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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I'm not counting MotWs, although Wizard did have better kaijin designs than OOO, hands down. I'm talking generals; Phoenix, Medusa, Gremlin, and (at least conceptually) Fueki were all better villains than the Greeds and Dr. Maki.

I was also talking about the generals. Fueki was better than Dr. Maki, yes. But Phoenix, Medusa, and Gremlin? Really?

(RANT INCOMING)

Villains are only what their intentions and schemes make them. The Greeed had an actual, justifiable motive and a clear goal: they wanted to be restored to their complete forms, and ultimately to survive.

What did the Phantoms want? More Phantoms? Great. Human eradication? Cool. Then what? Outside of their POWAR LEVELS!1!!1, Medusa and Phoenix were very rarely an actual threat. Maybe they'd be more practical if even a single victim actually despaired and became a Phantom, but no. Every time, Wizard stopped them and they lost a number, so what was even the point? (Yeah, yeah, Fueki was using them, but they didn't know that.) In the end, Wizard was ultimately too overpowered compared to the lackluster villains for them to have ever been a real problem. On top of that, the show was too caught up with pretending (and failing) to be "mysterious" that it never revealed if the Phantoms had a bigger motive or not. As far as we knew, there really wasn't much of a reason for them to want the things they wanted.

Also, If not for his shoehorned final boss status, Gremlin is basically just Cazali only ten times more annoying.