User blog:Officer Candy Apple/Scales of Antagonistic Role Proposal

Friends from Villains Wiki, I have considered to post this proposal blog a long time ago about distinguising the line between Primary and Main antagonist, since the word "Primary" might be important for a story with several main villains. I guess it would avoide some dispute or confusion in the future.

This is only my personal opinions on the villainy roles, and there's no intentions to offend anyone. Needless roles like "teritary" and "hidden but true main antagonist" are excluded. Starting from Minor to Final (SPOILERS AHEAD):
 * Minor Antagonist, or simply Antagonist - For One-Shot villains that only appears in one or two episodes, like some monsters of the week we saw in TV series.
 * The Main Antagonist - This only applies when a story has a solo villain (e.g. Tai Lung from Kung Fu Panda) or only one Big Bad above an ensembled villain cast (Lord Shen from Kung Fu Panda 2). For a series with several segments, this is often done with the Big Bad of the entire series (e.g. James Moriarty is the main antagonist in Sherlock Holmes series) or franchise instead of a segment of the story (that often goes with arc villains like stated below), unless there're villains who can rival these Big Bads.
 * One of the Main Antagonists - This applies to a story with Big Bad Ensemble (two or more villains sharing the equal role of villainy) or Big Bad Duumirative (two villains working together in a equal role). If there's one villain who overshadows the rest, that villain would be the Primary Villain.
 * Examples include:
 * Acnologia & Zeref from Fairy Tail
 * Arc Villain in a series should be labled as "the main antagonist of XX Arc/Season" instead of one of the main antagonists of the whole story, unless they have bigger roles across the story. Same things goes to One-Shot Villains.
 * Examples include:
 * Arc Villains: Baron Kelvin is an antagonist in Black Butler and the main antagonist in Circus Arc.
 * Seasonal Villains: Dick Roman is the main antagonist in Season 7 of Supernatural.
 * One-Shot Villains: Dick Hardly is an One-Shot antagonist of Powerpuff Girls and the main antagonist in the episode "Knock it Off".
 * A Primary/Overarching Antagonist is an upgrade version of main antagonist. This kind of villain will be the MOST IMPORTANT ONE among the main antagonists. He/she has a plan even bigger than any other main threats to the protagonists, and/or is hiding and manipulating every strings in his/her palm. Usually, this overlaps Bigger Bads.
 * Examples:
 * Kamen Rider Series are met with this kind of Big Bad Ensembles/Duumiratives.
 * Showa Era Riders: The Great Leader of Shocker is the primary antagonist of Showa Kamen Rider since after his first defeat, he still returns in several reincarnations and acts as the main antagonist in most of the following Showa series, while it even influenced some segments in Heisei Era (particularly Decade).
 * In Kamen Rider Drive, while Roidmude Excuetive Heart, Freeze, Brain and Medic are main antagonists due to their large and important roles in the story, Tenjuro Banno is the primary antagonist of Drive, since Banno is the one who created Roidmudes and made them evil with his torture and corrupting influence, causing the entire series' bad events from the beginning.
 * In Kamen Rider Build, there are five main antagonists. However, while Night Rogue, Juzaburo Namba and the two Prime Ministers are merely main antagonists who has their own agendas after the Sky Wall Disaster, Blood Stalk is the primary antagonist who acts as the cataylst that started the Sky Wall.
 * In Persona 4, Tohru Adachi and Izanami are both antagonists, but Izanami is the one who gave Adachi and the Protagonist their Persona power, and thus Izanami is the primary antagonist.
 * Same thing in Persona 5, as Yaldabaoth and Masayoshi Shido are both main antagonists in the game, but Yaldabaoth has an even bigger plan that includes Shido's conspiracy, which the Malevolent God used as a part of his "game" to manipulate the Phantom Theives and Shido. Thus, Yaldabaoth should be labeled as primary.
 * A Central Antagonist doesn't have to always appear in every entries of their franchise, but they have influence in almost every segments in the story, either directly or indirectly. For example, Albert Wesker is the central antagonist in Resident Evil video game series, since he not only caused many bad things in the series when he is still alive, but also showed posthumous effects after his demise in Resident Evil 5, A case in point, his son, Jake Muller, one of the main characters in Resident Evil 6, was captured by Neo-Umbrella because Jake had the identical blood to his father. In Resident Evil 7, there's also implications that Wesker was collaborating with The Connections and was indirectly responsible for Eveline's creation.