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Archetype:National Villain

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"Bring me sweets! If you do, I'll make a promise with you! A promise of peace and a dream country! If you listen to what I say, you'll all live happily"
― Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom (One Piece)
"The unification of China means using mighty military force to keep killing enemies states until they could no longer resist, then seizing all of their land, people and assets. Great massacre, great plunder, the only idiots who would celebrate from the peaceful world it brings are the winners only."
― Kan Ki (Kingdom)
"I lived my entire life waiting for this moment. I trained, I lied. I killed in America, Afghanistan, Iraq... I took life for my own brothers and sisters right here on this continent! And all this death just so I could kill you!"
― N'Jadaka/Erik Killmonger (Black Panther)
"Once we reach the harbor, in front of all the world, you and your precious kung fu will die. Then China will know to bow before me. Set sail!"
― Lord Shen (Kung Fu Panda 2)

The archetype of a villain that operates on a national scale. Opposite to National Hero.

Also Called[]

  • National Evildoer

Properties[]

This villain operates plans extending to national levels, possibly causing damages or taking over territories to that extent. Only heroic groups of similar reach have the potential to prevent their plans from coming to fruition. They are capable of easily traversing anywhere on a national/country scale and causing crime and disorder that reaches a national perimeter.

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  • Demagogue
    • A national villain can be bigoted, insinuative, deceitful, cruel, dishonest, wrongfully biased, petty, and insensitive. They will happen to find ways to influence society and stir up hatred in it like a gutter press member, and distorting something that is actually deemed beneficial and righteous, into making subjects to believe that it is dangerous and wrong.
  • Machiavellian
    • If they are schematic, cunning, and also smug, the national villain can successfully take over a country/nation, and ruling it with both cruelty and terror.
  • National Hero
    • Usually villains of this scale are challenged by heroes, often thwarting their plans.

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  • Esdeath (Akame Ga Kill!)
  • Various characters (Attack on Titan)
  • Villains (Hero Killer)
  • Homelander (The Boys)
  • Stormfront (The Boys)
  • Soldier Boy (The Boys)
  • Teth Adam/Black Adam (DC Comics)
  • Leviathan Organization (DC Comics)
  • Lex Luthor (DC Comics)
  • Diavolo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)
  • Hydra (Marvel Comics)
  • A.I.M. (Marvel Comics)
  • Masters of Evil (Marvel Comics)
  • Lord Tirek (My Little Pony series)
  • Akatsuki (Naruto)
  • Military (New Blood Interactive's DUSK)
  • Dr.Victor Von Doom ( Marvel Comics)
  • Wesley Gibson (Wanted)

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