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* In ''[[Voltron]]'': ''Legendary Defender'', Prince Lotor quickly ascends to the position after the disappearance of his father Emperor Zarkon, easily besting Throk in battle, and also proves himself a master manipulator, portraying himself as a benevolent ruler who many planets would prefer to submit to rather than risking rebellion with Voltron. When he first goes up against the Paladins of Voltron, he sets traps and deploys clever strategies that get the Paladins working against themselves and soon sees them divided in a dangerous, toxic environment where Lotor could easily kill them all one by one. After failing to do so, he sees Voltron's resurgence as not a setback, but "an opportunity." He goes on to launch a highly audacious [[Xanatos Gambit]] involving a parallel reality, and sure enough one of the ways he could win pans out. He eventually forges an alliance with the Voltron Coalition, managing to save the life of Keith and the entire crew at least twice and even killing his father in a battle. Beating out Sendak and all other challengers for Zarkon's throne, Lotor becomes the new ruler of the Galra Empire and, keeping the alliance with the Coalition going, persuades Princess Allura into assisting him in unlocking the Quintessence Field of Oriande, where Lotor sought to power his Sincline ships, specially made to form into a new defender robot, in order to bring about his own rule over the galaxy, where he could position himself as a benevolent peacemaker despite wishing to expand a new Altean Empire and wipe the universe clean of all who were opposed to him and he felt were unneeded in his new reign. {{spoiler|It was revealed to the Paladins by the Altean girl Romelle that in the past, Lotor had rescued thousands of Alteans and kept them living in a hidden colony, making them look upon him as their savior and leader only to deceive many of them into volunteering to go to his "second colony", which was actually a facility where the Alteans had their Quintessence forcibly drained from them and harvested for Lotor's own purposes, with Romelle's younger brother Bandar being among the victims. Lotor kept these activities well concealed and was on the verge of achieving total success with Allura when the Paladins found out the truth. Even when captured by his own former generals and brought before his mother Honerva, Lotor remained defiant and dignified, with Axca and the other two generals switching their allegiance back to him once Honerva fled the scene.}} Believing his cause to be noble, having a very sincere affection for Altean culture and Allura that he used to his best advantage in order to win the princess over to his side, and possessing such charisma, intellect, and firm convictions that he even had the Paladins fooled, and with Allura even acknowledging his good intent in the end, Lotor provedremains toone beof farVoltron's moremost dangerousutterly thanbrilliant, hisdangerous fatherand evercapable wasadversaries.

* In Disney's ''[[Big Hero 6:]]:'' ''The Series'', the first season's [[Big Bad]], Obake, real name Bob Aken, was once the top student of Professor Granville. After an unsupervised lab experiment ended in disaster, Obake was left with a brain tumor that left him incapable of differentiating right from wrong. Fascinated by artist/scientist Lenore Shimamoto’s work, Obake flawlessly manipulates both heroes and villains alike into acquiring Shimamoto’s research as well the secret identities of Big Hero 6, taking close interest in Hiro Hamada. He secretly observes and gauges the boy’s growth from the shadows, even going so far as disguising himself as Hiro’s dead brother. In the season finale, Obake reveals his grand plan to recreate Shimamoto’s failed experiment that caused the Great Catastrophe, and rebuild San Fransokyo into something “perfect”. He takes control over Baymax and captures Hiro in hopes of swaying him into becoming his protégée once the dust settles. Thwarted by the heroes, a heartbroken Obake lets himself go down with his collapsing lair, but not without freeing Baymax from his control to go back to Hiro and save the boy who he deemed his equal. A [[Visionary Villain]] whose charming brilliance is rivaled by his ruthlessness, Obake establishes as Big Hero 6’s most diabolical foe to date.