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* Waspinator from the ''[[Beast Wars]]'' portion of the ''[[Transformers]]'' franchise often fits this category.

** With the exception of [[Adaptational Badass|his counterpart]] in the ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' series, who was portrayed as deadly, powerful, vengeful, psychotic, and even a little scary - all things his ''[[Beast Wars]]'' predecessor was not.

* ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'''s [[~~Added Alliterative Appeal~~|Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak]]. In the first two animated specials in the first generation line, he floods Strawberryland to demand its berries as ransom, and cheats to win a bake-off in which the prize is a ''gazebo''. With his associate Sour Grapes, their crimes in the subsequent four shows are: framing Strawberry for taking a bribe as a pet show judge and being complicit in their cheating, stealing a box of recipes, capturing a friendly monster with the intent of selling it to a circus, and trying to use the Berrykins to create a super-perfume. Sometimes, the ''real'' dangers to the heroes are unintentional on the villains' part: Lem and Ada are hiding in the recipe box, and the perfume mixing results in a smelly cloud that threatens to stink up Strawberryland. Also, as far as weaknesses go...in the third special, he crumbles under the heroine's threat to annoy him endlessly with her "berry talk".

* ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'''s [[Alliteration|Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak]]. In the first two animated specials in the first generation line, he floods Strawberryland to demand its berries as ransom, and cheats to win a bake-off in which the prize is a ''gazebo''. With his associate Sour Grapes, their crimes in the subsequent four shows are: framing Strawberry for taking a bribe as a pet show judge and being complicit in their cheating, stealing a box of recipes, capturing a friendly monster with the intent of selling it to a circus, and trying to use the Berrykins to create a super-perfume. Sometimes, the ''real'' dangers to the heroes are unintentional on the villains' part: Lem and Ada are hiding in the recipe box, and the perfume mixing results in a smelly cloud that threatens to stink up Strawberryland. Also, as far as weaknesses go...in the third special, he crumbles under the heroine's threat to annoy him endlessly with her "berry talk".

** In all fairness, you shouldn't underestimate the potential of a [http://www.duke.edu/web/DRAGO/humor/gazebo.html Gazebo].

* The Copper Cranium in ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' is defeated so easily, the narrator lampshades it.

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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|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 villlainy]].}}

** {{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 villlainy]].}}