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== [[Film]] ==

* Disney examples:

* Kaa, from Disney's ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]''. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|His interest in Mowgli]] occasionally bordered on the paedophilic, though. Unlike in [[The Jungle Book (novel)|the book]], where he's a benevolent [[Badass]] [[Old Master]].

** Kaa, from Disney's ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]''. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|His interest in Mowgli]] occasionally bordered on the paedophilic, though. Unlike in [[The Jungle Book (novel)|the book]], where he's a benevolent [[Badass]] [[Old Master]].

* [[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Captain Hook]]. After a while, you just start to hate Peter for being so darn mean to the Captain.

** [[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Captain Hook]]. After a while, you just start to hate Peter for being so darn mean to the Captain.

** Edgar, from ''[[The Aristocrats]]''. Given his age, clumsiness, bad driving, and no real skills other than that of any other butler, his "scheme" is almost laughable. Granted, he managed to get rid of the Dutchess and her kittens (for a short while at least), but lets be honest, it doesn't exactly take a genius to fool three cats, and ultimately, he is beaten up and humiliated by a bunch of alley cats in a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] - how pathetic can you get? One has to question just ''why'' he was so dead set on getting rid of them - not like they'd have been able to do much to stop him from spending most of the money on himself by doing the bare minumum of what had been required of taking care of them.

* Peter Lorre in ''[[M]]''. And again in ''[[Casablanca]]''. And in ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]''. And ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]''. In fact, [[Peter Lorre]] in general.

** Peter Lorre in ''[[Film/Mad Love|Mad Love]]''; all of the sympathy, three times the creepiness. Fairly efficient, given how nuts he was.