Arc Villian

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The Arc Villain serves as the Big Bad for one Story Arc, having an Evil Plan, The Commander, and Goons with which to threaten Our Heroes. After that, though, he's killed off, sent into a Humiliated, or makes a Reform, and Our Heroes go on to unrelated adventures and the next arc.



There's no Power Behind the Throne for the Arc Villain and no greater threat inspiring him, and he's certainly not something so minor as a Monster of the Week. But he isn't really the single Big Bad of the series, either, since his defeat doesn't mark the end of the plot - or even the end of the hero's character arc. He isn't a member of a Villian Ensemble, because he's definitively removed from play after the arc



it's worth noting that many of its side villains are standalone, found in single missions or 'campaigns' of missios, where a group of quests make up a single story. In the sequel, most of them are antagonists to a certain squadmate on a personal level, and so act as the main villain of that character's loyalty mission.

Sometimes a TV Show is divided into Episodes, has several Arc Villains. The Big Bad Wannabe for Episodes 1-3, The Big Bad for Episodes 6-14, The Hive Mind for Episodes 15-17, The Commander Ascendant for Episodes 18-21, and Bigger Bad for Episodes 10, 22-25, and while he serves as the overriding villain for the whole Show, he doesn't become a direct threat until those Episodes.

This structure is used in most contemporary Super Hero comics, which are written with collected editions in mind.

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