Filler Villain: Difference between revisions

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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]] 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.

** ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged]]'' did that movie, and gave the name of the trope [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7InuCQh5pr8 in the last part].

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' did this when ''Sailor Moon R'' [[Overtook the Manga]] by using the aliens Ail and En and their energy-eating tree, Makaiju to fill 13 episodes. They are never referenced again, though the ''Sailor Moon R'' [[Non-Serial Movie]] seems to draw some inspiration from it with the flower-obsessed alien Fiore and his evil life-eating Xenian Flower. Fiore looks markedly similar to Ail and shares his voice actor ([[Hikaru Midorikawa]]) and the flower shares An's ([[Yumi Touma]]). The villains from the other two movies might also count, although it worth noting that the ''Sailor Moon S'' movie, as well as the ''Ami's First Love'' special, are actually adapted from the manga side stories (which tend to use a lot of unique villains).

** Noa and Gozaburo are worth noting because the latter is an actual character from the manga who serves as a [[Posthumous Character]] there. In the anime he's revealed to have been in hiding and has become the [[Big Bad]] of the [[Filler Arc]] with Noa as [[The Dragon]].

* ''[[Naruto]]'' (Many many MANY filler villans during it season long filler arcs so as not to overtake the manga)

** 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.)

** The movies, as well, typically have villains that don't even amount to Goldfish Poop Gang status, aside from the movies that revisit/reimagine story arcs.

* In ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', we have:

** Joker, Shin's [[The Dragon|right-hand man]] whose main purpose was to serve as an informant between Shin and many of the [[Monster of the Week|villains of the week]] that were sent out to get Kenshiro. He actually has a bigger screen-time than any of Shin's [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|playing card-themed henchmen]] from the manga (along with the Godland Colonel and Jackal for that matter).

 

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