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"The ultimate villain of the story, who's causing the problem the heroes must solve."

Note that Big Bad is not a catch-all trope for the biggest and ugliest villain of any given story. The Big Bad is the one who turns out to be behind several other seemingly independent threats.

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• "Victory by Computer": Lex Luthor gets Supergirl kidnapped to blackmail Superman into breaking him out of jail.

Arts

• Sistine Chapel: Contrariwise to his role in The Bible, in which he is a minor antagonist, Satan is here depicted as the main driver of any evil happening. Whether he's the beautiful serpent lady from the Ceiling Fresco or a much filthier bat-man from a wall painting, Satan can't help but try and coax people into doing evil so when they get to the altar painting, they'll keep him company as God throws every sinner into Hell for eternity in the Chapel's altar painting.

Asian Animation

• Motu Patlu: The main antagonist is John the Don, who always tries (and fails) to harm Motu and Patlu. John is assisted by two minions named Number One and Number Two.
• Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf features Wolffy, the main antagonist of the entire show. His goal is to successfully catch and eat the goats. He often works with his wife Wolnie and the other wolves. He quits being this trope after the peace between goats and wolves come true in Mighty Little Defenders season and now being friends and works with the goats, just like his son Wilie did.
• ViR: The Robot Boy features Mad Max, who always tries to capture and destroy Vir with the help of his minion Timbaktoon.

Fairy Tales

• Aladdin: The Sorcerer goads Aladdin into recovering the items containing the Genies, and makes off with one of them. Since the Genies can't directly oppose each other, Aladdin has to defeat the Sorcerer himself.
• Ara the Handsome: Queen Seramis, a queen so obsessive that she'll start a war to get with Ara.
• Bluebeard: Bluebeard, the protagonist's husband, is a serial killer who has murdered a succession of wives.
• Brother and Sister: The heroes' Wicked Stepmother, who has made it her mission to ruin her kids' lives.
• The Cat on the Dovrefell: The leader of the trolls who invade Halvor's house every Christmas.
• Childe Rowland: The King of Elfland, who kidnapped Burd Ellen.
• Cinderella: Cinderella's stepmother abuses her relentlessly with the aid of her biological daughters. She later attempts to pass her own daughters off as Cinderella to the prince.
• "Ivan Turbincă": Death attempts to harvest Ivan's soul throughout the story.
• "Jorinde and Joringel": The witch, who turns people who come too close to her castle into statues or birds, transforms the female protagonist into a nightingale and puts her into a birdcage.
• "The Death of Koschei the Deathless": The titular, immortal evil sorcerer abducts Prince Ivan's wife and threatens to kill Ivan should he attempt to rescue her.
• In "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples", the dragon imprisoned in the palace's cellar kidnaps the prince's wife when he gets released.
• "The Nix in the Mill-Pond": The titular Nixie tricks a poor miller into promising her his only child. The miller teaches his son to avoid her pond as he grows up, but the nixie eventually lures him into her realm. When the man's wife manages to rescue her husband, the nixie angrily unleashes a flood to keep them apart.
• "The Old Dame and her Hen": The Man o' the Hill murders the main character's older sisters and holds her captive in his underground lair, forcing her to be his girlfriend/servant.
• "Prince Ivan, the Witch Baby, and the Little Sister of the Sun": His witch sister's birth forces Prince Ivan to flee his home. While he is away, the witch eats their parents and destroys the castle. When Ivan comes back home, she tries to eat him, too.
• "The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs": After learning that a poor family's newborn is destined to marry his daughter, the king attempts to drown the baby into a stream. Fourteen years later, the king finds out the baby survived and has grown up into a handsome boy, so he attempts to get him executed. When his second gambit fails, the king tasks the boy with an impossible mission to get rid of him. To put this in perspective, a band of thieves and the Devil commit less acts of onscreen villainy than the king.

Manhwa

• Shin Angyo Onshi (Blade of the Phantom Master): Aji Tae, a black-winged demon who was responsible for Jushin's destruction and aims to turn all of humanity into conscience-free demons for his own amusement.

Myths & Religion

• The Bible:
  • The Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus, enslaving the Israelites and doing everything he can to defy the will of God, even after accepting defeat. Serving as the greatest opposition to Moses and God outside of the personal flaws of the people of Israel, the horrid Pharaoh serves as the Ur-Example of the Big Bad, predating most examples of the trope by centuries or millennia. The age shows, as the Pharaoh is killed long before the end of Exodus, which details the travels of the Israelites from the Red Sea and God's revelation of the Mosaic Law, as opposed to more contemporary Big Bads who tend to provide conflict for the entire work.
  • While it's less clear from the written text, The Talmud and Midrash seem to set up the sorcerer Balaam as the main Big Bad of the Torah's overall narrative, with Pharaoh as more of an Arc Villain. There are midrashim that state that Balaam not only advised Pharaoh to oppress the Israelites in the first place, he also fought a war against Moses during the period of Moses' exile (before he encountered the burning bush) and had the same prophetic potential of Moses himself. He also gets his own Villain Episode near the end of Numbers, and is ultimately killed in the Final Battle before the Israelites enter the Land of Israel. Some even claim that he was a reincarnation of Laban, giving him some parts during Genesis as well.
  • Haman in the Book of Esther, who tries to convince the Persian Emperor to wipe out the Jews.
  • Satan in the Book of Revelation. Satan (as the dragon with seven crowns) corrupts the world with the Whore of Babylon, attempts to get people to worship the Beast from the sea, is revealed to be the Serpent from Genesis and ultimately, battles the armies of Heaven until he is thrown into the Lake of Fire.
  • The Pharisees in The Four Gospels, who try to challenge Jesus at every turn and are the only people who Jesus gets mad at throughout his travels. Notably averted with Satan, who is a background character with minimal involvement in what happens.
• Nora of Kelmendi: Vultsi Pasha is a ruthless and autocratic representative from the Ottoman rule that also has lewd designs on the local beautiful maiden.

Pinball

• The titular Black Knight serves as the main antagonist in every game in the series. While the first game has essentially zero narrative, 2000 at least sets him up as the player's opponent through its theme song ("Beat the Black Knight!"), and Sword of Rage has an Excuse Plot explaining that he's invading your lands with the help of his many allies.
• Cirqus Voltaire has the lead Ringmaster, Voltaire, who serves as the final obstacle in the player's journey to join the titular circus.
• Craig, the "Keeper of the Wall" from Crüe Ball, who stymies Alister Fiend from playing loud music at night. By the end, it transpires that The Man Behind the Man - and by proxy the actual Big Bad - is Mr. Gore, the Spirit of Anti-Metal.
• Dialed In! has Dialed In Electronics, the manufacturer of the super-powerful phone that the protagonist accidentally comes into ownership of. The Wizard Mode consists of them directly doing battle with the player.
• Junk Yard has Crazy Bob, the owner of the titular junk yard, who repeatedly attempts to stop the player from sneaking in and causing havoc.
• The Kingpin in Capcom's unreleased Kingpin is the head of the Big City's mob and primary opponent for the player character ("the Kid", a newbie criminal).
• Mafiasaurus Rex from Police Force is the last criminal the player must deal with, awarding a Jackpot when jailed.
• Dialed In! has the shadowy company Dialed In Electronics, whose secret project to manufacture a phone that could cause various disasters backfired when it ended up being sold to a random guy (the player character). Several modes (including the climactic Wizard Mode) center on their attempt to take back the phone by force.
• Avengers: Infinity Quest has Thanos. The plot begins when his Black Order successfully deliver the all-powerful Infinity Gems to him, leading The Avengers to travel back in time to take them first and Set Right What Once Went Wrong. Furthermore, the fight against him is one of the game's final Wizard Modes.
• Godzilla (Stern) has the Xiliens. They invade Earth to plunder its resources and mind control several other monsters to do their bidding, forcing Godzilla and company to fight back.
• Heist!: Frank "Mr. Big" Bigelow is a crooked kingpin who's taken control of Ocean City. The protagonists' main goal is to unseat him from his position of power.
• Foo Fighters (2023): The Overlord is an alien who plans to destroy all music made by people other than himself by stealing analogue equipment, brainwashing people with specially-made helmets, and unleashing hordes of Spider-Bots across the USA. The Foo Fighters lead La Résistance to stop him.

Podcasts

• The true villain of The Magnus Archives is Jonah Magnus, posing as Elias Bouchard. The Powers themselves can't manifest on Earth and may not even be sentient; the Powers' Avatars consider themselves players, but Magnus manipulates them into creating the conditions to pull off the only ritual that actually works.
• Sequinox has the Sky/Night Queen, who rules the stars and has exterminated all other life in the galaxy. She sends her stars and constellations out across the galaxy to do so, and when they arrive on Earth, they meet resistance in the form of the titular Magical Girl Warrior team, Sequinox.
• In The Hidden People, the big villain of the first season is The Magister, an eternally old Faerie king who had lorded over the Unseelie Court and humanity for millennia uncontested after killing the Hidden People's actual god.
  • In the second season, the central villain of the first story arc is Cygnus, a monstrous Extreme Omnivore who made its way to Earth by way of "Freaky Friday" Flip, while the central villain of the second story arc is Alder Niamh, a calculated and ambitious Faerie noble out for The Magister's now-vacant position.
• Dice Funk has mostly disconnected seasons, resulting in different main villains for each.
  • In Season 1 the conflict is caused by Lonnegan, the treacherous henchman to Lord Earlan who accidentally awakens Gorfinax, and Phiro, a foreign princess trying to conquer Stoneroot.
  • Season 2 has Zavala the Form of Sacrifice whose Jackass Genie antics caused the apocalyptic flooding threatening the world.
  • Season 3 is more focused on interpersonal relationships and various characters with their own agendas but by the end the most prominent and dangerous villain is Ghanadaur, the God of Abominations who has been pushing Dora to do increasingly evil things throughout the season culminating in her trying to destroy the town of Illium, making her the Final Boss.
  • Season 4 has Solomon Luna, the highest ranking member of the Crown Corporation who despite his sparse appearances is directly or indirectly behind most of the threats the heroes face. Near the end of the series it's revealed that he's been pulling their strings from the start for his own ends. Later It turns out Solomon is just the latest in a long line of People Puppets that Saint Luna, the God of Power, has been using to control Valentine for decades if not centuries.
  • Season 5 has Colonel Cassius Pire who starts off as the Arc Villain of two separate arcs but after he kidnaps Dr. Adler, the focus of the story shifts to trying to rescue her and trying to stop his plan to use The Maxwells to committ mass genocide on his enemies.
  • Season 6 really doesn't have a main villain, instead focusing on a series of Arc Villains. As the series progresses however Nyfix undergoes heavy Sanity Slippage causing her to try and destroy the Yggdrasil, which makes her the Final Boss of the season.
  • Season 7 features the most clear cut example thus far in God King Wolfram, the tyranical ruler of Wormwood who the party is initially trying to escape before they resolve to overthrow him.

Roleplay

• Destroy the Godmodder has a fairly obvious one. The Godmodder. This isn't completely the case in the second one, where some of the screwiness seems to have a little grounding outside of the Godmodder's influence, but everything in the first game was at least indirectly the Godmodder's fault.
• Dino Attack RPG has Dr. Rex, the leader of XERRD responsible for ushering forth the Dino Attack apocalypse and the creation of the Mutant Dinosaurs. Upon the discovery of XERRD's Dino Island Laboratory, Dr. Rex cemented himself as the RPG's singular main villain for players to oppose. While the role of main villain was ultimately Hijacked by Typhonus in the end, with Dr. Rex becoming a mere puppet for the Greater-Scope Villain, Dr. Rex continued to be the direct villain that RPG players could fight, and it was his defeat that ended the final battle.
• Outpost Defenders has Clark, the leader of Cordis Die. Almost all of the events in the story are about taking him or one of his major minions down.
• Pokémon: Rise of the Rockets started out with Sleight, the ultimate ruler of Team Rocket, as the primary Big Bad. As time has gone on, however, it has shifted to the point where John Ford can be considered the Big Bad of the entire conflict. That being said, there is almost always more than one Big Bad operating at a time, creating a continuous Big Bad Ensemble across the story.
• In Roll To Dodge: Savral, the Witch Cathy, the in-game persona of the game master, acts as the ultimate villain, given that she destroyed the previous game master's world and de-powered all the other player characters. In Savral's past, she turned the northern half of the world into a barren wasteland, sicced a horde of man-eating elves on the rest of the world, and caused mass-genocide. She's also responsible for creating the game's demonic, trolling unicorns, which cause never-ending problems for the player characters and wreak havoc on the world as a whole.

Theatre

• The Crucible: Abigail Williams manipulates the girls of Salem into obeying her and gets them all to help accuse others of witchcraft, condemning innocent men and women to imprisonment and death in order to escape punishment for her own evils.
• Gypsy: "Mama" Rose Hovick
• Into the Woods: Subverted, as there is no official main villain in the show. The Witch might come off as the villain at first, but as the show progresses, we learn that her actions are very much justifiable, and eventually, she becomes extremely sympathetic ( mainly after Rapunzel's death). The Giantess, while being a major antagonistic force, simply wanted justice for the death of her husband, and the chaos and death that she had caused are often portrayed as accidents (considering that she was near sighted and had lost her glasses). The only character to be truly evil and despicable is the Wolf, and even he's given a hint of sympathetic light ("Ask a wolf's mother!").
• Les Misérables: Inspector Javert. Being one of the only lawful characters in the entire show, he naturally opposes and antagonizes every main character: he tries to arrest Valjean multiple times, he defends Fantine's rapist by having her arrested instead, he threatens Eponine and the Thenardiers with arrest (and is presumably already familiar with the latters' antics), and spies on and directly opposes Marius and Enjolras's revolution. Curiously, despite being the main villain, he is not the most evil character in the show: that honor goes to the Thenardiers, who are full-blown Chaotic Evil compared to Javert's Lawful Neutral, and worst of all, get away with it all.
• William Shakespeare has various antagonists in his plays. The comedies tend to lack them though; if a major antagonist is present in a comedy, they will rarely be legitimately evil. ^note This list is incomplete. Feel free to help.
  • Hamlet: Claudius usurped the throne that rightfully belongs to Prince Hamlet, who spends the play plotting to kill Claudius.
  • Othello: Iago misleads every character in the play so he can ruin the life of the title character.
  • Macbeth: The title character himself kills the good king Duncan and ruins Scotland with his corrupt reign, acting as the main villain despite being the protagonist of the story.
  • The Taming of the Shrew: Baptista Minola, whose ruling that Katherina must marry before Bianca is the cause of the play's conflict.
  • Titus Andronicus: Aaron the Moor is the one who tips the various revenge schemes over the edge by instigating a rape and murder, framing innocent parties and causing their execution, and manipulating just about everyone in the play out of a desire to do evil in his life.
  • Romeo and Juliet: The heads of the Montague and Capulet families, whose feud is what causes Romeo and Juliet to hide their relationship, though Tybalt is the most antagonistic, pursuing vendettas against the younger Montagues and challenging Romeo to a duel which is what precipitates the final tragedy. He dies about halfway through, though.
• Noh theater: This archetype is called the waki, facing off against the shite (The Hero). The waki may be accompanied by a wakizure (The Dragon).
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Judge Turpin or Mrs. Nellie Lovett, though no one can deny that later on, Sweeney becomes the true villain.
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: Arturo Ui, though from an in-universe perspective his threat is overshadowed by Adolf Hitler.
• Urinetown: Cladwell P. Cladwell head of the Urine Good Company.
• Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
• West Side Story: The rival gang leaders Riff Lorton and Bernardo Nunez, opposed to one another, carry out the gang war that separates the two leads. Both are killed in the Act One Finale, and Bernardo's Dragon Ascendant Chino Martin takes over as main antagonist.

Toys

• BIONICLE has Makuta Teridax, the arch-enemy of the Big Good, Mata Nui, and he's about as much of a Chessmaster as Palpatine or Voldemort. It's worth noting that he actually wins and usurps the "god" of the world and gains control of the universe.
  "Little Toa, you have not yet begun to see even the barest outlines of my plans. I have schemes within schemes that would boggle your feeble mind. You may counter one, but there are a thousand more of which you know nothing. Even my ... setbacks ... are planned for, and so I shall win in the end."

Unproduced Scripts

• Pepé Le Pew in City of Light: Matthieu Versaille is the leader of a gang of raccoon thugs who plans to take a series of valuable jewels and an air conditioning blueprint for himself so that he can take over Paris.
• Super Mario Bros. (1991): Koopa, who plans to marry Princess Hildy and obtain the Crown of Invincibility, which will allow him to extend his despotic rule over the Mushroom World.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Blue Door: Krang is the one who killed the Turtles' parents and wants to keep his control over Dimension X by creating the Technodrome.
• Toy Story 3 (Circle 7): Daxx Blastar, a Transformers-esque toy who wants to replace Buzz Lightyear by any means necessary.
• Unproduced Wonder Woman script: Arabella Callas, CEO of Spearhead, and Strife, the nephew of Ares the God of War, seem to use the Khimaera to kill millions and spark war across the globe.

Web Animation

• Animator vs. Animation:
  • Animator vs. Animation I-IV: The Animator makes numerous stick figures on his computer to torture them for his own amusement, thus causing the entire first four entries, though II and III can be considered an Evil vs. Evil conflict given how chaotic the Chosen One is. In III, the Dark Lord serves as the Unscrupulous Hero Antagonist, created by the Animator for the purpose of defeating the Chosen One and saving the computer.
  • Animation vs. Minecraft: Red - one of the stick figures introduced in IV - seemingly pulls a Face–Heel Turn so he could steal the Minecraft Game Icon's powers for himself. It's eventually revealed he's been possessed by Herobrine, the true antagonist.
  • Animation vs. YouTube: The sentient avatar of the titular website is enraged at the stick figures for constantly hitting it when a video is buffering, causing it to take revenge by torturing them.
  • Animator vs. Animation V: The Dark Lord makes his return following his Face–Heel Turn at the end of III, having made an army of Computer Viruses with the intentions of spreading Internet-wide carnage, driving the Chosen One into a Face–Heel Turn and team-up with the equally-redeemed Animator.
  • Animation vs. League of Legends: Purple - who was previously a minor villain in the AvM Shorts subseries - returns in an attempt to get revenge on the Stick Gang for costing him his kingdom.
  • Animation vs. Pokémon: Ethan of Pokémon HeartGold serves as The Rival, trying to stop the Second Coming from achieving his League Champion dreams due to believing non-Pokemon characters should stay out of the game.
  • Animation vs. Super Mario Bros.: The Mario of the original Mario game picks a fight with the Stick Gang due to a misunderstanding with the Second Coming, additionally getting the Marios of Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 to help him.
  • Season 3 of the Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts: In contrast to the previous two seasons, which had no season-wide villain, this season features King Orange, who seeks to steal the Minecraft Game Icon from the Stick Gang to destroy the entire Minecraft world with a black hole, with Purple serving as The Dragon.
  • Animation vs. Arcade Games: Q*bert messes with the other arcade games and then tries to kill the Stick Gang once they try to stop him, in an attempt to find food for his family.
  • Animator vs. Animation VI: The mysterious CEO of an unnamed organization - in reality victim, the Animator's first ever creation back from AvA I - hires four mercenaries to hunt down the Chosen One so he could find out where the Animator is and take revenge on him.
  • Animation vs. Math: Subverted. Euler's identity seems to be one due to being the antagonist who the Second Coming fights, but it eventually becomes clear since he's just a simple dude that wants to be left alone, with TSC constantly and accidentally harassing him due to seeking answers on how to leave the Math Realm.
• In Banana-nana-Ninja!: Banana Shop of Horrors, the Big Bad is I.R. Kostlowski, the manager of the PriceCo Supermart who refuses to stop selling bananas for food after hearing the banana ninja's pleas to free them. He engages Baninja in a pencil-to-tiny sword Boss Battle to defend his "best wholesale contract."
• Chadam has the evil Viceroy, whose experiments directly led to the Pallids, while he killed many innocent people for his own gain. The day isn't saved until Chadam defeats him personally.
• DSBT InsaniT: Eel, although he isn't introduced until episode 7. He once built a machine that manufactured Spell Balls, which turn whatever they hit Brainwashed and Crazy. The machine was destroyed, scattering the Spell Balls across the land. Many other villains strive to collect them, but Eel is the only one who can outright control ones that are nearby.
• Hanazuki: Full of Treasures: A gargantuan Blob Monster that is called "the Big Bad" menaces the Moons, thus becoming this for the series.
• Madness Combat had the Sheriff as its first Big Bad, who got killed relatively quickly, followed by Jebus and eventually Tricky. Then the Auditor showed up and things really hit the fan.
• The Most Epic Story Ever Told in All of Human History: Ridiculously Epic, who destroys the moon AND the sun in the series trailer alone.
• The Most Popular Girls in School:
  • Season 1 has Shay Van Buren, who competes with Mackenzie for Prom Queen title, and both fight to have Deandra on their side.
  • Season 2 has Tanya Berkowitz, the leader of the opposing cheer team and an old enemy of Deandra. her cheer squad and Mackenzie's compete for the territorial rights of the local mall when the mall of their turf is burned down.
  • In season 3, Jenna Darabond, who is revealed to have sparked off all the events from Seasons One and Two in a very long, very complex plan to take revenge on all members of the Cheer Squad. She takes the final step of her plan in this season as she tries to make the cheerleaders uncool by overrunning the town with hipsters.
  • Season 5 has the French Modeling Team, who are the main enemies of the USA team, and the ones to have kidnapped the first USA team.
• Red vs. Blue:
  • Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles has O'Malley, a bloodthirsty and malevolent AI. His actions against the Reds and Blues as well as his world domination efforts are the primary reason for the situation the Reds and Blues are in.
  • Red vs. Blue: The Recollection has the Meta, a former Freelancer who lost his mind and became obsessed with tracking down and murdering other agents for their combat A.I.s and equipment. Though he alternatively shares the spotlight with C.T., who tries to salvage a dig site for individual profit and comes into trouble with Tucker, Sarge, Caboose and Grif in Recreation; and Washington, who aids the Meta in the hunt of Epsilon in Revelation.
  • Red vs. Blue: The Project Freelancer Saga has the Director, the one behind Project Freelancer who Carolina, Washington, and the Reds and Blues are hunting down. This is especially apparent in flashback episodes. Season 10 also reveals the A.I. Sigma as the true Big Bad of Reconstruction and the Greater-Scope Villain of Recreation and Revelation; being the one controlling the Meta and driving him to collect A.I. in his quest to become human.
  • Red vs. Blue: The Chorus Trilogy has Control, Locus' mysterious boss. It's eventually revealed that Control is part of a third party and behind the Civil War on Chorus as a whole, and that Felix is also working for him. The revelation that he's the Chairman of the Oversight Sub-Committee and that he funded the Insurrection makes him the Greater-Scope Villain for possibly the entire series.
  • Season 15 has Temple, leader of the rogue Simulation Troopers who are carrying out attacks against the UNSC and the one behind the disappearances of the Freelancers.
  • Season 16 and 17 has Chrovos, a highly advanced and creator of the Cosmic Powers using Donut to manipulate the Reds and Blues to cause the end of the universe. Eventually, Genkins gets fed up with being number two instead of number one and steals most of Chrovos' power, leaving them to rot.
  • Red vs. Blue: Zero has the titular Zero, the leader of Viper after the Ultimate Power, which he plans on using to exact revenge against the Alliance of Defense for taking away his chances of leading the Shatter Squad.
• RWBY: Salem is the force behind the villainous activity that Team RWBY has been investigating since Volume 1. She sent her subordinate, Cinder Fall, to Vale to engineer the destruction of Beacon Academy and the theft of the Fall Maiden's powers. Cinder used the local crime lord, Roman Torchwick, to steal the Kingdom of Vale's Dust and to work with the White Fang to enable the plan to succeed. When Beacon falls, it's because of a coordinated effort between Cinder's activities, Watt's ability to hack the Beacon and CCT networks, Roman's local knowledge and Adam's control of the Vale chapter of the White Fang. After the fall of Beacon, she sets off the next phase of her plan: the fall of Haven. Her intention is revealed to be to steal four ancient Relics that are being protected by the four Huntsman Academies and destroy the attempts of Professor Ozpin, her arch-nemesis, to unite humanity. She manipulates from the shadows, while her subordinates do the leg-work; she controls the Creatures of Grimm that prevent humanity from populating the entire world, and she's been fighting Ozpin for thousands of years.
• RWBY Chibi: Cinder Fall, due to Salem being absent, leads the other Grimm and a team of villains to carry out various evil schemes to inconvenience Team RWBY and their friends, often failing comedically.
• Xionic Madness has The Overseer, who set up Bolverk Squad's mission intending to get them killed so he could replace them with fully obedient robotic duplicates.
• Wolf Song: The Movie: tasked with gathering 3 items needed to bring forth his Brother, the Death Alpha unleashes all sorts of devastation upon the heroes and provides a credible threat that not even half the main cast can survive

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