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* This happened with the 5th ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' movie, ''Cooler's Revenge'': when Goku recovers from his injuries and powers up to fight [[Big Bad]] Cooler the force waves throw Cooler's remaining henchman and more or less Dragon Salza into a rock face which he disappears into. He's forgotten until the very end when Cooler is vanquished, when he emerges to try and finish off the exhausted and battered heroes. Until Piccolo blows a hole in him via an offscreen <s> Makkelranko</s> <s> Mallerkasanko</s> <s> Mykillerisdanko</s> ''[[Dragonball Z Abridged|SPECIAL BEAM CANNON.]]''

* Quattro in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]'', though she had an excuse. She was operating the [[Cool Ship]] that was heading to space while [[Big Bad]] Jail Scaglietti was in his [[Elaborate Underground Base]] when Fate came to kick his ass. That, and {{spoiler|she had one of Jail's backup clones implanted in her womb}}, so her not going down with the [[Big Bad]] was what the [[Big Bad]] wanted.

* This was also the case in the [[Soul Eater]] manga. Where one of Arachne's dragons, Giriko, was drugged by the good guys. {{spoiler|Which resulted in him sleeping through the entire invasion of Baba Yaga's Castle and Arachne's Death.}}

* An example of this occurs in the first ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' anime: after Roy is finished with Pride, he exits his lair only to be shot in the eye by Frank Archer, who had been marching slowly into the area. Despite this Pride was not the actual Big Bad, Archer having been the Dragon to another Dragon.

* ''[[Ogre Battle]]'' has many examples, but the most obvious is in Tactics Ogre. Xaebos plays this role to the Galgastani remnants, whose main leader has either stabbed himself or been sufficiently guillotined off-screen.

* In ''[[Tomb Raider]] 2'', the [[Big Bad]] turns himself into a giant Chinese dragon and is fought and killed by Lara in a massive boss battle in the game's ''second to last'' level. In the last level, Lara is relaxing at home when the [[Big Bad|Big Bad's]] remaining men crash through the front door, led by the [[Big Bad]]'s 8-foot tall, dual-shotgun-wielding [[The Dragon]].

* This happens in the "true ending" path of ''[[Contra]]: Hard Corps''. You defeat the [[Big Bad]] at the end of the 2nd to last level. At the beginning of the last level, [[The Dragon]] shows up to fight you. When you point out that his boss is dead, he replies that he doesn't care and just likes fighting.

* In [[Tales of Vesperia]], one could argue that Zagi is at least temporarily the Dragon for every villain except for Cumore and {{spoiler|Alexei}}, who share Yeager as their Dragon. Yeager's Dragon, of course, would be Zagi.

** In the seventh Fire Emblem, {{spoiler|either Lloyd or Linus becomes the final boss of the second act, depending on who died first.}}

* The whole [[Mario & Luigi]] series is this. We have [[The Dragon]] of the first game, [[Strange Syntax Speaker|Fawful]], being forcefully ejected from [[Gender Bender|Bowletta's]] castle. In the second game, he's a badge salsman who is in a spot where he conveniently can't see the adult bros. Then, in the third, {{spoiler|he's the [[Big Bad]], or at least he is until the [[Artifact of Doom|Dark Star]] takes over}}.

* This is fairly common in the ''[[Warcraft]]'' universe, especially in the [[World of Warcraft|MMO]].

** Rend Blackhand was chief lieutenant to Orgrim Doomhammer during the Second War. During the climactic battle which saw the Horde defeated, Rend and his clan were sent to deal with Gul'dan. After a few final skirmishes with the Alliance, Rend and his remaining allies retreated to Blackrock Spire. Decades later, Rend has proclaimed himself the [[The Remnant|Warchief of the Horde]] in opposition to Thrall. However, his battle is doomed to failure and he is little more than a minor lieutenant to Nefarion.

* {{spoiler|Olga}} from ''[[Asura's Wrath]] in the true ending. {{spoiler|She gets killed by the [[Bigger Bad]] before she can do anything else, however.}}

* In [[God Hand]], this happens when you beat Belze to find that [[The Dragon]] of the group, Azel, has left for his own plans of world domination, tired of the failings of the demons. {{spoiler|He did not realize Belze made a [[Xanatos Gambit]] to use Azel as a sacrifice to summon Satan, which actually worked.}}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

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