Any time the villain is putting together an, we can always expect it to reach its final stage, no matter what the hero or heroes do to try to stop it. If the villain is trying to collect the that will allow him to become a, he will assemble them all. If the villain is trying to unseal a, it will break free and need to be defeated or re-sealed.
If the villain is planning to disgrace the king, and rule the kingdom, he will accomplish the first two before stops him. No matter what the hero tries, the forces of villainy will inevitably, forcing with everything at stake. This does not mean must be completely ineffective until this last battle - may be defeated and minor complications may be done away with, but this will be temporary setbacks. As for the brunt of the threat, there's no averting it until the eleventh hour. Naturally, once the eleventh hour arrives, but they'll cut it close. The closer, the better.
This is especially painful to watch when or otherwise a good guy will attempt to foil the in a way that seems like a perfectly good idea, but from a point of view is too anticlimactic to work. In the best case, they fail at the earliest opportunity in a relatively harmless way. Otherwise, they may appear to be making progress — obstacles will be cleared and the stakes will rise — only for the story to inevitably and pull the whole thing into catastrophic failure.
This is what happens when meets the. Is often involved., and are frequently employed to make the hero effective without routing the villain. Can give the heroes more of a challenge and justify failing at first. Compare and (the unspoken plan is stage two).
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The creator of has said that he likes to see villains achieve their goal, only for it to be snatched away from them, so it's no surprise this comes up pretty often in his work. In Part 1, Dio successfully becomes a vampire and begins his plans for world domination.
In Part 2, Kars acquires the Red Stone of Aja, which he had spent the whole arc trying to get, and becomes the Ultimate Life Form. In Part 3, we find out that Dio not only survived the boat's explosion at the end of Part 1, but was also able to attach his head to Jonathan's body. In the finale to the part, he manages to kill Joseph and drink his blood, which removes the last few issues he had controlling Jonathan's stolen body, and believes for a moment that he has managed to kill Jotaro as well. In Part 4, Kira succeeds in changing his appearance and settling down for a quiet life.
In Part 6, Pucci succeeds in killing off almost all of the main cast and creating his 'heaven'. In Part 7, Valentine successfully reassembles Jesus's corpse, and gains an upgrade to his stand that gives him an infinite dimensional barrier that tosses all misfortune directed at him somewhere else completely random in the multiverse. The heroines of were almost able to thwart stage one in each of the three seasons, having retained one half of the in Season 1, convinced the Wolkenritter that finishing all of the might be a bad idea in Season 2, and rescued the before she could be used by the in Season 3. 'Almost' doesn't cut it, though, as Precia executes her plans anyway with what she has no matter how unstable it is, the intervenes and uses the Wolkenritter's essence as fuel for the remaining pages of the Book of Darkness, and to reclaim the respectively. FORCE looks set to use this too, with the Huckebein having kicked hero tail thus far in the first major engagement. In manga's Kyoto arc, not only did Negi fail to thwart Stage One — stopping bad guys from kidnapping Konoka, he also failed to thwart Stage Two — saving Konoka to stop the Demon God from being summoned — and even failed in defeating the said Demon God after it was summoned. It took a by Evangeline to save the day.
Similarily in the immediately following Festival arc, Negi lost the entire game and only rectified that through the use of time travel. in: The of the Dark Tournament arc is revealed to have a plan to make a portal to the demon world, but it stopped when he was still gaining sufficient funds. However, the villains of the next arc have the same plan, but already have the means to do so. The Chapter Black saga also mostly plays it straight, as the heroes fail to prevent Kuwabara from being kidnapped, fail to stop the opening of the portal, and destroy the barrier themselves. While they prevent a demon invasion, they learn that they were playing into Sensui's alternate plan.
In, during the Water 7 arc, the Straw Hats try to get Robin to come back to the crew on several occasions, but fail each attempt due to CP9 threatening the Straw Hats with the Buster Call, which prevents her from coming back. It takes them breaking into the heavily defended Enies Lobby, convincing Robin she's one of them and saving her just before she is to be taken beyond their reach. Similarly, in the Impel Down arc, Luffy doesn't manage to save Ace inside Impel Down, but has to go all the way to Marine Headquarters. He ultimately fails, despite managing to free Ace from the execution platform. Also the case with Blackbeard's plans, which go off without a hitch all the way through killing Whitebeard, stealing his Devil Fruit power, and taking his place as one of the Four Emperors.
This is even lampshaded by Blackbeard and his crew often talking about fate's role in their plan, as if recognizing that this trope would come into effect. This is usually the formula in many arcs, where, despite attempts, the villain's plan progresses as intended and is only ruined in the final stage when Luffy defeats them, most notably in the Alabasta arc.: During the TBTP flashback mini-arc, Yoruichi challenges Urahara to develop the best-case solution to the worst-case scenario when they face exile and abandonment because of Aizen's machinations. The first half of the storyline is therefore a chess-game where Aizen always reaches the worst case scenario so that Urahara can come up with a best-case scenario to solve the situation.
Once the is activated, the indications are that the chess-game has switched villainous players from Aizen to Yhwach, leaving Urahara still planning the best solutions to the worst case scenarios. It's eventually confirmed that Urahara is classified as one of the Five Special War Powers precisely because of his ability to devise a thousand different options for any given potential event. As an added to the already bleak universe of, the anime version's cut off point kicks off the second phase of Kakuzawa's plans in the manga. The protagonists, who are warned of the incoming threat, are unable to stop Kakuzawa launching a missile filled with the Diclonius virus set to explode over the Japanese shoreline, over the course of a few months, and. Of course, if it was stopped, or if it never happened,:. In, Father plans on using Amestris to make a philosopher stone, like he did with Xerxes 400 years ago, which requires tunnels being dug throughout the countries, bloody battles taking place at critical points on the circle, and five people who have opened the gate being gathered. The presence of Pride makes destroying the tunnels impossible, so the heroes plan on defeating Father before 'The Promised Day' arrives.
During the siege of Central, Father manages to gather Hohenheim, Ed, Al, Izumi, and Roy as his sacrifices. This is, as the centuries-old plan was already nearing the final stage when Ed and Al were born. Technically speaking, the plan is never thwarted at all — it's reversed after being completed. In, the heroes are completely unable to stop the Chouma from gathering the Zodiac Orbs by the simple problem of the fact that they don't even know they exist, much less that the enemy is gathering them. In:. The of each season will always reach his strongest transformation, especially in cases where this involves absorbing somebody.
However, the only strong characters have chronic cases of and typically let the enemy get to their maximum power so that there's no doubt of. Subverted in the Frieza arc, as although Frieza was allowed to power up to full by the heroes, he never got to wish for immortality (his actual goal). The Buu saga, wherein Goku and Vegeta, who were at least twice as strong as and hundreds of times stronger than the, not only failed to stop but agreed to cause it so they they could settle their infighting. Cue 60+ episodes of trying to undo the damage. Super reveals that Future Trunks did thwart stage one when Babidi came to call in his own timeline: with Supreme Kai's help, he killed Babidi and Dabura before Buu could awaken, thus never having to fight Buu in the first place. At the end of the Cell arc, Future Trunks also killed Future Cell after destroying the Androids thus preventing Cell from reaching his stronger forms.
In general, Future Trunks is the subversion that does things the sensible way in this franchise, though mostly off-screen or as an afterthought. In the Goku Black arc of Goku and Beerus attempt to thwart stage one by killing Present Zeemasu before he can kill Gowasu and make his wish on the Super Dragon Balls. Beerus states with absolute certain that everything has been set right by this action, even in alternate timelines.
Only to have reality slap him cruelly in the face when Future Zeemasu pops back up and they learn that the Time Ring he stole makes him immune to timeline changes and thus a living paradox., being a parody of shonen series, manages to double-subvert this. When Czar Baldy Bald III, the arc's, is about to emerge from a century of cryogenic freezing, Bo-bobo seals him back in, throws the container around a bit, and then blows it up. However, the Czar had managed to escape through. In, the protagonists make moves against Nagi's plans for the first 16 episodes, but are unable to accomplish enough to stop him from taking over Windbloom or activating the Harmonium, leading up to an attempt to liberate Windbloom, destroy the Harmonium and defeat him. does this a lot:. At the end of Part I, Orochimaru's plan to steal Sasuke succeeds, ensuring future and highly personal conflicts with Orochimaru and Sasuke.
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The leaders of Akatsuki need to seal all nine of the Tailed Beast for their overall and personal goals to be completed. Inevitably, all but two are sealed and Tobi is able to compensate for the missing beasts by using smaller pieces of their chakra.
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Not only are the Beasts sealed, but the Ten-Tails is reborn and Tobi manages to seal it into himself. Despite his overwhelming power, he is defeated only for another Madara.
Madara takes this one step further as he cannot complete his plan unless he acquires both Rinnegan. Despite the efforts of the heores he succeeds and enacts the Infinite Tsukiyomi. In, the of the Inheritance Ceremony Arc, Daemon Spade, manages to steal Mukuro's body near the end of the arc.
He receives a massive power boost since he now has access to his full power, and the rest of the arc consists of the final battle against him. Homura can't prevent Madoka becoming a,.
Fibrizo from. He had a, but ended up getting with a sudden appearance and attack from the Lord of Nightmares. In: Decode, the first season's bad guy actually does succeed in getting his hands on the super weapon he's after and does succeed in awakening it—but he can't control it as well as he thought he could. So he dies, and the heroes don't have to defeat him but they do have to defeat the weapon itself. A variant on this was standard procedure in: The villain would always pull off one or two crimes with a given modus operandi before the hero beat him.
By, who commented that if you actually look at the numbers, he defeated Batman more often than Batman defeated him (people just remember Batman's victories because the Penguin went to jail afterward). Humorously deconstructed in the 'Show 'Em All' — the Junkman pulls off a major heist without a hitch, and lives a life of luxury while everyone wonders who was the brilliant criminal who committed the robbery. However, he is soon frustrated at not getting recognition for the coup and the public's assumption that the heroes caught the criminal somehow. This drives him to repeat the plan again — albeit with deliberately-induced minor flaws — until he becomes famous for the initial robbery. He is eventually arrested and sits through a high-profile trial, at which point. An aversion happened in the story Family Values.
Throughout this graphic novel, Dwight and Miho decimate an entire mob family with only a few instances where it's possible that Dwight may be killed or arrested. The drama actually comes from the mystery surrounding the reason why Old Town is going after this mob family and how the random pieces of information all link together. Frequently subverted in fanfics note, and that may or may not include of a canon plot point, such as when., it leads to a stagnant plot, or an endless succession of such encounters., it can be a case of, or a way of taking the story in a different direction. It can also have a place in a story where the struggle against the is not the point of the story. True to its roots as Nanoha fanfic, sees Akira managing to collect the parts of and assemble the Sword of Light before he gets stopped.
In, and Jimm are unable to stop 'a bad guy from the game' from stealing the isotope, and can't recover it before it reaches '. Whatever changes occur in or its various, the nuclear rearmament of the Earth Alliance and the Second Battle of Jachin Due almost inevitably will come to pass. In, the griffins eventually manage to besiege Canterlot, despite the ponies putting up a good fight through the war.: Done in both books 2 and 4. In book 2 the Akatsuki are able to kidnap Naruto and start extracting the Fox, before the demon makes a Heroic Sacrifice and Naruto's friends show up to rescue him. In book 4 Gouki is able to become Raikage, then take over the Waterfall and Grass countries, and then the Rain country; before the good guys start disrupting his plans.
Averted in when Raichi AI and Babidi's ship's cross paths in deep space. Hatchiyak is sent out to annihilate Babidi's ship, causing everyone inside to die of exposure and thus end the Buu Saga before it even begins. Played straight in with Project Ironskies, which ends up succeeding up to the halfway point of its final phase, resulting in the armed extermination of millions of Minecraftia citizens. In that Simon and Lewis were unaware of the plot's scale until minutes prior, and were in fact being exploited for their blood by the main antagonist. is just that: An aversion of this trope, regarding a fanfic titled Cries Unheard.
The latter fic was such an with protagonists and antagonists alike, and the former was meant to show the logical conclusion that would have been reached if the canon characters simply acted as smart as they canonically are. has this in its third installment Blades of Destiny where the, Album Atrum, has it set up that the heroes not only know he's planning something bigger, but they're powerless to make any attempt to stop it because of the he has set up. Technically speaking, it's stage 3, but managed to avert the entire by finding and removing the Mistress 9 parasite inside Hotaru long before Mistress 9 could fight back. Germatoid's actions in trying to stop Shamal led to the school being investigated, leading to the dismantlement of the Death Busters long before they were due to be a threat (keep in mind that the fic takes place during the first Sailor Moon story arc). Even Pharaoh 90 is no more: a TSAB fleet blasted it in the face.: Syndrome managed to launch his robot before the heroes were able to take him down. In, despite the attempts of the heroines to keep out of clutches, the evil muse gets her hands on the girl-in-the-mirror and nearly gets her to give up the location of the before Liana and Alexis arrive to save the day.:. Interestingly, this gets in the first movie: Twilight manages to at least severely hinder Sunset Shimmer's plan to steal the Element of Magic crown, and she manages to foil Shimmer's plan to gain that crown by becoming Princess of the school ball.
However, she eventually fails to prevent Sunset Shimmer from just taking the crown from her through brute force. In, things would have been way easier for the Rainbooms if they had stopped the Dazzlings earlier, when they were at their weakest.
They try to just defeat them as soon as they're all together, but doesn't activate, prompting them to find a more specific solution they must spend the film working on. In the end, they fall for the sirens' manipulations, letting them drive a wedge between themselves, which finally allows the Dazzlings to drain a good amount of the Rainbooms' Equestrian magic and regain a large part of their powers. Only then does the real Battle of the Bands start, and the Dazzlings are now very dangerous foes. In, the heroes are unable to stop from stealing metal for his cannons, conquering Gongmen City, building up his army, or leaving the city to conquer the rest of China. Po is only able to stop him at the.: No matter how many times the good guys recover the diamond stolen by Bratt, he eventually uses it to power up his laser cannon and attack Hollywood. Only then he's stopped.
In, Picard and Kirk can use the Nexus to travel anywhere in time or space to thwart Doctor Soran's plan to blow up a star. They decide to go to Soran's launch site, a few minutes before Soran fires the missile. Not, say, half an hour earlier, before Soran realized Picard had discovered him.
Or six hours earlier, before Soran had arrived to prep the missile. Or back to the Enterprise, two weeks earlier, when Picard could have radioed the science station to warn them about Soran's secret lab and the Romulan commando raid.
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Has stated that this was to give the trilogy the plot of a three-act play, in which the worst part always comes in Act II. In, the good guys are, of course, since otherwise the original trilogy wouldn't happen. If you watch the series in chronological order, their failure to stop Palpatine in Sith becomes this trope in play.: The League of Shadows manages to start spreading the toxin throughout Gotham (and are most of the way to blowing up its water mains) before they are defeated. In, Bane, and is left to do as he pleases with Gotham. When Batman finally arrives to deal with him, the nuclear fusion reactor he set to blow several months ago is just about a day away from exploding. restores the drama by having the now-champion Rocky lose his title at the beginning of the movie to Clubber Lang, from whom he eventually regains it.: The says early on that he will kill three people and Holmes will fail to save any of them. He succeeds in doing so, but Holmes thwarts his plan before he can attack his fourth and final target.
Likewise in the sequel, the Moriarty is always one step ahead of Holmes, managing to pull off his schemes without a hitch while distracting and misleading the good detective at every turn. By the end of the film, with minutes left to go, it looks like — until Holmes reveals the fruition of his to get Moriarty's notes, which allow the police to dismantle his financial empire.
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And, what, five seconds later a car pulls. And it's her evil mother-in-law! What are the odds of that! Said Evil mother-in-law then takes her back to the house so they can both be there for.
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Averted across the franchise: is trying to collect the Infinity Stones through minions, but the heroes in the various films are making that quest so difficult that by, he decides he has to get them himself. Also averted in. Zemo's first plan to get the footage of the Stark assassination fails due to Hydra member Karpov refusing to cooperate. He then turns to Bucky as another source of that intel, though he obviously goes further than just gathering info and starts softening the Avengers up for the kill while he's at it. In, Stage One, which is stealing the Witch Queen's heart, is accomplished before Kaulder realizes there's an in the works.
In, Ryback and Zachs have a golden opportunity to bring Dane's plan to an end when they acquire the targeting CD for the satellite. At this point, they could have simply destroyed the CD, which would have completely taken away Dane's ability to control the, but they don't do this, and Dane ends up getting it back. An aversion in. Blizzard is both a criminal mastermind and a legless cripple.
He has an elaborate plot to stage a massive ten thousand man raid on the Financial District of San Francisco. But before he does that he wants Dr. Ferris to cut off Allen's legs and graft them onto his stumps so he can walk.
Ferris doesn't cooperate, instead operating on the brain contusion that made Blizzard go crazy. The giant raid never happens.