Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Naruto]]'' Orochimaru has managed to single-handedly construct a series of immense underground bunkers populated by fanatic followers hidden throughout the Elemental Nations. On top of this, he has managed to conduct extensive large-scale experiments on human subjects. He throws away powerful minions like confetti. And despite setbacks, he never seems to face any serious damage.

** {{spoiler|Madara}} seems to have access to all of the abandoned assets of {{spoiler|the Uchiha clan}}, to the point that he can afford an entire building just to store ''[[Collector of the Strange|eyes]]''.

 

 

 

 

* The Chaos Marines of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' never seem to run out of supplies despite having been fighting the Imperium (and each other) for the best part of 10,000 years. This has been [[Retcon|justified recently]] with "daemon forge worlds" and a much greater emphasis on Renegade Marines (recently turned to Chaos) than the Traitor Legions (ten thousand years of war against the God-Emperor).

** Traitor Marines also often raid Imperial supplies and use Loyalist geneseed from dead Marines to make more Chaos Marines. They also don't use the technology that would require extremely high amounts of maintenance like anti-gravity vehicles and assault cannons. Being able to bind Daemons into their machines helps to keep them working, too.

** It's worth noting that the majority of Chaos Marines operate from the [[Negative Space Wedgie|Eye of Terror]], where the laws of physics are a funny joke you tell your friends. In other words, they have ''literal'' [[Offscreen Villain Dark Matter]] at their disposal. The Alpha Legion, the only Traitor Legion that doesn't, are low-key guerrilla warfare specialists and seldom attack the Imperium openly in large-scale campaigns.

** Eldar are a perplexing example. They are apparently on the brink of extinction with only a dozen or so active Craftworlds and miniscule armed forces for a war that spans the galaxy, but neither the gameplay nor the story reflect this, repeatedly throwing away hundreds, thousands of soldiers on futile endeavors and generally having little better regard for their soldiers than the Imperium.

*** Should note Eldar have small numbers compare to the other races, Craftworlds are planet size that houses billions. Which is small when you compare it to the trillions of humans.

 

 

* See Also: [[Not Playing Fair with Resources]]

* Despite being clearly both evil and insane and even jailed multiple times, Doctor Wily of ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' is always able to build at least eight new war robots and a fortress. Well, except when he manipulates Cossack in the fourth game or tricks various national representatives in the sixth, anyway. Maybe he just uses really cheap parts; after all, he ''did'' make one of his robots out of wood.

** Ditto for the [[Sonic Heroes|Egg Fleet and Final Fortress]]. Hell, every ship in Final Fortress could very well be a fortress in themselves. Even lampshaded by Knuckles, of all people.

{{quote|'''Knuckles:''' The Egg Carrier was ''nothing'' compared to this!}}

* In [[Mother 3]], once you realize who King P{{spoiler|orky}} is, you have to wonder how he funds the production of Happy Boxes, the construction of New Pork City, the remodeling of Tazmily Village, and pays the Pigmask Army.

** This is explained, but very briefly and only very late in the game. {{spoiler|He uses time travel to take (or steal) high technology from eras when it's cheap and common and easy to get, and uses it to establish himself as a techno-dictator in eras when it isn't.}}

** Dr. Drakken also ends up in the "Time Share Lair" from time to time when his current lair has been destroyed. Dementor apparently owns a share there, too, as Dr. Drakken keeps getting Dementor's mail when he's there...

* Cobra never won a major tactical or strategic victory against the Joes in ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', yet they never seemed to lose the ability to field their army for next week's evil plan. Two episodes did center around Cobra having fiduciary problems; one where the Joes capture Cobra's assets for the fiscal year, and the infamous episode "Cobrathon" where extra funds have to be raised via a ''telethon'' for a special weapon. Several episodes hint that much of funding for the animated version of Cobra comes from Extensive Enterprises, a seemingly-legitimate [[Mega Corp]] that the Joes know is just a front, but apparently can't prove it well enough to shut it down.

* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' eventually subverted this with an episode where the villains successfully stole the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] required to power the Technodrome after creating a series of diversions to distract the turtles, essentially letting the bad guys win one.

* The Limburger Building, HQ of the main villain of ''[[Biker Mice From Mars]]'' gets blown up in spectacular fashion in just about every episode, only to be rebuilt in time for the next episode.