History BigBad / ComicBooks

** In the early series [[spoiler: Two Edge]] would be one of these, he manipulates even [[spoiler: his mother, Winnowill]] but is too sympathetic, more of an AntiVillain, turning to AntiHero [[spoiler: after his sanity is restored]]

* ''ComicBook/eJunky'' has [[spoiler: Banastre Tarleton]] aka X, the leader of [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters The Guardians of Pain]], a group that believes pain and suffering is essential to survival and intrinsic to the human experience and therefore take [[WellIntentionedExtremist extreme measures]] to [[TransferableMemory share painful and traumatic memories]] with people and prevent the [[OneNationUnderCopyright World Corporation Organization]] from mandating the use of [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul EMO-REGs]]. [[spoiler: Shockingly, the idea behind the [[EvilPlan plot]] was conceived of by [[TheProtagonist protagonist]] [[HardboiledDetective Hector Holmes]], an [[LaserGuidedAmnesia amnesiac]] former member of the Guardians!]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'': The Adversary/[[spoiler:Geppeto]], the leader and founder of the Empire and the one who drove the Fables from the Homelands. After his defeat in issue 75 the role shifts to [[spoiler:Mr. Dark]].

* In the graphic novel prequel to ''[[Film/Godzilla2014 Godzilla]]'', ''Godzilla: Awakening'', the BigBad is the Shinomura, a [[TheWormThatWalks gestalt being composed of countless smaller organisms]], it's a [[{{Kaiju}} Titan]] that feeds on radiation like [[Characters/MonsterverseGodzilla Godzilla]]. Unlike Godzilla, its voracious hunger leads it to attack humans' nuclear material, with all the horrendous collateral damage that implies. Worse, the more it feeds, the more it grows, and it soon threatens to reach a size that even Godzilla can't overcome.

* ''ComicBook/HadriansWall'': The BigBad is [[spoiler: Commander Willow, the leader of a group of [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Thetan rebels]] seeking to acquire [[{{Unobtanium}} anzinite]] with which they can [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up Earth]]. However, the [[BigBadDuumvirate Antares Interspace Corporation representative Marshall Cameron and astrophysicist Dr. Selina F. Laurent]] are also [[BigBadEnsemble Big Bads]]. While they're the turncoats trying to sell the anzinite to the rebels, they're actually trying to scam them, as the decay rate of the type of anzinite recovered would render it useless before it can be employed against Earth. Laurent is furthermore the one responsible for the [[DrivingQuestion murder that kickstarts the plot]].]]

%%* ''{{ComicBook/Haunt}}'': Mr. Hurg
%%* ''{{ComicBook/Hellboy}}'': The Ordru Jahad.

* ''{{ComicBook/Invincible}}'': Thragg
* ''ComicBook/LockeAndKey'' has [[ManipulativeBastard Dodge]]. The entire plot is driven by his schemes to not only escape his own [[SealedEvilInACan imprisonment]], but to also get ahold of the Omega Key and use it to [[spoiler: unleash the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s behind the Black Door]].
* ''ComicBook/LongAgoAndFarAway'' has the Evil Witch-Queen Nexis, whom Jason defeated years ago as a [[KidHero kid]].

* The DarkerAndEdgier ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' album ''The Man Who Shot Lucky Luke'' has a weird case of a character being BigBad without knowing it. [[spoiler: Old man Bones is an AbusiveParent who doesn't actually plan the crime at the centre of the story, but whose behaviour drives his AntiVillain sons into committing it. (He's not the victim, either, but an unknowing beneficiary of the crime.) He's also the one who causes the bad things that happen to his sons, as well as the one who tries to shoot Lucky Luke in the back. So yes, he's basically behind everything, though he only knows about some of it.]]

%%* ''ComicBook/MegaRoboBros'' has Robot 23 from book 1, and [[spoiler: Wolfram]] from book 2 and book 3.

* In the ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse, the two most frequent {{Big Bad}}s are {{WesternAnimation/Pete}} and the Phantom Blot, who on occasion form a BigBadDuumvirate -- though Pete sometimes (especially in alternate-continuity series like ''ComicBook/WizardsOfMickey'') gets the role as TheDragon.

* ''{{ComicBook/JudgeDredd}}'' has Judge Death leader of the Dark Judges.
* In ''ComicBook/NextMen'', Aldus Hiltop appears to be this, but the true Big Bad is [[spoiler: Sathanas]].

** ''Jedi Council'': The Yinchorri Council of Elders [[spoiler: manipulated by Palpatine]].

** ''Knights of the Old Republic'': [[spoiler: Haazen]] for the Covenant arc, [[spoiler: Demagol]] for the Crucible arc, and [[spoiler: Dorjander Kace]] for the ''War'' miniseries.

** ''Legacy'': Darth Krayt, then Darth Wyyrlok, then [[spoiler: the resurrected Darth Krayt]].

** In ''Blood Ties: Boba Fett Is Dead'' [[spoiler: (he's not, of course)]], the BigBad is Purton, governor of Concord Dawn, who wants to kill Fett and all his loved ones (Fett does have a few, believe it or not) because Fett killed his son for "no reason." Fett's ex-wife Sintas Vel reveals to Purton that Fett killed his son because [[spoiler: the younger Purton raped her, and Fett refused to explain to spare Sintas being made a spectacle.]]

* ''{{ComicBook/Spawn}}'':Malebolgia,Mammon,and Sinn/Cogliostro

** ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesVsStreetFighter:''[[Characters/StreetFighterTheFourKings M. Bison]] is the mastermind behind the plot of the comic to kidnap fighters and siphon their power to use them to create Psycho Bombs to blackmail the world to his will.

* The Creator/IDWPublishing ''[[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Transformers]]'' universe also re-established Megatron as the Big Bad up through ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersAllHailMegatron All Hail Megatron]]''. Though he would return with a few more schemes before ''Dark Cybertron'', Megatron's role as a Big Bad was diminished after AHM due to changing politics on Cybertron as well as others launching their own schemes.

* ''{{ComicBook/Vampirella}}'': Mad God Chaos.
* Toyo Harada for the majority of {{Creator/ValiantComics}} universe.

* Alan Moore's ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm run had [[spoiler: [[ManipulativeBastard TAO]] who would also be the big bad of Sleeper. ]]

* ''{{ComicBOOk/Witchblade}}'' had Kenneth Irons for the First half of the series and later Curator/Survivor for the second half.