History MagnificentBastard / Anime

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[[caption-width:300:[[CodeGeass Lelouch vi Brittania]] Prince. Rebel. Terrorist. Mastermind. Really good at chess.]]

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[[caption-width:350:[[CodeGeass Lelouch vi Brittania]] Prince. Rebel. Terrorist. Mastermind. Really good at chess.]]

[[caption-width:350: [[CodeGeass Lelouch vi Brittania]] Prince. Rebel. Terrorist. Mastermind. Really good at chess.]]

[[caption-width:325: [[CodeGeass Lelouch vi Brittania]] Prince. Rebel. Terrorist. Mastermind. Really good at chess.]]

->''"JustAsPlanned."''
->-- '''Light''', [[MemoryGambit Getting His Memories Back]]

->"Don't you recall? The two of us used to play chess together as boys. Of course, I would always win."
->--'''Lelouch Lamperouge'''

[[caption-width:325: [[CodeGeass Lelouch vi Brittania]] Prince. Rebel. Terrorist. Mastermind. Really good at chess.]]
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[[caption-width:325: [[CodeGeass Lelouch vi Brittania]] Prince. Rebel. Terrorist. Mastermind. Really good at chess.]]

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->--"Lelouch Lamperouge,''

->"Don't you recall? The two of us used to play chess together as boys. Of course, I would always win.
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*** And thus, one of the most recent and faster memes in the Gundam meta series is born: [[spoiler: "FUCKING RIBBONS!!!!!!"]] Yeah, the revelation was ''that'' much of a ShockingSwerve.

** His {{Dragon}} Pain was a contender for this trope as well until he crossed the {{Moral Event Horizon}} in the biggest 'holy crap' moment of the manga--assuming that you weren't already soured by him by the one sentence in his backstory from a minion that hinted at the {{Complete Monster}} he really is.

*** Considering that many of his manipulations turn out to be more or less benevolent ''and'' that he comes to really care for the Host Club people, Kyouya might belong more in GuileHero.

** Pegasus from the orginal series; he's rich, stylish, AffablyEvil, and he played every major character like a fiddle (i.e., he COMPLETELY owns Kaiba), orchestrating a multi-pronged strategy to claim Yugi's puzzle (in the dub, at least) and control of Kaiba's company and it's technology. His plan was only undone because no one can beat Yugi/the Pharaoh in a game, and because he didn't account for Bakura, whom he'd never heard of and had no reason to guard against.

**** The best part is that the only reason Treize didn't conquer the entire universe when he easily could have have way through the series (Lady Une begs him to at one point) is that Treize suffered from a severe personal doubt problem. When Zechs finally gives him a reason to fight again, Treize takes over the entire Earth in exactly five minutes.

* Souichi of {{Challengers}} and {{The Tyrant Falls In Love}} is a relatively down-to-earth version of this. When a professor attempts to rape him, Souichi attempts to murder the guy. [[spoiler: Morinaga]] stops him, but Souichi still manages to stab the guy "deep" in the ass with a pair of scissors. When Soichi and Morinaga witness a guy on his cellphone ignoring the pleas of a woman who has an assistive device in her heart, Soichi gets fed up when the woman collapses and snatches the phone out of the guy's hand then snaps it in half. Soichi is not a supervillain and he hasn't got the world under his thumb, but he's a damned terrifying force when his protectiveness of his brother, his sense of justice or his hatred of gays is crossed. Which is often.

** As of 414, [[spoiler: Gin Ichimaru]] may have become this. [[spoiler: By '''stabbing and seriously injuring Aizen'''. At least, apparently.]]

* ''{{Katekyo Hitman Reborn}}'' has [[spoiler:Byakuran]] the current big bad.

** As of 424, [[spoiler: Gin Ichimaru]] may have become this. [[spoiler: By '''stabbing and seriously injuring Aizen''', at least apparently.]]

** From the first ''MobileSuitGundam'' series, we have the guy who set the standard for Magnificent Bastards to come: Char Aznable, who has had many moments of Magnifcent Bastardry, but one of his best is when he [[spoiler: leads Garma Zabi into a trap, politely calls him on the phone, explains his motives, and leaves him to die.]] {{YMMV}} as to whether that makes you gain or lose sympathy for Char, but one can't deny the flair of the execution.

** There's also Sensui, who expertly manipulated disadvantaged superpowered youths into heinous acts in an attempt to stall the good guys, [[spoiler:forced Kurama into a situation where he would have to kill a young child in order to proceed, tricked Makihara/Gourmet into eating Elder Toguro, who took control of him and killed him, and kidnapped Kuwabara so that Gourmet/Toguro could eat him and absorb his newfound dimension cutting powers in order to destroy a powerful barrier]]. Later, after [[spoiler:killing Yusuke]], Sensui manipulates Kuwabara into [[spoiler:cutting down the Kekkai barrier, which is the only thing preventing not only Sensui's plan, but also preventing Kurama and Hiei from crossing over to try and exact revenge]].

** A possible example is Mikado Sanzennin, Nagi's grandfather.