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Many medias have Vampires in their works, but they always had differences in how to portray them.

The "baseline rules" are largely literary and cinematic inventions from the 20th Century with only limited ties to older works and the original folklore. For instance, the vampires weakness to sunlight is not from folklore, but may have its origin in the 1819 novella "The Vampyre". Sunlight holds no relevance to its vampire, but moonlight heals and revives him. Next up is the 1897 novel "Dracula", which vampire suffers only the loss of his vampire powers in daylight. Following this build-up, the 1922 film "Nosferatu" was the first piece of media to portray sunlight as deadly to its vampire and its been a thing ever since.

The sheer number of different and contradictory myths that have built up around vampires over the years have made it difficult to explore all of them in great detail. To deal with this, many writers have started putting multiple types of vampire into their setting, with the explanation that different myths describe different types of vampire. These are often referred to as "bloodlines", although any term suggesting shared descent or culture may also be used.

Another effect of the various vampire myths is that some traditional weaknesses might work while others might not. A vampire might laugh off crosses and garlic but instantly combust in sunlight. Many a vampire story involves the heroes figuring out what aspects of the myths are real and what was just invented for fiction, possibly perpetuated by the vampires themselves to give humans a false sense of security.

Examples:

30 Days of Night: In the movie version of the comic book, the vampires, though still snappy dressers, have pale skin, completely black eyes, sharp fingernails, and shark-like teeth. They tear their victims' throats out to drink blood, and they behead them so they don't turn (they don't want the competition for food). The vampires are also vulnerable to UV rays (a UV lamp does considerable damage to one), and beheading is also an effective way to kill them. Though they can speak, most just hiss and shriek. These vampires are very clever and vicious, and are essentially walking sharks.

Count Duckula: The titular vampire has been killed and he can be brought back by a once-a-century secret ritual. In the most recent ritual, tomato ketchup was accidentally used instead of blood, resulting in the title character becoming a vegetarian. And he's a duck, which is pretty different all on its own.

Hellsing (Manga): The vampires from this world diverge somewhat from the norms. Humans who are artificially "turned" via special chips or, in the manga's case, by surgically implanted bits of Mina Harker's remains exhibit "standard" weaknesses. However, more powerful "true" vampires can ignore the rules. This is especially notable in the series' sociopathic hero, Alucard, who survives decapitation, holy bayonets and any number of other attacks. He dislikes sunlight, but it won't kill him. (It's also been said by his boss that the organisation has spent 100 years "enhancing" his abilities beyond the normal limits).

Dracula (1931): It's mostly close to the original novel. However it also gives Dracula the ability to transform into a werewolf like creature, as well as another one that resembles a humanoid bat.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The show's vampires are described as a type of demon (just one of many) possessing a corpse; this is actually consonant with many Eastern European vampire legends, 'vampir' deriving from 'upir', a variety of psychopomp that evidently sometimes can't resist the temptation presented by a now-vacant body. They are said to lack souls, explaining their amoral behavior. They have "demonic" faces that only appear just before they feed or during a fight, or any other time the writers want them to look more intimidating — Whedon explained in interviews that he was unnerved by the thought of a teenage girl murdering normal looking people on network television, so the "vamp face" was created to allow for guilt-free slaying.

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: There's a robotic vampire called NOS-4-A2 who drains the energy of robots and other machinery as opposed to drinking blood. He also has mind control abilities over said machinery. In combination with radiation from a certain moon, it also can turn humans into feral werewolf-like mechanical creatures called "wire-wolves".

Vampirina: Vampirina and her family can't (or don't) drink blood and aren't weakened or burnt by the sunlight (though they do have to use strong sunblock since, as nocturnal creatures, they're not used to being out in the daylight all the time). They do, however, still have an aversion to garlic and they can see their reflections. According to Vee's parents in "The Ghoul Next Door", there's all kinds of vampires. Some look very human. Additionally, Oxana mentions a family of vampires in Northern Transylvania who tend to keep to themselves.

Having been around since 1963, "Doctor Who" and its various related works have produced a variety of aliens, monsters, and other villains over the years, with some reaching a special level of evil and wickedness:

The Great Intelligence was one of The Doctor's vilest and most powerful recurring foes. Arrogant, extremely callous, and sadistic in nature, on multiple occasions the Intelligence attempted to conquer the Earth and wipe out mankind, solely to grant itself a permanent physical form. For one such plot in its debut, the Intelligence enslaved a kindly Tibetan monk, and kept the man alive for 300 years solely to serve it, leaving its victim with just enough freedom to be aware of this and to be tormented by the knowledge of what he had been used for. A being of pure consciousness, the Intelligence casually used its powers to brainwash, possess innocent people, or harvest the souls of living beings in the pursuit of its plans. The Intelligence also practiced a cruel form of destruction on people, manipulating them since childhood until it throws their lives away for its own benefit. Enraged by its defeats, the Intelligence made a final attempt to utterly break the Doctor by personally undoing every single victory he had ever won and destroying every friendship he had ever made by infecting every moment of the Doctor's lifetime, forcing him to feel this happening to him as he does so. Despite the great destruction this would cause throughout the universe and even though this would be fatal to the Intelligence as well, it was happy to do this purely out of spite at the Doctor foiling its selfish schemes.

Davros was a crippled scientist on the planet Skaro wherein two races were locked in a civil war. To win, Davros created the Daleks — powerful, murderous creatures that could feel only hate and rage for every other species and were designed to never be able to feel any positive emotion. To finalize the Daleks, when his superiors were about to cancel his immoral research, Davros engineered their extinction. Davros would return many times, improving his Daleks to wipe out or subjugate all other life with himself at their head and achieved the extermination of countless life forms. When he returned in modern times, Davros unleashed them on Earth, revealing a new objective: to cause a massive chain reaction with a Reality Bomb that would result in total destruction of all life except him and the Daleks. Nearing his death, he used the Doctor's guilt to manipulate him into coming to Skaro where he tries to edge him on into committing genocide against his creations in a vile attempt to prove them not so different. A man who has admitted he would unleash a virus to end all life solely because he could, Davros seeks power that will put him above the gods, and has remained one of the Doctor's most evil and tenacious foes.

Sutekh the Destroyer is a sadistic monster who, viewing everything living as an abomination, strives for the destruction of all life. Formerly the security chief of the Osirians, Sutekh slaughtered his homeworld out of paranoia before being sealed by the remaining survivors of his race. When his tomb is uncovered by archaeologist Marcus Scarman, Sutekh murders Scarman and possesses his body to attempt to free himself and exterminate all that lives, knowing that nothing could challenge him. Sutekh also scorches a loyal servant once his purpose is fulfilled, has several innocents butchered by his robotic servants, and personally tortures the Fourth Doctor to take control of his body. Surviving his encounter with the Doctor, having clung to the TARDIS, Sutekh ascends to his true deific form, the "God of Death", and plants thralls on every planet and time period the Doctor has travelled to. After emotionally manipulating the Fifteenth Doctor into a trap by using a thrall with the same name as the Doctor's lost granddaughter, Susan — which he doesn't hesitate to mock the Doctor about — Sutekh births his "Empire of Death" from his thralls, a cataclysmic wave of dust that wipes out life throughout time and space, leaving it a silent ruin.

Rassilon is the once-proud leader of the Time Lords. After becoming twisted, Rassilon sought immortality and power at the expense of all reality and everything that lived and even in the past had showed a predilection for "cleansing" lesser species. At one point, Rassilon drove the Master insane to use him as an eventual pawn. Over the course of the Time War between Time Lords and Daleks, Rassilon opted to wipe out all of space and time so the Time Lords would remain as pure consciousness, yoked to his will because he didn't see any other way to end it. Making things worse, he kills unnamed Time Lords for suggesting that they allow the Doctor to wipe out Gallifrey and end the Time War for the good of the rest of the universe and all that are suffering in it, because he doesn't want to die. Rassilion knows this will release a variety of evil and demonic forces that had been locked away after the Time War but doesn't care. With Gallifrey's survival, Rassilon hatches a scheme to trap the Doctor in his confession dial, resulting in the death of Clara Oswald and the Doctor trapped for four and a half billion years where he would die and return to life over and over again in a horrific cycle. When the Doctor finally escapes and returns to Gallifrey and refuses to cooperate with him, Rassilon tries to have him executed, despite everyone else seeing him as a war hero, earning his place as one of the Doctor's most diabolical foes.

This character(s) is the most depraved of all characters; a villain utterly lacking in redeeming features. Trying to put a value on the evilness of a Complete Monster is like calculating the credit score of Bill Gates: it's a moot point.

Or, anyway, that is how the character is presented in the story. The character is a bad guy, full stop. The author has not taken the character through any actions toward redemption, or at least any that stuck.

The Complete Monster can be recognized (but not limitated) by the following signs:

The character is truly heinous by the standards of the story, which makes no attempt to present the character in any positive way.

The character's terribleness is played seriously at all times, evoking fear, revulsion and hatred from the other characters in the story.

They are completely devoid of altruistic qualities. They show no regret for their crimes.

The Master, as the Doctor's Arch-Enemy, is one of his most tenacious and brilliant foes as demonstrated by various incarnations:

The "UNIT Years" Master is a suave, refined and always impeccably polite villainous Timelord who wastes no time establishing himself as a worthy opponent to the Doctor. During his tenure the UNIT Years Master devises multiple ingenious plans, effortlessly taking control of other villainous factions sometimes without them even realising it. Managing to manipulates entire wars and attempts to hold the galaxy hostage to control it, even after being sent to prison the UNIT Years Master tricks a warden into allowing him to contact the undersea Sea Devils so he may begin an invasion from the ocean and make himself Earth's ruler. The "UNIT Years" Master constantly keeps the Doctor on the edge of his toes, acknowledged by the heroic Timelord as his greatest rival, and once his dearest friend. When moments away from controlling the Doomsday Weapon and having seemly won he sincerely offers the Doctor the opportunity to jointly rule the universe together. Coming within a hair's width of ultimate power multiple times and always recovering from each set back, he is more than a match for the Doctor's best and for his part the UNIT Years Master seems to love matching wits with the Doctor, showcasing his extreme ruthlessness and genius in the process.

The "Tremas" Master came to be after a dying Master manipulated all of Gallifrey and Traken alike, before stealing the body of a Trakenite scientist. Just as ruthlessly brilliant as his previous incarnation, the Tremas Master is even more flamboyant and elegant, manipulating the Doctor into helping him stop a wave of energy that threatens the universe, only to betray the Doctor and lead him to his death while seeking to blackmail reality itself into accepting him as its sovereign. After the Doctor regenerates into his fifth incarnation, the Tremas Master immediately springs a pair of nigh-impossible to escape traps nearly destroying his enemy. Escaping seemingly certain death multiple times, the Tremas Master returns with new, brilliant schemes again and again in his pursuit of power and to "undermine the key civilisations of the universe", using a shapeshifting robot to prevent the signing of the Magna Carta, attempting to rescue the first five incarnations of Doctor on behalf the Time Lords only to turn on them to gain the power of Rassilon, and even being the puppet master to King Arthur in the past as Merlin. Even more charming and deadly than his previous incarnation, the Tremas Master repeatedly shows why he is the Doctor's greatest nemesis.

The "Bruce" Master, so-named because of the man whose body he steals, is one of the more ruthless and manipulative incarnations. Determined to prolong his life, he enters the body of a paramedic by slithering into his mouth. The Master then ropes Chang Lee into his scheme by convincing him the Doctor is evil and has stolen his body, when in fact he is planning to steal the Doctor's body. By opening the Eye of Harmony, he puts the entire world at risk of destruction. His plan comes close to succeeding, with Grace Holloway only saving the day at the last possible second.

Missy is a darkly hilarious Master with a love for petticoats and tea parties. Wanting to prove to the Doctor that they are not so different and re-befriend him, Missy captures the deceased minds of humanity to upgrade them into Cybermen while convincing the wealthy that the dead can feel so they give her their bodies to use in the perfection of the Cybermen. Missy plans to give them as an army to the Doctor to allow him to gain all the victories he wants in return for their friendship restarting with her forcing him to make a decision lest the Earth be destroyed by Cybermen. Even in defeat, Missy simply calmly teleports out disguising it as a vaporization to fake her death. Missy returns later and helps Clara Oswald in her quest to save the Doctor from Davros by using various tricks up her sleeve. Eventually wishing to reform, Missy helps the Doctor stop an invasion of an alien race known as the Monks and helps save his crew from Ice Warriors on Mars. At the end having become disgusted at her younger self "Harold Saxon" and his evil, Missy tricks him into a hug so as to stab him in the back and force a regeneration into her. Missy ultimately wants to return to fight by the Doctor's side and knows that ultimately that this is what her life has been leading up to.

Of the massive cast of monsters, aliens and other assorted characters in the decades-long famous series, "Doctor Who" and its various related works, these geniuses make their mark for the impressive charm and ruthless guile.

River Song, born Melody Pond, is a mysterious woman from the Doctor's future who turns out to be the daughter of Amy Pond and Rory Williams and the Doctor's wife. Raised to kill the Doctor, River later saves his life and when the Silence attempt to force her hand again, she instead alters a fixed point in time to spare him, even as it nearly destroys the universe. Faking the Doctor's death, River is incarcerated for his supposed murder and from her prison cell escapes each night to assist him in fighting all kinds of supernatural threats and staying one step ahead of their opponents through her wits and schemes. Witnessing the death of her parents, River spends 24 years on the planet Darillium before encountering a past version of the Doctor who does not know her and is fighting another alien threat. She sacrifices her life to save both the Doctor and the thousands of people stored inside a computer system, and even after her death, River's archived consciousness continues aiding the Doctor on his perilous adventures with her quick thinking and advice.

Madame Vastra, is a Silurian living among humans during the 19th century in Victorian London, and a member of the Paternoster Gang. After being prematurely awakened by construction workers, Vastra goes on to get revenge for her sisters who were accidentally killed, before being convinced to stop by the Doctor. Instead integrating into human society, Vastra marries her human maid, Jenny Flint, while taking up a job as a consulting detective for Scotland Yard, often eating the criminals she caught. As an ally of the Doctor, Vastra's cunning proved useful against many occasions: helping the Doctor secure control over Demon's Run and figuring out how Melody Pond came to have Time Lord DNA. Her manipulative nature also extends to her allies, with Vastra using mind games to ultimately aid them, helping to pull the Doctor out of his depression, tricking Clara Oswald into going into a trance by dousing a letter in soporific, and using the Doctor's own psychic-link to put him into a healing sleep. Vastra proves herself an irreplaceable ally of the Doctor, every bit as ruthless as she is brilliant.

If there was ever a villain that deserved to be called "Magnificent", that character is the Magnificent Bastard. Capturing the audience with their charisma, incredible intellect, mastery of manipulation, and boldness of action, this character is a show-stealer, demanding your reverence at every turn. So what makes a character a Magnificent Bastard? Let's break it down:

They are brilliant and utterly devious, a smooth operator. They are also savvy and do not fall for obvious traps; bringing them down is no easy feat.

They have a goal, and they're not going to stop until they've completed it. Even when the goal is suicidally over-ambitious, they succeed with style.

Around all media, the Doctor makes enemies all over the existence, but some are more important or personal to him/her than others.

However, in both the television series and the expanded media, each Doctor has at least one personal rival of their own, either by having a personal beef with that specific Doctor, or by being their most recurring enemy.

Examples:

The Daleks: The Doctor's greatest enemies and the only foe to have appeared in every Doctor's television era, and responsible for many companion departures and the Last Great Time War that left the Doctor the last of the Time Lords. While their attitude towards their enemies vary between incarnations, the Doctors unambiguously comment that the Daleks are the most evil force in the universe, and show a fear towards them unshared by their other his enemies. The Daleks, meanwhile, openly acknowledge the Doctor as "The Enemy of the Daleks", and by the new series, the idea of facing the Doctor fills them with utter dread, with an entire "intensive care" wing in the Dalek Asylum being devoted the Daleks that survived the Doctor. Complicating matters is how the Doctor had been sent to interfere in the Daleks creation in the episode "Genesis of the Daleks", with his failure to destroy them at their beginning, after being implied to be the very reason they ventured from Skaro at all, forever linking the Doctor to the carnage they spread, a fact that makes them hate the Daleks all the more.

The Cybermen: The Doctor's second most recurring enemies, and responsible for at least two of their regenerations, and even more companion exits than the Daleks. The Doctor has a degree of pity for the Cybermen, both due to their stagnant existence and the fact they house a living being that didn't ask to be made into a Cyberman, but that doesn't stop them from seeing the Cyberman as a corruption of life and perversion of what they view as the very meaning of living. For their part, while they are not as infested as the Daleks due to emotion suppression, the Cybermen do recognise the Doctor as an enemy figure that needs to be destroyed.

The Sontarans: Whenever the Doctor lists off their greatest enemies, the Sontarans hold a stronghold in third place, behind only the Daleks and Cybermen. Though, because they are more individualised than them, the Doctors general attitude and relationship with the Sontarans varies on the encounter, as opposed to their usual spats with the Daleks and Cybermen. In fact, thanks to the expanded media, they share the distinction with the Daleks of facing every incarnation of the Doctor, by their thirteenth incarnation, including the War Doctor.

The Master: The Doctor's childhood friend and his polar opposite in almost every respect, with the Master wanting to own the universe that the Doctor is content to just explore. After their childhood friendship came to an end, with the reason varying depending on the source material, the Master made it a priority to either one up or flat-out kill the Doctor, seeing their rivalry as game between them.

Davros: The creator of the Daleks, is the Doctor's exact foil in terms of motivations and the only individual the Doctor has explicitly called his archenemy, with even the extreme pacifist Fifth Doctor being tempted to just shoot Davros and be done with it. Davros, however, sees a kinship between him and the Doctor as fellow scientists, and once even made to broker a friendship between them on his terms, which the Doctor rejected on moral principle, causing Davros to intensify their animosity by declaring war on the Time Lords themselves, which was only delayed when the Seventh Doctor tricked him into destroying Skaro. Being a death's door almost caused Davros to settle his feud with the Twelfth Doctor, until it turned it to be a ploy to extend his own life.

Rassilon: Following the Last Great Time War, Rassilon, the founder of Time Lord society resurrected for the war, became another major thorn in the Doctor's side, being one of the reasons the Time Lord embraced the war and become warmongers, despite the Doctor's efforts to keep them peaceful. Once he made it back to Gallifrey, the first thing the Doctor did was oust Rassilon as President and banish him in penance for his war crimes.

This trope deals with variations of lycanthropy (i.e. werewolves).

The exact parameters of lycanthropy vary, but to meet the definition, a werewolf must be a person who takes the form of a wolf under certain conditions (the exact details do vary). Far and away the most popular concept is that a werewolf is a human who has somehow become able to temporarily transform (usually unwillingly) into a wolf that goes on to run wild (rarely remembering their romp). Usual methods includes being bitten, but a lot of depictions show lycanthropy as solely hereditary. Other popular causes include curses and typical mad scientist experiments. Like most werewolves, the classic wolf-man only transforms on the full moon, or, failing that, at night, though none of this is a given in modern works.

Examples:

An American Werewolf in London: The werewolf in this film is a definitely quadrupedal, over-sized animal, looking rather like a husky that has swallowed a large barrel, with limbs set more like a crocodile's than a wolf's; moreover, it has a howl like a train-whistle. Oh, and while Jack ambiguously dismisses the concept of a silver bullet, riddling the werewolf's body with regular gunfire seems to work just fine, as shown by the werewolf at the beginning and David at the end.

Garfield and Friends: In the episode "The Carnival Curse", Garfield receives a gypsy's curse that turns him into a wolf-cat when the moon is full. Note that he is never referred to as a werewolf but rather a "wolf-creature", which makes sense as "were" means "man".

The Howling (1981): The modern upright-beast man style made its popular debut in The Howling (1981), which featured infectious werewolves who otherwise acted as a species who could change at will and seem to retain their own minds, though with predatory instincts. A character points out that the werewolves must be killed with silver, while saying the full moon thing is just Hollywood made up stuff.

Doctor Who: The episode "Tooth and Claw" involves an alien intelligence that could possess people and turn them into a Wolf Man form, and jump (or reproduce) between bodies by biting. Called a Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform, acts like a sentient virus, and had designs on possessing Queen Victoria.

Teen Wolf: Werewolves are sub-categorized into Alphas (dominant), Betas (subordinate) and Omegas (lone). Only an Alpha can actually infect a person with lycanthropy. The werewolf trait can be, but is not always, passed from parent to child, so werewolf families exist. It is possible for an individual werewolf to change their status. For example, a Beta can become an Alpha by killing one. This is not easy however, since Alphas possess much greater power than Betas and Omegas. It is also possible for a Beta to ascend to Alphahood through strength of will and character, but this is shown to be extremely rare, as the main protagonist is the only character to achieve this so far.

Buffyverse: Werewolves occasionally pop up in both "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and sister show "Angel" in different varieties. The show's lycanthropy can be transmitted by bite regardless of transformation state, displays a heightened sense of smell, and a vulnerability to silver and deadly injuries, like a ripped throat or bullet wounds. They change three times every moon cycle: the night of the full moon and the two surrounding nights. The most well-known werewolf characters are Oz (who was bitten by his younger cousin Jordy and learned to suppress his normal transformations after a long trip to Tibet), Veruca (a minor love interest of Oz's) and Nina.

Harry Potter: The Lycanthropy is transmitted by bites, and results in uncontrolled transformations during a full moon utilising like many, many modern versions the tragedy of "The Wolf Man" from 1941. Werewolves are discriminated against by the Wizarding society despite their relative innocence. They are dangerous to humans, but not to other animals (or Animagi). No cure exists, but a Wolfsbane Potion allows them to keep control of their minds during the transformation. Good werewolf Remus Lupin takes the Wolfsbane potion to keep his, whereas the evil Fenrir Greyback doesn't care as he is bloodthirsty as a human anyway. It should also be noted that werewolves are only created when bitten by another werewolf while in wolf form. If bitten by a werewolf in human form, they may garner a few traits (a desire for bloody meat, a temper issue, etc.), but will not actually become a werewolf.

Howl (2015): The werewolves in this film have a somewhat more human-like appearance than most portrayals, with the major wolf-traits present in their anatomy being their golden eyes, pointed ears, jagged teeth, claws, noses and digitigrade legs. Otherwise, they still possess distinctly human features including being largely hairless. Lycanthropy infects and turns new people into werewolves via bites; but unlike the mainstream depictions of werewolves, this version of lycanthropy is treated as a pathogenic mutation which slowly and increasingly transforms the victims and makes them lose their human identities in a zombie-like manner. The transformation after infection appears to be one-way and permanent. It's unknown if the full moon has any influence over these werewolves or the disease that turns them (the film's events take place on the night of a full moon).

Futurama: In a direct parody of "An American Werewolf in London" (and Turbo Teen), the episode "The Honking" has a curse that can turn any mild-mannered robot into a werecar. Unlike the hovercars the characters in the show are familiar with, these cars are "crawling around on round rubber feet... like a wolf!".

Hellsing: The Captain, one of the villains, is a werewolf. He has several forms which he can go between at will, ranging from a human to a mist-like Dire Wolf. In all forms he has massive physical strength and speed with a healing factor.

A father or father figure who also happens to be a prime candidate for the title of a character's Arch-Enemy.

Some will abandon their kids. Some will come to betray their children at a crucial moment. Some are just downright abusive. A select few will go the extra mile to take every action and every opportunity to foil their children's plans and ruin their lives. Some will even go so far as to try kill they own children. They could be anyone on a story whether he's the Big Bad, The Dragon or something else entirely, any story featuring him is likely to be emotionally charged at the least.

It's not necesary that the father and child in question has to be bad and good respectively; both could be villains or antagonists, but they also tries to fight with each other for any reasons.

Normally this will be a personal case, and may well tries to convince him/her to ally with them, but not always — particularly cold-hearted fathers may declare that they have no children and treat the child in question as just one more problem to be solved.

Examples:

Aquaman: Black Manta to his son, Aqualad. Black Manta has vowed to one day gut his own son like a fish just to torment Aquaman.

Inside Job: The source of most of the problems in Reagan Ridley's life is no one more than his father, Rand Ridley. In the Season One Part One finale, reveals that he erased Reagan's memories of her only Childhood friend, Orrin Cartwright to force her to focus on her academic work and be his "insurance" in Cognito Inc makes it clear that Rand is a selfish, narcissistic piece of shit who only views Reagan as an extension of himself, and doesn't actually care about her, and after Reagan tries to cut him out of her life, he ends up being the new boss of Cognito, Inc.

Star Wars Original Trilogy: Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker to his son, Luke Skywalker. For years, Luke believed that Darth Vader was the one who killed Luke's father, not knowing they were one and the same. In addition, Luke personally witnessed him killing his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and his friend, Biggs Darklighter. On the flip side, Vader believed Luke never existed due to Padmé Amidala supposedly dying by Vader's hand. After learning the truth, Vader spent years attempting to convert Luke, doing several act such as: harming Luke's friends, cutting off Luke's hand, and traumatizing Luke by telling him the truth about his heritage. Fortunately, after accepting the truth, Luke becomes determined to redeem Vader.

Avatar, The Last Airbender: Zuko and Lord Fire Ozai. During the eclipse, when Zuko renounces trying to be the son Ozai wants, Ozai reveals that he was willing to kill him when he was not even in his teens.

Game of Thrones: Tywin Lannister to Tyrion Lannister. Tywin despises his son for "killing" his beloved wife and being a whore-mongering dwarf, while Tyrion despises his father for treating him with contempt.

Metal Gear: Big Boss is the main antagonist of the first two games titles and is revealed to the player in Metal Gear Solid to have been Solid Snake's father (though Snake himself seems to have known this much earlier).

Once Upon A Time: Peter Pan to Rumplestiltskin a.k.a. Mr. Gold. His father even threatens to murder Rumpelstiltskin's lover and son just because it would spite Rumple. Peter also tries to take the heart of his great-grandson Henry for immortality, even though this will kill Henry. It'd later revealed Peter Pan/Malcolm abandoned his son so he could regain his youth in Neverland, and later says he always saw his son as a burden.

OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: In the aptly-named episode "Big Reveal" we learn that Professor Venomous is the former hero Laserblast and KO's father.

Castlevania: when Dracula's human wife Lisa was burned as a witch, he went on a revenge against humanity. However, their son Adrian chose to honor his mother's last request not to hate humans, and took the name "Alucard" to show his opposition to his father's ways.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2: Peter Quill a.k.a. Star-Lod finally meets his biological father, Ego, a cosmic entity and a omnicidal who Peter and his team have to stop from destroying the universe and turn it into an extension of himself. And let not forget that he willingly killed Peter's mom and all his children he had with different women cross the universe because they had no his cosmic powers.

When the dragon is more dangerous than the main antagonist.

The Dragon-in-Chief is a version of The Dragon who serves as the de facto Big Bad of the story, even if they're technically not at the top of the bad guy hierarchy. They're nominally subordinate or in service to another villain, but typically so much smarter, stronger or more skillful, and just as evil if not more so (and almost always scarier) that it's clear who's really the biggest threat in the story.

The supposed main villain, for their part, overestimate The Dragon's loyalty or are too afraid to keep them in line. It could also be that the Big Bad is more of a puppet king being manipulated by subordinates, and the Dragon finds this set-up preferable to taking charge personally.

Examples:

Games of Thrones: Lord Tywin Lannister serves as the Dragon-in-chief to his grandson, the incompetent teenaged fool of a King Joffrey Baratheon, who he is technically only the Hand to, and not even that until Season 3. Perhaps best exemplified by the Season 3 finale in which Joffrey claims that it was his father who won the war while Tywin "hid under Casterly Rock!" In response to this challenge, Tywin just sends Joffrey a death glare, which Joffrey quickly buckles under after a just few seconds of attempting to keep eye contact.

Doctor Who: In the episodes The Stolen Earth/Journey's End, Davros is little more than a "pet" for the Supreme Dalek, but it's his plan for the Reality Bomb his creations are following. Also, Dalek Caan needed him to recreate his species. All of this, combined with his personal enmity with the Doctor, makes Davros effectively the face of the Dalek threat.

Resident Evil The Umbrella Chronicles: Sergei Vladimir is the de facto Big Bad, carrying out Ozwell Spencer's orders for him. When Sergei dies, Spencer is left with no allies and no support, and in the following game, is killed by Albert Wesker.

Dragon Ball: In the Red Ribbon Army Arc, there is Officer Black, who is much more competent and threatening and has more morals than Commander Red. When he finds out how petty the wish Red planned with Dragon Balls was —making himself taller—he kills him.

Rio: Nigel to Marcil. While his owner Marcel still drives the plot to some degree, Nigel is the more direct threat and far more menacing and evil than Marcel, while also serving as the lynchpin for Marcel's entire plan.

Avatar (2009): Though Parker Selfridge is the nominal leader of the human forces, the main antagonist of the film is Colonel Quaritch, who runs his mercenary army exactly how he wants to and ultimately becomes the real power in the operation and it's clear they both know it. About the only things that keep Selfridge in place are the fact that he's paying, and that Quaritch can't be bothered with the administrative details.

Alice in Wonderland (2010): The Jabberwocky (which, for bonus points, just so happens to resemble a dragon) is by far the bigger threat compared to his mistress the Red Queen, given that Alice's goal is to slay it and as soon as she does, all of the Red Queen's followers abandon her and she's quickly banished.

Kim Possible: Shego (mostly) helps Drakken carry out his schemes rather than invent and execute any of her own. But we know she has the power to completely overthrow Drakken if she wants to. The only thing that stops her fulfilling all the criteria is that for most of the series, she lacks the ambition to become a bigger treat. Drakken is actually more scientifically savvy than Shego — she just has a lot more common sense and can actually fight on a near-equal level with Kim.

The most notable enemy.

The Arch-Enemy can be the Big Bad, the Dragon, the rival, an evil counterpart, or even a harmless villain. the most important beetwen arch-enemies is that, with them, it's personal.

The Arch-Enemy will stand out from the protagonist's rogue gallery —  will be one opponent where the relationship to the hero and the motivations for battling them are more potent. These feelings may be mutual, felt more by the villain than the hero, or occasionally vice-versa.

Sometimes, there can more than one single arch-enemy, in some occasions, if more than one villain from his rogue gallery stand out, or if a former Arch-Enemy dies and new one comes in to the picture.

Also, remember that being the big bad does not automatically make a villain the hero's Arch-Enemy.

Examples:

Transformers: Optimus Prime and Megatron. They both are the leader of their respective team and fight for the destiny of the planet Earth and their species, however, Megatron wants to rule the planet Earth and humans serving the Decepticons (depending on the countinuity) and optimus prime wants to live in peace between the humans and being a benevolent leader of his home planet Cybertron, (again, depending on the countinuity).

Total Drama: Heather and Gwen. Gwen is the most frequent victim of Heather's cruel actions, and is even given the nickname "Weird Goth Girl". It became more personal when Heather deceives Gwen into believing that her love interest, Trent, was cheating on her with Heather. Since then, they were personal enemies, though it significantly died down by All-Stars.

Doctor Who: In terms of species, the Doctor's greatest enemies are the Daleks, the only foe to have appeared in every Doctor's television era, and responsible for many companion departures and the Last Great Time War that left the Doctor the last of the Time Lords. Behind them are the Cybermen, the Doctor's second most recurring enemies, and responsible for at least two of their regenerations, and even more companion exits than the Daleks. In terms of individuals, the Doctor has his old friend, the Master, and Davros, the creator of the Daleks. Following the Last Great Time War, Rassilon, the founder of Time Lord society resurrected for the war, became another major thorn in the Doctor's side, being one of the reasons the Time Lord embraced the war and become warmongers.

The Boys: Homelander to Billy Butcher. Homelander raped Butcher's wife before she mysteriously went missing. For Homelander's part, he didn't even remember who Butcher was for the longest time, and even after finding out about Butcher he treats him and his threats like a joke. However, after Butcher took Ryan from him in the season 2 finale, the feeling is finally mutual.

TMNT: In almost all incarnations of the franchise, the Shredder has always been at odds with the Turtles and Splinter, and always at a deeply personal level. In the 2003 cartoon, his hatred of them was so deep that it culminated he was willing to destroy the multiverse to destroy all turtles, even at the cost of his own life and that of his daughter Karai, the only other living being that he honestly cares about. The 2012 version was most definitely this to Splinter as well, willing to go to truly insane lengths to make his former brother suffer. 

The former Big Bad now works as the new Big Bad's right hand man/woman.

Generally, when a Big Bad is defeated is replaced by a new one, but when the previous one is still there, one of the things the former antagonist can do is work for the new one as his right hand man.

Demoted big bads will frequently become the Starscream, especially if the only reason they were demoted was because the other big bad happened to have an advantage and the alternative would mean certain death.

Although, some Dragons will do the opposite: they will happily accept the new position, be actually loyal to the new main antagonist and have a trustworthy relationship, often because the Dragon will realize that he works better and more efficiently by working for someone else, and the Dragon may actually become a much bigger threat than when he was the main villain thanks to the help and resources of the new one.

Examples:

Transformers The Movie (1986): Megatron, the main antagonist of the first two seasons of the cartoon, is left for dead by Starscream in the void of space, only to be found by Unicron. Unicron turns him into his slave, reformatting Megatron into Galvatron and ordering him to destroy the Autobot Matrix of Leadership.

All Dogs Go To Heaven: Scarface was the main antagonist of the original movie, but in the sequel movie he played lackey to Red and to Belladona in the series.

X-Men Apocalypse: Magneto is NOT the leader of the supervillain team; this time around, he plays second fiddle to Apocalypse.

My Hero Academia: After Shigaraki defeated Re-Destro the leader of the Meta Liberation Army, he becomes a subordinate of his when they form the Paranormal Liberation Front and declare war on the Heroes.

Gravity Falls: Gideon was the Big Bad in the season 1, but he becames Bill Cipher's enforcer in the season 2 finale after Bill fulfills his plans ands brings about the "Weirdmaggedon".

Teen Titans (2003): Slade is demoted to Trigon's henchmen when the latter tries to take over the world. An unusual case where the former big bad is actually MORE of a threat to the heroes when he's serving as someone else's henchman, because Trigon gave him a truckload of powers in the bargain.

Stitch: In the third season of the anime, the previous big bad Hämsterveil partners up with a new villain named Delia. However, considering that Delia often tortures him when he fails her and that she creates an experiment that is more powerful than Stitch, it's clear that Hämsterviel is no longer the main antagonist this go around.

Street Fighter: In the original Street Fighter, Sagat was the final boss, but in the sequel Street Fighter II, he's simply the last fighter the player must face before M. Bison.

Pirates of the Caribbean At The World's End: The previous film's big bad Davy Jones is demoted to being a henchmen for Cutler Beckett. Justified by Beckett possessing the heart of Davy Jones, and therefore being quite capable of having Jones killed and replaced if he doesn't obey Beckett's orders.

In the villains business, there's only can be one.

Two villains are rivals, each wreaking havoc in their own special way. Each one has the potential to be the one and only Big Bad. The poor heroes are caught in the middle between two completely different threats, and have to be flexible enough to stop both. They may team up against the heroes for a while (each planning to double-cross the other), but usually they go for each other's throats, and the cross-fire threatens to destroy the world.

Whichever villain wins will rub it in with a cackling speech about how the other villain is deficient.

Examples:

Wander Over Yonder: Lord Dominator to Lord Hater and the other villains. When she appears in the season 2 premiere, it really shows that she is worse than Hater. More later, Lord Awesome tries to flirt with her, but she make him clear she is not interested and lock up him in a cell. In the episode "My Fair Hatey", she even sings "I Am The Bad Guy" to Wander and Hater to shows up how truly evil she can be.

Megamind: The titular character who acts more out of showmanship than any real malice, is horrified when he finds out that Titan/Hal turned out to be a villain who enjoys wreaking real havoc out of pure spite.

The Dark Knight Rises: John Daggett hires Bane to help him in his schemes to take control of Wayne Enterprises, and realizes all too late that Bane was the one who was using him all along. Bane is also implied to have actually been too evil and extreme for Ra's al Ghul and the League of Shadows themselves.

Doctor Who: In the episodes "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday", an entire army of Cybermen stomps onto Earth from a parallel universe, seemingly taking control of the planet. Then the Cult of Skaro show up, and make it clear they view the Cybermen as no more than a pest problem.

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A monster clearly inspired by the Frankenstein's novel.

An iconic product of mad science , this creature has lumbered through scores of films and TV series, monstrous yet also pitiful.

In the early films, the monster is evil because a criminal or damaged brain was used. Modern media often revert to the original idea, depicting the monster as an innocent trapped in a monstrous body, unaware of the damage he can do, rejected by a cruel world. When he starts out as an evil henchmen, he often reform himself.

Examples:

Frankenstein (1931): The monster's first appereace in media. The monster goes on to appear in a series of franchise sequels, including three films of its own and four featuring other Universal monster properties. Four different actors would portray the monster for Universal.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Adam is a human/demon patchwork man... and he's also a Cyborg, since he had machine and computer parts.

Gargoyles: Demona and Xanatos use a set-up much like the classic mad scientist laboratory where they use both magic and technology to create the cyborg Coldstone out of the parts of three Gargoyles. When it moves, Xanatos screams: "It's alive, ALIVE!" then calmly turns to Demona and says: "I always wanted to say that".

Johnny Bravo: The titular character fell for a Bride of Frankenstein-esque female in the episode "Frankenbravo". By the end of the episode, he's a Frankenstein monster too.

Game of Thrones: The Mountain has been compared to this as after almost dying in the duel against the Viper, he is taken by Qyburn (a rogue maester suspected of performing necromancy and black arts) and is experimented upon. Qyburn turns him in some sort of zombie-like, red-eyed, giant, hulking, speechless monster with greenish skin that lumbers about killing people on Cersei's orders.

A massive crossover between iconic monster from popular culture.

Most commonly found in a setting where the heroes live in a world where this creatures existed and may be part of a Crossover Cosmology, especially if they themselves are supernatural. The creatures, rather than becoming shut-ins who never leave their designated niche or dark corner of the world... they actually socialize. Vampires and werewolves, usually antagonists, agree to keep up a mutual hidden existence against humans. Fairies and ghosts work together to scare local homeowners. And the wizards work with all of them to save both worlds.

Is not really necesary it had to involve terror of any type.

Examples:

The Monster Squad: The movie has Count Dracula attempting to raise an army of darkness with the assistance of Frankenstein's Monster, a werewolf, a mummy, and a gill-man.

Goosebumps (2015): The movie and it's sequel had monsters from the titular books that they were releashed.

Hotel Transylvania: The main characters are Dracula and his daughter; their friends and guests include a mummy, a werewolf, Frankenstein, witches, an invisible man, a blob, and more. Justified by the title setting being, well, a hotel for monsters.

Nightmare Before Christmas: The citizens of Halloween Town include living skeletons, ghosts, zombies, witches, vampires, a werewolf, a devil, a monster clown and a mad scientist with his stitched-together creation, along with many original monsters.

Monsters vs Aliens (2009): The movie includes versions of the Fifty-Foot Woman, the Fly, the Blob, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Mothra are gathered together to kick alien butts. The Invisible Man also used to be a member of the team.

Castlevania: This video game saga, practically runs on this trope, with demons and mythical monsters thrown in for extra variety. Hell, even Cthulhu makes an apperance, as does Leatherface in Order of Ecclesia.

One Piece: The Thriller Bark Arc has a mansion filled with Zombies that do double duty as frankenstein's monsters, an invisible man, a ghost girl who controls ghosts instead of being one, an invisible mix and match critter, a mad scientist, and their leader who bears a striking resemblance to a vampire and has a special ability that renders its targets unable to touch sunlight without burning up.

Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo Haw Haw: Ed, after watching too many horror movies, hallucinates seeing the cul-de-sac kids as monsters of a different varienty, as witches, aliens, vampiresses, gorgons, a spider monster, etc.