Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24534644-20170124093450/@comment-5426254-20170126164655

Well, there was one villain that played the Omnicidal Maniac trope well: Rau Le Crueset of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. Seriously.

On another note, let's talk about the number of villains compared to heroes and the sliding scale of power between them. Is it just me, or is it that most of the competent villains compared to heroes in any given story are really rare? Like the rest of the army are just mere incompetent mooks, allowing for Conversion of Ninjutsu to come into play. And don't get me started on the Sorting Algorithm of Evil: The heroes fight progressively stronger villains until they get to the Big Bad, training and honing their skills all the way, instead of fighting the tougher ones immediately (which is what Bleach did in its last arc).

Personally, I'm in favor of lesser Mooks actually landing a good hit on the heroes every now and then, and having an equal proportion of villains to heroes to force a narrow victory, if not a stalemate. And yes, I'm in favor of the Sorting Algorithm of Evil being inverted once in a while.

What say you?