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What are instances in which an antagonist is bested by anyone other than main character
Inspired by this
What are instances in which an antagonist is bested by anyone other than main character
Last edited by Kuro; 08-05-2020 at 10:38 AM.
In Naruto, big bad Madara was beaten by Zetsu and then the main cast had to fight a crazy blob of evil woman from space. It was weird.
Probably counts I think? The first Junko revealed to be her sister in disguise while the real Junko was chilling behind the scenes and operating behind Monokuma.
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A better example. Aizen FTW.
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You know, in the grand scheme of things Son Gohan is a side character in Dragon Ball and he defeated Cell.
And ultimately it was one of the Zenos that killed Zamasu.
BULMA: Those machines are the ones expelling the gas. It's some kind of aerosolized coal particulates, but...something's weird about it.
TRUNKS: So what? Is someone trying to kill the whole world with Miner's Lung?
GOKU: *gasps* Be careful, Gohan! You're a minor!
GOHAN: (taken aback) I'm...surprised you knew that--
GOKU: So, is Piccolo...and Bulma!
GOHAN: (disappointed) Oh... You meant character.
GOKU: And Vegeta!
VEGETA: (walks in from the other room) The f**k I am!
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Not a main villain, but my favourite villain reveal is Sobek in 52, from comic relief crocodile to....that.
Not really in fiction, but when our D&D group played through the 5e starter adventure, Lost Mine of Phandelver, we decided not to rest before facing the final bad guyspoilers:end of spoilers, but when we went in there, we utterly destroyed the guy before he got to even act once (after letting him monologue a bit). The DM was gutted, because he’d really been looking forward to trying some of the guys funky abilities out. But no. He was toast.
, The Black Spider
However...
... we mostly didn’t even get out of the room. The remaining mindless mooksspoilers:end of spoilers completely ripped us to shreds and we just kept on missing them. And when we started falling, our rogue thought “screw this for a game of soldiers” and promptly legged it, leaving the rest of us to just die.
, seriously - just giant spiders,
Wait - I’m a little confused. The title says a side character being the main villain, but then the OP says when a non-main character bests the antagonist (in which case the non-main character is heroic, or accidentally so).
Did you mean bests the protagonist?
In which case, do we count Verbal Kint / Kaiser Sose? I mean he’s a prominent character, but always presented as otherwise.
^^^that was a GREAT scene. It took its sweet time getting there and then hit us right in the teeth.
My submission...:
Hyrax.
She was a pretty generic villain in a pretty generic story.
At least until she wound up causing Green Arrow’s death. A death that stuck for nearly a decade if my memory serves. Pretty big impact from a throwaway character.