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** 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 ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' universe: King Piccolo, Vegeta and Freeza. It all went like this: [[Big Bad]] wants Dragon Balls, Goku and company (including [[Defeat Means Friendship|the previous arc's Big Bad]]) fight a series of mooks and various [[The Dragon|lieutenants]] until the Dragon Balls are no longer an issue and then they fight the [[Big Bad]] himself. [[Reincarnation|Piccolo Jr.]] (who was fought between King Piccolo and Vegeta) is an exception because he never wanted the Dragon Balls and he never had any subordinates. He just simply wanted revenge on Goku.
* 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]].}}
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' had Team Aqua/Magma in the 3rd games, and Galactic in the 4th. Both wanted to capture and control the version specific Legendary, the former two to expand the size of the ocean/land the latter because their leader wanted to [[A God Am I|become a god]].
** 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 ''[[Death Note]]'' where the lines and appearances between good and evil are repeatedly blurred and questioned. Misa sort of fits [[Meet the New Boss|this trope]] from L's perspective when she becomes the second Kira but operates less methodically and for different reasons from Kira so that L has to shift his focus in the investigation. From Light's perspective, {{spoiler|pending L's death}}, Near and Mello.
* The Principality of Zeon from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' is a [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|Nazi-esque]] military dictatorship that aims to rule the solar system while proclaiming the superiority of space-born humans over ones born on Earth. The Titans from ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'' are a Nazi-esque military dictatorship that aim to rule the solar system while proclaiming the superiority of Earth-born humans over ones born in space. What a huge change!
* Deliberately invoked by Lelouch in ''[[Code Geass]]'' as part of a martyrdom [[Thanatos Gambit]].
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== [[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 (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', after spending 50+ issues fighting Dr. Robotnik, he's finally done in by a combination of a [[Duel to the Death]] with Sonic and his nephew Snively, who was acting as [[The Starscream]]. Twenty-Five issues and minor dealings with wanna-be [[Big Bad]] Ixis Naugus, the new villain shows up... Robo-Robotnik, a Robotnik from another universe, who takes over and takes up the name Dr. Eggman.
* [[Tintin]] and the Picaros starts with two armed guards patrolling the slums of Tapiocapolis, the city named after the egomaniacal General Tapioca. At th end of the book, General Alcazar has kicked Tapioca out with Tintin's help... and we see two armed guards patrolling the slums of Alcazarpolis. Made even more depressing by the fact that it's the very last panel of the entire series.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* At the end of the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'', Homicidal Lord Winder is replaced by the (soon to be known as) Mad Lord Snapcase, who immediately goes on to prove himself just as bad as his predecessor when he orders the main character's death. Mister Slant, the leader of the Guild of Lawyers, even lampshades this when he says the trope name in [[Canis Latinicus]].
{{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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** The 5th Column has been undergoing a resurgence, though, starting with their appearance in a few time-travel related Task Force arcs, to being revived under new leadership, and most recently, they have begun appearing in the streets again, usually beating up Council members.
* The bosses in ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' games. There will always be a scheme that will somehow involve gathering energy from the fighters in the tournament- from using it to resurrect Orochi to destroy mankind to using the energy to fire a space cannon to fire laser beams to Southtown. Oh and they all have the [[SNK Boss]] Syndrome as well.
* Near the end of ''[[Jade Empire]]'', {{spoiler|Sun Li the Glorious Strategist shows up, hijacks the previous villain's plan to lead the Empire to glory with the Water Dragon's power.}}
* 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.}}
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== [[Web Animation]] ==
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