Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-29414935-20190923113331/@comment-29414935-20191209150504

I want to ask you something about "The Heavy" and different things.

So it's easy for me to know which of my villains would be a Big Bad and which one a Bigger Bad. But sometimes it's kinda confusing and hard. In my sci-fi fantasy story there are story arcs but still play in the same universe, so there are like one Big Bad and one Bigger Bad in the first arc and one Big Bad and one Bigger Bad in the second arc. But is that even possible? because I read there can be just One Big Bad and Bigger Bad per story.

And The Heavy is the villain with the most influence all over the story and without them, there couldn't be a story. But they aren't necessairly the Big Bad or Bigger Bad, right? One character of mine is clearly a Big Bad and The Heavy. And that's the uncle of the emotional drama story. Because he is the main reason the story happens, why the main characters suffer in life and why the main protagonist became a murderous maniac in the first place. And also he is the main villain with the main antagonist role. But what about characters like the Gangster Furry Boss? He killed the sister of the Wolf Lady and changed and destroyed her entire life and moral at first which later changed again to the better. He is the archenemy of her and her friends and the overall main antagonist of the series. But the thing is, the Wolf Lady is the deuteragonist of the series, and he had the most impact on her and not the main protagonist and there are (even if a few) parts where he isn't the main villain and isn't needed. So would he be just the Big Bad or also The Heavy?

And in one of my first stories ever, I have the classic "Big Bad and Bigger Bad scenario". But I don't know if they both would count as the main antagonists of the story or one of them is the secondary. Because it's hard to tell. The Bigger Bad is the boss of the Big Bad and not shown often but the one behind most plans, but the Big Bad also has his own plans and often faces the protagonist personally. But I saw both have nearly equal appearences. The Big Bad is like his right-hand enforcer despite being a monarch himself, but also sometimes they seem like partners but the Bigger Bad supresses the Big Bad. So what you think?