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Green Arrow: I can't believe your advice worked. We actually managed to turn Ra's Al-Ghul into an Arrow villain.
Daredevil: Hey, it's like I said. We turned Kingpin from a Spider-Man villain into a Daredevil villain in the seventies and I never looked back.
— I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC, "Hi, I'm a Marvel...and I'm a DC...and I'm on TV"

Also known as The Supervillain Shuffle. The occurrence wherein a villain, originally introduced as an enemy for a specific hero, subtly through time or Continuity Creep, deliberately or unintentionally, becomes more identified with another hero.

While any Shared Universe may depict a hero fighting another's antagonist, usually they remain identified with the original. For instance, Superman may occasionally fight The Joker, and Batman may take on Lex Luthor from time to time, but no one would ever claim that either bad guy is anything but the other hero's Arch-Enemy. This trope refers specifically to characters that have reached the narrative point where the villain is now more identified in the popular consciousness as being an adversary to a character he did not originally fight.

There are various reasons why this occurs. Reasons include:

  1. Sometimes, a hero's series gets cancelled, but one of their villains is such a cool character that they get transferred to a different hero, or turned into a general utility villain for the whole universe.
  2. Or, years after the cancellation of a title has left them an obscure character, they get discovered by a new writer for a popular work or adaptation.
  3. Alternatively, a new hero gets created, or an existing hero gets a significant revamp, and something about their personality, powers or theme makes a particular existing villain an obvious foil to them. It's easier to use a pre-existing villain to antagonize them than make one from scratch, and if the bigger-name isn't doing anything with them, might as well put the villain to use somewhere.
  4. This can also be the result of a writer creating or forming a strong attachment to a villain while writing for one character, then moving on to another project and taking all of their toys with them.

Examples:

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    Anime and Manga 
  • Batman Ninja has Gorilla Grodd as being one of Batman's foes, despite having originated as a villain to The Flash. Similarly, Deathstroke also appears and while he tangles with Batman fairly often, he was originally the Arch-Enemy of the Teen Titans (he normally still has plenty of connections to Batman, but only because he is an Evil Counterpart to Batman himself, and Batman's first protege Nightwing, at times the Teen Titans' leader and whom also appears in the film, is the more specific Arch-Enemy he singles out among the team).
  • The third volume of Maboroshi Panty, a manga illustrated by Go Nagai of Kekko Kamen fame, had Kekko Kamen's nemesis Satan's Toenail serve as the main villain.
  • A rival version occurred in Pokémon: The Series. While usually rivals stick to one main character and maybe, at most, fight another member of the main cast once (May having battled and defeated Zoe, Dawn's main rival, at the Wallace Cup, for example), they are never really 'given' to another on a long term prospect, with Jessie's contest clashes with May, Dawn, and later showcase clashes with Serena being under general twerp on Team Rocket fighting. The one exception is during Pokémon Journeys: The Series where Gary, Ash's first rival who he had long since made peace with and diverged in goal from, coming to be Goh's rival as a competitor in Project Mew, taking on a more mature take on his dynamic with Ash in the original series with Goh. However, while both times had Gary stay near perpetually ahead of both, where Ash and Gary's rival was fueled by childhood rivalries and mutual ego and pride clashes, Gary's was more fueled by Goh's social issues that Gary just easily rubbed the wrong way in a mixture of purposely (to get Goh to grow past them) or unintentionally.

    Comic Strips 
  • The Doctor Who Magazine comic has an unusual example in the Threshold. They were originally created as villains for the Seventh Doctor and Ace, but the creation of the Eighth Doctor on TV happened at the same time. As a result the Threshold were responsible for Ace getting killed in the Seventh Doctor's final strip story, and went on to become the recurring villains in Eight's first long-term story arc. Their self-serving hyper-capitalistic villainy makes it pretty obvious that they were originally created as Seven-Ace villains, given the particularly overt leftist orientation of the original TV stories featuring those characters.

    Fanfic 
  • In the Doctor Who/Resident Evil crossover Dangerous Tenant, while Albert Wesker still considers Chris Redfield his main opponent, he observes to Donna Noble that the Tenth Doctor is rapidly becoming someone else Wesker truly hates.
  • In the Justice League: The Spider series, while they remain focused on their traditional enemies, Web of Cadmus sees the Joker and Metallo go after Spider-Man to avenge his past defeat of them.
  • In the DC Animated Universe fic Mercy, when Diana is trapped in a fantasy by the Black Mercy, her dream features her as the guardian of Gotham while her civilian identity is married to District Attorney Bruce Wayne, and she references encounters with foes such as Poison Ivy and the Joker.
  • Kingdom Hearts: The Antipode: In contrast to the other Disney Villains, Hans is recruited into Organization XIII; a Standard Evil Organization Squad consisting of otherwise Original Generation characters.
  • Pokémon Reset Bloodlines has a couple of particular cases, as they're less of a "Rogues" and more of a "Rivals" Gallery Transplant. While both Gary and Paul are introduced early as rivals to Ash, as the story progresses their rivalry with each other gets more focus. Also, to a lesser extent, Ash ends up facing against Solidad, who in canon was a rival of May as a coordinator as opposed to a trainer (though it's hinted this is only a temporary thing, since Solidad plans on going to Contests full time once she's done participating in the Indigo League).
  • The Cutting Edge features a minor example of this when Oliver's first target as the Hood after he returns to Starling City is Thomas "Tommy" Elliot, better known as the Batman villain Hush. While Elliot isn't a supervillain yet in the sense that he isn't going out in a costume to fight Batman, he's still a corporate criminal whom Oliver is justified in attacking.
  • In Spider-X, when Spider-Man joins the X-Men: Evolution cast, several characters who were uniquely foes of Spider-Man in the comics, such as Electro, Venom and the Green Goblin, end up facing the X-Men (although a few foes such as Rhino, Shocker and Mysterio are still focused on the wall-crawler).
  • Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams greatly expands Sleepwalker's Rogues Gallery beyond what he faced in the official comics. Its companion series Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change With The Light has an entire gallery made of transplants since protagonist Mary Jane Watson doesn't actually have one in the comics.
  • Due to the nature of Super RWBY Sisters being a crossover fanfic, it leads to Team RWBY and friends joining the Mario Bros. on their adventures, and thus any villains that the Bros. face automatically become villains for Team RWBY to fight. Examples of this include Bowser, Hades, Cackletta, the Shroobs just to name a few.
    • In RWBY: DK 64, King K Rool becomes this for Yang as well as the Kongs.
    • On a somewhat different note, The Meta becomes this for Pyrrha due to her resemblance to Agent Carolina.
  • Remnant's Bizarre Adventure:
    • Bruno Buccarati was Giorno's first Stand-using opponent before Giorno joined his team. Here he demonstrates the power of Stands to Team RWBY by fighting alongside Roman and Neo (since his services were provided by Polpo to Cinder), then faces off against Josuke.
    • Tamami Kobayashi was Koichi's Starter Villain in the manga, where here he is defeated by Blake and Weiss.
    • Toshikazu Hazamada fought against Josuke and Koichi in the manga and plotted to kill Jotaro. Here he tries to use his Stand Surface to mimic Jaune and force himself on Pyrrha (leading to a fight by the real Jaune and Koichi to try and stop him), only for Surface be found out and trounced by Pyrrha.
    • The Serial Killer Anjuro "Angelo" Katagiri was Josuke's Starter Villain in the manga. Here he's defeated by Koichi and Neo.
    • Bug-Eater and Not-Bug Eater were killed by Josuke in the manga. Here they were defeated by Blake and Zwei.
  • Fairytale of Doom has this happen for the fairy tale villains from Disney classics as a result of a Fairy Tale Free-for-All the Fairy Tail wizards (plus Jellal and Zeref) are trapped in.

    Films — Live-Action 

    Literature 
  • Randall Flagg was introduced as the enemy of Mother Abigail in Stephen King's The Stand, amassing an army on Earth to attack and destroy her more peaceful followers. However, Flagg is far more well-known as the nemesis of Roland Deschain, the dimension-hopping hero of King's epic fantasy saga, The Dark Tower, and acts as the main villain of that series, even though there's an even greater evil behind him.
  • When Faction Paradox became an independent spin-off not under the aegis of the BBC, it took a few individually-licensed elements of the wider Doctor Who Expanded Universe, leading to Sutekh or Sabbath Dei now crossing paths with new characters like Justine and Eliza instead of the Doctor & friends.
  • Faction Paradox was later on the giving end of things with Godfather Auteur, a FP-original character, making a slew of crossover appearances in prose franchises that aren't even properly part of the Doctor Who EU, including The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids and 10,000 Dawns, now serving as antagonist to the Cupids and Graelyn Scythes, respectively.
  • Marvel's Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover features Echo as an antagonist, with a storyline that loosely adapts her first appearance. However, this version of the character attacks Spider-Man after being tricked into believing he killed her father, unlike in the comics, where it was Daredevil who was framed for the deed.

    Live-Action TV 
  • Darla was introduced in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a Dark Action Girl; she's killed off in the seventh episode, which also reveals that she's Angel's sire and ex-lover. When he got a spin-off series, Darla was brought Back from the Dead for a longer-lasting and more emotionally potent role.
  • On Doctor Who, the Slitheen family started out as briefly recurring antagonists of the Ninth Doctor, then disappeared from the main series and started showing up frequently on The Sarah Jane Adventures.
  • Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its spin off Xena: Warrior Princess:
    • Ares, the God of War, was occasionally fought by Hercules in its first season, but he became a regular antagonist to Xena. Hercules still fought Ares from time to time, specially after Season 3 where he was cast by Kevin Smith, but he is much more important to Xena, not just as an enemy, but also as a supporting character.
    • In regards to the original myths, the Minotaur was slain by the hero Theseus, while he is fought by Hercules in the TV-movie The Maze of the Minotaur, where its revealed he is also his half-brother and Theseus is Adapted Out completely.
    • Bacchus first appeared on Xena and was killed off by the end of his episode, but he would appear in subsequent appearances in Young Hercules, a prequel to Legendary Journeys where he fought against Hercules in his early career more than once.
  • Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: The Kamen Rider Brave special had Takeshi Asakura / Kamen Rider Ouja, one of the villains from Kamen Rider Ryuki, as the main antagonist. In fact, the special came to be because Ouja was the favorite Rider of Brave's actor.
  • Once Upon a Time puts either Rumplestiltskin or the queen from Snow White in everything. Rumple has been Cinderella's fairy godmother, Beauty's Beast, and Captain Hook's crocodile, while Regina has been the Little Mermaid's Sea Witch and the wicked stepmother who abandoned Hansel and Gretel (though not actually their stepmother, she was still responsible for the events.) Then there's the spin-off, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, in which Alice's main antagonist is Jafar.
  • A meta example is done throughout Power Rangers, where a villain from one Super Sentai show would end up fighting Power Rangers adapted from a completely different Super Sentai season. While the first example was a villain in Denji Sentai Megaranger being in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (adapted from Seijuu Sentai Gingaman), Ressha Sentai ToQger becomes a more prominent example as several villains from there are translated into villains for three different Power Rangers in a row. note 
  • The Cardassians began as villains of the week on Star Trek: The Next Generation but ended up with much greater plot significance on Deep Space Nine.
    • To a somewhat lesser extent, the same thing could also be said of the Romulans being more associated with The Next Generation than with TOS.
    • The Borg are a subversion of sorts. After twenty (of which four were two-parters) appearances on Voyager, plus a Borg character joining Voyager's main cast for the last four seasons, one might have expected them to be more associated with that series than with TNG, which only featured them in four episodes (of which two were two-parters) plus First Contact. Despite this, in popular consciousness, the Borg are still considered Picard's nemesis, and the real-world 21st century saw them play a major role in both the second and third seasons of Star Trek: Picard.

  • In the Ultra Series, it's not uncommon for popular Monsters of the Week to appear in later series to be pitted against new Ultra heroes. The original Ultraman's most famous foes Zetton, Gomora, Red King, Antlar, Baltan, and Mephilas have all battled at least five (and as many as ten; sometimes more) subsequent Ultramen since their debuts in the original 1966-1967 series.
  • Zone Fighter had two of Godzilla's Rogues Gallery, Gigan and King Ghidorah, appear as monsters of the week battling Zone, although Gigan's appearance also saw Godzilla help out a bit.

    Professional Wrestling 
  • The main purpose of Black Tiger is to oppose Tiger Mask. From the very beginning of the defictionalization of the feud though, Black Tiger also opposed, and ultimately defeated El Gran Hamada before "first" Tiger Mask avenged him. Even though Tiger Mask would ultimately defeat Black Tiger, Tiger Mask was the one to "lose" his mask when it was bought from New Japan by All Japan. AJPW were uninterested in pitting Tiger Mask II against his traditional nemesis but Black Tiger simply changed targets again, going after The Cobra.
  • Besides the inevitable clash with his contemporary Tiger Mask, Black Tiger II was also known for harassing Jushin Liger and Pegasus Kid.
  • Black Tiger III's demise came not at the hands of a Tiger Mask, but at L.A. Par-K's at a CMLL event.
  • While Black Tiger IV was eventually unmasked by Tiger Mask IV, he did spend time going after NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Jason Rumble, if only to better position himself in later offenses on Tiger Mask.
  • Two years after Tiger Mask IV unmasked Black Tiger V, Black Tiger V reappeared in Toryumon Mexico to oppose Último Dragón.

    Tabletop Games 
  • Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition book Elder Evils picks up Kyuss, the Worm That Walks, a well-known villain from Greyhawk, Zargon, a fan-favorite monster from Mystara and Pandorym, villain from Forgotten Realms novel Darkvision, and reinvents them so they can now fit to any D&D setting.
  • Downplayed in Sentinels of the Multiverse. Each heroes Nemesis will have more It's Personal backstories with variants of other heroes. Downplayed in that the Nemesis hasn't changed.
    • Probably due to the two being Foils, the Wraith has a decent amount of interaction with the Chairman. In particular, Freedom Six Wraith ends up killing The Chairman and taking over his operation.
    • This finally does wind up happening for a few villains in the Villains of the Multiverse expansion. Ambuscade switches from hunting Haka to The Naturalist, Plague Rat falls into the captivity of RevoCorp and is used to hunt their creation Setback, and Miss Information returns to take vengeance on the Freedom Five. Also, Citizens Hammer and Anvil get their own deck and nemesis in Visionary, whereas they were previously minions in Citizen Dawn's deck (nemesis: Expatriette).

    Video Games 
  • Dead by Daylight does this with some of the Guest Fighters.
    • In his first appearance in the Silent Hill franchise, Pyramid Head served as James Sunderland's tormentor. While James was added in a later update, Pyramid Head initially went after Heather Mason's head.note 
    • Of the 8 playable Survivors (Palette Swaps included) that hail from Resident Evil, Leon S. Kennedy and Carlos Oliveira are the only people to have never come into contact with Albert Wesker.note  Likewise, the only Resident Evil survivors who have encountered Nemesis are Jill Valentine and Carlos.
  • Merlock, the Big Bad of the DuckTales movie DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, was featured in two video games, both of which starred protagonists other than Scrooge McDuck and his three grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. His first video game appearance was as a boss in Legend of Illusion, which starred Mickey Mouse. His second appearance in a video game was as the main antagonist and final boss in Donald Duck: Goin' Qu@ckers, where he menaced Donald Duck by kidnapping Daisy.
  • Chaos from Final Fantasy is actually the Big Bad of the entire Final Fantasy Multiverse as of Dissidia Final Fantasy.
  • In the Kingdom Hearts series, most of the Disney villains stick to their own worlds and antagonizing their own heroes, even in the first game, the only one to feature a team of villains sharing a single headquarters. Maleficent, however, is promoted to a general antagonist, the only villain from a Disney movie to appear in multiple worlds and have an interest in the series' overarching plot. For example, Hollow Bastion the world where she is fought as a boss, is a world original to the game and your Guest-Star Party Member is the Beast from Beauty and the Beast. It is not until Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep did we see her in the actual Sleeping Beauty world, clashing with Prince Phillip and the three good fairies, and even then she made it clear that she had bigger ambitions.
  • Arianrhod the Steel Maiden fought the Special Support Section once in The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure, but once she appeared in Cold Steel III she became far more associated with the Erebonia arc, through her past as Lianne Sandlot and connection to Osborne as the reincarnation of her old love. To the point where, on this website, her character entry ended up being moved from the Crossbell games' characters page to the Erebonia one.
  • This is one of the plot points in LEGO Dimensions- thanks to Lord Vortech's meddling around with rifts in his own attempt to conquer the multiverse, enemies from various franchises have been taken to different settings. Sauron has landed his tower in the middle of Metropolis, Lord Business is overseeing the invasion of Springfield, and Vortech himself shows up to challenge the heroes in 1885 Hill Valley, and many more.
  • Magical Tetris Challenge: The Big Bad Wolf was originally the enemy of The Three Little Pigs, but here, he's going up against Mickey Mouse and his friends as a henchman to Mickey's archenemy, Pete. The pigs don't make an appearance.
  • Pico: Piconjo is often thought of as one of Pico's adversaries, due to him being a comparatively unhinged Oddball Doppelgänger. In Piconjo's original series, however, Pico is never encountered, with Piconjo instead fighting his nemesis LegendaryFrog.
  • The Punisher game from Capcom features the Reavers as enemies. While the Reavers did once clash with the Punisher in the comics, they're otherwise almost exclusively treated as X-Men villains.
  • Shin Megami Tensei:
    • Pazuzu was somewhat inexplicably an ally of YHVH in his first major story role in Megami Tensei II. Later games typically have him as a member of Lucifer's Chaos faction.
    • Nyarlathotep appeared as a summonable demon and occasional boss in earlier SMT games, but due to his stint as the Big Bad of Persona 2 and occasional call-backs in later entries, he's commonly thought of as a Persona villain now.
  • Soul Series:
    • Nightmare was originally the main antagonist to Kilik, Xianghua and Maxi. In fact, Xianghua used Soul Calibur to defeat him in the end. Afterwards, Nightmare has had little to do with those three and instead became an enemy to Siegfried, Nightmare's former host, after their split for the rest of the series.
    • Cervantes was introduced as the first Big Bad and was defeated by Sophitia and Taki teaming up together. Afterwards, he instead became a villain to his illegitimate daughter Ivy following her introduction.
  • Super Mario Bros.:
    • Super Mario Bros. 2 was a Dolled-Up Installment of Doki Doki Panic, hence all the enemies in the game, including Shy Guys, Bob-ombs, Pokeys, Birdo, etc. were not originally Mario's nor did they start off aligned with Bowser (they are part of Wart's 8-Bit army in their original appearance). In turn, Shy Guys and Snifits later became part of the standard bestiary of the Yoshi's Island series, while Yoshi didn't even exist yet when Super Mario Bros. 2 came out. Birdo, likewise, would undergo a Heel–Face Turn and primarily appear in the spinoff sport titles, sometimes even as a partner of Yoshi.
    • In reverse, Kamek, Baby Bowser's caretaker from the Yoshi games, has made frequent appearances in the mainline games and RPG spin-offs to the point of being (adult) Bowser's right-hand man in several games.
    • King Boo was formally introduced as Luigi's archnemesis in the Luigi's Mansion games, but he still makes appearances in the Mario platformers and sports spin-offs every now and then (although he looks different in those), so he doesn't end up being much different from the other several King Mooks that Mario himself faces in the series.
  • While the Super Robot Wars series does, of necessity, involve various Humongous Mecha fighting enemies from different shows, it can sometimes veer into this territory with especially strong enmities developing between characters of different series, especially in regards to Original Generation characters. The best example would probably be from Super Robot Wars: Original Generation 2, where Axel Almer of Super Robot Wars Advance fame becomes the arch nemesis of the Impact series' Kyosuke Nanbu.
  • Super Smash Bros.:
  • In X-Men: The Official Game (the prequel to X-Men: The Last Stand), HYDRA is revealed to be the organization behind Master Mold and the Sentinels, the mutant-hunting Killer Robots from the X-Men books. In the actual comics, HYDRA is traditionally depicted as a threat to Captain America and The Avengers.

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    Western Animation 
  • They aren't really villains, but Chip 'n Dale originally started out as recurring antagonists for Pluto. Though they still pester Pluto at times, they're far better known nowadays for always bothering Donald Duck, or else being key components of the Rescue Rangers team.
  • The Red Guy from Cow and Chicken would also frequently antagonize I Am Weasel as well.
  • DuckTales (1987) had an episode called "All Ducks on Deck", where the villain was the Phantom Blot, who first appeared as an enemy of Mickey Mouse in old Mickey Mouse comics.
  • DuckTales (2017):
  • Kim Possible occasionally reveals that one villain or another that the titular character fights used to be traditionally opposed by another group of heroes, Team Go, of which Kim's Arch-Enemy Shego used to be a part of. One of these villains, the Mathter, even completely shifted his vendetta from that team's leader to Kim's sidekick Ron. Naturally for the show, this was lampshaded.
  • Looney Tunes:
    • On a few occasions when he wasn't trying and failing to catch the Road Runner, a Suddenly Voiced Wile E. Coyote showed up to antagonize Bugs Bunny in five shorts. That said, the final one, "Hare-Breadth Hurry" plays with this, as Bugs is essentially acting out the Road Runner's usual role.
    • Similarly Elmer Fudd, originally set up as Bugs' Arch-Enemy, would frequently be placed against Daffy Duck or Sylvester in some shorts. Since both of them were often as bungling and hubris driven as Elmer, it tended to be less lopsided who would come out on top, or even if Elmer was the actual villain of the two.
    • Yosemite Sam is pitted against Bugs in all but two cartoons: "Along Came Daffy" (in which he and his black-haired twin brother pursue Daffy Duck) and "Honey's Money" (in which he marries a wealthy but shrewish widow and tries to kill her idiot son).
    • Marvin the Martian debuted in the short Haredevil Hare as a foe for Bugs Bunny. Three of the four following shorts featuring Marvin have him opposing Bugs. The fourth follow-up, Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century pits Marvin against Daffy Duck and Porky Pig in sci-fi-roles - that short laid the basis for the Duck Dodgers animated series where Marvin was a recurring villain and is probably most known for by modern audiences.
    • Speedy Gonzales' main two recurring antagonists in his cartoons had already been previously established foes to other Looney Tunes: Sylvester (archenemy to Tweety) and Daffy Duck (archenemy to Bugs)
    • The Tasmanian Devil debuted in Devil May Hare where he antagonised Bugs. Three of his other shorts would likewise pit him against Bugs. There was one other short where Taz went after Daffy instead.
  • Mighty Mouse foe Oil Can Harry originates from the older and black-and-white Fanny Zilch cartoons, where he was a human rather than a cat and an enemy of J. Leffingwell Strongheart.
  • Big Bad Pete originally appeared in Walt Disney's Alice Comedies before becoming an enemy of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and eventually Mickey Mouse. In the later years of Disney shorts, Pete mainly menaced Donald, though more as a bullying jerkass than a straight up villain. To modern audiences he's probably best known for his role as Goofy's False Friend on Goof Troop, or his role in the Kingdom Hearts series as the thuggish enforcer of Maleficent. He also is featured in several episodes of the original DuckTales series, seemingly "playing" different villain roles. House of Mouse however brought him back to being Mickey's Arch-Enemy in the early 2000's in animation, a role he was portrayed in the comics from the beginning.
  • According to the The Powerpuff Girls episode "Bought and Scold", Quackor the Fowl from Dexter's Laboratory is one of their enemies. On a similar note, Huntor from "Dial M for Monkey" appeared as a bounty hunter in an episode of Samurai Jack called "Episode VIII: Jack vs Mad Jack".

  • While he isn't referred to by his real name, the same voice actor, the mirror mask, blue uniform hidden under trenchcoat and yelling "COBRA!" at the end of the episode made rather obvious the man called Old Snake, one-episode antagonist from The Transformers, is Cobra Commander.
  • Dick Dastardly and Muttley started out as the enemies of the other racers in Wacky Races but then they gained a new enemy in Yankee Doodle Pidgeon in their own show, Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines. But then the two started antagonizing Yogi Bear and the others starting with Yogi's Treasure Hunt, then it continues in Fender Bender 500, Yo Yogi! and The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera. However due to rights issues they were replaced with Dread Baron and Mumbly and they antagonized Yogi and the others in Laff-A-Lympics and Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose, but the latter made them sound and act more like Dick Dastardly and Muttley so it's obvious on who they're replacing. SCOOB! features Dick Dastardly as the Big Bad, this time to Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang, Blue Falcon and Dynomutt, and Captain Caveman and Dee Dee Skyes.
  • Woody Woodpecker's traditional archnemesis Wally Walrus was placed against Chilly Willy in two 1961 cartoons, "Clash and Carry" and "Tricky Trout", 8 years since Wally's last appearance. Wally Walrus also antagonized Andy Panda in the 1946 cartoon "Dog Tax Dodgers". Conversely, Chilly Willy's Smedley was cast against Woody in the 1962 cartoons "The Careless Caretaker" and "Room and Bored".

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