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Hi, this is an old one but I'll chime in anyway.
Whether or not she's a Villainous Underdog depends on how powerful she is personally. If there's literally only one thing in existence that can defeat her, it sounds like she's not an underdog. I'm guessing her plan involved Miriam never getting her hands on that sword, which suggets she's more powerful than the hero all around but there's this ONE thing that she's weak to. That doesn't make her an underdog anymore than the appearance of Kryptonite makes Superman an underdog.
Why Bigfoot couldn't explain that to you without being rude about it is a riddle for the ages.
^^ My argument though is that it’s not like Kryptonite at all, because Zangetsu is a samurai whose powers largely come from his sword.
As I argued to Sasquatch, if the villain’s only weakness is a Green Lantern Ring, the very thing that meakes one Green Lantern, and that villain spends the entire story running from him while menacing all the other character that aren't a threat, then that sounds like an underdog to me, personally.
Edited by NubianSatyress

I'd like to ask the tropers to weigh in on a debate, because the other party I've tried to debate with is being passive-aggressively hostile in P Ms. Twice, I've presented my case and they've dimissed it. Once as me "wanking" the character in question and secondly as "Dragon Ball-esque scale speculation", which it is not.
So the dispute is on Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. In the story, a demon named Gremory is one of the major villains and is partially responsible for the events therein. Part of the objective is for the player to traverse a huge sinister castle full of demons to reach Gremory and her master, Gebel, to stop them from unleashing a demon horde on mankind.
Within the game, there's another character named Zangetsu, who is a demon-hunting samurai using a sword called the Zangetsuto. At several points in the story, Miriam and Zangetsu fight with and against each other. When Miriam fights with him, Zangetsu demonstrates that he is far more powerful than Miriam (he can defend against a boss's attacks and she can't, and he deals hundreds of HP in damage to the boss while Miriam is dealing single digits). When they fight against each other, Miriam states that Zangetsu is holding back against her and could have killed her in a blink if he wanted.
Now, we enter spoiler territory.
We're told at the end that Zangetsu's sword, Zangetsuto, is the only thing that can destroy Gremory. Miriam states that Zangetsu is so strong that he should have done it already. He replies that he's been TRYING but Gremory has actively been running from him the entire story and every time he thinks she's cornered, she vanishes again. He thus gives Miriam his sword to chase her instead and this works because Gremory doesn't see it coming. However, Zangetsu also knows that since Gremory knows he's without his sword, she'll target him while he's weak. He deliberately goes off on his own to lure Gremory into the open and possibly dies as a result.
Now, Sasquatch X is arguing that this is NOT a case of Villainous Underdog because: 1) it's Zangetsu with his sword Gremory was afraid of, not him or the sword alone and 2) Gremory is hiding behind an army of demons. The problem I have with both of these arguments is that it's irrelevant whether Gremory was only an "underdog" when Zangetsu was with his sword because his sword is literally the source of his identity—he named himself after it. And second, Gremory's ultimate plan (which I avoided here) hinged on Miriam being able to easily defeat said army of demons, and again...Zangetsu is flat out stated to be far more powerful than Miriam.
Sorry for the long explanation, but I wanted you to have all the facts. Like I said, talking to Sasquatch X is impossible because he's being incredibly dismissive in P Ms.
Edited by NubianSatyress