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* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' went from fighting a corrupt village chief who repressed the villagers, supposedly for their own good, to fighting a deranged God-king who repressed humanity, supposedly for their own good, to fighting a deranged alien race who repressed sentient life in general, supposedly for their own good.
** of course, the same events and themes reoccurring with escalation is part of the overlying "Spiral" theme of the show itself, so it's probably safe to assume that this was entirely deliberate.
* The ''[[
* Younger Toguro and Sensui from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. Both [[Death Seeker|Death Seekers]] who wanted Yusuke to defeat them. Both have existential crises based around [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]. Two diffeences: Toguro was looking for power, and Sensui had already found it, but had pretty much [[Comes Great Insanity|gone nuts]] doing so, and Sensui wanted to go somewhere before he was killed.
** The main difference is, {{spoiler|Toguro was a demon who wanted to be killed by a human, while Sensui was a human who wanted to be killed by a demon. Lucky for them, Yusuke is [[Half-Human Hybrid|both]].}}
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** Not technically true in Emerald or Platinum, where the evil teams suceed in their plots and the version mascot shows up to save the day.
** All three groups are stand-ins for the 1st game's Team Rocket, which wanted to capture any and all rare and/or powerful Pokemon, and in the anime ''created'' their own Legendary, Mewtwo, in order to rule the world.
* Subverted in ''[[
* The Principality of Zeon from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' is a [[A Nazi
* Deliberately invoked by Lelouch in ''[[Code Geass]]'' as part of a martyrdom [[Thanatos Gambit]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''Micronauts'' spent the first 30-odd issues disposing the tyrant Baron Karza (the black-armored centauriod figure in the collection). Once they had finally deposed the Baron, leading hero Force-Commander (the white-armored centauriod) did a [[Face Heel Turn]] and became the new [[Big Bad]].
* In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (
* [[Tintin
== [[Film]] ==
* In the ''[[James Bond (
** And all three were directed by the same director!
== [[Literature]] ==
* At the end of the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld
{{quote| ''[[Altum Videtur|Ave! duci novo, similis duci seneci!]]''}}
** Hell, they just come right out and say it in English, too.
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* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' was positively horrible about this while it was still set on Earth. It starts out with Rita Repulsa, whose motivation was to conquer Earth starting with Angel Grove, sticking to the tactic of sending the same squad of incompetent Putties and a single [[Monster of the Aesop]] in easily defeated waves. Once she got usurped by Lord Zedd, he pretty much just maintained the same status quo. They were then replaced with the Machine Empire, who pretty much did the exact same things. Turbo comes along and we meet the new threat, Divatox, who also quickly settles into doing the same things (often with a bomb thrown in somewhere for good measure.) She's followed by Astronema. The leader of the [[Legion of Doom]] chooses a newcomer to go after the Rangers, and she starts out by laying waste to NASADA and trying to take out the Rangers' shuttle... but soon settles into doing exactly the same things as the others, for at least the first half of the season.
** After the Zordon era, taking on the [[Super Sentai]] formula in which a new season equals total overhaul, sometimes the [[Big Bad]] within a series will be defeated and a new one will come to power. It will be a momentous occasion... but the first episode after the transition will also consist of the new villain using the same methods as the first. [[Power Rangers Wild Force]] was a bit different, though, with Mandilok being much more proactive than Master Org.
** Of course, we know by now that [[Strictly Formula|the formula]] isn't going anywhere. Oh, look, they're [[Power Rangers Samurai|Samurai]] now! The Nighloks... send the same squad of incompetent [[Mooks|Moogers]] and a [[Monster of the Aesop]] in easily defeated waves. Their boss Xandred is [[Orcus
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Every ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' game since the first features a human seeking to exploit the power of demons to become a demon himself.
* The main villains in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' and ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' II were {{spoiler|Xehanort's Heartless and Xehanort's Nobody Xemnas, respectively. Both their plans involve collecting hearts, making you run around fixing different worlds that could be destroyed by their actions, causing some awfully similar enemies to attack people and even their appearance is the same although they are still individuals in their own right and work independently.}}
* In ''[[
** And in ''[[
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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