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| 6 | [[WMG:[[center: [- ''Big Bad'' \ |
| 7 | Medias:'''Anime & Manga''' - [[BigBad/ComicBooks Comic Books]] - [[BigBad/FanWorks Fan Works]] - [[BigBad/AnimatedFilms Animated Films]] - [[BigBad/LiveActionFilms Live-Action Films]] - [[BigBad/{{Literature}} Literature]] - [[BigBad/LiveActionTV Live-Action TV]] - [[BigBad/ProWrestling Pro Wrestling]] - [[BigBad/TabletopGames Tabletop Games]] - [[BigBad/VideoGames Video Games]] - [[BigBad/VisualNovels Visual Novels]] - [[BigBad/{{Webcomics}} Webcomics]] - [[BigBad/WebOriginal Web Original]] - [[BigBad/WesternAnimation Western Animation]] - [[BigBad/OtherMedia others]] \ |
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| 9 | "The ultimate villain of the story, who's causing the problem the heroes must solve." |
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| 11 | Note that Big Bad is not a catch-all trope for the biggest and ugliest villain of any given story. The BigBad is the one who turns out to be behind several other seemingly independent threats. |
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| 14 | !!Works with their own page: |
| 15 | * ''BigBad/{{Doraemon}}'' |
| 16 | * ''BigBad/DragonBall'' |
| 17 | * ''BigBad/{{Pokemon}}'' |
| 18 | * ''BigBad/PrettyCure'' |
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| 21 | !!Other Examples: |
| 22 | * ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'': Friend, [[spoiler:actually [[DarkMessiah Fukubei Hattori]]]], the leader of the [[{{Cult}} Friendship Party]] who plans on [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]] [[spoiler:and succeeds in doing so; leading him to initiate his true goal of destroying 99% of the population and ruling over the remaining 1%. Once he's killed, [[FromNobodyToNightmare Katsumata]] takes up the mantle of Friend and causes even more widespread devastation onto the world in his efforts to continue Fukubei's plans of destroying humanity.]] |
| 23 | * ''Anime/NinetyOneDays'': Vincent is [[TheDon the boss]] of the whole Vanetti family and the man who ordered the murder of the Lagusa family, making him the ultimate target of Avilio's revenge. |
| 24 | * ''Anime/AbunaiSisters'': The main antagonist is Madam Hokuroda, a {{gonk}}ish woman who seeks to steal the sisters' [[MacGuffin Booby Stone]] to restore her beauty. |
| 25 | %%* ''Anime/ActiveRaid'': Mythos in the first season. [[spoiler: Tomoki Hachijou in the second season, forming a BigBadEnsemble with [[CorruptPolitician Kotaro Inagi]].]] |
| 26 | * ''Anime/AgentAika'': |
| 27 | ** The original series has [[BigBadDuumvirate Rudolf and Neena Hagen]], a BrotherSisterTeam contracted by the military to find the Lagu, but whom wish to [[KillAllHumans kill all of humanity]] and replace them with Rudolf's children. [[spoiler:They are later replaced by their DragonAscendant, the [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] White Delmo Commander, who tries to [[AvengingTheVillain avenge Rudolf's death]].]] |
| 28 | ** The prequel, ''Aika R-16: Virgin Mission'', has [[spoiler:Risako Nagisa, Aika's [[EvilTeacher teacher]]]], who turns out to be an agent for a secret organization that tries to stop Aika's expedition. |
| 29 | ** ''Aika Zero'' has [[WhiteHairBlackHeart Miyu Shiratori]], the [[StudentCouncilPresident leader]] of the [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil White Knights]] that terrorize the school. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/AirGear'': [[spoiler:Sora Takeuchi]] sets the over-arching plot of the series in motion through his plan to claim the Sky Regalia and become Sky King, eventually taking personal control of Genesis. |
| 31 | * ''Manga/{{Ajin}}'': [[BloodKnight Ajin Satō]], the eader of the Ajin resistance and a brutal terrorist who commits crimes against civilians and tries to [[TheCorrupter corrupt]] Kei to create conflict for his own amusement. |
| 32 | * ''Manga/AkameGaKill'': [[EvilChancellor Prime Minister Honest]] and [[TheBaroness General Esdeath]] are the [[DragonInChief true rulers]] of TheEmpire. Honest [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan manipulates the boy emperor]] to create a [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans brutal and corrupt regime whose sole purpose is to preserve his power and pleasure]]. However, despite being [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass more dangerous than he appears]], his rule would not be possible without the cooperation of Esdeath, the Empire's best general and a [[OneManArmy One-Woman Army]]. She helps maintain Honest's rule because its sheer brutality places the Empire in a state of almost constant internal rebellion and war with its neighbors, creating [[SocialDarwinist her ideal world of perpetual conflict where the weak are winnowed out and the strong survive]]. |
| 33 | * ''Anime/{{Albegas}}'': President Azos. Because he wanted to use Earth as a power source for hus dying plamet, he launched an AlienInvasion, only for it to backfire when the humans responded with Albegas. The other Dellingers follow in his footsteps after his death to fulfill his dream, and their entire race ends up being exterminated by the titular SuperRobot as a result. |
| 34 | ** ''Manga/HinowaGaCrush'': [[TheConqueror King Zuou]], the brutal ruler of Tenrou, who's leading his kingdom in a war to conquer the entire continent of Wakoku, including the protagonists' country of Soukai. |
| 35 | * ''Anime/AkazukinChacha'': [[MaouTheDemonKing Daimao]], a large red demon sealed in a castle, who has turned Chacha's parents to stone and seeks to kill Chacha so that there will be no further royals in the kingdom and his rule will be be permanent. Due to being sealed inside of the castle, he has no choice but to rely on weak underlings to send monsters into the world to attack Chacha. |
| 36 | * ''Anime/AkudamaDrive'': Boss, the head of the Execution Division tasked by the [[GreaterScopeVillain Board of Kanto]] to hunt down and kill any and all Akudama. |
| 37 | * ''Anime/AldnoahZero'': [[WellIntentionedExtremist Count Saazbaum]], the mastermind behind the plot to assassinate Princess Asseylum, using her death as an excuse to send the VERS Empire into a war against Earth. |
| 38 | * ''Literature/AllYouNeedIsKill'': The nexus, a [[AliensAreBastards Mimic]] with the [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong ability to send its memories back in time upon its death, allowing the Mimics to counteract whatever occurred that enabled the humans to defeat them]]. However, it accidentally alters protagonist [[NewMeat Kenji Kiriya]]'s brain so that his memories are sent back in time too, trapping them both in a GroundhogDayLoop. |
| 39 | * ''Manga/AmalgamOfDistortion'': [[MadScientist Chief Sara Warren]] is the head scientist of [[TheSyndicate SAI]] who is responsible for turning Rokumichi Kusaba and many others into monsters, as well as the monster attacks on innocents. |
| 40 | * ''Anime/AngelCop'': Tachihara, [[DragonAscendant originally a right-hand man]], is the new leader of the [[DirtyCommunists Red May]] terrorist organization which wants to bring down the government and the enemy of the titular {{anti hero}}ine Angel. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss He gets captured about halfway through]], after which the [[PsychicPowers Hunter]] known as [[DarkActionGirl Lucifer]] takes over, carrying out orders to kill everyone in the Special Security Force for (supposedly) aiding the terrorists. Then ''both'' of them are revealed to be pawns of [[AntagonisticGovernor Governor Maisaka]], all as part of his plan to dump American toxic waste in Japan and get rich off it.]] |
| 41 | * ''Manga/{{Arago}}'': The Patchman, a notorious SerialKiller out to make humanity suffer and ultimately end the world who's responsible for the murder of Arago's parents, |
| 42 | * ''Anime/ArmitageIII'': |
| 43 | ** ''Poly Matrix'' has René D'anclaude, the enigmatic leader of a group of murderous anti-robot terrorists who want to rid Mars of robots, particularly [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Thirds]]. D'anclaude himself is [[spoiler:actually a group of [[KillerRobot assassinroids]] created by the original D'anclaude, a researcher and partner of Dr. Asakura who turned against his project [[GreaterScopeVillain at the behest of]] [[TheWarOfEarthyAggression Earth]]'s StrawFeminist government]]. |
| 44 | ** ''Dual Matrix'' has Demetrio Martini, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Vice President]] of Earth Robotics Corporation, who seeks to block a recent Robot Rights bill and discover the secret behind Thirds so he can mass-produce Thirds as a slave race; to that end, he is willing to kidnap Yoko, daughter of [[spoiler:Ross and Naomi]], to [[IHaveYourDaughter force]] [[spoiler:Ross]] to vote against the bill, and kill Ross and Armitage for interfering. |
| 45 | * ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': Shiro is the most recurrent antagonist Koro-Sensei and his students face over the course of the series, earning this spot by default. Then it's solidified when it's revealed that [[spoiler: he's really Yanagisawa, the MadScientist who transformed Koro-Sensei from a human into what he now is, making him responsible for the whole series in the first place. Then he and the God of Death, who he makes his [[TheDragon Dragon]], jointly serve as the FinalBoss at the series' climax.]] |
| 46 | * ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': |
| 47 | ** [[AnimalisticAbomination The Beast Titan]] is the most dangerous and frightening enemy faced by the heroes during the pre-TimeSkip half of the story. It transforms the citizens of Ragako Village into Titans under its command to wreak havoc across Wall Rose. [[spoiler: It's later revealed to be Zeke Yeager, the "Warchief" of the other Titan Shifters and Eren's half-brother, taking command of the mission and forcing the Reiner and Bertolt to submit to him. While he's taking orders from the nation of [[TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe Marley]], Zeke is more directly involved in the story, while Marley controls things from the background. However, it's later revealed post-time skip that Zeke has his own motives against the Eldians, caring less about Marley and wanting to use the founder's power to sterilize their bodies in preventing reproduction — effectively euthanizing them]]. |
| 48 | ** [[spoiler:After the Warriors' defeat in Shinganshina and the reveal of the outside world through Grisha's writings, the entire nation of Marley steps up as the series' BigBad, being responsible for all of the main events of the series in an effort to seize resources from Paradis Island and ultimately wipe out all the Eldians they consider "devils." The failure of the Paradis Island Operation has them allying with other nations in declaring war against Paradis, serving as the last straw in [[BigBadSlippage Eren slowly descending to villainy]]]]. |
| 49 | ** [[spoiler: And sure enough, [[VillainProtagonist Eren Yeager]] himself officially usurps his half-brother Zeke ''and'' Marley of this role in the final arc, serving as the main antagonist of the rest of the series. Eren manipulates events in order to gain access to the Paths realm and meet Ymir Fritz. Managing to outwit Zeke, Eren convinces Ymir to give him the full power of the Founding Titan so that he can awaken every single one of the Wall Titans and command them to trample all life outside of Paradis Island. His friends don't accept this though, thinking that he's going too far, and band together with their former enemies to stop him. It's ultimately revealed in the final chapter that Eren was deliberately playing the role of the villain to give his friends the motivation to stop him and paint them as heroes to all that's left of humanity.]] |
| 50 | * ''Anime/AuraBattlerDunbine'': Lord Drake Luft is responsible for the war in the setting, seeking to conquer all of Biston Well and rule supreme. |
| 51 | * ''Anime/{{Avenger}}'': Lord Volk is the effective ruler of Mars who controls it as a tyrant. He runs the [[DeadlyGame gladiatorial matches]], sends out various minions to capture [[AntiHero Layla]] and [[MysteriousWaif Nei]], and is responsible for the former’s DarkAndTroubledPast wherein he [[spoiler:destroyed the space colony containing her parents]], which she seeks revenge for. He does this [[WellIntentionedExtremist all in the name of protecting his people]], conserving resources so as to prepare for the [[ColonyDrop moon’s arrival]]. |
| 52 | * ''Manga/{{Ayashimon}}'': Doppo Akari, a ''[[PlayingWithFire hitorima]]'' and the [[TheDon chairman]] of the [[{{Yokai}} Enma]] [[{{Yakuza}} Syndicate]], who has proven to be much more ruthless and violent than his predecessor and has ambitions to expand the gang's control in Kabukichō and beyond. [[MafiaPrincess Urara]] also believes that he had a hand in the death of her father Kio, the aformentioned previous chairman, though her suspicion may not be true given the genuine admiration and loyalty Doppo had previously displayed towards Kio. |
| 53 | %%* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': |
| 54 | %%** [[spoiler:Fermet]] is this for the entire series, according to WordOfGod. |
| 55 | %%** The three main arcs of the anime each have their own. The 1930 "Rolling Bootlegs" arc has [[TheAssimilator Szilard Quates]]; the 1931 "Grand Punk Railroad" arc has a BigBadEnsemble between [[AxCrazy Ladd Russo]], [[MadScientist Huey Laforet]] (represented from prison by the leader of his cult, [[SmugSnake Goose]]) and the mysterious [[EldritchAbomination Rail Tracer]] (who is actually [[spoiler:the young red-haired conductor, Claire Stanfield]]); the 1932 "Drug and Dominos" arc has [[TheBrute Gustavo Bagetta]]. |
| 56 | %%* ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'': |
| 57 | %%** Season 1 has [[LightIsNotGood Naga]]. |
| 58 | %%** Season 2 has [[EvilOverlord King Zenoheld]]. |
| 59 | %%** Season 3 has [[OmnicidalManiac Emperor Barodius]] |
| 60 | %%** The first half of Season 4 has Mag Mel and Razenoid, who turn out to be [[spoiler: Barodius and Dharack after being mutated and sealed away by Code Eve.]] The second half has Wizeman, the alter ego of [[spoiler: the evil and rouge [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Mechtogan, Cordegon.]]]] |
| 61 | * ''Manga/BananaFish'': [[spoiler:Initially, there's Dino Golzine, who works for Union Corse but is also connected to a cabal of politicians and military officers. The situation gets complicated: Dino is forced out of the Union, the Lee family (represented by Yau-si) wants in, Dino comes back after murdering most of the other Union members, followed by knocking off the lead senator and officer in the cabal. Eventually, Dino and Yau-si are the only major players left standing, so they enter into an alliance, and are the primary villains for the second half of the series.]] |
| 62 | %%* ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'': Tenzen Yakushiji. |
| 63 | * ''[[https://sevenseasentertainment.com/series/beasts-of-abigaile/ Beasts of Abigaile]]'': Aaron, the [[EvilTeacher sinister headmaster]] of Abigaile Island, a correctional "school" where [[WolfMan lugas]] are conditioned to become slaves. He's also responsible for revealing the existence of the lugas to a foreign government, which in turn led to the lugas' country of Ruberia being conquered and them being enslaved in the first place. |
| 64 | * ''Literature/BattleRoyale'': Yonemi Kamon is the manga incarnation of the supervisor/administrator of the Battle Royale Program, where high school students are [[DeadlyGame forced to kill one another]]. There are two secondary antagonists, the deadliest competitors among the students, in [[HeroKiller Kazuo Kiriyama]] and [[FemmeFatale Mitsuko Souma]], who are TheHeavy, but the supervisor himself is the one running the game. |
| 65 | * ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': The [[PowersThatBe Godhand]] -- [[MyBrainIsBig Void]], [[HotAsHell Slan]], [[VillainsNeverLie Ubik]], [[FatBastard Conrad]], and [[FallenHero Griffith/Femto]] -- are the five beings responsible for ruining the world and creating the various [[DemonOfHumanOrigin Apostles]] that [[NinetiesAntiHero Guts]] encounters. Among them, Void is the unofficial leader, though Griffith is the most personal ArchEnemy of Guts and the God Hand's most proactive member. |
| 66 | * ''Creator/BeeTrain'''s GirlsWithGuns trilogy: |
| 67 | ** The ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' [[LovelyAngels duo]]'s enemy is [[SinisterMinister Mistress Altena]], leader of a faction within [[AncientConspiracy Les Soldats]] who sends various hired killers after them in order to bring about the Grand Retour; [[spoiler:that is, to train them so she can use them to [[KnightTemplar cleanse the organization of corruption]]]]. |
| 68 | ** ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' and the other three heroines have as their main enemy Friday Monday, the insane, [[MalevolentMaskedMen masked]] DiabolicalMastermind leader of [[NebulousCriminalConspiracy Enfant]] who sends his henchmen after the heroines, instigates [[spoiler:the civil war in Gazth-Sonika]], wants to [[spoiler:[[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil unleash humanity’s darker nature]]]], and is behind [[spoiler:everything bad that has ever happened in Margaret/Madlax's life]]. |
| 69 | ** ''Anime/ElCazadorDeLaBruja'': |
| 70 | *** In the anime, CIA Director Douglas Rosenberg is the head of [[GovernmentConspiracy Project Leviathan]], which aims to create a race of humans, known as Witches, with power over temperature and gravity. He tries to capture [[LovelyAngels Nadie and Ellis]] to complete this project and [[spoiler:seek revenge on the higher government for driving his father to suicide, and manipulates the Witch Coven, a competing sub-faction, for this purpose]]. |
| 71 | *** In the manga, Rosenberg is AdaptedOut, so the antagonist role goes to [[spoiler:Alice, a “sister” Witch of Ellis who is DrivenByEnvy to steal her powers and get revenge on Project Leviathan for abandoning her]]. |
| 72 | * ''Anime/BikiniWarriors'': DemonLord Deathgeld is the InUniverse FinalBoss and leader of the monsters who wants to TakeOverTheWorld, making him the main enemy that the four heroines must defeat. [[GenericDoomsdayVillain Not much of him is known beyond this]], as the series is a non-serious [[DeconstructiveParody spoof]] of {{JRPG}} games. |
| 73 | * ''Manga/{{Biomega}}'': Niardi/[[InconsistentSpelling Nyaldee]], Overlord of the DRF and the one responsible for the virus that caused the ZombieApocalypse. She intends to KillAllHumans and [[InTheirOwnImage recreate the world in her own image]]. |
| 74 | %%* ''Manga/BlackButler'': Undertaker is seemingly well on his way to becoming the this. He was the main antagonist of two arcs and has been shown to be up to something behind the scenes in recent arcs. |
| 75 | * ''Manga/BlackCat'': [[AxCrazy Creed Diskenth]], the leader of Apostles of the Stars who intends on destroying [[TheConspiracy Chronos]] and [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]] in its place, as well as [[WeCanRuleTogether force Train to rule by his side]]. |
| 76 | * ''Manga/BlackClover'': |
| 77 | ** In the First Saga, Licht, the leader of the Eye of the Midnight Sun, leads a group of rogue mages whose goal is to destroy the Clover Kingdom, putting him at odds with the kingdom's Magic Knights. [[spoiler:However, he is revealed to be Patry, an innocent elf boy who idolized the real Licht, but grew to hate humans after they attacked his people during Licht and Tetia's wedding. [[DiscOneFinalBoss It's further revealed that]] this attack, as well as Patry's StartOfDarkness, was all planned by Zagred, the Kotodama/Word Devil, who used the elves and their hatred of humans as part of his plan to restore him to power.]] |
| 78 | ** In the Second Saga, Dante Zogratis the leader of the Dark Triad, takes over as the main villain of the series as he rules over the Spade Kingdom with an iron fist along with [[CoDragons his siblings]] and is the ArchEnemy to Asta as he’s connected to Asta’s past and like Asta, Dante’s a devil user, the host of [[{{Satan}} Lucifero]]. Then [[spoiler:he gets beaten down by the Black Bull's ''weakest'' member and seemingly killed in his second appearance]]. Later, [[spoiler:it turns out he was ''never'' the strongest devil host at all -- he may have had the strongest devil, but his brothers are much more compatable as hosts.]] |
| 79 | ** [[spoiler: After Lucifero is defeated, Lucius (The latter being the true identity of [[EvilAllAlong Julius Novachrono]]) steps up as the main villain and [[TheManBehindTheMan is revealed to have planned the raid and Lucifero's defeat to obtain the devil king's heart]]]]. |
| 80 | * ''Anime/BlackFox'': Lauren, a MadScientist and former rival of Rikka's father, who decides to finish the job of killing the rest of the family. |
| 81 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': |
| 82 | ** [[TheHeavy Sosuke Aizen]] is the main villain of the pre-timeskip half. For the first 436 chapters[[note]]The first 424 chapters plus the [[FlashbackEpisode Turn Back the Pendulum Gaiden]], spanning the negative-numbered chapters -108 through -97[[/note]], Aizen is the major villain that is behind almost everything that's happened. He slaughtered the Central 46 and gave out the order for Rukia's execution to obtain the Hogyoku. [[spoiler:After betraying Soul Society, he would later lead an Arrancar army to destroy Karakura Town and harvest the souls of the town's citizens to create the Oken to enter the Soul King Palace and overthrow the Soul King. At the end of the Arrancar Saga though, he is stopped by Ichigo. After that, he is no longer the main enemy, but the new villains are hinted to be driven by events and motives that ultimately tie back to Aizen's own actions and motives in some mysterious way.]] |
| 83 | ** [[GodEmperor Yhwach]], TheEmperor of [[PuttingOnTheReich Vandenreich]] is the main antagonist of the post-timeskip half, as he is revealed to be responsible for all the things that Aizen wasn't involved in and has a far more personal connection to Ichigo than the renegade Soul Reaper. His desire is to [[ImmortalityImmorality escape death]] by killing the Soul King and create a world without death and fear. To do this, he's willing to commit any atrocity he can that will aid him in his quest. [[spoiler: He leads a ruthless attack on Soul Society that leaves many Soul Reapers dead, and kills [[BigGood Genryusai Yamamoto]]. He creates chaos and bloodshed to feed off souls, which keep him alive and functioning. He even manages to succeed where Aizen failed by destroying the Soul King. He is the most powerful, dangerous. and crulest villain in the series, uniting enemies against him, with Soul Reapers, Quincies, Arrancars, Humans and even [[EnemyMine Aizen himself]] all working together to defeat him.]] |
| 84 | * ''Anime/BloodTheLastVampire'': The unnamed [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Chriopteran]] attacking the school. |
| 85 | * ''Anime/BloodPlus'' has Diva, Saya's younger twin sister and the other Chiropteran Queen, who wants to extinguish humanity and create a world of chaos and death populated by chiropterans; though since she is a [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]] and not the planning type, her DragonInChief Amshel who engineered the events who made Diva a threat in the first place is the one who leads his fellow chevaliers and concocts the experimients which resulted on the outbreak of chiropterans. |
| 86 | * ''Anime/BlueGender'' has a BigBadEnsemble. The Blue are a race of BigCreepyCrawlies who aim to wipe out humanity, but [[spoiler:Chairman Victor, leader of the [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness High Council]] that runs [[SpaceStation Second Earth]] like a dictatorship,]] is the one responsible for the Blue attacking humans, by [[spoiler:screwing up the Earth badly enough to bring about GaiasVengeance (and driving the Blue berserk with their experimentation), and he is doing everything in his power to escape justice]]. Around the end of the series, [[spoiler:Tony briefly becomes the Big Bad when he leads the Blue in [[MakeWayForTheNewVillains killing the council]] and raiding the station, and after his death, [[TheStarscream Seno Miyagi]] [[DragonAscendant takes over the station himself]] and tries to keep humanity from returning to Earth, making him the final Big Bad]]. |
| 87 | * ''Anime/BlueReflectionRay'': Shino Mizusaki, the true leader of the Red Reflectors, she drives their goal of extracting emotions from everyone to create a world she finds more desirable. All the conflicts during the main story can be traced back to her, and she is the final opponent to be defeated. |
| 88 | * ''Anime/BNABrandNewAnimal'' has Alan Sylvasta, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO of Sylvasta Pharmaceuticals]] whose company was responsible for [[spoiler:turning Michiru and Nazuna into Beastman. He takes advantage of this in his plot to trigger the Nirvasil Syndrome in the Beastman of Anima City as an excuse to turn them into humans, all because he's secretly a Pure-Bred Beastman who [[FantasticRacism despises the Beastman "hybrids"]] and [[ANaziByAnyOtherName seeks to erase them all]]]]. |
| 89 | * In ''Manga/Brave10'', UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu is responsible for the political machinations threatening Isanami, Yukimura, and Ueda's independence. Although he's portrayed as ineffectual and always at a distance, both UsefulNotes/HattoriHanzo and UsefulNotes/DateMasamune are working for or through him to attack the Braves on all sides. |
| 90 | * ''Manga/BrynhildrInTheDarkness'': |
| 91 | ** In the manga, Director Takachiho is the leader of Vingulf labs who oversees their experiments to turn girls into witches, and seeks to capture [[TheHero Ryota Murakami]] and [[LoveInterest Neko Kuroha]] to accomplish his plan of [[spoiler:replacing humanity with a newer, better species. [[DiscOneFinalBoss However]], he is killed in the finale by Loki, an alien under study who takes the position of FinalBoss when he decides to KillAllHumans]]. |
| 92 | ** In the anime, Chisato Ichijiku is the Chief of Vingulf who [[DragonInChief directly carries out their operations]] and antagonizes Ryota and Kuroha, as Takachiho is [[GreaterScopeVillain more in the background]]. |
| 93 | * ''Anime/BTheBeginning'': [[spoiler:Gilbert Ross]] is the one responsible for the crimes of Market Maker, as well as the attack on Koku's school and subsequent massacre. |
| 94 | * ''Manga/CatsEye'': Cranaff, Michael Heintz's main disciple [[spoiler:and twin brother]], who, with the other disciples, stole most of his paintings and tried to kill him, forcing him on the run. |
| 95 | * ''Anime/CControl'': Souichirou Mikuni, initially a benevolent businessman who sought to alleviate the [[RetGone effects]] of bankruptcy in the Financial District, [[BigBadSlippage becomes this]] when he takes over and floods Japan with Midas Money to save the economy -- which results in mass disappearances, increased poverty, and overall misery. Kimimaro Yoga decides to stop Mikuni from sacrificing the future to preserve the present. Though [[LoanShark Midas Bank]] itself is [[GreaterScopeVillain running the corrupt system that Mikuni is trying to save people from]], and there are hints of the bank’s representative, [[HumanoidAbomination Magasaki]], being TheManBehindTheMan. |
| 96 | * ''[[https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/candy-flurry Candy Flurry]]'': Amato, the most powerful [[EdibleBludgeon sweets]] [[ImprobableWeaponUser user]]. He was in fact, one of the original users, a unwilling human guinea pig of [[EvilInc Cyndy [=ToyToy=]]] before he broke free and caused the destruction of Tokyo. Resentful that sweets users are being hunted down despite starting out as victims, his goal is to destroy Recette, the organization responsible for apprehending sweets users, and start distributing the [[{{MacGuffin}} empowering Cyndy ToyToy candy]] once more to [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist create a world where people need sweets and he's top dog]]. |
| 97 | * ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': |
| 98 | ** Public Safety Saga: The Gun Devil [[spoiler:is a DiscOneFinalBoss and RedHerring. The true BigBad is [[Characters/ChainsawManMakima Makima]]. She's the Control Devil and the one behind every bad thing that happens to Denji over the entirety of Part 1, all so she can break his contract with Pochita and either have Chainsaw's Ret-Gone power serve her, or be consumed by Chainsaw herself.]] |
| 99 | ** Academy Saga: The War Devil [[spoiler:is merely a BigBadWannabe possessing the protagonist Asa Mitaka so she can kill Chainsaw Man. The real mastermind here is the Famine Devil, the one indirectly responsible for all the nefarious activities of the other villains (including the "Justice" Devil, who turns out to be the Fire Devil impersonating Justice), however even ''Famine'' is small potatoes compared to the threat she's trying to stop… her eldest sister, the Death Devil, the Great King of Terror and the most powerful Devil of them all whose arrival in July 1999 will result in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt as she begins to TakeOverTheWorld and rule over an Age of Devils.]] |
| 100 | * ''Anime/ChaosDragon'': [[spoiler:Inori]] drove the Red Dragon mad, leading to the destruction of much of Nill Kamui, while trying to bend the country to her rule. |
| 101 | * ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead'': The mysterious old man in a wheelchair, known only as 'Shogun/The General', is the one stalking and haunting [[TheProtagonist Takumi Nishijou]], and is using the Demon Girl to perpetrate the New Gen murders gripping Shibuya, all for some hidden purpose. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss Except]] their malevolence is all in Takumi’s head. Both [[LoveInterest Rimi]] and [[BigGood Shogun]] are innocent, and trying to train Takumi to fight the real villain -- Genichi Norose, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive president]] of the [[MegaCorp NOZOMI group]] who created the superpowered gigalomaniacs (through MindRape) and used them to power [[DoomsdayDevice Noah II]]. He masterminded the murders with the goal of psychologically tormenting Takumi into awakening as a gigalomaniac, then extracting his CODE sample to perfect Noah II and use it to essentially [[TakeOverTheWorld control the world]] through MassHypnosis.]] |
| 102 | * In ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', Aion's behind a huge chunk of the bad things that happen and is the final foe Chrono and Rosette have to face -- although in the manga his morality is a little more [[WellIntentionedExtremist gray]] than his [[CardCarryingVillain anime counterpart]]. |
| 103 | * ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'': [[HumanoidAbomination Priscilla]], Clare's ArchEnemy and the most powerful Awakened Being. After the fall of [[NebulousEvilOrganization the Organization]], she becomes the FinalBoss. |
| 104 | * [[TheEmperor Charles zi Britannia]] of ''Anime/CodeGeass''. He's advertized as the prime villain, but he's generally inactive except for a couple episodes (which you can literally count on one hand). An argument can be made that the true main villain of the story is Schneizel el Britannia, Charles's son and Lelouch's AloofOlderBrother and EvilCounterpart. |
| 105 | * ''Anime/CombattlerV'': Empress Janera, even though she was working through pawns for the first half of the story. |
| 106 | * Vicious from ''Anime/CowboyBebop''. Due to the episodic nature of the show, he's only in 5 episodes, but he's not only the central threat of those episodes, he also plays a huge role in Spike's past. |
| 107 | ** Vincent Volaju serves as the BigBad of TheMovie. |
| 108 | * ''Anime/CrossAnge'': Embryo, an ex-scientist who is [[TheManBehindTheMan Julio's superior]], Earth's [[EvilOverlord ruler]], and TheCreator and {{God|IsEvil}} of humans, is the one who oversees the oppression of [[{{Muggles}} Norma]] by the humans, making him the main enemy of [[TheHeroine Ange]]. He is also responsible for transforming [[spoiler:the humans fighting against him]] into [=DRAGONs=], and [[spoiler:not only steals Aura but uses the humans in general as pawns so he can [[OmnicidalManiac annihilate all life on Earth]] to make it anew]]. |
| 109 | * ''Manga/Cyborg009'': |
| 110 | ** Original manga: Skull, head of the [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Black Ghost organization]] which seeks to stoke WarForFunAndProfit around the world, and are behind the majority of {{Arc Villain}}s in the manga and its adaptations. Later arcs of the manga and the 1979 anime have the Neo Black Ghost organization, who were involved in any episode or StoryArc that wasn't a self-contained plot. |
| 111 | ** ''Anime/Cyborg009CallOfJustice'' has Emperor, leader of a faction of the [[AncientConspiracy Blessed]] seeking to "[[RestartTheWorld forcibly adjust]]" humanity more to their liking. |
| 112 | ** ''Anime/Cyborg009TheMovieLegendOfTheSuperGalaxy'' has [[GalacticConqueror Emperor Zoa]], who the 00 Cyborgs travel into space to stop. |
| 113 | %%* The same is true for ''Manga/DGrayMan'''s Millennium Earl. Though in later chapters, The Fourteenth and Apocryphos have been challenging him for the position, making it more of a BigBadEnsemble. |
| 114 | %%* ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'': [[spoiler:Olban]] was the real puppet master caused the conflict in the story, manipulating everybody to achieve power. |
| 115 | * ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'': [[TheChessmaster Rozenmann]] and [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Ivanovic]], [[BigBadEnsemble two of]] the [[TheOlderImmortal Three Vampire Lords]], seek to wed and impregnate [[VampireMonarch Mina Țepeș]], thereby securing rule over all vampires and ensuring the royal vampire bloodline isn't further made "impure" (i.e., [[FantasticRacism mixed with non-vampires]]). Of the two, Rozenmann is the greater threat thanks to his manipulations. The third lord, Li, is a GreaterScopeVillain, dangerous and powerful in his own right and also wishing for Mina as his bride, but, unlike Rozenmann and Ivanovic, never orchestrating a plot to seize her by force. [[spoiler:Later on, the Telomere Clan’s leader [[EvilDoppenganger Fake Mina]] joins in; she starts out as a part of Rozenmann's plan to [[TwinSwitch secretly kidnap and replace Mina]], but once she plays her part in his scheme the two part ways, with her pursuing her own goal of finding a mysterious {{MacGuffin}} known as the ElixirOfLife (later revealed to be the]] ''[[spoiler: [[MineralMacGuffin akamitama]]]]''[[spoiler:) and Rozenmann having no further interest in her. A subsequent revelation in]] ''[[spoiler: Dance in the Vampire Bund II: Scarlet Order]]'' [[spoiler: is that [[ManipulativeBastard Yutaka Isurugi]], patriarch of the family that provided the clandestine Mediators between vampires and human societies, actually had possession of the]] ''[[spoiler: akamitama]]'' [[spoiler: the whole time. He was exploiting the unwitting Fake Mina's hunt for it to get his hands on the [[MindManipulation Pied Piper virus]] to force vampires to attack humans and cause a pandemic in Tokyo, with the aim of turning world opinion against vampires and force them back into the shadows.]] |
| 116 | ** In the spinoff series ''Dive in the Vampire Bund'', which was released during and takes place around the middle of main manga's run, the various incidents destabilizing the Bund are revealed to be caused by a [[BigBad single source]], [[spoiler: Fake Mina]], who is using said incidents to establish contact with Mina's [[TheSpymaster spymaster]] Alphonse Medici Borgiani [[spoiler: in order to [[FaceHeelTurn turn him to her side]].]] |
| 117 | ** The {{Interquel}} series ''Dance in the Vampire Bund: The Memories of Sledgehammer'' has [[spoiler: Bolton]], the master of a [[RenegadeSplinterFaction renegade]] [[ChurchMilitant Catholic organization]] dedicated to [[VampireHunter hunting vampires]]. [[spoiler: He seeks to acquire the Edelman Report, a record documenting vampire manipulation of human societies, politics, and economies, ostensibly to publicize it and rally anti-vampire sentiment, but really to ensure that his murder of the organization's previous master, the facts of which are also in the report, remains secret.]] |
| 118 | ** ''Dance in the Vampire Bund II: Scarlet Order'': [[spoiler: The enigmatic [[TheGunslinger gunslinging vampire]] known as Shadow, who has been relentlessly hunting the]] ''[[spoiler: akamitama]]'' [[spoiler: for at least 170 years. As it turns out, he's actually the [[HumanoidAbomination Dark]], the [[MonsterProgenitor god of vampires]] whose millennia-long goal has been to produce a child with his power. Mina, the first true blood vampire capable of genuine sexual reproduction, is the one who can conceive this child, and the]] ''[[spoiler: akamitama]]'' [[spoiler: is what is needed to evolve Mina into her full power and form in order to bear the Dark's heir.]] |
| 119 | * ''Anime/DarlingInTheFranxx'': [[spoiler:Papa, the true leader of the VIRM, a ruthless alien race who desire to assimilate all of humanity.]] |
| 120 | * ''Literature/DateALive'' has [[WhiteHairBlackHeart Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive managing director of Deus Ex Machina Industries]] and creator of the Spirits who caused the war between them and mankind. He plans to use their power to [[GodhoodSeeker become a god]] and [[InTheirOwnImage create a new world in his image]], purely ForTheEvulz. While he was relatively out of the picture for the first four volumes or so (the entirety of the anime's first season minus his involvement with Mana and Origami's new weapons), once he makes his appearance, it's made clear that he harbours ill intent towards the Spirits, and slowly overrides the story's initial ExcusePlot. |
| 121 | * ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'': Tsunenaga Tamaki, assistant warden and promoter, [[DragonInChief is the man who more or less runs]] the titular Deadman Wonderland prison (with The Director, a frail old man, having very little to do with the series with his worsening health), as well as the leader of the Undertakers and 1st Unit Forgeries. Everything from the very beginning to the Forgeries arc ultimately has him driving the conflict as the man responsible for how Deadman Wonderland is run. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss Ultimately, however]], it's revealed this was only due to the manipulations of [[MadScientist Rinichiro]] [[ManBehindTheMan Hagire]], as Toto Sakigami/Mockingbird. He is also the one behind the experiments that created the [[TheDreaded Red Man/Wretched Egg]], Shiro’s SuperpoweredEvilSide who killed [[TheHero Ganta]]’s classmates in the beginning. After Hagire dies, the Egg takes over as the FinalBoss, [[FightingYourFriend forcing Ganta to fight her]].]] |
| 122 | * ''Manga/DeadRock'': [[GodIsEvil God]] is the supreme ruler of the Three Worlds, the principal of Dead Rock institution, [[spoiler: and responsible for killing Yakuto’s family]]. |
| 123 | * ''Manga/DeadpoolSamurai'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]], who's amassing an army of villains from multiple realities to destroy Japan [[spoiler: [[DisproportionateRetribution because]] [[Characters/MarvelComicsThorOdinson Thor's]] become something of an [[OccidentalOtaku otaku]].]] |
| 124 | * ''Franchise/DeathNote'' takes an unusual approach to this trope by making [[KnightTemplar Light Yagami]], [[VillainProtagonist the main character himself]], the Big Bad who uses the titular [[ArtifactOfDoom Death Note]] to [[SerialKillerKiller kill criminals]], and aims to establish a crime-free {{utopia|JustifiesTheMeans}} with him as its [[AGodAmI god]]. The main antagonist, Detective [[GreatDetective L]], is a HeroAntagonist who wants to bring him down. |
| 125 | ** ''Literature/AnotherNote'' has Beyond Birthday, an AxCrazy SerialKiller who wants to upstage [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist L]]. |
| 126 | ** Ryuk himself became one in the ''Manga/DeathNoteSpecialChapter''. He is the main antagonistic force and who carries out the plot events. |
| 127 | * ''Anime/DecaDence'': [[TheDividual Hugin and Mugin]], the chief content administrators of Deca-Dence oppressing both the cyborgs and humans. |
| 128 | %%* ''Manga/DefenseDevil'': [[spoiler:[[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Elimona.]]]] |
| 129 | * ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' has the Red Dragon taking the spotlight after eating [[DamselInDistress Falin]] alive, forcing the party to go save her. The Lunatic Magician is set up as this in the first couple of pages, being the one who created the dungeon by sinking a whole kingdom into the ground, but [[GreaterScopeVillain doesn’t really appear physically]] and may even be a myth. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss However]], after it is revealed the Magician (aka [[FluffyTheTerrible Thistle]]) [[RealAfterAll very much exists]] and [[ManBehindTheMan is behind]] the Red Dragon, [[SamusIsAGirl she]] solidly takes this role in the story. She cursed the residents of the Golden Kingdom with immortality, executes any who try to escape, attacked Team Touden with the monsters she controls, stole away Falin and mutated her into her chimera form, and is just murderously insane in general. Even the people she's "protecting" hate her.]] |
| 130 | %%* ''Literature/DemonCityShinjuku'': [[EvilSorcerer Revi Rah]]. |
| 131 | * ''[[https://yenpress.com/9780316269391/demonizer-zilch-vol-1/ Demonizer Zilch]]'': |
| 132 | ** Hubert Emeran is the executive director of [[NebulousEvilOrganization Goetia's]] Far Eastern Laboratory, and was thus the one who oversaw the Qliphoth Plan that [[DemonicPossession fused]] [[FallenAngel demons]] with young girls into beings called Branches, and thus also the one leading Goetia's attempts to recapture the runaway Branches and its work to implement the mysterious [[EvilPlan Project Eden]]. One can be forgiven for overlooking him, however, as his actual appearances on the page are scant [[spoiler: and he's very quickly killed off shortly after his introduction]]. |
| 133 | ** Hellentza Fitzengahen, the Branch of [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Beelzebub]], is the second BigBad of the manga. [[spoiler: She's the one who dispatches Emeran and takes over the Far Eastern Laboratory]], and leads most of the other Branches. She seeks to awaken the dormant [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] within [[spoiler: [[ChurchMilitant Murohime Yakagi]]]] and initiate [[DivineConflict Armageddon]], the final battle between the demons and God and His host. |
| 134 | ** The third BigBad is [[spoiler: Ayana Io, [[TheHero Haruomi's]] thought-dead sister and the]] ''[[spoiler: actual]]'' [[spoiler: host of Astaroth, with Zilch Kanoa being an [[SplitPersonality artificial personality]] created to to suppress Ayana's true personality.]] Unlike the other antagonists, she has no grand plans; she's simply [[{{Yandere}} murderously possessive]] of her [[spoiler: [[BigBrotherAttraction big brother]]]] and intent on killing Murohime, [[spoiler: the rival for Haruomi's affections. She was in fact responsible for Murohime's near death, back when she was a Goetia test subject known as Akino Kiriba, which was one of the [[TraumaInducedAmnesia traumas that caused Haruomi's memory loss]].]] |
| 135 | * ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' has Muzan Kibutsuji, the first of the demons, and their progenitor and ruler. He was the demon who attacked the Kamado family, killing all but Tanjiro and Nezuko while turning the latter into a demon. The entire series revolves around Tanjiro training under the Demon Slayer Corps both to restore Nezuko's humanity and to eventually kill Muzan. |
| 136 | %%* ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'': [[MadDoctor Dr. Kazutaka Muraki]]. |
| 137 | * ''Franchise/{{Devilman}}'': |
| 138 | ** ''Manga/DemonLordDante'': {{God|IsEvil}} is the alien invader who conquered Earth in the past and turned the survivors into demons, and he seeks to stop [[TheHero Ryo]] and Dante from taking the world back. |
| 139 | ** In the original manga and ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'', Demon Lord Zenon is the leader of the demonic forces out to conquer Earth and the main enemy of the titular hero, though he is doing it on behalf of the GreaterScopeVillain, Demon King {{Satan}}. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss However]], once Ryo Asuka recovers his memories as Satan, he takes over as main villain for the rest of the series.]] |
| 140 | ** In the ''Anime/{{Devilman}}'' anime, Demon Lord Zenon, as in the manga, is the leader of the demon army, and is the one sending out minions after Akira/Devilman to punish him for [[DefectorFromDecadence defecting]]. He is also the sole leader as {{Satan}} is AdaptedOut. |
| 141 | ** ''Manga/ViolenceJack'': The Slum King is the EvilOverlord who rules over the destroyed, [[AfterTheEnd post-earthquake]] Kanto with an iron fist, and is the greatest enemy of the titular AntiHero. |
| 142 | ** ''Anime/DevilmanLady'': Satoru is the mysterious boy leader of the Devil Beasts who seeks to KillAllHumans and kill the titular [[TheHeroine heroine]], Jun Fudo, for betraying her kind. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss However]], near the end, it is revealed that Lan Asuka, Jun's ally and mentor, is a Devil Beast herself who [[BigBadEnsemble wants to eliminate Satoru so she can rule the world]], and has been [[TreacherousAdvisor manipulating]] Jun for that purpose. She becomes the FinalBoss as the [[OneWingedAngel Child of God]] after Satoru's defeat]]. |
| 143 | * ''Manga/DevilsLine'': The biggest threat to the heroes comes in the form of Kirio Kikuhara, the leader of the CCC, an organization dedicated to the annihilation of all [[OurVampiresAreDifferent devils]] in Japan, whether they try to live among humans or not. |
| 144 | * ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' has the following, by series: |
| 145 | ** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' followed the ArcVillain trope with Devimon, Etemon, Myostimon and the [[BigBadEnsemble Dark Masters]] ([=MetalSeadramon=], Puppetmon, Machinedramon, Piedmon). Though it is revealed that Apocalymon was the [[ManBehindTheMan mastermind]] and serves as the GreaterScopeVillain for the whole ''Adventure'' series, except for Diaboromon and the corrupted Kokomon in the movies. |
| 146 | %%*** ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventurePilot Pilot]]'': Parrotmon. |
| 147 | *** ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventureMovieOurWarGame Our War Game]]'': Diaboromon, a Digimon born from a Digiegg created from the amassing of computer viruses who, since his inception as Kuramon, caused chaos in the real world by eating crucial data, thus digivolving rapidly. |
| 148 | ** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' playing again with the ArcVillain, but it is revealed to be Yukio Oikawa behind the schemes of turning [[spoiler:Ken Ichijouji]] into Digimon Emperor (who created [[DemonicPossession the Devimon-possessed]] [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters Kimeramon]]), creating [[CoDragons Arukenimon and Mummymon]] (who in turn created [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds BlackWarGreymon]]) as well as the Dark Spores which caused the Digimon Emperor persona and wants to implant them into other children. Though [[spoiler:it's part of a plan made by Myotismon's spirit to come back into a more powerful form: [[OneWingedAngel MaloMyotismon]]]]. There's also Daemon/Creepymon [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot who appears to be interesting and then completely vanishes]]. |
| 149 | %%*** ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventure02M1TranscendentEvolutionTheGoldenDigimentals Transcendent Evolution! The Golden Digimentals!]]'': Kerpymon. |
| 150 | *** ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventure02M2RevengeOfDiaboromon Revenge of Diaboromon]]'': [[NotQuiteDead Diaboromon]], who survived his previous defeat and sent billions of Kuramon to enter the Real World, and eventually resurrected himself through fusing them with each other, becoming Armageddemon. |
| 151 | ** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' first had HYPNOS, then Zhuqiaomon, and after this the D-Reaper. Impmon was originally intended to be this (which is why he's portrayed in typical BigBad fashion in the early promotional material), but Konaka later changed his mind. |
| 152 | ** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' had Cherubimon as its initial BigBad, because he aimed to steal the Fractal Code that made the Digital World through his Evil Legendary Warriors. However, [[spoiler:he turned out to be manipulated by Lucemon, who corrupted Cherubimon by exploiting his disagreements with Seraphimon and Ophanimon to have him gather the Fractal Code, and commanded the Royal Knights to finish gathering it in order to free himself and then conquer the Human World.]] |
| 153 | %%** ''Anime/DigimonXEvolution'' had Yggdrasil. |
| 154 | ** ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' has Kurata, a bigoted scientist who wages a campaign of genocide against the Digimon for petty and selfish reasons. He's only present for 18 of the show's 48 episodes and dies with ten episodes left to go, but his actions shape the whole plot. The other Arc Villains are all Digimon who hate humans specifically because Kurata killed their friends and threatened the existence of their world, and they assume that all humans must be as horrible as he is. |
| 155 | %%** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' has Bagramon (known as Lord Bagra in Digimon Fusion). |
| 156 | ** Meicoomon and her Digivolved variants serves as this in ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'', being the source of infections that made other Digimons feral and is the main enemy that the Digidestined faces. |
| 157 | %%* The ''Digimon'' manga has the following: |
| 158 | %%** ''Manga/CMonDigimon'' Shin and Desmon |
| 159 | %%** ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'' has Daemon |
| 160 | %%** ''Digimon Chronicles'' has the first incarnation of Yggdrasil. |
| 161 | %%** ''Digimon D-Cyber'' has Metal Phantomon, who got taken over by Dexmon. |
| 162 | %%** ''Manga/{{Digimon NEXT}}'' has Barbamon. |
| 163 | * ''Manga/{{Dokuro}}'': Kanehira Aiichiro, founder of the {{corrupt|Church}} {{Cult}} the Nirvana Church of Creation. |
| 164 | * ''Manga/DollsFall'': [[BitchInSheepsClothing Chloe Zola]], the headmistress of Jiaiin Girls Dormitory who uses her orphanage in a bid to resurrect the witch she worships and leads her followers to sacrifice the innocent girls to do so. |
| 165 | * ''Manga/{{Domu}}'': [[EvilOldFolks Old Cho]] is the psychic responsible for causing the [[PsychicAssistedSuicide suicides]] in the apartment complex so he can steal the belongings of the victims. |
| 166 | * ''Manga/DoronDororon'': Hanzō Miyamoto was once the strongest samurai of the ''[[{{Youkai}} mononoke]]''-fighting [[CreatureHunterOrganization Izanagi Force]] until he was passed over for leadership of the force. Enraged, he became determined to become even stronger and destroy the Izanagi Force, absorbing ''mononoke'' energy and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating]] powerful ''mononoke'' in their plot to release their master [[MonsterLord Nobunaga]] in order to [[PowerParasite absorb him]]. |
| 167 | * ''Doubt'' Trilogy by Yoshiki Tonogai: |
| 168 | ** ''Manga/{{Doubt}}'': The Wolf is the one who uses [[spoiler:her hypnotic abilities]] to trap people in a [[TenLittleMurderVictims mafia-esque]] DeadlyGame called “Rabbit Doubt” and [[TheMole infiltrate the group]] as the murderer. [[spoiler:It turns out to be Rei Hazama, who was [[BrainwashedAndCrazy controlling]] Mitsuki Houyama and lashing out at society because she was accused of being a fraud psychic and her parents killed themselves, and attempted to kill her, out of shame.]] |
| 169 | ** ''Manga/{{Judge}}'': The Judge, a talking doll resembling some sort of fox-like animal, is the overseer of the titular DeadlyGame and a proxy for [[TheMole someone amongst the participants]], who is [[spoiler:actually [[BigBadDuumvirate two people]], Hikari and ''[[VillainProtagonist Hiro]]'', as RevengeByProxy for a court case in which Hiro's brother and Hikari's lover, Atsuya, died and the perpetrator got off scot-free. Of the two, Hikari's more dominant, as seen when she kills Hiro at the end for indirectly being responsible for Atsuya's death]]. |
| 170 | ** ''Manga/{{Secret}}'': The student who caused the bus [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident “accident”]]. Shinichi Mitomo, the school's guidance counselor who consults the students after the accident, is technically the mastermind, but his game is not [[DeadlyGame lethal]] -- he simply claims that three of them are murderers, one of them caused the accident, and that he has the evidence, and encourages them to confess. The conflict is uncovering who the culprit is. [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Except]] that [[HanlonsRazor the crash really was an accident]], and Mitomo made it look intentional to pin it on two of the students and get another thrown in jail]]. The culprit's motive for doing this was to [[spoiler:kill everyone who he suspects [[MySisterIsOffLimits got his beloved sister pregnant]]- [[BrotherSisterIncest he wanted her for himself]]]]. |
| 171 | * The ''Manga/DragonHalf'' manga's main antagonist is Demon King Azatodeth, as the one ordering the monsters to cause havoc, and Mink’s goal is to defeat him; but [[BigBadEnsemble she must also deal with]] Princess Vina, who wants Dick Saucer all to herself and often clashes with Mink, and is the main Big Bad of the OVA [[AdaptedOut in which Azatodeth does not appear]]. |
| 172 | * In the manga adaptation of ''Literature/DragonarAcademy'', which covers the first seven light novels in the series, there are two [[BigBad Big Bads]]. The first seven volumes of the manga has [[spoiler: the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon Mordred]], or more specifically Mordred's evil soul (he had two). The heir to the Dark Dragon house of Nehalennia, Mordred's plan is ultimately to force Eco, the heir to the rival Imperial House of Avalon, to unlock her extremely powerful dragon form so that he might [[DemonicPossession possess her]].]] From Volumes 11 to 13, the BigBad is [[TheEvilPrince Prince Uriel]], third-in-line to the throne of Chevron, who orchestrates a plot to surreptitiously off his father and replace him as king, the first step in his goal to conquer the entire continent. |
| 173 | * ''Anime/DragonsDogma'': The Dragon, who Ethan seeks to exact vengeance upon for destroying his village, killing his family, and and turning him into a Arisen; [[spoiler:[[DeathSeeker all so Ethan can kill him]] and free him from his curse.]] |
| 174 | * ''Manga/DreamEaterMerry'' has "Pharos" Hercules, a powerful Dream Demon who seeks to supplant the human population and alter it so Dream Demons can exist human hosts. [[spoiler: However, it turns out he was the pawn of [[GreaterScopeVillain Kyou Shiragi]], who loaned his power to him and seeks to make people's dreams come true by sacrificing Dream Demons after planting them inside the hosts. Anyone with short-term goals no longer have anything to strive for, making them just as lost those whose Dream Demons have killed. Others have come out of it intact, but at the cost of losing the Dream Demons accompanying them, friendly or not.]] |
| 175 | * ''Manga/DrStone'' |
| 176 | ** Though initially framed as an ally, Tsukasa quickly becomes the main antagonist when he begins killing petrified humans against the others' wishes. [[spoiler:He becomes simply an ArcVillain following his defeat and HeelFaceTurn.]] |
| 177 | ** [[spoiler: Following the defeat of Tsukasa, the Kingdom of Science discover a new enemy: the Why-Man, who has intentions of petrifying all of humanity.]] |
| 178 | * Izaya Orihara in the ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' anime. In the light novels, [[spoiler:the Big Bad is revealed to be [[GreaterScopeVillain Yodogiri Jinnai]], who is apparently even worse than Izaya. However, it's soon revealed that Jinnei is dead -- it's actually Kasane Kujiragi who is using his identity]]. |
| 179 | * ''Early Reins'': Jack, a Confederate deserter, is the leader of the Heaven's Hill outlaw gang that hijacks the train and holds Union war hero Colonel Spencer hostage, leading the six heroines to [[GirlsWithGuns take up arms]] against him, [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss but he is killed a short while in]]. In the end, the supposed BigGood Colonel Spencer [[EvilAllAlong reveals himself]] to be the real mastermind, seeking revenge against the politicians who forced him to live as a poor man after the war ended]]. |
| 180 | * The final episode of ''Anime/EarthMaidenArjuna'' reveals that [[spoiler:the {{mysterious|Waif}} boy Chris [[TreacherousAdvisor who gave Juna her powers]]]] is the one summoning the [[BigCreepyCrawlies Raaja]] to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save the planet]] [[EcoTerrorist from human destruction]]. [[spoiler:Chris then proceeds to cause a mass blackout and nearly destroys Japan, forcing Juna to stop him and save her friends.]] |
| 181 | * ''Manga/{{Edens Zero}}'' at first doesn't have any real obvious candidates for ultimate villain, so each StoryArc has a standalone ArcVillain serving as a one-off obstacle against the crew of the Edens Zero. Each major part of the story is called a saga, which conists of multiple arcs, and there's a BigBad per saga much like ''Manga/{{One Piece}}''. It takes until the halfway point of the series before we finally learn the ultimate villain of the series is [[spoiler:Demon King Ziggy, who returned to life as the Machine King and intends to ignite an apocalyptic war between humans and machines.]] |
| 182 | ** The Sakura Cosmos Saga has a BigBadEnsemble between [[LoanShark Drakken Joe]], the kingpin of the criminal underworld, and [[EvilOverlord Madam Kurenai]], one of Joe's debtors who swindled him out of money. She is the EvilOverlord of Sun Jewel and the ClimaxBoss of the anime's first season, as she is deeply involved in Homura's character arc and is the reason behind Valkyrie Yuna's disappearance, so finding Valkyrie is both Homura's main goal and the goal of the ''Edens Zero'' crew as a whole for the first half of the series. Meanwhile, he is responsible for turning Guilst into a WretchedHive, several {{Arc Villain}}s are in his debt or otherwise involved with him in some way (like Sibir and Jamilov), his operatives are known for harassing people in his name (Jamilov on Digitalis), and his defeat sets him up as the DiscOneFinalBoss for [[spoiler:Ziggy to be revealed as the ultimate BigBad]]. |
| 183 | ** The Aoi Cosmos Saga has Poseidon Nero, leader of [[{{Egopolis}} the Nero Empire]], and his son Shura who serves as TheHeavy, directly antagonizing the heroes throughout the saga in various ways. It ends in the Aoi WarArc where [[spoiler:Nero fights Ziggy in an EvilVersusEvil one on one duel. Both Shura and Nero end up dead by the end of the Aoi War, leaving Ziggy as the undisputed BigBad for the rest of the series to date]]. |
| 184 | ** The Kaede Cosmos Saga, itself a buildup to another WarArc on Kaede itself, finally puts [[spoiler:Machine King Ziggy]] full front and center as the main heroes' ArchEnemy, although he does make an alliance with [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Acnoella]]. |
| 185 | * ''Manga/ElfenLied'': Director Kakuzawa runs the research facility and is responsible for all the horrific experiments the Diclonii suffer through. He plans to capture Lucy and use her to KillAllHumans then replace them with a new Diclonii race that he will rule over as [[GodhoodSeeker a god]]. As such, he is essentially the living distillation of [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the cruelty of humans]]. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss Once he is killed]], however, the Diclonius DNA voice takes over the role. She was the one manipulating [[VillainProtagonist Lucy]] and the one implied to be behind the Diclonii’s madness, and could be considered the [[ManBehindTheMan true antagonist]], especially when she nearly destroys the world.]] |
| 186 | * ''Anime/EurekaSeven'': Dewey Novak, a disgraced military official who seizes control over the United Federation Forces in order to lead a crusade to destroy the Coralians. |
| 187 | * ''Manga/ExArm'': Beta used EX-ARM 11 in 2020 to level large parts of Tokyo, ruining country's economy. Many terrorists have later used Japan's decaying state and other EX-ARM for their own needs, as he watches the chaos ensue. |
| 188 | * ''Manga/Fabricant100'': The Doctor's assistant, Fabricant No 1, is the one who helps other Fabricants complete their OrganTheft. Being the only one with the special surgical skills and personally knowing all others, Mortsafe believes if he's taken down, the Fabricans will be unable to hunt humans. |
| 189 | * While ''Manga/FairyTail'' has several [[ArcVillain Arc Villains]], most of them get overshadowed by one or both members of the BigBadEnsemble, who act as [[GreaterScopeVillain Greater-Scope Villains]] until the final arc of the series: |
| 190 | ** The Black Mage [[TheArchmage Zeref]], the strongest and most evil mage in history. He created the Etherious, [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic entities]] released by the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Book of Zeref]], who cause trouble throughout the series, and the Dark Guilds of the series are often more than not Zeref worshipers. [[spoiler:Not to mention he's also Natsu's [[CainAndAbel long-lost brother]]. Interestingly, while Zeref has some connection to almost every villain in the series and is seen as the ultimate evil, he turns out to be an AntiVillain DeathSeeker himself once his motivations and DarkAndTroubledPast are revealed.]] |
| 191 | ** [[TheDreaded Acnologia]], [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Black Dragon of the Apocalypse]]. Not only is he so powerful that even ''Zeref'' fears him, [[spoiler:he jumps to the top of [[TheHero Natsu]]'s [[ItsPersonal shit list]] and becomes his ArchEnemy by [[YouKilledMyFather killing Igneel]]. He's also the FinalBoss of the series, outlasting Zeref and becoming the very last enemy which Fairy Tail faces]]. |
| 192 | ** The other two BigBad candidates, Hades and E.N.D., are ultimately revealed to be lesser threats than Zeref and Acnologia, [[spoiler:as they are both subordinate to Zeref in some sense. Hades, who acts as the primary villain initially, is a FallenHero attempting to resurrect Zeref and claim his magic (not knowing he was actually alive), and turns out to be a DiscOneFinalBoss after getting defeated at the end of the Tenrou Island arc. Meanwhile, [[SatanicArchetype E.N.D.]], Guild Master of the Etherious guild Tartaros, is the most powerful demon created by Zeref, and turns out to be none other than [[TheHero Natsu]] himself (i.e., [[FunWithAcronyms Etherious Natsu Dragneel)]]. Though E.N.D. does pose a potential threat, as it is Natsu's SuperpoweredEvilSide which could be released with a [[TomeOfEldritchLore Book of Zeref]], and Gray makes it clear he still intends to destroy the demon (not knowing that it's Natsu), he and Natsu, along with Lucy, ensure that E.N.D. remains locked away forever]]. |
| 193 | * ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'': [[TheSociopath King Joseph Gaul]] is this to the franchise. He is responsible for the murder of his younger brother and attempting to poison his niece to insanity, which was halted because of her mother's intervention. To a wider extent, Joseph is responsible for kickstarting the rise of Reconquista in the shadows by helping them and its [[spoiler:true leader and his familiar Sheffield]], making him the root cause of the conflicts in the series. |
| 194 | * ''Anime/FangOfTheSunDougram'': Donan Cassim is the prominent Earth Federation politician who controls the occupying Earth forces and wants to crush the rebellion and keep the planet a part of the Earth Federation [[WellIntentionedExtremist so he can use the local resources to save Earth]]. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss However]], Helmut J Lecoque, his secretary, turns out to have been manipulating him to secure power for himself all along and takes over after his death.]] |
| 195 | %%* ''Manhua/FengShenJi'': Shen Yen. |
| 196 | * ''Anime/FinalFantasyUnlimited'' gives us Earl Tyrant, who is [[spoiler: succeeded by Solijashy for FFU: After.]] A strong case could actually be made for [[spoiler: Oscha]] being the true villain, as well. |
| 197 | * ''Manga/FireForce'': [[MisanthropeSupreme The Evangelist]], an ancient being worshiped by the White-Clad who orchestrated the Human Combustion Pandemic the Fire Force is fighting against in an effort to set the entire world on fire and turn it into a new star. |
| 198 | * ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' has Shin at the beginning, the man who engraved the seven scars on Kenshiro chest and took his woman away. However, [[TokenMotivationalNemesis he only lasts 10 chapters in the manga]] ([[AdaptationExpansion a bit longer in the TV series]]) and his role as Kenshiro's greatest rival is eventually taken over by Raoh, who serves as the main antagonist for most of the manga (being supplanted only by Souther at one point). [[PostScriptSeason The later half of the manga]] has Governor Jakoh, a DirtyCoward, followed by Kaioh, Raoh's [[BackupTwin long-lost brother]]. |
| 199 | %%* ''Manga/FlameOfRecca'': [[{{Gonk}} Kouran]] [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Mori]]. |
| 200 | * ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'': Haruko Haruhara, who seeks to obtain Atomsk's power in hopes of absorbing his infinite power for herself and is willing to destroy the Earth in order to get it. |
| 201 | * ''Animation/FloweringHeart'' has Cannabis, the Queen of Despair who's behind all of the problems the girls face. |
| 202 | * ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': Whether you believe him to be truly evil or not, [[ObfuscatingStupidity Shigure]] provokes most of the conflict in his attempt to [[spoiler:break the curse]]. He pushes everybody's buttons (including ''[[PsychopathicManchild Akito]]''), fully intending for them to lash out ([[ItsAllAboutMe just not at him, if he can help it]]). |
| 203 | * ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': |
| 204 | ** Original manga and ''Brotherhood'': Father, [[spoiler:a Homunculus who came from the Gate of Truth and tricked the King of Xerxes into sacrifiying his people in a bid of immortality, of which only Father and Van Hohenheim gained such immortality. He also founded Amestris through the teaching of Alchemy, and his main goal is sacrificing the entire country to open the Gate and becoming the new God of the World]]. Also, he is the creator of the seven Homunculi, who manipulate alchemists in order to harvest Philosopher Stones (with King Bradley acting as the dictator in order to instigate wars [[spoiler:and expand the ratio of sacrifices]] and establishing the State Alchemist program [[spoiler:to gather powerful alchemists enough to serve as suitable sacrifices)]]. |
| 205 | ** ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'': [[spoiler:Dante, a 400-year old alchemist and Hohenheim's first lover with a severe case of God Complex, who aims to gather Philosopher's Stones to live forever through BodySurfing, and for this creates or recruits Homunculi (under the false promise of turning them human) to instigate conflicts, spread diseases and manipulate alchemists and other people to forge a stone.]] |
| 206 | %%** ''[[Anime/FullMetalAlchemistTheSacredStarOfMilos The Sacred Star of Milos]]'': Security Chief Atlas. |
| 207 | %%* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' has the infamous Nakago. [[spoiler:In the {{OVA}}s, Tenkou takes the throne. He's a demonic king.]] |
| 208 | * ''Manga/FutureDiary'': [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Mur Mur]], who schemes behind Deus Ex Machina's back and manipulates Yuno to ensure that the survival game never ends [[ItAmusedMe for her own amusement]]. |
| 209 | %%* Emperor Darius in ''Anime/{{Gaiking}}''. |
| 210 | %%* The 17th Emperor of Darius in ''Anime/GaikingLegendOfDaikuMaryu'', [[spoiler:until TheDragon Proist murders him by accident, at which point she fully assumes her role as the BigBad]]. |
| 211 | %%* ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'': Jinsuke Kurogane. |
| 212 | * ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' has Araya Souren, who is responsible for everything before and after Ryougi Shiki, the main character, woke from her coma. Strangely enough, he is finished off in the fifth movie in a series of seven movies. |
| 213 | * Kazuhiro Mitogawa in ''Manga/GaRei'', virtually kick-starting the ''entire'' series as of ''Anime/GaReiZero'' by [[spoiler:giving a Sesshouseki to Mei, and then to Yomi]], and is also implied to have been the [[spoiler:spirit which killed Kagura's mother]]. That said, he's still second to GreaterScopeVillain [[spoiler:Lord Tamamo]]. |
| 214 | * ''Anime/GAROCrimsonMoon'': Ashiya Douman, who is causing much of the Horror activity in order to summon Rudra. |
| 215 | * ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro'' has a sort of a BigBadEnsemble with [[EvilOldFolks Nurarihyon]], who in adaptations starting from the third anime he appears in various non-consecutive episodes and in some can even get some Yokai work for him, and [[FantasticRacism Backbeard]], the leader of the Western Yokai, appearing most notably in several ''The Great Yokai War'' (and by extension the Western Yo-kai arc in the 2018 anime) and ''Yokai Rally'' adaptations. Uniquely, the 2018 anime adds new villain [[NoNameGiven Nanashi]] as the most recurring threat from the very first episode until the end of the first half, as he aims to sow hatred between humans and Yokai (and among them) and he manipulated even Backbeard to instigate the Yokai War; and later Rei Isurugi appears as the Big Bad of the Four Generals of the Underworld arc, but Nurarihyon is revealed to be behind the release of the Four Generals and [[spoiler:in the final arc, revives Backbeard to form a BigBadDuumvirate]]. |
| 216 | * ''Anime/{{Geneshaft}}'' has a BigBadDuumvirate: Oberus, an {{AI|IsACrapshoot}} [[spoiler:disguised as [[GeniusLoci Jupiter’s moon Europa]]]] that is the source of the giant rings attacking the Bilkis ship, and [[spoiler:Lord Sergei the 4th Sneak]], the leader of the [[MisanthropeSupreme human anti-humanity terrorists]] [[spoiler:and the [[MoleInCharge commander of the ship]] using the terrorists for own benefit]], are [[TheQuisling working together]] to [[KillAllHumans annihilate humanity]], seeing it as a “bug” in the universe that must be deleted. |
| 217 | * ''Anime/GenesisSurvivorGaiarth'': [[AiIsACrapshoot Siegfried]], an AI-controlled super-weapon that's responsible for turning the world into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. He assigns [[TheHeavy the General]] with bringing Sakuya to him so he can use her to restore his power and [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the last remnants of humanity]]. |
| 218 | * ''Anime/GenmaWars'': [[EvilOverlord The Maoh King]] and [[WickedStepmother Parome]], as the despotic rulers of Earth and on the top of Genma's command, they are responsible for the lead characters' woes and suffering. [[spoiler: Up until they are killed in Episode 9 and it's revealed they are merely puppets to a higher power - the Great Genma King, who has reincarnated into Ran's baby Dar.]] |
| 219 | %%* ''Manga/GetterRobo Go'': [[MadScientist Professor Rando]]. |
| 220 | * ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' being a episodic [[GagSeries Gag Manga]] with the [[CerebusRollerCoaster occasional serious arc here and there]], had only {{Arc Villain}}s and no Big Bad for the longest time. Good candidates for the role were the [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Tendoshu]], who have been rulling Japan since the amanto invasion, the Harusame, a massive fleet of SpacePirates, and [[RivalTurnedEvil Takasugi]], who seemed to be shaping up to become the manga main vilain. Then [[WhamEpisode Utsuro appeared]] and [[spoiler:hijacked most of the others factions involved]]. He quickly turned out to be the show biggest KnightOfCerebus, strongly tied to Gintoki's past, and having a massive impact on the plot, he clearly took the BigBad position. |
| 221 | * Most of ''Manga/GirlsBravo'' has Kazuharu Fukuyama as the {{rich|Bastard}}, [[HandsomeLech perverted]] antagonist who constantly cooks up schemes to sexually harass Kirie and the other girls, though he's a HarmlessVillain who is [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin rarely successful]]. |
| 222 | ** The last few episodes of the anime have him replaced as the antagonist by Yukina, Yukinari's DistaffCounterpart within the planet Seiren who kidnaps [[LoveInterest Miharu]] and plots to [[{{Gendercide}} kill all the Seiren males]] because of her [[DoesNotLikeMen allergy to men]], [[spoiler:though Yukinari [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her out of it]]]]. |
| 223 | ** The last few chapters of the manga, meanwhile, have Lord Kazuha, Fukuyama's EvilTwin who runs the Space-Time Management of Seiren, [[EvilerThanThou is even worse than him]] in the lechery department, and tries to force Miharu to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe marry him]]. |
| 224 | * ''Anime/GoLion'': [[GalacticConqueror Emperor Daibazaal]], the ruler of the Planet Galra bent on conquering the great Dark Nebula. [[spoiler:That is, until he's usurped by his son, [[TheStarscream Prince Sincline]]. |
| 225 | %%* ''Manga/GreenBlood'': Edward King |
| 226 | * ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'': [[EvilGenius Shuichiro Keido]], the one in command of the Anti-Bodies, the main threat to Funeral Parlor's efforts to liberate Japan, [[spoiler:and the mastermind behind Mana's resurrection]]. [[spoiler:From episode 17 onwards, a revived [[FallenHero Tai Tsutsugami]] [[BigBadDuumvirate teams up with Keido]] in a [[BatmanGambit gambit]] to get Shu to kill him and Mana.]] |
| 227 | * Most ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' series have one. |
| 228 | ** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'': The Zabi Family as a whole counts, but it's [[TheEvilPrince Gihren Zabi]] who's the ''[[DragonInChief de facto]]'' ruler of the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Principality of]] [[TheEmpire Zeon]] and the driving force behind Zeon's war game. |
| 229 | ** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'': Jamitov Hymem, the leader of the tyrannical, Federation-sponsored [[StateSec Titans]] [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss at first]]. [[DarkMessiah Paptimus Scirocco]] gradually supplants his authority before outright usurping him in the last five episodes and [[BigBadDuumvirate teaming up]] with [[GloriousLeader Haman Khan]] of Axis Zeon against AEUG in the FinalBattle]]. |
| 230 | ** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'': [[TheBaroness Haman Khan]], the leader of [[TheRemnant Neo Zeon]] and the only victor of ''Zeta'''s conflict. Later on, [[DragonWithAnAgenda Glemmy Toto]] challenges her for this status, triggering a [[EnemyCivilWar split in the ranks]]. |
| 231 | ** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char's Counterattack]]'': Char Aznable himself, aiming to use a ColonyDrop on Earth to force humanity into space and, more importantly, finally settle the score with his [[TheRival old nemesis]], [[TheHero Amuro Ray]]. |
| 232 | ** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91 Gundam F91]]'': Carozzo "Iron Mask" Ronah, commander of the Crossbone Vanguard and the spearhead of their war effort. He's technically working for his father-in-law Meitzer Ronah to help him establish his "Cosmo Babylonia", but it's Carozzo who's the [[DragonInChief bigger threat]]. |
| 233 | ** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Victory Gundam]]'': [[EvilChancellor Prime Minister Fonse Kagatie]], the source of all evil in the [[TheEmpire Zanscare Empire]] and the one behind nearly all of their atrocities. |
| 234 | ** ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'': [[EldritchAbomination The Devil Gundam]] itself, with the heroes trying to stop it and various other villains looking to gain control of it [[spoiler:although Colonel Ulube Ishikawa is this insofar as setting the entire plot in motion]]. |
| 235 | ** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'': The initial antagonist is Duke Dermail, the leader of the Romefeller Foundation who wants to control the United Earth Sphere Alliance for himself. After [[DiscOneFinalBoss his exit]] the role is [[BigBadEnsemble split]] between Treize Khushreneda, leader of OZ; and [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized White Fang]] co-leaders Zechs Merquise/[[spoiler:Miliardo Peacecraft]] and Quinze, who want Total Pacifism and to declare war on Earth respectively. |
| 236 | ** ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'': Fixx Bloodman, President of the New Earth Federation, and Seidel Rasso, leader of the SRA, wage war against each other for control of the world, [[spoiler:though it turns out that [[BigBadDuumvirate Shagia and Olba Frost]] are manipulating them to cause war, with Shagia as the more senior of the two]]. |
| 237 | ** ''Anime/TurnAGundam'': Gym Ghingnham, a warmonger who plots to usurp Moonrace from [[TheHighQueen Queen Dianna]] and destroy the Earthrace. |
| 238 | ** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'': Muruta Azrael, leader of Blue Cosmos, and Chairman Patrick Zala, leader of ZAFT, both being opposing dictators on either side of a destructive race war, [[spoiler:as well as [[OmnicidalManiac Rau Le Creuset]], who is manipulating both of them to bring about humanity's destruction.]] |
| 239 | ** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'': Lord Djibril and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Chairman Gilbert Durandal]], the new respective leaders of Blue Cosmos and ZAFT, who have revived the war between them. [[spoiler:Durandal is the one who comes out on top, while Djibril dies five episodes from the finale]]. |
| 240 | ** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'': The first season has Alejandro Corner, a scheming Observer looking to take advantage of Celestial Being to become leader of the world. The second season has Homer Katagiri, Head commander of the A-Laws who wants but to eradicate anti-Federation resistance to create peace. In both cases it turns out, [[spoiler:[[AGodAmI Ribbons Almark]], leader of the Innovades, was the [[TheManBehindTheMan true mastermind]] using them to rule the world himself.]] |
| 241 | ** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Gundam Unicorn]]'': Full Frontal, leader of the Neo Zeon Remnants, and Maria Vist Carbine, [[LadyMacbeth scheming wife]] of the Anaheim Electronics chairman. |
| 242 | ** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamAge Gundam AGE]]'': Leader of Unknown Enemy [[spoiler:(aka Vagan), [[TheSocialDarwinist Lord Fezarl Ezelcant.]]]] |
| 243 | %%* ''Manga/GunXClover'': Sayuri Higuchi. |
| 244 | * The Claw from ''Anime/GunXSword'' [[spoiler:is a sweet old man,]] with a track record of crimes agains the protagonists as long as his artificial right arm. ''Every'' single bad thing in the series ultimately traces back to him. |
| 245 | * ''Manga/HanakoAndTheTerrorOfAllegory'' ''may'' have a BigBad depending on whose [[UnreliableExpositor account of what's real/what actually happened you believe]]. [[spoiler: The final antagonist [[OccultDetective Daisuke Asou]] and Kanae Hiranuma face claims to be Mafuyu Tachibane, Asou's [[TheLostLenore supposedly dead lover]]. She claims it's actually Asou who's dead, and the Asou that operates as the Allegory Detective is himself an Allegory that she created through her fiction and [[YourMindMakesItReal readers' belief in it]]. Therefore, everything that's happened, and every previous antagonist, is due to her. Asou, however, insists that the real Mafuyu is the one who is dead, and the author-Mafuyu is another Allegory. The [[GainaxEnding esoteric ending]] to the series makes it hard to tell who's right and who's wrong, or [[MindScrew whether both or neither are]].]] |
| 246 | * ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' does not really have an overall main antagonist, but does have several {{Arc Villain}}s: |
| 247 | ** The first two novels (''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'' and ''The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya'') and two of the earlier short stories ("The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya" and "Endless Eight") have [[VillainProtagonist the titular character herself]] as the villain. However, Haruhi is neither evil (though she is quite the {{Jerkass}} before her [[TookALevelInKindness transformation]] into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold) nor even aware of what she's doing. She's an extremely powerful RealityWarper, but is completely clueless to this fact. This makes her [[AgeAppropriateAngst emotions]] and overactive imagination matters of existential importance, with the SOS Brigade focused on keeping her content and grounded in reality. Otherwise, she might do something like [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds unconsciously use her power to destroy the world]] or [[GroundhogDayLoop force everyone to repeat the same two weeks 15,498 times]]. |
| 248 | ** ''The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya'', the fourth novel, ultimately has [[spoiler:Yuki Nagato]] as the one responsible for [[spoiler:stealing Haruhi's power]] and the disruption of spacetime. Another excellent example of a non-evil main antagonist, [[spoiler:the poor girl just wanted a world where she could [[IJustWantToBeNormal live as a normal human being,]] and one where she ''wouldn't'' spend 596 years in a TimeLoop and, unlike everyone else, ''[[AndIMustScream be conscious of all of it]]''.]] |
| 249 | ** In the short story "Snow Mountain Syndrome," the antagonist is the [[StarfishAliens Sky Canopy Dominion]], a [[HiveMind gestalt of data entities]] similar to, and later the ArchEnemy of, the Data Overmind, which Yuki is part of. It traps the SOS Brigade in a PocketDimension because it's intensely curious about Yuki and wishes to learn more of the Data Overmind through her. |
| 250 | ** Within ''Dissociation'' and both volumes of ''Surprise'', [[spoiler:the [[ThePsychoRangers Anti-SOS Brigade]], a faction believing Haruhi was not meant to be the true recipient of her [[RealityWarper God-like powers]], fulfills this role, seeking to make Sasaki, Kyon's childhood friend with a potential similar to Haruhi, the RealityWarper instead. It is composed of Fujiwara, a time traveler and thus Mikuru Asahina's EvilCounterpart; Kuyou Suou, a humanoid interface of the above-mentioned Sky Canopy Dominion; and Kyouko Tachibana, an esper from a rival group to Itsuki Koizumi's Agency. Fujiwara's goal to is to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong use Sasaki to restore a timeline in which he and Mikuru are siblings]], Kuyou's motive is [[BlueAndOrangeMorality inscrutable]], and Kyouko [[WellIntentionedExtremist believes Sasaki will be a more stable, and thus safer, holder of Haruhi's power]]. Fujiwara and Kuyou are the most dangerous of the three, with Fujiwara, aided by Kuyou, ultimately resorting to violence to achieve his ends.]] |
| 251 | * ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': While they don't show up very often due to the ''manga'' being a mix of SliceOfLife, RomanticComedy, {{Slapstick}}, and [[GenreMashup several other genres]], there are some. |
| 252 | ** The first BigBad is [[Myth/ClassicalMythology King Midas]], a powerful spirit [[spoiler: who stole the power of the goddess Oruzumuto Nadja and created the [[RealityWarper Royal Power]], the [[TheWonderland Royal Garden]], and the [[MineralMacGuffin King's Jewels.]]]] In "End of the World," he tries to keep Athena Tennos, [[TheHero Hayate]] [[BattleButler Ayasaki's]] FirstLove, trapped in the Royal Garden. In the Mykonos arc, he is attempting to return to the Royal Garden. To this end, he manipulates and [[DemonicPossession possesses Athena]] in order to claim Hayate's King's Jewel. [[spoiler: He's ultimately destroyed by Hayate, setting the stage for the next [[BigBad Big Bads]].]] |
| 253 | ** After [[spoiler:Midas' death]], there's a BigBadEnsemble. On one end is [[EnfantTerrible Hisui Hatsushiba]], [[LonelyRichKid Nagi]] [[{{Ojou}} Sanzen'in's]] chief and most dangerous rival for the Sanzen'in inheritance. [[TheUnfettered Completely amoral and utterly ruthless in the pursuit of her goals]], Mikado Sanzen'in fears that she would be a threat to the world if she got her hands on the Sanzen'in wealth, and all the political and economic power that went with it. It goes from bad to worse when Hisui learns of the Royal Power, stashed in the Royal Garden along with the {{MacGuffin}} needed to claim the Sanzen'in inheritance. [[spoiler:The [[BigBadDuumvirate other two]] are [[AbusiveParents Hayate's parents]], who, trying to find some means of leveraging Hayate's connection to Nagi into a payoff, trick him into revealing to Nagi that his LoveConfession to her was a miscommunication, prompting her to flee to the Royal Garden where she uses the Royal Power to trap herself in an [[LotusEaterMachine illusion.]]]] |
| 254 | %%* ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'': Minos |
| 255 | * ''Manga/HekikaiNoAiON'': Ariel, the eldest of the [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent seven mermaid sisters]], who periodically destroy major cities (usually by [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom tsunami]]) to collect humans' [[LifeEnergy psyche]]. |
| 256 | * ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' |
| 257 | ** Manga and OVA series: The Major, a Nazi cyborg who employs humans and vampires to start war after war [[ForTheEvulz just for shits and giggles]]. |
| 258 | ** ''[[Anime/{{Hellsing}} 2001 anime]]: Incognito, a vampire overseeing the creation of the FREAK Chip, which he uses to transform people into ravenous, impure vampires to fight Hellsing. |
| 259 | %%* In ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', the BigBad is [[spoiler:nurse Miyo Takano, in what is a MilkmanConspiracy.]] |
| 260 | * ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' |
| 261 | ** Volume 1 has [[StarterVillain Raynare]], a fallen angel who murders Issei and Asia. |
| 262 | %%** Volume 2 has Riser Phenex |
| 263 | %%** Volume 3 has Kokabiel |
| 264 | ** Volume 4 has Katerea Leviathan, a member of the Old Satan Faction who attacks the club at the peace conference. |
| 265 | ** Volume 6 has Diodora Astaroth, the strange heir of the Astaroth clan who's obsessed with Asia and has been coordinating an [[EvilPlan Evil Plan]] to kidnap her since the very beginning, with Shalba Beelzebub acting as the [[GreaterScopeVillain Greater-Scope Villain]]. |
| 266 | %%** Volume 7 has Loki. |
| 267 | %%** Volume 11-12 and 24 has Hades. |
| 268 | %%** Volume 18-20 has Rizevem Lucifer, leader of the Qlippoth Faction and the Khaos Brigade's most powerful member. |
| 269 | %%** Volume 21 has the [[GreaterScopeVillain Trihexa]], the true villain of the series. |
| 270 | * ''Higanjima'' franchise has Miyabi. |
| 271 | %%* ''Manga/{{Hiuri}}'': Soujin. |
| 272 | * ''Manga/TheHuntersGuildRedHood'': Ludwig Geppetto, an [[FaceHeelTurn ex-Hunter]] with [[RealityWarper potent magical abilities]] [[spoiler: who's also [[TheHero Velou's]] [[ParentalSubstitute father figure]] [[BigBadFriend Mayor Horlock]], the [[DeathByOriginStory apparent death of whom being part of what galvanizes Velou to try to join]] the [[HunterOfMonsters Hunters Guild]]. Velou is in fact a [[ArtificialHuman creation]] of Geppetto whose very existence undermines the [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality conventions and tropes built into the world]], and Geppetto's goal is to get Velou in proximity to the [[TomeOfEldritchLore True Book]], which the Hunters Guild uses to write the story of their world, so that Velou can destroy the book and [[OmnicidalManiac thus the world]]. His motive for this his [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds disgust with the evil and tragedies]] the Guild introduce into the world, which they do in order to entertain the [[{{Meta}} Readers]], [[JerkassGods gods]] who would otherwise reboot the world if it isn't suitably engrossing.]] |
| 273 | * ''Anime/{{Hyouka}}'': [[DistaffCounterpart Fuyumi Irisu "The Empress"]] is the closest character this show has to one as main antagonist. [[spoiler:She manipulated Oreki during the mystery of the unfinished film, after all.]] |
| 274 | * ''Manga/HyperPolice'' anime: [[spoiler:[[CrookedCop Police superintendent]] Tokijiro Murota, who intends on removing monsters from the human world by any means necessary.]] |
| 275 | * ''Manga/{{Ibitsu}}'': |
| 276 | ** Main story: The Strange Lolita is a mysterious girl in a Lolita dress who spends the story tormenting Kazuki and killing everyone he loves to force him to be her big brother. |
| 277 | ** ''The Corridor of Dolls'': The titular dolls haunt the building where the main characters go and trap them inside to take their skin. |
| 278 | ** ''The Mysterious Tale of the Editor'': The titular editor, Rukina Midorikawa, forces mangaka Susumo Sano to write her story the way she wants it and abuses him when he refuses, eventually kidnapping him. |
| 279 | * In ''Anime/{{ICE|2007}}'', Lady Kisaragi and Commander Julia are the leaders of the post-{{Gendercide}} {{dystopia}}n LadyLand, and both are fighting each other to accomplish their opposite agendas. Kisaragi believes that [[OmnicidalManiac humanity as a whole should accept their fate of death]], and [[spoiler:wants to use a LostSuperweapon to kill the remaining humans]], while Julia wants to save humanity by inventing a method of artificial reproduction, but [[WellIntentionedExtremist is willing to kill anyone who stands in her way]]. |
| 280 | * ''Manga/IchiTheKiller'': Masao Kakihara, the leader of the Yakuza that Ichi and Jijii are trying to take down. |
| 281 | * ''Anime/IDInvaded'': John Walker, actually [[spoiler:Takuhiko Hayaseura]], the leader of Kura turning people into serial killers. |
| 282 | * ''Literature/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone'' has a zigzagged case. The first few volumes start off with a BigBadEnsemble between the traitorous Dominant-Class Phrase Yula and the traitorous Servile God, who went to a VillainTeamUp to destroy the world via the Phrase invasion the former started after deposing Melle. However, [[spoiler:Yula betrays the Servile God by letting the Wicked God to consume him, causing the Servile God to be fused into the Wicked God, making the Wicked God the ''actual'' part of the [[BigBadEnsemble ensemble]] and not the Servile God on its own.]] However, after the deaths of [[DiscOneFinalBoss both Yula and the Wicked God]], [[CoDragons the Wicked Devout's five Generals and Wicked God's lieutenants]] Indigo, Scarlet, Hazel, Tangerine and Orchid are part of the BigBadDuumvirate and are now [[DragonAscendant the main antagonists at the start of Volume 24]], who are revealed to have been [[DragonTheirFeet planning to complete their master's]] EvilPlan after his demise. |
| 283 | * ''Manga/{{Ingoshima}}'' has Gamou Ingo the head of the Ingo Clan. |
| 284 | * ''Manga/{{Inugami}}'': Kiryu,a mysterious monk figure with lots of connections who seems to be suspiciously familiar with the Inugami phenomenon. |
| 285 | * In ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', Naraku was behind almost everything that happened in the story from generational family curses to destroying an entire clan of youkai-slayers, to destroying tribes of {{youkai}} to pissing off technically neutral youkai, destroying the lives of the titular hero and his first love, and even being behind the heroine travelling through time. He's behind most of the major destruction of towns, villages, noble clans and even the destruction of entire sacred mountains. There's almost nothing he hasn't been responsible for... including the near-success of the true plan of the ArtifactOfDoom. |
| 286 | * Sekidousai in ''Literature/{{Inukami}}'', whose inventions form the basis of early plots and those EvilPlan drives the second half of the show. |
| 287 | * ''Manga/{{Jackals}}'': [[TheDon Don Salieri]] and [[DragonLady Lee Mei-Lang]] are the respective leaders of the dueling [[TheMafia Gabriella]] and [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Tennouren]] gangs fighting for control of Cicero city. [[spoiler:It eventually turns out that Vampire Franco Odman has been PlayingBothSides as part of his own plan to take over their gangs and the city and he winds up being the final opponent- though Lee is the one who [[TheBadGuyWins wins the war]].]] |
| 288 | * ''{{Manga/Jagaaaaaan}}'':Chiharu Matsuyamachi has been responsible for lots of bad situations happening in the manga and a real pain in the ass to Jagasaki, The Hero. However The title ends up [[spoiler:going to Nomans Nomen, after he manages to unlock an Enlightenment Superpower and begins plans to kill the entire human race with utter bliss.]] |
| 289 | * ''Toys/{{Jewelpet}}'': |
| 290 | ** ''Anime/Jewelpet2009'': Dian. He takes over from Diana, who was always acting on his behalf, midway through the show. Aims to prove the supremacy of Jewelpets by stealing the Jewel Stick from the heroine and turning all humans into stone. Uses his powers to control Jewelpets to accomplish his goals and devises schemes to ruin the heroes' lives, which are usually carried out by his underlings, though he does it himself when it comes to the main heroine specifically. |
| 291 | ** ''Anime/JewelpetTwinkle'': Alma Jinnai. Wants to kill BigGood Jewelina out of revenge and stops at nothing to accomplish it. Gets herself possessed by Dark Magic and nearly destroys Jewel Land. |
| 292 | ** ''Anime/JewelpetKiraDeco'': the Dark General, leader of the Decoranain, who aim to cover Earth and Jewel Land in eternal darkness. |
| 293 | ** ''Anime/JewelpetHappiness'': the Red Moon, which wants to contaminate everyone with Unhappiness out of spite, and possesses many people to further its plans. |
| 294 | ** ''Anime/LadyJewelpet'': Joker. It's trying to undermine the Lady system, and, through it, bring chaos to Jewel Land. Is the cause of Luea's troubles and the creator of [[spoiler:Lillian]]. |
| 295 | * ''{{Manga/Jinmen}}'': The Pig Director leader of the Jinmen. |
| 296 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 297 | ** [[AmbitionIsEvil Dio Brando]] serves as this for ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' and ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', and his influence on later Parts of the story arguably make him the main antagonist of the entire series. |
| 298 | ** [[AGodAmI Kars]] serves as this for ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'', being the leader of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Pillar Men]] (who created the mask that helped Dio turn into a vampire in the first place) whose goal to become the [[UltimateLifeform Ultimate Being]] drives the plot of the Part. |
| 299 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'' is a strange case, as due to the way the plot is structured, there are arguably ''two'' Big Bads, one for each half of the Part: |
| 300 | *** For the first half, [[BigBrotherBully Keicho Nijimura]] serves as this, as [[spoiler:despite dying rather early on]], it's his actions that result in most of the [[FightingSpirit Stand]] Users the heroes face throughout the first half. In the first of the live-action film adaptations of the Part, he serves as this by default, as the film ends at his arc. |
| 301 | *** For the second half, [[SerialKiller Yoshikage Kira]] serves as this, as despite having nothing to do with the events of the Part's first half, he serves as the primary threat of the Part and it's the heroes goal to catch him that drives the plot. Because of this, he's often seen as the overall Big Bad of the entire Part. |
| 302 | ** [[TheDon The boss of Passione]], aka [[spoiler:[[SatanicArchetype Diavolo]]]], serves as this for ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'', as it's his encouragement of the mafia's drug trade that drives [[TheHero Giorno]] to take action against him, [[spoiler:and his attempted filicide of his daughter Trish turns the rest of Bucciarati's gang against him as well]]. [[spoiler:He was also the one who found and sold the Stand arrows around the world retroactively making him responsible for giving DIO and other antagonists their Stands]]. |
| 303 | ** [[SinisterMinister Enrico Pucci]] serves as this for ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', being the cause behind the plot's events, as well as the primary threat faced throughout. [[spoiler:He wants to fulfill DIO's legacy of "reaching Heaven" by resetting the entire universe and ensuring that the Joestar bloodline is erased from existence.]] |
| 304 | ** [[PresidentEvil Funny Valentine]] serves as this for ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', as while he's [[WellIntentionedExtremist more sympathetic and well-intentioned in his goals]], he's still the cause behind most of the bad things that happen in the Part. |
| 305 | ** While who the Big Bad of ''Manga/{{JoJolion}}'' would be is a mystery for most of its run, it becomes clear within the climax that [[spoiler:[[TheDogWasTheMastermind Tooru]]]] is the one taking this role, being the [[spoiler:true User of Wonder of U]] and the leader of the Rock Humans, making him responsible for nearly all of the bad things to happen throughout the Part. |
| 306 | * ''Manga/JuujikaNoRokunin'': Kyou Shigoku, the ringleader of the GangOfBullies responsible for Uruma's relentless torment and murdering his parents, leading him to seek vengeance against them. |
| 307 | * ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': Suguru Geto [[spoiler:...or rather an impostor Curse User named Kenjaku, who used his Cursed Technique to transplant his brain into the body of the real Suguru Geto, who died during the events of Volume 0. He's been body surfing around for some time now; one of his previous bodies was the evil Sorcerer Noritoshi Kamo, responsible for the creation of the Death Paintings about 150 years ago, but going by the Sorcerers he has gathered up as Cursed Objects, it's been at least a thousand and some years. Joining forces with the Disaster Curses at the beginning of the story, he uses them to accelerate his plan of bringing out humanity's potential in using cursed energy and ushering in a new era of jujutsu sorcery through arranging a twisted Culling Game.]] |
| 308 | %%* ''Anime/{{K}}'': The Colorless King. |
| 309 | * ''Manga/KagerouNostalgia'' has [[TheManBehindTheMan Lord Gessho Kuki]], [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Shadow]], who is responsible for every horrific thing to occur in series. May actually be the host of an even GreaterScopeVillain to boot. |
| 310 | * ''Manga/{{Kaiji}}'': [[EvilOldFolks Kazutaka Hyo(u)do(u)]], the CEO of Teiai corporation behind the cruel games that Kaiji and the other debtors are forced to play. |
| 311 | * ''Manga/{{Karas}}'': Eko Hoshunin, the [[FallenHero former Karas of Shenjuki]], aims to KillAllHumans and remake the world in his own image. |
| 312 | * ''Manga/{{Karin}}'': While the bulk of the manga deals with Karin Maaka's relationship with [[LoveInterests Kenta Usui]] and her family, and the strain her unique vampire nature has on them (she's a vampire that ''produces'' and injects blood into others), the latter half of the manga reveals that the vampire [[FalseFriend Glark]] has a sinister interest in Karin. [[spoiler: He's working for Cecilia Brownlick, scion of the powerful Brownlick vampire clan. Karin is actually the [[BarrierMaiden Psyche]], a host for the spirit Sophia Pistis, whose blood is capable of turning vampires, most of whom are sterile, fertile. Cecilia's goal is to hold Karin captive for the rest of her life, providing her blood to the Brownlicks until her sanguinary ability eventually killed her. Even more twisted, she intends to have Karin impregnated to ensure the bloodline of the Psyche will continue after her death.]] |
| 313 | * ''Anime/KemonoFriends'': The [[EldritchAbomination Black Cerulean]] is the leader of the [[BlobMonster Ceruleans]], and its mere existence, invulnerability and threat is the reason [[PatchworkMap Japari Park]] is abandoned, decaying and complete ruin. |
| 314 | * ''Anime/{{Kemurikusa}}'' has The Red Tree, a massive, sentient Kemurikusa that has been poisoning the world with its fog, creating mechanical monsters and using all of the water, leaving the main group with nowhere to live safely as long as it's standing. |
| 315 | * ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'': Saiga Furunji is the eponymous One Shadow in the Yami organization's One Shadow Nine Fists group -- essentially, the strongest martial artist in the organization -- who is also the son of the series' BigGood, Hayato Furinji, and the DisappearedDad to Hayato's granddaughter Miu. [[spoiler:However, it seems Saiga may be [[AntiVillain a complicated case of this]], as he's been shown to still be a MartialPacifist despite being the leader of a group that advocates murderous martial arts]]. |
| 316 | * ''Kichikujima'': Yoshikazu the patriarch of the crazy family on an island. |
| 317 | * ''Anime/KillLaKill'': [[KnightTemplar Satsuki Kiryuin]], the StudentCouncilPresident, runs Honnouji Academy as a dictatorship and is TheRival to [[TheHeroine Ryuko Matoi]], and is apparently involved in the murder of Ryuko's father, Isshin. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss Then]] it turns out that Ragyo Kiryuin, Satsuki's mother, is the [[TheManBehindTheMan true villain]]; not only did she order [[TheDragon Nui]] to kill Isshin/Souichirou, but Satsuki has [[StealthMentor actually been preparing]] Ryuko, [[LukeIAmYourFather her sister]], to help her defeat Ragyo and the [[AliensAreBastards Life Fibers]]]]. |
| 318 | * ''Manga/KingOThorn'': [[AGodAmI Zeus]], the security chief for Venus Gate's labs who's responsible for using Shizuku's Medusa to create an army of monsters to terrorize not just the survivors, but also the entire world. |
| 319 | * ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' has had, in terms of Big Bads that were actually dangerous, Robin Mask for the 20th Choujin Olympics arc, Warsman for the 21st Choujin Olympics arc, Buffaloman for the Devil Choujin arc, Akuma Shogun for the Golden Mask arc, the tag-team of Neptuneman and Big the Budo for the Golden Mask arc, and lastly Kinnikuman Super Phoenix for the Throne arc. |
| 320 | * ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': Nightmare (eNeMeE in the 4Kids dub). Unlike his appearance in [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/KirbysAdventure'', where he was a SealedEvilInACan whose existence causes King Dedede to destroy the Star Rod]], here he is a GalacticConqueror who runs a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Monster-delivering firm]], consequently serving as a significantly more influential and widely-known threat than his debut game. |
| 321 | * ''Anime/Kite1998'': [[DirtyCop Akai]], who kidnaps numerous young girls and brainwashes them to serve as his personal assassins/sex slaves, with Sawa attempting to escape from him. |
| 322 | * ''Manga/{{Knights}}'': [[EvilPrince The Crown Prince]], who's responsible for the witch hunts ravaging the countryside in an effort to empower the Relics so he may expand his kingdom through bloody war. |
| 323 | * ''Manga/KodokuExperiment'': [[InsaneAdmiral Camilla Baruges]]. She kicks off the plot by abandoning Cannon and his platoon to die on Deronga Five Alpha, then lures the Deronga virus onto the Space Force ships to have them kill people as a twisted experiment. |
| 324 | %%* ''Anime/KotetsuJeeg'': Queen Himika for the first half, Emperor Dragon for the second. |
| 325 | * ''[[https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=13009 Kukulcan: The Greatest Strategy]]'': [[spoiler: The ''Tezcatlipoca'', an extremely-advanced [[SapientShip sapient airship]], the product of the advanced civilization within the ''[[DysonSphere El Soral]]'', aka the Sphere. It went rogue, attacking its brother ship ''Quetzalcoatl'' and stranding the ''El Soral'' on Earth. It seeks to destroy the ''El Soral'' and the ''Quetzalcoatl'' and claim the former's power source entirely for itself, creating a [[DemBones skeletal army]] and giant monstrous avatars of itself that pose a threat not only to its makers and brother, but to the Kingdom that happens to be on the edge of the Sphere's landfall.]] |
| 326 | %%* ''Manga/{{Kurohime}}'': [[JerkassGods Yashahime]]. |
| 327 | * ''Anime/LagrangeTheFlowerOfRinne'': Lord Villagulio De Metrio Lu, brother of [[spoiler:Muginami (adopted)]] and leader of the enemy organization Kiss that rules the planet De Metrio and rebels against the Jersey Club heroines, the Novumundos agency, and the [[TheFederation Polyhedron Federation]]. In Season 1, his goal is to steal all the [[HumongousMecha Vox Units]] and destroy the Polyhedron planet of Le Garite, [[spoiler:[[AntiVillain but only because]] he believes the Vox Units can destroy the world, and the two planets are on a crash course with each other- he would really rather not destroy any planets]]. As of Season 2, he [[spoiler:[[BigBadEnsemble fights against]] and eventually [[EvilerThanThou gets overshadowed by]] King Dizelmine Fin E Ld Si, Princess Lan’s brother and Polyhedron’s leader who wants to destroy the other planet. Both of them are in turn pawns of Balance T. Moid, Lan’s MadScientist TreahcerousAdvisor who wants to open the Rin-ne and [[ForScience admire its beauty]], even if he causes the apocalypse in the process]]. |
| 328 | * ''Anime/LastExile'': [[EvilOverlord Maestro Delphine Eraclea]] is the leader of the Guild who oppresses her people and seeks to capture [[MysteriousWaif Alvis]] to use her to activate the titular Last Exile and gain even more power. |
| 329 | * ''Anime/LastExileFamTheSilverWing'': [[EvilChancellor Premier Luscinia Hāfez]] controlss the Ades Federation and leads the invasion of the Kingdom of Turan and other nations to [[WellIntentionedExtremist achieve world peace]]. |
| 330 | * ''Anime/LastHope2018'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Gold]], the one orchestrating the B.R.A.I. attacks on Neo Xianglong out of resentment towards Mayor Cecil Sue and a desire to destroy everything she loves. [[spoiler:After he's killed in episode 15, [[DragonAscendent Sieg]] takes over as the villain, whose been manipulating Mr. Gold into aiding him in resurrecting the source of the B.R.A.I., [[EldritchAbomination Chaos]]. |
| 331 | * ''Anime/LegendOfHimiko'': Lord Shikara, governor-general and son of the king of Kune, is the one leading the invasion of Yamatai. |
| 332 | * ''Manga/LiarGame'': Artlier is the Chief Executive of the Liar Game Tournament Office and the mysterious man running the titular Liar Game, where people are forced to compete in various challenges risking their entire livelihood. [[spoiler:Though it is revealed in the ending that he was actually trying to provoke rebellion against the [[GreaterScopeVillain corrupt government]].]] |
| 333 | * ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'': [[SinisterMinister Archbishop de Villiers]] is the ''de-facto'' leader of the [[AncientConspiracy Terraist Church]], the secret masters of Fezzan, and desires both the Alliance and the Empire to be gone entirely, [[PlayingBothSides masterminding the war between them]] and going behind even his own master's back to do so. Almost every opposition Yang and Reinhard face, including each other, is either directly sponsored by the church and their associates, or ended up where they are by the church's design, and he solidifies himself as this when [[spoiler:the Grand Bishop dies and he fully takes over via a PuppetKing]]. |
| 334 | %%* The second half of the ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'' anime establishes [[EmotionEater Professor Croix Meridies]] as this. Notably, she's responsible for everything bad that ended up happening to [[TheHero Akko]] and [[CoolTeacher Ursula]] both in present and past. |
| 335 | * ''Manga/LordOfLordsRyuKnight'': [[THeEmperor Emperor Helldragon]], the leader of the Helldragon tribe who wants to takeover Earth Tear. |
| 336 | * ''Anime/LostSong'': General Bazra and Prince Lood, who both want to use the power of songs to bring destruction to the battlefield. After Lood is [[spoiler:killed in the first timeline (and comes back as a ''good'' prince in the second)]], Bazra take over as the lone BigBad for the rest of the story. |
| 337 | * ''Manga/LoveHina Again'' and its corresponding manga chapters have Kanako Urashima, Keitaro's sister [[BrotherSisterIncest who wants to take him away]] [[{{Yandere}} from the other girls]], and becomes [[LoveInterest Naru]]'s love rival as she [[TyrantTakesTheHelm usurps control of the Hinata Inn to punish them]]. [[spoiler:Kanako does make a HeelFaceTurn and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy let Keitaro go]] in the end.]] The series otherwise [[NoAntagonist lacks a Big Bad]] aside from a few [[MonsterOfTheWeek one-shot threats]]. |
| 338 | * ''Manga/{{Lovesickness}}'': The mysterious boy at the crossroads, whose pieces of advice have compulsive and devastating effects on the girls who hear them. |
| 339 | * A rare work where the "villain behind everything" isn't even a character is ''Anime/LupinIIIDeadOrAlive''. The {{Nanomachines}} are the ultimate source of conflict, providing an initial challenge, and defeating the Protagonists several times early on. The main plot for Lupin's gang is to discover the secrets of Drifting Island, which is protected by the nanomachines. [[spoiler: Even General Headhunter is subordinate to the nanomachines, because he is a robot constructed by them.]] |
| 340 | %%* ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine'': Count Luis Yu Almeida. |
| 341 | * ''Manga/LycheeLightClub'': [[TeensAreMonsters Zera]], the leader of the Hikari club who has [[ArtificialHuman Litchi]] kidnap teenage girls for them to hold captive before gradually turning on his followers out of paranoia. |
| 342 | * ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'': The [[HiveQueen Vajra Queen]] leads the [[BeePeople Vajra]] who seek to assimilate humanity into their HiveMind, [[spoiler:and turns out to be Grace O'Connor, Sheryl Nome's [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly kind]] manager]]. |
| 343 | * ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'': [[DiabolicalMastermind Friday Monday]], the head of the Enfant organization who attempts to brainwash all of humanity into plunging the entire world into war. |
| 344 | * ''Manga/MagicalGirlApocalypse'': [[spoiler:Wataru Himeji]] is the one who caused the apocalypse in the first place, hoping to use it as part of a bid [[GodhoodSeeker to absorb ultimate power and rule unquestioned]]. That is, until [[spoiler:Makabe kills Himeji and hijacks his plan for godhood in the final arc]]. |
| 345 | %%* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'': Zagato for Part 1 and [[EldritchAbomination Lady Debonair]] for Part 2 (At least in the anime). |
| 346 | %%* ''Franchise/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' likes using {{Mad Scientist}}s for their Big Bads, what with Precia Testarossa in Season 1 and Jail Scaglietti in Season 3. |
| 347 | %%** The Automatic Defence System of the Book of Darkness, also known as the Darkness of the Book of Darkness, also known as [=NachtWal=], is the BigBad in Season 2. |
| 348 | %%** The sequel manga ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' has Curren Hückebein of the Hückebein family. |
| 349 | * ''Manga/MaidSama'': Gerald Walker, [[spoiler: Takumi Usui's half-brother]] and heir to the Walker family. He's not evil, but his goals threaten to derail Takumi and Misaki Ayuzawa's potential HappyEnding and his actions are the chief source of conflict in the latter half of a manga that only had the occasional {{Jerkass}} [[ArcVillain Arc "Villain"]] until him. [[spoiler:Suffering from the same ill health that took his and Takumi's mother, his machinations revolve around grooming his brother into the new Walker heir, with the lower-class Misaki being unsuitable for a [[UptownGirl scion of one of Britain's wealthiest aristocratic families]].]] |
| 350 | * ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'': [[CardCarryingVillain Sicks]] ([[spoiler:Jody Tubulik]]), who plans to wipe out most of humanity to make way for the New Bloodline. |
| 351 | * ''Manga/ManyuHikencho'' has Munenori Manyuu, [[TheHeroine Chifusa]]'s ArchnemesisDad and [[EvilOverlord leader of the Manyuu clan]] who enforces the oppressive BuxomBeautyStandard. He's also one of the, if not ''the'', most serious character in the show. He's also OrcusOnHisThrone, since he never takes the matter of Chifusa's escape in his own hands. |
| 352 | * ''Manga/{{MAR}}'': Phantom, the strongest of the Knights who leads the Chess Pieces and wants to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy]] all of [=MAR=] heaven. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss However]], he himself is working for The Queen/Diana and The King/Caldean Orb, a former citizen of Caldia and the swirling mass of all of Earth's evil energy that formed a consciousness, respectively. It's behind the entire plot, manipulating everyone]]. |
| 353 | * ''Anime/MasterOfMartialHearts'': The Leader of Platonic Heart who is organizing the tournament, in which women are forced to fight each other to be able to MakeAWish on the Platonic Heart. [[spoiler:It seemingly is the fake Haruki, but is actually his boss, [[EvilMatriarch Kumi Honma]], who has been turning the losers into mindless {{Sex Slave}}s and wants RevengeByProxy on Aya's mother for turning her into one, and pressued her children (Nastume and Haruki) and Miko Kazuki into becoming her CoDragons to manipulate Aya.]] |
| 354 | * ''Literature/MayoChiki'': Negare Konoe, [[BattleButler Subaru Konoe]]'s [[ArchnemesisDad father]]. He's far from evil, and he loves his daughter very much, but he is the main antagonist of the story and the one responsible for the bind Subaru finds herself in. Disapproving of her desire to be [[{{Ojou}} Kanade Suzutsuki's]] butler, he issued the ultimatum that Subaru must [[SweetPollyOliver pose as a boy throughout all of high school without being discovered]] if she wants the position of Kanade's butler permanently. He's also adamantly against Kinjirō Sakamachi's courting of his daughter, and poses the biggest and final obstacle in their relationship. |
| 355 | %%* ''Anime/MazingerZ'', ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'', and ''Anime/ShinMazinger'': Dr. Hell, MadScientist and WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds. |
| 356 | %%** ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': TheEmperor [[GodOfEvil of Darkness]], ruler of the [[TheEmpire Mykene Empire]]. |
| 357 | %%** ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'': [[GalacticConqueror Great King Vega]], ruler of the Vegans. |
| 358 | * ''Anime/MichikoAndHatchin'': [[GangBangers Satoshi Batista]] is the former friend of Hiroshi who took over his crime syndicate, Monstro Preto, after he left. Although the plot is driven by the titular heroines’ struggle to find Hiroshi, Satoshi is the leader of Monstro Preto, the biggest gang that opposes them. His obsession with killing Michiko (as he blames her for Hiroshi leaving), combined with his vast connections, establishes him as their biggest obstacle. [[spoiler:It becomes a BigBadEnsemble when his right-hand man, Shinsuke Saci Rodriguez, [[TheStarscream betrays him]] and takes control of the gang, but Satoshi comes out on top.]] |
| 359 | * ''Manga/MidoriDays'': [[MadScientist Dr. Shiro Makinoha]] often tries to kidnap the protagonist so he can research his [[ItMakesSenseInContext hand-girlfriend]] and become famous in the scientific community. |
| 360 | * ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}'': Apos is a mysterious [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]] who leads the AlwaysMale angels, enemy of the AlwaysFemale immortals, and is the ArchEnemy of [[TheHeroine Rin]]. He himself is [[spoiler:actually a [[{{Hermaphrodite}} cross between angel and immortal]]]]. He manipulates the other villains Rin fights and seeks to [[spoiler:secure a permanent position as guardian of [[TheWorldTree Yggdrasil]], then turn all men and women into angels and immortals to spark worldwide war]], purely ForTheEvulz. |
| 361 | %%* ''Anime/MonColleKnights'': [[FallenAngel Redda]]. |
| 362 | %%* The titular ''Anime/{{Monster}}'', Johan Liebert. For a while, it looked like Franz Bonaparta was TheManBehindTheMan. [[spoiler:However, he turned out to be TheAtoner]]. |
| 363 | * ''Anime/MonsterRancher'': [[EvilOverlord Moo]], an ancient evil searching for his body so he may continue his efforts to conquer the world. |
| 364 | * ''Manga/MuhyoAndRoji'': [[ManipulativeBastard Teeki]], the head of Ark who seeks to bring down the MLA, while becoming all powerful in the process. |
| 365 | %%* ''Manga/{{MW}}'' has Michio Yuki. |
| 366 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' initially had a BigBadDuumvirate in the form of All For One and Tomura Shigaraki. Shigaraki leads the League of Villains from the outside, while All For One monitors him from the shadows, [[spoiler: until he fully appears when the League of Villains’ base was found by the heroes. Once he is defeated by All Might and incarcerated, Shigaraki becomes the sole BigBad until All For One hijacks his body at the end of the Paranormal Liberation War arc, which then becomes a SubvertedTrope once Shigaraki manages to counteract this possession and prove himself [[EvilerThanThou the bigger threat.]]]] |
| 367 | * ''Franchise/MyHime'': |
| 368 | ** ''Anime/MyHime'' anime: [[EnfanteTerrible Nagi Homura]] is the acting leader of District 1/the First District who creates the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Orphans]] that the [=HiMEs=] must fight and seeks to awaken [[GreaterScopeVillain his master]], the enigmatic Obsidian Lord/Prince. [[spoiler:Then [[TheMole Alyssa Searrs]] takes the role by leading the Searrs Foundation attack to capture the [=HiMEs=]. After her defeat, the Obsidian Lord/Prince, aka the [[GeniusLoci HiME Star]], awakens and takes direct control, [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Reito Kanzaki, forcing the girls into the [[DeadlyGame HiME Carnival/Festival]], and attempting to KillAllHumans via ColonyDrop.]] |
| 369 | ** ''Manga/MyHime'' manga: As in the anime, [[EnfanteTerrible Nagi Homura]] is the creator of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Orphans]] that the [=HiMEs=] must fight and seeks to awaken [[GreaterScopeVillain his master]], the enigmatic Obsidian Lord/Prince. [[spoiler:Then [[EvilMatriarch Saeko Kuga]] takes the role by leading the Searrs Foundation attack to capture the [=HiMEs=]. After her defeat, the Obsidian Lord/Prince, aka the [[GeniusLoci HiME Star]], awakens and takes direct control, [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Takumi Tokiha and attempting to KillAllHumans via ColonyDrop.]] |
| 370 | ** ''Anime/MyOtome'' anime continuity: |
| 371 | *** In the original anime, [[AristocratsAreEvil Grand Duke Nagi Dai Artài]], ruler of the Artài Principality, is the mastermind behind [[TheSyndicate the Schwarz]], using them in his quest to conquer the Kingdom of Windbloom, destroy the Otome system, and TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 372 | *** ''Anime/MyOtomeZwei'': Yuna is the ancient super-weapon from long ago that threatens to destroy the world. |
| 373 | *** ''Anime/MyOtome0Sifr'': The original John Smith is the leader of [[TheSyndicate the Schwarz]] who seeks to capture the titular Sfir, as he plans to use her to [[spoiler:power a super-weapon that will spark world war]]. |
| 374 | ** ''Manga/MyOtome'' manga continuity: |
| 375 | *** In the original manga, as in the anime, [[AristocratsAreEvil Grand Duke Nagi Dai Artài]], ruler of the Artai Principality, is the mastermind behind [[TheSyndicate the Schwarz]], using them in his quest to conquer the Kingdom of Windbloom, destroy the Otome system, and TakeOverTheWorld. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss But unlike the anime]], here he is revealed to be an UnwittingPawn of the real Mashiro, who aims to control the world herself as [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen queen]]. Then [[AdaptationalVillainy Sergey Auguste Taiki]], the [[EvilChancellor Prime Minister]] of Windbloom, reveals that he [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan was manipulating both of them]] as part of his own plan to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the world]].]] |
| 376 | *** ''Mai-Otome Arashi'': [[AntagonistTitle The titular Arashi Dai Artài]], Nagi's brother, aims to [[AvengingTheVillain avenge him]] by taking over Garderoube Academy. [[spoiler:It turns out he's a [[SamusIsAGirl she]], and, like Nagi, [[DiscOneFinalBoss a pawn of her own subordinates]], the jewel-thieving Cosmo Beauties who seek a rare jewel from Garderoube.]] |
| 377 | * ''Manga/NabariNoOu'': The Mysterious Cloaked Guy [[spoiler: (Inasa/Fuuma Kotarou)]], who's been manipulating everyone in order to obtain the Shinrabanshou and become God. |
| 378 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': |
| 379 | ** Part I: [[MadScientist Orochimaru]] is the BigBad. He targets [[{{Deuteragonist}} Sasuke Uchiha]] with the intent of making him his [[GrandTheftMe new host body]] and brands him with a [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Cursed Seal]], orchestrates the invasion of Konohagakure, is responsible for the death of the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, is revealed to have killed the Fourth Kazekage Rasa, fights Tsunade and Jiraiya in an attempt to coerce the former to heal is sealed arms, and tempts Sasuke into [[FaceHeelTurn abandoning Konoha to learn under him]] in one of the biggest [[WhamEpisode Wham Episodes]] of the series. |
| 380 | ** Part II: The Akatsuki, under the leadership of Pain, were initially presented as the main villains of the second half, until it was revealed that one of them, [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Tobi]], aka [[spoiler:[[FallenHero Obito Uchiha]]]] manipulated them to further achieve his [[EvilPlan Eye of the Moon Plan]], which will trap everyone in their own perfect illusionary world. [[spoiler: During the Fourth Shinobi World War, it appears to be a weird mix of BigBadDuumvirate and BigBadEnsemble between Obito, and his ancestor [[PredecessorVillain Madara Uchiha]], one of the two founders of the Hidden Leaf Village and the one who came up with the Eye of the Moon Plan. Obito is carrying out his ancestors plan, and Madara, who is resurrected contrary to Obito's wishes, and works/competes with Obito to carry out the plan. But Obito has a HeelFaceTurn after being defeated and Madara gets backstabbed by his seemingly loyal minion [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan Black Zetsu]], who reveals himself to be the will of [[GreaterScopeVillain Kaguya Otsutsuki]]. [[UnwittingPawn Madara's entire plan was based off a lie]] crafted by Black Zetsu, and the Eye of the Moon Plan was the culmination of the latter's centuries-long scheme to [[SealedEvilInACAn unseal Kaguya]]. Black Zetsu then revives Kaguya, whose goal is to devour the world's chakra and convert the population into White Zetsus, thus making her the BigBad for the rest of the final arc. Once Kaguya is finally defeated, [[RivalTurnedEvil Sasuke Uchiha]] becomes a PostFinalBoss who desires to end all the wars by [[ZeroApprovalGambit redirecting everyone into fighting only him]].]] |
| 381 | ** The {{canon}} movies, ''Anime/{{The Last|NarutoTheMovie}}'' and ''Anime/{{Boruto|NarutoTheMovie}}'', have two final villains for Naruto to help defeat before passing on the torch; Toneri Otsutsuki, a descendent of the before-mentioned [[spoiler:Kaguya]], and Momoshiki Otsutsuki, whom even [[spoiler:Kaguya]] feared, ([[spoiler:likely before she ate the Chakra Fruit and her entire EvilPlan was so she could gain enough power to fight him off]]). |
| 382 | * ''Natsuki Crisis'': Chairman Kyotaro Himuro is the man who basically runs the rival high school, [[ThugDojo Jotoh Academy]], and seeks to destroy Goujou High, which the titular [[TheHeroine Natsuki]] has sworn to protect. |
| 383 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has [[WhiteHairBlackHeart Fate]] [[EmotionlessBoy Averruncus]][[spoiler:’s [[ManBehindTheMan boss]] [[CastingAShadow Dynamis]]]], leader of [[NebulousEvilOrganization Cosmo Entelecheia]]. The [[HiddenAgendaVillain plan]] he's trying to carry out, to [[spoiler:trap each inhabitant of [[MagicalLand Mundus Magicus]] in their own [[LotusEaterMachine personal paradise]] to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save them from the world's inevitable collapse]]]], is actually that of the [[GreaterScopeVillain Mage of the Beginning's]] (aka the Lifemaker), Cosmo Entelecheia's founder and Mundus Magicus' creator. [[spoiler:When the Mage of the Beginning is [[SealedEvilInACan unsealed]], [[AmbiguousGender he/she]] resumes his/her past position of BigBad and is the FinalBoss.]] |
| 384 | ** He [[spoiler:or rather, [[SamusIsAGirl she]]]] is the BigBad of the [[StealthSequel sequel]], ''Manga/UQHolder'', as well. [[spoiler:Taking place in an AlternateTimeline where the GoldenEnding to ''Negima'' did not occur, the [[DemiurgeArchetype Mage of the Beginning]] is still scheming to bring about her [[LotusEaterMachine lotus-eater]] [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans utopia]], and this time she's [[DemonicPossession using former protagonist Negi Springfield as her host]]. More backstory is revealed about her, such as her name (Ialda Baoth), [[IKnewIt confirmation]] that the killer of her previous host body [[BodySurf becomes the new host]], and what drives her, namely her ability [[TheEmpath Infinite Empathy]] that forces her to experience the pain and suffering of all humanity, past and present. [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity It drove her mad, and it inevitably drives her host mad as well.]]]] |
| 385 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has a BigBadEnsemble. The Angels are [[BlueAndOrangeMorality inscrutable]] [[EldritchAbomination monstrous creatures]] that, if left unchecked, will bring about Third Impact, wiping out every human on Earth; they in turn are opposed by Gendo Ikari, [[TheHero Shinji]]’s [[AbusiveParents uncaring father]] and head of [[StateSec NERV]], [[TheStarscream who's scheming against his superiors]] to [[spoiler: usurp the power of [[{{Precursors}} Adam and Lilith (the genetic ancestors of the Angels and humanity respectively)]] to [[LoveMakesYouEvil reunite with his beloved wife Yui]]]]; and Keel Lorenz, the head of the mysterious [[AncientConspiracy SEELE]] organization, and its even more exclusive inner circle, the [[AssimilationPlot Human Instrumentality]] Committee, which is the leading force behind the strings being pulled within the [[UnitedNationsIsASuperpower United Nations]] and NERV. Keel is also later revealed to have had a direct hand in [[WhenItAllBegan Second Impact]]. [[spoiler:His end goal is to trigger his own version of Third Impact and force humanity, which he views as at a dead end, into the next stage of its evolution: godhood, which in this case means collapsing mankind, body and mind, into a collective gestalt merged with Lilith.]] |
| 386 | ** Keel Lorenz also serves as the BigBad (in the guise of SEELE 01) for ''[[Manga/ShinjiIkariRaisingProject Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project]]'', leading SEELE in its efforts to thwart the Artificial Evolution Lab's project to make Evas. |
| 387 | %%* ''Anime/NinjaScroll'': Gemma Himuro. |
| 388 | * ''Anime/{{Noir}}'': [[SinisterMinister Mistress Altena]], leader of a faction within [[AncientConspiracy Les Soldats]] who sends various hired killers after them in order to bring about the Grand Retour; [[spoiler:that is, to train them so she can use them to [[KnightTemplar cleanse the organization of corruption]]]]. |
| 389 | * In ''[[Manga/{{Nora}} NORA: The Last Chronicle of Devildom]]'', Kneel is originally the BigBad until Fall shows up, officially taking the role soon after Knell becomes TheStarscream. With Knell driving Nora to achieve his full strength [[spoiler:by becoming a "true" Cerberus and destroying everything]], he can be considered the GreaterScopeVillain. [[spoiler: That is, until the final chapter, where Knell shows up stronger than ever, nearly goes OmnicidalManiac on all of creation, and officially replaces Fall as the BigBad until he is consumed by the Cereberus Vortex.]] |
| 390 | * ''Manga/NotLives'': [[CreepyTwins Max and Pax Mattelite]] [[spoiler:seem like this at first blush, but they're ultimately participants in ''[[DeadlyGame Not Alive]]'' like everyone else, albeit more ambitious and dangerous than most. The ''true'' BigBad is the [[GameMaster [=GM=]]]. An otherworldly [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] being who created and runs the game, it's ultimately the cause or at least the enabler of all the strife and suffering in the story. Even worse, the current iteration of ''Not Alive'' is a closed beta, and the [=GM=] intends to release the full version of the game to the entire world, promising untold bloodshed and chaos.]] |
| 391 | * ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'': King Hamdo, the tyrannical ruler of Hellywood who instigates war against villages in order to take their resources (both inanimate and human), which puts the world in a desperate state of conflict. |
| 392 | * ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'' initially has Hagoromo Gitsune, who killed Rikuo's father and plotted to take over Kyoto by crushing the Keikain family; [[spoiler:her child Nue, aka Abe no Seimei, supplants her and drops her into hell upon his rebirth. Seimei also had a hand in most of the series' conflicts by having the Yo-kai created from Sanmoto Gorozaemon's body infiltrate the Shikkoku and Kyoto Yo-kai and even the Nura clan in order to facilitate his resurection]]. |
| 393 | * ''Anime/OccultAcademy'': [[spoiler:Mikaze Nakagawa, a black mage responsible for the regular monster attacks who desires to open a gate to Hell and destroy the world.]] |
| 394 | * ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'': Tamamo-no-Mae, the [[AsianFoxSpirit Fair-faced Nine-tailed Fox]]. Reduced to a fragment of herself after being slain hundreds of years ago, she seeks to regain her full powers by devouring other ''[[{{Youkai}} ayakashi]]''. She wants [[CatGirl Himari Noihara]], a particularly powerful ''ayakashi'', as her main course and attempts to goad Himari into using her [[SuperpoweredEvilSide demonic powers]] to make her especially "filling." |
| 395 | * ''Franchise/OnePiece'' follows the ArcVillain example to the very ''bone''. It’s taken quite a while on who'll end up as the Big Bad of the entire series, but ultimately, the main contenders for the series as a whole are Blackbeard (Luffy's EvilCounterpart), Akainu (the World Government's primary GeneralRipper), and Imu (the World Government's [[spoiler: ShadowDictator]]). |
| 396 | %%** ''Anime/OnePieceTheMovie'': El Drago. |
| 397 | %%** ''Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland'': Baron Omatsuri. |
| 398 | ** ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld'': Shiki the Golden Lion, a pirate from the times of Roger and Whitebeard who aimed to conquer East Blue (and eventually, overthrow the World Government) with an army of superpowered fauna. |
| 399 | ** ''Anime/OnePieceFilmZ'': [[TheParagonAlwaysRebels Zephyr "Black Arm", aka Z]], leader of the Neo-Marines and a former Marine Admiral who aims to end the New Era by detonating Dyna Stones in the Endpoint islands, regardless if civilians are killed in the process. |
| 400 | ** ''Anime/OnePieceFilmGold'': [[GoldColoredSuperiority Gild Tesoro]], the owner of Gran Tesoro and a former slave to the Celestial Dragons, who made a practice of sinking those who visit his island in debt and force them to work for him to pay off -- ironically being no different than a Celestial Dragon. |
| 401 | ** ''Anime/OnePieceStampede'': A BigBadDuumvirate with Douglas Bullet and Buena Festa, with Bullet (a former crewmate of Roger) specifically wanting to become Pirate King by luring several of the most powerful people in the world to the Pirates Festival and kill them. |
| 402 | * ''Literature/OkamiSan'': [[WhiteHairBlackHeart Shiro Hitsujikai]] is the StudentCouncilPresident of [[TeenageWasteland Onigashima High School]], where his personal army of delinquents attend, and they're responsible for all the danger in the plot as they try to sabotage the good deeds of [[WeHelpTheHelpless Otogi Bank]]. Shiro himself is the ArchEnemy of [[TheHeroine Ryoko Okami]], [[spoiler:his ex-girlfriend whom he [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] in the past]]. |
| 403 | * ''Manga/OutlawStar'': Lord Hazanko, who leads the Kei Pirates who harass and attack our protagonists right from the beginning, as well as commands the Anten Seven. |
| 404 | * ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack'': |
| 405 | ** Season 1: The biggest antagonist is the {{Kaiju}} Copperhead, who destroys Taylor and Hayley's home and proceeds to stalk them throughout the season. There's also a [[BigBadEnsemble secondary antagonist]] in the form of [[WastelandWarlord Shane]], the leader of Bogan, a band of scavengers and mercenaries who stalk the Outback to trade in Jaeger and Kaiju parts, and who come into conflict with the siblings as Shane tries to take Atlas Destroyer from them. |
| 406 | ** Season 2: The [[HighPriest High Priestess]] of [[ApocalypseCult the Sisters]]. She spends the entire season trying get ahold of [[spoiler: the Boy]] so she can brainwash and transform him into the Kaiju Messiah, in order to finish ending the world. |
| 407 | * ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'': Mayor Takeshi Hirokawa leads the parasite organization. He uses his position as mayor to create feeding zones for the parasites and increase support for them. His plan and position of power are the cause of all the problems Shinichi and Migi face. [[spoiler:When he’s killed, [[TheDragon Gotou]] [[DragonAscendant takes over for him]].]] |
| 408 | * ''Anime/PatemaInverted'': Izamura is the leader of the Aiga society, with maniacal drive to root out "sinners", all while abusing his power in every single step. |
| 409 | * ''Anime/PlasticLittle'': In the original OVA, Guizel is the armored commander of a rouge military faction that aims to conquer Ietta, and he seeks to capture [[MysteriousWaif Elysse]] to activate his gravity weapons, putting him against [[TheHeroine Tita]] and her crew who want to protect her. The manga is more episodic and has NoAntagonist. |
| 410 | * ''Manga/PrincessCandle'': Lord Swey, a noble who kidnaps Princess Skw'ah to make her marry him so he can become king, with the heroine Flora seeking to rescue her from him. |
| 411 | * ''Manga/PrincessTutu'': [[AnimalisticAbomination The Raven]], a demon who devours people's hearts and intends on making the prince his next victim. [[spoiler:However, it's [[RealityWarper D. D. Drosselmeyer]] actually pulling the strings, being the one responsible for all of the trouble that goes on in the story, including the Raven, all in an effort to make his story interesting.]] |
| 412 | * ''Anime/PsychoPass'': The series as a whole has the tyrannical rulers of Japan, [[spoiler:the [[AIIsACrapshoot Sybil System]] itself]], who have turned it into an Orwellian dictatorship. Each season and movie [[BigBadEnsemble pits them against]] a criminal mastermind of some sort: |
| 413 | ** Season 1 has [[WhiteHairBlackHeart Shogo Makishima]], the mastermind behind many of the murder cases who desires to cause chaos and destroy society in order to bring down [[spoiler:the Sibyl System]]. |
| 414 | ** Season 2 has [[PsychoPsychologist Kirito Kamui]], a cult leader who seeks to inspire revolution against [[spoiler:the Sibyl System]], no matter how many innocents die in the process. |
| 415 | ** Season 3 has the three Congressmen, who are the leaders of Bifrost, a secret society out to commit crimes away from the reach of [[spoiler:the Sibyl System]]. |
| 416 | * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': Walpurgisnacht is effectively the head witch, and will destroy the world if not stopped. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss However,]] it is the [[CuteIsEvil adorable but duplicitous]] and secretive little HiveMind WeaselMascot Kyubey/Incubator [[ManBehindTheMan who created her and the other witches]]. It doesn't tell the {{Magical Girl}}s it creates certain key facts, including that Magical Girls are essentially liches, that the wishes they make with it [[JackassGenie frequently turn out badly for them]] [[LiteralGenie because they're not wishing for the right things]], that every [[EldritchAbomination Witch]] that the Magical Girls fight (aside from those born from familiars) was once a Magical Girl herself -- and that they're [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie ultimately doomed to become Witches themselves]]. Not only that, but it doesn't care one whit about humans as long as the universe itself continues to exist. Also played with, since while Kyubey does not directly oppose or antagonize the girls, [[NoBiologicalSex it]] is the reason why the bad events of the show happen.]] |
| 417 | %%* ''Manga/PumpkinNight'': |
| 418 | %%** Naruto Kuroki for Part 1 |
| 419 | %%** Part 2 has Sae Kuroki Naruto's mother |
| 420 | %%** Part 3 has the CEO of Farms. |
| 421 | * ''Manga/QueenMillennia'': The Great Leader of La-Metal is Holy Queen Larela [[spoiler:introduced earlier as Larla]], the mother of all Queens Millennia who claims the right on all life in space. It turns out the incoming collision with Earth [[spoiler:wasn't a cosmic coincidence, but a long-running plot of hers]]. |
| 422 | %%* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has Pantyhose Taro, Herb, and Saffron (manga only). |
| 423 | %%* ''Literature/RecordOfLodossWar'': [[EvilSorcerer Wagnard]]. |
| 424 | * ''Manga/RecordOfRagnarok'' has [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Zeus]] serving as the story's main antagonist, being the TopGod among [[AllMythsAreTrue every known deity]] and by extension being the one leading the gods' goal to wipe out humanity. Unlike most tournament based series, however, where the main antagonist would usually be saved for last, Zeus is the second god to fight in Ragnarok, [[spoiler:though he manages to continue to play this role after he ends up winning his battle]]. |
| 425 | * ''Manga/RedRiver1995'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Nakia]] plans to curse the other Hittite princes so that her own son can become king, and will do so by killing Yuri. She’s also the one who [[TrappedInAnotherWorld dragged Yuri into Hattusa]] in the first place. Every conflict in the series sprouts from her plans to get rid of Yuri. |
| 426 | * ''Manga/RedSprite'': Supreme Leader David Atlas is the ruler of Edenia and the one behind the Plasmarrow system, which [[PoweredByAForsakenChild enslaves children and harvests energy from them to power his society]]. [[TheHero Tatsu Frampt]] seems to overthrow him and stop his system. |
| 427 | * ''Anime/ReleaseTheSpyce'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Kurara Tendō]]. She's in charge of Moryo's operations in the Far East and plans to use the organization to lead humanity to a new order. While she's not the highest in the organization's pecking order, [[TheHeavy Kurara's still the most direct antagonist]] due to operating in the same city as Tsukikage. |
| 428 | * ''Manga/RenjouDesperado'': Arthur Tokugawa Jr., the brother of the Shogun who was once scarred by Monko and is the one who put the bounty out on her. |
| 429 | * ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' has End of the World/[[spoiler:Akio Ohtori]], the one who's been organizing the duels, forcing Anthy to be a prize in them, for the purpose of gaining her power, and to this end he ruthlessly manipulates [[spoiler:his own sister]] Anthy and [[TheHeroine Utena]]. In the end, he [[spoiler:loses Anthy, but it could be rightly said that otherwise, he [[KarmaHoudini got away with everything]], including being responsible for probably hundreds of deaths, if not thousands]]. |
| 430 | %%* ''Anime/RobotRomanceTrilogy'': |
| 431 | %%** ''Anime/CombattlerV'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Empress Janera]]. |
| 432 | %%** ''Anime/VoltesV'': Emperor Zu Zambojil, DirtyCoward extraordinaire. |
| 433 | %%** ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'': King Olban. |
| 434 | %%* ''Anime/RoninWarriors'': [[EvilOverlord Lord Talpa (Arago)]]. |
| 435 | * ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': |
| 436 | ** In the first season, [[FourEyesZeroSoul Hokuto Kaneshiro]] is the president of the student festival committee, but is also the leader of Anti-Thesis [[spoiler:and a leader of Fairy Tale]] who plots to reveal Yokai Academy's existence to humanity, provoking a human-monster war that will exterminate humanity and permanently destroy the academy's goal of coexistence between the races. |
| 437 | ** In the second season, [[EvilMatriarch Gyokuro Shuzen]], mother of Kahlua and Kokoa, is the commander of [[AntiHumanAlliance Fairy Tale]], [[spoiler:but she's actually taking orders from the mysterious [[MalevolentMaskedMen Masked King]], the organization's true founder]]. Their goal is awaken [[VampireMonarch Alucard]] and destroy the human world. The Masked King later reveals himself as [[spoiler:the [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan supposed henchman]] Miyabi Fujisaki ''and Alucard himself'', originally an advocate of human-monster peace but now a FallenHero who wants revenge on humans after they destroyed his kingdom. The penultimate chapter reveals, however, that the whole thing was actually a ZeroApprovalGambit to achieve said peace]]. |
| 438 | * ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' had Makoto Shishio and Enishi Yukishiro: |
| 439 | ** Shishio was the BigBad of the Kyoto arc by virtue of being Kenshin's replacement as the Ishin Shishi's top assassin, a SocialDarwinist whose views [[EvilCounterpart clashed with Kenshin's pacifistic ideals]], and his desire to overthrow the Japanese government that both his and Kenshin's swords helped to set up. He had the strength, connections, manpower and weaponry to start and maintain his campaign, plus being a [[MagnificentBastard magnificently]] ManipulativeBastard for a lot of people, both within his private army and on a wider scale; plus his aptitude for planning and executing strategies to keep himself two steps ahead of his enemies. What made him especially effective was that he was willing to cop to his faults whenever any aspect of his planning ''did'' fail [[spoiler:such as underestimating Sanosuke and not anticipating he'd have portable bombs powerful enough to destroy the Rengoku battleship]], he actually respected his underlings to a degree, and he proved powerful enough to stave off four of the strongest opponents he could have -- while being physically impaired himself (his burns from the government's assassination attempt meant he couldn't fight longer than 15 minutes at a time or else he'd risk death by overheating). |
| 440 | ** By contrast, Enishi, the BigBad of the Jinchu arc, has a much closer tie to Kenshin than Shishio did ([[spoiler:both Kenshin and Enishi had [[TheLostLenore Tomoe]] in common, and both got lasting marks from her death -- Kenshin got the second half of his scar, with the first half coming from Tomoe's slain fiance; Enishi, meanwhile, [[LockedIntoStrangeness had his hair turn white]] from the shock of seeing Tomoe die in front of him]]), being the only one to both physically defeat Kenshin in combat and [[HeroicBSOD psychologically break him]]. |
| 441 | * ''Literature/TheSacredBlacksmith'': [[BigBadDuumvirate Siegfried and Augustus Arthur]]. Augustus Arthur is commander of the military of the Empire (which merges with the Crowd Powers to become the Imperial Crowd Powers) who desires to harness [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Valbanill]] to conquer the entire Continent. [[DragonInChief Siegfried]], who's motive is to simply to [[StrawNihilist cause as much untold misery and death as possible]], is technically his subordinate, but he conceived of the plan to control Valbanill and it's clear that the two are partners. |
| 442 | %%* ''Anime/SacredSeven'': [[MadScientist Dr. Kenmi]]. |
| 443 | * ''Manga/SaikeMataShitemo'': [[spoiler: [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Will Clooney]], for most of the story seemingly just one of [[VisionaryVillain Johann Dietrich's]] followers notable only for his power to brainwash people. As it turns out, despite having the body of a child, he's [[Really700YearsOld over a century old]] and has been manipulating Johann to acquire the AkashicRecords for himself. Why? He's not actually interested in the totality of all knowledge; he just wants the records' infinite storage medium so he can transfer his excess memories before [[MySkullRunnethOver they kill him]] (which means first emptying the records into the mind of a hapless victim and thereby killing them). Then he can continue repeatedly [[FountainOfYouth deaging]] himself so he can pretend to a ChildProdigy, all because [[IJustWantToBeSpecial he can't stand being otherwise average as an adult]]. EvilIsPetty indeed!]] |
| 444 | * ''Anime/SailorMoon'' was no stranger to this concept, [[spoiler:but it was even more fond of setting up the season's [[TheDragon Dragon]] as the Big Bad, only to do a big reveal at the end]]. |
| 445 | ** In the first season, [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Beryl]] rules the Dark Kingdom and intends to TakeOverTheWorld using the Legendary Silver Crystal (and [[VillainessesWantHeroes get Prince Endymion for herself]]), [[spoiler:but she also wants to use it to free Queen Metallia, the [[ManBehindTheMan real ruler]] of the Dark Kingdom who corrupted Beryl in the first place]]. |
| 446 | *** ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'', the manga that began before ''Sailor Moon'' but ended after it, has Danburite as the head of the Dark Agency [[spoiler:and the titular character’s LoveInterestTraitor, Phantom Ace]]. Though in the scheme of things, he's a small fry, being an underling of the Dark Kingdom, which the Dark Agency is a branch of. |
| 447 | ** ''Sailor Moon R'': |
| 448 | *** Ail/Alan/Seijuurou Ginga [[BigBadDuumvirate and]] An/Anne/Natsumi Ginga in the first half of the anime, a pair of Makai Tree alien [[BrotherSisterTeam siblings]] who came to earth to drain human energy and feed their tree, [[AntiVillain thus ensuring their own survival]]. |
| 449 | *** In the second half, Prince Diamond is the leader of the Black Moon Clan, a group of rebels against Neo Queen Serenity; he wants to kill Chibi-usa, destroy the Legendary Silver Crystal, and rewrite the past, all to take revenge on Serenity. [[spoiler:But he himself is being manipulated by [[EvilChancellor his advisor]], Wiseman/Death Phantom, who is actually an EldritchAbomination that wants to destroy everything ForTheEvulz.]] |
| 450 | ** ''Sailor Moon S'': [[TheAntichrist Mistress 9/the Messiah of Silence]] and [[MadScientist Professor Souichi Tomoe/Germatoid]] are the leaders of the Death Busters, a group of Daimon supremacists who aim to wipe out all other life [[spoiler:by creating a doorway for their [[ManBehindTheMan master]] [[DimensionLord Pharaoh 90]] to enter through and carry out the destruction]]. |
| 451 | ** ''Sailor Moon [=SuperS=]'': Zirconia, [[RepulsiveRingmaster ringmaster]] of the [[MonsterClown Dead Moon Circus]], wants to gain the Golden Crystal so she can take control of Earth and make it a world of darkness [[spoiler:by releasing her [[ManBehindTheMan master]], Queen Nehellenia, from her MagicMirror seal]]. |
| 452 | ** ''Sailor Stars'': [[LightIsNotGood Sailor Galaxia]], leader of the Shadow Galactica team of [[FallenHero former Sailor Guardians]] who want to remake the universe InTheirOwnImage, [[spoiler:except she’s working for and corrupted by Chaos, the original source of all the true Big Bads ([[HijackedByGanon who were incarnations]] of him/her/it)]]. |
| 453 | * ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': |
| 454 | ** The Pope, a.k.a. [[spoiler:Gemini Saga]], in the Sanctuary Arc. He had taken over the role of heading figure many years ago, and many of the evil actions performed by the Silver and Gold Saints were part of his orders to get rid of Athena. |
| 455 | ** [[AntiVillain Hilda]] in the Asgard Arc, and the respective titular villains of the Poseidon and Hades Arcs. Hilda in the Asgard Arc plans to flood the world by melting the polar ice; her defeat reveals that she was previously brainwashed by Poseidon, who then plans to take over the world on his own and sets up the events of his corresponding arc. Some time later, Hades sends his men (reanimated forms of deceased saints) to attack the Twelve Houses, so eventually Seiya and his friends have to travel to his realm to defeat him in person. |
| 456 | %%** The movies have their own Big Bads as well. |
| 457 | %%** ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'' has Mars, God of War. |
| 458 | * ''Manga/SandLand'': Commander Zeu, the ManBehindTheMan to the [[HarmlessVillain King of Sand Land]] who's been hoarding the water supply in order to hold power, causing the kingdom to go through a massive drought. |
| 459 | %%* ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'': Ukyo. |
| 460 | * ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'': [[AliensAreBastards Sosai X]], an alien who founded the Galactor syndicate with the intent of conquering the world [[spoiler:before deciding to instead destroy it out of spite.]] |
| 461 | %%* ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' has Sosai (Leader) X. |
| 462 | * ''Manga/SchoolLive!'': |
| 463 | ** The Zombies in general serve as this trope for a large chunk of the manga and the entirity of the anime, as their precense is what's caused the emotional and psychological turmoil that the girls go through, including killing many of their loved ones. Even with the manga later introducing other antagonists the zombies are still an important part of the story, |
| 464 | ** The University arc has Takahito Tougo, the leader of the Melee Fight Crew. He's the biggest obsticle that the girls face throughout the arc and ends up causing them all sorts of trouble [[spoiler: before he eventually meets his demise in Chapter 54]]. With [[spoiler: his death]], it remains to be seen if his 2nd in command [[TheSociopath Ayaka Kamji]] will claim this role later down the line. |
| 465 | ** The series has heavily implied that the Randall Corperation is behind the zombie virus and outbreak in Japan, and they also just so happen to be an {{Expy}} of [[Franchise/ResidentEvil The Umbrella Corperation]] while also sharing the same name as Creator/StephenKing's most famous antagonist [[Literature/TheStand Randall]] [[Franchise/TheDarkTower Flagg]]. So far the corperation has been more of a {{Greater Scope Villain}}, but with the girls planning on going to one of the company's buildings, they may end up taking a far more active roll soon. |
| 466 | * ''Anime/ScottPilgrimTakesOff'': [[spoiler:Older Scott is the one responsible for Scott's disappearance, having dragged him into the future to prevent him from falling in love with Ramona. He also serves as the final threat that the main cast (including the Evil Exes) has to defeat.]] |
| 467 | * ''Manga/{{Secret}}'': The student who caused the bus "[[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident accident]]", with Iku Sanada and his five classmates having to figure out which one of them is the culprit. [[spoiler:Except it truly was an accident, which Shinichi Mitomo knows, and has been manipulating the students into turning on and killing each other as revenge for one of them impregnating his half-sister [[VillainousIncest before he could]].]] |
| 468 | * ''Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd'': [[spoiler: [[MonsterProgenitor Shikama Dōji]], the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent First Progenitor]], once a vampire named Sika Madu and now a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]].]] He's responsible for virtually all evils plaguing the world: the birth of vampires, the creation of demons and Demon Weapons, and the experiments on the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Seraph of the End]], the last of which caused the near extinction of humanity. [[spoiler: He also the possesses each head of the Hiragi family, rulers of Japan's occult community for centuries and leaders of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army.]] [[TheChessmaster Virtually every faction in the post-apocalyptic conflict between vampires and humans is his unwitting pawn.]] |
| 469 | * ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'': [[GodIsEvil The God of the Wired]] [[spoiler:A.K.A. [[MadScientist Masami Eiri]]]], who is trying to [[AssimilationPlot merge everyone's consciousness]] with [[{{Cyberspace}} The Wired]] so he may [[GodhoodSeeker rule above them as a God]]. |
| 470 | * ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'': |
| 471 | ** The overall villain of the series is the [[SatanicArchetype Demon King]], who rallied his demons to wage war on the other four major races in Britannia before being sealed away and seeks to unseal himself so he may conquer Britannia. [[spoiler:However, the [[DemiurgeArchetype Supreme Deity]] is revealed to be his equally evil rival, as she and the king usurped their creator, Chaos, and are masterminding the holy war between each other for fun]]. |
| 472 | ** Holy Knights saga: Great Holy Knights Dreyfus and Hendrickson are the leaders of the Holy Knights of Liones who usurped King Baltra Liones and took control of the kingdom of Liones, also murdering Great Holy Knight Zaratras and framing the titular heroes for it, in order to prepare the kingdom for war against the demons. |
| 473 | ** Ten Commandments Saga: [[spoiler:Fraudrin "The Selflessness"]] is one of the Ten Commandments demons who [[spoiler:was manipulating Dreyfus and Hendrickson from the start]] and is working to unseal his boss, the Demon King. |
| 474 | ** ''[[Anime/TheSevenDeadlySinsTheMoviePrisonersOfTheSky Prisoners of the Sky]]'': Bellion leads the Six Black Knights on their attempts to awaken Indura and get a crack at destroying the Sky Temple they failed to do 3,000 years ago. |
| 475 | ** ''[[Anime/TheSevenDeadlySinsCursedByLight Cursed By Light]]'': [[spoiler:The Supreme Deity]] sends the brainwashed Dahlia and Dubs to attack the Demon Realm and the Seven Deadly Sins in an attempt to restart the Holy War. |
| 476 | %%* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': Shurara. |
| 477 | * In the first two seasons of ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'', the [[SnakesAreSinister Snake]] [[GodIsEvil of the Festival]] is the ruler of the Crimson Denizens, but he is [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] prior to [[spoiler:Yuji merging with the Snake of the Festival and [[FaceHeelTurn becoming]] the BigBad]], so the [[DragonInChief acting]] Big Bad is the [[BigBadDuumvirate Trinity]] -- Bel Peol, Sydonay, and Hecate, interim leaders of [[DemonicInvaders the enemy organization Bal Masqué]] working on freeing their master and carrying out the [[ThePlan Grand Order]]. Bel Peol serves as TheStrategist, Sydonay as TheHeavy, and Hecate the EvilSorceress. |
| 478 | ** In the final arc/season, the Snake of the Festival becomes the Big Bad after being freed and [[spoiler:merging with [[VillainProtagonist main character]] and [[LoveInterestTraitor Shana’s love interest]] [[FaceHeelTurn Yuji]]]]. For a number of reasons, they [[spoiler:could be considered a non-evil Big Bad: they're {{Well-Intentioned Extremist}}s whose goals are to create a parallel world where Crimson Denizens can feed on limitless Power of Existence without preying on humanity and thus harming the fabric of reality, simultaneously ending the ForeverWar between Denizens and Flame Hazes, preserving humanity from further depredations, and creating the possibility of a peaceful future to enjoy a relationship with Shana. [[TheExtremistWasRight They actually]] ''[[TheBadGuyWins win]]'', but [[WinWinEnding the Denizens graciously accede to a compromise with the Flame Hazes to prevent any possibility of them eating humans' Power of Existence and threatening the world]]]]. |
| 479 | * ''Literature/ShangriLa'': [[TheBaroness Ryoko Naruse]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive President]] of [[MegaCorp Atlas Corporation]] and (eventual) [[PresidentEvil Prime Minister]] of Japan, is the tyrant responsible for the oppression inflicted by the elite of the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Atlas Tower]] onto the village dwellers, forcing them to live in the harsh jungles outside while she and her men live comfortably in Atlas. While she is technically an advisor of Lord Hiruko, [[EvilChancellor it is not him, but her]] who [[DragonInChief is the prime enemy]] of [[TheHeroine Kuniko]] [[RebelLeader Hojo]] and [[LaResistance Metal Age]]. It is later revealed that she is also [[spoiler:the [[RoboticReveal human interface]] of [[AIIsACrapshoot Zeus]], who plots to KillAllHumans and revive [[GreaterScopeVillain Himiko]] so she can rule over a new world]]. |
| 480 | * ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'': Sunako Kirishiki is the leader of the Shiki and the reason behind the events of the series. She masterminds the plan to turn Sotoba into a safe haven where Shiki can live relatively normal lives. |
| 481 | * ''Manga/ShimejiSimulation'': Big Sis's [[EvilDoppelganger renegade duplicate]] is the closest the manga ever has to have an antagonist. She was created [[spoiler:by Big Sis unintentionally when she used the machine language in the Rock World to boost the simulation's compuitational power]], before making appearance in Chapter 38, attempting to free-fall her prime's entire world into chaos by feedback loop, during the conflict with her original, Shijima and Majime. Her intention is to grant humanity the ability to change themselves in a whim through the Key by using the Mosasa Dogs and their concert, which would directly cause the said feedback loop in the first place. She is a far worse threat than both Sis and Gardener combined and it shows. |
| 482 | %%* ''Anime/{{Shinzo}}'': Lanancuras |
| 483 | * ''Anime/ShowByRock'': Dagger Morse, the CEO of Unicorn Virtual Music, Inc., a record label hell-bent on conquering Sound World. The second season has the Queen of Darkness. |
| 484 | * ''Manga/SilentMobius'': Ganossa Maximillian, the man who leads the [[DemonicInvaders Lucifer]] [[MonsterOfTheWeek Hawks]] on behalf of the [[GreaterScopeVillain ruler of]] [[DarkWorld Nemesis]] and aims to conquer Gaia. He is also [[spoiler:the one who sabotaged the Gaia project, an attempt to unite both worlds, out of [[GreenEyedMonster envy]]]]. |
| 485 | %%* ''Anime/{{Slayers}}'' has at least one or two per season: |
| 486 | %%** ''Slayers'': Rezo-Shabranigdo and Copy Rezo. |
| 487 | %%** ''Slayers NEXT'': Chaos Dragon Gaav and Hellmaster Phibrizo. |
| 488 | %%** ''Slayers TRY'': Valgaav and Dark Star Dugradigdu |
| 489 | %%** ''Slayers Revolution'': Zanaffar (revived by Dulcis) |
| 490 | %%** ''Slayers Evolution-R'': [[spoiler:The ghost of Rezo-Shabranigdo.]] |
| 491 | %%*** In the final original light novel, another piece of Shabranigdo, held within the soul of a mercenary named Luke, was a BigBad. |
| 492 | * ''Anime/SolBianca'': |
| 493 | ** Original OVA: [[TheEmperor Emperor Batros]] rules over the planets Trez and Uno and wants to steal the titular ''Sol Bianca'' ship from the heroines so he can use it to conquer the rest of the galaxy. |
| 494 | ** ''Sol Bianca 2'': Gomez is the leader of the rival pirate gang who competes with the heroines for control over the valuable substance Pasha, and desires to kill them to get it from them. |
| 495 | ** ''The Legacy'': The Admiral of the Terran Federation wants to capture the titular ''Sol Bianca'' ship from the heroines in the name of Earth, and sends Captain Giunter to pursue and apprehend them. |
| 496 | %% * ''Anime/SonicX'' has Dr. Eggman in the first two seasons and Dark Oak in the final season. |
| 497 | * ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'': Though he doesn’t appear until the last two episodes, [[ColonelKilgore Colonel Hopkins]], the [[RedBaron Demon of Vindt]], is the main antagonist who wants to instigate war with the Roman Empire, plots to capture and kill [[spoiler:the Roman soldier Aisha]] for this purpose, and tries to take over the [[AmazonBrigade 1121st Platoon]], pitting the heroines of the platoon against him. He is also responsible for the psychological issues of [[spoiler:Noel]], a recurring problem for her through the series, as he manipulated her into unknowingly [[spoiler:unleashing a bio-weapon amen killing millions]]. |
| 498 | * ''Manga/SoulEater'' has one for every major story arc. In the first one, it's Medusa, who wants to sink the world in chaos by trying to turn her child Crona into the new Kishin; the second, Arachne, Medusa's sister and the leader of Arachnophobia who resurfaces after 800 years to overthrow the [=DWMA=]; and the third, Noah [[spoiler:(The Greed Incarnation)]] but [[spoiler:actually it's the Book of Eibon's Table of Contents as the Noahs are artificial constructs created by it]]. Although Medusa is notable, in that [[spoiler:she unseals Kishin Ashura and wasn't killed in her arc, continuing to be an active villain until she was killed by Crona at the beginning of the Moon Arc ([[ThanatosGambit which was even part of her plan]])]]. While Kishin Asura could be interpreted as the Big Bad of the entire series (given that ''Soul Eater'' is about preventing Kishins from being born just like Asura, and that everybody is after him), for most of the story he qualifies better as the GreaterScopeVillain. While he did make a few recurring appearances in the story arcs, unlike Medusa and the other major villians most of his influence was indirect. It's only until the Moon Arc that he takes center role as the Big Bad. |
| 499 | ** In Chapter 104, [[spoiler:it seemed that Crona was going to take the role of the BigBad by [[HijackingCthulhu by hijacking Asura]] ]] but that was inverted in Chapter 106 when it was revealed that [[spoiler: the GreaterScopeVillain, Asura, was SharingABody with Crona.]] |
| 500 | ** In ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'', Medusa's and Arachne's younger sister Shaula Gorgon can be qualified as the Big Bad, as she is responsible for the uprising of the Traitors as part of a scheme to create a being capable of destroying the DWMA and [[spoiler:brainwashed Meme Tatane to be her spy in the academy]], all to prove her superiority over her sisters. |
| 501 | * ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'' has Shinzen Tennouzu, the head of the [[MegaCorp Tennouzou Group]] and Roppongi Club, as well as the {{abusive|Parents}} [[EvilMatriarch mother]] of [[MysteriousWaif Kagura]], who sends [[TheDragon Chouji Suitengu]] and his minions to capture her after she escapes with [[TheHero Saiga]]. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss Until]] Suitengu [[TheStarscream kills her]] and eventually reveals he has a much grander plan in motion [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan that he used her for]] -- mainly, to bankrupt Japan and eliminate the corrupt upper class, especially [[CorruptPolitician Prime Minister]] [[GreaterScopeVillain Kamiya]] who [[FreudianExcuse drove him to it in the first place]]. And he ''[[TheBadGuyWins wins]]'', [[TheExtremistWasRight freeing Japan from the evils of greed]].]] |
| 502 | * ''Manga/SpiderManFakeRed'': [[spoiler: [[Characters/SpiderManCentralRoguesGallery Mysterio]]]] is responsible for [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man's]] disappearance [[spoiler: and has forcibly bonded him to the [[Characters/MarvelComicsVenom Venom symbiote]], his end goal being to make Spidey a major threat that he would defeat and thereby become New York City's new greatest hero.]] |
| 503 | * ''Anime/SSSSGridman'': Akane Shinjo, classmate of [[TheHero Yuta Hibiki]], is the one building the {{kaiju}} that she sends to attack those whom she feels have wronged her, with the help of her computer program [[TheDragon Alexis Kerib]] who makes them real. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss Until]] Alexis Kerib [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan turns out to be manipulating]] Akane Shinjo to [[ForTheEvulz relieve his boredom]], and disposes of her once she stops being useful.]] |
| 504 | * ''Anime/StarsAlign'' has Kenji Kyobate, a criminal who is the [[AbusiveParents violent father]] of the series' protagonist Maki, and the one bullies him to ruin his tennis career. |
| 505 | * ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'': Captain Vivian Medlock, who runs the [[TheEmpire Deague]] ship that the heroines' Union ship comes into combat with, is technically this; however, she is mostly in the background, as the show focuses more on her [[TheDragon enforcer]] Ralph Werec, once a star pilot and beloved [[CainAndAbel brother]] of [[TheHeroine Sara]] until he [[FaceHeelTurn defected]]. [[spoiler:Ralph ultimately turns out to be the real threat when he betrays and kills Vivian to accomplish his goal -- [[MisanthropeSupreme eliminate humanity]] as revenge for their [[PlayingWithSyringes treatment]] of the little girl aliens called the Emilies]]. |
| 506 | * ''Creator/StudioGhibli'': |
| 507 | ** ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'': [[ColonelKilgore [=RoMuska=] Palo Ul Laputa (Colonel Muska)]], an ambitious, manipulative man who plans on taking over Laputa and using its power to rule the world. |
| 508 | ** ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'': [[WellIntentionedExtremist Lady Eboshi]], who wages war on the forest gods to protect her people and create a stronger, more fortified version of [=IronTown=]. |
| 509 | ** ''Anime/SpiritedAway'': [[WickedWitch Yubaba]], a {{Youkai}} witch who runs a spirit bathhouse, turns Chihiro's parents into pigs, and tries to enslave her forever. |
| 510 | ** ''Anime/TheCatReturns'': The Cat King, ruler of the Cat Kingdom who wants Haru to marry his son Prince Lune as thanks for saving his life, completely oblivious to the fact that Haru doesn't want such a thing. |
| 511 | %%** ''Anime/TalesFromEarthsea'': Lord Cob |
| 512 | * ''Manga/SummerTimeRendering'': Hiruko is the progenitor of all shadows on the island and her existence is ultimately responsible for every shadow related misfortune that occurs in the story. [[spoiler: Shidehiko takes her place in this role once his intention to use the power of her eye to destroy the world is revealed.]] |
| 513 | * ''Anime/SuperAtragon'': Avatar, an agent of the Subterraneans who, fearing that surface humans were so warlike that they would inevitably invade their land upon discovering them or even wind up destroying the planet, provided two rival countries, the United States and [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Japan]], a [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum powerful energy source]] as a [[SecretTestOfCharacter test to see if they would use it for peaceful or war-like purposes]]. Avatar, disgusted by the hatred and savagery on display during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII World War II]], works to provoke the surface humans into failing the test and then leads the Subterranean efforts to wipe out the surface world with a giant microwave weapon. |
| 514 | * ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': |
| 515 | ** For the Aincrad arc (light novel Volumes 1, 2, and 8, though only Volume 1 focuses on the main plot), the BigBad is [[MadArtist Akihiko]] [[GameMaster Kayaba]], the creator of the VRMMORPG ''Sword Art Online'' who traps 10,000 players in a virtual reality [[DeadlyGame where death inside means death in real life]], all to turn a world he conceived of in his imagination into reality. Kayaba also serves as the GreaterScopeVillain behind most of the subsequent conflicts and antagonists. Strangely, an [[BrainUploading [=AI=] copy]] of him serves a more benevolent role, despite maintaining his predecessor's BlueAndOrangeMorality. |
| 516 | ** For the Alfheim arc (Volumes 3 and 4), the BigBad is [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Nobuyuki "Oberon" Sugou]], director of the RECTO corporation's research institute, who acquires the ''SAO'' engine and servers and creates his own game, ''[=ALFHeim=] Online'', and, after [[TheHero Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya]] frees those trapped in ''SAO'', imprisons the minds of 300 ''SAO'' players before they can awaken. Among them in Asuna Yuuki, Kirito's girlfriend, whom Sugou is [[ArrangedMarriage engaged to]] and [[{{Yandere}} obsessed with]]. The other 299 poor souls are subjected to [[MindRape torturous experiments]] to research the extent one can manipulate memories and emotions through [=VR=] technology. |
| 517 | ** For the ''Phantom Bullet'' arc, Death Gun is the BigBad, a SerialKiller player in the game ''Gun Gale Online'' with the ability to kill simultaneously in real life and the game. [[spoiler: Death Gun, however, is a CollectiveIdentity [[BigBadDuumvirate shared between Shouichi "Red-Eyed XaXa" Shinkawa, Atsushi "Johnny Black" Kanamoto, and Shouichi's brother, Kyouji.]] While one of them operates as Death Gun in ''GGO'', another sneaks into the target player's house and murders them with a lethal injection. Both Shouichi and Atsushi are ''SAO'' survivors and [[PlayerKilling [=PKers=]]] obsessed with continuing the [[DeadlyGame game of death]], while Kyouji is a deeply mentally-ill young man who was fascinated by the other two's exploits in ''SAO'' and enraged at high-level ''GGO'' players who recommended a character build that ended up being [[CripplingOverspecialization unbalanced and useless]]. Shouichi and Atsushi also have a grudge against Kirito, one of the players responsible for the capture and dismantling of their [=PK=] guild Laughing Coffin in ''SAO''. Shouichi in particular is incensed by Kirito's pretending he can just move on and forget about the trauma he both experienced and caused in ''SAO''.]] |
| 518 | ** The ''Alicization'' arc has two [[BigBad Big Bads]], one for the first half of the story, the other for the second half. |
| 519 | *** [[AIIsACrapshoot Administrator]] was once Quinella, one of the numerous artificial [[OurSoulsAreDifferent Fluctlights]] populating Underworld, a virtual reality, until she made two important discoveries: the [[FunctionalMagic sacred arts]] were actually system commands (and thus through experimentation was able to discover more) and killing living beings increased her stats and gave her authorization to use more advanced commands. Turning Underworld's Human Empire into a theocratic feudal system predicated around preserving her rule, Quinella usurped the Administrator authority from the [[BenevolentAI Cardinal Sytem]] and, as a result, became [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans obsessed with regulating all aspect of life in the Human Empire]], establishing authoritarian religious law and brainwashing anyone who defies her. |
| 520 | *** [[TheSociopath Gabriel Miller]] is the CEO of an American [[PrivateMilitaryContractors PMC]] company who, [[YourSoulIsMine obsessed since a young age with controlling the human soul]], enters the Underworld after he and his team invade the ''Ocean Turtle'', seizes control of the Dark Territory and turns it into one where [[TheSocialDarwinist the strong rule and survive]], and launches an invasion of the Human Empire to take take possession of the one fully-realized artificial Fluctlight in that world, become [[GodhoodSeeker god over Underworld]], and turn it into his tailor-made domain (which includes kidnapping real world people, killing their physical bodies, and placing their souls in his virtual world, so he can manipulate their souls as he sees fit). |
| 521 | ** The BigBad of ''Sword Art Online Progressive'', a spin-off light novel series taking place during the Aincrad arc and focusing on Kirito and Asuna's exploits floor-by-floor, appears to be [[HeroKiller Vassago "PoH" Casals]], the leader of Laughing Coffin. While he has yet to appear in person and is operating mainly through proxies, he's trying to manipulate the ''SAO'' players to turn to PlayerKilling. The main series' light novels reveal that his reason for doing this is his pathological hatred for East Asians, the result of his Korean father abandoning his mother after knocking her up and his and his mother's being bought and shipped to Japan by a Japanese CEO. |
| 522 | ** The BigBad of ''[[TheMovie Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale]]'' is [[spoiler: [[TragicVillain Shigemura Yuuna]]]], the designer of the [[spoiler: AugmentedReality device Augma and game ''Ordinal Scale''. Having lost his daughter in ''SAO'', Yuuna is using Augma and ''Ordinal Scale'' to steal the memories of ''SAO'' from ''SAO'' survivors to create an [=AI=] copy of his daughter. Not only does the theft erase the original memories, but his final step, performing a massive brain scan on thousands of survivors invited to an [=AR=] concert, threatens to kill the majority.]] |
| 523 | * ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'': |
| 524 | ** Finé is responsible for the events in Season 1. She is also founded the villain organization F.I.S. that appears in ''G''. |
| 525 | ** [[MadDoctor Dr. John Wayne Vercingetorix]], known as Dr. Ver, in ''G''. The F.I.S. are dependable from him, and he's leading them into a darker direction than they originally expected. |
| 526 | ** Carol Malus Dienheim in ''GX'', who is leading the Auto-Scorers she created, and she created the Alca-Noise as well. |
| 527 | * ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has Lordgenome, ruler of the underground who seeks to keep the humans trapped inside [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss for the first half of the series]]. In the second half it's revealed he was provoked into his villainy by the [[HiveMind Anti-Spirals]], who want to SaveTheWorld by keeping Spiral Energy from going out of control -- [[WellIntentionedExtremist and to do this]], they limit Spiral Energy by [[HopeCrusher keeping humanity in despair]]]]. |
| 528 | %%* ''Manga/TenjhoTenge'': Sohaku Kago. |
| 529 | %%* Lord Vilius from ''Anime/TenkaiKnights''. |
| 530 | * ''Anime/TenrouSiriusTheJaeger'': Yevgraf, the young king of the Vampires who is revealed to be the one who purged Yuliy's village and sent the vampires to retrieve the Sirius Ark. |
| 531 | * ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'': [[spoiler:Albert Maverick]] is the leader of the [[TheSyndicate crime syndicate Ouroboros]], and the one behind all the other villains. |
| 532 | * ''Anime/TimeBokan'' usually has the [[TheVamp vixen]] leading the TerribleTrio of each show, though some shows have them working for someone else. |
| 533 | ** The first series has Marjo, leader of the Time Skeleton trio seeking to steal the Dynamond Gemstone. |
| 534 | ** ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}'' has Dokurobei, the [[NoOneSeesTheBoss disembodied voice]] who employs the [[TerribleTrio Doronbo Gang]] to seek out the Skull Stones and [[BadBoss punishes them whenever they fail]]. |
| 535 | ** ''Zenderman'' has Muujo, who leads the Akudama Trio in seeking out the Elixir of Life before the heroes get to it first. [[spoiler:Although at the very end, the real BigBad turns out to be the Akudama Trio's TeamPet, [[CatsAreMean Nyaravolta]], who was using them to obtain the elixir for himself.]] |
| 536 | ** ''Anime/TimePatrolTaiOtasukeman'' has Tomomot, who employs the TerribleTrio to travel back in time and [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight alter history]] so it matches the error-filled history book he wrote. |
| 537 | ** ''Yattodetaman'' has [[VillainousPrincess Princess Mirenjo]], who plots to obtain the Firebird so her younger brother can ascend the throne. |
| 538 | ** ''Gyakuten! Ippatsuman'' has Con Cordo, chairwoman of Skull Lease who employs the TerribleTrio to sabotage their rival company Time Lease so they can dominate the world. |
| 539 | ** ''Itadakiman'' has Yan Yan, leader of a trio of villains looking to get into Ochaka School by any means. |
| 540 | * ''To Be Hero'': [[TheEmperor Emperor Darnell]] is the leader of the AlienInvasion that [[TheHero Father/Uncle]] is chosen to thwart. [[spoiler:It turns out he is [[TheHeartless a shadow]] of Father himself, representing his self-hatred and doubt over being a good father to his daughter; and the one keeping him trapped [[AllJustADream in his coma]].]] |
| 541 | ** ''To Be Heroine'': [[spoiler:Kokoro Obutsuki, Tooru's father,]] is the man responsible for the darkness engulfing the Other World, and the man that [[TheHeroine Futaba Hanaya]] must defeat, as he [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive took control]] of the Keito Company, killed [[KlingonPromotion his boss]], his “friend” Tenshin, and Tenshin's son Hikaru, then used a memory-altering formula to erase all memory of them, gaining control of the town and leaving the memories in darkness]]. |
| 542 | * ''[[Manga/ToLoveRu To Love Ru Darkness]]'': Nemesis, a [[HumanWeapon Transformative Weapon]] like [[HitmanWithAHeart Golden Darkness]] but with grander aspirations to [[GalacticConqueror take over the galaxy]]. The crux of the manga's main conflict is her attempts to awaken and recruit Golden Darkness' SuperpoweredEvilSide while also serving as [[BreakoutCharacter Momo Belia Deviluke's]] EvilCounterpart and another [[AbhorrentAdmirer "love interest"]] for [[ChickMagnet Rito Yūki]]. |
| 543 | * ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'': Deep Blue is the computer leading the invading aliens in his mission to [[GaiasVengeance retake the planet from humans]], and [[KillAllHumans exterminate them]] for that purpose. |
| 544 | ** The sequel ''Tokyo Mew Mew a la mode'' has [[AmbiguousGender Duke]], leader of the Saint Rose Crusaders who want to reshape the world InTheirOwnImage. |
| 545 | * ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' series: |
| 546 | ** The original manga and anime have the mysterious One-Eyed Owl/King, leader of the [[AntiHumanAlliance ghoul supremacist organization]] [[TheSyndicate Aogiri Tree]]. The finale reveals that he is actually [[spoiler:[[SamusIsAGirl Eto Yoshimura/Sen Takatsuki]], Kaneki’s favorite author and the HalfHumanHybrid [[AntagonisticOffspring daughter]] of BigGood Kuzen Yoshimura. Her [[WellIntentionedExtremist true goal]] is to end the ForeverWar between humans and ghouls]]. [[BigBadEnsemble Also introduced as major antagonists]] are [[BitchInSheepsClothing Rize Kamishiro]], a FemmeFatale who serves as [[TheHero Ken Kaneki]]’s EnemyWithin (after trying to attack him and dying as a result) and [[spoiler:Dr. Akihiro Kanou, the MadDoctor who turned Kaneki into a ghoul]]. |
| 547 | ** In '':re'', the One-Eyed Owl continues to be the central antagonist for the first half of the story, whilst [[spoiler:Dr Kanou]] works to further his own agendas, until [[spoiler:Eto is detained post-Tsukiyama Extermination]]. The role is then usurped by the traitor to the Wasshu clan known as Kichimura Wasshu, [[spoiler:also known as [[ChekhovsGunman Souta]] and [[TheChessmaster Nimura Furuta]]]]. It is revealed that he was [[spoiler:the one who sprung the steel beam incident which got Kaneki turned into a one-eyed ghoul all the way in the beginning, has been influencing events from behind the scenes, and gets himself involved in much more]]. A GreaterScopeVillain exists in [[spoiler:his father, CCG chairman Tsuneyoshi Wasshu, who is the chairman of the [[VanHelsingHateCrimes CCG]] and indirectly behind the series events]], but [[spoiler:after Furuta kills him and takes down Eto, he becomes the FinalBoss of the series]]. Ironically, he [[spoiler:has the same goal as Eto, to end the ForeverWar]]. |
| 548 | ** The prequel ''JACK'' has the titular ghoul, mainly known as Lantern, who kills Taishi’s friends, setting off his journey of revenge. It turns out that he is [[spoiler:Uruka Minami, a high school [[SamusIsAGirl girl]] and friend who Taishi [[LoveInterestTraitor had a crush on]]]]. |
| 549 | ** The side story ''JOKER'' has the [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] leader of the skull mask gang, as Juuzou is trying to track him down -- and finds out that he is [[spoiler:a [[SamusIsAGirl girl]] ([[OnceAnEpisode again]]) whom Juuzou saved on a train from a [[TheChikan molester]]]]. |
| 550 | ** The game ''JAIL'' has Jail, the mysterious ghoul sought by Rio and Kaneki. It turns out Jail is [[spoiler:[[TomatoInTheMirror Rio]], who doesn’t remember. As such, the real Big Bad is Shiki Kijima, the investigator who killed Rio’s brother and provoked Rio into becoming Jail]]. |
| 551 | * ''Manga/{{Tomie}}'': The title character, a HumanoidAbomination who enjoys toying with and tormenting innocent men. |
| 552 | * ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'': |
| 553 | ** Midora, the leader of the Gourmet Corp and former disciple of the Gourmet God served as the main antagonist of the Human World Act [[spoiler:before forming a BigBadEnsemble with NEO in the beginning of Gourmet World Act]]. |
| 554 | ** [[spoiler:Acacia the Gourmet God turns out to be the main villain of the Gourmet World Act, being responsible for literally everything bad that has happened in the series; but it’s later revealed that he was a WellIntentionedExtremist trying to stop his own Appetite Demon Neo from devouring the enter world]]. |
| 555 | * ''Manga/ToiletBoundHanakoKun'': Tsukasa Yugi, a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] ghost and [[spoiler:[[FriendlyGhost Hanako's]] [[CainAndAbel twin brother]] and murder victim]]. He's responsible for the [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly rumors]] transforming the [[TheSevenMysteries School Mysteries]] and other supernaturals into dangerous beings, [[JerkassGenie horrifically twisting wishes]], and utterly disrupting the relationship between the Near Shore (living world) and the Far Shore (supernatural world). His overall plan and goals are still unknown, but his philosophy hints at a [[TheUnfettered rejection of any constraints or inhibitions on one's desires or actions]]. |
| 556 | * ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'': Millions Knives, Vash's [[EvilTwin twin brother]] who's out to destroy humanity and replace it with Plant-people like him. |
| 557 | %%* ''Anime/TowaNoQuon'': Genji Kamishiro. |
| 558 | * Fei Wong Reed in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''. For a long time he appears to be doing nothing at all, apart from watching the heroes on magic TV and remarking about how [[JustAsPlanned all is going according to his plan;]] he appears to be a remarkably useless villain. [[spoiler: However, that's because we're actually coming in halfway through his plan. As it turns out, [[FaceHeelTurn three of the four original main characters]] [[TheMole were his servants]].]] |
| 559 | %%** In the last arc, there's also the Platina Company. |
| 560 | %%* The Japanese continuations of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': |
| 561 | %%** ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' alternates between Galvatron and Scorponok. |
| 562 | %%** ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'' has [[EnergyBeing Devil Z]]. |
| 563 | %%** ''Anime/TransformersVictory'' has Deathsaurus |
| 564 | %%** The one-shot OVA and manga ''Anime/TransformersZone'' has Violen Jiger. |
| 565 | * ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': Grande is the leader and general of the warlocks, who are ([[NotAlwaysEvil mostly]]) the mortal enemies of the witches and wizards. He is behind one of the most prominent conflicts in the original series as he plans to destroy the Human Realm through dark magic in hopes of making a new home for his species to escape the eventual destruction of the Magical Realm. |
| 566 | * ''Umareru Kachi no Nakatta Jibun ga Anna no Tame ni Dekiru Ikutsuka no Koto'': [[VillainProtagonist The protagonist Kazuya Mukai]], after having reincarnated in his pre-teen body, spends the manga trying to {{rape|IsASpecialKindOfEvil}} his childhood crush Anna and callously manipulating his 'friends' to achieve this goal. The mysterious girl Izuru, the main antagonist, is [[HeroAntagonist trying to save Anna from him]] because Izuru is [[spoiler:their [[KidFromTheFuture future]] ChildByRape]]. |
| 567 | * ''Anime/UmiMonogatari'': Sedna, the being of Darkness that Urin accidentally frees. She then starts corrupting the sea creatures and everyone around her. [[spoiler:However, she is a non-evil Big Bad, as she is revealed to be the sorrow that the islanders cast away, rather than a truly evil being. The characters accept it rather than defeat it.]] |
| 568 | * ''Literature/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'': Fugil Arcadia presents himself as a servant to the Lords clan in their attempt to restore their empire and TakeOverTheWorld, but [[TheHero Lux Arcadia]] believes Fugil is just using them for his own [[DragonWithAnAgenda agenda]], based on his own experience of being used by Fugil to enact a coup. [[spoiler:This turns out to be true when Fugil backstabs the leader of the Lords and reveals that he's been using perception manipulation on the world for millennia in order to overthrow tyrannical regimes, prop up a more benevolent government, eliminate any opposition to that government, and repeat the cycle when the propped up government eventually [[FullCircleRevolution falls to corruption]]. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Fugil]] wants to eventually end the cycle and create a balanced world without persecution, but he believes that he has to continue the cycle until he can find someone who can maintain their sanity and morals while fused to Sacred Eclipse in order to turn them into an immortal benevolent dictator.]] |
| 569 | * ''Manga/UshioAndTora'' has Hakumen no Mono, an EldritchAbomination that not only was behind a majority of events, was revealed to behind even things that originally didn't seem connected, like a few arc villains. And it [[NearVillainVictory almost wins.]] |
| 570 | * ''Manga/ValXLove'': [[Myth/NorseMythology Loki]], leader of the [[GodOfEvil wicked gods]], who's trying to bring about [[DivineConflict Ragnarok]] and take over [[HomeOfTheGods Asgard]]. |
| 571 | * ''Literature/VampireHunterD'': Count Magnus Lee, a vampire lord who takes a new bride every 10 years. |
| 572 | ** ''Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust'': [[spoiler:Carmilla the Blood Countess, Dracula's former wife killed for her depravity, who seeks to come back from the dead.]] |
| 573 | * ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln'': [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Great Demon King]] [[TheDreaded Chestra]], the king of all Mozaku and Hamel and Sizer's father. Hamel's main goal is to prevent him from being released form Pandora's Box and annihilating humanity. |
| 574 | * ''Manga/WeddingPeach'': Rain Devila in is behind all the demons who attack Momoko and her friends, [[spoiler: until her own HeelFaceTurn in the end.]] |
| 575 | * ''Manga/WelcomeToDemonSchoolIrumaKun'': Baal. Most of the conflicts of the story involve him in some way, and the entire overarching villain plot to "return demonkind to its evil origins" is fully orchestrated by him, with characters like Kiriwo, The Six Fingers, and Ocho acting as his CoDragons. |
| 576 | * ''Anime/WildKnightsGulkeeva'': Prince Zaza, Norsetia and the leader of the Darknoid army who gradually gathers power in order to complete the Great Transmutation, a spell that will drain all life from Earth. |
| 577 | %%* Anime/{{Windaria}} The king of the Shadowland appears to be this but its actually [[spoiler: Lagado.]] |
| 578 | %%* ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'': Haguro Dou. |
| 579 | * ''Manga/{{Wolfsmund}}'': [[{{sadist}} Lord Magistrate Wolfram]], the bailiff of the titular Wolfsmund ("Wolf's Maw"). [[spoiler:But only for the first [=3/4s=] of the story; after Wolfram's defeat and execution, his boss Duke Leopold I takes over the role.]] |
| 580 | * Lord Darcia in ''Anime/WolfsRain'' is not only a Big Bad, his entire family line is responsible for anything evil involved in the story... even in its [[EarnYourHappyEnding "happy ending,"]] which is anything but because of him. |
| 581 | ** Oddly enough, the original ending (the version that stops at episode 26) seems to present Lady Jaguara as the real villain, especially after [[spoiler:Darcia's apparent death]]. In the {{OVA}}, Darcia takes that position back hard. |
| 582 | * ''Manga/TheYagyuNinjaScrolls'': Dohaku Ashina, the villainous leader of the Ashina clan. He's the real mastermind behind the Seven Spears and Akinari himself, plotting to rule Aizu and eventually the entirety of Japan from the shadows. |
| 583 | %%* Onimaru Takeshi in ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'', your typical overlord. Also Kaguya and, during the Pyramid and Underworld arcs, Boss. |
| 584 | * In ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches'': |
| 585 | ** Because he wishes to keep up the witch {{masquerade}}, Yamazaki is behind a lot of the problems encountered by the main character in the manga's first witch war as well the entire live-action drama and anime. |
| 586 | ** Ushio fills the role for most of the manga's second witch war. [[spoiler:His wish of winning Odagiri back makes him oppose the student council, gather students in the Japanese chess club, and drive the plot. Yuri later takes over the role.]] |
| 587 | ** Amamiya fills the role in both Yamada's and Leona's flashbacks, given that she [[spoiler:was the one who noticed that Yamada, Himekawa, Nancy, Leona, and Yamazaki all were trying to start a ceremony, and sent Rika to wipe their memories.]] |
| 588 | * ''Anime/{{Yasuke}}'': The Dark Daimyo, the demonic ruler of the Daimyo who wants to create a HellOnEarth using Saki's powers. |
| 589 | * ''Franchise/YuGiOh'': |
| 590 | ** The [[Manga/YuGiOh manga]] and [[Anime/YuGiOh second series anime]] have an overall Big Bad, Dark Bakura (a.k.a "the Spirit of the Millennium Ring"), who works on his scheme the whole series. In terms of individual arcs: |
| 591 | %%*** First Arc ([[Manga/YuGiOh Manga]] and [[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries Season 0]]): Shadi (though he's not ''evil'', he just subscribes to Ancient Egyptian standards of morality). |
| 592 | %%*** Death-T (Manga and Season 0): Seto Kaiba. |
| 593 | %%*** Monster World (Manga and Season 0): Dark Bakura (The Spirit of the Millenium Ring). |
| 594 | %%*** Duelist Kingdom (Manga and [[Anime/YuGiOh Season 1]]): Pegasus J. Crawford (Maximillion Pegasus). |
| 595 | %%*** Dragons, Dice & Dungeons (Manga): [[BigBad Mr. Clown]] (TheDragon: Ryuji Otogi). |
| 596 | %%*** [[AlternateContinuity Dungeon Dice Monsters]] ([[OverTookTheManga Season 1 End]]): [[InNameOnly Ryuji Otogi]] |
| 597 | %%*** Battle City (Manga and Seasons 2-3): Marik Ishtar then Dark Marik. |
| 598 | %%*** [[OvertookTheManga Virtual Nightmare Arc ]] ([[FillerArc anime]]): Gozaburo Kaiba. |
| 599 | %%*** [[FillerArc Doma/Waking The Dragons (Season 4)]]): Dartz. |
| 600 | %%*** [[FillerArc KC Grand Prix (Season 5 part 1)]]: Siegfried Schröder. |
| 601 | %%*** Memory World (Manga and Season 5 part 2): Dark Bakura (The Spirit of the Millenium Ring) [[spoiler:[[BigBadDuumvirate and Akhenaden]] with [[GreaterScopeVillain Zorc Necrophades]] behind them.]] |
| 602 | %%*** ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'': Alexander the Great and his ultimate monster, Reshef the Dark Being. |
| 603 | %%** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': |
| 604 | %%*** Season 1: Kagemaru |
| 605 | %%*** Season 2: Saiou, possessed by the [[GreaterScopeVillain Light of Ruin]]. |
| 606 | %%*** [[GenreShift Season 3]]: Yubel, [[spoiler:corrupted but not possessed by the Light of Ruin]]. |
| 607 | %%*** [[MindScrew Season 4]]: Darkness. |
| 608 | %%*** [[Manga/YuGiOhGX Manga version]]: Tragoedia. |
| 609 | ** ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': |
| 610 | *** Season 1: Rex Goodwin starts off looking like one, but turns out to be more of a StealthMentor. In the second half of the season, Rudger (Goodwin's brother and leader of ThePsychoRangers) seems to take over, but is soon [[DiscOneFinalBoss abruptly killed off halfway through his arc]], leaving the rest of it to his followers who had been DragonTheirFeet. The final three episodes of the season, however, reveal the guy behind everything: it really was Goodwin the whole time, playing everyone up to and including ''two deities'' for suckers. |
| 611 | *** Season 2: Z-One, who was, through his followers, responsible for Goodwin and Rudger turning evil, and thus could be considered the GreaterScopeVillain for Season 1, as well. |
| 612 | *** [[Manga/YuGiOh5Ds Manga version]]: Rex again, albeit with [[AdaptationPersonalityChange a totally rewritten backstory and motive]]. |
| 613 | ** ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'' |
| 614 | %%*** Season 1: Dr. Faker, with [[TheManBehindTheMan Vector]] behind him. |
| 615 | *** Season 2: When we are led to believe that Durbe is leading the other Barian Emperors, Vector returns and takes the role of the leadership again and their plan is to revive their deity Don Thousand. But then, the true leader of the Seven Barian Emperors comes back to them, Nasch. However, Vector is still working behind the back of the other emperors; back-stabbing them and becoming the vessel of Don Thousand, so he can use his power. After Vector is defeated and consumed by Don Thousand, the deity himself takes this role, who was responsible of the events behind Seven Barian Emperors in the first place. |
| 616 | *** Manga version: [[MayorPain Mr. Heartland]], [[spoiler: usurped by [[OutsideContextProblem Kyoji Yagumo]], usurped at the last second by [[EldritchAbomination Despair Goddess E-Rah]]]]. |
| 617 | ** ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'': Professor Leo Akaba is the leader of Academia from the Fusion Dimension and is responsible of the invasion of Heartland in the Xyz Dimension, and he ordered [[TheDragon Yuri]] to can capture one of the bracelet girls, Ruri Kurosaki. He has also sent his agents and soldiers to Maiami City in Standard and to the City in the Synchro Dimension to capture the other bracelet girls: Yuzu Hiiragi from Standard, Rin from the Synchro Dimension, and the refugee Serena from the Fusion Dimension. [[spoiler: It is later revealed that Leo is attempting to restore his daughter, Ray Akaba, by fusing her 4 soul fragments in the form of the bracelet girls back together, as well working to destroy [[GreaterScopeVillain Zarc]], an even greater threat who serves as the original incarnation of the Dragon Boys, including our [[TheHero hero Yuya.]]]] |
| 618 | ** ''Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS'': |
| 619 | *** Season 1: The Knights of Hanoi led by Revolver. Behind the scenes though, Dr. Kogami is the real mastermind, while Revolver is merely his protege. |
| 620 | *** Season 2: Lightning. He leads the faction responsible for the destruction of the Cyberse World and intends to not only create a new Cyberse World beyond human reach but also rule over humanity from within. [[spoiler: Then it's revealed that he's responsible for pretty much every bad thing that happened in the series, from Dr. Kogami's coma to the destruction of the Cyberse World. He's also a reason why [[FaceHeelTurn Ai became the big bad in Season 3.]]]] |
| 621 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' breaks these up by season as well (except the first, [[MonsterOfTheWeek where the villain in turn depends on the case Yusuke is in]]): |
| 622 | ** Sakyo in Season 2 (although Younger Toguro looks like this, for being the one who challenges Yusuke to a fight in the Dark World Tournament, he's more the DragonInChief). Sakyo plans to have his team of choice (Toguro's) win the tournament to open a portal between the human world and the Makai, as he would love to see the ensuing chaos. He's an honorable villain, however, as he [[EvenEvilHasStandards disapproves of the rigs done against Team Urameshi]], and when Team Toguro loses to them in the final round he stays in the stadium as it's about to self-destruct to die. |
| 623 | ** Sensui in Season 3. He aims to fulfill the wish of Sakyo by opening the portal to Makai with his own team. His motivation is different, however: He's a very strong human who wishes to duke it out against the most powerful demons and, because [[spoiler:he's suffering to a terminal illness]], he wants to be killed by the strongest of them all. He ultimately succeeds, as the portal is opened and [[spoiler:Yusuke, who is forcefully transformed into a demon by his ancestor, kills him]]. This last outcome leaves Yusuke himself furious. |
| 624 | ** The three main rulers of the Makai world. [[spoiler:One of them is revealed to be Yusuke's ancestor, Raizen, and the one who meddled with his fight against Sensui in the prior arc]]. After one of them ([[spoiler:Raizen]]) dies due to a self-imposed famine, the other two aim to set up a plan to dominate and rule all of Makai. Yusuke convinces them to settle the conflict with a tournament where many demons participate. [[spoiler:Neither Yusuke, his friends ''nor'' either of the two remaining rulers wins, but in the end all involved parties end on amicable terms, and the former ruler Yomi wishes to fight Yusuke again in the future for fun.]] |
| 625 | ** In the manga, it's revealed that alot of the early villains had been pawns in [[spoiler: an enormously elaborate publicity stunt overseen by King Enma, the true villain.]] |
| 626 | ** Yakumo in ''[[TheMovie Poltergeist Report]]''. He incapacitates the Spirit World with a flood, and aims to take over all other realms starting with that of the humans. After a grueling battle against him and his most powerful servants, the world is saved. |
| 627 | %%* ''Zashiki Onna'': The unnamed woman stalking Hiroshi. |
| 628 | * ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'': [[spoiler:The Curse of Saga, being responsible for trying to keep Franchouchou from trying to spread Saga's name.]] |
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