History Main / GenericDoomsdayVillain

** Demon (Daemon in English) from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', who comes into the plot with no explanation, and is so powerful that the heroes can only seal him away. He has absolutely no personality, and his contribution to the plot is only as an "obstacle."

** Diablomon in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventureMovieOurWarGame Our War Game]]'' suddenly appeared out of the blue as a [[MillenniumBug Y2K]] bug and sets out through the internet to launch a nuclear warhead onto Odaiba to start World War III. However, he demonstrates little in the way of personality or motive and doesn't even speak, being treated more as an obstacle for the Digidestined to defeat.

** Bojack, hailing from [[Anime/DragonBallZBojackUnbound the ninth film]], has practically no origin at all, other than that he was a {{Space Pirate|s}} the Kais sealed away some time ago. He and his crew get freed, show up to kill the protagonists because they might stop him from taking over the universe... and that's about it. He has no ties to any prior antagonist, no enmity with the protagonists, and no given reason for him being as strong as he is (including a completely inexplicable transformation). The [[AllThereInTheManual Daizenshuus]] end up providing most of the details about him, such as the name of his race and a little of his history, but even then, it never goes beyond "he's really really evil."

* ''VideoGame/MissionImpossibleKonami'': The Sinister Seven is a terrorist group who kidnapped Dr. O to get his knowledge of the [=US=] Defense system, with the goal of forcing the launch of US nuclear missiles in order to start World War 3 and destroy the world. No reason is given as to why they want to accomplish this, with the closest being the 'final boss' simply stating "This world should disappear!"

* ''Fanfic/VoltesVVersusVoltronTheGodaikinWars'' (''Anime/VoltesV''/''Anime/{{Voltron}}''): Paul the Imjad. The only backstory we get on him is that he belonged to a group of mages, until one day he suddenly decided to be evil.. Apart from that, all we know about him is that he wears robes, he wants the destruction of Anime/{{Voltron}}, and likes listening to Music/TearsFromFears. Oh, and he wants to TakeOverTheWorld.

* ''Fanfic/VoltesVVersusVoltronTheGodaikinWars'' (''Anime/VoltesV''/''Anime/{{Voltron}}''): Paul the Imjad. The only backstory we get on him is that he belonged to a group of mages, until one day he suddenly decided to be evil.. Apart from that, all we know about him is that he wears robes, he wants the destruction of Anime/{{Voltron}}, and likes listening to "unruly music" from a defunct band called "Tears for Fears". Oh, and he wants to TakeOverTheWorld.

* ''Fanfic/VoltesVVersusVoltronTheGodaikinWars'' (''Anime/VoltesV''/''Anime/{{Voltron}}''): Paul the Imjad. The only backstory we get on him is that he belonged to a group of mages, until one day he suddenly decided to be evil.. Apart from that, all we know about him is that he wears robes, he wants the destruction of those that fight on the alignment of good, and likes listening to "unruly music" from a defunct band called "Tears for Fears".

** Argosax the Chaos is stated to be the ultimate Demon King (before it was later retconned so that it shares the role with Mundus) that was once defeated and sealed away by Sparda and in the present day, Arius' plan was to unseal it in order to gain true power. However, unlike Mundus, we don't know anything about it's backstory such as how it came to strong enough to compete with the former even with the Qlipoth Fruit or what their own domain was like and upon its resurrection, it doesn't speak nor display any visible personality even after unveiling its True Form but instead merely challenges Dante to a fight before being KilledOfForReal, never to be heard from again aside from a supplementary novel upon the release of the fifth game.

* The GreaterScopeVillain TrueFinalBoss [[spoiler:aliens]] in the [[UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 Nintendo 64]]'s ''Chopper Attack''.[[note]]''Wild Choppers'' in Japan.[[/note]] At least the terrorists are given a TakeOverTheWorld motive; the [[spoiler:aliens]] only seem to attack just for the hell of it.

** The Dark Signers in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' generally avert this by being {{Tragic Villain}}s ressurected by the [[EldritchAbomination Earthbound Immortals]] for UnfinishedBusiness... and then there's Demak. His backstory is nonexistent, he has no personality beyond his unexplained animosity toward the Signers, and he only seems to exist as an obstacle to Ruka obtaining her Ancient Fairy Dragon. Even when he's brought BackFromTheDead alongside several other Dark Signers at the end of the arc, he's never heard from again.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': PlayedForLaughs with Professor Mystery (while also humorously deconstructing HideenAgendaVillain and NoNonsenseNemesis): he is so driven to keep whatever reasons he has for being a villain a mystery that the OWCA agent assigned to stop him, Peter the Panda, is just fed up of dealing with him and decides to work fighting Doof because Doof loves to explain why he does what he does (as absurdly petty as it is sometimes). The result is represented in a fashion similar to a relationship with one member deciding to two-time the other.

When part of a recurring work, this character is forced into one of two outcomes: they either remain a StaticCharacter who has almost nothing aside from "[[OmnicidalManiac I want to destroy everything]]", or they become a DynamicCharacter and lose their "generic" quality. Some writers intentionally make these characters flat to highlight their unhealthy psyche. In some situations, they may be a SilentAntagonist and barely tell the audience anything at all. Often the other characters won't be able to bother with the ''why'', and know they just have to stop the villain at all costs. In other stories, they are flat because they are more of a super-powered RightHandAttackDog and/or GreaterScopeVillain being used by a villain with proper characterization and motives. An EldritchAbomination is likely to be this; a godlike entity who's motives are a complete mystery, and who never speaks in an identifiable human language, with this being done to make them inhuman and scary.

Contrast with CompleteMonster, who may not have a plan at all, but does have plenty of characterization and an established motivation, and FeralVillain, where the character has no sapience with which to have characterization.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': [=ManBearPig=] isn't given any characterization other than he's presented as an unstoppable destructive force that destroys without reason [[spoiler:and is proven to be real by Season 22]].

->'''Anubis:''' Silence! Now, after 5000 years of waiting, I'll destroy the world!\\

** Broly slipped into this over the course of his movie trilogy. His debut in [[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan movie 8]] painted him as a somewhat tragic light for being born with more power than he could handle, feared by King Vegeta (who tried to kill him ''as an infant'') and even his own father (who forced a RestrainingBolt crown on him) as well as having a handful of BadassBoast dialogues to the Z-Fighters. His return in [[Anime/DragonBallZBrolySecondComing movie 10]] hits him hard with {{Flanderization}} and TookALevelInDumbass where his backstory isn't mentioned at all and he has no dialogue or personality besides his irrational hatred for Kakarot. After he was [[KilledOffForReal put down for good]], [[Anime/DragonBallZBioBroly movie 11]] introduced Bio-Broly, who was nothing more than a malformed clone to give the heroes something to fight while [[GreyGoo the inanimate culture fluid floods the lab]]. Mind you, the notoriously {{Power Level|s}}-obsessed ''DBZ'' fanbase has [[BreakoutVillain embraced Broly with open arms]] since his first appearance. His canonical appearance in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' more or less undoes this, almost completely reworking him into one of the ''most'' fleshed-out and sympathetic villains in the franchise.