Thread:Misry6/@comment-37247467-20181030132744/@comment-27022982-20181030134336

Nicolae Carpathia is the Big Bad of the Left Behind series because he is the immediate threat that the heroes encounter throughout most of the Left Behind series because Nicolae ia almost always the leader of the villains in the said series, and has a very strong influence; thus, he stands at the top of the villain's hierarchy. Satan is the Bigger Bad since he is Carpathia's master, and doesn't unveil himself until at the end of the series, and he does indwell Carpathia, starting with The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession and ending with Glorious Appearing: The End of Days.

And the fact that Satan is the main antagonist in the very last book (and not Carpathia, who is writhing in the Lake of Fire at the time) doesn't change it much. For example, in Adventure Time, the Big Bad of that series, the Lich, doesn't appear in the last season of the said series and is already defeated, which is where GOLB, the Bigger Bad, is one of the two main antagonists of the final season (alongside Uncle Gumbald).