Puppet Master

The Puppets can refer to 2 things: 1: Puppet Masters are a group of anti-villains from The Puppet Master Movie Series who each have an individual name and personality but tend to work as a group to tackle threats as well as occassionally antagonize those that get in their way - although technically working for the good of mankind the Puppets often employ murder as a means of doing so and are also known to attack innocent people if they are provoked: they are magical creations formed by the "Puppet-Master" but are not fully dependent on their master to survive as they have sometimes risen against their creator.

2: Puppet Masters are characters that are secretly pulling the strings behind all the villains despite their at first heroic appearence, such as Darth Sidious, Vecna, and The Mystic Timber