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{{quote|'''Bart''': Don't judge a place you've never been to. That's what people do in Russia.}}

* [[Big Bad| Prime Evil]], from ''[[Filmation's Ghostbusters]]'', really drives the Trope home in the episode “A Friend in Need”. The story starts with Prime Evil stealing the entire city - ruining Tracy’s birthday party in the process - but while this seems a typical crime for a guy like him, his motive is very different. [[Evil Versus Evil| His hated rival Big Evil]] has used a potent [[Artifact of Doom]] called the Specter Scepter to usurp command of Hauntquarters and his henchmen, and he now needs the heroes to help him wrest it back, using the city as a bargaining chip. The reluctant [[Enemy Mine]] situation, however, becomes a bad case of [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]; Jake asks ''twice'' for the villain to release the city as an act of goodwill, but Prime Evil refuses to do so the first time, suspecting the heroes will double cross and abandon him should he do so, [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good| not accepting their word as proof enough]]. (He agrees the ''second'' time, but by then, he cannot, as his magic had been drained by Big Evil.) Naturally, once Big Evil is defeated and the Scepter is recovered, Prime Evil tries to renege on the deal - doing exactly what he suspected the heroes would do - and the city is only saved because he can’t control the Scepter, and has to return the city to keep it completely draining him.