User blog comment:LucidPigeons/Category Cleanup/@comment-25305244-20160311070316/@comment-25305244-20160313021140

Yes, in any story any character whether they are minor or not drives the plot at certain paces. That is why I added the word vital to the phrase to help emphasize that they are the most important to the story because without that character there would be no story or without them the story would have been completely different. That is the definition behind The Heavy.

Well from least up on how it is viewed, there is no clarity for it (at least from what I see). It really depends on the narrative in which the character appears since it is for the villain who have the most influence on the plot. Some stories could have more than one Heavy character and it could be the main villain (the Big Bad) and a greater threat (the Bigger Bad). So to say, it varies from story to story and even then some stories do not have a Bigger Bad.

Also, I would like to know if maybe Plot-vital Influence is an okay name or if there is a better suggestion. I was going to rearrange the words to see if it would reflect The Heavy well but I do not fully know; but before I was going to suggest deleting it since (some of) the major and main villains could also have the most influence on the plot of the story.