Big Bad / Star Wars

A galaxy far far away is home to a plethora of Big Bads. Many of them either are or are connected to the Sith, especially their emperor, Darth Sidious.

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Films — Live-Action

• The Skywalker Saga: Emperor Palpatine, otherwise known as the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, is the Big Bad of the whole Saga (although he only ever gets directly involved at the end of each trilogy). The Original Trilogy has him as ruler of the Galactic Empire and master of Darth Vader; the Prequel Trilogy details his rise to power within the Republic by orchestrating a war with the Separatists, led by his apprentice Count Dooku; and the Sequel Trilogy has him as the Greater-Scope Villain behind the First Order, Snoke, and Kylo Ren.
  • The Original Trilogy:
    • A New Hope: A Big Bad Duumvirate between Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin and Darth Vader. The former commands the Death Star, demonstrating its power with the destruction of Alderaan and pursuing the Rebels to their hidden base on Yavin IV; the latter is Obi-Wan Kenobi's former apprentice and The Heavy who personally defends the Death Star against the Rebels' attack, and while he defers to Tarkin's authority, it's only out of respect.
    • The Empire Strikes Back: Darth Vader, now revealed to be Luke's father, takes center stage, chasing down the Rebel Alliance all the way to Bespin with the intent of corrupting Luke into his own apprentice. Boba Fett is The Dragon who hunts the main characters on Vader's behalf and kidnaps Han to collect the bounty placed on him by Jabba the Hutt.
    • Return of the Jedi: Emperor Palpatine oversees the construction of the second Death Star, setting up a trap to destroy the Rebel Alliance while pitting Luke against Vader to either turn the former into his new apprentice or see Vader prove his worth. Jabba the Hutt is the Disc-One Final Boss, as the Rebellion heroes focus on rescuing Han from Boba and the crime lord before confronting the Emperor and Vader.
  • The Prequel Trilogy:
    • The Phantom Menace: Two major villains serve as The Heavy on behalf of Sidious. Nute Gunray is the leader of the Trade Federation who instigates a military occupation of Naboo and targets Queen Padmé Amidala to force her to legalize the occupation, which is used by Palpatine to trick the Republic into appointing him Chancellor. Meanwhile Darth Maul is The Dragon to the Sith Lord who provides the greatest physical threat to the Jedi, managing to slay Qui-Gon Jinn in the climax.
    • Attack of the Clones: Count Dooku is the leader of the Separatist Alliance, the master of the late Qui-Gon, and Sith apprentice to Sidious as Darth Tyranus, who goes to war with the Republic and secretly orchestrates the creation of their clone army. Bounty Hunter Jango Fett, the genetic source of both the clones and a young Boba, is The Dragon whom Obi-Wan chases throughout the first half of the film after he tries to assassinate Padmé on behalf of a vengeful Gunray.
    • Revenge of the Sith: Palpatine takes center stage as the Clone Wars he orchestrated draw to a close: after allowing himself to be kidnapped in his public identity by the Separatists, he convinces Anakin to kill Dooku and become his new apprentice, converts the Republic into the Galactic Empire, and wipes out most of the Jedi Order by turning the clones against them using Order 66. General Grievous, the Supreme Commander of the Separatist army, is set up as The Heavy after Dooku's death before being killed about halfway through by Obi-Wan.
  • The Sequel Trilogy:
    • The Force Awakens: Kylo Ren, aka Ben Solo, is Han and Leia's son who turned to the Dark Side and became The Heavy for the First Order, an Imperial remnant that destroys the New Republic using the Starkiller Base superweapon. Supreme Leader Snoke, the ruler of the First Order, is the Greater-Scope Villain whom Kylo serves as Co-Dragons to alongside General Hux, the commanding officer and mastermind of Starkiller Base.
    • The Last Jedi: Supreme Leader Snoke personally pursues the fleeing Resistance through hyperspace with an advanced tracking device, and is responsible for linking Rey and Kylo Ren's minds to discover from the former Luke's whereabouts. However, he becomes a Disc-One Final Boss when Kylo, tired of his abuse and desiring to break free from the legacies of his flawed masters, kills him to take over as Supreme Leader for the final act.
    • The Rise of Skywalker: Palpatine, resurrected through a clone body by his Sith Eternal cult, is revealed to have created Snoke as a Puppet King, orchestrated Ben's fall to the Dark Side, and killed Rey's parents after her father—a failed clone—escaped. Kylo Ren is Demoted to Dragon while Sidious launches the Final Order to destroy his opposition, using the power of Rey and Ben's dyad bond (after a failed attempt to possess Rey's body) to restore himself to full strength. Allegiant General Pryde, a veteran of the Empire and the highest ranking officer in the First Order, becomes The Dragon commanding the Final Order's fleet of planet destroyers after Ben's Heel–Face Turn.
• Rogue One: Director Krennic is The Heavy as the mastermind behind the creation of the Death Star, and Jyn's Arch-Enemy responsible for kidnapping her father to help him construct the superweapon. However, due to being set immediately before A New Hope, Tarkin and Vader are on hand to represent the Emperor and assert authority, with Vader as the Post-Final Boss who directly pursues the stolen Death Star plans after Krennic and all the heroes are killed.
• Solo: Dryden Vos is The Don of Crimson Dawn, the crime syndicate that ropes Han and Chewie into doing the Kessel job, with Darth Maul as the Greater-Scope Villain ruling the organization from the shadows. Tobias Beckett, Han's mentor who took him into his crew, becomes the Post-Final Boss who sells out Han's plan to double-cross Vos and steals the fuel from their heist for himself.

Live-Action TV

• The Mandalorian: Moff Gideon—the man responsible for the the bounty on Grogu, the destruction of Mandalore, and the theft of the Darksaber—is The Heavy of Thrawn's Shadow Council of Imperial remnants and the overarching antagonist for the first three seasons. Much of the conflict revolves around Din either helping his people heal from their genocide or protecting Grogu from the moff, who intends to use the child to create an army of Force-sensitive clones of himself that he can use to usurp Thrawn—but not before he finishes purging the Mandalorians and plundering their beskar alloy as armor for his personal troopers.
• The Book of Boba Fett: The Pyke Syndicate are Boba's main rivals for control over the fallen Jabba's territory, and are responsible for massacring the Tusken tribe that took him in after he escaped the Sarlacc. Cad Bane becomes the Final Boss after being hired as the Pyke leader's Dragon-in-Chief in the final two episodes.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi: Reva Savander, the Third Sister of Vader's Jedi-hunting Inquisitorius, is The Heavy who orchestrates Leia's kidnapping to draw out Kenobi, intending to rise in acclaim and usurp the Grand Inquisitor for the chance to kill Vader as revenge for Order 66. Vader and the Grand Inquisitor, well aware of Reva's intentions but content to use her for their own ends, waste no time taking over the hunt for Obi-Wan once he reveals himself to save the princess.
• Andor: Lieutenant Dedra Meero is an ambitious ISB officer who heads up the investigation of Cassian and his involvement with the Rebellion after his shootout with local MegaCorp officers on Ferrix, overseeing the planet's occupation and setting a trap for him at his adoptive mother's funeral. Major Partagaz is her direct supervisor, but never gets directly involved in the hunt aside from overseeing and approving Meero's plans.
• Ahsoka: Grand Admiral Thrawn has formed an alliance with Dathomiri witches from the home galaxy of the Nightsisters, preparing to reunite with the Imperial remnants so he can lead them in a conquest of the New Republic. To return from his exile, he has the witches send visions to a Nightsister ally of his, Morgan Elsbeth (who Ahsoka had previously captured with the aid of Din Djarin), and orders her to construct a hyperdrive ring capable of traversing the galaxies; she serves as The Heavy alongside Fallen Jedi-turned-mercenary Baylan Skoll and his apprentice Shin Hati, who seek Thrawn for their own mysterious ends.

Animated Series

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The main antagonists of the Prequel Trilogy wreak havoc during the titular war:
  • Darth Sidious is the mastermind behind the war, and almost every major conflict can be traced back to him in some way or another. Much of the corruption and obstruction within the Senate is directly his doing, as he uses his position as Supreme Chancellor of the Republic to influence events and gather power.
  • Count Dooku is The Heavy, publicly leading the Separatist Alliance due to Palpatine needing to preserve his identity whilst leading the Republic. Many of the major antagonists and minor Arc Villains directly report to him. General Grievous is The Dragon to the Sith Lord as the Supreme Commander of the Separatist droid army, personally leading their forces in warfare and carrying out Dooku's dirty work.
  • Darth Maul is restored to his former strength halfway through the series by Mother Talzin, forging an alliance with his brother, Savage Opress, to get revenge on Obi-Wan. He proceeds to begin forging his own empire in competition with his former master, using the Death Watch to become a crime lord and conquer Mandalore. Maul is also notably the Climax Boss of the series, serving as the main antagonist of the Siege of Mandalore arc.
  • There are also a multitude of secondary antagonists that end up causing trouble throughout the war:
    • Asajj Ventress, Dooku's primary Dark Side assassin, and frequent opponent to Anakin and Obi-Wan. About halfway through the series, she is abandoned to die by her master under orders from Sidious. She sets out for revenge, allying with Talzin and creating the monstrous Savage Opress to assassinate Dooku, before becoming a bounty hunter and sort-of ally to the Jedi.
    • Hondo Ohnaka is a Wild Card pirate equally likely to help or hinder the Jedi in any given situation, depending on the potential for profit.
    • Cad Bane is one of the most notorious bounty hunters in the galaxy, hired to commit assassinations and other crimes on behalf of the Hutts and the Sith. Some of his noteworthy pursuits involve orchestrating a prison break for Ziro and kidnapping the Chancellor on behalf of Dooku.
    • The Death Watch, led by Pre Vizsla and Bo-Katan, are terrorists who seek to bring Mandalore back to its warrior culture roots. Vizsla is killed after trying to betray Maul, sparking an Enemy Civil War between Bo-Katan's Nite Owls and the Sith's Shadow Collective.
    • Mother Talzin is the leader of the Nightsisters of Dathomir, aiding Ventress and Maul in their respective vendettas in order to settle her own feud with Sidious.
  • And that's not even considering the host of minor Arc Villains, notably Separatist leaders like Admiral Trench, Wat Tambor, Poggle the Lesser, and Riff Tamson; Ziro the Hutt, Jabba's Evil Uncle who made an alliance with Dooku to overthrow his nephew (with predictable results); bounty hunters Aurra Sing and Boba Fett, who work together to avenge Jango; Dark Side users such as the Son, traitorous Jedi Pong Krell, and Barriss Offee (who frames Ahsoka for bombing the Jedi Temple); etc.
• Star Wars Rebels: Grand Moff Tarkin is the direct Greater-Scope Villain, as a majority of the Imperials featured throughout the series act under his authority. However, he gradually fades in prominence and importance as the series progresses and the conflicts escalate, essentially being replaced by Grand Admiral Thrawn as the face of the Imperial forces about halfway through the show.
  • Season One: The Grand Inquisitor, a fallen Jedi Sentinel, is The Heavy who spends the season relentlessly hunting Kanan Jarrus and Ezra Bridger on Vader's orders, and remains the biggest threat even after Tarkin assumes direct command.
  • Season Two: Darth Vader chases the Rebels off Lothal in the premiere before dispatching two more Inquisitors, the Seventh Sister and Fifth Brother (joined by the Eighth Brother in the finale), to jointly act as The Heavy hunting the Jedi. He returns in the finale to personally confront Ahsoka Tano and claim the Sith Temple doomsday weapon on Malachor. Maul also returns as a secondary threat in the finale, killing the Inquisitors and attempting to gain control of the doomsday weapon to turn it against the Empire.
  • Season Three: Grand Admiral Thrawn is brought in by Tarkin to deal with the growing Rebellion. He spends the season meticulously observing their activities and designing strategies to slowly but surely destroy them, successfully exposing Kallus as their spy and wiping out their base on Atollon. Maul, meanwhile, remains a Wild Card reduced to madly searching for Kenobi to finally get his revenge.
  • Season Four: Grand Admiral Thrawn remains the main antagonist, overseeing the Imperial occupation of Lothal. He briefly leaves the planet about halfway through the season, with Emperor Palpatine himself attempting to use Ezra to access the World Between Worlds and gain ultimate power over time and space in the meantime. Thrawn soon returns as the Final Boss when the Rebellion launches one last mission to liberate the planet, although the Emperor once again attempts to trick Ezra into helping him access the cosmic plane before the final confrontation.
• Star Wars Resistance:
  • Season One: Captain Phasma is initially the leader of the First Order forces trying to take over the Colossus, with Commander Pyre and Baron Elrik Vonreg as Co-Dragons. However, since the first season is occurring around the same time as The Force Awakens, she leaves halfway through; Commander Pyre becomes a Dragon Ascendant for the remainder of the show.
  • Season Two: Pyre settles into a Big Bad Duumvirate with First Order Security Bureau officer Agent Tierny, who comes to the Colossus in the first season's finale to investigate Resistance activity and recruits Tam. The two keep the roles throughout the second season, now hunting the Colossus on behalf of Hux and Kylo Ren.
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch:
  • Season One: Vice Admiral Rampart oversees the conversion of clone soldiers to Stormtroopers, with the Batch's former teammate, Crosshair, as The Heavy after having the effect of his inhibitor chip dialed up (although he later willingly has it removed). Lama Su is a Big Bad Wannabe who hires bounty hunters like Fennec Shand and Cad Bane to kidnap Omega in a futile attempt to keep the Kaminoans in the good graces of the Empire, but he is eventually removed from power and imprisoned for his lack of usefulness.
  • Season Two: Rampart is the main source of conflict in the first half of the season as he works to cover up his destruction of Kamino, but is ultimately a Disc-One Final Boss who is exposed and thrown under the bus to further Palpatine's plan to replace the clones with Stormtroopers. Dr. Royce Hemlock is introduced soon after as the head of the Empire's science division, primarily overseeing its efforts to clone the Zillo Beast, and hunts for Omega so he can force Nala Se's aid.
  • Season Three: Royce Hemlock and the Empire continue to remain at large as a threat to the Batch, focusing on kidnapping Force sensitive children with the aid of bounty hunters, with Crosshair finally rejoining his comrades to help them stop the Empire.

Star Wars Expanded Universe

• Blade Squadron: Admiral Jharred Montferrat is the commander of the Star Destroyer Devastator, which Blade Squadron is tasked with destroying during the Battle of Endor.
• Jedi games:
  • Fallen Order: The Second Sister of the Inquisitors, Trilla Suduri, is the leader of the Imperial forces hunting both Cal and the Holocron containing a list of Force-sensitive children.
  • Survivor: A Big Bad Ensemble between Dagan Gere and Bode Akuna. The former is a mentally unstable fallen Jedi from the High Republic who now seeks to return to the mythical planet of Tanalorr, where he can safely build his own rebellion to drown the Empire in blood. The latter, initially seen as a loyal member of the rebellion, is truthfully an Imperial spy and fallen Jedi who becomes the Final Boss after Dagan is killed two-thirds of the way through, playing Cal and his Imperial superiors against each other so he can keep Tanalorr as a safe haven for just himself and his daughter.
• Star Wars: The High Republic: Marchion Ro is the leader of the Nihil, the marauders who orchestrated the Great Hyperspace Disaster to begin a massive intergalactic conflict and eventually take control of the Outer Rim.
  • Phase II: Elecia Zeveron, officially known as the Mother, is the leader of the Path of the Open Hand, a religious cult that sought to enforce a philosophy of Force-abstinence on the galaxy by stealing Force artifacts, keeping a Forever War between Eiram and E'ronoh hot, sabotaging peace talks on Jedha, and weaponizing the Nameless against the Jedi Order.

Star Wars Legends

The Star Wars Legends novels have had several. In addition to Emperor Palpatine (who usually takes the role by default during any work set during the timeframe of the movies, or is at least the Greater-Scope Villain) some of the most notable are:

• Thracken Sal-Solo from The Corellian Trilogy (notable among Star Wars villains for just being scum as opposed to an avatar of pure evil, and for surviving to take a supporting villain roles in later series). Actually, Thrackan is simply an opportunist claiming credit for the actions of the real Big Bads, the Sacorrian Triad, a mysterious council that rules one of the Corellian system's worlds, Sacorria.
• From the New Jedi Order series:
  • Supreme Overlord Shimrra, absolute ruler of the Yuuzhan Vong, is presented as the Big Bad—until the climax, when it's revealed that his insane court jester/slave Onimi was pulling the strings all along.
  • The Yuuzhan Vong have a whole succession of leaders throughout the series, each of whom inevitably is convinced he is/ought to be in command of the whole invasion: Prefect Da'Gara of the Praetorite, who isn't even a warrior (the title makes him a high-level bureaucrat. Seriously, no wonder he lost); Shedao Shai, fleet commander; Nas Choka, supreme commander; Tsavong Lah, Warmaster, who actually is in charge of the warrior caste; B'shith Vorrik, fleet commander in the campaign against the Imperial Remnant; Supreme Overlord Shimrra; and Onimi.
• Star Wars: Bounty Hunter has an Evil vs. Evil scenario: Komari Vosa, the Dark Jedi leader of Bando Gora sect is Jango's primary target, while Psycho for Hire Montross is Jango's rival, who also seeks to collect the bounty on Komari's head.
  • Dark Forces has General Rom Mohc, Mastermind behind developing the Dark Trooper project who answers directly to Darth Vader himself.
  • Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II has Jerec, leader of the Seven Dark Jedi who intends to absorb the powers of fallen Jedi that are stored in the Valley Of The Jedi to make him a god.
  • Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast has Desann, a Fallen Jedi who intends to wipe out the Jedi Order and replace it with his own army of "Reborn" warriors.
  • Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy has Tavion Axmis who plots to resurrect the legendary Sith Lord Marka Ragnos.
• Hand of Thrawn: Disra, Tierce, and Flim, the three Imperials who created the hoax of Thrawn's rebirth.
• In the Legacy of the Force series, Lady Lumiya was the one who set things up, but as she is killed half-way through, in the end the role falls to her protege, Jacen Solo/Darth Caedus. As well, Thrackan Sal-Solo returns; he likes to think he's in charge of the separatist forces. He is actually a credible threat, too, with his contacts. Until he gets shot.
• The Lando Calrissian Adventures features Rokur Gepta, the last Sorcerer of Tund. In the first book, he tries to con Lando (whom he selected essentially at random) into finding an ancient artifact for him. When Lando outsmarts him, he becomes so obsessed about taking his revenge that he abandons his plans to subvert Palpatine's Empire to spend the next two books chasing one guy across the galaxy and making his life hell.
• The Galaxy of Fear series is set soon after A New Hope. The villain behind all the events of the first six books is in the Emperor's employ and sometimes gets examined by Vader, but he's allowed a lot of discretion and neither the Emperor nor Vader have much of a hand in those events. So for those six books it is Borborygmus Gog who is the Big Bad. For the rest of the series our heroes are fleeing The Empire, but there's no coordinated effort to catch them.
• Cleanly averted in the standalone novel Death Star. The book has no overall villain; the closest thing is the Rebellion which is at best a recurring antagonist to the Imperial characters.
• In the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy, Prince Xizor is the Big Bad of the flashback arc, orchestrating events to destroy the political power of the Bounty Hunters' Guild and leave a large assortment of freelance bounty hunters for the Empire's use. In the "current" arc, the Big Bad is Kuat of Kuat, CEO of the most powerful shipyards in the galaxy, Kuat Drive Yards. Kuat of Kuat is trying to kill Fett to cover up a defunct, now inconvenient conspiracy against Xizor.
• The Jedi Academy Trilogy has several alternating Big Bads. The first book of the series is Jedi Search, and the Big Bads are Moruth Doole, administrator of the prison world Kessel, and Natasi Daala, admiral of an Imperial superweapon facility and fleet cut off from the rest of the galaxy. In Dark Apprentice, it's the ancient Sith spirit Exar Kun, who possesses a powerful but inexperienced and embittered Jedi apprentice named Kyp Durron. Imperial Ambassador Furgan also serves as a Big Bad. In the final book of the trilogy, Champions of the Force, Daala, Exar, and Furgan all serve as Big Bads. In I, Jedi, retroactively inserted into the same time period, the Big Bads are Exar Kun and Leonia Tavira, an Imperial admiral leading a group of space pirates and Force sensitives.
• In Children of the Jedi, the first book of the unofficial Callista Trilogy, the Big Bad is Roganda Ismaren, a former agent of the Emperor and Jedi initiate trying to gain control of the Eye of Palpatine superweapon. In Darksaber, the second book, the Big Bads are Durga the Hutt and Daala. In the third book, Planet of Twilight, the Big Bad is sentient droch Dzym, who tries to unleash the Death Seed Plague in order to quench his thirst for draining life.
• The first six books of the Young Jedi Knights series, the "Rise of the Shadow Academy" arc, the Big Bads are a cabal of rogue Imperial Royal Guards, who are manipulating Brakiss, the faux Big Bad. The next five books, "The Fall of the Diversity Alliance," feature rabid anti-Human terrorist Nolaa Tarkona.
• The Big Bad of the Jedi Apprentice series is Qui-Gon Jinn's ex-Padawan, Xanatos, though individual books might have their own Big Bad, with Xanatos sometimes being the Greater-Scope Villain. He directly serves as Big Bad in The Dark Rival (Book 2), The Captive Temple (Book 7), and The Day of Reckoning (Book 8).
• The Big Bad of the Jedi Quest series is Granta Omega, Xanatos's son, though like its predecessor series, Jedi Apprentice, some books had an individual Big Bad, with Omega often being the Greater-Scope Villain.
• In The Approaching Storm, the Big Bad is a Hutt called Soergg, who is attempting to manipulate the planet Ansion into joining the Separatists, which would mean a host of planets, due to an entangling alliance, would follow. Shu Mai, leader of the Commerce Guild and Separatist backer, might also qualify, as she is the one who hires Soergg to do this, with Count Dooku as the Greater-Scope Villain she reports to.
• The Big Bads of The Han Solo Trilogy alternate. The Big Bad of the first book, The Paradise Snare, is the t'landa Til "High Priest" Teroenza, who runs a spice-treatment operation as a sham religious retreat. The Greater-Scope Villain behind him is Aruk the Hutt, leader of the cartel that owns the operation. The Big Bad of The Hutt Gambit is Moff Sarn Shild, who leads an assault on the smuggling "capital" of Nar Shaddaa as a prelude for his plans to carve out his own independent domain in the galaxy's Outer Rim. It's implied, however, that the Greater-Scope Villain is Palpatine, who used the Force to manipulate Shild in order to commit treason to give him a pretext to remove him from power. In Rebel Dawn, Teroenza is the main villain, though Han's old flame and Rebel leader Bria Tharen might count. While definitely not "bad," she tricks the smugglers, including Han, into attacking Teroenza's operation in order to seize its wealth for the Rebel cause.
• The Big Bads of the "Boba Fett" series (featuring a young Boba Fett) vary. The first book lacks a Big Bad, but the second, Crossfire, has two: Count Dooku, who is prepared to kill Boba to prevent him from telling anyone that he is both the leader of the Separatists and the creator of the Republic's army, and Aurra Sing, who covets his father's wealth. Aurra remains the Big Bad for the third book, Maze of Deception. Hunted, the fourth book, features Gilramos Libkath, a small-time crime lord who uses children as his minions and Durge, who wants to kill Boba out of his deep-rooted hatred for Mandalorians. In A New Threat, Wat Tambor is the Big Bad by default of being the villain Fett is hired to kill. In the final book, Pursuit, the main antagonist is Mace Windu.
• Tatooine Ghost has Grand Admiral Thrawn as the Big Bad. Interestingly, neither he nor the New Republic realize that he's the Big Bad. He's simply attempting to purchase a piece of art, which happens to contain the communications device linking the New Republic to its numerous spies. The New Republic, on the other hand, only knows that some mysterious Imperial is trying to purchase it.
• Outbound Flight: The two Big Bads are Palpatine and the Miskara, leader of an expansionist alien species known the Vagaari.
• In the first book of the Republic Commando Series, Hard Contact, the Big Bad is a Separatist scientist named Ovolot Qail Uthan, who was developing a virus targeting Fett clones. In Triple Zero it's Perrive, leader of a Separatist terrorist cell. True Colors has no Big Bad, but Order 66 has Palpatine. Though he has no direct involvement in the plot, the characters of the series recognize that Palpatine is unlikely to appreciate Imperial soldiers going AWOL, or taking an ex-Jedi with them. 501st also lacks a Big Bad.
• Darth Vader is both the Big Bad and the Villain Protagonist of Dark Lord—The Rise of Darth Vader.
• The first volume of Star Wars: Legacy and its sequel Legacy - War has Darth Krayt, otherwise known as A'Sharad Hett with Darth Wyyrlok as The Dragon though his role is later taken up by Darth Talon, Darth Nihl and Darth Stryfe. The second volume of the comic series has Nihl fulfill this role after Krayt is killed by Cade.
• The Big Bad of Star Wars: Allegiance is the corrupt governor Barshnis Choard, who seeks to carve out his own independent state in the Shelsha sector.
• Darth Bane is the Big Bad of the eponymous Darth Bane trilogy. The main antagonists, however, differ by book. In the first book, Path of Destruction, the primary antagonist is Kaan, rival Sith Lord and leader of the Brotherhood of Darkness. In Rule of Two, Johun Othone, a Jedi Knight, is the primary antagonist. In Dynasty of Evil, the primary antagonist is Darth Zannah, his apprentice who, according to the Rule of Two he himself instituted, seeks to supplant him as Sith Master.
• In Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor the Big Bad is Lord Cronal, also known as Blackhole or Shadowspawn, an Emperor's Hand who held to a philosophy known as the Way of the Dark, a nihilistic view that stated that everything was doomed ultimately to destruction, and goals dedicated to destruction or achieved through destructive means would succeed.
• The Truce at Bakura has a Big Bad Ensemble of Admiral Ivpikkis, the commander of the Ssi-ruuk forces that attack Bakura, and Governor Wilek Nereus, the Imperial leader who plans to betray the rebels as soon as they have got rid of the Ssi-ruuk for him.
• The New Rebellion has Kueller (AKA Dolph), a former student of Luke's who turned to the Dark Side after his family were killed and wants to kill Luke and Leia to become the most powerful Force-user in the galaxy and take over the New Republic.

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