Harmless Villain: Difference between revisions

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[[Evil Is Cool|But, then again, where's the fun in that?]]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep in mind, though, that sometimes they become a [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]] later on. Even [[Team Rocket Wins]] every once in a while.

 

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** Similarly, depending on whether you think ACROSS is right or not (and given the [[Crapsack World]] that ''Excel Saga'' takes place in, it's hard to argue that they're wrong about the world being corrupt), Kabapu's group is very bad at what they do as well, especially Iwata who, ironically, is the one who takes his job the most seriously.

** They've always been blunderers, but they ''did'' provide genuine conflict in the early episodes. By Johto, they'd gone through complete [[Villain Decay]] and reached their current status as comic relief. The original creator of the characters, Takeshi Shudo, had, by that point, lost control of them, and [[Creator Backlash|stated his dissatisfaction with how the characters have devolved]] on his blog.

** {{spoiler|In the new series, however, they've risen up to levels that make them seem more fearsome than when they first appeared, making them [[Not-So-Harmless Villain|Not So Harmless Villains]].}}

** To put it in perspective, Florsheim's "[[Big Bad]]", Vamp, favours a special brand of imported detergent for cleaning, because it's made from ecological coconut oil and is completely biodegradable. He's so harmless, he won't even resort to ''littering''.

** Of course, when a new evil group comes to town, Sunred tells them to wipe out Florsheim if they want the job. He has full confidence in Florsheim being [[Not So Harmless]], and it turns out he's completely right. Just because he curbstomps them every since time they fight, doesn't mean they aren't strong on their own. Cut to Florsheim completely wiping the floor with the new enemy like they're weaklings.

* The pirates in ''[[Porco Rosso]]'' are positively polite:

"Of course I do! It wouldn't be nice to separate them from their friends." }}

* He may be more malicious in the anime than in the games, but King Dedede is still pretty much as harmless in ''[[Kirby Right Back At Ya]]'' as he is in the game franchise. The only time he does threaten to hurt someone (other than Kirby or Whispy Woods) is when he orders the [[Monster of the Week|Dedede Stone]] to stomp Tiff - which would've resulted in her death if it weren't for her knight in shining armor, [[Magnificent Bastard|Meta Knight]], coming to her rescue.

** Speaking of Meta Knight, some of Dedede's Demon Beasts / monsters actually managed to hurt him - which was not what Dedede wanted.

 

** Doctor Devil, who has been stealing random bits of machinery from work with the intention of building "some kind of gun" that he will call The Devil Ray.

** Crime Biker, who has mapped out the best possible escape routes to take after snatching purses.

** Thief of Hearts, who has seduced at least four rich guys...one of them is bound to die, eventually.

** Doctor Spy, who has completed his x-ray telescope, and, after he finds an apartment across from the girl's dorm, intends to put it to good use.

* ''[[Spider-Man]]'' has his share, though given that he's got the largest [[Rogues Gallery]] in Marvel, you'd expect as much. From the 80s British punk and punctuation-themed Typeface to the even more pathetic [[Grammar Nazi]] Spellcheck to ditzy [[Playboy Bunny]] the White Rabbit, who's so stupid that she had to hire ''actors'' to ''pretend'' to work for her, because nobody would for real. The Walrus is also pretty notable here: Spider-Man actually almost got his ass kicked by him because he couldn't stop laughing.

** The Walrus is a subversion actually. He's a deadly killer, but his costume and MO is so lame that people constantly think he's this. So he's more a [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]].

** 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.

** 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.

* Bafflerog Rumplewhisker of "The Wizard's Tale" is the latest in a long line of really unpleasant people serving the forces of evil that keep their world in a state of permanent twilight (because they haven't yet found the [[MacGuffin]] to make it permanent night). Unfortunately, Bafflerog's spells tend to be much less evil than he intends, such as trying to call up a huge storm and getting a pleasant rain that breaks the drought on the town, summoning a hail of locusts and getting a shower of roast chickens instead, and making friends with the creature he's supposed to be torturing for the location of the [[MacGuffin]]. He also phrases his spells in the form of limericks.

**** Recently though, the Riddler, due to a year long coma, has lost his compulsion, and gone into business for himself as an extremely successful (if not always correct) private detective.

** The Joker is notable for occasionally playing with this, likely for his own amusement. On any given day, you don't know if the Joker that Batman is facing is a sadistic [[Monster Clown]] who'll hold the city ransom and threaten to burn down the whole place, or a loony who concocts an elaborate (*ahem*) [[Batman Gambit]] just to hit Batman in the face with a pie.

*** Like everything else about him, this just adds to the Joker's disturbing qualities. He's the only villain listed in every villain trope page who could GENUINELY be all those at once. He's just that friggin' bonkers. [[Deadpool]] comes close to being Marvel's answer, however. If you read some of Deadpool's best fights, while turning to [[Big No|THAT IMAGE]] of him [[Squick|WEARING JEAN GREY'S OLD COSTUME]], you readily see it.

* One of the villains mentioned in ''[[Watchmen]]'' is "Captain Carnage", who pretended to be a super-villain because he got pleasure from being beaten up. This backfires ''badly'' when he tries it with [[Heroic Sociopath|Rorschach]]...who {{spoiler|dropped him down an elevator shaft.}}

* Marvel's alternate-universe ''[[Squadron Supreme]]'' has Pinball, a guy whose power consisted of inflating his green jumpsuit into a ball and rolling into people.

* Baby Face Finlayson from ''[[The Beano]]'' was originally a harmless villain, with his uselessness being [[Played for Laughs]], but his later appearances in Kev F Sutherland's strips were as a [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]].

 

* ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]'' has Bowler Hat Guy, who isn't capable of actually committing much harm. {{spoiler|The robotic bowler hat, Doris, is [[The Dog Was the Mastermind|manipulating him]] for her own [[Evil Plan]]. And it turns out that he has a [[Freudian Excuse]] for his hatred of Lewis, the protagonist--he was Lewis' roommate back at the orphanage, and once lost a baseball game which was very important to him because Lewis' invention building kept him up all night.}}

* Gru and Vector from ''[[Despicable Me]]''.

** And Luigi and Pavi aren't much better, given that Luigi, despite his claims that only he's got brains enough, comes across as a simple minded [[Knife Nut]] and Pavi spends most of his time staring at his own face in the mirror he forever carries with him. That being said, Luigi is quite effective in the "stabbing people for no good reason" compartment, which makes him the least harmless of the Largo siblings.

* Doctor Evil from ''[[Austin Powers]]''. "Here's the plan: we get the warhead, and hold the world ransom for...ONE MILLION DOLLARS!"

** On the other hand, he does win several ransoms and come pretty close to destroying the world. He's even killed people, including {{spoiler|Felicity...at first}}.

*** He's a mix of this, [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]] and dark comedy throughout the trilogy really.

** Scott Evil is very much this. He just can't quite be villainous enough to fit in with the rest of the villains, at least until the third film.

*** Regarding Scott, it's probably not so much a lack of villainousness that prevents him from fitting in as a lack of [[Contractual Genre Blindness]].

* {{spoiler|William Bludworth}} in the ''[[Final Destination]]'' films only serves two functions: to play the part of Death's own personal janitor, and to give the protagonists cryptic clues on how to evade death for as long as they can. Even when {{spoiler|Peter}} takes his advice to "kill or be killed" way too far, that's a matter of responsibility on the part of he who hears the advice, and the other two who use the "kill or be killed" tip aren't nearly as monstrous as {{spoiler|Peter}} was: {{spoiler|Nathan}} uses the advice completely by accident when {{spoiler|Roy gets impaled by a hook during a confrontation over a rude remark directed at the former}}, and Sam uses Bludworth's words responsibly by {{spoiler|killing Peter to prevent him from murdering Molly}}.

 

* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''The Last Hero,'' Evil Harry Dread has such a strong sense of professional ethics that he always chooses his guards for stupidity and designs his dungeons for easy escape. Of course, following the same professional ethics, he betrays Cohen and the Silver Horde at the first opportunity, but they're not too fussed about it. [[Card-Carrying Villain|It's just what he does.]]

* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' short story ''Day Off'', Harry is confronted by "Darth Wannabee" and his gang of amateur dark wizards. He's angry because Harry removed a curse he'd laid on a woman who'd annoyed him. Normally, this would be black magic, an incredibly serious matter and something the White Council punishes with death; their treatment of warlocks is one of the things Harry agrees with the council on, even if he thinks that they are doing ridiculously little to stop people from becoming them. But the "curse" was so weak Harry thought it had been a result of ''bad feng shui''. They run away after, on telling Harry to defend himself, he pulls out his gun. Later, they chucked a smoke bomb through his window, which at least shows they had the sense not to confront him again.

 

** Oddly, this is why minor villains from the comics were resurrected (Clock King, a Green Arrow villain, was actually made more competent on the TV show, and the Riddler only had two appearances in the comics, over a decade before the show). Characters from the comics were either too high budget to replicate (the comic having long since taken on sci-fi elements), or else were still too legitimately frightening to be turned camp, like Clayface and Two-Face. The bulk of the show's villains were created expressly for it.

** Somewhat subverted by, of all people, the Penguin! The Penguin was one of the few Batman villains more closely resembling mob bosses in the [[Dick Tracy]] style than murderous psychopaths of pulp era, and writers had been writing such characters for decades on television despite the limits of violence allowed. The Penguin's crimes were still over the top, but he was usually the ringleader in stories with multiple villains, and his crimes, while still campy, were typically more threatening than his fellows', like stealing a nuclear sub or engaging in brainwashing and blackmail. It's telling that the [[Dark Age]] [[Tim Burton]] appearance of the character surprised so many people, as many fans thought the Penguin needed little such change.

* Harmony from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', so much so that Buffy outright laughed her ass off when told that Harmony could be a threat to her. ("Harmony has MINIONS?")

** Also, most vampires. They act tough, and do regularly murder people, but only handful last more than one appearance before being dusted, posing little threat to Buffy.

** Spike. [[Badass Decay|Oh God, Spike.]] He was a genuine threat when he first appeared, but after he got the [[Restraining Bolt|chip]] in his head, the idea that he might actually do anything that made a difference was laughable.

* [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition]]!

** And from the same show, the team of villains who commit such dastardly crimes as acquiring valuable watches by paying the exact price for them.

'''[[Mook]]:''' Well having to go in there with a mask on and ask for £15 out of my deposit account; that's what was wrong with it. }}

* Doctor Clayton Forrester from ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''. He ''wants'' to take over the world...but he's not very good at it.

* After being demoted to producer in ''[[News Radio]]'', Dave decides to become, in his own words, "pure evil", and ruthlessly work his way back up to the top. But not by getting his replacement Lisa fired - oh, no, that would be wrong. His diabolical scheme involves letting Bill make a fool of himself on the air and thus getting himself fired, get Lisa discredited, and have himself put back on as news director. Unfortunately, [[Springtime for Hitler|Bill's antics garner the station's best ratings ever]], and Evil Dave was foiled forever.

* Josh Koscheck was all set to be the villain of ''[[The Ultimate Fighter]]'''s Season 12, having graduated the first season as a [[Jerkass]] who'd defeated the sympathetic Chris Leben and remained perpetually at the top echelon of his division (despite stinging losses to Georges St-Pierre and Paulo Thiago), and even openly admitted that he was playing the villain to hype the eventual title fight with St-Pierre...only to appear as one of the show's worst-ever coaches, gullible enough to abandon his intended first draft pick [[What an Idiot!|because he saw another fighter atop GSP's "draft list" in big bold letters]], an advocate of "mindless training", unable to impart his own winning ways onto his roster, encouraging his team to behave disrespectfully (culminating in the team banging on the wall separating the teams to taunt the losing Team GSP fighter), and whose attempted insults or pranks were almost always effortlessly brushed off, leaving Koscheck either looking like an inept high school jock stereotype or [[Foe Yay|oddly fixated on GSP's tight short-shorts and body, and wanting to get his hands on GSP's sixth-picked fighter]]. So much for [[Older and Wiser]]...

 

 

* [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] enjoyed this. [[The Pirates of Penzance]] will only attack forces more powerful than they are. Ko-Ko in ''[[The Mikado]]'' has never killed anyone, although he's thinking of starting on small animals soon.

** Ko-Ko is, of course, The Lord High Executioner.

 

* Pete, as characterized in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', is a bumbling oaf who never inflicts any lasting harm on either the characters or the worlds they fight to save, as opposed to Maleficent, who, in the first game, {{spoiler|turned the main character and his best friend against one another and led them all down the path that would separate them and the girl they were fighting over for several years}}, and was likely responsible for the destruction of several worlds. This is also in contrast to his characterization as the Ghost of Christmas Future in "A Disney Christmas Carol", over a decade earlier, where he laughed diabolically as he unmasked himself and sent Scrooge falling into the fiery pits of hell.

** The tougher Pete is more or less the original concept of Pete, who's often as tough as ever when battling Mickey, Goofy, and others in the comics (even today). He clearly thinks nothing of trying to kill our heroes with swords, guns, clubs, and other weapons, and often is only stopped by dumb luck.

* Murray, the Mighty Demonic Skull from ''[[Monkey Island]]''. Since Guybrush sort-of-accidentally smashed his body with a cannonball, he's stuck as an immobile skull with a great desire for evil and absolutely no capacity whatsoever to indulge it. He's kinda bitter.

* {{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.

 

 

** King Steve is a scourge to his citizens and the nations he goes to war with, but the Light Warriors? ''No one is safe from them.''

** Well, under non-harmless villains there's [[Physical God|Eternion]] and...uh...Argent's more of an anti-hero, so...just Eternion?

* Demon-Jame in ''[[Terror Island]]'', at least in his first series of appearances:

'''Demon-Jame:''' Um. Yes. }}

** Completely undone in his second appearance, though. When he first shows up again, he spends a moment thinking about what evil plots he could do. Aorist jokingly suggests that he blight his weeds again, so Demon-Jame ''rips him in half.''

* The Minion Master from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' isn't really interested in doing anything bad; he tends to view making people his minions as a way of helping them escape their old lives, more than anything else. And he doesn't even ''get'' any minions until Torg and Co. join him, at which point, they promptly start using his resources to ''battle'' evil, placating their "Master" by explaining that, as the big picture guy, he doesn't need to know the specifics, or anything at all, about what his minions are actually doing.

 

* Lee Phillips of ''[[Kate Modern]]'' attempts to take revenge on Gavin and Tariq by...forcing them to play a treasure hunt game to retrieve their stolen software. He still manages to be a serious threat because there are other, decidedly less harmless villains who are also after the software.

* Dr. Poque from ''[[Mega 64]]'' is arguably this, while he did kidnap and lock Rocko, Derek, and Sean in his basement, he's to much of a [[Butt Monkey]] to be a real threat. Episode six of Version 2 amps this up to [[Woobie]] status.

* Although having a villainous outer appearance, [[Doctor Steel]]'s goals are really very positive and even kid-friendly. He just wants to make the world a better place (for himself).

** During his first appearances in the Marik's Evil Council Videos, Dartz manages to be even more pathetic. Then, he suddenly becomes an [[Expy]] of [[Perfect Hair Forever|Coiffio]] whose [[The Unintelligible|unfortunate accent]] causes both his henchmen and the audience to not be sure of whether his plans are the standard card game shenanigans or [[Squick|something much worse]].

 

* Dr. Robotnik on the ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' version of the show makes incredibly inept robots, repeatedly has crying fits, and is sometimes too distracted with himself to notice that his plan isn't working.

** Granted a lot of Robotnik's harmless streak is implied to be solely because of [[Invincible Hero|Sonic]]. Many episodes show Sonic encountering civilians that have been [[Beware the Silly Ones|successfully terrorized or enslaved by Robotnik without his help]], while in other episodes he actually manages to pull off [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] plans that temporarily [[Not-So-Harmless Villain|despose of his foe]]. His henchbots Scratch and Grounder however, were definitely incompetant, [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|often destroying their own schemes]] before Sonic even got the chance to stop them.

* 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.

* 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.

** In Season 3, Sergeant Hatred better qualifies for this trope. He signs up to be Dr. Venture's arch, but then resorts to extremely minor acts of villainy, such as lighting his front-yard shrubbery on fire. By the end of the season, he even lives on the Venture Compound and acts as an {{spoiler|ad hoc bodyguard in the absence of Brock Samson, who is working for an undercover vigilante society.}} Of course, {{spoiler|he only did it to piss off The Monarch, who stole tech from him once}}.

** There's also this exchange at the line for Order of the Triad archenemy try-outs:

After the commercial break, it's revealed that Torrid really meant using the bathroom. }}

* Duke Igthorn in ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'' was mostly cartoonishly harmless. At one point, he had captured Granni Bear, and was trying to extract the recipe for the [[Super Serum|Gummi Berry Juice]] from her. Rather than torture, he actually ''tickles her with feathers'' until she gives in. Thankfully, it was an incorrect recipe, proving that the [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]] (with feathers) is still useless. However, if one looks deeper, one can gain some respect for the man; he seems to keep a legion of superstrong ogres twice his size in line by mere force of personality, is never seen not wearing a suit of chainmail (which is HEAVY), and, at one point, knocks out two armed guards with his bare hands.

** Since the Box Ghost (apart from that time with Pandora) never seems to have plots more complicated than "throw stuff around to scare people", Danny's probably just being a bully by attacking him at all.

** His [[Future Badass]] self from [[The Movie]] on the other hand...

*** He also went back in time and rewrote Agrabah's entire history in one episode so that he could be Sultan.

** Aladdin also occasionally had to deal with an inept thief named Amin Damoola (nicknamed 'Butterfingers'). The only time Butterfingers was a serious threat was once, when was using magical artifacts supplied by Mozenrath, who had essentially replaced Jafar as Aladdin's main nemesis.

** He doesn't come across as all that harmless so long as Raven isn't around; in his introduction, he's actually winning against the Titans and usually puts up a pretty good fight until Raven talks to him and he falls apart. If she wasn't around, he'd be anything but harmless.

* The villain Killface from ''[[Frisky Dingo]]'' is a good example. He builds a machine that can destroy Earth but freaks out and tries to stop it when someone activates it. Killface also shows some love for Earth, especially its pre-Colombian pottery and literature (but not the hip-hop). Killface becomes best friends with his worst enemy (who is disguised) and refuses to kill him, even after finding out his true identity. Killface has no problem brutally killing his "employees", though. The hero, Xander Crews, actually does more evil and harmful things than Killface.

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' has the completely harmless Dr. Doofenshmirtz. The closest he came to actually harming anyone was building an invention that would destroy anyone who couldn't make up their minds.

** The man was once defeated by a potted plant he hung up because Perry was busy. It doesn't '''get''' any more harmless than that!

** He also once developed a device for insulting whales ([[Freudian Excuse|because, years earlier, a whale stole his girlfriend]]). Perry actually ''left'', which caused Doofenshmirtz to chase him around, demanding that his plot be foiled.

** All of that said, "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" shows us that without Perry to oppose him, he can be much more dangerous. (Granted, that was a unique situation, since it's implied that the citizens of Danville ''asked'' him to rule them out of fear of their own children.)

** One Episode had him cloning himself not to make it easier to take over the Tri-State Area, but so he could get errands done quicker such as standing in line.

** There was one episode where they unmasked the villain and were all like "You're going to jail!" only for a police officer to inform them that, seeing as she was on her own property, not actually hurting or threatening anyone, and not covering up for any sort of criminal operation, she hadn't actually broken any laws and so she wasn't going to jail.

** On the original series, they weren't out to hurt anybody; almost every one of them was involved in some kind of ludicrous real estate scheme where they really, really wanted to have the rights to some particular land/house, and thought the best way to do that was to put on a monster costume.

* Grizzle from ''[[Care Bears|Adventures in Care-a-Lot]]'' is rarely seen as a real threat by the Care Bears, and usually just considered a nuisance or misguided.

** There have actually been several episodes that show that he isn't so harmless, it's just that he really isn't that evil.

* "The Villain Nobody Took Seriously" on ''[[The Secret Show]],'' who was able to rule the world precisely because nobody took him seriously. He was just a clown living in an abandoned circus tent, talking about all the things he would do once he ruled the world...and then managed to get elected World Leader by changing his name to "Mark X Here", making confused voters cast their votes for him.

* [[Looney Tunes|Elmer Fudd]], who was so ineffectual that [[Bugs Bunny]] [[Designated Hero|sometimes came off as a bully when beating him]]. Because of this, Yosemite Sam was introduced as a [[Knight of Cerebus|more threatening and less sympathetic foe]]. Though [[Jerkass|less sympathetic]], Sam wasn't that much more threatening after a [[Villain Decay|few cartoons]]. Following this, Marvin the Martian was created, who, despite having super advanced planet obliterating technology at his will, was only ''slightly'' more formidable.

* ''[[League of Super Evil]].'' They not only [[Poke the Poodle]] figuratively, they might do so literally, claiming it to be a villainous deed. Which, considering that their previous plots include Voltar using a giant mech so he could play in a dunk contest, rigging a pet show to win, and selling Turnip-ade under the guise of lemonade, might be a step up for them.

* Lucius Heinous VII on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' is pretty much an incompetent version of [[Satan]]. Though, while he's largely ineffective, the fact that he keeps people like [[Enfante Terrible|Heloise]] and [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Molotov]] under his thumb is probably a sign that he's doing something right.

** Mostly because they were just as bad at being good as they were at being bad.

** [[Word of God]] is that the writers felt sorry for him, so they started writing stories where he'd team-up with He-Man against some outside threat, just so he could win occasionally and not look like a complete tool all the time.

* Mister Smarty Smarts of ''[[Spliced]]'', though there have been a few times that he has been a genuine threat to the other inhabitants of the Island.

** Subverted in ''Mad Love'' where Batman actually admits that Harley Quinn was closer to killing him than the Joker ever was. Considering that this is the Joker, that says a lot!

* In ''[[Word Girl]]'', pretty much all of the villains qualify...but ''especially'' Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy. I mean, just look at his name!

** At least Chuck was always thiiiis close to possibly killing her, but, of course, not doing so. The Amazing Rope Guy, despite his name, can't even use the rope to his advantage. He even TIES HIMSELF UP when he was trying to get Wordgirl. That's just lame.

* 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]].

 

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