Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-127871-20131108101600

I agree with Maki, although I'd imagine Cinder will remain the biggest bad around for quite some time. Of course she'll get dethroned sooner or later, depending on how long the series lasts. That's just how the sorting algorithm of antagonists works. Her, her posse, and Roman being early season villains also means they're prime candidates for becoming grudging allies in later seasons. But such things are all quite far off. She's barely even gotten any screentime at this point, after all!

If I were to take a wild guess, succeeding villains could possibly be more related to the Grimm and therefore be threats to civilization as a whole. For now, the Grimm are basically just minor enemies, the equivalent of random encounters in an RPG with the occasional boss among them. But they're the monsters. They're the ultimate enemies of humanity, the threat that pushed them to the brink. That's their narrative purpose. If not the Grimm themselves, then something related to them would be my guess.

Also, I appreciate the effort Zolnir put into the analysis of the chess analogy. I quite approve of it.