Big Bad/Fan Fiction

"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.


 * Mercury, from Dungeon Keeper Ami. No, really, she'd Evil!
 * A straighter Example would be Azzaratha, and Later Crowned Death. Then Crowned Death AND Azzaratha.
 * Mukrezar
 * Baal in Disgaea: Disgaea: Jewel of the gods
 * Princess Jody from Super Milestone Wars
 * The Biggest Bad from Super Milestone Wars 2
 * Queen Chrysalis in Kamen Rider x Super Sentai x Super Milestone Wars: Crossover Taisen
 * Voldemort in My Immortal, who can timetravel in this story, and also has a band.
 * In the Azula Trilogy, the overarching Big Bad is . Each of the three fics also has its own Big Bad:
 * Heart of Fire: General Azun
 * Path of Fire: Wei Ming
 * Soul of Fire:, possessing Jian Chin
 * Radcliffe in Keepers of the Elements.
 * Ho-oh in Poke Wars
 * The Vizard Trilogy had an interesting variant. Each of the four stories has its own Big Bad, all of whom are part of the Five-Bad Band, but the most involved in the overarching plot is Asayama Shiba. By contrast, her leader, Takeshi Katano, is a Non-Action Big Bad; he's the most powerful of the Five-Bad Band and the leader of the Visoreds, but he barely does anything present-time, apart from sending an underling to save Ami and Rukia after a fight. However, it should be noted that the reason Asayama got so far was because Katano let her continue her machinations.
 * In the Battle Fantasia Project, each 'arc' will have a big bad. As of July 2011, said Big Bads are...
 * Arc One: The Nightmare Factory, headed by The Oneirovore.
 * Arc Two: The Magical Alliance, who want to discredit the infant Magical Girl Alliance, and 'disprove' magic as a 'silly supersticion' once more.
 * Arc Three: [INFORMATION PENDING]
 * Arc Four: The Incubators, and whoever's in charge of them.
 * Arc Five: Jedite and a horde of Dark Kingdom survivors.
 * Arc Six: Jail Scaglietti.
 * Arc Seven and Up: Little has been discussed beyond Arc Six.
 * The My Hostage Not Yours trilogy:
 * My Hostage, Not Yours: The Valkian Queen, who's trying to steal the LEECHY from Gaz so she can defeat the Irkens.
 * The Revenge of Player 2:, who wants revenge against Gaz for past actions against him.
 * The Inevitable Takeover: Zim and Gaz, who switch from Anti-Heroes/Anti-Villains to full Villain Protagonists to take over Earth. The Tallest could also be seen as the Bigger Bads, since Zim is still loyal to them.
 * The Teen Titans Saga: While Slade and  are the overall Big Bads of the series' two main Story Arcs, each story has its own:
 * The Abyss Gazes Also: Dark Raven
 * The Art of War: General Immortus
 * Child of the Stars: Blackfire
 * Luck of the Draw: The HIVE Mistress
 * Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter: Veneficus
 * Sins of the Father: Slade
 * Shadow of the HIVE:
 * Bowser Koopa often plays this role in Calvin at Camp.
 * ATLAR has Zotu and Azul's father, Aizo, set up as the Big Bad in book one, with an expanded role in comparison to the original series' first season, but once Azul is properly introduced, it is clear that she will drive the plot far more-so than her father.
 * The Big Bad of the Mass Effect fic The Council Era is set up as the Krogan Overlord, Kurvok. In fact,
 * Ponies Make War has King Titan, Celestia and Luna's Archnemesis Dad and the creator/original ruler of Equestria. He also happens to be a Social Darwinist God of Evil bordering on being a full-blown Eldritch Abomination, which is why the princesses sealed him away in the first place.
 * The Pony POV Series is an interesting example: while Discord is only the direct Big Bad in certain Story Arcs, he's also the Bigger Bad of the series as a whole, as even the arcs where he doesn't show up in person are still all the fallout from his actions in canon and the Backstory . For the sake of precision, we'll break it down by arc:
 * Naturally, Discord himself in the original Discorded Ponies series, as it's set during his canon appearance. This also includes the Alternate Ending Epilogue, which shows what would have happened had he actually managed to win.
 * The first half of the Reharmonized Ponies series has  -- maybe not the arc as a whole, but the subplot about saving Trixie, which runs through a good chunk of it.
 * The second half has Princess Gaia/,.
 * The "AJ's Dream" two-parter has Nightmare Mirror,.
 * Strife, Discord's sister, could arguably be said to be the Big Bad of the Generational Transition arc, as of all the Draconequi she was definitely The Heavy of the arc, and also served as the Final Boss for the last survivors of the Gen 3.5 universe. Though, she was just doing her job.
 * Discord takes center stage again in Origins, due to it being his Start of Darkness.
 * The Mind Games arc has Discord again.
 * One could also argue that even when Discord is the Big Bad, the series still has a Bigger Bad in his father Havoc -- after all, he's the one who created Discord in the first place, and is also responsible for pretty much everything he's done in Equestria.
 * In the Tamers Forever Series, BlackWargreymon fills this role in the second book Omni-Tamer by virtue of being the only recurring threat.
 * In the third book: Forget the Y 2 K, This is Madness!! The sadistic Nightmare virus becomes the prominent threat to the Tamers
 * However the Nightmare itself pales when compared to the overwhelming power of the psychotic, who sends his Agent to weaken the Tamers during the fourth book: Theory of Chaos, before terrorising them personally throughout Silent Sorrow