Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35235206-20171101230020/@comment-35235206-20171101234516

Teengohanrocks wrote: I thought the Man Behind the Man trope for us was what we had for Bigger Bad. A Bigger Bad is a character who is more powerful and influential than the Big Bad, but is generally disconnected from the main plot.

A Man Behind The Man is when a character who initially appears to be the Big Bad is revealed to be subordinate to the real Big Bad.

The two tropes can overlap if the Man Behind the Man is distant enough from the plot, though they aren't similar enough to justify merging them together.