“ | You locked me up into your stuffy little hyperlock chamber and tossed me away into the depths like yesterday's trash. Do you have any idea what it's like to be locked up in a rotten egg for 6,000 years? It's boring! Not to mention I've had a Charley horse since the Renaissance. | „ |
~ Ivan Ooze to Zordon. |
“ | Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shapeshifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish Samurai warrior, wielding a magic sword, stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku! | „ |
~ Aku |
A recurrent type of villain in fantasy, horror, superhero, science fiction and, in some cases, Western fiction, an Evil from the Past is a villain or a monstrous entity who threatened the world before, either many centuries (referred to as an Ancient Evil) or a few decades before the start of the story (referred to as a Modern Evil or as simply New Evil). It was either defeated, sealed away, imprisoned, or even killed one way or another, or it somehow managed to escape, but eventually manages to rise again. These villains can return because of a particular circumstance or through their own efforts, but they are most often brought back by evil beings who seek to rule the world by their side or expect a reward. They also appear in flashbacks.
It must be noted that villains who lived for centuries without being defeated before the story, or recurring villains who are slain or banished in a story and brought back in one (or more) sequel (such as Dracula or Ganondorf), do not fit into this category. An Evil from the Past reappears once and was defeated outside the story, though it might become a recurring antagonists after its first return. In Westerns, these villains carried out evil deeds long ago and make their return to wreak havoc on the town they once terrorized, like Grimm Jim in Bulletproof.
However, Evils from the past don’t necessarily have to come back to the present, as some have only lived centuries ago.
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