The Super Evil Bad Guy

''HE'S EVIL. EEEEEEEEEVIIIIIIIIIIIIIL!!!!!!!!!!1''

The antagonist who isn't necessarily a Villain in the sense of being truly evil but is supposed to be thought of as such. They're used in kid-friendly fiction, commonly educational, to represent a bad thing adults do (such as steal) and the kids shouldn't. The title "Super Evil Bad Guy" is also given to Petty Evil antagonists, but this is incorrect as they're different roles from the Super Evil Bad Guy. Where Super Evil Bad Guys are doers of wrong-but-not-evil deeds, Petty Evil antagonists truly are evil, just bad at it. Sometimes, a Villain is also a Super Evil Bad Guy, making the first sentence of this page a lie. These Villains are called Jerkass Villains, a kind of main antagonist who threatens the world around them with Petty Evil and can be easily defeated by the Hero if the two face off in a fair fight.

The Super Evil Bad Guy, as the franchise wants us to believe, cannot be considered human, but rather a much lower breed of subhuman scum who is Too Bad To Be Likable, can't be sympathized with, and must do unnecessarily harmful things to the Innocent, like torment them or cause physical harm, without cause. Some of these traits can be seen in action with the SOB since both they and the SEBG may have the tendency to be rude to everybody. The SOB at least set a few limits on who they should torment. The SEBG, on the other hand, pays no mind to how they bring suffering to the rest of society. In summary, the Super Evil Bad Guy is a non-Villain antagonist who's unrealistically evil, even in terms of fiction.

UnRec
If you've been on UnTrash Wiki for long enough, you may know of a page called Saturday Morning Cartoon Edition. If not, this is a take on By-The-Books Playing in which ideas are simplified to the extent mere children can understand them. The Super Evil Bad Guy is a spawn of this Weak Writing. While this role does no storytelling harm in children's media, facts change quickly the more the rating scales upward. Audiences consisting of an age average higher than ten will want to be treated with dignity, and sadly for those wanting to use the Super Evil Bad Guy, this isn't the way to go. Two recurrently mentioned meta elements in UnRecs are Suspension Of Disbelief and Show, Don't Tell. That's because extreme roles and UnTrashes like the SEBG are at the highest risk of acting against these guidelines. Readers who've been paying attention to UnRecs know where this is going: you shouldn't use the SEBG because no real-life person behaves the way they do and the audience knows it, yadda yadda yadda. For as restated as this sentiment is at this point, its truthfulness still holds up. Audiences hunger for antagonists who go farther than "I wanna be evil because story", somebody who breaks free of the troublesome state fiction has stumbled into. While the SEBG is a role busted beyond hope, you shouldn't let this slow your writing and limit your brainstorming. Simply avoiding it is enough to get by.