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** You could rename it Mook their feet but Father Gomez pulls this at the end of [[TheAmberSpyglass]]

** You could rename it Mook their feet but Father Gomez pulls this at the end of [[TheAmberSpyglass

Somehow along the way, though, they missed the Dragon. Then the Dragon turns up. He's not [[TheManBehindTheMan The Man In Front Of The Man]], he just wasn't around when the Big Bad went down. Sometimes there's a reason for it, but sometimes... he's just absent. He was [[IncrediblyLamePun Dragon His Feet]][[hottip:*:[[DontExplainTheJoke if you don't get the pun it's a play on "dragging their feet"]]]].

* This was also the case in the Soul Eater manga. Where one of Arachne's dragons, Giriko, was drugged by the good guys. [[spoiler: Which resulted in him sleeping through the entire invasion of Baba Yaga's Castle and Arachne's Death.]]

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Somehow along the way, though, they missed the Dragon. Then the Dragon turns up. He's not [[TheManBehindTheMan The Man In Front Of The Man]], he just wasn't around when the Big Bad went down. Sometimes there's a reason for it, but sometimes... he's just absent. He was [[IncrediblyLamePun Dragon His Feet]][[hottip:*:if you don't get the pun it's a play on "dragging their feet"]].

*** Well, actually, that's an inversion. Firstly, he wasn't absent- he watched the whole thing on camera, and was manipulating Scaramanga's playhouse to torment Bond for amusement, then got worried when Bnd managed to escape from viewpoint. And secondly, he wasn't out to avenge his master- he was supposed to inherit Scaramanga's island upon his death, and Scaramanga even let Nick Nack hire hitmen to kill him to that end, since Scaramanga liked to test his skills. In other words, he's pissed at Bond for destroying his inheritence.

* In ''Game/{{Unreal}}'' there's an implication that the Warlord you encounter a couple of times (and kill) is some sort of royal guard for the Queen and the Skaarj mothership, but in [[ExpansionPack Return to Na Pali]] you encounter another one as the FinalBoss who is hardly referenced at all and was nowhere to be seen in the mothership.

Somehow along the way, though, they missed the Dragon. Then the Dragon turns up. He's not [[TheManBehindTheMan The Man In Front Of The Man]], he just wasn't around when the Big Bad went down. Sometimes there's a reason for it, but sometimes... he's just absent. He was [[IncrediblyLamePun Dragon His Feet]].

*** Well, actually, that's an inversion. Firstly, he was'nt absent- he watched the whole thing on camera, and was manipulating Scaramanga's playhouse to torment Bond for amusement, then got worried when Bnd managed to escape from viewpoint. And secondly, he was'nt out to avenge his master- he was supposed to inherit Scaramanga's island upon his death, and Scaramanga even let Nick Nack hire hitmen to kill him to that end, since Scaramanga liked to test his skills. In other words, he's pissed at Bond for destroying his inheritence.

** Not quite a straight example, though, as it's not that clear that Skinner and Butterman are actually in charge. The NWA seems more like a group of equals. Either way, that guy was'nt really "the Dragon".

* As possibly a homage to JamesBond, this happens in ''NoOneLivesForever''. ''Three times''. After Kate storms the VeryDefiniteFinalDungeon and defeats her ArchEnemy, Volkov, she goes to a quiet Swiss village to contact her superiors, where she's surprised by TheBaroness. After The Baroness is dealt with, it looks like the game is over... until TheMole shows up and challenges her to a one-on-one shootout because you killed his employer, thus preventing him from getting the big, fat paycheck he worked so hard for. After beating The Mole, ''another'' Mole shows up, and is promptly dealt with in a cutscene after explaining the entire plot of the game.

* In Lynn Flewelling's ''[[{{Nightrunner}} Tamír Trilogy]]'', [[TheChessmaster the wizard Niryn]] is set up as the primary villain. [[spoiler: However, he gets [[DroppedABridgeOnHim shoved off a tower]] by his angry ex-girlfriend midway through the last book.]] So...the final antagonist ends up being the [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mentally disturbed]] and [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain rather pitiable]] [[TheDragon King Korin]], who was really [[TheEvilChancellor Niryn's patsy]].

* In Lynn Flewelling's ''[[{{Nightrunner}} Tamír Trilogy]]'', [[TheChessmaster the wizard Niryn]] is set up as the primary villain. [[spoiler: However, he gets [[DroppedABridgeOnHim shoved off a tower]] by his angry ex-girlfriend midway through the last book.]] So...the final antagonist ends up being TheDragon?in the form of the [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain mentally disturbed and rather pitiable]] King Korin, who was BrainwashedAndCrazy.

** Scaramanga's assistant Nick Nack took a final shot at Bond at the end of ''TheManWithTheGoldenGun''. Perhaps justified with him being a midget.

** BigBad Carver from ''TomorrowNeverDies'' is completely alone when Bond takes him out and then his Dragon Stamper emergw afterward to have the final battle with Bond and in ''TheWorldIsNotEnough'', the final showdown is with Renard when [[TheManBehindTheMan Woman Behind The Man]] Elektra King is dispatched at the end of a scene where she tortures Bond, who has to face Renard, though this may be a case of BigBadDuumvirate.

** BigBad Carver from ''TomorrowNeverDies'' is completely alone when Bond takes him out and then his Dragon Stamper emergw afterward to have the final battle with Bond and in ''TheWorldIsNotEnough'', the final showdown is with Renard when [[TheManBehindTheMan Woman Behind The Man]]
** Elektra King is dispatched at the end of a scene where she tortures Bond, who has to face Renard, though this may be a case of BigBadDuumvirate.

* In the original ''DragonQuest 1'', after defeating the pansy Dragonlord/Dracolord, you literally fight his trained superdragon. The westernized "Dragon Warrior" version of this seems to have [[{{Woolseyism}} realized how silly that is]] and had him [[OneWingedAngel turn into said dragon instead.]]

* The movie ''[[EightMM 8mm]]'' concerns a private investigator tracking down the creators of a SnuffFilm. First he confronts the producer, and then the director. In the finale, he hunts down Machine, the AxeCrazy "star".

* In ''{{Unreal}}'' there's an implication that the Warlord you encounter a couple of times (and kill) is some sort of royal guard for the Queen and the Skaarj mothership, but in [[ExpansionPack Return to Na Pali]] you encounter another as the FinalBoss who is hardly referenced at all and was nowhere to be seen in the mothership.

* ZetaGundam's 'BigBad' Paptimus Scirocco winds up actually being this, for almost hilarious reasons: [[spoiler:rather than actually being the evil one behind the corrupt Titans, the guy plotting ANYTHING in the series, much less being threatening in any way shape or form... Scirocco just killed the original BigBad and took the guy's place by default]]. It didn't help that the Rival was also killed off at this point, essentially forcing our main to fight Scirocco.
** It's worth noting that [[spoiler:Scirocco had been spending most of the series slowly supplanting BigBad Jamitov Hyman and merely took advantage of an opportunity handed to him. Left to his own devices, he would have eventually killed Jamitov and weaseled out of the blame on some other pretext anyway. He's just that kind of guy]].
** Happened in the Naruto anime. After Sasuke kills Orochimaru, Kabuto absorbs his remains in an attempt to become more powerful, although this has various side effects on his body.
** Somebody needs to rewatch Zeta. [[spoiler: Scirocco during Zeta started as a some guy from Jupiter under Jamaican, next he have become captain of battleship, warned AEUG about Jamaican’s Colony Drop, made contact with Haman, blown up moon city, tried to make a truce between Jamitov and Haman being fully aware of that they would kill each others, and finally claimed the position of leader of Titans. He '''was''' a ManipulativeBastard. Maybe he wasn’t behind everything, but he would have archive a lot if he wouldn’t be stopped.]]

* These have a habit of happening in JamesBond films. ''DiamondsAreForever'' had [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Mr. Wynt and Mr. Kidd]] (Blofeld's assassins) try to kill Bond and Tiffany Case with a TimeBomb after Bond dealt with Blofeld. ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' had Bond fighting [[{{Determinator}} Jaws]] after killing BigBad Stromberg. Scaramanga's assistant Nick Nack took a final shot at Bond at the end of ''TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' (perhaps justified with him being a midget). BigBad Carver from ''TomorrowNeverDies'' is completely alone when Bond takes him out and then his Dragon Stamper emergw afterward to have the final battle with Bond and in ''TheWorldIsNotEnough'', the final showdown is with Renard when [[TheManBehindTheMan Woman Behind The Man]] Electra King is dispatched at the end of a scene where she tortures Bond, and [[ArtificialLimbs Tee Hee]] has a fight with Bond aboard a train after he kills Kananga in ''LiveAndLetDie''.