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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.

** 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.

* 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]].

* ''[[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.

 

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* Many Eastern Europeans found Soviet rule under Stalin to be little different from Nazi occupation.

* [[Fidel Castro|Castro]] under [[Cuba]]. Overthrew the corrupt Batista, introduced a totalitarian communist regime.