, and Galvatron was mostly only a Big Bad in the UK comics, whereas in the US series he was more of a WildCard (and explicitly a [[AlternateTimeline different version of Galvatron]] from the UK one anyway, coming from a BadFuture where Unicron wasn't destroyed).
141	** Megatron did return to his proper Big Bad status in ''ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2'', though it was shared with [[TheRival Jhiaxus]] and his Cybertronian Empire, which itself was subordinate to the Liege Maximo.
142	** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRegenerationOne'' had a separate Big Bad for each of its four arcs: Megatron, Scorponok, Bludgeon, and Jhiaxus. All of which were surpassed by [[spoiler:the [[EldritchAbomination Dark Matrix entity]]]].
143	* The Creator/IDWPublishing ''[[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Transformers]]'' universe also re-established Megatron as the Big Bad up through ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersAllHailMegatron All Hail Megatron]]''. Though he would return with a few more schemes before ''Dark Cybertron'', Megatron's role as a Big Bad was diminished after AHM due to changing politics on Cybertron as well as others launching their own schemes.
144	** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDarkCybertron'': Shockwave tries to collapse all of reality so that Cybertron and its inhabitants are the only thing in existence.
145	** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersCombinerWars'': It's Starscream's time to step up as the main villain. His plan to unite the lost colonies of Cybertron under his rule, and his implementation of the dangerous powerful combiners sets the plot in motion.
146	** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDrift'': In the original comic it's Braid, leader of the Slavers and biggest threat to the Circle of Light. In Empire of Stone: It's Gigatron, a Decepticon warlord who intends to raise the stone army and reignite the flame of Decepticon Conquest after Megatron had disbanded the group.
147	* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'': {{President\|Evil}} Gary Callahan AKA The Smiler. In their first meeting, he promises to place [[TheHero Spider Jerusalem's]] misery as top priority, and backs up that claim with gusto (while trying to kill him every once in awhile). He is the [[ArchNemesis personification of everything Spider hates]] in the CrapsackWorld, and so everything Spider does in the series traces back to his efforts to take down his ArchNemesis.
148	* ''ComicBook/TheUnfunnies'': Troy Hicks, a mad cartoonist turning the world he created into his personal dystopia.
149	* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': [[EvilOverlord Lord Hikiji]], who killed Lord Mifune and Usagi's father, is ''technically'' this, although since the comic started he's been DemotedToExtra with [[DragonInChief Lord Hebi]] and [[KnightTemplar Jei-san]] having effectively taken his place as main villains.
150	* ''{{ComicBook/Vampirella}}'': Mad God Chaos.
151	* Toyo Harada for the majority of {{Creator/ValiantComics}} universe.
152	* [[spoiler:Ozymandias]] of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is an interesting example as, while his deeds are certainly worthy of proper BigBad status, he's occasionally a [[AntiVillain sympathetic character]].
153	* Alan Moore's ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm run had [[spoiler: [[ManipulativeBastard TAO]] who would also be the big bad of Sleeper. ]]
154	** Helspont is also the big bad for most of the Wildcats.
155	* ''ComicBook/WonderManFox'': [[TheCaligula General Attilla]].
156	* ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' comics has the following Big Bads:
157	** Part I: Phobos
158	** Part II: Nerissa
159	** Part III: Ari
160	** Part IV: Endarno aka [[spoiler:Phobos]]
161	** Part V: Jonathan Ludmoore
162	** Part VI: Tecla Ibsen
163	** Part VII: Dark Mother
164	** Part VIII: Takeda
165	** However the most popular is Phobos as the Big Bad for the entire series.
166	* ''{{ComicBOOk/Witchblade}}'' had Kenneth Irons for the First half of the series and later Curator/Survivor for the second half.
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