Removed the Season 1 and 3 Buffy examples. You can't make a Five Bad Band by cramming in every Monster Of The Week that happens to be a little bigger or smarter than the last one. The only season of Buffy that comes close to having a Five Bad Band is Season 2; Angelus is the Big Bad, Drusilla is The Dragon, Dalton (the vampire with the glasses) is the Evil Genius, and Spike, who would normally be The Dragon or The Brute, gets to be The Dark Chick in a wheelchair. But The Brute's role remains unfilled... again, you could try to make a case for the various Monster Of The Week demons like the Judge and Acathla, but they really weren't around long enough.

Are these really an example?

Mega Man Zero: Copy X and the Four Guardians (although the latter aren't exactly "villains")

• Big Bad: Copy X
• The Dragon: Harpuia (the spiritual successor)
• Evil Genius: Phantom's the only one of the five to try both a sneak attack and a boss fight before his stage even begins. His division in the Neo Arcadian army is also stated as the Intelligence Unit.
  • Phantom could also be considered the second Dragon as well, considering he's the most loyal to Copy X, to the point of trying to take Zero with him.
• The Brute: Fefnir; may not be the largest per se, but he's the most impulsive.
• Dark Chick/Dark Action Girl: Leviathan.

Mega Man Zero 3:

• Big Bad and Evil Genius: Dr.Weil
• The Dragon: Omega. Very Ax Crazy, yet loyal to Weil.
• The Brute: Copy X Mk-II (a ruthless Knight Templar who is easily manipulated by Weil and is very aggresive in battle.)
• The Dark Chick and Sixth Ranger: Baby Elves (they're considered "distant" enough from the other members and only recruited 1/3 into the story.)
• Sixth Column: Harpuia, Fefnir and Leviathan (they're stripped off of their positions and later aid Zero in his battle against Omega.)

Mega Man ZX Advent:

• Big Bad: Master Albert
• Co Dragons/The Starscream: Prometheus and Pandora
• Evil Genius: Aeolus. If you call others "fools", than you qualify for this position.
  • Albert himself also qualifies, what with him being the Magnificent Bastard...
• The Brute: Atlas. A fight-happy girl who want to force evolution on the world by creating a constant war.
• The Dark Chick: Thetis. A cute, childish boy, yet he want to punish humans for polluting his beloved ocean.
• Sixth Ranger: Siarnaq, having a personality and accent like a mindless robot and lacking the reason for him to attend the Game Of Destiny.

Let's discuss, what's wrong with Real Life examples?? I am really annoyed when you delete them all. Real Life is actually very perfect trope. Everyone considers Hitler as Big Bad. It is really annoying when I keep seeing those stupid phrases like "No real Life Examples" At least one NEEDS TO BE HERE! If Five Man Band has Real Life, what's the difference with Five Bad Band??

I'd like to challenge the rule on no Real Life examples. Surely, examples of bands of five criminals wouldn't be that bad, would they? We wouldn't be calling the people themselves evil, we'd just be calling them criminals. And criminals are bad, making a five-member band of criminals a Five Bad Band.

-looks at the page picture- Toad as the Dragon? REALLY?

People should just accept that the five-man band format cannot be pulled on every team, and that there can be more roles than only the above five which frequently get swapped around. In the X-men picture, Quicksilver is closer to being a Dragon, while Toad might be called The Brute but he is in fact a separate role (The Dirty Rat).