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[feotakahari]

Suppose you write a reverse isekai in which a fantasy hero is summoned into our world. Who’s the villain? So far, the main answer I’ve seen is “another fantasy character,” but that’s not really a reversal. Maybe a James Bond-style terrorist scientist-type, since Bond is nominally in a world like ours? 

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[sigmaleph]

you can have the fantasy character react to [common feature of our world] with horror and go off to fight against... well whoever individual person can be scapegoated for that. Evil corporate businessman, leader of a particular country, religious leader, who knows. But that'd likely ended up politcal-tract-y

[lb_lee]

My kneejerk response is to make the villain EVERYTHING. Because fantasy heroes, sorta by necessity, don't have to deal with our normal real world realities:

Taxes.
Paperwork.
Legal identity.
No you can not just go off and murder a tyrant and have everything magically be fixed.

[feotakahari]

Re:CREATORS had some tendencies in that direction, but it got sidetracked into fighting increasingly obnoxious fantasy villains. Or maybe The Devil Is a Part-Timer might fit—I never actually read that one.