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1->''"I know what you've done. The Salamancas... they do not. Do you understand what I'm saying? Look at me. From now on: You. Are. Mine."''
2-->-- '''Gustavo Fring''', ''Series/BetterCallSaul''
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4{{Big Bad}}s die. That is a fact of any story... [[TheBadGuyWins most]] [[DownerEnding of]] [[YankTheDogsChain the]] [[InvincibleVillain time.]] That being said, when the BigBad dies too early in the story's narrative, when due to the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil, a KlingonPromotion, or being on the wrong end of EvilerThanThou, it quite expected that a new guy will somehow take his place, usually with his own {{Mooks}} to do his dirty work.
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8Mook Carrryover is when Mooks of the previous BigBad (TheDragon, TheEvilGenius, the PerkyFemaleMinion or just the GoldFishPoopGang) end up working for the new guy. How they managed to avoid death by either the hand of TheHero or their new boss varies: [[TheStarscream they may have betrayed their own boss,]] [[NotQuiteDead or were only mostly killed by the hero, and pitched their resume to the new guy.]] [[TheMole Or they may have been always working for the new blood, and just pretending to be loyal to the other one.]] Whatever the case, they are a familiar face among a bunch of new villains. This trope can be considered the Inversion of ReplacementMooks.
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10Whether they are still effective or not depends on whether they [[VillainForgotToLevelGrind remembered to keep their skills sharp,]] [[CannonFodder assuming they were very skilled in the first place.]]
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18* In ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'', after the Muhou Ryuu takes over Unbara, all the opposing Ryuu who weren't exterminated were hired instead. Specifically, the ninja disciples of the Tamagakushi Ryuu are hired as part of the SpearCarrier scores defending the castle.
19* ''Anime/OnePiece'''s [[Anime/OnePieceTheMovie first]] and [[Anime/ClockworkIslandAdventure second]] movies feature a bumbling trio called Danny, Donny, and Denny, who migrated from the former's BigBad El Drago to the latter's Bear King. Though, their role under Bear King is more a glorified cameo than anything else.
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23* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': Manute goes to work for Wallenquist after Ava Lord's death.
24* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In ''Comicbook/SuperiorSpiderMan'', After Spider-Man [[spoiler: who is actually ComicBook/DoctorOctopus in Peter Parker's body]] kills members of his RoguesGallery, their surviving mooks seek protection and employment from [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn the Green Goblin]].
25* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy'', when Darth Krayt dies, the entire Sith Empire works for Darth Wyyrlok for a while [[spoiler: until Krayt comes BackFromTheDead]].
26* ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'': The mooks of the series are just guys in cool armor with guns. When Swordsman bribes/hires a bunch of them for himself, while staging a coup against ComicBook/NormanOsborn, he spraypaints them in his colors. They don't last long, but they are mooks who get a palette swap and a new boss.
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30* ''Fanfic/{{Webwork}}'': Attempted but subverted when Jade finds the Enforcer trio so she can recruit them, but before she can make her proposition, they realize what's likely to happen and run for it.
31* The ''Fanfic/JWITCHSeries'':
32** After the Dark Hand is defeated in "J-WITCH Meets The J-Team!", Cedric and Daolon Wong take Finn, Ratso and Chow with them to Phobos, who forces them to work for him because he needs information on Earth. Later, after the original Dark Chi Warriors are imprisoned by Uncle, Wong transforms the Enforcers into their replacements.
33** In "A Shady Service", Wong starts using the Shadowkhan. And unlike in canon, he doesn't stop after one use, continuing to employ them as enforcers for Phobos' regime — at least until Tarakudo enters the story.
34** Hak Foo eventually quits the Dark Hand and ends up becoming a Dark Chi Warrior when he infiltrates Phobos' castle and impresses both the prince and Wong with his battle prowess.
35** As per canon, Season 2 sees several of Phobos' former minions recruited by Nerrisa and Drago to create the Knights of Vengeance.
36** The Ice Crew act as Valmont's ReplacementMooks in Season 1 after the Enforcers get snatched by Wong, but eventually quit after he can't afford to pay them anymore. They then later reappear in Season 2 and seek out the Knights to join them in order to get revenge on the J-WITCH team.
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40* Film/JamesBond:
41** Jaws somehow survives being dropped into a shark tank in the middle of the ocean at the end of ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. When the original [[TheDragon Dragon]] is killed in ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'', Jaws is hired as his replacement. Justified by the vague implication he was a freelance ProfessionalKiller rather than a loyal minion of Stromberg's.
42** In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', Primo (nicknamed "Cyclops" by Bond) finds employment in Safin's group after the demise of Spectre.
43* The character Ogre in ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'' shows up in the sequel in a different chapter of the Alpha Beta fraternity. The brothers he had in the original film are all gone, apparently defeated. Although later, [[spoiler:they ditch Ogre after he's served his purpose as dumb muscle, leaving him to join the all-accepting nerds as ''their'' dumb muscle]].
44* Lobo, the hulking henchman played by Tor Johnson in ''Film/BrideOfTheMonster'' shows up again under a different Big Bad in ''Film/NightOfTheGhouls'', heavily scarred and apparently undead.
45* Throughout the course of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', many of the mobsters' goons turn to ComicBook/TheJoker (after some "auditions").
46* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has an interesting one. The clones were created by the Jedi, and they continued to serve the Empire, and one Jedi in particular. Also, pretty much all the Imperials in the ExpandedUniverse who don't fall under DefectorFromDecadence.
47** ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' revealed that by the time of the original trilogy the clones had all retired and been replaced by conventional soldiers with relatively poor training; the armor style is just similar. ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' goes into further detail, with Clones enforcing the peace Palpatine's Empire achieved by the end of war, while setting the ground for [[ChangingOfTheGuard Stormtroopers to help out once the Clones themselves have aged out]].
48** In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', the First Order also uses stormtroopers but they're specified not to be clones, though they fight like them without any of their genetic weaknesses such as accelerated aging.
49* A deleted scene in ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'', the robot duplicates were somehow able to send the same fear based nooks after Bill and Ted that The Devil used to torture them in Hell.
50* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Magneto inherits Sebastian Shaw's henchmen after his FaceHeelTurn.
51* In ''Film/DemolitionMan'', Associate Bob works for whoever's taking the lead at the moment: first Dr. Cocteau, then Simon Phoenix, then Edgar Friendly (an implicit HeelFaceTurn).
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55* In the ''Literature/LoneWolf'' books, the death of all the Darklords at the end of the Magnakai series sure throws their troops in complete disarray and makes them an easy pick for the forces of Good, but it doesn't lead to their complete destruction. Thus, in the Grand Master series, slews of [[{{Mooks}} Giaks]], [[EliteMooks Drakkarim]], [[GiantFlyer Kraan, Zlanbeasts]], [[MookLieutenant Vordaks]], [[TheUndead Helghast]], [[EvilSorcerer Nadziranim]] and other foul monsters still exist, although for the most part locked in civil wars in the Darklands. The aim of some of the new antagonists, like Archdruid Cadak or High Warlord Magnaarn, is precisely to regain control of these armies and resume conquest of Magnamund.
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59* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'':
60** After Darken Rahl, ruler of D'Hara, is killed in the first book, large portions of his armies end up working as the expeditionary forces for the BigBad for the rest of the series.
61** Also semi-inverted, in that the ''rest'' of Rahl's armies pledge allegience to the ''hero'', Richard, after Rahl is killed. Richard at first believes this is a simple case of YouKillItYouBoughtIt, but later finds out [[spoiler:that it's because he's [[LukeIAmYourFather Rahl's rightful heir]].]]
62* In ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}'', after [[spoiler:[[EvilOverlord the Lord Ruler]]'s]] death, many of his most powerful minions, notably [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Koloss]] and [[ImplacableMan Inquisitors]], start working for new BigBad [[spoiler:Ruin]]. Justified in this case because the Lord Ruler created these beings and built a psychic "back door" into them so that he could always control them; with him out of the way, the far more powerful [[spoiler:Ruin]] was equally capable of exploiting said "door". His human minions are a much more mixed bag, with some joining the heroes and others various BigBadWannabe kings.
63* Across Creator/JRRTolkien's Middle-Earth, many of the same creatures that once served [[{{Satan}} Morgoth]] transferred their loyalty to [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]] when he took over as BigBad. In this case, that would be because Sauron was TheDragon to Morgoth, so most of these minions would have been used to taking orders from him anyway. Notably, however, the EliteMooks such as the Balrog, the Dragons, the smarter Drakes, and possibly the mysterious Vampires that are mentioned exactly twice in the Silmarillion do ''not'' switch sides, something that Gandalf mentions Sauron finds irritating. Sauron makes up for this by breeding colossal armies of individually-weak Orcs, which are both far more pliant and far less like to assert independence.
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67* ''Series/TwentyFour'' after Erwich is killed by his superior, his remaining goons turn to him.
68* In the Series/ArrowVerse, Laurel Lance's Earth-2 doppelgäanger Black Siren has been TheDragon for a number of {{Big Bad}}s -- first Zoom on ''Series/TheFlash2014'' before she was transferred to ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' where she served that same role for Prometheus, Cayden James, and Ricardo Diaz, before her HeelFaceTurn and becoming a semi-ally to Team Arrow.
69* At the end of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Season 1, she kills TheMaster, but the Annointed One is still around to be the BigBad of Season 2 -- except early in Season 2, Spike comes along and kills ''him'', taking over his operation.
70* ''Series/ChouseiKantaiSazerX'': The SpacePirates Descal make use of the Gig Fighters, the MechaMooks originally used by the villains in ''Series/ChouseishinGransazer''.
71* Officer Braca (later Lieutenant) in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' was second-in-command to most of the series' {{Big Bad}}s, in order. He just kept trading up.
72* After Führer Geisel unseats Emperor Banba at the end of the original ''Series/{{Inazuman}}'' series, many of Banba's [[{{Mooks}} Phantom Soldiers]] became soldiers in the new Despar Army, with those who stayed loyal to him being executed.
73* ''Franchise/KamenRider''
74** Foundation X lack their own {{Mook}} force. As such, whenever they pop in {{crossover}}s, they tend to borrow the mooks of other villain factions instead. They use [[Series/KamenRiderDouble Masquerade Dopants]], [[Series/KamenRiderOOO Waste Yummies]] and [[Series/KamenRiderFourze Dustards]] in ''[[Film/KamenRiderXKamenRiderFourzeAndOOOMovieWarMegamax Megamax]]'' and [[Series/KamenRiderExAid modified Bugsters]] and [[Series/KamenRiderBuild Guardians]] in ''[[Film/KamenRiderHeiseiGenerationsFinalBuildAndExAidWithLegendRiders Heisei Generations Final]]''.
75** In the climax of ''Film/KamenRiderHeiseiGenerationsForever'', the BigBad summons nearly every kind of {{Mook}} in the series to do battle against the united Heisei Kamen Riders.
76* Discussed by the orc Adar in ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''. He informs Galadriel that after Morgoth's defeat, many Orcs chose to follow Sauron and travelled in Forodwaith to hide. There, Sauron started to make use the Orcs as lab rats for his own ambitions. Tired of seeing his children sacrificed and murdered, Adar kills Sauron (or so he thinks), and tries to treat the Orcs better than any of his predecessors. He is the only one the Orcs follow out of genuine respect and love, and not fear.
77* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' / ''Franchise/SuperSentai'':
78** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' has Lord Zedd usurp Rita Repulsa as the series villain, but he keeps all of Rita's old henchmen under his employ (they technically always worked for him anyway). He even upgrades the Putties to be [[EliteMooks tougher]], provided nobody hit the [[AttackItsWeakPoint obvious emblem target on their chests.]]
79** ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'' has Vancuria, who was immortal and couldn't be killed anyway. So when a new villain took control of the Infershia army, she always stuck around. In fact, because of said immortality, and a HeelFaceTurn, she outlasts almost all of them. The other Dragon, Wolzard, was similar, though he did go rogue a few times, and the various Infershia leaders used the same army of {{Mooks}}. ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' did the same thing.
80** The Bibi soldiers from ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger''. [[spoiler:Except here they are all actually underlings to the ''real'' BigBad, who is working under all three of the show's baddies.]]
81** In ''Film/KaizokuSentaiGokaigerTheMovieTheFlyingGhostShip'', nearly all the mooks from all over the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' franchise appear as a single army to fight the Gokaigers.
82** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'': After Sledge dies (off-screen) when his ship crashes, Heckyl/Snide takes over and claims all of Sledge's minions and prisoners as his own. Then Lord Arcanon shows up and usurps control from Heckyl and Snide. [[spoiler:Then Sledge turns out to have been FakingTheDead, even to his minions, and takes them back.]]
83* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
84** It's normal for a Goa'uld to calim the troops of a Goa'uld they killed or otherwise deposed. The soldiers see the Goa'uld as gods, and so wouldn't rebel against ''any'' of them. Apophis shows up with Sokar's "Red Guard" as well as his usual Serpent Guard after he makes the rival who'd captured him pay for [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim not just shooting him]], and Hathor's second appearance has some of Apophis' Serpent Guards along with the Horus Guards you'd expect her to have. (She's known to use {{Brainwashing}}, though.)
85** In Season 8 Ba'al turns up using Anubis' [[SuperSoldier Kull warriors]], [[spoiler:although later on Anubis comes back from the dead and Ba'al pledges loyalty to him]].
86* ''Series/VanHelsing2016'': Scab starts out as MookLieutenant to Julius in Season 1, but after the latter's HeelFaceTurn [[spoiler: (from becoming human again)]] in Season 2, he's recruited by Dmitri and becomes CoDragons with Ivory. Following [[spoiler: Dmitri's death]] at the end of that season, the two of them [[DragonAscendant become their own masters]], and serve as a major threat in Season 3 after taking over the Daywalker horde. But come Season 4, they go back to being minions, press-ganged into service by the Brides.
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90* The Beer City Bruiser took Wrestling/DaltonCastle's "[[PersonalMook Boys]]" after TagTeam partner Silas Young defeated Castle in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, without them dropping any of the obvious [[AgentPeacock Dalton Castle traits]], much to Young's disgust.[[/folder]]
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93* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'':
94** A lot of Tuma's Skrall soldiers leave him after he's been humiliatingly beaten. When [[BigBad Makuta]] arrives to wreak havoc, they join his army.
95** Roodaka actually attempted to set up such a scheme. She convinced Sidorak to put Vakama [[MookLieutenant in charge]] of his [[SpiderSwarm Visorak horde]], then [[TheStarscream betrayed her "king"]] and let Keetongu kill him. So now the horde belonged to Vakama, who has in secret been answering to her, not Sidorak. Except the Visorak stopped following Roodaka when they saw her abandoning their former leader, and Vakama also had a change of heart and returned to the good guys, promptly disbanding the Visorak horde and leaving Roodaka with no one to rule over.
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99* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'' has the "worked for the true villain" kind.
100* Revolver Ocelot. Throughout the first three games (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''), he is working for the BigBad as TheDragon. And at the end, he reveals that he was really working for someone else, and the third game is a {{Prequel}}, so he's at this for a while. This changes in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', where he finally decides it's time to be the big bad himself. [[GoodAllAlong Except he's not.]] It's complicated because it's Ocelot.
101* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'' has mooks from the first two games appear in the third game as Akron's mooks.
102* In ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' you're invoking this trope by taking control of the previous Overlord's tower and minions. [[spoiler:The final level sees him turn up to reclaim them, forcing you to regain their loyalty the old fashioned way.]] In fact there have been a whole chain of Overlords over the years, but they all use the same sort of Minions and even a couple of the same individuals. In the second game they actively recruit a new Overlord as a child and raise him to be their new boss.
103* ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' and its SNES sequels has passed the BigBad baton from Belger's Mad Gear Gang (the first game) to an international subsidiary of Mad Gear run by Belger's (previously unknown) [[TheDragon Dragon]] Retu (2) to Black and his Skull Cross Gang (3). Regardless of the main villain, [[GiantMook the Andore family]] is always under the employment of these gangs, and as such, are the only recurring enemies throughout the series.
104* In ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'', Bat is originally a mook working for a Tribe you are fighting to defeat in order to form an alliance with them, but then later joins another Tribe and then kinda sort of does his own thing (becoming a Big Bad in his own right).
105* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
106** In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'', Bowser encounters a few Monty moles who used to work for him. Turns out they've gone over to Fawful's side.
107** This is actually a pretty common trope in the Mario series. Oftentimes you'll notice mainstay mooks working for {{Big Bad}}s that have deposed Bowser as the game's antagonist. In a variation, they may just be [[UndergroundMonkey different versions]] of these same enemies themed for the new antagonist in question.
108** VideoGame/SuperPaperMario justifies Bowser’s minions working for Count Bleck via Bleck’s right hand woman, Nastasia, inflicting said minions with a dose of BrainwashedAndCrazy.
109* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' does this retroactively, wherein Ganon's usual Moblins and Bokoblins serve as [[spoiler:Demise and]] Ghirahim's minions instead. [[spoiler:Given that Ganon the living incarnation of Demise's hatred, this makes sense]].
110* Axel Gear is Sparkster's rival and ArchEnemy in the ''VideoGame/RocketKnightAdventures'' series but he was never the BigBad, instead serving whichever army was attacking Zebulos in the game.
111* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', after ComicBook/{{Batman}} defeats [[spoiler:ComicBook/ThePenguin]], his henchmen will join [[spoiler:ComicBook/TwoFace]]'s gang. They even change their style to match [[spoiler:Two-Face's by darkening half of their Penguin mercenary uniform]]. They are just as dangerous as before, since they kept their guns.
112* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'' still uses the same example as Middle-Earth mentioned above, with the Balrog summoned by Zog the Eternal not following the will of him or his followers and almost immediately leaving to destroy the land for its own reasons. However, ''[[DownloadableContent Blade of Galadriel]]'' features a direct [[AvertedTrope aversion]] in the form of Ogg the Bow of Morgoth, who outright refused to serve Sauron and considers Morgoth the only ''true'' Dark Lord. Luckily, since Morgoth is DeaderThanDead, he's perfectly fine with helping Eltariel fight Sauron.
113* By the third act of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', Grado has been practically annihilated, its king and most of its top generals dead. But Grado troops still oppose the protagonists in a few chapters, due to their prince and one of their generals still surviving. Little to they know that both of them now serve the true BigBad, the Demon King.
114* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'', the Begnion Empire is a major antagonist for most of the game. Starting with Part 4, the war with Begnion is put on hold due to... circumstances (namely [[spoiler: a Goddess being released and turning most of the world's population to stone]]), but the new enemy faction, the Disciples of Order, has its {{Mook}}s made up of former Begnion soldiers, thanks to their bosses [[DecadentCourt the Senators]] now serving the new villain. As you find out later, [[spoiler: Ashera can revive the Disciples of Order when they die and send them right back at you, and it's implied many of the enemies you've been fighting in Part 4 were already killed in Part 3's war.]]
115* The mooks from ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'', the Rhynocs, were used by unrelated villains in the three ''Spyro'' games for the GBA, Grendor for ''VideoGame/SpyroSeasonOfIce'' and [[VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage Ripto]] for ''VideoGame/Spyro2SeasonOfFlame'' and ''[[VideoGame/SpyroAttackOfTheRhynocs Attack of the Rhynocs]]''.
116* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI The first game]] ends with the heroes defeating the BigBad Ansem, sealing the Door to Darkness, and restoring the worlds devoured by the Heartless. The next game, ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'', leaves it ambiguous as to whether the Heartless are still around (the Heartless that appear here are implied to have been created from memories), but ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' definitively explains that 1) the Heartless exist AsLongAsThereIsEvil and can still invade the Realm of Light and 2) that [[IFightForTheStrongestSide they instinctively obey whoever is the strongest]]. They initially serve [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]], but after she loses to the Nobodies, they serve [[StandardEvilOrganizationSquad Organization XIII]] (the leaders of the Nobodies) instead.
117* Various RPGS like ''Franchise/DragonQuest'' and ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' have some recurring Mooks such as Goblins and Slimes go from working for the [[VideoGame/DragonQuestI Dragonlord]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Garland]]/[[spoiler:Chaos]] to working for [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII Emperor Mateus]] and [[VideoGame/DragonQuestII Hargon/Malroth]], whose Minions like Bubble Slimes, Hawk Men, Iron Giants, Lamias, and Malboros go on to work for other villains, such as [[VideoGame/DragonQuestIII Baramos and Zoma]], [[VideoGame/DragonQuestV Bishop Ladja and Nimzo]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII the Cloud of Darkness]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Golbez]] and [[spoiler:Zemus]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Exdeath]].
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121* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Tarquin and Malack are respectively the general and high priest of the Empire of Blood, but they have served these roles many times under previous countries and rulers. [[spoiler:Secretly invoked and subverted: they and four others all work in shifting pairs to appoint puppet leaders that keep them out of the spotlight, kill them, find a new puppet, and change country names so people don't realize. By this method they are now the de facto rulers of a third of the continent. Only a few people have noticed that amid the general chaos of conquest increasingly large amounts of territory belong to three countries, and the same six people keep showing up as advisers to their rulers.]]
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125* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'':
126** The Enforcers; Finn, Ratso, and Chow (and sometimes Hak Foo), who were always brought in by the current season's BigBad. Valmont, Shendu (possessing Valmont), Daolon Wong, Tarakudo, and finally Shendu's son Drago all used their services. The latter ends up firing them not long after.
127** Inverted with the Shadowkhan, who are introduced as the EliteMooks of Shendu, but are revealed to have originally served Tarakudo; Shendu basically stole them.
128* A flashback in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' reveals that Henchman 24 previously worked for Phantom Limb (the then henchmen 9, the future Monarch, promises to make him his Henchman #1 someday). As they all are part of the larger Guild of Calamitous Intent, it's implied that a henchman might switch villains during the course of their henching career.
129* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'':
130** At the end of season 1, a large number of Phobos' orcs defect to rebels, as Phobos didn't treat them terribly well, either. Come season 2, and the orcs now make up a major part of Elyon's army.
131** For a more villainous example, a number of Phobos' named minions decide to form a group called [[AvengingTheVillain the Knights of Vengeance]] under the guidance of new BigBad Nerissa. She continues to use them until she's powerful enough to create a QuirkyMinibossSquad that's entirely her own.
132* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': Not a exactly a textbook example, but when Airachnid was put in stasis, Megatron and the Decepticons were quick to appropriate her [[GiantMook Insecticon]] hive for their own use.
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