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** Though a special prize has to go to Spidey villain the Spot, until he got a revamp to make him a major threat. During his first appearances, he was so pathetic that Spidey couldn't even be bothered to fight him, and instead, he falls over laughing at the mere sight of him.
*** He actually turned up in ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'' and kicked seven shades out of Spider-Man, IIRC.
* ''[[Daredevil]]'' arguably has it worse. The Matador ([[Name's the Same|not to be confused with]] the [[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne|other]] [[That One Boss/Other Games/Atlus|guy]])? His entire gimmick is about obscuring your vision with his cape, which, for Daredevil, doesn't do anything. Stilt-Man? [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Exactly what he sounds like]]. The Gladiator? Just a musclehead with anger management issues who happened to have a costume lying around. Daredevil basically has ''three'' legitimately threatening villains (one of them [[Rogues Gallery Transplant|transplanted]] from [[Spider-Man]]'s rogues gallery), and about 30 or so total losers.
** The Stilt Man. The Leap Frog. In the early days of his comic, Daredevil was the [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] of comic book super heroes.
** The Gladiator got turned into a [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]] when they started playing his early ramblings and characterization, which by more modern and mature standards sound silly and slightly delusional, very seriously and turned him into a violently unbalanced crazy person with an unhealthy love of buzz saws and ancient Roman culture.
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* {{spoiler|[[Goldfish Poop Gang|Mysterio]]}}, the ''Spider-Man 2'' game version. Sure, he's got like a million robots and can successfully kill people from time to time, but ''man,'' what a friggin' ''loser.'' And he's got a glass jaw.
* [[Kirby]]'s arch enemy, King Dedede, [[Depending on the Writer|depending on the game]]. The most evil deeds the king performed without being possessed by [[Cosmic Horror|Dark Matter]] was stealing the stars from the sky and stealing food from Dream Land for the hell of it.
* While ''[[Touhou]]'' [[Good All Along|"villains"]] aren't exactly the ambitious sort, and their plots
** Kogasa Tatara
* {{spoiler|Wheatley}} in ''[[Portal 2]]'', when {{spoiler|he becomes evil after being plugged into the mainframe of Aperture Science
* In ''[[StarCraft
* Duc de Puce, a.k.a. "[[Fail O'Suckyname|The Rat]]", from the ''[[Stronghold]]'' series. [[Too Dumb to Live]], [[General Failure]], [[Minion with an F In Evil]], [[Small Name, Big Ego]]. He's more of [[Narm|an entertainer]] than a real antagonist.
* The [[Fallout: New Vegas]] DLC ''Old World Blues'' has The Toaster,
* ''[[Okage]]: Shadow King'' has Evil King Stanley Hihat Trinidad XIV, or Stan, the [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] who's taken over your shadow. He really likes proclaiming how evil and mighty he is, but with one of his first displays of his terrible might being to rescue a cat stuck in a tree, he is not that good at it. Especially with how a bunch of Fake Evil Kings have stolen his power while he was sealed away.
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* Dr. Drakken in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is pretty much the mascot of this trope, if only because that show's [[Periphery Demographic]] makes it so self-aware. You get the feeling that he and Shego aren't even trying to harm Kim, just keep her occupied. He becomes a [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]] in some cases, especially in [[The Movie]] "So the Drama". (In fact, being the most recurring villain, he's all over the scale; sometimes he's so ridiculous that Kim hardly needs to bother, but he's also the one who occasionally comes closest to his [[Take Over the World]] goal.)
** This is because Drakken is an [[Expy]] of [[Austin Powers|Doctor Evil]], with Shego taking Scott's place as the more competent one who points out the other's ineffectiveness with snarky remarks.
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* Glowface from ''[[The Xs]]'' is one such villain, he even gets upset when his monologues are interrupted, and is perfectly willing to put off villain chores [[Villains Out Shopping|to play video games]].
* The Monarch in ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' almost qualifies. When he isn't psychologically damaged, being pushed around by the higher-ups in the Guild of Calamitous Intent, and being inept at commanding his henchmen, he can, in fact, be quite deadly. The trouble is, he's so bad at arching that his nemesis, Dr. Venture, doesn't even consider him a real threat. Later seasons show, however, that The Monarch can, indeed, be a very threatening villain, if he bothered to extend his goals beyond being a pain in the ass to Dr. Venture.
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** His [[Future Badass]] self from [[The Movie]] on the other hand...
{{quote|'''Future Box Ghost:''' ''Beware.''}}
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'':
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*** They ''almost'' crossed the line to [[Not So Harmless Villain]] in one episode, where they were able to create an army of duplicates of themselves using mitosis, and then stole all the oranges in Townsville, resulting in almost all the populace getting sick with scurvy (a clear-cut case of [[Rule of Funny]]). It was rather easy for the Girls to beat them to a pulp (Heh-heh, pulp, oranges, get it?), but in the end, that was what they had wanted all along.
* In [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney's]] ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' sequel ''Return of Jafar'' and the TV series, there's [[Punny Name|Abis Mal]]. His patheticness is particularly compounded by being an [[Expy]] of the legendary loser, George Costanza, on ''[[Seinfeld]]'', since Jason Alexander plays both roles.
** He does get at least one [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]] moment in [[Recycled: the Series|the series]], in which he gets a hold of another lamp and wishes that the protagonists get smashed like bugs. When told that genies can't kill, he has a moment of brilliance and asks for the protagonists to be turned into bugs so that ''he'' can smash them like bugs.
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* The Urpneys of ''[[The Dreamstone]]''. It takes a rather incompetant bunch of mooks to make a [[Sugar Bowl]] world like The Land Of Dreams come off as unneccessarily rough on them. Even the times they [[Not-So-Harmless Villain|do actually prove formidable]], they are [[Contrived Coincidence|constant victims of circumstance]], fate always unraveling their schemes in [[The Fool|the heroes' favor]].
* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "''Owl's Well That Ends Well''" involves usually-good dragon cub Spike temporarily becoming an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]. Spike is obviously stooping pretty low when he {{spoiler|tries to make it look like Owlowiscious killed a mouse}}, but gets caught in the act way too quickly to do any major harm.
** {{spoiler|Of course, Spike ''does'' become a [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]] during [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E10 Secret of My Excess|his next dip into temporary
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