Players
Villains
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Disc One Final Boss: Players or villains who are killed off either before the halfway mark or before the story really kicks into high gear fall into this category - Jacob Starr in v1, Blood Boy in v3, Clio Gabriella in v4, Theodore Fletcher in V5, and Cristo Ruiz in SOTF: Evolution.
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The replacement players for the Yuuhi Guts, stars of Yuuhi's other sports teams, are played up as villains in the anime.
Source: Manga / Eyeshield 21 - Villains with a name are built from the same archetypes as player characters and get all the benefits the players do — Wound Points, deadly skills and feats, the works.
Source: Mooks / Tabletop RPG
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