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* The [[God of Evil|First Evil]] from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. This gets bonus points for being an [[Informed Ability]]; we are told repeatedly it cannot be fought directly, and yet does damned little in the onscreen villainy department.
** Ditto The Beast from ''[[Angel]]''. His status as this becomes a plot point, when they realize he's not smart enough to have come up with his plan on his own, and is serving someone else.
* Initially the bad guys in ''[[Power Rangers]]'' had little origins or motivations to speak of other than being, well, evil. [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Rita and Zedd]] seemed simply evil for evil's sake. When ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'' came along hints were dropped that they - and the newcomers from the Machine Empire - were part of some larger conglomerate of galactic evil. Eventually, ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'' started a trend of going deeper into the bad guys' backstories, which has continued to the present.
== Mythology and Religion ==
* Surtr, the fire giant who is responsible for the end of the world in [[Norse Mythology]], is probably the [[Ur Example]]. He doesn't appear in any myths except the one that tells of Ragnarok, where he and his armies invade Asgard, he kills Freyr and engulfs the world in fire, and even that myth gives him little description or characterization. Still, while he may not appear, he is referred to in numerous other tales of both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda. And he's hardly the only Jotunn lacking character depth.
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