Big Bad / Western Animation

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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.

• Avatar Legends
• The DCU
  • DC Animated Universe
  • Young Justice (2010)
• Disney
• Marvel Universe
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe
    • What If…? (2021)
• Ninjago
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Star Wars

• While the heroes of Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers had an extensive Rogues Gallery for a cartoon of The '80s, the one who ruled them all was The Queen of the Crown, a genocidal woman who runs the Crown Empire.
• Adventure Time:
  • Original Series:
    • The Ice King served as main antagonist initially, particularly in Seasons 1 and 2 where he often acts as Finn and Jake's main nemesis by kidnapping the Princesses the two have to save. Over time, the Ice King becomes more sympathetic and less villainous, especially after his backstory is revealed, and the role of main villain goes to the Lich, an undead sorcerer who seeks the extinction of all life and is by far one of the most dangerous threats to the land of Ooo.
    • When the Lich isn't the main concern, other villains act as the antagonist for a arc or subplot such as the original Earl of Lemongrab (after losing his sanity and oppressing his Lemon Children), Orgalorg (a power hungry Eldritch Abomination who is the true identity of the Ice King's penguin, Gunter,), the Vamps (a group of five vampires slain by Marceline, only to be accidentally restored to life), and Dr. Gross (the Mad Scientist who unleashed the plague that caused the plot of the Islands miniseries).
    • The final season initially has Gumbald (Princess Bubblegum's creation that went rogue and led an uprising against her), but the final antagonist ends up being GOLB, the primordial entity of discord that destroys whatever world it appears in and is apparently the creator of the Lich.
  • Distant Lands:
    • "BMO": Hugo, the Drift's lead scientist who's secretly behind it falling apart and intends on stealing all of its resources for himself and his followers.
    • "Obsidian": Molten Larvo, a fiery dragon sealed away within the Glass Kingdom's furnace who has broken free to wreak havoc on the kingdom.
    • "Together Again": New Death, the son of Death and Life who intends on destroying the Dead Worlds and ending the cycle of reincarnation. Except he's nothing more than a pawn of the Lich, who has been influencing him the entire time.
    • "Wizard City": Dr. Calendonius, a professor in Wizard City who is secretly running a cult of dark wizards who seek out a host to resurrect Coconteppi and bring forth the "Second Age of Terror".
  • Fionna and Cake:
    • Season 1 has Scarab, a god-auditor hunting down the titular duo as denizens of a universe not meant to exist, as well as Simon for being the unwitting host of said universe, out of spite towards Prismo, whose job he's after.
    • Season 2 has a Big Bad Ensemble between Queenie, Fionna's vindictive former boss who she works to stop from destroying the Sweet Spot, Hana Abadeer, Marshall's mother who attempts to worm her way back into his life and bring Fionna to her side, and Witch Wizard, a practitioner of green magic like Huntress Wizard who unintentionally caused Finn to be poisoned by the Heart of the Forest in the first place, and the most prominent obstacle between Huntress finding a cure for him.
• The Amazing World of Gumball: Rob has more or less filled the role since Season 3's "The Nobody", where he vowed to become Elmore's villain and destroy Gumball as revenge for accidentally leaving him behind in The Void and forgetting about him. Since then, he's been Gumball's Arch-Enemy and the most prominent threat on the show. Come Season 6 though, Rob ends up becoming the Big Good, with his antagonistic actions being a means to prevent The Void from destroying Elmore.
• Angel's Friends: Queen Reina, who was once a guardian angel that fell in love with the person that she was meant to protect, thus becoming the enemy of both angels and devils. Turns out that Reina's Start of Darkness was caused by Raf's mother's disappearance, and everything in the series was manipulated by Cassidy and Kubral.
• Arcane:
  • Season 1: Silco is the top crime lord of Zaun, a revolutionary planning to lead his people in a war for independence from the boot of Piltover. His schemes inadvertently lead to Powder accidentally killing her whole family, and he proceeds to take her in as his own adopted daughter and personal enforcer. However, Powder—now going by Jinx—proves to be far deadlier than he had hoped; as Silco comfortably settles into his position running the Undercity, Jinx's instability and desperate need for approval drives her to begin launching increasingly brazen terrorist attacks on Piltover that destabilize everyone's plans, almost singlehandedly bringing the cities to the brink of war. Silco is undoubtedly the source of problems in the first season, but Jinx is The Heavy who far eclipses him as a personal, plot-driving antagonist.
  • Season 2: Ambessa Medarda, a warlord from the nation of Noxus, seeks to weaponize Piltover's Hextech in order to avenge her son's death at the hands of the malicious Black Rose. She props up tensions between Piltover and Zaun to manipulate Caitlyn into becoming her Puppet Queen, hunts Vi and Jinx's mutated father to turn him into another weapon, and strikes an alliance with the Arcane-infused scientist Viktor—one of the inventors of Hextech—to lay siege to the cities for ultimate power. Viktor himself, despite acting as a well-meaning supporting character up until the final act, finds himself slowly losing touch with his humanity in his quest to use the Arcane to end all suffering, culminating in a grasp at godhood to assimilate the world into his Hive Mind—a fate so wretched he reaches back from the future to undo it, setting into motion the entire events of the series just to stop himself.
• Archer: The KGB as an organization is the main opponent, so the Big Bad tends to be whoever's heading it at the time. Nikolai Jakov is this at the start of the series, up until "Crossing Over", where Jakov undergoes Redemption Equals Death and is usurped by Barry Dylan, who in turn in usurped by Katya come "Viscous Coupling".
  • Played with with Malory Archer. While Barry and Katya may be the most obvious opponents of the main characters, Malory Archer has consistently proven herself to be the series' primary conflict creator, often using ISIS and its employees to commit heinous and criminal acts bordering on treason (ranging from the sake of financial gain, to revenge against another, to just getting her sex tape(s) back). To say nothing of how she treats her subordinates, more often than not, she tends to get away with it all most of the time. And that's not even covering the events of the fifth season.
• Atomic Betty has Maximus I.Q., an Evil Overlord who serves as Atomic Betty's Arch-Enemy, the most prominent threat in the series, and the leader of almost all of the villains in the galaxy as seen in "Evil Idol", where he hosts the titular gameshow, allowing most of the show's Rogues Gallery to kill Atomic Betty and her crew, and "Galactic Guardians No More!", where him making the villains under him stop doing evil deeds makes the galaxy's crime rate non-existent (which implies he has control over every single villain in the galaxy except Pandora and the Beluvian Demon).
• Ben 10: Vilgax. He's wounded grievously in the pilot, drives the plot of most of Season 1 from behind the scenes, and finally shows up in person in the Season 1 finale, bigger, meaner, smarter, and tougher than anything Ben's faced before. From there on out, he's usually put somewhere between appearances that keeps him from getting involved... He's also an Implacable Man and a Determinator, so he HAS to be kept out of the picture for other plot arcs to happen.
  • Season 2 has Kevin 11, an 11-year-old boy with the power to absorb energy. After absorbing some energy from the Omnitrix, he gains the power to turn into Ben's first ten alien forms before losing control of it and becoming an amalgam of those forms. Blaming Ben for this, Kevin spends the entirety of the season seeking vengeance, even going so far as to join forces with Vilgax to take the Omnitrix from Ben.
  • Season 3 has Ghostfreak, Ben's former Ectonurite transformation that actually had the conscious mind of Zs'Skayr. After his demise back in Season 2, Zs'Skayr is revealed to be The Man Behind the Man to the horror-themed aliens that Ben and his team faced throughout the season, and after being resurrected by Dr. Viktor, intends to block out the Earth's Sun with a Corrodium beam so Zs'Skayr can rule the Earth in eternal darkness.
  • Season 4 has the Forever King, who is The Man Behind the Man to recurring villain Enoch. He is revealed to be Driscoll, a disgraced Plumber who joined the ranks of the Forever Knights and became their king. He assembles a team of Ben's Rogues Gallery (consisting of himself, the robotic Red Knight, the Circus Freak trio, Dr. Animo, Charmcaster, Rojo, Sublimino, and Clancy) in an attempt to claim the Sub-Energy and use it to Take Over the World.
• Ben 10: Alien Force:
  • The first two seasons have the Highbreed, a xenophobic alien race that seeks to exterminate all other life in the universe, seeing themselves as the superior race. The season finale reveals their true motivation was to ensure they don't die alone after many years of inbreeding to remain "pure" has doomed them to extinction.
  • Season 3 has Vilgax once again, having conquered 10 planets and stole the powers of their heroes (including Ultimos) so he takes revenge on Ben. When his attempt to use a Trial by Combat to legally take over the planet fails, he continues to reappear in other episodes going off different plots related to trying to claim the Omnitrix. He uses an alliance with Albedo to make Ben give up the Omnitrix in exchange for Gwen and Kevin, forcing Ben to sacrifice the Omnitrix to prevent Vilgax from using it before replacing it with the Ultimatrix.
• Ben 10: Ultimate Alien:
  • Season 1 has Aggregor, an evil Osmosian that seeks to absorb 5 different aliens he kidnapped so he can use their powers to travel to the Forge of Creation and absorb an infant Celestialsapien to gain reality warping powers. While he does succeed in the first step and comes close to acheiving his ultimate goal, Kevin stops him by absorbing by the Ultimatrix's energy, gaining the power necessary to stop him at the cost of his sanity, making Kevin the Final Boss that Ben is torn between fighting and curing.
  • Season 2 has a Big Bad Ensemble between the Forever Knights, now led by the founder, Sir George, getting the kings of the various factions (including Driscoll) Demoted to Dragon in the process, Dagon, an ancient evil who George previously banished and is worshipped by a cult known as the Flame Keepers' Circle, and Vilgax, who is initially mistaken for Dagon and becomes his herald. Sir George ends up being A Lighter Shade of Black, only seeking to end the threat of Dagon to the point he would cooperate with Ben's team. After Dagon kills George, he is successfully usurped and absorbed by Vilgax, making the latter the Final Boss.
• Ben 10: Omniverse:
  • Arc 1: Khyber, a hunter of sentient aliens that has made Ben his next target, sending his dog equipped with the Nemetrix (an Omnitrix-like device that can turn the user into the predatory species of Ben's alien forms) after him. It is revealed that Khyber is working for Malware, a psychopathic Galvanic Mechomorph that can absorb technology and the one who provided Dr. Psychobos the blueprints of the original Omnitrix used to create the Nemetrix.
  • Arc 2: Malware takes center stage, working alongside Khyber and Dr. Psychobos to assassinate Azmuth and commit genocide on both the Galvans and the Galvanic Mechomorphs.
  • Arc 3: Emperor Milleous and his daughter Princess Attea of the Incursean Empire, which invade worlds to conquer. They successfully defeat Ben and conquer Earth, but once Ben returns and defeats Milleous, Attea reveals that the whole conquest was part of her plan to overthrow him and take control of the Empire.
  • Arc 4: Albedo, Ben's Evil Twin and Azmuth's former assistant who creates a new Ultimatrix for himself and hires Khyber to help in his evil scheme of regaining his Galvan form, taking revenge on Azmuth and Ben, and making himself the smartest mind in the galaxy.
  • Arc 5: Zs'Skayr, who resurrects Lord Transyl and plans to use an army of Vladats to conquer the entire galaxy.
  • Arc 6: Vilgax and Eon, who assemble a team of evil versions of Ben (including Albedo) to wipe out the main universe Ben Tennyson. Vilgax ends up betraying Eon and the Evil Bens, wiping them out along with every other incarnation of Ben so he can destroy the remaining Ben Tennyson, No-Watch Ben (Ben without the Omnitrix).
  • Arc 7: Proctor Servantis, leader of the rogue Black Ops branch of the Plumbers known as the Rooters, that seek to use Kevin and the Plumber's Helpers to destroy both Ben and the Omnitrix out of paranoia.
  • Arc 8: Mad Ben, one of the evil alternate Bens that helps the evil Chronosapien Maltruant acquire one of his pieces before being left to destroy Ben.
  • Arc 9: Vilgax and Maltruant. The former creates a suit of armor from Malware's remains to once again destroy Ben and claim the Omnitrix. The latter seeks to go back to the beginning of time and create the universe in his image.
• Ben 10 (2016):
  • While Season 1 is devoid of a main villain, the "Omni-Tricked" special which closes it off introduces this show's incarnation of Vilgax, this time as a Knight of Cerebus that restores him as The Juggernaut he was in the original series, and he's been featured in a recurring role since as one of Ben's greatest adversaries.
  • Season 2 has Vilgax as the main recurring antagonist, until the finale introduces the High Override, leader of the Fulmini. He used Ben's transformations into Shock Rock and his Omni-Enhanced transformations as a beacon to Earth, plotting to send his army to conquer Earth through the Omnitrix. He's so big and bad that Vilgax actually has to team up with Ben in order to fight him.
  • Season 3 initially has Kevin Levin as a personal enemy of Ben, being his bully who has the Antitrix, an Omnitrix of his own which turns him into modified versions of Ben's starting roster of aliens plus one more, but a bigger threat is the Forever Knight, a villain who seeks to recruit Ben to his cause. By the finale, Kevin is Demoted to Dragon and Forever Knight becomes the season's Final Boss.
  • Season 4 has Vilgax again, though he doesn't show up until Ben 10 Versus The Universe: The Movie, which served to close out the season and revealed him to be the one who masterminded the creation of the Antitrix.
• Bandolero: Don Rodrigo, a cruel and tyrannical general who takes advantage of his job terrorizing the citizens of the land with his sadism and serves as the dragon for governor Campomayor until he betrayed and usurped him as the new governor.
• Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines: Adrian "Mr. Big" Ravenscroft, a reclusive tycoon who tries to beat our heroes to the Fountain of Youth and does everything in his power to hinder them.
• Biker Mice from Mars: Lawrence Lactavius Limburger, a member of a race of fish-like aliens called the Plutarkians, who have invaded Mars with Limburger being one of their agents stationed on Earth. Pretty much every episode involves the titular Biker Mice thwarting his attempts to strip mine Chicago of resources that would benefit Plutark and help the Plutarkians continue conquering planets. While he gets replaced by the Catatonians and Ronaldo Rump in the 2006 revival, he does attempt to regain his stride in the episode "It's the Pits" and the first two parts of the three-part episode "Once Upon a Time on Earth"..
• Bump in the Night has two: the Closet Monster, a creature made out of wrinkled clothes that inhabits the closet and attacks anyone it feels like, and Destructo, a toy robot who militantly enforces the rules, which often puts him at odds with Mr. Bumpy.
• Bunsen Is a Beast: Amanda Killman (while being rather ineffective) is the main villain; with her regularly trying to get rid of beasts so Bunsen's kind doesn't increase in the human world, only for Bunsen to constantly get in her way.
• Captain N: The Game Master has Mother Brain,the ruler of planet Metroid and the most prominent and recurring threat to the Palace of Power.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Zarm, an immortal being equal in power to Gaia, claims to have been behind almost every dictator in history (with the implied exception of Adolf Hitler) and manages to force all the other villains to work together under his command.
• Castlevania (2017): Dracula is the overall main threat of the series, as he seeks to Kill All Humans. During Season 1, however, he's mostly offscreen, with the primary antagonist actually being the Bishop of Griest, who is taking advantage of Dracula's rampage to solidify his own power and fundamentalist viewpoint. Season 2 sees Dracula become more active, but at the same time there's also the matter of Carmilla, who is plotting to usurp him.
  • Season 3 has a Big Bad Ensemble between Carmilla (who is seeking to create an empire in the Evil Power Vacuum following Dracula's death), Issac (who is building a demon army to avenge Dracula and finish his work), and Prior Sala (the leader of a cult seeking to resurrect Dracula).
  • With Sala having died at the end of Season 3, Season 4 allows Carmilla (who now intends to outright Take Over the World) and Issac to take more active roles. Halfway through the season, however, Issac kills Carmilla and has a Heel Realization and Heel–Face Turn. This leaves the role of main antagonist to fall to Saint-Germain, who has been driven mad by losing his lover to the Infinite Corridor and now wants to resurrect Dracula to gain the power to control it... and then the season's climax reveals that he's been an Unwitting Pawn all along of Death, who wants Dracula to come back as a mindless killing machine so that he can feed on all of the resulting deaths.
• Castlevania: Nocturne has a Big Bad Duumvirate between Countess Erzsebet Báthory, the self-proclaimed Vampire Messiah who intends to lead the vampires in conquering the world, and Abbot Emanuel, who acts as Erzsebet's Forgemaster in exchange for her using her forces to crush the French Revolution, which he sees as a threat to the church. Each is planning to betray the other as soon as they're no longer needed and by the end of the first season, Erzsebet has proven herself Eviler than Thou, having completely broken Emanuel's spirit and reducing him to her servant. She then serves as the main antagonist in Season 2, as she prepares to ascend into a Physical God and bring about vampire dominance... only for the last episode to reveal that her lieutenant Drolta was plotting to double-cross her all along, killing her to steal Sekhmet's power for herself and serving as the Final Boss.
• Central Park has Bitsy Brandenham, who schemes to sabotage the reputation of the titular park so she can buy it and tear it down.
• Centaurworld: The Nowhere King, a horrifying being trapped in the Void Between the Worlds who started the war ravaging the human world through his army of minotaurs. It's later revealed that the Nowhere King makes up a Big Bad Ensemble with the General, both of whom are the separated elk and human halves of the Elktaur. The General's imprisonment of his elk half would lead him to become the Nowhere King, and the two would willfully perpetuate the Forever War, due to them needing each other to survive.
• Class of the Titans: Cronus, the ancient titan who escaped Tartarus and seeks to reclaim the world for himself. Our heroes were assembled together by the gods to defeat him.
• Code Lyoko: XANA, an artificial intelligence villain who's never seen, but whose influence is certainly felt. XANA's connection to the Supercomputer and Aelita's past drive the plot of the entire series, with heroes needing to foil XANA's attacks on the real world long enough to accomplish their goals (materializing Aelita into the real world, sever her link to XANA so she can live without the Supercomputer, and develop the means to destroy XANA and free their teammate William from the former's control.
• Danny Phantom: Vlad Masters/Plasmius. A half-ghost genius billionaire who's made it his life goal to take Danny as his own son, as well as kill Jack and marry Maddie. He's Danny's most personal and prominent foe; as well as the one responsible for Valerie becoming a ghost hunter and the release of Pariah Dark.
• Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist: Syrrus, who is capturing and genetically modifying the extraterrestrial insects into living weapons and using them to wreak destruction throughout the galaxy.
• Dragamonz has Grimserver. He was originally a Wildthorn, until he decided to claim more power. His actions resulted in Dragamar being separated into different islands and Grimserver himself was transformed into a skeletal Dragamon known as a Grimwrath.
• Dragon Booster has Word Paynn, the Corrupt Corporate Executive of one of the world's largest corporations. He constantly schemes to plunge the world into another Dragon-Human War, intending to take over and rule the planet once the dust settles.
• The Dragon Prince has Lord Viren. Originally just a Psycho Supporter to King Harrow, whose advice and actions end up inadvertently pushing humanity and the elves towards war, he takes advantage of the king's death and the two princes' disappearances to try and seize power for himself and start that war on his terms, including launching a False Flag Operation on the other human kingdoms to get them on his side. Midway through Season 2, though, this becomes more of a Big Bad Duumvirate, as he strikes an alliance with Aaravos; while the latter is the one who starts coming up with all their schemes, Viren is still the one whose skills and charisma enable them, not least of all due to him needing to act as a Willing Channeler for Aaravos' magic for it to happen.
  • In Season 4, Claudia serves as The Heavy, spearheading the effort to find Aaravos' prison and free him, due to Viren being emotionally broken by his defeat and temporary death at the end of Season 3.
• The Dreamstone has Zordrak, the Lord of Nightmares. His goal is to try to get his hands on the titular magical artifact to spread nightmares, though he later decides to set his sights on a larger goal of universal conquest.
• The Fairly OddParents!: While the show frequently went through a Sorting Algorithm of Evil, Mr. Crocker and Vicky are undoubtedly the best contenders. Early on, Vicky was the de facto villain, being the primary source of Timmy's misery throughout the first few seasons and the reason why he was eligible for fairy godparents to begin with. However, over time, Crocker would overtake Vicky in importance and become the show's most prominent villain and Timmy Turner's Arch-Enemy. His obsession with exposing fairies to the world through Timmy's fairy godparents would become the cause of much of the conflicts in the show, as his success at doing so would cause Cosmo and Wanda to go away forever.
• Fangbone! has the Evil Sorcerer Venomous Drool, with many of the show's conflicts being driven by the heroes preventing him from retrieving his magical toe.
• Final Space: The Lord Commander seeks use Mooncake to open a portal to the titular location in order to become a titan. However, the true villain is Invictus, a Satanic Archetype-Eldritch Abomination that is responsible for turning the Titans^note Aside from Bolo evil and manipulating events to ensure his escape from his prison so he can feast on all worlds.
• Free Willy (1994): The Machine is a cyborg who lives in a big techno-submarine underwater and wants to wreck the environment, but has a huge grudge against Willy; in his Corrupt Corporate Executive identity of Rockland Stone, Willy had interfered with his first submarine and hurled him into a propeller, forcing the cyborg implants onto him to keep him alive.
• Freaktown: Princess Boo-Boo, who seeks to turn the eponymous setting into a Sugar Bowl like the rest of her domain and to make make Ben Bones her prince.
• G.I. Joe
  • Cobra Commander is the overall main villain of most incarnations of the franchise; being the leader of the terrorist organization Cobra, the most prominent enemy that the Joes combat.
  • While Cobra Commander was the main villain of Season 1 of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, by the second season, he ends up getting overthrown by Serpentor, a clone created by Dr. Mindbender to be the perfect warrior and new leader of Cobra. Come the DiC Entertainment continuation, Cobra Commander manages to seize control of Cobra back from Serpentor and goes back to being the main villain.
  • Instead of Cobra Commander, G.I. Joe Extreme has Iron Klaw as the most prominent threat, being the leader of SKAR (Soldiers of Khaos, Anarchy, and Ruin), which replaces Cobra as the Joes' main enemy.
• Gigantosaurus:
  • Termy becomes this in the Season 1 finale when she takes over Cretacia after Giganto leaves to retrieve the kids' stuff after he unwittingly knocked it away while he was saving Cretacia from destruction. During her reign, she forces the inhabitants to attend her fitness classes and even tries to demolish the kids' den to make way for a new lake.
  • The Season 2 finale introduces Spino, a Spinosaurus who traps Giganto in his cave so that he can terrorise Cretacia. Pretty much everyone in Cretacia is terrified of him, including the previous big bad, Termy.
• Hanazuki: Full of Treasures: The appropriately named Big Bad is a terrifying force of darkness that has left many moons destroyed in its wake. The only way to defeat it is by planting the titular treasures into the ground when it glows a color based on a Moonflower's emotion.
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983), as well as its various adaptations has Skeletor, a disfigured sorcerer bent on conquering Eternia.
• Hero: 108:
  • Season 1 has High Roller, a human who gained the ability to speak in the animal language and tricked the animals into turning against humans, allowing him to become the Emperor of the East Citadel and be free to do whatever he wanted.
  • Season 2 has Twin Masters, High Roller's master who seeks to spread chaos throughout the Hidden Kingdom by transforming animals into monsters and causing disasters. He is this for the whole show, as he was the Greater-Scope Villain of Season 1, and the reason why the 108 heroes must form the Bronze Giant to destroy him.
• Infinity Train: It's eventually revealed that the Conductor/Amelia is the main villain, as both recurring villains the Steward and the Cat work directly on her orders and is the mastermind of everything on the train.
  • Book 2 has a Big Bad Duumvirate in the Reflection Police agents (or flecs) Sieve and Mace. They act as the most prominent and reoccurring threat to Arc Hero MT, spending the entirety of the season hunting her down for breaking their world's law by escaping from her realm. Mace ends up as the Disc-One Final Boss, with MT killing him in self-defense; leading Sieve to become the season's Final Boss.
  • Book 3 has Simon. While initially a Villain Protagonist and Grace's right-hand man, as the story goes on and as Grace changes for the better, Simon gradually gets worse, beginning with when he murders Tuba and continues as he torments Grace for "changing". By "The New Apex", he cements himself as the season's villain and Final Boss when he takes over the Apex and attempts to kill Grace.
• Inspector Gadget (1983): Dr. Claw, leader of M.A.D., served as the commanding force behind the organization's plots in every episode of the original series and most of the rest of the franchise.
• Invincible (2021): As in the source comic, Grand Regent Thragg, leader of the Viltrum Empire.
• Jackie Chan Adventures:
  • Season 1: Shendu, who is consistently treated as the J-Team's most dangerous individual enemy. While trapped in the form of a statue, he has the criminal organization called the Dark Hand collect the 12 talismans of the Chinese Zodiac to restore his physical form before he double-crosses them and tries to summon his dragon minions to destroy all of Asia to avenge his imprisonment.
  • Season 2: The Demon Sorcerers, Shendu's siblings who force Shendu's disembodied spirit to free them from the Netherworld they were banished to, even casting a spell on him to keep him bound to the human he possesses (which leaves Shendu stuck in Valmont's body when he accidentally enters his body instead of his intended host, Jackie Chan himself). After all of the Demon Sorcerors are send back to the Netherworld, Shendu is given another chance and he possesses Jackie so he can alter the Book of Ages to rewrite history, allowing the Demon Sorcerers to retain their rule of the world and forcing Jade to set things right.
  • Season 3: Daolon Wong, a Dark Chi Wizard that seeks to take the 12 talisman's power for his own. When Jackie destroys the talismans and their powers find new vessels in the most Noble animals, Daolon Wong recruits the Dark Hand Enforcers to help him find the animals so he can extract talismans powers from them. After only succeeding in claiming two talisman powers, he makes a Deal with the Devil with Shendu (resurrecting Shendu in exchange for letting him take the Dragon Talisman power when it appears), only for Shendu to double-cross him and become the Final Boss of the season finale.
  • Season 4: Tarakudo, King of the Shadowkhan and lord of the Oni who recruits the Dark Hand Enforcers to find the 9 Oni Masks his Oni generals are imprisoned in and use their power to summon Shadowkhan to Take Over the World. He succeeds in his goal by letting the heroes take the last mask, since uniting all the masks in one place destroys the mask and frees the Oni generals trapped inside, forcing the J-Team to find his mask so as to imprison him and his army.
  • Season 5: Drago, the son of Shendu from the future. After escaping from Section 13, he seeks to claim the chi of his aunts and uncles, granting him all of the Demon Sorcerer's powers. Once he succeeds, the heroes are forced to unseal Shendu in a Summon Bigger Fish moment to stand a chance against him.
• Jem: Eric Raymond, who starts off owning half of Jerrica Benton's father's music company Starlight Music before being kicked out and subsequently starting his own company Misfits Music. He is the backer for Jem and the Holograms' rivals the Misfits and he frequently uses underhanded and unfair tactics and schemes to sabotage the Holograms and prevent them from helping people or achieving their goals.
• Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld: Mr. Cheng, a Daoist priest who lets himself be possessed by a Mogui in order to gain the strength to steal the Yellow Emperor's powers, which he can use to resurrect his daughter in violation of the rules of nature. After Jentry defeats Cheng in their showdown in "A Night with the Stars", with him dying from extreme age after being depowered in the process, the Mogui reveals itself as the true villain, spending the remainder of the season manipulating events to reach a position where it can take Jentry's powers for itself to become a demon-god.
• Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous: Daniel Kon, the Archnemesis Dad of Kenji, is the CEO of Mantah Corp who seeks to enslave the dinosaurs and force them to fight each other for entertainment, with Bumpy the Ankylosaurus, dinosaur antagonists the campers confronted such as Toro and Limbo, and even the Spinosaurus, Asset 87, from Jurassic Park III among the animals he mind controls. While he does not appear until the end of Season 4, his company's machinations instigate a lot of the personal conflicts the campers go through, including attempting to turn Kenji against the other five teenagers in the fifth season and employing mercenaries (among them Hawkes, who previously served Henry Wu) to oppose their every move. Daniel also forms a Big Bad Duumvirate with Biosyn CEO Lewis Dodgson that leads to Daniel selling his chips to Dodgson following a brief excursion back to Isla Nublar, and Dodgson offering to take DNA samples from the Nublar dinosaurs so Biosyn can clone its own dinosaurs, but Dodgson's departure from Mantah Corp Island ensures that Daniel remains the sole antagonist in the last step of the Nublar Six's journey back home. In addition, the first three seasons each focus on a separate Arc Villain^note [[spoiler:Prior to Daniel's introduction, head roboticist Kash D. Langford, who created the B.R.A.D.s, serves as the Dragon-in-Chief of Mantah Corp in the fourth season who even tries to surpass Daniel in villainy when they come to blows.
  • Season 1: The Indominus rex appears as the Returning Big Bad, due to its rampage in Jurassic World taking place around the time the kids settled into their camp, and its subsequent shutdown of Jurassic World leaving them stranded on Isla Nublar. In addition, the campers also have to deal with Toro, a particularly persistent Carnotaurus that InGen locked away for being too aggressive, is scarred by Kenji, and is later freed by the Indominus. The campers also have their first encounter with the sinister machinations of Mantah Corp when a remorseful Sammy Gutierrez is revealed to be a spy sent to gather DNA samples so her family can pay off their debts to the company, with her theft of Brooklynn's phone when she digs too close to catching her, and it getting destroyed when the Indominus attacks, further contributing to the stranding of the camp.
  • Season 2: Tiff and Mitch are revealed to be Evil All Along, being big-game hunters who use Darius' knowledge of the dinosaurs to hunt and kill them, finding the best place to hunt them all at the Watering Hole. A trio of Baryonyx, named Grim, Chaos, and Limbo serve as The Heavy before the two humans reveal their true colors, and both factions go against each other when the Baryonyx pack kills their initially suspicious tour guide Hap, and Tiff kills Grim, leading to Chaos and Limbo hunting her to avenge their sibling while Rexy deals with Mitch.
  • Season 3: Specimen E750/the Scorpios rex, a Flawed Prototype of the Indominus that Dr. Henry Wu personally had frozen, escapes from its containment when Kenji unknowingly releases it during the earlier incident with Mitch and Tiff. It causes havoc through changed dinosaur behaviors across Isla Nublar, serving in a Big Bad Duumvirate with its own offspring, and even striking Sammy with its venomous quills at one point, leading the children to get Blue the Velociraptor to help defeat them. After their defeat, Wu, revealed to have personally arrived on the island around the time of the prologue of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, becomes the season's Final Boss. While the Indominus bone is covertly extracted from the Mosasaurus lagoon, Wu and a band of mercenaries seek out his laptop containing his research on hybrid dinosaurs, serving as the last obstacle the camp faces in their escape from Isla Nublar when his men kidnap Brooklynn in a bid to force the campers to exchange the laptop for her.
• Jurassic World: Chaos Theory has the overarching narrative threat of a black market trade that smuggles and breeds dinosaurs (via twisting Henry Wu's research), which ties all the way back to Lewis Dodgson, the CEO of Biosyn. Although he only makes his first appearance in the show in the third season, and previously made a brief appearance in Camp Cretaceous' fifth season, as the now-young adult Nublar Six get involved with exposing and stopping this illegal market, they face escalating threats who command different levels of the market over the course of the series as they work their way up to him and his company, finally reaching the Biosyn Sanctuary and confronting his company head on by the fourth season.
  • The first season has the Handler, commanding a pack of Atrociraptor to target anyone who investigates into the black market, which leads to the attempted murder of Brooklynn, who lost a hand to one of the Atrociraptor, and the subsequent pursuit of the rest of the Nublar Six to kill them and anyone else they have contacted (including a now house-arrested Daniel Kon). In addition, Darius' boss Dudley Cabrera is revealed to be behind the infiltration of the Department of Prehistoric Wildlife by the dinosaur black market and the escape of a one-eyed Allosaurus from Jurassic World: Battle at Big Rock that took the fall for Brooklynn's fate, though once the Nublar Six confront him over his involvement, the Handler has Dudley killed as well.
  • The second season has the Broker aka Soyona Santos, who the Handler had been answering to and was responsible for ordering the hit on Brooklynn. While Dr. Sarr, who created a blind, leucistic Baryonyx, manages to briefly supercede Santos near the end of the second season, her control over the market forces Brooklynn to fake a Face–Heel Turn in order to undermine Santos from within. Santos retains her position unanimously in the third season, simultaneous with Dodgson ordering her to smuggle Maisie Lockwood, as Brooklynn digs deeper in her mission to stop Santos and the Handler betrays Santos and turns the Atrociraptor pack against her.
• Kassai and Luk has Togoum, a fire deity who cursed Marana to turn into a gazelle by day, and tries at every turn to stop the trio's quest to rebuiled the goddess Koori.
• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts initially has Scarlemagne, being one of the most powerful mutes around in terms of sheer influence and control, and almost every challenge Kipo faces in these seasons can be traced to him or his underlings. However, in Season 3, after Scarlemagne's defeat, the position is taken over by Dr. Emilia, a human-suppremacist bent on destroying mute-kind who's later revealed to be the show's Greater-Scope Villain; being the one behind Song's transformation in the Mega Monkey, the destruction of Kipo's burrow, and Scarlemagne's Start of Darkness.
• M.A.S.K. has Miles Mayhem, the leader of VENOM, a terrorist organisation using the same technology as MASK. He is the primary villain of every episode of the first season, and although he misses a few episodes in the shorter second season, the villains who do appear are working for him.
• Mighty Max: Skullmaster. He was Lemurian and Virgil's best friend and prize student before turning evil and sought to conquer the world, with his machinations led to the fall of Lemuria. Skullmaster is the driving force behind the series. Max was chosen as the Mighty One to stop him, and though there are other villains, it is Skullmaster who poses the biggest threat to the world.
• Miraculous Ladybug:
  • Season 1 to Season 5: Hawk Moth (Shadow Moth in Season 4 and Monarch in Season 5). He is directly responsible for akumatizing every other villain that Ladybug and Cat Noir face, and his goal is to steal their Miraculouses to erase something from his past.
  • Season 6: Chrysalis. At the end of the previous season, she obtained Hawk Moth's magic jewel and became the new sender of supervillains to steal the Miraculouses for a purpose that remains unknown.
• My Giant Friend: Number 9, the head of the SDC who collects and enslaves aliens who land on Earth, turning them into Living Weapons, in order to one day rule the whole galaxy. However, last episode reveals that he's merely a pawn of Siderno, an Evil Overlord who seeks to rule the galaxy.
• My Life as a Teenage Robot: Queen Vexus serves as Jenny's Arch-Enemy and the main antagonist for most of the show, seeking to enslave humanity and destroy Jenny or get her to join the Cluster, willingly or not.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic strangely doesn't have one overall or any lasting ones, but there are some examples confined to one season. The movies, due to being self-contained stories, are also prone to this.
  • Discord in Season 2, as he is the main threat in both parts of the season premiere. He later becomes one of the series' first recurring villains, but in his second appearance has a partial Heel–Face Turn, which is later solidified further down the line.
  • Queen Chrysalis is the first major villain to reoccur and stay villainous, being the main antagonist of both the Season 2 and Season 6 finales. She’s the closest thing the series has to an overall main antagonist due to being regarded as the main arch nemesis of the Mane 6 and their most recurring foe in both the show and the comics
  • King Sombra is the antagonist of the Season 3 premiere, and later returns as the most active threat of the Season 9 premiere though there he's just an Unwitting Pawn of the season's true Big Bad, Grogar.
  • Lord Tirek is this in Season 4. He appears in the season finale, as the entire Story Arc of the season has been building up to the battle with him. He is also a revamp of the original MLP Big Bad.
  • Sunset Shimmer from My Little Pony: Equestria Girls 1, who steals the crown and antagonizes Twilight throughout her high school experience.
  • Adagio Dazzle and the Sirens from My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks. They try to use their influences to corrupt Canterlot High.
  • Principal Cinch from My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games, using the Crystal High students, including Sci-Twi, to achieve victory in the titular games and to preserve her reputation.
  • My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) has the Storm King as this, though Tempest Shadow does most of the work for him until the climax, when the former effectively backstabs the latter.
  • Season 8 has Cozy Glow, who spends the whole season manipulating everyone at the School of Friendship as part of a plot to steal Equestria's magic and take over.
  • Season 9 has Grogar, though his Legion of Doom members (Tirek, Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow) quickly team up to plot against him. In the season finale, it turns out that "Grogar" was actually Discord trying to manipulate events for Twilight to prove herself as a ruler; at this point, the other three form a Big Bad Duumvirate to take over Equestria.
• Nutri Ventures: The Quest for the Seven Kingdoms: Alex, who took over the city after wiping out all traces of healthy foods and replacing them with artificial foods of his own creation.
• Ōban Star-Racers: Canaletto, an evil avatar who was banished for his universal purification 20,000 years ago, and has manipulated events for centuries by using the racers (especially Molly) for his own will.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes has several candidates for the role.
  • Season 1 has Lord Boxman, CEO of the villainous corporation Boxmore, who functions as the most consistent threat to the Plaza heroes throughout the season.
  • Season 2 sees Boxman form a Big Bad Duumvirate with his client Professor Venomous, who is revealed to be the Fallen Hero Laserblast and K.O.'s father. But they're also in competition with Foxtail, the mastermind of the season's P.O.I.N.T. Prep arc, and she ultimately becomes the main villain of the finale "Dark Plaza".
  • Season 3 has Shadowy Figure. While he was always a recurring threat in prior seasons, he didn't take center stage until the later half of the final season, where his identity and agenda are finally revealed.
• Over the Garden Wall: The Beast, a mysterious, silhouetted figure that stalks Greg and Wirt throughout their journey in the Unknown, planning to make them lose hope and transform them into Edelwood trees so the oil from grinding them up can be used to keep his soul lit within the Woodsman's lantern.
• Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures: Betrayus. He seeks to retrieve the repository containing his and his ghost minions' bodies to reignite the war that he began prior to the start of the show.
• PAW Patrol:
  • The show's main Big Bad is Mayor Humdinger, Mayor Goodway's rival and the mayor of Foggy Bottom, Adventure Bay's rival town. Over the course of the series, he has wreaked havoc for the citizens of Adventure Bay. His rap sheet ranges from animal abuse to grand theft auto, theft, and kidnapping Ryder.
  • The Big Bad of the Mission PAW arc is Sweetie, the royal pup of Barkingburg. Not happy with being a pet, she has set her sights on the throne, and will stop at nothing to become queen. She's kidnapped Chase and attempted murder on both him and Marshall, abused her power when she was falsely crowned queen, and fled from the scene of her crimes. And that's just her debut episode.
  • Recent episodes gave the Sea Patrol arc a Big Bad; a kleptomaniacal pirate by the name of Sid Swashbuckle. In the few episodes he's appeared in, he's caused mass destruction of Puplantis, (accidentally) kidnapped a giant sea slug, and carjacked (boatjacked?) the PAW Patrol's aquatic vehicle, the Sea Patroller.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998) has Mojo Jojo, originally Professor Utonium's lab assistant named "Jojo". After a lab accident that caused his brain to grow, Jojo transformed from a simple simian to an ambititous, megalomaniacal mastermind wanting to destroy the City of Townsville and take over the world by any means necessary. He differs from HIM as the latter just wants to see his victims suffer.
• ReBoot:
  • Megabyte, a powerful virus who alternatively seeks to take over Mainframe or enter the Super Computer, where he could infect its vast resources to take over the entire Net.
  • Daemon becomes this when Megabyte was stranded to the web during the Daemon Rising arc, where she took over the Net at this time.
• Regular Show: While the majority of Regular Show lacked a big bad, the final season has Anti-Pops, Pops' Evil Twin and an Omnicidal Maniac bent on destroying the universe. The park staff spend most of the season trying to find a way to stop him.
• Robotboy: Dr. Kamikazi, who along with his henchman Constantine, want to capture Robotboy so Kamikazi can reprogram him to Take Over the World. Kamikazi is also responsible for reprogramming Protoboy into a Psycho Prototype, making him indirectly responsible for the evil Protoboy commits.
• In-between several recurring villains, Monsters of the Week, and personal drama, Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends plays with the concept of a Hidden Villain antagonist for the majority of the series in the form of an enigmatic traitor in the Alliance's ranks that drives much of the most important conflicts of the plot. Towards the end of the series, the Big Bad is revealed as none other than General Rinaker, or rather a Shadoen agent named Wraith taking his place, who — being behind both the disappearance of Nick's father, the corruption of the Alliance, and the various acts of sabotage — essentially sets up and drives the series' Myth Arc.
• Samurai Jack: Aku, an embodiment of pure evil and the titular character's Arch-Enemy. After conquering Jack's home and enslaving his people, Aku is defeated by Jack and is barely able to survive by banishing Jack to the distant future where he now has complete control over the world and is spreading his rule across the universe. Aku serves as Jack's greatest obstacle as the latter tries to find a way back to his time period and finish what he started to prevent the awful future from ever occurring. Fifty years later, with Samurai Jack unable to age as an unforeseen side effect of Aku's spell, Jack must now regain the drive to finish his quest after so many years of failure while fighting against the High Priestess (a Loony Fan of Aku who seeks to kill Jack to gain Aku's favor) and Jack's Inner Self.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • The notorious Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! has the distinction of being the first Scooby-Doo show to actually have a main antagonist instead of the heroes going after unconnected one-shot villains as previous series did. The main villain of the show is Dr. Phineas Phibes, a mad scientist who schemes to gain immortality and conquer the world with only Shaggy and Scooby standing in the way of his schemes.
  • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated:
    • The end of Season 1 revealed that Mayor Jones was the one behind the whole plot, and he actively confronted the gang in the finale. However, it could also be argued that he shared the role with Professor Pericles who is much more active a villain throughout the season. And in any case, at the end of the season the Mayor is arrested, leaving Pericles to take on the role fully.
    • In the second season, Pericles has formed a Big Bad Duumvirate with Mr. E / Ricky Owens, and clearly holds the more dominant position of the two. Basically, Pericles has secured his place as the Big Bad of this show. Though in the final episodes, it turns out Pericles has been serving the Nibiru entity, which in turn has been manipulating events since long before the series started. And in the Grand Finale, it escapes and steals Pericles' body, thus becoming the Final Boss.
  • Velma:
    • Season 1: Fred’s mother, Victoria Jones, is the serial killer that tried to steal the brains of popular beautiful girls to place in Fred’s body so that someone more competent would run Jones Gentlemen’s Accessories.
    • Season 2: Scrappy-Doo is the Ultimate Life Form of project SCOOBI, who wants revenge against his creators for constantly tormenting him after he proved to be too popular.
• The Secret Saturdays has V.V. Argost as the main antagonist. He is the Arch-Enemy of the Saturday family who seeks to gain control of the legendary cryptid Kur and uses its power to control cryptids to Take Over the World. After discovering Zak is Kur's reincarnation, he then seeks to find the method to extract Kur's spirit from Zak's body, only to change his plans when he discovers the existence of Zak's anti-matter counterpart, deciding to extract the Anti-Kur spirit from him instead. Once he succeeds in that goal, Rani Nagi (queen of the Nagas) convinces him to instead Kill All Humans to cement his rule permanently.
• General Specific is the main antagonist of Sheep in the Big City, as the conflict is driven by his attempts to capture Sheep and use the woolly farm animal in the top secret military organization's sheep-powered ray gun against his will.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: For most of the series it follows the same format as it's parent show with the Horde's leader Hordak as the main antagonist and Shadow Weaver and later Catra as his dragons however things get more complicated as the seasons go by:
  • In Season 1 and 2 Hordak is the uncontested master of the Fright Zone and, while rarely seen, his orders are absolute. That said he rarely leaves his sanctum and lets Shadow Weaver and Catra do the heavy lifting making them the more direct antagonists for the Rebellion.
  • By mid Season 3, Catra's growing resentment for Adora, combined with her anger at Shadow Weaver leaving her for Adora, and her desire to win, causes her to manipulate the entire cast, including Hordak himself, into opening a reality fracturing portal regardless of the cost making her the seasons main villain.
  • By Season 4, Hordak is browbeat into making Catra an equal partner and the two collectively rule the Horde together this season. However a complication arises when Light Hope is revealed to have been secretly manipulating Adora all along to active an ancient superweapon left behind by the First Ones which, if released, would destroy Etheria and most of the universe. While Light Hope is the most dangerous of the three all of them are defeated by the season finale.
  • After appearing sporadically throughout the series Horde Prime arrives in the last episode of Season 4 in order to use the Heart of Etheria to wipe out his enemies. The conflict with him and the Galactic Horde is the main conflict of the final season and he is such an evil bastard that everyone teams up to take him down.
• Dragon from Skunk Fu!, who indirectly leads his Ninja Monkey army against the denizens of the valley due to him blaming them for his punishment by the gods and imprisonment, which he seeks to escape. Ironically, he is not The Dragon (that's Baboon).
• South Park:
  • Eric Cartman himself acts as the main villain whenever he isn't a Villain Protagonist. His manipulations and schemes are the cause of the great deal of the show's conflicts. This is most prominent in the "Coon and Friends" trilogy, as well as Season 21.
  • The movie saw a Big Bad Ensemble between Sheila, Satan, and Saddam Hussein. Shelia is the one who drives much of the film's conflict; leading a crusade against Canada for creating the Terrence and Phillip show, which she's convinced is corrupting the children of South Park; with all of this culminating in Terrance and Phillip's execution. Meanwhile, Satan plots to go to Earth, with a prophecy allowing him to do so if Terrence and Phillip were to get killed. Then there's Saddam Hussein, Satan's Domestic Abuser, who manipulates him into bringing him along. In the end, Saddam becomes the Final Boss and kickstarts his takeover of Earth; with Satan getting kicked to the curb and Sheila realizing the damage she's caused.
  • Season 19 sets up PC Principal as the Big Bad, having been enforcing his PC lifestyle all throughout South Park and terrifying the residents in obedience, but he was really an Unwitting Pawn of the ads, with Leslie as their Dragon-in-Chief. Throughout the season, Leslie and the ads manipulated PC Principal into making South Park more gentrified, with the intention of making the price of living there expensive to the point that they're forced to leave; allowing the ads to takeover the town and repeat the process until the world's under their control.
  • While Season 20 had multiple Big Bads, Lennart Bedrager ends up being the primary villain after skankhunt42/Gerald and President Garrison do a Heel–Face Turn after seeing how vile he is, and the Member Berries get Out of Focus. Throughout the season, his company TrollTrace gradually causes hysteria across South Park and the rest of the world, with his ultimate plan being to use it to drive humanity to destroy itself just for his own amusement.
  • Season 21 has a Big Bad Ensemble of Eric Cartman and President Garrison. Cartman is the source of grief for Arc Hero Heidi Turner. All throughout the season, he emotionally and psychologically abuses her, even attempting to kill her at one point. All the while, President Garrison spent the season endangering the country with his reckless decision making and abusing his staff.
  • The first six episodes of Season 23 have Randy Marsh, who seeks to increase profits for Tegridy Farms and the cost of his morality, though he has a Heel–Face Turn during the events of Season Finale.
  • South Park: The Pandemic Special has a Big Bad Ensemble of Randy Marsh, Mickey Mouse, Harrison Yates, and President Garrison. Randy is responsible for causing the COVID-19 pandemic by having sex with a pangolin and his attempts at creating a cure end up making this worse. But he had sex with the animal at the urging of Mickey Mouse, who is now trying to have Randy killed to hide his own role in the pandemic. Harrison Yates shoots Token Black, leading to everyone in the school getting quarantined, and uses the children's attempt to escape as an excuse to shoot more of them. President Garrison intentionally destroys a potential cure for the COVID-19 virus because it suits his purposes to let it continue.
    • The Pandemic Special's sequel episode, South ParQ Vaccination Special has Bob White, the leader of the QAnon supporters in South Park who believe the COVID-19 vaccines should be destroyed. The Hollywood Elites, or pretty much Matt and Trey themselves, are the Greater Scope Villains.
    • The Post Covid Movie Duology has Eric Cartman, who tries to prevent Stan and Kyle from changing the past so he doesn't lose his family. After his Heel–Face Turn, Clyde Donovan takes over this role and becomes the Final Boss, trying to kill Kyle in the past.
  • South Park: The Streaming Wars: Mr. Cussler and the water commissioner are the ones trying to control the streaming services (As in Water Streams) in Colorado, however, they get killed partway through the film by the real villains, Pi-Pi and ManBearPig, who are working together to monopolize the streaming services and draining water in Colorado to replace with urine, while killing anyone who stands in their way.
  • South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2 Pi-Pi and ManBearPig return as the main antagonists, only this time, they are joined by Randy/Karen Marsh, who has embraced his Karen status and goes on a self-entitled rampage throughout the town. He destroys property, drives like a madman, and creates sonic waves that throw people in the air by saying the infamous line: "I want to speak to your manager".
  • South Park: Joining the Panderverse: The Cartman version of Kathleen Kennedy is the main antagonist in this episode, where it's revealed that she trapped the real Kathleen Kennedy in the Panderverse before taking her place where Kennedy's actions have negative consequences to Disney's box office sales and the Multiverse as a whole.
  • South Park (Not Suitable For Children): Clyde's stepmother Janice, who was responsible for the creation and distribution of Cred and pays influencers like LoganLeDouche to peddle and advertise it, because she wanted to try and reach Clyde and positively influence him as a mother but felt that she couldn’t do it face to face because being a stepmother meant that she wasn’t his “real mother”.
  • South Park: The End of Obesity: The main antagonist collective of this special are all fighting the South Park Boys over a semiglutides: the South Park mothers who are trying to hoard all of the semiglutides for themselves to maintain their social status as the town's standard for beauty, the cereal and snack mascot cartel who are working to destroy all semiglutide distribution to keep sugar as the dominant drug in the United States, and the corrupt American healthcare system that refuses to let individuals have access to the semiglutides unless they pay thousands per month while only prescribing "Lizzo" (a method of body positivity as enforced by the titular singer) to those who cannot afford their outrageous prices.
• SpongeBob SquarePants has Sheldon Plankton. Archenemy of Mr.Krabs, Plankton has hatched countless schemes to run the Krusty Krab out of business, with Spongebob often being the only thing standing in his way. Despite often being portrayed as an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain and Friendly Enemy to Spongebob, he's still the most frequent source of conflict. This is especially prominent in the first movie, where his Plan Z leads to him taking over Bikini Bottom and nearly getting Mr. Krabs killed.
  • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water has Burger Beard, a pirate that stole a magic book that can rewrite reality. He uses it to steal the secret formula so he can cook and sell Krabby Patties himself. Without Krabby Patties, Bikini Bottom descends into anarchy, with SpongeBob and friends having to defeat him in order to restore order to the town.
  • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run has King Poseidon ^note Not to be confused with King Neptune, who has captured Gary to use his slime as facial cream.
• StarCom: The U.S. Space Force: The main antagonist is Emperor Dark, the evil leader of Shadow Force and a cruel despot who wants to rule the entire solar system.
• The Big Bad Duumvirate of Steven Universe is the Great Diamond Authority, a trio of Gems that are ruling the Homeworld Gems and created feral Monsters of the Week. Most of the problems faced in the first three seasons were caused by Yellow Diamond, Peridot and Jasper's superior who is in charge of the Cluster geoweapon, a mass fusion of shattered Gems in Earth's core that will crack apart the planet like an egg if it forms.
  • The episode "Legs From Here to Homeworld" introduces White Diamond, a Diamond who even manages to strike fear in both Blue and Yellow Diamond. She is also revealed to be the leader of the group, making her the main antagonist of the show.
  • The movie introduces Spinel, Pink Diamond's former best friend who seeks to destroy Earth by poisoning it with a massive Kindergarten injector as vengeance for Pink Diamond abandoning her for humanity and leaving her alone for several millennia.
• Super Giant Robot Brothers!: Overlord Master is the leading alien who not only sends the Kaiju after earth but is the direct superior of the alien spy that is directly causing trouble for the heroes. He finally attacks Earth himself in the season one finale with a mechanical weapon of mass destruction: Kalaxian Obliterator.
• Sym-Bionic Titan: General Modula serves as the show's main villain. He's the driving force that caused Lance, Ilana, and Octus to flee Galaluna after bringing it to ruin and sends Mutraddi monsters to Earth in order to kill them.
• Tales of Arcadia:
  • Trollhunters: Gunmar the Black is the Evil Overlord of the Gumm-Gumms, who seek to conquer the rest of troll-kind and wipe out humanity. However, since he's trapped in the Darklands, he's more of a Greater-Scope Villain in Season 1, with the role of The Heavy going to his son Bular and Changeling leader Walter Stricklander, who are working to free him. Midway through Season 1, Bular is killed, and Stricklander goes rogue to conquer the world for himself, forcing the assassin Angor Rot to serve as The Dragon; in the tail end of the season, Rot slips his control and turns on him, forcing him into an Enemy Mine with the heroes and becoming the Final Boss of the season. In Season 2, Gunmar gets free and becomes the active Big Bad until Season 3 reveals him to be in service to Morgana, who becomes the True Final Boss of the series after Gunmar frees her in the final episodes.
  • 3Below: General Morando is the mastermind of the Military Coup which drives the Tarron siblings off their homeworld and into hiding on Earth. He's a Greater-Scope Villain for Season 1, with the role of The Heavy going to the Zeron Brotherhood, a group of Bounty Hunters who hunt Aja and Krel on Earth. By Season 2, though, Morando comes to Earth personally to both kill them and retrieve Gaylen's Core, which will turn him into a god and allow him to conquer the universe.
  • Wizards (2020): The Arcane Order, Specifically Bellroc and Skrael, are a group of ancient demigods who intend to wipe out humanity in order to restore what they see as the proper balance of the world. They were The Man Behind the Man to Morgana, who serves as The Dragon and The Heavy in the past, with that role then going to the Green Knight aka King Arthur in the present.
  • Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans: Bellroc and Skrael continue in this role, now intending to unleash the Titans, a group of elemental giants which will help them purge the Earth of humans and reset things according to their design.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles usually has Shredder as the Big Bad, but in the cartoons he is often topped by some alien threat.
  • The 2003 cartoon firmly cements Shredder/Ch'Rell as the main villain of the first three seasons, being a far more dangerous foe than previous incarnations. Season 4 has Bishop, a government agent who'll go to extremes to protect Earth from alien threats, Season 5 has The Tengu (the demon whose legend inspired the Shredder), and Season 6 has Darius Dun. By Season 7, the original Shredder made his triumphant return as a digital program and in the flesh in the concluding film.
  • The 2012 cartoon initially features a Big Bad Ensemble between The Shredder and Kraang Prime. In Season 4, the Triceratons briefly take over as the villains, then once they're defeated Shredder returns to the position.
  • Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has new character Baron Draxum, a mutant warrior alchemist responsible for all of the mutations throughout the series who eventually takes over the Foot Clan and seeks to complete the Shredder armor so he can use it to exterminate humanity. However, at the end of the Season 1 finale, he ends up getting overshadowed by The Shredder himself. After he's dealt with in the Season 2 premiere, the position goes to Big Mama, the most feared mob boss in the Yokai world who runs the Battle Nexus, takes control of Shredder, and kidnaps several villains to partake in her games. However, after "Battle Nexus: New York", The Shredder hijacks the position (again) after Foot Recruit frees him from her control, with the remaining episodes focusing on the Turtles stopping his plot to eradicate humanity.
• ThunderCats
  • In the original series, ThunderCats (2011), and ThunderCats Roar, there's Sorcerous Overlord mummy/lich Mumm-Ra, foe of the title Cats as they foil his attempts to Take Over the World.
  • There were, however, four Greater Scope Villains behind Mumm-Ra, who are never confronted directly and only appear in statue form. Mumm-Ra isn't even their strongest follower; that honor goes to Pyron, who appeared out of nowhere to be the Final Boss of the original series.
• Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline: Raymond de Tancarville, descendant of Lord Wilfrid from the Middle Ages is the mastermind behind nearly everything wrong in the future; he's the one who caused Earth to vanish by traveling backwards and ruled over it for four decades straight, he is the inventor of the Vlagos who have overwhelmed much of the galaxy and enthralled Pirna to their cause by getting rid of her parents, and finally he had been using Valerian and Laureline while they go on their trips to locate Mr. Albert's hideout. The last few episodes has him enact his grand plan to take over the entire universe as a God while also trying to dispose of Valerian and marry Laureline by the method of brainwashing.
• Total Drama overall has Chris McLean, the host of the in-universe series the show is based around, who's willing to go to any lengths to make himself the most famous TV show host in the world. However, while Chris himself may be the villain of the series overall, each individual season has its own main villain in the form of one of the contestants, usually being the one that's causing the most trouble and acting as the main source of conflict for that season.
  • Island (2007): Heather serves as the main antagonist of the season, and is by far the most iconic one among the contestants.
  • Action: Courtney is this for the second half of the season (and can be considered the main villain of the season overall), after being re-added onto the show and getting Justin eliminated.
  • World Tour: Alejandro, being the source of almost all of the conflict of the season, as well as being responsible for eliminating nearly every other contestant. He proves to be Eviler than Thou to every other character on the show, forcing Heather to take on an Anti-Hero role for the season.
  • Revenge of the Island: Scott, being the most devious of the season's contestants, willing to actively throw challenges for his team if it means furthering his own goals. However, Scott ends up getting eliminated by the third to last episode, but unlike other seasons where the main villain doesn't make it to the finale (which have a Good Versus Good, or at least morally grey, conflict), this season suddenly gains a new villain in Lightning, who Takes a Level in Jerkass and ends up as the final villain of the season.
  • All-Stars: Mal, Mike's dormant Split Personality who takes over his body, and overall acts as the primary source of conflict in the season.
  • Pahkitew Island: This season has a Big Bad Ensemble in Sugar and Scarlett. Between the two, Sugar is the more openly antagonistic, whereas Scarlett doesn't reveal her true nature until the near the end of the season, and ends up lasting the longer of the two. However, once Scarlett does reveal her true self, she proves to be the much bigger threat of the two.
  • Island (2023): Like Pakhitew Island, this season has a Big Bad Ensemble in Julia and Bowie. Julia is the more outwardly antagonistic after she lost all of her followers, while Bowie has been acting from the first elimination onward, and is more of a strategist instead of an outright jerk, as he doesn't actually wish ill upon the other contestants, he is just very competitive. Both Julia and Bowie clash with each other and spend a good part of the game trying to get each other eliminated.
• There are several examples of this in Tom & Jerry Kids and its spinoff, Droopy, Master Detective: While the Droopy and Dripple shorts consisted of many one-episode antagonists, McWolf is the most prominent and recurring antagonist of them all, with almost all of the shorts featuring him as one. From trying to take over the world or becoming the best business over his rivals, he would do anything to get what he wants.
• Toxic Crusaders has Dr. Killemoff, who seeks to pollute Tromaville, the home of the Toxic Avenger and the other Toxic Crusaders, to the point that it can be invaded by his fellow bug-people from the planet Smogula.
• Tutenstein has Set, the Egyptian God of Chaos, Destruction and Disorder who wishes to obtain the Scepter of Was so that he may conquer both the Underworld and the Overworld.
• The Venture Bros. has had the Monarch through the series, though often in a Big Bad Ensemble with another villain. In Season 1, Monarch was more of a Big Bad Wannabe and was competing with more-threatening Baron Ünderbheit to be Rusty Venture's primary arch. In Season 2, he took on more of a Villain Protagonist role with Phantom Limb taking over as the main Big Bad. Come Season 3, Monarch was barred by the Guild of Calamitous Intent from arching Dr. Venture, with the Affably Evil Sgt. Hatred becoming Rusty's Guild-sanctioned arch enemy. Monarch retakes his status as the main Big Bad in Seasons 4 and 5, though occasional Arc Villains like the returning Phantom Limb, Monstroso, and Molotov Cocktease get their share of focus as well.
• W.I.T.C.H. (2004) has Evil Overlord Phobos in Season 1, who is succeeded by Nerissa, a Chessmaster and former Guardian, in Season 2. Nerissa was manipulating from behind the scenes even during Season 1. Pretty impressive, considering she was trapped in a coffin for quite a while.