Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 29: Big Bad

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Yesterday's Results:
Wesley Wyndham-Price - 4
Aquaman - 3
Raiden - 3
Luke fon Fabre - 3
Matt Hardy - 2
Chloe O'Brian - 2
Kurtis Stryker - 1
Carnage - 1
Kyle Rayner - 1
Dwayne Johnson - 1
Dil Pickles - 1
Wesley Wyndam Pryce - 1
Caroline Forbes - 1
Pacifica Northwest - 1
Daphne - 1
Mat - 1
Donna Noble - 1
Jar Jar - 1
Clara Oswald - 1
Sixth Doctor - 1

Vote for UP TO THREE CHARACTERS you think best embody the trope of the day (or just for your favorite characters that fit the trope). Feel free to change your vote, but if you do just specify who you're changing from and changing to. Try to include the source the character's from.

Feel free to nominate tropes for future days, preferably ones that have TV Tropes pages to make it easier. Day will end in 24 hours or so.

Full Results
Fat Best Friend - Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
Creepy Child - Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family)
Genre Savvy - Abed Nadir (Community)
Wrong Genre Savvy - Don Quixote (Don Quixote)
Enemy Outside - Piccolo (Dragonball Z)
Ascended Extra - Harley Quinn (Batman)
Final Girl - Ellen Ripley (Aliens)
The Adjectival Man - The Illusive Man (Mass Effect)
Adaptational Hero - Bigby Wolf (The Wolf Among Us)
Adaptational Villain - The Monster (Frankenstein)
Superpowered Evil Side - Yami Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Mad Bomber - Norman Osbourne/Green Goblin (Spider-Man)
Regretful Traitor - Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) / Boromir (Lord of the Rings)
Bare-Fisted Monk - Captain Falcon (Smash Bros.)
Sexy Priest - Kirei Kotomine (Fate series)
Butt Monkey - Jerry Gergich (Parks & Rec) / Luigi (Mario Bros.) / Toby Flenderson (The Office)
Eldritch Abomination - Cthuhlu (The Call of Cthuhlu) / Giygas (Earthbound)
Scapegoat - Sirius Black (Harry Potter)
Heavy - Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Gentle Giant - Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter) / John Coffey (The Green Mile) / Iron Giant (The Iron Giant)
Older Than They Look - Eli (Let the Right One In)
Messianic Archetype - Aslan (Chronicles of Narnia)
Invincible Hero - Saitama (One-Punch Man)
Your Size May Vary - Bowser (Mario Bros.)
Mad Artist - The Phantom (The Phantom of the Opera)
Gentleman Thief - Joker (Persona 5)
Brilliant but Lazy - Sans (Undertale)
Monster Clown - Pennywise the Dancing Clown (IT)
The Fool - Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget)
Rescued from the Scrappy Heap - Wesley Wyndham-Price (Buffy/Angel)

Nominations
Tomboy & Girly Girl
Ensemble Dark Horse
Iconic Sequel Character
Unexpected Character
Mix and Match Critters
Nerd
The Dragon
The Beserker
The Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Innocent Flower Girl
Heterosexual Life Partners
Broken Ace
The Rival
Beware the Nice Ones
Eyes always closed

Today's trope is the Big Bad
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad

The cause of all bad happenings in a story. The Big Bad may either be personally responsible for the events, or the biggest force in opposition of the hero's goals. A Big Bad could be a character with Evil Plans or it could be an omnipresent situation, such as a comet heading towards the Earth. In a serial story, the Big Bad often exerts an effect across a number of episodes, and even an entire season. In a standalone cinematic story, their presence drives the plot.
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Bigby Wolf
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Fair warning, there are a TON of options out there for Big Bads so I fully get there being a bunch of different votes here. Just personally it's gonna be hard to limit it down
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so here's my initial choices, but they'll probably be subject to change as I think of more, because I'm not prowling through every option on that damn trope page

Maximillion Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Magneto (X-Men)
Jigsaw (Saw)

HM
Gustavo Fring (Breaking Bad)
Master Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts)
Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
Zeus (God of War)
Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones)
Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Bigby Wolf

is this a "big bad wolf" joke or am I just really misinformed about Fables?
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Bigby is not a 'Big Bad', no.
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Adrian Veidt (Watchmen)
Light Yagami (Death Note)
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ooh Light's a good one (probably one of the only protagonists that can be considered a big bad)
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General Tor (Iji)
Hades (Kid Icarus Uprising)
Count Bleck (Super Paper Mario)
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Giovanni (Pokemon, both Red/Blue and US/UM)
Alex (Golden Sun)
Ganondorf (Legend of Zelda)

Kind of wanted to keep the concept of a big bad that commands others, and even then the list can only get larger.

Nominate: Voluntary Shapeshifter
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Alex (Golden Sun) [is a good one, thanksfor making me think of that Wickle]
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Yawgmoth (Magic: the Gathering)
Adrian Veidt (Watchmen)
Count Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro)
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Thanos

Voldemort (Harry Potter)
Darth Sidious (Star Wars Original Trilogy)
Apocalypse (X-Men)
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Johnbobb posted...

scarletspeed7 posted...

Bigby Wolf

is this a "big bad wolf" joke or am I just really misinformed about Fables?

Its the former.

The actual Big Bad of Fables (and replacing Almaviva) is The Adversary.
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up

maybe well see some overlap later
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Adrian Veidt (Watchmen)
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Carnage (Marvel Comics)
Pyramid Head (Silent Hill 2)
Albert Wesker (Resident Evil)
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Voldemort (Harry Potter)
Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Pennywise the Clown (IT)
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Master Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts series)
The Player / Revya (Soul Nomad and the World Eaters Demon Path)
Lord English (Homestuck)
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Bowser (Super Mario Bros)
Voldemort (Harry Potter)
Light Yagami (Death Note)
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Voldemort
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Thanos (MCU)
Killer BOB (Twin Peaks)
Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars)

Missing the Cut:

Lucifer (Supernatural)
Vince McMahon/Mr. McMahon (WWE) [Both in real life and in fiction]

Notable Mentions:

The Evil Queen (Snow White)
Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)
Jafar (Aladdin)
Lotso (Toy Story 3)
Judge Doom (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
Light Yagami (Death Note)
Frieza (Dragonball Z/Super)
Father (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Johan Liebert (Monster)
Darkseid (DC)
Doctor Doom (Marvel)
The Shadow King (Marvel)
John Sublime (Marvel)
Kilgrave (Jessica Jones)
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (James Bond)
T-1000 (Terminator 2)
Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
Angel Eyes (The Good, Bad, and The Ugly)
John Doe (Se7en)
Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
Jareth the Goblin King (Labyrinth)
Sauron (Lord of the Rings)
Agent Smith (The Matrix)
President Charles Logan (24)
Gustavo Fring (Breaking Bad)
Walter White (Breaking Bad)
The Master (Doctor Who)
Red John (The Mentalist)
Gul Dukat (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
Stringer Bell (The Wire)
Marlo Stanfield (The Wire)
Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
Giygas (Mother series)
Zanza (Xenoblade Chronicles)
Dahlia Hawthorne (Phoenix Wright: Trails and Tribulations)

Nominate:
Milkman Conspiracy
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Oooh thanks

Dahlia Hawthorne (Phoenix Wright 3)
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uP
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Johnbobb posted...

uP

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too many options I'll just pick a theme

Shai'tan (Wheel of Time)
Ruin (Mistborn)
Odium (Stormlight)
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Light Yagami (Death Note)
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change Jigsaw to Light Yagami
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