Thread:Mesektet/@comment-34701338-20180225000911/@comment-3581997-20180226012902

The Heavy a villain that the entire plot is dependent on. They are the center of woe for their universe, but they are not the Big Bad, The Big Bad is the focus of the story, The Heavy is the reason they story is happening. The Bigger Bad is the Big Bad who is waiting in the winds, but not the center of the story. The two can over-lap but... Alright to use Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth is your Big Bad, Jenova is your Bigger Bad, and Hojo is your The Heavy. Big Bad = The One who is directly leading events and who the story has deemed is your main enemy, Bigger Bad is their sponsor/rival/manipulator. The Heavy is the one who has had the most influence on the story, weather or not you ever got to fight them, and even if you did they need not have been a big, fight, they affected the world the most without being the Big Bad.

In Shadow Hearts, there is an evil warlock named "Roger Bacon" who wants to summon God with a magic book to destroy the world. Now Bacon is our Big Bad because the game has him as our central antagonist, God is the end boss cause He finally gets summoned, spoiler alert, and as an omniscient all-powerful being that even the Big Bad was depending on for fire power, He is the Bigger Bad, even though he was not central to most of the conflict - He is end Game. But the book that recorded how to summon God and that Bacon found, was written by a mad alchemist named Patrick Heyworth, who went crazy and died trying to divine away to unlock God's secrets to bring his dead wife back, Patrick died LOOONG before the start of the game, but the entire game is built on his legacy. He keeps affecting the plot long after he is dead.

Big Bad = Central Plot antagonist. (Necessary in all non-slice of life stories.)

Bigger Bad = End Game baddie. At best a back-ground character for most of the story but a growing threat that eventually needs to be dealt with even if they are not in the immediate story. (Not necessary in all stories.)

The Heavy = Origin/main cause of the hardship in the story, without being the Big Bad him/her/itself. (Not necessary in all stories.)


 * Naturally a Heavy can also be the Bigger Bad, but the two need not overlap. They can be entirely seperate characters and The Heavy need not even be that strong.

That help with the differences?