User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 493: The White Dragneel, Review./@comment-4449950-20160713020037/@comment-5303512-20160713035839

Well antagonist is defined as to be the opposition to the protagonist, or to antagonize others, so it wouldn't be surprising that the villains are characterized in this fashion.

Well with Mirajane being alive it due to one and/or two factors, first that Brandish can shrink things to the point where they are none factor, second is other people's theories that since Tenrou Island fused to the mainland it's powers spread to it all.

Maybe Lacarde will do something to bring back the supposedly killed or heavily injured Spriggans.