Every villain always threatens to yield and wreak vengeance . No baddie worth their Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ever gets outfox and then harbinger they ’re going to retire . But some villain make an especially big noise about how they ’ll be back … and then , crickets . Here are 10 villains who made a big splattering , and were never seen again .
Some of these villains were planned to get back , but there was a change of plans . Some of them were introduced with a fanfare , and then just sort of slip through the crack . And some of them … just did n’t exploit out , for one ground or another . Also , a few of these did get a continuation in tie - ins , like comic strip or whatever , but not in the actual series they appeared in .
think back when Starfleet was taken over by a bunch of exotic body - snatchers who managed to send off a home signal before being defeated ? A homing signal that would tell their sidekick back home where to regain Earth ? Well , you might , but TNG sure did n’t .
This was a mysterious constitution of Psi - Corps shamus , that was precede with a net ton of ongoing mysteries and sticky questions . And then Bureau 13 vanished back into the shadow . Creator J. Michael Straczynskiexplained that this was because the name Bureau 13 turned out to be already used by a character - play game , “ Stalking the Night Fantastic . ” He add : “ We had n’t heard of the Bureau 13 secret plan when we did the episode , it was just something we came up with ’cause it sounded neat . after , we found out there was a plot by that name . At which tip I decide that it would n’t be appropriate to use that name again , and had a in effect conversation with some folks at the biz ship’s company about it . There was no job , I just did n’t want to walk on their sward intentionally or otherwise . ”
What was up with those hombre ? Why did they demand to outwear downhearted baseball mitt ? Who were they work out for ? You might have expected them to have a big role in Serenity , give that they were search for River Tam and played a big use in her story — but apart from a brief glance of them in one other sequence , they were never seen on screen again . They have gotten a scrap more exploitation in a tie - in comic , however .
Appearing in the first time of year finis of Torchwood , the mysterious Bilis Manger is a baleful guy who wants to elevate mega - Satan on Earth and clobber . This ally of Abaddon can parachute through meter at will , plus he ’s a dodgy manipulator — making him a unnerving opponent for Captain Jack and his gang . So you would recall he ’d trifle a immense function in the show ’s 2d season , correct ? Nope . He did get admit in one tie - in novel and a amusing , though .
You manage with “ Dark Energy ” as a threat in one deputation in Mass Effect 2 , and it ’s built up as a potential worry for later … and then it ’s never get a line again . Drew Karpyshyn , lead writer of Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 , who then left Bioware , explained that one scrapped theme for the ending of Mass Effect 3involved seek to block the spread of Dark Energy , because it could hasten the end of the universe of discourse . But this was abandoned , and Dark Energy was never mentioned again .
Probably the most renowned of Doctor Who ’s unreturned scoundrel , the Valeyard is “ an merger of the darker side of the Doctor ’s nature ” from between his twelfth and final positive feedback . Since he was probably supposed to be created by now , his absence seizure is peculiarly notable , and despite appearing in a bunch of non - television stories , it seems unlikely that he ’ll return on screenland . He did get namechecked in passing in “ The Name of the Doctor . ”
Logan was a double of Quinn ’s ( except for being distaff ) , and she was bad newsworthiness . She murdered her world ’s Arturo because he discovered that she was planning on using slue engineering science to slip resourcefulness and hold other world surety , and when the Sliders crew find out what she ’s up to , she tries to kill a few other people too . Despite catch an clear end — she ends up slide randomly too and she may have the power to regain them — she never come along again .
The Wrath is supposed to bethe equal and opposite version of Batman — a disconsolate version of the Dark Knight whose reprehensible parents were killed by the law . or else of fighting crime , Wrath uses his Batman - like skills to fight the law , and he ’s Batman ’s counterpart in every way . Mike W. Barr and Michael Golden put a lot of effort into making the Wrath appear to be a new potential arch - scourge for the Caped Crusader . In this particular day of remembrance story , Bats is pushed to his limits to defeat someone who has all the same skills , albeit with a sillier outfit . And then at the remnant of the issue , Wrath is apparently toss off … but we do n’t really see a physical structure . We also do n’t see the Wrath again , either . Decades later , the comics present Wrath II , the Wrath ’s former apprentice who ’s taken on the blanket . And there are alternative - universe versions of the character . But the Wrath , as introduced in Batman Special # 1 , remains a one - off .
We never know a lot about these guys , either about the reasoning behind their decision to kidnap and experimentation on the Enterprise crowd or about whether they managed to get off a probe at the end of the instalment . The ending is intentionally left open , but after insure the look of the extraterrestrial ( producer Brannon Braga described as seem like “ fish Thelonious Sphere Monk ” ) the producer decide to impart them as one - offs .
Terry Nation created so many villains for Doctor Who that were supposed to wedge around , but sprain out to be one - shots . Back in the sixties , he create the Voord , who were speculate to be the next Daleks and received ahuge merchandizing blitzbefore falling through — and also the Mechanoids , who were supposed to be the Daleks ’ novel arch - enemies . He tried again to make arch - enemy for the Daleks in 1979 with the Movellans . These very stylish androids were supposedly involved in an intergalactic state of war with the Daleks for year — which you would suppose would make them pretty important players , but apparently not , because they just sort of faded away . Maybe it had something to do with wearing their power pack on their knock for anyone to disable ?
Thanks to Steve Alloway , Bryant Francis , Franklin Harris , Laurel Amberdine , UkuleleDan , Simone Davalos , Devindra Hardawar , Tim Ford , Meghan Bee , Kitty Niclaian , Noah Diamond , Kal Cobalt , Dave Sinclair , Jason Goldman , Oscar Bermeo , Thomas LaRue , Michael Weyer , Eric Del Carlo , Christopher Nickolas Carlson , Chris Braak and everybody else who helped with this clause !
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