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== Video Games ==

* The Clockwork King in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' is probably the closest it gets to Harmless Villain. The worst he might do to normal civilians is send his minions to steal a watch and some scrap metal, or make a mechanic work on his robots. He hates heroes, but given that a hero smacked him around so hard that he turned into a ~~brain~~ in a ~~jar~~, that's probably justified. Turned slightly to the [[Heel Face Turn|side of good]] with the Faultline revamp and his protection and assistance of some civilians, although the crazy kinda gets in the way of helping, too.

* The Clockwork King in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' is probably the closest it gets to Harmless Villain. The worst he might do to normal civilians is send his minions to steal a watch and some scrap metal, or make a mechanic work on his robots. He hates heroes, but given that a hero smacked him around so hard that he turned into a [[Brain In a Jar]], that's probably justified. Turned slightly to the [[Heel Face Turn|side of good]] with the Faultline revamp and his protection and assistance of some civilians, although the crazy kinda gets in the way of helping, too.

* Bowser in ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' sometimes falls into this trope, mainly in the [[RPG]]s and Party games. Even in the mainline games, he doesn't seem to be able to do anything other than [[Damsel in Distress|kidnap Peach]], though.

** His [[Super Mario Bros. (animation)|cartoon counterpart]], King Koopa, definitely does. He is regularly incapable of even capturing the princess, never mind taking care of Mario and his friends. The only times he is ever effective is when the plot demands it; the heroes [[Idiot Plot|suddenly fall for traps and get defeated by things that they could've easily taken care of before]]. They always break out and foil Koopa's ridiculous plots in the end, though.

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* The [[Fallout: New Vegas]] DLC ''Old World Blues'' has The Toaster, an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] obsessed with burning the world. He is limited in his evil quest by being a talking toaster (and that alas, unbeknownst to him, [[After the End|the world has already burned]]. He gets very upset when you point this out). About the worst he can do, should you not suffer an attack of stupid and [[Too Dumb to Live|stick your hand into his bread slot]], is ''threaten'' to set you on fire.

* ''[[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.

== Web Animation ==