Thread:Valkerone/@comment-4708882-20200214204441/@comment-4708882-20200214212617

It's been treated as someone who cannot be replaced for the story to exist for years now. The name itself has always caused confusion but the way enforced has been in that extent consistent. The issue is while a Big or Bigger Bad can indeed count a lot don't as they don't lead to such an extent that the story is impossible given often more than one Big Bad exists to have conflict. Without Joe Chill Batman would never of gone down the road as the murder of his parents is the driving force of his turn to being a hero thus the "heaviest effect" on the heroes entire existence.

The central antagonists are often the enforcers who often cause most of the stories physical conflict. To be fair the category has sort of been a mess for years given it's been added to basically substitute Big Bad by some users. Ultimately it was why the note was added originally in an attempt to help explain how it was to be enforced but ultimately that didn't help much. Now matter what we both agree it's got serious flaws in wording and has caused a bunch of confusion over the years.