Filler Villain: Difference between revisions

A new one-off [[Big Bad]] created just for a [[Filler]] arc. Not the most dignified place for the villain, because that means the villain will have less effect on the actual canon than the weakest [[Mook|Mooks]]s in the real arcs. This puts the writers in an awkward position because they have to somehow make the villain a credible threat to the heroes, yet at the same time maintain that the threat is relatively new or extremely region contained to explain why such a huge threat wasn't a problem for the rest of the series - rather problematic if the heroes are already facing the upper tiers of the [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]] in canon.

** A filler villain, Don Achino had the amazing power of controlling heat. This allowed him to control the lava on his [[Hailfire Peaks|frozen volcano island]]. Given that a major villain of a later arc is made of lava, the implications are astounding...yet he will never actually have an effect on the plot due to his [[Filler Villain]] status. Though, it's definitely worth noting that Oda ''wrote'' that particular filler arc, and the powers of Don Achino and the other lava-man are still completely different. (Don controls heat and can move lava, but the other is a logia-type actually made of it.)