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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': Señor Senior Sr. is a
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''
** Most supervillains are members of the Guild of Calamitous Intent -- a [[Weird Trade Union]] whose bylaws obligate them to behave in this manner. It's suggested that the Guild enforces this as a protection measure for both their members and for society at large. An episode where Jonas Jr does not play along has Brock Samson warning him that a psycho with a private army, flying machines and so forth needs to be indulged if only to keep him away from committing real crimes.
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* Dr. Doofenshmirtz of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''. In "No More Bunny Business" we see that he actually writes a script for his latest encounter with Perry the Platypus (presumably Perry goes [[Off the Rails]], though.) When Perry is reassigned to other villains, he finds the new villain and helpfully tells him where he's doing it wrong and commends Perry for his methods.
* [[Gargoyles|Xanatos]] always wanted to try his hand at cliche villainy. Played with, as his inevitable defeat was [[Xanatos Gambit|all part of the plan]].
* In his second appearance, the ''[[Justice League]]'' version of Gorilla Grodd brings up the concept of propaganda. According to him, just killing Earth's greatest heroes won't make humanity bow down to him--he needs to kill them publicly in an utterly humiliating fashion to prevent further resistance. This means that he gives up two opportunities to [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|kill some or most of them easily]] in favor of a traditionally villainous scheme, and while he plans for ''most'' of the potential pitfalls, the premise of the show necessitates that he accidentally
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