Eviler Than Thou / Fan Works

Crossover

• This is a cornerstone of Iron117Prime's works, utilizing this trope on whoever is the Crossover Villain-in-Chief of said work. The midpoint will pretty much seal the deal with the death of the minor villain or Big Bad.
  • If it's a work that includes any iteration of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, expect any version of The Shredder and/or the Foot Clan to be the top dog when it comes to villainy. Pretty much every other villain, even the other series' respective Big Bad, is nothing to his power and influence. Just ask Hans and Fire Lord Ozai.
  • Tangled With Ninja: The Overlord, an Eldritch Abomination who embodies all evil, manages to place Mother Gothel in a hypothetical power leash to the point that she grows to fear said embodiment of evil.
  • Code Prime (Code Geass & Transformers): The Britannians are an empire of Social Darwinists who brutally oppress everyone they conquer. However, for the most part they still operate with a certain honor code, if only to delude themselves into thinking they're in the right. By contrast, the Decepticons are even more brutal and they fully embrace it, not even trying to pretend to be anything else. And in the end they prove themselves more powerful, easily crushing the Britannian military and destroying their capital, seizing control of all their territory.
    • Ultimately, Megatron is this compared to both Charles and his most brutal subordinates, Starscream and Airachnid. Megatron is more malevolent than Charles, more competent than Starscream, and while Airachnid can be just as cruel and brutal than him — if not more so — Megatron's ambitions, power level, and proactiveness ensure that the amount of sentient beings who have lost their lives, livelihoods and freedoms to him is infinitely greater than those of the other three combined.
  • J-WITCH Series (Jackie Chan Adventures & W.I.T.C.H.):
    • As Season 1 goes on, it becomes increasingly apparent that Daolon Wong is worse than Prince Phobos. While Phobos is an Evil Overlord, he still has some standards; by contrast, Wong relishes in being evil and actively works to try and make Phobos do so as well.
    • When Phobos tells his other chief minion, Lord Cedric, that he has no intention of killing Elyon once he has stolen her magic, Cedric's thoughts reveal that he thinks Phobos is too soft and that like Daolon Wong, he's planning to usurp Phobos when the time is right.
    • When it becomes clear to Phobos that Tarakudo's plan to make Jade the Queen of the Shadowkhan again only resulted in her becoming the Guardian of Shadows, he threatens to end his Villain Team-Up with the Oni King. Tarakudo responds by restraining the prince with his telekinetic powers and tells him in a calm tone that while he intends to keep his end of their bargain, he won't tolerate such a tone from Phobos in the future, or there'll be unspeakable horrors in store for the latter. Fearful for one of the few times in his life, Phobos relents.
    • Shendu tears the villains a new one in the season's final chapter, managing to incapacitate Phobos and kill Cedric, right as he is about to begin his stint.
• The Boys: Real Justice: The Seven find themselves on the receiving end of this trope repeatedly from pretty much every single DC villain. From Homelander being humilliated on live TV by the Joker, the entire team being left near dead after trying to take on the Legion of Doom and of course both them and Vought are getting played like fiddles by Lex Luthor.
• During her attempts to convert various worlds in The Conversion Bureau: Worlds Where It Wouldn't Work, Xlestia has repeatedly come across even worse villains who often turn the tables are her.
• Cyberpunk: Fatherhood: After escaping, critically wounded, from the Grand Imperial Mall shootout, Faraday runs into V's father, Robert John Linder Junior. He interrogates, horrifically tortures and mutilates the Fixer, before sending him off to Maelstrom. There, he is turned into a borderline-full-borg Meat Puppet attack dog, all while deliberately letting him suffer as much as possible, which utterly breaks what's left of his mind. It's so horrible it's almost possible to feel sorry for Faraday, and dramatically marks Robert's ascension as the Knight of Cerebus Big Bad.
• The Dimensional War (Massive Multiplayer Crossover): Snoke and Count Graduon are quite dangerous on their own. But Ganondorf is much worse, tortures the former in two separate pots of tar for each of his halves and brutally kills the latter in one hit when challenged for the throne.
• Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship (Fairly OddParents & My Little Pony: Equestria Girls): The Dazzlings establish themselves as the most dangerous villains in the setting, not just outwitting everyone but managing to intimidate Doombringer into being their minion.
• Equestrylvania: The aura from just one of Dracula's body parts is described as feeling worse than Nightmare Moon, King Sombra, or even his own minions.
• In Evil Be Thou My Good, while Harry is willing to admit that Voldemort is scary under the right circumstances, after having witnessed the sheer evil of the Cenobites, he knows the Dark Lord can't compare. When he tricks Voldemort into opening the Lament Configuration, the Death Eaters are wiped out in a single night.
• Harry Potter and the Mystic Force (Harry Potter & Power Rangers Mystic Force): Once the true Big Bad (Ivan Ooze) reveals himself, he quickly puts the other villains in their place. He sends Voldemort running, kills Imperious and the Ten Terrors, and strips Necrolai of her powers.
• In Honey and Magic, when Matilda Wormwood attends Hogwarts, she brings up this idea when talking with Fred and George Weasley about Professor Umbridge and comparing her to Miss Trunchbull. The twins and Matilda eventually agree that each woman was more dangerous than the other in certain ways; as an example, Umbridge lacks the individual power to do anything too serious to the children where Trunchbull could lock them in the Chokey and almost certainly murdered Ms Honey's father, but Umbridge has better political connections due to her association with Fudge where Trunchbull would have been in trouble if the students had tried to legally expose her actions to (for example) the Mayor as he would have listened to both sides and wouldn't have outright favoured Trunchbull.
• Hunters of Justice:
  • Brainiac is this to every other villain and criminal on Remnant. He captured Cinder with contemptuous ease and is currently using her as his lab rat, he cowed Raven into working for him, and the rest are either dead or shrunken and bottled up. Even Salem is currently in hiding, after Brainiac's attempt to capture her ended in him seemingly killing her. She's currently working to subvert this and kill Brainiac, joining a Big Bad Duumvirate with Lex Luthor. The two of them are also trying to pull this on each other. An Omake shows Salem coming out on top.
  • In turn, Darkseid is this to Brainiac. The first time he's alluded to by Brainiac is the first time Ozpin sees anything remotely resembling fear on the alien warlord's face.
  • When talking to her mother about Lex Luthor, Weiss tells her that Lex is far worse than Jacques.
• Infinity Crisis:
  • In The Stinger, Lillian Luthor finds this out the hard way when Lena turns out to really be Morgan Le Fay.
  • Thanos actually finds himself struck by the sheer evil of Darkseid.
  • In a sequel Counterpart Conferences, Lucifer Morningstar observes that Mephisto is the entity responsible for all the really negative things he was meant to do.
  • In another sequel The Return of the Rani, the Rani steals of the blueprints of Dr. Paradigm's experiments, who then proceeds to give him a reason you suck speech and then kills him.
• In Kage, a Jackie Chan Adventures and W.I.T.C.H. crossover, Jade mentally compares Prince Phobos and Shendu, who were both tyrannical rulers. She decides that Phobos is worse, since unlike Shendu, Phobos was human like some of his subjects, and therefore didn't have Fantastic Racism as an excuse for how he treated them.
• Nightmare in Arkham (Batman & A Nightmare on Elm Street ):
  • One fascinating truth about the Batman comic and the "villains" inside it is that there really are no bad guys per se. Yes, there are people who do evil deeds, but all of them are also victims of society themselves once, just like Batman. That's another important connection that links them all together. Freddy Krueger, on the other hand, chooses to be evil from the start, and the twisted methods he uses to kill the "villains" of Arkham by targeting their tortured pasts really highlights how human they really are. And When Batman goes up against him, he actually proves to be just as vulnerable as the rest of his victims because of his relatable flaws and fears and the tragic events that molded him into what he is. But then Freddy comes face to face with the Joker.
  • The only villain in the Batman universe that actually deserves the title of "villain" is the Joker. The Joker has no credible backstory, no clear motivation, and no reason in his decision making. He is the complete embodiment of pure insanity, which is actually way worse than the embodiment of fear/evil like Freddy. The main difference is, evil is predictable. People who are evil have clear motivations and will stop at nothing to carry them out, no matter who or what has to suffer for it. Fear can easily be overcome by a willing victim, but insanity is a whole different story. There is no predictable pattern when it comes to insanity, and sometimes not even a motivation. Insanity can sometimes be treated, but it can never be fully cured or even completely understood. This is how the Joker is able to turn the tide against Freddy. With absolutely nothing to exploit from the Joker, Freddy's power of fear and evil is rendered completely useless against the Joker's chaotic, twisted mind.
• Stormwolf Adventures (Massive Multiplayer Crossover) has the Force Dyad between Rey and Kylo being created by the Dark One, an evil more fearsome than Palpatine who is also an enemy of him. As it turns out, the Dark One had made far more such imprints, and in addition, Aro is merely his cover.
• This image. All the other Disney villains are, for most part, very entry-level in terms of evil deeds. Thanos, however, managed to wipe out half of his universe and considers it to be for good.
• Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron
  • Once the Galra arrive on Earth, they quickly establish themselves as being far worse than Britannia. While both revel in the complete destruction of their enemies, Britannia primarily demolishes cultural monuments, while the Galra are not above destroying planets to get their way.
  • In order to replace Nonette, Schneizel brings in Shin Hyūga Shaing from Euro-Britannia to act as the seventh member of the Knights of Round when the Galra give them Knightmares to better combat the Lions of Voltron. Shin proceeds to terrify Luciano Bradley, when he shoots down his spiel of how the one thing people value most is their lives, by telling him that he holds no value in his own life.
• This feeds into Cinder's insanity in The RWBY Loops. When she started looping, she was the closest thing to a Big Bad Remnant had; after the expansion where Salem's existence was revealed, the part of her that indulged in villainy grew increasingly frustrated and disgusted with her position as damaged minion, leading to her repeatedly usurping Salem and eventually attempting to achieve power greater than she had ever offered.
• Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K:
  • As a whole, the Imperium of Man is by far a much deadlier enemy by multiple factors compared to the Confederacy of Independent Systems that the Galactic Republic was used to fighting. They are more willing to commit atrocities far worse than the CIS is (at least openly). This is made worse by the fact that the bulk of the Imperium's forces are true believers, including their higher-ups, whereas the CIS higher-ups often have ulterior motives such as profit or power. It only takes the Imperium weeks to destroy the Confederate capital and seemingly kill General Grievous, something that canonically took the Republic several grueling years to similarly accomplish.
  • The Imperium is on the receiving end of this from the Sith. Despite their brutality and fanaticism exceeding the Sith's, the Imperials aren't willfully malicious or cruel, just deeply misguided and misinformed after being tossed into an unfamiliar setting that operates on different rules from their own. Yes, the Imperials are explicitly trying to conquer the Star Wars galaxy and commit a bevy of atrocities along the way, but they only do so out of the genuine belief that it's necessary to survive and keep humanity safe. By contrast, the Sith are fully aware their actions are evil and causing harm to innocents — and either don't care or get a sick thrill from it. Unlike the Imperium, the Sith seek galactic domination not because they think it's in anyone's best interests, but primarily to massage their own egos. So far, there have been two instances in the series where the Sith have actively joined the battlefield — Count Dooku vs. a Space Marine squad on Raxus Secundus and Darth Sidious vs. a rogue Lord Inquisitor on Axum. In both instances, the Sith win handily and defeat their Imperial opponents.
• A World of Wild Wild Evolution:
  • Adam Taurus thinks the alliance between the Legion and the White Fang is one of equals at first. However, once Vulpes Inculta is no longer around to feed his ego, the alliance as it stood instantly falls apart once Caesar makes it clear that he is not going to do the same when he thinks Adam hasn’t earned it. When Adam tries to violently object, he and the White Fang learn the hard way that the Legion played them all for fools.
  • Upon meeting Cinder Fall for the first time, ex-Fiend Rumford quickly realizes that she’s far more dangerous than Caesar or anyone else he’s ever met, and his arrogance vanishes as he realizes his only hope for survival is to do exactly what she says when she says it.

Danny Phantom

• Danny Phantom: Stranded: Colette Bevier has proven herself throughout the series to be even more evil and selfish than the popular kids at Casper High and the villainous ghosts that terrorize the city.
  • Like Paulina Sanchez, she's a beautiful, popular, upper-class bully who looks down on nerds and lower-class people, hurts and humiliates her peers, and is obsessed with a boy who would've liked her if it wasn't for her rotten personality. Unlike Paulina, Colette is ruthless, willing to resort to criminal methods to claim the boy she's obsessed with and endanger lives to get what she wants. As selfish, uncaring, and obsessed with her ghost boy as Paulina is, she never took her obsession that far and would never put innocents in danger to achieve her goals. Colette is more dangerous than the A-Listers put together, as they are ultimately just lazy, shallow, and bratty bullies who think they're above the rules but, despite their bullying, would never actually hurt people getting in their way as she would. It's telling that Danny, who has gotten over his feelings for Paulina and is annoyed by her obsession with his superhero self, just considers her a nuisance but has developed a genuine hatred for Colette due to her stalkerish pursuit of him and disregard for his loved ones, and his opinion of her can't get any lower. He desperately wants Colette out of his life for good, not caring what it would take.
  • This is especially prominent in "Blackmailed", where Colette has tried to get Danny and his friends expelled and blackmailed him into being her girlfriend. Team Fenton acknowledges her as evil; Paulina and the A-Listers, who are sick of her obsession with Danny, suspect she uses criminal means to break up Danny and Star, and they have stated that if they get any evidence, they'll turn her in because they don't want a criminal in their group. Even the ghost knows of Colette's reputation as an evil harpy and wants nothing to do with her. Two of Danny's enemies, Skulker and Ember Mc Lain, even agree to help Danny take her down because they feel that she has crossed the line trying to ruin Danny and his friend's lives and blackmail Danny into being her boyfriend. Team Phantom acknowledges that Colette is a MUCH worse person than her Jerkass father, Jean-Luc, because she's actually evil instead of just being a classist snob.
  • Team Phantom consider her a MUCH worse person than her jerkass father Jean-Luc because she’s actually evil instead of just being a classist asshole.
  • She also makes Paulina seem like a Nice Girl in comparison.
  • Even Johnny 13, the Ghost Writer, Penelope Spectra, Misty Smith-Yang, Skulker, and Ember McLain—all of whom have powers of some sort and arguably pose a bigger threat to the heroes—are appalled by the sheer scope of her hateful, egoistic, obsessive, cowardly, and basically insane behavior.
• False Friend: With Paulina. While they have a lot in common and put on a united front with the A-listers, it's clear they largely "befriended" each other for their social standing and to spite Star, as they only seem to get along when they're bullying her. In fact, Colette and Paulina secretly despise each other, always trying to one-up the other and being quick to turn on their new "best friend" when things go wrong.

Death Note

• Constant Temptation: Beyond somehow manages to make Kira look like a decent human being.
• A Cure for Love when Misa approaches the terrorist organization Astraea for help, they are not at all impressed, and if not for Rem they would have killed her. However, most of Astraea's members Squee like rabid fanboys when they meet Light, the original Kira. Light himself is less than impressed with them and takes issue that they used his name and his powers to target innocents.

Fusion Fic

• All For Luz Reaction: Enderverse warns The Collector that All For One is much worse than Belos. The Emperor in question also regards the powerful Quirk user to be a dangerous threat not to be taken lightly.
• Child of the Storm:
  • Lucius and Von Strucker eventually end up in one of these in Book 1. Lucius wins. However, it is perhaps a moot point since it's blatantly obvious to all concerned that Gravemoss is far more evil than either of them could ever be. The only reason he doesn't take charge is that he doesn't want to. Plus, he's too insane and erratic.
    • Then, all of them, Gravemoss included, suffer this courtesy of Chthon, Elder God of Chaos, who's intent on destroying reality. A mere fragment of his power is enough to pull a Villain Override on Gravemoss and set reality across the planet - and then the entire universe - to randomise.
  • In the sequel, there's a brief one as part of Dracula's Establishing Character Moment, as he makes it very clear that he will not play the part of Voldemort's pawn simply because Voldemort's dangling information he really, really wants under his nose. Instead, Voldemort will give him all the relevant information, and then, and only then, if it is sufficient, will he work with Voldemort. Then it gets turned on its head, as Voldemort successfully manipulates him onto a collision course with Harry - who's got a fragment of the Phoenix inside him, an entity that Dracula is terrified of and with damn good reason - and the Avengers, at the right time to serve as a distraction for Voldemort's own plans, which apparently go off without a hitch.
  • In the sequel's side-story, Jason Woodrue is a supernatural mob-boss with a whole bunch of cheap Super-Soldier level flunkies and a flare for biomancy. He then finds that, no, his partnership with Nimue is not even remotely equal... about three seconds before she loses patience with him and transforms him into Man-Thing.
• Earth's Alien History:
  • Darkseid is noted to be the one being in the universe that Ra and the other System Lords are afraid of.
  • A group of Scrin corrupted by Dark Ichor (a mixture of Tiberium and Phazon) attempt to take over Phazee, even corrupting Dark Samus... who proceeds to turn the tables and enslave them.
• Heaven's Light (The Hunchback of Notre Dame & Tangled): Mother Gothel's no saint, but when she gets mixed up with Frollo, it's clear who the bigger bad is.
• Mischief (MHA): Ultron pulls this against Wolfram and the Brotherhood of Mutants during the I-Island arc. Wolfram attempts to seize control of all the powerful items located on the vault below the tower, only for David Shield to activate the A.I. to stop him. Ultron immeadiatly turns the tables against the both of them, lobotomizing Wolfram and killing Sam, as well all the Brotherhood mercenaries left, before going off to set his own genocidal plan in motion.
• Exaggerated in The Night Unfurls. The Leaping Lizards Arc contrasts a band of slavers, the Leaping Lizards, with an Evil Sorcerer who plays with syringes, Shamuhaza. Both are on the same side (the Black Dogs), but the former, built up as the Arc Villain, is experimented on by the latter offstage By the time the good guys meet them, they are now mutated Elite Mooks, with wings, spines, insect legs, and other deformities sticking out of them. The one who gets the short end of the stick is Morgan, the leader of the Leaping Lizards, who is heavily implied to be reduced to a mutilated corpse. Even Vault, the Big Bad, calls Shamuhaza "a crazy man".

Disney Animated Canon

• Hope for the Heartless – a fanfic set after the events of The Black Cauldron – centers around the Horned King being resurrected for an impossible Redemption Quest. It's revealed that the Black Cauldron contains the spirit of his former master, Arawn, the Death Lord of Annuvin. Before his death, Arawn was the only one who surpassed the Horned King in evilness. He also shows disgust at his former apprentice – who was his finest warrior – for "becoming a disgrace to the name of Evil" due to Avalina.

Godzilla

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Following the events of Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), Alan Jonah makes a big mistake by keeping King Ghidorah's severed head around for experiments and thinking he can contain it. Over the course of a year, the head's telepathic Brown Note breaks the minds of Jonah and half his men, turning them into parts of the Many: slaves to Ghidorah's will which faithfully act as the three-headed dragon's thralls once its heads and their minds have regenerated.

Harry Potter

• In Harry Riddle Grindelwald regards Voldemort as just an upstart. Also, Harry is completely unfazed by Filch's threats:
  Filch: Oh yes. Hard work and pain are the best teachers if you ask me. It's a pity they aren't still using the old punishments. You probably wouldn't be so quick to break the rules if you'd end up hanging by your thumbs from the ceiling for a day or two.
  Harry: Sounds like something my father does to people on his days off.

Inheritance Cycle

• Phoenix-fire: Mercury gave a "The Reason You Suck" Speech about the old Big Bad Galbatroix to the captured female protagonist, who is also his former/current Love Interest. What makes it especially interesting is that Mercury had up until that story worked with the dragon riders.

Invader Zim

• Becoming a True Invader: The Employer's forces make mincemeat of the Irken Empire, quickly devastating every major planet they come across.
• The New Adventures of Invader Zim:
  • Miss Bitters and Nny are both completely unaffected by Gaz's demeanor. And in the case of the former, most people actually consider her scarier.
  • Dib feels that Norlock is much more of a threat than Zim's cartoony evil.

Jackie Chan Adventures

• At one point during Queen of All Oni, Ikazuki proves himself eviler than Jade, due to his greater experience (and arguably the fact that he's a full-blooded Oni, compared to Jade's hybrid status), and quickly assumes control of the Shadow Hand, forcing her to serve him.
• The Ultimate Evil: Played with when Valerie compares Shendu with Valmont; she never thinks that either of them is morally superior, but she decides that the demon dragon who has continuously saved her life and is trying to win her heart by her terms has more honor than the greedy crime lord.
  In her eyes — she didn't know whether it had always been so, or if this was something new — Valmont was a scumbag criminal who would stoop to any means and do anything and everything just for a little money. But Shendu, despite being a lying, murderous and evil demon, had at times shown some form of honour, and he was more sophisticated and regal then Valmont. Valmont hid what he was behind an air of aristocracy and superiority that made her blood boil, but Shendu let you know up front what you were dealing with. That little shred of honesty, no matter how vile in its using, still made Shendu more worthy to Valerie then Valmont could ever hope to be.
• Webwork: Simon Leston, the new Squid Khan General, is an Ax-Crazy Misanthrope Supreme who intends to become a full Omnicidal Maniac, simply because he can. Tohru mentally declares him to be worse than any other villain that the J-Team has ever faced, since they used death and destruction as a means to an end, while Leston sees it as an end in and of itself.

Kung Fu Panda

• The Vow: Lord Shen acknowledges that the destruction Tai Lung wrought upon the Valley of Peace when the snow leopard pulled his Face–Heel Turn doesn't look nearly as heinous as the panda massacre the peacock noble himself committed.

Miraculous Ladybug

• Miraculous City: After suffering from Villain Decay halfway through the story while new Butterfly villain Chrysalis rises as a threat with her Disaster Team, Hawkmoth re-establish himself as the Big Bad by force akumatizing Chrysalis and through her taking control of her subordinates, before using them and the Miraculizers to take control of Paris.

My Hero Academia

• One for All and Eight for the Ninth:
  • The Meta Liberation Army pulls this against the Hero Commission during the Valentine's Day Attack, by bombing their headquarters and killing their President.
  • Tomura pulls this against All for One and the MLA by the end of the arc. First, he hijacks All for One's body, destroys his consciousness and steals his Quirk. Then, when the surviving members of the MLA top brass arrive at Tartarus, he steals their Quirks before rigging All for One's braindead body to self-destruct, effectively turning himself into the story's Final Boss.

My Little Pony

• A Diplomatic Visit: Discussed in chapter 2 of the sequel, Diplomat at Large, where Queen Tegmina admits that Chrysalis, with her greed and selfishness, was worse than even Tirek, who also lusted for power, in that regard.
• Loved and Lost: Prince Jewelius allies with Queen Chrysalis to conquer Equestria on Princess Cadance and Shining Armor's wedding day, but he ends up betraying her and helping Twilight Sparkle in stopping the Changelings so that he can use the aftermath of the invasion to make himself Equestria's king. He afterwards plans to create a Slave Race out of the imprisoned Changelings and have Chrysalis killed like an animal, mocking her for actually believing he'd start an Unholy Matrimony with a "despicable animal" like her. In the end however, once all of Jewelius' minions are defeated and he's cornered by the heroes in the climax, the escaped Changelings (whom Jewelius arrogantly refused to consider as a threat) come to take their gruesome revenge on Jewelius who's too spineless to even fight back.
• The Pony POV Series:
  • This happened in Dark World when Discord fought with Grogar when Grogar escaped his prison. Played with in that while Discord won, ponies are honestly divided on which of them are the Lesser of Two Evils, and Grogar got the last laugh — literally, he laughed in Discord's face as he was banished back to his can.
  • Dark World also plays this horrifically straight when it comes to Nightmare Eclipse/Paradox compared to Discord. We see from past time loops that Discord saw her as a momentary distraction and wasn't that concerned about her in the early loops, only on getting her out of the way so he can continue his games, perhaps even happy to have "start overs" when he lost. Cut to several hundred million years worth of time loops later, Discord's little more than a tortured Puppet King who considers being killed several billion times by his family as punishment for his crimes relaxing compared to the torture she put him through, and is only still evil because she won't let him perform a Heel–Face Turn. Paradox herself? An Omnicidal Maniac who's erased Dark World and everyone in it so many times she can't even remember how it started or the names of any of the "NPCs" she's Ret Goned. In-universe, everyone who knows what she's done justifiably considers her worse than Discord, including Discord himself.
• In Fall of Starfleet, Rebirth of Friendship, Grand Ruler falls victim to this from Dark Conquest. Grand Ruler is a Tautological Templar who believes that absolutely everything he does is the right thing and attempts to fit everyone into his idea of what the "story" should be, said story revolving around him. The problem is that Dark Conquest breaks this mold. He's an extremely competent Multiversal Conqueror attacking United Equestria not out of personal reasons, but to feed on the hatred he inspires, and has done the same to countless other worlds. As a result, Grand Ruler's unforgiving, Proud Warrior Race Guy mentality completely fails against Conquest, and when he eventually goes up against him personally, it's a complete Curb-Stomp Battle as Conquest gleefully deconstructs Grand Ruler's motives and exposes his lies to United Equestria.

Pokémon

• Pokémon: The Lost Child: The Sandslashes are the ones who killed Shiftry, and they are promptly dispatched by Aegislash in the same chapter to reveal the greater evil.

Sailor Moon

• Sailor Saturn and the 8 Mistresses introduces Mistress 9’s older sisters, the titular 8 mistresses all of whom are more depraved and sadistic than she is. Dr. Tomoe had them sealed away rather than harness their power, but they get unsealed by accident, starting the events of the story.

Tolkien's Legendarium

• In The Official Fanfiction University Of Middle-earth, Morgoth and Sauron constantly fight over this.

Young Justice (2010)

• Once Darkseid kills Vandal Savage in Young Justice: Darkness Falls, the Light essentially goes on the defensive, playing subservient to him, or going into hiding rather than try and subvert a merciless alien. All except for Klarion who ends up carrying out his plans openly.

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