Magnificent Bastard/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

** Evil Morty got to this from his opening episode where {{spoiler|it's revealed that he was the mastermind behind the serial killings of multiple Ricks and Mortys across the multiverse, and used an android of Evil Rick's as a puppet. Then in The Ricklantis Mixup he one-ups C-137 Prime!Rick by winning the Presidency of the Citadel of Ricks, gaining a large percent of the Rick vote despite being a Morty, and on taking power, murders The Illuminati who had been in charge of the Council of Ricks that had merely been the front and becomes unquestioned master of the Citadel.}}

* In ''TRON: Uprising'', we have General Tessler. Legitimately, his tactics should earn him a [[0% Approval Rating]], but his [[Faux Affably Evil]] persona and carefully cultivated bag of half-truths leave Beck as a [[Hero with Bad Publicity]], and earned him the loyalty of Paige even after he slaughtered her friends from the medcenter.

* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' has a very surprising case in the episode "If It Smells Like An Ed." {{spoiler|The Eds spent the episode trying to find the culprit who framed them for stealing a paint brush, wiping off Plank's mouth, and ramming a hockey stick through a giant paper mache heart. In the end, they don't clear their names and get humiliated. Then they find out who concocted this whole scheme: Jimmy. Just because Eddy gave him a wedgie at the start of the episode. Oh, and Ed and Edd did absolutely nothing to him, but were punished anyway. And then Jimmy sends them to the Kankers. He gloats at them as he leaves...then slips on a banana peel and cries for Sarah to come help him.}}

* ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' gives us Bill Cipher, a seemingly omnipotent being who has his grand apocalyptic plan completely mapped out from the start, has been putting the pieces into place for years, and doesn't allow any apparent defeat to be a setback, only a delaying of the inevitable. Bill is fond of making deals with people in which he gives them something they want or think they need, and in return, they can be used and likely screwed over by him later so that he can reap even better benefits. As it's said, he would use or ''possess'' anyone in order to get what he wants, shown clearly when {{spoiler|while possessing the time traveler Blendin, he takes advantage of a distraught, emotional Mabel and tricks her into giving him a dimensional rift belonging to their uncle, and then smashes it, creating the tear between the two worlds, bringing about Weirdmageddon.}} He rarely appears, but his presence is felt even when he's gone, and while undeniably diabolical and sadistic, he's also hilarious and great fun to watch and speculate about.

** Season 2 makes him an even bigger example of this trope: it's revealed that {{spoiler|Toffee had his spirit sealed within a space linked to the split shard of the wand's crystal, and he used it's magic to create a new wand for Ludo to find. As Ludo exploited the wand's corrupted magic all while Star was having trouble with her own wand, it created a "fritz" where all magic in Mewni began getting drained and absorbed into Toffee, and were he to become all powerful with Mewni's magic, the dark magic spell cast at him by Queen Moon long ago would lose effect and there'd be no one else who could wield magic to use against him. Star's wand had also been tainted and it re-created his missing finger that he hoped to restore to his hand. Speaking to Ludo through his wand, Toffee had Ludo swipe Star's magic spellbook along with it's genie, Glossaryk of Terms, and told Ludo to read from the Eclipsa chapter to enact a dark spell that allowed him to overtake Ludo's mind and possess his body. With this, not only does Toffee transform the wand into a new arm and hand for himself (with the crystal shard grafted into it) and use his new magic power to dominate Queen Moon and the Magical High Commission in battle, but he takes ownership of the spellbook away from Ludo, fully counting on Ludo getting so enraged by his inability to use the book that he burns it, ''which is exactly what ends up happening.'' Afterwards he has Ludo ravage the kingdom of Mewni with his rat army and take over Butterfly Castle, luring Star to them so that the wand can be cleaved back together and give Toffee all of Mewni's magic, but when Star instead casts the Whispering Spell to destroy Ludo's wand, sealing herself into the space where Toffee is, Toffee improvises and, speaking through Ludo, coerces Queen Moon into giving him back his finger so that he can fully regenerate himself, but he doesn't return Star to life like he promised he would. With no more magic to be used against him and his revenge on Moon seemingly taken, Toffee would now presumably raise a new army of monsters to conquer a land already in shambles from his actions. Had Star not come back more powerful than ever and destroyed Toffee for good, he would have ''won.''}}

* La Sombra the river pirate in ''[[Hey Arnold]]'' ''The Jungle Movie''. {{spoiler|He took over the group that Arnold's parents' friend Eduardo worked for in order to arrange the [[Rigged Contest]] for the San Lorenzo field trip, naming the PS-118 class the winners when he sees Arnold is with them. He impersonated Eduardo himself to take the kids on his riverboat, manipulating Arnold into confiding in him and keeping the knowledge of La Sombra being after him a secret from his friends, and when a boat carrying men working for the real Eduardo came in pursuit, he claimed they were La Sombra and his crew and that he was changing course to get the class to safety when it reality he was luring them into his pre-arranged trap. When Arnold, Gerald, and Helga escape from their imprisonment, La Sombra had anticipated this happening and had already placed a tracking device on Arnold. As he and his crew followed the kids' trail, La Sombra anticipated all the booby traps and had his crew members take all the blows instead. He very nearly succeeded in taking the Corazon of the Green-Eyed People for himself, even narrowly averting a [[Disney Villain Death]] (at first) and prolonging his own death by poison just for one last shot at taking it.}}

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