[@King Kindred] With the "Villains taking over their stories" idea, i recommend looking at the Lorcana disney card game. Specifically the Floodborn villains. Pretty much, the game has 3 types of characters:

Storyborn: How they appear in the movies
Dreamborn: How they appear in Lorcana's specific story
Floodborn: How they appear in the Bad ending of their orginal story (E.G. Jafar ascends to become a veritable god of magic, while Aladdin is leading a resistace against him. Gaston uses Belle's Fathers inventions to keep Belle away from Beast so that he remains in Beast form, Hades actually succeeds in taking over Olympus by giving Hercules his godhood and distracting him with being a hero to humanity while Hades ascends to become King of the Pantheon, etc.)