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** ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': [[spoiler:The original Master Org. The one the rangers had been fighting was Dr. Viktor Adler, a former friend to Cole's parents who consumed the remains of the original for revenge and became the new Master Org. After being killed by the Orgs when they found out about his deceipt, he grows a real horn and comes back to life. In the final 6 episodes, he returns and killed off two of the traitors, and talks as though he and the original Master Org are now truly one.]]
** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'': [[spoiler:Alphabet Soup was a corrupt government facility that kidnapped child geniuses and forced them to work for them by lying about an allergy to sunlight and drove them either to being near emotionless (Dr. K) or completely child-like (Gem and Gemma). Dr. K created [[BigBad Venjix]] for them and used it in an attempt to break free, but stopped her before she could program a firewall. Because of them, Venjix broke free and began his assault on humanity, but they tried to kill Dr. K so that no one will know where Venjix came from. By the events of the series, it's members were either arrested, captured by Venjix or killed.]]
** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'': [[spoiler:Alphabet Soup was a corrupt government facility that kidnapped child geniuses and forced them to work for them by lying about an allergy to sunlight and drove them either to being near emotionless (Dr. K) or completely child-like (Gem and Gemma). Dr. K created [[BigBad Venjix]] for them and used it in an attempt to break free, but stopped her before she could program a firewall. Because of them, Venjix broke free and began his assault on humanity, but they tried to kill Dr. K so that no one will know where Venjix came from. By the events of the series, it's members were either arrested, captured by Venjix or killed.]]
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** ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': [[spoiler:The The original Master Org. The one the rangers had been fighting was [[spoiler: Dr. Viktor Adler, a former friend to Cole's parents who consumed the remains of the original for revenge and became the new Master Org. ]] After being killed by the Orgs when they found out about his deceipt, he deceit, [[spoiler: Dr. Addler]] grows a real horn and comes back to life. In the final 6 episodes, he returns and killed off two of the traitors, and talks as though [[spoiler: he and the original Master Org Org]] are now truly one.]]
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** 'Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'': Lord Archenon. A galactic conqueror, he had plans to control all the energems, and as such hired Sledge and turned [[spoiler: Heckyl]] evil. He set the series in motion, and eventually joined the fray around episode 33.
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** 'Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'': Lord Archenon. A galactic conqueror, he had plans to control all the energems, and as such hired Sledge and turned [[spoiler: Heckyl]] evil. He set the series in motion, and eventually joined the fray around episode 33.
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* ''Series/TheWire'': While most of the story and characters are very local to Baltimore, in season 2 The Greek runs a major international criminal organisation. It appears that he is responsible for much if not all of the drug shipments to the city.
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* ''Series/TheWire'': While most of the story and characters are very local to Baltimore, in season 2 The Greek runs a major international criminal organisation. organization. It appears that he is responsible for much if not all of the drug shipments to the city.city.
* ''Series/JekyllAndHyde2015'' has Lord Trash, an unseen evil entity that the villains are trying to resurrect.
* ''Series/JekyllAndHyde2015'' has Lord Trash, an unseen evil entity that the villains are trying to resurrect.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho''
** The Whoniverse as a whole has [[{{Satan}} the Beast]] and [[TheAntiGod the Black Guardian]].
** [[MonsterProgenitor Davros]] and [[MonsterLord the Dalek leadership]] are this in any Dalek story where they don't appear.
** [[spoiler: The Cult of Skaro and the Void Ship]] in Season 2, [[spoiler: as the Void Ship is what allows the Cybermen from Pete's World to cross-over into N-Space.]]
** The Whoniverse as a whole has [[{{Satan}} the Beast]] and [[TheAntiGod the Black Guardian]].
** [[MonsterProgenitor Davros]] and [[MonsterLord the Dalek leadership]] are this in any Dalek story where they don't appear.
** [[spoiler: The Cult of Skaro and the Void Ship]] in Season 2, [[spoiler: as the Void Ship is what allows the Cybermen from Pete's World to cross-over into N-Space.]]
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** The Whoniverse as a whole has [[{{Satan}} the Beast]] and [[TheAntiGod the Black Guardian]].
** [[MonsterProgenitor Davros]] and [[MonsterLord the Dalek leadership]] are this in any Dalek story where they don't appear.
** [[spoiler: The Cult of Skaro and the Void Ship]] in Season 2, [[spoiler: as the Void Ship is what allows the Cybermen from Pete's World to cross-over into N-Space.]]
** The Whoniverse as a whole has [[{{Satan}} the Beast]] and [[TheAntiGod the Black Guardian]].
** [[MonsterProgenitor Davros]] and [[MonsterLord the Dalek leadership]] are this in any Dalek story where they don't appear.
** [[spoiler: The Cult of Skaro and the Void Ship]] in Season 2, [[spoiler: as the Void Ship is what allows the Cybermen from Pete's World to cross-over into N-Space.]]
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** ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' had Foundation X, a nebulous organization that helps fund the [[BigBad Museum]] in return for data on the Gaia Memories. It's later shown that they funded the [[CameBackWrong Necro]][[SuperSoldier-Overs]] from TheMovie until they decided the project wouldn't produce the results they wanted, and as Museum collapsed they shifted their focus to the "[[Series/KamenRiderOOO King's Medals]]" before a renegade member of the group becomes the BigBad of ''[[Film/KamenRiderXKamenRiderFourzeAndOOOMovieWarMegaMax Movie War Megamax]]''. It seems that Foundation X was intended to be a Greater Scope Villain for the entire "Heisei Phase 2" era of ''Kamen Rider'', but the plot thread was dropped post-''Megamax'' since the plots of subsequent series wouldn't really accommodate such a concept[[note]]Though some fans choose to interpret a FreezeFrameBonus in ''[[Series/KamenRiderGaim Gaim]]'' as proof that the Yggdrasil Corporation has ties to Foundation X[[/note]].
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** ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' had Foundation X, a nebulous organization that helps fund the [[BigBad Museum]] in return for data on the Gaia Memories. It's later shown that they funded the [[CameBackWrong Necro]][[SuperSoldier-Overs]] Necro]][[SuperSoldier -Overs]] from TheMovie until they decided the project wouldn't produce the results they wanted, and as Museum collapsed they shifted their focus to the "[[Series/KamenRiderOOO King's Medals]]" before a renegade member of the group becomes the BigBad of ''[[Film/KamenRiderXKamenRiderFourzeAndOOOMovieWarMegaMax Movie War Megamax]]''. It seems that Foundation X was intended to be a Greater Scope Villain for the entire "Heisei Phase 2" era of ''Kamen Rider'', but the plot thread was dropped post-''Megamax'' since the plots of subsequent series wouldn't really accommodate such a concept[[note]]Though some fans choose to interpret a FreezeFrameBonus in ''[[Series/KamenRiderGaim Gaim]]'' as proof that the Yggdrasil Corporation has ties to Foundation X[[/note]].
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** Hades could be considered [[AlwaysABiggerFish an even '''bigger''' example]], as he claims to have been collecting and hoarding all the souls killed by every single BigBad or GreaterScopeVillain in the past, not to mention that he terrifies Rumple and Cora, and uses both of them as pieces in his game. Oh, and should we mention that he, being a god, ''is the most powerful and oldest villain of them all, bar none?'' Small wonder why Nimue the other Dark Ones and Peter Pan were so desperate to escape the Underworld, where they would always be [[OvershadowedByAwesome second to someone else.]]
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** Hades could be considered [[AlwaysABiggerFish an even '''bigger''' bigger example]], as he claims to have been collecting and hoarding all the souls killed by every single BigBad or GreaterScopeVillain in the past, not to mention that he terrifies Rumple and Cora, and uses both of them as pieces in his game. Oh, and should we mention that he, being a god, ''is the most powerful and oldest villain of them all, bar none?'' Small wonder why Nimue the other Dark Ones and Peter Pan were so desperate to escape the Underworld, where they would always be [[OvershadowedByAwesome second to someone else.]]
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** Rumplestiltskin can be seen as this for much of the series, with his manipulation of many characters causing them to develop into main villains in their own right.
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** The Dark One for the entire series. No, not just Rumpelstiltskin, but ''anyone'' who has inherited the name of The Dark One, as ''their'' actions eventually lead to the rise of not just the {{Big Bad}}s, but also for {{The Hero}}es. Just take a look at Rumpelstiltskin. Eventually it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Dark One is more Greater Scope than one can think, as it is literally darkness that binds itself to a soul]]. Season 5 gives us more information on the origin of The Dark One. It turns out that the first Dark One is [[spoiler: Nimue, who started using the powers granted to her by the Holy Grail for revenge, corrupting her powers and giving birth to the Dark One.]] Since every previous Dark One exists in the current one, [[spoiler: Nimue]] is the Greater Scope Villain for every other Dark One and the reason they exist in the first place.
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** The Dark One for the entire series. No, not just Rumpelstiltskin, Rumplestiltskin, but ''anyone'' who has inherited the name of The Dark One, as ''their'' actions eventually lead to the rise of not just the {{Big Bad}}s, but also for {{The Hero}}es. Just take a look at Rumpelstiltskin. Rumplestiltskin. Eventually it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Dark One is more Greater Scope than one can think, as it is literally darkness that binds itself to a soul]].soul, known as the Darkness]]. Season 5 gives us more information on the origin of The Dark One. It turns out that the first Dark One is [[spoiler: Nimue, who started using the powers granted to her by the Holy Grail for revenge, corrupting her powers and giving birth to the Dark One.]] Since every previous Dark One exists in the current one, [[spoiler: Nimue]] is the Greater Scope Villain for every other Dark One and the reason they exist in the first place.place.
** Hades could be considered [[AlwaysABiggerFish an even '''bigger''' example]], as he claims to have been collecting and hoarding all the souls killed by every single BigBad or GreaterScopeVillain in the past, not to mention that he terrifies Rumple and Cora, and uses both of them as pieces in his game. Oh, and should we mention that he, being a god, ''is the most powerful and oldest villain of them all, bar none?'' Small wonder why Nimue the other Dark Ones and Peter Pan were so desperate to escape the Underworld, where they would always be [[OvershadowedByAwesome second to someone else.]]
** Hades could be considered [[AlwaysABiggerFish an even '''bigger''' example]], as he claims to have been collecting and hoarding all the souls killed by every single BigBad or GreaterScopeVillain in the past, not to mention that he terrifies Rumple and Cora, and uses both of them as pieces in his game. Oh, and should we mention that he, being a god, ''is the most powerful and oldest villain of them all, bar none?'' Small wonder why Nimue the other Dark Ones and Peter Pan were so desperate to escape the Underworld, where they would always be [[OvershadowedByAwesome second to someone else.]]
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** The Dark One for the entire series. No, not just Rumpelstiltskin, but ''anyone'' who has inherited the name of The Dark One, as ''their'' actions eventually lead to the rise of not just the {{Big Bad}}s, but also for {{The Hero}}es. Just take a look at Rumpelstiltskin. Eventually it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Dark One is more Greater Scope than one can think, as it is literally darkness that binds itself to a soul]].
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** The Dark One for the entire series. No, not just Rumpelstiltskin, but ''anyone'' who has inherited the name of The Dark One, as ''their'' actions eventually lead to the rise of not just the {{Big Bad}}s, but also for {{The Hero}}es. Just take a look at Rumpelstiltskin. Eventually it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Dark One is more Greater Scope than one can think, as it is literally darkness that binds itself to a soul]]. Season 5 gives us more information on the origin of The Dark One. It turns out that the first Dark One is [[spoiler: Nimue, who started using the powers granted to her by the Holy Grail for revenge, corrupting her powers and giving birth to the Dark One.]] Since every previous Dark One exists in the current one, [[spoiler: Nimue]] is the Greater Scope Villain for every other Dark One and the reason they exist in the first place.
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* ''Series/TheWire'': While most of the story and characters are very local to Baltimore, in season 2 The Greek runs a major international criminal organisation.
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* ''Series/{{Fargo}}'': Season 2: Hamish Broker, the Head of the Fargo Crime Syndicate. Joe who drew up the plans to acquire the Gerhardt territory and Mike provides the main antagonistic force, so the two alternate positions as BigBad. Broker is the one who okays the operation, and allowed them the manpower and resources to do it.
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* ''Series/{{Fargo}}'': Season 2: Hamish Broker, the Head of the Fargo Crime Syndicate. It's Joe who drew up the plans to acquire the Gerhardt territory and Mike who provides the main antagonistic force, so the two alternate positions as BigBad. Broker is the one who okays the operation, and allowed them the manpower and resources to do it.
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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Comicbook/RasAlGhul is this for the first two seasons, with Season 2 revealing that he was the one who trained Season 1 BigBad Malcolm Merlyn, and his presence being felt throughout the second season via his League of Assassins minions, all [[TheGhost without ever showing up]]. Come Season 3, however, he finally does appear, stepping down into the main BigBad role.
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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
** Comicbook/RasAlGhul is this for the first two seasons, with Season 2 revealing that he was the one who trained Season 1 BigBad Malcolm Merlyn, and his presence being felt throughout the second season via his League of Assassins minions, all [[TheGhost without ever showing up]]. Come Season 3, however, he finally does appear, stepping down into the main BigBadrole.role.
** In a similar way to the above Damien Darhk and his organisation H.I.V.E. despite not physically appearing in the first three seasons are responsible for a few episodic plots, the [[spoiler: supposed]] death of Diggle's brother Andy, and Darhk's rivalry with Ra's being one of the main reasons [[spoiler: for the League's attempted destruction of Star City in season 3]]. And, much like Ra's, Darhk finally steps down from this position and become the BigBad of season 4.
** Comicbook/RasAlGhul is this for the first two seasons, with Season 2 revealing that he was the one who trained Season 1 BigBad Malcolm Merlyn, and his presence being felt throughout the second season via his League of Assassins minions, all [[TheGhost without ever showing up]]. Come Season 3, however, he finally does appear, stepping down into the main BigBad
** In a similar way to the above Damien Darhk and his organisation H.I.V.E. despite not physically appearing in the first three seasons are responsible for a few episodic plots, the [[spoiler: supposed]] death of Diggle's brother Andy, and Darhk's rivalry with Ra's being one of the main reasons [[spoiler: for the League's attempted destruction of Star City in season 3]]. And, much like Ra's, Darhk finally steps down from this position and become the BigBad of season 4.
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** Season 7 also has [[spoiler:Alan Wilson and the other members of the prion variant cabal, possibly the Greatest Scope Villains featured on the entire show, who while taking on the ultimate BigBad title in that season are retroactively this to season 5 and possibly 6.]]
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** Season 7 also has [[spoiler:Alan Wilson and the other members of the prion variant cabal, possibly the Greatest Scope Villains featured on the entire show, who while taking on the ultimate BigBad title in that season are retroactively this to season 5 and possibly 6.6, and possibly season 4, through their puppet Charles Logan.]]
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* ''Series/TwentyFour''' loves this trope:
* In season 1, [[spoiler:Nina's]] German contact is heavily implied to be this to [[spoiler:the Drazen family]]'s BigBad.
* Season 2 has [[spoiler:Max and Alexander Trepkos]],. They are far more connected to BigBad [[spoiler:Peter Kingsley]] than the season 1 example, and it seems [[spoiler:Max]] is superior to [[spoiler:Trepkos]]. [[spoiler:Max ends up stepping down to BigBad status via TheManBehindTheMan in [[VideoGame/TwentyFour The Game]], while Trepkos disappears and may have been implied to have been arrested in a throwaway line in a later season.]]
* A possible example from season 3, [[spoiler:again featuring Nina]], is [[spoiler:Nina's]] unnamed client, one of the potential purchasers of [[spoiler:the Cordilla virus]].
* [[spoiler:Then-Vice President Charles Logan]], season 5's BigBad, may have been this to season 4, as he at the very least took advantage of the opportunity created by [[spoiler:the President's incapacitation.]]
* Season 5 has [[spoiler:the unnamed individuals (one of whom is revealed in season 6 to be Graem Bauer, Jack's estranged brother) consulted by [[PresidentEvil President]] [[BigBad Charles Logan]] towards the end of the season.]]
* Season 6 retroactively establishes [[spoiler:Jack's father and brother, Phillip and Graem Bauer]] as this to Day [[spoiler:5]]. [[spoiler:Cheng Zhi's superiors in the Chinese government]] may also count.
* Season 7 has African warlord Benjamin Juma. While Juma is behind the story's core conflict, his underling Iké Dubaku serves as the direct BigBad in the season's first ten episodes. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when, after Dubaku's capture, Juma finally appears onscreen and becomes a proper BigBad himself]].
* Season 7 also has [[spoiler:Alan Wilson and the other members of the prion variant cabal, possibly the Greatest Scope Villains featured on the entire show, who while taking on the ultimate BigBad title in that season are retroactively this to season 5 and possibly 6.]]
* In season 1, [[spoiler:Nina's]] German contact is heavily implied to be this to [[spoiler:the Drazen family]]'s BigBad.
* Season 2 has [[spoiler:Max and Alexander Trepkos]],. They are far more connected to BigBad [[spoiler:Peter Kingsley]] than the season 1 example, and it seems [[spoiler:Max]] is superior to [[spoiler:Trepkos]]. [[spoiler:Max ends up stepping down to BigBad status via TheManBehindTheMan in [[VideoGame/TwentyFour The Game]], while Trepkos disappears and may have been implied to have been arrested in a throwaway line in a later season.]]
* A possible example from season 3, [[spoiler:again featuring Nina]], is [[spoiler:Nina's]] unnamed client, one of the potential purchasers of [[spoiler:the Cordilla virus]].
* [[spoiler:Then-Vice President Charles Logan]], season 5's BigBad, may have been this to season 4, as he at the very least took advantage of the opportunity created by [[spoiler:the President's incapacitation.]]
* Season 5 has [[spoiler:the unnamed individuals (one of whom is revealed in season 6 to be Graem Bauer, Jack's estranged brother) consulted by [[PresidentEvil President]] [[BigBad Charles Logan]] towards the end of the season.]]
* Season 6 retroactively establishes [[spoiler:Jack's father and brother, Phillip and Graem Bauer]] as this to Day [[spoiler:5]]. [[spoiler:Cheng Zhi's superiors in the Chinese government]] may also count.
* Season 7 has African warlord Benjamin Juma. While Juma is behind the story's core conflict, his underling Iké Dubaku serves as the direct BigBad in the season's first ten episodes. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when, after Dubaku's capture, Juma finally appears onscreen and becomes a proper BigBad himself]].
* Season 7 also has [[spoiler:Alan Wilson and the other members of the prion variant cabal, possibly the Greatest Scope Villains featured on the entire show, who while taking on the ultimate BigBad title in that season are retroactively this to season 5 and possibly 6.]]
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* ''Series/TwentyFour''' ''Series/TwentyFour'' loves this trope:
* ** In season 1, [[spoiler:Nina's]] German contact is heavily implied to be this to [[spoiler:the Drazen family]]'s BigBad.
* ** Season 2 has [[spoiler:Max and Alexander Trepkos]],. They are far more connected to BigBad [[spoiler:Peter Kingsley]] than the season 1 example, and it seems [[spoiler:Max]] is superior to [[spoiler:Trepkos]]. [[spoiler:Max ends up stepping down to BigBad status via TheManBehindTheMan in [[VideoGame/TwentyFour The Game]], while Trepkos disappears and may have been implied to have been arrested in a throwaway line in a later season.]]
* ** A possible example from season 3, [[spoiler:again featuring Nina]], is [[spoiler:Nina's]] unnamed client, one of the potential purchasers of [[spoiler:the Cordilla virus]].
* ** [[spoiler:Then-Vice President Charles Logan]], season 5's BigBad, may have been this to season 4, as he at the very least took advantage of the opportunity created by [[spoiler:the President's incapacitation.]]
* ** Season 5 has [[spoiler:the unnamed individuals (one of whom is revealed in season 6 to be Graem Bauer, Jack's estranged brother) consulted by [[PresidentEvil President]] [[BigBad Charles Logan]] towards the end of the season.]]
* ** Season 6 retroactively establishes [[spoiler:Jack's father and brother, Phillip and Graem Bauer]] as this to Day [[spoiler:5]]. [[spoiler:Cheng Zhi's superiors in the Chinese government]] may also count.
* ** Season 7 has African warlord Benjamin Juma. While Juma is behind the story's core conflict, his underling Iké Dubaku serves as the direct BigBad in the season's first ten episodes. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when, after Dubaku's capture, Juma finally appears onscreen and becomes a proper BigBad himself]].
* ** Season 7 also has [[spoiler:Alan Wilson and the other members of the prion variant cabal, possibly the Greatest Scope Villains featured on the entire show, who while taking on the ultimate BigBad title in that season are retroactively this to season 5 and possibly 6.]]
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Damien Darhk clearly operates on the same scale as Ra's, so he's not an example. Although I suppose you could make the argument that he and the rest of HIVE's yet-to-be-revealed plan might be a greater scope than Starling City, and thus greater than the most we've seen of Ra's. The Sherlock example is questionable, as the villain of the first episode was operating under Moriarty's orders. Livia Soprano is not an example; she does not operate at a higher level than Tony. Ra does not operate at a higher level than the other Goa'uld, either; people keep confusing this trope with Villainous Legacy. Expanded the 24 section. Neither of the Doctor Who examples operate on a higher level than those they've affected; the former is akin to Villainous Legacy and the later probably needs a new trope to distinguish itself and end this confusion.
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** Late in Season 3, Ra's reveals the existence of his rival, Damien Darhk, leader of the HIVE, who is [[ArcWelding revealed to be responsible]] for several events throughout the series.
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* The first episode of ''{{Series/Sherlock}}'' reveals at the end that the villain was sponsored by someone else, similar to the [[Film/SherlockHolmes 2009 film]]: [[spoiler: Moriarty.]]
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** Livia Soprano. She is implied to be chiefly responsible for moulding Tony's psychological behaviour. Ultimately, it was she who actually destroyed his family.
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** Ra was the first Goa'uld to find Earth and use a human as a host, which gave him and other Goa'uld a massive supply of hosts, soldiers and slaves and allowed them to spread all across the galaxy, with Ra as the top System Lord for over ten thousand years. He's killed off in [[Film/{{Stargate}} the original film]] before the series, but his legacy poses the main threat for most of the series.
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* ''Series/TwentyFour'''s seventh season has African warlord Benjamin Juma. While Juma is behind the story's core conflict, his underling Iké Dubaku serves as the direct BigBad in the season's first ten episodes. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when, after Dubaku's capture, Juma finally appears onscreen and becomes a proper BigBad himself]].
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* ''Series/TwentyFour'''s seventh ''Series/TwentyFour''' loves this trope:
* In season 1, [[spoiler:Nina's]] German contact is heavily implied to be this to [[spoiler:the Drazen family]]'s BigBad.
* Season 2 has [[spoiler:Max and Alexander Trepkos]],. They are far more connected to BigBad [[spoiler:Peter Kingsley]] than the season 1 example, and it seems [[spoiler:Max]] is superior to [[spoiler:Trepkos]]. [[spoiler:Max ends up stepping down to BigBad status via TheManBehindTheMan in [[VideoGame/TwentyFour The Game]], while Trepkos disappears and may have been implied to have been arrested in a throwaway line in a later season.]]
* A possible example from season 3, [[spoiler:again featuring Nina]], is [[spoiler:Nina's]] unnamed client, one of the potential purchasers of [[spoiler:the Cordilla virus]].
* [[spoiler:Then-Vice President Charles Logan]], season 5's BigBad, may have been this to season 4, as he at the very least took advantage of the opportunity created by [[spoiler:the President's incapacitation.]]
* Season 5 has [[spoiler:the unnamed individuals (one of whom is revealed in season 6 to be Graem Bauer, Jack's estranged brother) consulted by [[PresidentEvil President]] [[BigBad Charles Logan]] towards the end of the season.]]
* Season 6 retroactively establishes [[spoiler:Jack's father and brother, Phillip and Graem Bauer]] as this to Day [[spoiler:5]]. [[spoiler:Cheng Zhi's superiors in the Chinese government]] may also count.
* Season 7 has African warlord Benjamin Juma. While Juma is behind the story's core conflict, his underling Iké Dubaku serves as the direct BigBad in the season's first ten episodes. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when, after Dubaku's capture, Juma finally appears onscreen and becomes a proper BigBadhimself]].himself]].
* Season 7 also has [[spoiler:Alan Wilson and the other members of the prion variant cabal, possibly the Greatest Scope Villains featured on the entire show, who while taking on the ultimate BigBad title in that season are retroactively this to season 5 and possibly 6.]]
* In season 1, [[spoiler:Nina's]] German contact is heavily implied to be this to [[spoiler:the Drazen family]]'s BigBad.
* Season 2 has [[spoiler:Max and Alexander Trepkos]],. They are far more connected to BigBad [[spoiler:Peter Kingsley]] than the season 1 example, and it seems [[spoiler:Max]] is superior to [[spoiler:Trepkos]]. [[spoiler:Max ends up stepping down to BigBad status via TheManBehindTheMan in [[VideoGame/TwentyFour The Game]], while Trepkos disappears and may have been implied to have been arrested in a throwaway line in a later season.]]
* A possible example from season 3, [[spoiler:again featuring Nina]], is [[spoiler:Nina's]] unnamed client, one of the potential purchasers of [[spoiler:the Cordilla virus]].
* [[spoiler:Then-Vice President Charles Logan]], season 5's BigBad, may have been this to season 4, as he at the very least took advantage of the opportunity created by [[spoiler:the President's incapacitation.]]
* Season 5 has [[spoiler:the unnamed individuals (one of whom is revealed in season 6 to be Graem Bauer, Jack's estranged brother) consulted by [[PresidentEvil President]] [[BigBad Charles Logan]] towards the end of the season.]]
* Season 6 retroactively establishes [[spoiler:Jack's father and brother, Phillip and Graem Bauer]] as this to Day [[spoiler:5]]. [[spoiler:Cheng Zhi's superiors in the Chinese government]] may also count.
* Season 7 has African warlord Benjamin Juma. While Juma is behind the story's core conflict, his underling Iké Dubaku serves as the direct BigBad in the season's first ten episodes. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when, after Dubaku's capture, Juma finally appears onscreen and becomes a proper BigBad
* Season 7 also has [[spoiler:Alan Wilson and the other members of the prion variant cabal, possibly the Greatest Scope Villains featured on the entire show, who while taking on the ultimate BigBad title in that season are retroactively this to season 5 and possibly 6.]]
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** Season 2:First half, [[spoiler:John Garrett posthumously]]. Second half, Baron Von Strucker as the largest leader in HYDRA, being referenced by BigBad Daniel Whitehall [[spoiler:posthumously]].Whitehall, but not making any appearances. During the second half, Dr. List. is promoted to this as [[spoiler:Daniel Whithall and the other HYDRA leaders are dead]], despite him only appearing in three episodes and having nothing to do with [[spoiler:BigBad Jiaying and the other Inhamans.]]
** Season 3: "It", the Inhuman banished to the mysterious planet that Simmons was sent to that [[spoiler:is worshiped by HYDRA]]. However, [[spoiler:it escapes in Ward's body in the mid-season finale.]]
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** Season 3: "It", the Inhuman banished to the mysterious planet that Simmons was sent to that [[spoiler:is worshiped by HYDRA]]. However, [[spoiler:it escapes in Ward's body in the mid-season finale.]]
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** [[MonsterProgenitor Davros]] and [[MonsterLord the Dalek leadership]]could be considered are this in any Dalek stories story where they don't appear. The Time Lords themselves become appear.
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* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': Theo Tonin, the head of the Detroit mob, is this in Season 3. His adoptive son, Robert Quarles, is the actual BigBad of the season, providing all of the drama, and driving the plot without any instructions from Theo. That said, Theo is the one who made Quarles who he is, and is the reason he's in Kentucky in the first place. In Season 4, Theo takes over as TheBigBad, sending [[DragonInChief Nicky Augustine]] to Kentucky with specific orders to kill Drew Thompson.
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* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' Season 1: Alexander Pierce, but [[spoiler:posthumously]].
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': From seasons 1 to 3 and much of 4, the law firm of Wolfram & Hart play the role of Big Bad; however the unseen Senior Partners are always portrayed as the Greater Scope Villain. Angel spends the whole show and all his strength trying to grind their operation to a halt, even for a moment, by destroying their means of influencing Earth. Optimistically, he was ''just'' successful enough to make them focus their attention upon him. The downside would be that he now has their attention. As of Season 9, they've been branching out in the Greater Scope Villain department; their machinations are now starting to affect Buffy and the Scoobies too.
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Comicbook/RasAlGhul is this for the first two seasons, with Season 2 revealing that he was the one who trained Season 1 BigBad Malcolm Merlyn, and his presence being felt throughout the second season via his League of Assassins minions, all [[TheGhost without ever showing up]]. Come Season 3, however, he finally does appear, stepping down into the main BigBad role.
** Late in Season 3, Ra's reveals the existence of his rival, Damien Darhk, leader of the HIVE, who is [[ArcWelding revealed to be responsible]] for several events throughout the series.
* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Don Eladio, the head of the Juárez Cartel. His actions drove Gus Fring to the be man he is in the show and his cartel causes problems for Walter and Jesse for three-and-a-half seasons. Despite all this, he only appears twice in season 4 [[spoiler:and is killed off in his second appearance]].
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** Acathla in the Season 2 finale, with Angelus' motivation being to unseal him and inflict literal Hell on Earth.
** The First Evil is introduced as the [[MadeOfEvil source and personification of all evil]] in season 3, but doesn't take on a direct BigBad role until season 7. Even then its lack of physical presence meant it had to work through others.
** The True Demons were {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that ruled the Earth before humans, and all the monsters and "demons" that the heroes fight are nothing but remnants of them that they left behind as one final "screw you" before leaving/being kicked out.
** In Season 9, Whistler is revealed to have been behind Twilight in season 8 and seems to be the new BigBad
* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': The Source of All Evil in in the first three seasons.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': It is implied that the [[MegaCorp Blue Sun Corporation]] was going to end up like this, being responsible for River's ordeal at Academy (note how she freaked out whenever she saw the company logo), sending the [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Hands of Blue]] after her, and being the ones to which all the nastier members of [[TheEmpire the Alliance]] answered. Cancellation of the series, however, left things at just implications.
* ''Series/FreddysNightmares'': Freddy Krueger. He was only directly involved in the plot of eight episodes, though a few implied he was pulling the strings behind the scenes.
* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' TV series: There's the implication that it's actually ''R.L. Stine himself'' (the author of the books) who's behind everything in all the stories (in a meta sense he is, of course) and the ultimate evil of the series, even though he doesn't appear in any of them. In the intro, a man in black walks up to a town, and his briefcase (clearly marked with his name) flies open. The papers fly out and morph into the ''Goosebumps'' logo, which proceeds to spread misery around the town until it reaches a creepy mansion, which then shows clips of some of the stories.
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': Rufus Zeno in seasons 1 and 2. He was much more dangerous and insane than the other villains, but had little to do with the main plotlines. Instead, he was more of a subplot on both of occasions and caused a lot of problems that weren't directly connected to the main mystery but did influence things.
* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': Theo Tonin, the head of the Detroit mob, is this in Season 3. His adoptive son, Robert Quarles, is the actual BigBad of the season, providing all of the drama, and driving the plot without any instructions from Theo. That said, Theo is the one who made Quarles who he is, and is the reason he's in Kentucky in the first place. In Season 4, Theo takes over as TheBigBad, sending [[DragonInChief Nicky Augustine]] to Kentucky with specific orders to kill Drew Thompson.
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' has [[spoiler:The Original OOO]], who had alchemists make [[spoiler:the Core Medals, including the ones that'd give birth to the Greeeds]], in an attempt to take over the world.
** ''Series/KamenRiderX'', ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon'', and ''Series/KamenRiderSuper1'': Great Leader. He wasn't a presence in any of those series, but few people were surprised when he showed up in ''Series/KamenRiderStronger'' and ''Film/KamenRiderZX'' to take credit for the founding of each show's respective GenericEvilOrganizationSquad.
** ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'' has the Helheim Forest. While it's the central reason ''why'' the Riders are fighting Inves and each other [[spoiler:and later on the Overlords]], it takes a backseat to the overall conflicts. Case in point, even when Takatora reveals its true nature and ''why'' Yggdrasil is fighting it, Kouta still finds a reason to oppose Yggdrasil more than Helheim. An even bigger case in point? [[spoiler:Near the finale, ''all'' the villains are taken care of save for Helheim, whose avatar personally appears and reveals himself to two {{big bad wannabe}}s (who both wind up getting pushed out of the conflict soon after). The final battle isn't with him, but rather with [[TheRival Kaito]] who had obtained the same level of power as the Overlords. The closest thing [[TheHero Kouta]] did to defeating the actual Greater Scope Villain is moving his operation away to a far off distant planet, and depending on how you view his reaction, the avatar of Helheim is cool with it]].
* ''Series/{{Nikita}}'': For the first season-and-a-half, [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Oversight]] was this to [[GovernmentConspiracy Division]], officially giving Percy his orders even as he was recognized as series BigBad. As time went on, and Percy started overstepping his boundaries, Oversight grew more wary of him, and by the time Season 2 started, they had Percy locked up and replaced by [[TheStarscream Amanda]]. And now, as of the midway point of the season, [[spoiler: Oversight is defunct, the Guardians having killed most of them in a (successful) plot to free Percy; this has resulted not only in Amanda taking Division rogue, but in the last remaining Oversight member to [[EnemyMine join forces]] with Team Nikita.]]
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
** Cora is this for Regina the Evil Queen, as she is Regina's mother and the one who shaped her into the BigBad she is now and her influence remains on her even though she's been out of the picture for a long, long time now. In Season 2, Cora appears personally, ditching this status and becoming the full-on BigBad.
** [[spoiler: Peter Pan]], the BigBad of Season 3A, can be seen as this for much of the series. Aside from being TheManBehindTheMan to Greg and Tamara in the second half of Season 2, his actions were also a major contributing factor to making Rumplestiltskin what he is. Which makes him indirectly responsible for every villainous act taken by both Rumple and his various students (Cora, Regina, and Zelena) throughout the run of the show.
** The Dark One for the entire series. No, not just Rumpelstiltskin, but ''anyone'' who has inherited the name of The Dark One, as ''their'' actions eventually lead to the rise of not just the {{Big Bad}}s, but also for {{The Hero}}es. Just take a look at Rumpelstiltskin. Eventually it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Dark One is more Greater Scope than one can think, as it is literally darkness that binds itself to a soul]].
* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': The "Master" couldn't do anything until near the end.
** ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': BigBad Emperor Gruumm was the leader of the Troobian Empire but was just collecting power for the Omni.
** ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'': The finale reveals Dark Specter, the Greater Scope Villain behind Zedd, Rita, the Machine Empire, and Divatox. In ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' he gathered together all the {{Big Bad}}s of the franchise to that point under him, and sicced newcomer Astronema on the Rangers, but seldom directly intervened. In the end, he was done in by TheStarscream and ''never'' faced the Rangers directly.
** ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'': Emperor Mavro is the father of Vrak and Vekar (the latter serving this role in the first 20 episodes) but doesn't appear in person until the last 3 episodes.
** ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': [[spoiler:The original Master Org. The one the rangers had been fighting was Dr. Viktor Adler, a former friend to Cole's parents who consumed the remains of the original for revenge and became the new Master Org. After being killed by the Orgs when they found out about his deceipt, he grows a real horn and comes back to life. In the final 6 episodes, he returns and killed off two of the traitors, and talks as though he and the original Master Org are now truly one.]]
** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'': [[spoiler:Alphabet Soup was a corrupt government facility that kidnapped child geniuses and forced them to work for them by lying about an allergy to sunlight and drove them either to being near emotionless (Dr. K) or completely child-like (Gem and Gemma). Dr. K created [[BigBad Venjix]] for them and used it in an attempt to break free, but stopped her before she could program a firewall. Because of them, Venjix broke free and began his assault on humanity, but they tried to kill Dr. K so that no one will know where Venjix came from. By the events of the series, it's members were either arrested, captured by Venjix or killed.]]
* ''Series/{{Revenge}}'' has the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Americon Initiative]], the domestic terrorist group who the Graysons laundered money for (which they then framed David Clarke for). Initially just a part of the backstory, they later started influencing the story again in late season 1 via their assassin the White Haired Man, and in season 2 seem to be stepping down to knock the Graysons out of the BigBad position.
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'':
** Randall Flynn, appearing in [[Recap/RevolutionS1E7TheChildrensCrusade episode 7]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E8TiesThatBind episode 8]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E11TheStand episode 11]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E12Ghosts episode 12]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E13TheSongRemainsTheSame episode 13]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E16TheLoveBoat episode 16]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E18Clue episode 18]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E19ChildrenOfMen episode 19]], and [[Recap/RevolutionS1E20TheDarkTower episode 20]]. He was a member of the USA Department of Defense before the blackout, and he may very well have been the one to have caused it to happen in the first place. In any case, he apparently has no affiliation to [[BigBad Sebastian Monroe]], and he seems to be monitoring the locations of the 12 pendants for an as yet unknown purpose. That, and he seems to keep an extremely low profile.
** The first season finale reveals two things: [[spoiler: the first thing being that Randall was working for a GreaterScopeVillain called the American Government and President of the United States all along, and the other thing being that the blackout was not an accident and that ''someone'' deliberately caused the nanites to go out of control]].
* The BigBad in ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'' is usually a French commander with wide powers, but responsible to his superiors and ultimately Napoleon.
* The first episode of ''{{Series/Sherlock}}'' reveals at the end that the villain was sponsored by someone else, similar to the [[Film/SherlockHolmes 2009 film]]: [[spoiler: Moriarty.]]
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': In the fifth season, [[RoboticPsychopath Brainiac]] is the BigBad. He's behind every nasty thing that goes down that season, and is one of the greatest threats Clark ever encounters. His goal, however, is to [[SealedEvilInACan release]] General Zod, a Greater Scope Villain who was trapped in the Phantom Zone on Jor-El's orders. Zod can't do anything, and in fact is unable to even communicate with Braniac. General Zod's status as the series' Greater Scope Villain is further emphasized due to him being the ultimate source of the Big Bads from almost all later seasons; his son Doomsday and his younger clone Major Zod. The General is able to come out and play on exactly one occasion.
* ''Series/TheSopranos'':
** Livia Soprano. She is implied to be chiefly responsible for moulding Tony's psychological behaviour. Ultimately, it was she who actually destroyed his family.
** Carmine Lupertazzi. After he and his empire are referred to merely as "New York" in the first two seasons, he finally appears in-person during Season 3. Despite being a longtime ally of the Dimeo crime family, Carmine's organization is almost universally viewed by Tony and his associates with wariness and suspicion (not least because the former regularly uses its vastly greater size and resources to coerce the New Jersey mobsters into "sharing" their profits on local business ventures). After the relationship between the two families deteriorates in Season 4, the Lupertazzi crime family ultimately becomes the story's preeminent antagonist and remains so until the end of the series.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** Ra was the first Goa'uld to find Earth and use a human as a host, which gave him and other Goa'uld a massive supply of hosts, soldiers and slaves and allowed them to spread all across the galaxy, with Ra as the top System Lord for over ten thousand years. He's killed off in [[Film/{{Stargate}} the original film]] before the series, but his legacy poses the main threat for most of the series.
** In seasons nine and ten, the Ori are the Greater Scope Villain, since they're [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended beings]] and thus more of a concept rather than actual characters. Their DarkMessiah Adria takes on the BigBad mantle for season ten.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Lilith is the BigBad of Seasons 3 and 4, but the main plot of S4 is her trying to free the one who turned her evil, [[{{Satan}} Lucifer himself.]] [[spoiler:Lucifer becomes the outright BigBad in S5.]]
** In the tenth season's finale [[spoiler:it's revealed that even Lucifer had a Greater Scope Villain in the form of The Darkness, which was the original source of evil in the Universe, not only the primordial force of nature that controlled everything before God and his angels, but also the one responsible for turning Lucifer evil.]]
* ''Series/TrueBlood'' often has Greater Scope Villains.
** Season 4: Antonia Gavilan (for a portion only)
** Season 5: Lilith
** Season 6: Macklyn Warlow
** Season 7: Sarah Newlin
* ''Series/TwentyFour'''s seventh season has African warlord Benjamin Juma. While Juma is behind the story's core conflict, his underling Iké Dubaku serves as the direct BigBad in the season's first ten episodes. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when, after Dubaku's capture, Juma finally appears onscreen and becomes a proper BigBad himself]].
* The Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} as a whole has [[{{Satan}} the Beast]] and [[TheAntiGod the Black Guardian]]. Also, [[MonsterProgenitor Davros]] and [[MonsterLord the Dalek leadership]] could be considered this in Dalek stories where they don't appear.
* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'': Gorog, one of the Big Bads, can count as the Greater Scope Villain in the entire DisneyChannelLiveActionUniverse.
* ''Series/IZombie'': Vaughn Du Clark is the one responsible for the zombie outbreak, however, he is only encountered in the season one finale, and it is Blaine [=DeBeers=] who acts as the BigBad of the season.
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* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' Season 1: Alexander Pierce, but [[spoiler:posthumously]].
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': From seasons 1 to 3 and much of 4, the law firm of Wolfram & Hart play the role of Big Bad; however the unseen Senior Partners are always portrayed as the Greater Scope Villain. Angel spends the whole show and all his strength trying to grind their operation to a halt, even for a moment, by destroying their means of influencing Earth. Optimistically, he was ''just'' successful enough to make them focus their attention upon him. The downside would be that he now has their attention. As of Season 9, they've been branching out in the Greater Scope Villain department; their machinations are now starting to affect Buffy and the Scoobies too.
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Comicbook/RasAlGhul is this for the first two seasons, with Season 2 revealing that he was the one who trained Season 1 BigBad Malcolm Merlyn, and his presence being felt throughout the second season via his League of Assassins minions, all [[TheGhost without ever showing up]]. Come Season 3, however, he finally does appear, stepping down into the main BigBad role.
** Late in Season 3, Ra's reveals the existence of his rival, Damien Darhk, leader of the HIVE, who is [[ArcWelding revealed to be responsible]] for several events throughout the series.
* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Don Eladio, the head of the Juárez Cartel. His actions drove Gus Fring to the be man he is in the show and his cartel causes problems for Walter and Jesse for three-and-a-half seasons. Despite all this, he only appears twice in season 4 [[spoiler:and is killed off in his second appearance]].
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** Acathla in the Season 2 finale, with Angelus' motivation being to unseal him and inflict literal Hell on Earth.
** The First Evil is introduced as the [[MadeOfEvil source and personification of all evil]] in season 3, but doesn't take on a direct BigBad role until season 7. Even then its lack of physical presence meant it had to work through others.
** The True Demons were {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that ruled the Earth before humans, and all the monsters and "demons" that the heroes fight are nothing but remnants of them that they left behind as one final "screw you" before leaving/being kicked out.
** In Season 9, Whistler is revealed to have been behind Twilight in season 8 and seems to be the new BigBad
* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': The Source of All Evil in in the first three seasons.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': It is implied that the [[MegaCorp Blue Sun Corporation]] was going to end up like this, being responsible for River's ordeal at Academy (note how she freaked out whenever she saw the company logo), sending the [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Hands of Blue]] after her, and being the ones to which all the nastier members of [[TheEmpire the Alliance]] answered. Cancellation of the series, however, left things at just implications.
* ''Series/FreddysNightmares'': Freddy Krueger. He was only directly involved in the plot of eight episodes, though a few implied he was pulling the strings behind the scenes.
* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' TV series: There's the implication that it's actually ''R.L. Stine himself'' (the author of the books) who's behind everything in all the stories (in a meta sense he is, of course) and the ultimate evil of the series, even though he doesn't appear in any of them. In the intro, a man in black walks up to a town, and his briefcase (clearly marked with his name) flies open. The papers fly out and morph into the ''Goosebumps'' logo, which proceeds to spread misery around the town until it reaches a creepy mansion, which then shows clips of some of the stories.
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': Rufus Zeno in seasons 1 and 2. He was much more dangerous and insane than the other villains, but had little to do with the main plotlines. Instead, he was more of a subplot on both of occasions and caused a lot of problems that weren't directly connected to the main mystery but did influence things.
* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': Theo Tonin, the head of the Detroit mob, is this in Season 3. His adoptive son, Robert Quarles, is the actual BigBad of the season, providing all of the drama, and driving the plot without any instructions from Theo. That said, Theo is the one who made Quarles who he is, and is the reason he's in Kentucky in the first place. In Season 4, Theo takes over as TheBigBad, sending [[DragonInChief Nicky Augustine]] to Kentucky with specific orders to kill Drew Thompson.
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' has [[spoiler:The Original OOO]], who had alchemists make [[spoiler:the Core Medals, including the ones that'd give birth to the Greeeds]], in an attempt to take over the world.
** ''Series/KamenRiderX'', ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon'', and ''Series/KamenRiderSuper1'': Great Leader. He wasn't a presence in any of those series, but few people were surprised when he showed up in ''Series/KamenRiderStronger'' and ''Film/KamenRiderZX'' to take credit for the founding of each show's respective GenericEvilOrganizationSquad.
** ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'' has the Helheim Forest. While it's the central reason ''why'' the Riders are fighting Inves and each other [[spoiler:and later on the Overlords]], it takes a backseat to the overall conflicts. Case in point, even when Takatora reveals its true nature and ''why'' Yggdrasil is fighting it, Kouta still finds a reason to oppose Yggdrasil more than Helheim. An even bigger case in point? [[spoiler:Near the finale, ''all'' the villains are taken care of save for Helheim, whose avatar personally appears and reveals himself to two {{big bad wannabe}}s (who both wind up getting pushed out of the conflict soon after). The final battle isn't with him, but rather with [[TheRival Kaito]] who had obtained the same level of power as the Overlords. The closest thing [[TheHero Kouta]] did to defeating the actual Greater Scope Villain is moving his operation away to a far off distant planet, and depending on how you view his reaction, the avatar of Helheim is cool with it]].
* ''Series/{{Nikita}}'': For the first season-and-a-half, [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Oversight]] was this to [[GovernmentConspiracy Division]], officially giving Percy his orders even as he was recognized as series BigBad. As time went on, and Percy started overstepping his boundaries, Oversight grew more wary of him, and by the time Season 2 started, they had Percy locked up and replaced by [[TheStarscream Amanda]]. And now, as of the midway point of the season, [[spoiler: Oversight is defunct, the Guardians having killed most of them in a (successful) plot to free Percy; this has resulted not only in Amanda taking Division rogue, but in the last remaining Oversight member to [[EnemyMine join forces]] with Team Nikita.]]
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
** Cora is this for Regina the Evil Queen, as she is Regina's mother and the one who shaped her into the BigBad she is now and her influence remains on her even though she's been out of the picture for a long, long time now. In Season 2, Cora appears personally, ditching this status and becoming the full-on BigBad.
** [[spoiler: Peter Pan]], the BigBad of Season 3A, can be seen as this for much of the series. Aside from being TheManBehindTheMan to Greg and Tamara in the second half of Season 2, his actions were also a major contributing factor to making Rumplestiltskin what he is. Which makes him indirectly responsible for every villainous act taken by both Rumple and his various students (Cora, Regina, and Zelena) throughout the run of the show.
** The Dark One for the entire series. No, not just Rumpelstiltskin, but ''anyone'' who has inherited the name of The Dark One, as ''their'' actions eventually lead to the rise of not just the {{Big Bad}}s, but also for {{The Hero}}es. Just take a look at Rumpelstiltskin. Eventually it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Dark One is more Greater Scope than one can think, as it is literally darkness that binds itself to a soul]].
* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': The "Master" couldn't do anything until near the end.
** ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': BigBad Emperor Gruumm was the leader of the Troobian Empire but was just collecting power for the Omni.
** ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'': The finale reveals Dark Specter, the Greater Scope Villain behind Zedd, Rita, the Machine Empire, and Divatox. In ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' he gathered together all the {{Big Bad}}s of the franchise to that point under him, and sicced newcomer Astronema on the Rangers, but seldom directly intervened. In the end, he was done in by TheStarscream and ''never'' faced the Rangers directly.
** ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'': Emperor Mavro is the father of Vrak and Vekar (the latter serving this role in the first 20 episodes) but doesn't appear in person until the last 3 episodes.
** ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': [[spoiler:The original Master Org. The one the rangers had been fighting was Dr. Viktor Adler, a former friend to Cole's parents who consumed the remains of the original for revenge and became the new Master Org. After being killed by the Orgs when they found out about his deceipt, he grows a real horn and comes back to life. In the final 6 episodes, he returns and killed off two of the traitors, and talks as though he and the original Master Org are now truly one.]]
** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'': [[spoiler:Alphabet Soup was a corrupt government facility that kidnapped child geniuses and forced them to work for them by lying about an allergy to sunlight and drove them either to being near emotionless (Dr. K) or completely child-like (Gem and Gemma). Dr. K created [[BigBad Venjix]] for them and used it in an attempt to break free, but stopped her before she could program a firewall. Because of them, Venjix broke free and began his assault on humanity, but they tried to kill Dr. K so that no one will know where Venjix came from. By the events of the series, it's members were either arrested, captured by Venjix or killed.]]
* ''Series/{{Revenge}}'' has the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Americon Initiative]], the domestic terrorist group who the Graysons laundered money for (which they then framed David Clarke for). Initially just a part of the backstory, they later started influencing the story again in late season 1 via their assassin the White Haired Man, and in season 2 seem to be stepping down to knock the Graysons out of the BigBad position.
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'':
** Randall Flynn, appearing in [[Recap/RevolutionS1E7TheChildrensCrusade episode 7]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E8TiesThatBind episode 8]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E11TheStand episode 11]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E12Ghosts episode 12]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E13TheSongRemainsTheSame episode 13]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E16TheLoveBoat episode 16]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E18Clue episode 18]], [[Recap/RevolutionS1E19ChildrenOfMen episode 19]], and [[Recap/RevolutionS1E20TheDarkTower episode 20]]. He was a member of the USA Department of Defense before the blackout, and he may very well have been the one to have caused it to happen in the first place. In any case, he apparently has no affiliation to [[BigBad Sebastian Monroe]], and he seems to be monitoring the locations of the 12 pendants for an as yet unknown purpose. That, and he seems to keep an extremely low profile.
** The first season finale reveals two things: [[spoiler: the first thing being that Randall was working for a GreaterScopeVillain called the American Government and President of the United States all along, and the other thing being that the blackout was not an accident and that ''someone'' deliberately caused the nanites to go out of control]].
* The BigBad in ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'' is usually a French commander with wide powers, but responsible to his superiors and ultimately Napoleon.
* The first episode of ''{{Series/Sherlock}}'' reveals at the end that the villain was sponsored by someone else, similar to the [[Film/SherlockHolmes 2009 film]]: [[spoiler: Moriarty.]]
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': In the fifth season, [[RoboticPsychopath Brainiac]] is the BigBad. He's behind every nasty thing that goes down that season, and is one of the greatest threats Clark ever encounters. His goal, however, is to [[SealedEvilInACan release]] General Zod, a Greater Scope Villain who was trapped in the Phantom Zone on Jor-El's orders. Zod can't do anything, and in fact is unable to even communicate with Braniac. General Zod's status as the series' Greater Scope Villain is further emphasized due to him being the ultimate source of the Big Bads from almost all later seasons; his son Doomsday and his younger clone Major Zod. The General is able to come out and play on exactly one occasion.
* ''Series/TheSopranos'':
** Livia Soprano. She is implied to be chiefly responsible for moulding Tony's psychological behaviour. Ultimately, it was she who actually destroyed his family.
** Carmine Lupertazzi. After he and his empire are referred to merely as "New York" in the first two seasons, he finally appears in-person during Season 3. Despite being a longtime ally of the Dimeo crime family, Carmine's organization is almost universally viewed by Tony and his associates with wariness and suspicion (not least because the former regularly uses its vastly greater size and resources to coerce the New Jersey mobsters into "sharing" their profits on local business ventures). After the relationship between the two families deteriorates in Season 4, the Lupertazzi crime family ultimately becomes the story's preeminent antagonist and remains so until the end of the series.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** Ra was the first Goa'uld to find Earth and use a human as a host, which gave him and other Goa'uld a massive supply of hosts, soldiers and slaves and allowed them to spread all across the galaxy, with Ra as the top System Lord for over ten thousand years. He's killed off in [[Film/{{Stargate}} the original film]] before the series, but his legacy poses the main threat for most of the series.
** In seasons nine and ten, the Ori are the Greater Scope Villain, since they're [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended beings]] and thus more of a concept rather than actual characters. Their DarkMessiah Adria takes on the BigBad mantle for season ten.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Lilith is the BigBad of Seasons 3 and 4, but the main plot of S4 is her trying to free the one who turned her evil, [[{{Satan}} Lucifer himself.]] [[spoiler:Lucifer becomes the outright BigBad in S5.]]
** In the tenth season's finale [[spoiler:it's revealed that even Lucifer had a Greater Scope Villain in the form of The Darkness, which was the original source of evil in the Universe, not only the primordial force of nature that controlled everything before God and his angels, but also the one responsible for turning Lucifer evil.]]
* ''Series/TrueBlood'' often has Greater Scope Villains.
** Season 4: Antonia Gavilan (for a portion only)
** Season 5: Lilith
** Season 6: Macklyn Warlow
** Season 7: Sarah Newlin
* ''Series/TwentyFour'''s seventh season has African warlord Benjamin Juma. While Juma is behind the story's core conflict, his underling Iké Dubaku serves as the direct BigBad in the season's first ten episodes. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when, after Dubaku's capture, Juma finally appears onscreen and becomes a proper BigBad himself]].
* The Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} as a whole has [[{{Satan}} the Beast]] and [[TheAntiGod the Black Guardian]]. Also, [[MonsterProgenitor Davros]] and [[MonsterLord the Dalek leadership]] could be considered this in Dalek stories where they don't appear.
* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'': Gorog, one of the Big Bads, can count as the Greater Scope Villain in the entire DisneyChannelLiveActionUniverse.
* ''Series/IZombie'': Vaughn Du Clark is the one responsible for the zombie outbreak, however, he is only encountered in the season one finale, and it is Blaine [=DeBeers=] who acts as the BigBad of the season.
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