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** Other villains (Or members of a [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]) are given their own cover-story arcs; 'Django's Dance Carnival', which shows Black Cat Pirate Django the Hypnotist joining the Navy, 'Hatchi's Sea-Floor Stroll' where Arlong Pirate Hatchan the fish-man becomes a Takoyaki salesman, 'Wapol's Omnivorous Hurrah'...the list goes on. They also combine these with [[Villain Out Shopping]].

* {{spoiler|Miyo Takano}}, the [[Big Bad]] from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]].'' Especially the episode after the [[Big Bad]] [[Moral Event Horizon|kills Rika, and her entire village]]. In this episode [[Cry for the Devil|it recounts the villain's backstory about how they lost their parents in a bus accident, and then went to the]] ''[[Orphanage of Fear]]'', [[Cry for the Devil|and was rescued by the only one researching Hinamizawa Syndrome at the time (who the BigBad called Grandfather afterwards), and how the BigBad became obsessed by trying to prove to the other doctors that their grandfather wasn't a nutjob.]] Hardly sympathetic, isn't it?

* ''[[Warrior Cats|The Rise Of Scourge]]''

* In the anime version, Tier Harribel of ''[[Bleach]]'' got one of these in the form of a [[Whole-Episode Flashback]], largely to make up for the fact that in the manga, she's one of the only Espada ranked among the top 6 out of 10 that doesn't either get a fair amount of [[Character Development]] or a flashback explaining their motives. This episode ended up turning her from possibly the least developed Espada to one of the most developed.

* [[Dark Reign (comics)|Dark Reign]] was basically one long villain episode for Marvel.

** The [[Dark Avengers]] concept was specifically revisited in ''New Avengers #18'', which centered around Norman Osborn assembling a new incarnation of the group and forging bonds with HYDRA, A.I.M., and the Hand. Not a single hero -- much less an actual member of the Avengers -- appeared in the issue.

* The ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic Universe]]'' arc "Scourge: Lockdown" is all about [[Dark Action Girl|Fiona]] and [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|the Destructix]] helping [[Evil Twin|Scourge]] escape from Zone Jail.

** And the "Scrambled" arc is about [[Big Bad|Eggman]] dealing with [[The Starscream|Snively's]] latest betrayal.

* ''[[Queen of All Oni]]'' already has Jade as a [[Villain Protagonist]], but chapters still tend to be evenly mixed between focusing on her and on the J-Team's attempts to stop and capture her. Then comes chapter 10, where aside from two very short cameo scenes, the heroes don't show up at all, and the chapter focuses on [[Smug Snake|Lung's]] attempts to [[Evil Versus Evil|break Jade to his will]], and [[Co-Dragons|Left and Right's]] attempts to save her.

** The following chapter, the heroes likewise barely appear, as the plot focuses on Drago's attempts to [[Make Wrong What Once Went Right|alter history]] in his favor -- the heroes do eventually confront him, but only after he's spent the entire chapter [[Evil Versus Evil|dealing]] with [[Future Badass|Karasu]] and [[Enigmatic Minion|Blankman]]. The rest of the chapter deals with [[Super-Powered Evil Side|The Queen]] consolidating her hold on Jade's mind, and Jade herself recovering from the previous chapter's events.

 

== Film ==

== Videogames ==

* One of the [[Downloadable Content]] for ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'' takes the point of view from [[The Empire|The Imperial]] [[Armies Are Evil|Army]], as led by Selvaria, [[The Emperor|Prince Maximillian's]] [[Love Martyr]] [[The Dragon|Dragon]].

* One of the [[Downloadable Content]] packs for ''[[Dragon Age]]'' lets you play as the darkspawn.

* There are six points of view available in ''[[Suikoden III]]'', slowly added as you get further into the game, one of which only becoming unlocked upon beating the game with all 108 characters. {{spoiler|The final POV focuses on the villains of the story, and what they were up to throughout the game's events. It's actually really interesting, and strikes a good balance between making the villains seem sympathetic while retaining their status as clear villains.}}

* ''[[Iron Man: Armored Adventures]]'' had two:

** "Pepper, Interrupted", despite its title, focused mostly on Gene and his dealings with the Maggia and Pepper's attempts to form a friendship with him.

* ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League Unlimited]]'' had "Alive!", focusing on the Secret Society's [[Enemy Civil War]], with the heroes only showing up for a few seconds at the end (without any lines) and "Task Force X", where four [[Badass Normal]] villains infiltrate the Watchtower to retrieve the [[Continuity Nod]] stored there.

* Happens occasionally on ''[[Transformers]]''

** ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' goes one step further giving the Joker his own episode complete with a cold open where he destroys the future earth (with an appearance from obscure DC character [[Kamandi]]), his own title sequence renaming the show "Joker: The Vile and the Villainous" and a plot featuring him teaming up with obscure DC villain [[A Day in the Limelight|The Weeper]] against Batman.

* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' episode "Just Another Manic Mojo" features Mojo Jojo going through a normal day - which, for him, consists of [[Villains Out Shopping|getting breakfast, reading the paper]], and plotting to destroy the titular heroes. The Powerpuffs themselves show up later on, but the focus still remains on Mojo.

* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' - "Back to the Norm"-it focuses on [[Literal Genie|Norm the Genie]] and [[Sadist Teacher|Crocker]] as they try to destroy Timmy Turner. Norm spends most of it [[Deadpan Snarker|Deadpan Snarking]] Crocker.

* The ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Hail Doofania!" turns the show's [[Strictly Formula|usual formula]] on its head by focusing on Doofenshmirtz's daily scheme, inverting some of the lines (Phineas spouts the "entire tri-state area" line, Norm asks "Whacha doing?"), and instead of Phineas and Ferb's plan for the day being disposed of by Doofenshmirtz's invention, their invention disposes of his.