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Author: WeAreAllKosh

Oct 26th 2013 at 12:34:19 AM

Would Scorpius' appearance near the end of ''{{Farscape}}'''s first season fit? He's not TheManBehindTheMan (the man behind Crais, who was the main season one villain--he wasn't up the chain of command from him or anything, and seemed to only know ''about'' him rather than actually know him, before their encounter--and he turned against Crais pretty quickly as well), and although he appears to be the BigBad for awhile after his first appearance, we eventually encounter {{Bigger Bad}}s, as well as [[TheEmpire the Scarran Empire]] (and Scorpius is also opposed to these, and [[spoiler: eventually ends up [[EnemyMine allied-sort-of]] with our heroes in that opposition)]].

He doesn't end up "dying or going to prison" (although one of those {{Bigger Bad}}s among the Peacekeepers does hold him captive for awhile), nor was he in any way a disposable character, but otherwise he seems to fit, unless I'm misunderstanding something.

(Come to think of it, none of the succession of "bosses" in ''{{Farscape}}'' were in nested heirarchy from each other--the Peacekeepers seemed more like a loose federation of commands than a well-unified command hierarchy (officers were loyal first and foremost to their captains, moreso than they were to a High Command (there was one, but we rarely saw it) itself, and often captains of different commands had goals or ambitions that clashed with each other--although there was a general SpaceColdWar against the Scarrans that was sort of their general overarching mission). Nor did they seem to be an organ of any unified sovereign state. Individual commanders seemed to mainly fill various local power vacuums, manipulate the politics of different worlds, and exploit worlds in their path for their own gain more than anything. The crew of ''Moya'' (our heroes) were simply trying to survive the various machinations of the individual commanders they encountered, along with others they encountered who were bigger and more powerful than they were in that "Uncharted Space". At any rate, you didn't have {{Big Bad}}s who were nested in a usual ManBehindTheMan pattern. A few ended up in EnemyMine cooperation with the heroes against a new "boss villain"--that pattern may actually be tropable too if there are a lot of examples of it.)