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* With the exceptions of Blaine the Mono and Andy the Messenger Robot (Many Other Functions!), pretty much every robot in ''[[The Dark Tower]]''. They show up, kill, maim, or psionically alter someone, then are either destroyed or returned to hibernation.
* "The One" from ''[[Animorphs]].'' It is a literary [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]], introduced in the very last book after the [[Puppeteer Parasite|Yeerks]] are defeated. There is no explanation of where it came from or what it wants, it merely becomes the remaining Yeerks' [[A God Am I|new god]], [[The Assimilator|assimilates]] Ax, shapeshifts to a bunch of random things to freak the heroes out and gets its spaceship rammed. [[K. A. Applegate]]'s [[Word of God|comments]] seem to indicate that she just wanted the good guys to get screwed by a new war and created a [[Diabolus Ex Machina]] to let them go out in a blaze of glory.
** Whatever it was that sent Jake to a [[Bad Future]], as some kind of test, in ''The Familiar'', the definitive [[
* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' series, the [[Big Bad]] Tigerstar had nine lives at the beginning of the (then) final book, ''The Darkest Hour''. In order to avoid making him seem like a pathetic weakling, the authors had a random cat called Scourge show up, kill Tigerstar all nine times, kill ''the protagonist'', Firestar, and take over the Clans. And then Scourge died.
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