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BaronGrackle
Since: May, 2009
The heroes have numerous opportunities to defeat the Big Bad right from the very beginning, but they drop it usually through being overconfident or careless. After nearly throwing it away completely, they get back and win with difficulty in the end, but they could have certainly done it much better. What's this?