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{{trope}}
[[Big Bad|Big bads]] die. That is a fact of a story......[[The Bad Guy Wins|most]] [[Downer Ending|of]] [[Yank the Dog's Chain|the]] [[Invincible Villain|time.]] That being said, when the [[Big Bad]] dies too early in the story's narrative, when due to the [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]], a [[Klingon Promotion]], or being on the wrong end of [[Eviler Than Thou]], it quite expected that a new guy will somehow take his place, usually with his own [[Mooks]] to do his dirty work.
Except sometimes not.
Whether they are still effective or not depends on which they [[Villain Forgot to Level Grind|remembered to keep their skills sharp,]] [[Joke Character|assuming they were very skilled in the first place.]]
{{examples
* The mooks of the ''[[Thunderbolts]]'' are just guys in cool armor with guns. When Swordsman bribes/hires a bunch of them for himself, while staging a coup against Norman Osborn, he spraypaints them in his colors. They don't last long, but they are mooks who get a palette swap and a new boss.
== [[Comics]] == ▼
* ''[[Star Wars:
▲* The mooks of the ''[[Thunderbolts]]'' are just guys in cool armor with guns. When Swordsman bribes/hires a bunch of them for himself, while staging a coup against Norman Osborn, he spraypaints them in his colors. They don't last long, but they are mooks who get a palette swap and a new boss.
▲* ''Star Wars: [[Legacy (Comic Book)|Legacy]]'', when Darth Krayt dies, the entire Sith Empire works for Darth Wyyrlok for a while.
* Manute of ''[[Sin City]]'' goes to work for Wallenquist after Ava Lord's death.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitro_(comics) Nitro] is a villain who, while first appearing in ''[[Captain Mar-Vell]]'''s comic, is not associated with any hero or group of heroes, because it seems he will work as an assassin or mercenary for ''anyone''. Thanos, the Kingpin, Justin Hammer, Namor, the Hood, you name it. Possibly he's [[Only in It For the Money]], but the problem is, he loves his job a little too much...
* Jaws somehow survives being dropped into a shark tank in the middle of the ocean at the end of ''[[
* The character Ogre in ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'' shows up in the sequel in a different chapter of the Alpha Beta fraternity. The brothers he had in the original film are all gone, apparently defeated. Although later,
▲* Jaws somehow survives being dropped into a shark tank in the middle of the ocean at the end of ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me (Film)|The Spy Who Loved Me]]''. When the original [[The Dragon|Dragon]] is killed in ''[[Moonraker (Film)|Moonraker]]'', Jaws is hired as his replacement.
* Lobo, the hulking henchman played by Tor Johnson in ''[[Bride of the Monster]]'' shows up again under a different Big Bad in ''Night Of The Ghouls'', heavily scarred and apparently undead.
▲* The character Ogre in ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'' shows up in the sequel in a different chapter of the Alpha Beta fraternity. The brothers he had in the original film are all gone, apparently defeated. Although later, {{spoiler|they ditch Ogre after he's served his purpose as dumb muscle, leaving him to join the all-accepting nerds as ''their'' dumb muscle}}
* Throughout the course of ''[[
▲* Lobo, the hulking henchman played by Tor Johnson in ''[[Bride of the Monster]]'' shows up again under a different Big Bad in ''Night Of The Ghouls'', heavily scarred and apparently undead.
* ''[[
▲* Throughout the course of ''[[The Dark Knight Saga (Film)|The Dark Knight Saga]]'', many of the mobsters goons turn to [[The Joker]] (after some "auditions").
* In ''[[X
▲* ''[[Star Wars (Franchise)|Star Wars]]'' has an interesting one. The clones were created by the Jedi, and they continued to serve the <s> Republic</s> Empire, and one Jedi in particular. Also, pretty much all the Imperials in the [[Expanded Universe]] who don't fall under [[Defector From Decadence]].
▲* In ''[[X Men First Class (Film)|X Men First Class]]'', Magneto inherits Sebastian Shaw's henchmen after his [[Face Heel Turn]].
== [[Literature]] ==
* In the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, after Darken Rahl, ruler of D'Hara, is killed in the first book, large portions of his armies end up working as the expeditionary forces for the [[Big Bad]] for the rest of the series.
** Also semi-inverted, in that the ''rest'' of Rahl's armies pledge
* In ''[[Mistborn]]'', after {{spoiler|[[Evil Overlord|the Lord Ruler's]]}} death, many of his most powerful minions, notably [[Our Orcs Are Different|Koloss]] and [[Implacable Man|Inquisitors]], start working for new [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Ruin}}. Justified in this case because the Lord Ruler created these beings and built a psychic "back door" into them so that he could always control them; with him out of the way, the far more powerful {{spoiler|Ruin}} was equally capable of exploiting said "door". His human minions are a much more mixed bag, with some joining the heroes and others various [[Big Bad Wannabe]] kings.
* Across [[
* The Noghri in ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'' originally served Vader {{spoiler|in exchange for Vader restoring their planet after it was victim to a Clone Wars era bioweapon}} serve Thrawn after Vader's demise since (as further works of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] reveal) he was the only Imperial authorized to have Noghri command delegated to him. {{spoiler|When they learn Vader lied to them and was deliberately slow-walking their planet's recovery, to the point it is now too late for the planet, in order to keep them in service indefinitely, their vengeance is enacted upon Thrawn.}}
* ''[[
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
** ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'' has Vancuria, who was immortal and couldn't be killed anyway. So when a new villain took control of the Infershia army, she always stuck around. In fact, because of said immortality, and a [[Heel Face Turn]], she outlasts almost all of them. The other Dragon, Wolzard, was similar, though he did go rogue a few times, and the various Infershia leaders used the same army of [[Mooks]]. ''[[
▲* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (TV)|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' had Lord Zedd usurp Rita Repulsa as the series villain, but he kept all of Rita's old henchmen under his employ. He even upgraded the Putties to be [[Elite Mooks|tougher]], provided nobody hit the [[Weaksauce Weakness|obvious emblem target]] [[For Massive Damage|on their chests.]]
▲** ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'' has Vancuria, who was immortal and couldn't be killed anyway. So when a new villain took control of the Infershia army, she always stuck around. In fact, because of said immortality, and a [[Heel Face Turn]], she outlasts almost all of them. The other Dragon, Wolzard, was similar, though he did go rogue a few times, and the various Infershia leaders used the same army of [[Mooks]]. ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force (TV)|Power Rangers Mystic Force]]'' did the same thing.
** The Bibi soldiers from ''[[Tensou Sentai Goseiger]]''. {{spoiler|Except here they were all actually underlings to the ''real'' [[Big Bad]], who was working under all three of the show's baddies.}}
** In ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger the Movie: The Flying Ghost Ship
** In ''[[Power Rangers Beast Morphers]]'', Goldar ([[The Dragon]] to Rita and later Zedd) is restored to like by Ryjack, becoming the [[Came Back Strong|even stronger Goldar Maximus]]. He then proceeds to lead an army of Mooks which include the Putty Patrollers from the original season.
* At the end of ''[[
* Officer Braca (later Lieutenant) in ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Stargate SG
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Professor Layton and The Unwound Future (Video Game)|Professor Layton and The Unwound Future]]'' has the "worked for the true villain" kind. ▼
* Revolver Ocelot. Throughout the first three games (''[[Metal Gear Solid (Video Game)|Metal Gear Solid]]'', ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty (Video Game)|Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty]]'', and ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater (Video Game)|Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]''), he is working for the [[Big Bad]] as [[The Dragon]]. And at the end, he reveals that he was really working for someone else (and the Third game is a [[Prequel]], so he's be at this for a while. This changes in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots (Video Game)|Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]]'', where he finally decides it's time to be the big bad himself. [[Good All Along|Except he's not.]] It's complicated because it's Ocelot. ▼
* ''[[Epic Battle Fantasy]]'' has mooks from the first two games appear in the third game as Akron's mooks. ▼
* In ''[[Overlord (Video Game)|Overlord]]'' you're invoking this trope by taking control of the previous Overlord's tower and minions. {{spoiler|The final level sees him turn up to reclaim them, forcing you to regain their loyalty the old fashioned way.}} In fact there have been a whole chain of Overlords over the years, but they all use the same sort of Minions and even a couple of the same individuals ▼
* ''[[Final Fight (Video Game)|Final Fight]]'' and its SNES sequels has passed the [[Big Bad]] baton from Belger's Mad Gear Gang (the first game) to an international subsidiary of Mad Gear run by Belger's (previously unknown) [[The Dragon|Dragon]] Retu (2) to Black and his Skull Cross Gang (3). Regardless of the main villain, [[Giant Mook|the Andore family]] is always under the employment of these gangs, and as such, are the only recurring enemies throughout the series. ▼
* In ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]'', Bat is originally a mook working for a Tribe you are fighting to defeat in order to form an alliance with them, but then later joins another Tribe and then kinda sort of does his own thing (becoming a Big Bad in his own right). ▼
* In ''[[Mario and Luigi Bowsers Inside Story (Video Game)|Mario and Luigi Bowsers Inside Story]]'', Bowser encounters a few Monty moles who used to work for him. Turns out they've gone over to Fawful's side.▼
▲* ''[[Professor Layton and
▲* Revolver Ocelot. Throughout the first three games (''[[
▲* ''[[Epic Battle Fantasy]]'' has mooks from the first two games appear in the third game as Akron's mooks.
▲* In ''[[Overlord (
▲* ''[[
▲* In ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]'', Bat is originally a mook working for a Tribe you are fighting to defeat in order to form an alliance with them, but then later joins another Tribe and then kinda sort of does his own thing (becoming a Big Bad in his own right).
▲* In ''[[Mario
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[
** Inverted with the Shadowkhan, who are introduced as the [[Elite Mooks]] of Shendu, but are revealed to have orignally served Tarakudo; Shendu basically stole them.
* A flashback in an episode of ''[[
* In ''[[WITCH (
** For a more villainous example, a number of Phobos' named minions decide to form a group called [[Avenging the Villain|the Knights of Vengeance]] under the guidance of new [[Big Bad]] Nerissa. She continues to use them until she's powerful enough to create a [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] that's entirely her own.
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