Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27586321-20150526054903/@comment-27560932-20150526123238

Because A. he's the ultimate example of a main villain and B. he just does so much for one character. He's the Big Bad of a massive mythology and that allows him to squeeze in petty deed after petty deed. He may lack, say, a multi-dimensional/omnicidal scale present with characters like Owlman and Unicron, but since the medium he's in doesn't really have a multi-dimension, he still does far worse than even them with the resources he has. He's a character, who, in one way or another, is responsible for puppeteering virtually all of the bad stuff that happens in both the Star Wars movies and beyond; he's the perfect example of a Big Bad given all the tropes associated with him, his status as the Chessmaster Emperor (thus putting him behind all of the other Sith and the Empire for that matter), the fact he's controlling Darth Vader and several other pawns, also making him responsible for all of what he does, the sheer scale and amount of his monstrous deeds (genocide, wars for political profit, infant experimentation, mass mass murder, as in trillions of lives, through manipulation alone, and too much other stuff to really list here) and the fact that he does it all while barely having to lift a finger. It's my personal opinion that he's the most magnificent of magnificent bastards.

Now, sorry for the overuse of trope-based verbatim, as I have been on the site for a few years and its terms have weaseled there way into my common vocabulary. Bryagh is the absolute perfect example of a small-scale Complete Monster, especially given the otherwise family-friendly film he's presented in. When it comes to the Big Bad as a Complete Monster, that belongs to Palpatine. I feel the only one who even comes close to rivaling him is Unicron, who has the same multi-work factor aiding him (he is a dimensional singularity, after all, and every incarnation of Transformers I believe is stated as its own dimension/verse) and the sheer scale to go along with it; Palpatine's worse, though, because he's only human, whereas Unicron is a planet-eating abomination.