>>149679612
There's a whole alternate timeline with the Rise of the Underminer video game and unfinished Boom Comics series that was produced in the interim. The comics had a lot of villains either going overseas or keeping a low profile after the ban and feeling much more emboldened to come out of hiding after the events of the first film.

Of course the only thing I2 really took from those comics was "Let's take that hypno villainess concept and make it the shittiest twist villain ever"