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* Marik from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged]]'' tries to be evil, but his evil plans usually involve things like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jnCcejkpjg stealing the Pharaoh's leather pants], asking to borrow Yugi's Millenium Puzzle and not returning it for three weeks, and [[Poke the Poodle|pushing him off a boat. Into the sea.]] And on top of that, he is ''very'' easily distracted.

** 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]].

* The Goths at [[Super Hero School]] Whateley Academy in the [[Whateley Universe]]. Despite serious attempts at summoning [[Cosmic Horror|Cosmic Horrors]] and other evil acts, what they mainly manage to do is get their leader dumped into a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] and re-uniting Carmilla with her father (who ''is'' a [[Cosmic Horror]]). They also attack Phase... and get a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] because they have no idea what they're facing.

* The Goths at [[Super-Hero School]] Whateley Academy in the [[Whateley Universe]]. Despite serious attempts at summoning [[Cosmic Horror|Cosmic Horrors]] and other evil acts, what they mainly manage to do is get their leader dumped into a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] and re-uniting Carmilla with her father (who ''is'' a [[Cosmic Horror]]). They also attack Phase... and get a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] because they have no idea what they're facing.

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** 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.

** One villain in "[[What's New Scooby Doo]]" pretended to sabotage a bunch of carnival rides out of jealousy for her sister. They managed to unmask her, but because the rides hadn't actually been sabotaged and she hadn't otherwise broken any laws, they had to let her go.

** This has been [[Averted Trope|averted]] in ''[[Scooby Doo Mystery Inc|Mystery Inc.]]'' as the villains are ''much more'' willing to kill, or at least maim, the gang. One even tried arson to stop the [[Scooby Dooby Doors|door gag]]. No wonder this Shaggy hates mysteries.

** This has been [[Averted Trope|averted]] in ''[[Scooby Doo Mystery Inc|Mystery Inc.]]'' as the villains are ''much more'' willing to kill, or at least maim, the gang. One even tried arson to stop the [[Scooby-Dooby Doors|door gag]]. No wonder this Shaggy hates mysteries.

** 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.

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* Plankton from ''[[Spongebob SquarePants]]''. He has moments of competency, but even those don't go too well, mainly due to overconfidence or doing something so mundane, such as putting in a coin operated self-destruct mechanism, that his plans blow up in his face, figuratively and literally. This quip from Karen sums him up best:

{{quote| "Plankton. One percent evil. Ninety-nine percent hot gas."}}

** The E.V.I.L organization, which stands for [[Fun With Acronyms|"Every Villain Is Lemons"]], The extent of their villainy is shining flashlights into boats at [[Make Out Point|Makeout Reef]]<ref>Good times, goooood times...</ref> and making fun of the young people.

** The E.V.I.L organization, which stands for [[Fun With Acronyms|"Every Villain Is Lemons"]], The extent of their villainy is shining flashlights into boats at [[Make-Out Point|Makeout Reef]]<ref>Good times, goooood times...</ref> and making fun of the young people.

* 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 (Animation)|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.

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