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* [[Final Fantasy VII]]. [[Word of God]] confirms that Sephiroth is in control, but all of his powers, most of Shinra's military might, and the reason for the Weapons' creation is Jenova.

** Professor Hojo is the person responsible for infecting Sephiroth with Jenova cells, and the reason Jenova is even a threat again in the game proper. He's also why Cloud has amnesia. Various other games in the [[The Verse]] elaborate on his deeds and feature him as a [[Big Bad]] in his own right. He comes close to forming a [[Bigger Bad]] [[Big Bad Duumvirate|Duumvirate]] with Jenova.

* In the ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' series, as revealed near the end of the first game, {{spoiler|the dead god Bhaal}} pushed the plot into movement in the backstory, but being dead, takes no active part in the story of the games other than as semi-impersonal power scattered among {{spoiler|his mortal children}}. All the three [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] in the series are after this power in some way or another. (Of course, since [[Forgotten Realms|the setting]] is an established [[Shared Universe]] -- [[The Multiverse|multiverse]], [[Planescape|even]] --, there are plenty of other at least equally powerful Bigger Bads in the setting in general. You can even [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|kill]] [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|one]] [[Bonus Boss|in passing]] later on, and [[Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?|chat]] with [[God of Evil|another]]. But the above holds in the context of what's relevant to the main story.)

* ''[[Phantasy Star]]'' has {{spoiler|The Profound Darkness. The series protagonist's struggle against the Dark Force/[[Spell My Name with an "S"|Falz]], the recurring [[Big Bad]], basically amounts to [[Fighting a Shadow]] of a fraction of the Profound Darkness' own evil and hatred. DF himself is a threat to the entire universe, so nobody wants to find out what the Profound Darkness can do if left unchecked.}}

* {{spoiler|Prime Minister Bill Hawks}} in ''[[Professor Layton and the Unwound Future]]''. Aside from being a [[Distressed Dude]], he doesn't play much of a role in the conflict of the story, but he was responsible for the incident that served as the [[Start of Darkness]] for the game's two main villains.

* The main villain of ''[[Homestar Runner|Stinkoman 20X6]]'', due to the game not having a final level.

* ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' enjoys this trope immensely.

** The six slumbering Celestial Avatars [[Playing with Fire|Ifrit]], [[An Ice Person|Shiva]], [[Blow You Away|Garuda]], [[Dishing Out Dirt|Titan]], [[Shock and Awe|Ramuh]], and [[Making a Splash|Levithan]] could destroy the world easily if they ever woke up, [[Subverted Trope|fortunately, they don't feel like it.]] Part of [[Light'Em Up|Carbuncle]]'s reasoning for spreading the Summoner job is to show those Avatars that people are actually pretty nifty and that they shouldn't destroy the world when they eventually do wake up.