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Originally Posted by whswhs
Usually, not getting into fights with the player characters. Such fights commonly end with the villain permanently out of action.
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Unless the villain has a way of avoiding or recovering from defeat -- robotic villains who get rebuilt (often with different powers, either reflecting the style of rebirth, or removal of the weakness that allowed the previous defeat), possessing villains who merely wind up somewhere else to rebuild, demonic entities that get banished rather than killed, immortals who cannot be killed and must be contained, etc).
On the other hand, a villain can be good without being recurring, as long as it's memorable enough the one time it does appear.