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Big Bad

Big Bad is a term to describe a major recurring adversary, usually the chief villain or antagonist in a television series or a particular broadcast season of a series, originally used by the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It has since been used to describe annual villains in other television series, and has also been used in scholarly work discussing…

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On Buffy the Vampire Slayer

On other television and film series

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Big Bad

Nodes57
Edges56
Triples74
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.035088
Components1

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Big Bad

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related to On Buffy the Vampire Slayer · 22
Big Bad → According, American, Angel, Bewildered, Bewitched, Big Bad Wolf, Bothered, Buffy, Buffy Summers, Gingerbread, I'm, Kevin Durand, Marti Noxon, Phases, Season, Slang, The, Three Little Pigs, Using, Vampire Slayer
related to On other television and film series · 20
Big Bad → Agenda, Arrow, Arrowverse, Big Bads, But Den, Compelling Backstory, Despicable Damage Done, Eeeevilness, Fearsome Appearance, Geek's Dave Golder, In, Legends, Powers/Skills, Supergirl, The, The Flash, Tomorrow, TV, TVLine, Utter Ruthlessness
related to Further reading · 18
Big Bad → Aha, Big, Ceriello, Europe, Holy Monsters, In Heyes, Instability, ISBN, Lexington, Linda, Metamodern Monsters, Michael, Monstrosity, Religion, Sacred Grotesques, The Big Bad, Transformational Figures, United States
related to External links · 13
Big Bad → Arts Thesis, Big BadThe Buffy Formula, Buffy, Buffyverse, Joseph Lipsett, Master, Narrative Function, Patterns, Power, Responsibility, SpoilerSlayer, TV Tropes, Vampire Slayer
is a · 1
Big Bad → term to describe a major recurring adversary

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Big Badis aterm to describe a major recurring adversary0.90text
Big Badrelated to External linksTV Tropes0.60section
Big Badrelated to External linksBig BadThe Buffy Formula0.60section
Big Badrelated to External linksPatterns0.60section
Big Badrelated to External linksBuffyverse0.60section
Big Badrelated to External linksSpoilerSlayer0.60section
Big Badrelated to External linksBuffy0.60section
Big Badrelated to External linksPower0.60section
Big Badrelated to External linksResponsibility0.60section
Big Badrelated to External linksNarrative Function0.60section
Big Badrelated to External linksVampire Slayer0.60section
Big Badrelated to External linksMaster0.60section

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