The Nasuverse is a sprawling multimedia franchise with many series, so it has many Big Bads across installments.
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Initial Works
- In the Nasuverse as a whole, Gaia, the spirit that embodies Earth, is the villain of the overall story about humanity and their struggle to survive. Because humanity is growing out of their "nursery", so to speak, Mother Earth, who can't stand that Alaya (embodiment of humanity) has become independent from her, does her best to destroy humanity's progress. Well, sort of. It is a bit of a Zig Zagged trope, and the situation is a bit more nuance, because the planet is subject to Blue-and-Orange Morality, and still considers humanity her children, and is shown multiple times to not only root for humanity to progress, but is even fine with them killing her in the process, so long as they leave the cradle behind and go up to the stars.
- A more accurate example than the above would be Crimson Moon Brunestud, or Type-Moon, the creator of the True Ancestors and thus father to all vampires. Called the "hidden boss" of Angel Notes, it created monsters preying on humanity, whose very existence warps The Multiverse and separates timeline on whether they are stronger than humanity or Humans Are Special. It wishes to recreate its kingdom on Earth, and plans to reincarnate itself into one of his True Ancestors, with his return possibly being prepared by the mysterious Aylesbury Valesti ritual, and Melty Blood implying he will come back in 1,000 years.
- Angel Notes: The Aristoteles/Ultimate Ones are the Eldritch Abomination siblings of Gaia summoned by her to destroy humanity.
- The Garden of Sinners: Souren Araya is the superpowered Mad Scientist who manipulated all the other villains and is responsible for every single conflict Shiki faces, all in an attempt to reach the Origin so he can end the world and all its meaningless deaths. Notably, he was confronted about halfway through the series and taken out, leaving Lio Shirazumi as the Final Boss whom Souren drove insane by awakening his Origin.
Tsukihime
- Tsukihime:
- In the Near Side Routes, Micheal Roa Valdamjong, an ancient Fallen Hero, is the vampire Serial Killer terrorizing the city who Shiki, Arceuid, and Ciel are hunting down.
- A Piece of Blue Glass Moon has a similar progression, Except it replaces Nvrnsqr (Nero) Chaos with Vlov Arkhangel, A Dead Apostle with the Principle of Freezing that desires revenge on Roa for stealing the past 200 years from him.
- In the Far Side Routes, SHIKI/the real Shiki Tohno is the killer, but as it turns out, Kohaku, Akiha's maid and the final Love Interest, is the real mastermind of the Far Side routes. The central focus of Far Side is Kohaku's plans to get revenge on the Tohno family for the abuse they heaped on her for years. Roa is killed rather quickly in these routes and it turns out SHIKI was largely controlled by Kohaku the entire time.
- In the Near Side Routes, Micheal Roa Valdamjong, an ancient Fallen Hero, is the vampire Serial Killer terrorizing the city who Shiki, Arceuid, and Ciel are hunting down.
- Kagetsu Tohya: Shiki Nanaya is Shiki Tohno's Superpowered Evil Side that attempts to take over in his dream. He is eventually killed by Shiki's concept of death, who manifests as Kouma Kishima, the one who massacred Shiki's family, and takes over as main villain until the end.
- Melty Blood:
- In most routes of the first game, The Night of Wallachia/TATARI, the thirteenth Dead Apostle Ancestor, exists as a living embodiment of rumors and haunts the city, causing all the trouble that the characters go through.
- In the mansion routes of the first game, Kohaku attempts to usurp Akiha Tohno and take over the Tohno mansion with her works of science.
- In the second game, White Len, Len's Evil Counterpart formed from TATARI, traps everyone in a dream world, although Aoko Aozaki created her.
- In Actress Again, the Dust of Osiris, a future TATARI-fied Sion, wishes to convert all life into data and store it in her supercomputer, allowing it to remain forever. Though Archetype:Earth, Arcueid's Superpowered Evil Side, takes over as Final Boss in her mode after defeating Dust, leaving Arceuid to stop her.
Fate Series
- Fate/stay night has a Big Bad Ensemble: Kirei Kotomine, his Servant Gilgamesh, and their enemy Zouken Matou are the masterminds of the Holy Grail War, manipulating the competitors into killing each other in order to unleash Angra Mainyu from inside the Grail. Kotomine simply wants to watch the world burn, Gilgamesh is helping Kotomine so that he can rule over those strong enough to survive the apocalypse, and Zouken wants to use the Grail to become immortal. Each one, in turn, is the focus of one route: Kirei in Fate, Gilgamesh in Unlimited Blade Works, and Zouken in Heaven's Feel.
- Fate/Zero: Kirei, Gilgamesh, and Zouken are, as in the original, the true masterminds manipulating the war to get the Holy Grail.
- Lord El-Melloi II Case Files: Dr. Heartless, a.k.a. Kurou Adashino, the former head of the Modern Magecraft department at the Clock Tower and the central villain of the series who seeks to bring back the Age of Gods because he wants to put an end to the current mage society which encourages all kinds of backstabbery.
- Fate/hollow ataraxia: The mysterious girl Caren Hortensia is the one who trapped Shirou and everyone else in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, or so it seems, but the true culprit is Avenger Angra Mainyu, previously the Greater-Scope Villain, who has possessed Shirou and trapped him. Then his master Bazett betrays him and takes control of his clones, leaving her as the last opponent.
- Fate/Apocrypha has Darnic Yggdmillennia and his servant Vlad III as the initial main villains of the saga. Darnic does everything in his power to secure the Grail so he can open a path to the Root in order to secure the Yggdmillennia clan's prosperity and prevent a prophecy foretelling their downfall from coming true. Unfortunately, he is Out-Gambitted by Shirou Kotomine of the Red faction, who has his own plans for the Grail and will not hesitate to kill whoever is in his way.
- Fate/EXTRA:
- Original Game: Twice H. Pieceman is the one conducting the War in order to realize his goal of a Forever War to strengthen humanity.
- CCC: Kiara Sesshouin is the one derailing the war and making the world descend into chaos in order to trap everything in an eternal Lotus-Eater Machine of her orgasmic pleasure.
- Fate/Extra Last Encore: The Dead face of Twice Pieceman, despairing at the Forever War failing, opts to destroy all sentient life in every timeline from the belief that humanity will never meaningfully grow.
- Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star: Archimedes is manipulating the three factions seeking the power of the Moon Cell into war with each other, though he's working on behalf of the Greater-Scope Villain, the Velber; the alien invaders that previously attempted to conquer the Solar System thousands of years ago.
- Fate/Extella Link: Karl der Große wishes to create a utopia for all at the cost of individuality by assimilating everyone into himself.
- Fate/Grand Order:
- Observer on Timeless Temple has Solomon, The King of Mages, as the one responsible for the time distortion that is threatening humanity's future. However, he is revealed to be Beast I/Goetia, the Composite form of the 72 Demon God Pillars.
- The First arc of Arcade, has Bewitching Queen Draco, a Version of Nero Claudius that became Sodom's Beast.
- Epic of Remnant has the Four Demon God Pillars who survived the destruction of the Solomon Singularity.
- Cosmos in the Lostbelt has the Alien God who is revealed to be Beast VII, and more mysteriously, a resurrected Olga Marie Animusphere...until it's revealed that she wasn't the main Big Bad of the the arc, but it was the Alien World, CHALDEAS itself.
