Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-1969141-20160509151208/@comment-35235206-20170711204448

The Heavy and Bigger Bad are kinda like opposites to each other.

The Heavy is the villain with the most influence over the present story. Usually The Heavy  is also the Big Bad, but stories that like to keep the main villain secret often make one of the Big Bad's minions the Heavy.

A Bigger Bad meanwhile is a villain more powerful and influential than the Big Bad (the main antagonist), but one that stays relatively distant from the main plot.