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*** Also his plan with Soundwave; the first is to use him as replacement body.However,when it clears that Soundwave had grown sentient personality, he changes his plan; he convinced Soundwave ''[[Knight Templar|to fight for the robots]]'' [[Manipulative Bastard|with him]]. Other Megatron usually will fall with his [[Villain Ball]] and continue with their plan; even if it risk that the target will betray them.

* Impostor Dan, from Dan Vs. After stealing Dan's identity, and endearing himself to everyone in town, he is finally taken down by Dan. Being a Magnificent Bastard, he gets out of prison and becomes a telemarketer. He uses his position to drive Dan insane, using a hidden transmitter to act as the voice inside his head, renting an apartment, just to capture them both, and even knowing the characters so well that he can place traps exactly where they will be. When Dan chases him with a baseball bat, he gets a cop to taser him twice. He even manages to do all this while being completely likable, suave, and normal.

* Megabyte from ''[[Re Boot]]''. The [[Evil Sounds Deep|low]], [[Evil Brit|British]] baritone voice of [[Tony Jay]] certainly helps, but this is one of the few cartoon villains that has never suffered from any sort of [[Villain Decay]], and is actually considered more dangerous as the series progresses. His most magnificent moment (besides the guitar duel) is when he took advantage of the web invasion and subsequent [[Enemy Mine]] situation to strand Bob, Mainframe's champion, in the web. While Daemon is more powerful and dangerous, Megabyte's return in season 4 evoked much more fear from the main cast. What makes this so Magnificent is how his dispatching of Bob is so ''un''-magnificent. He shoves him and presses a button. Dead easy. It also helps that {{spoiler|judging by the season four cliffhanger, ''[[The Bad Guy Wins|he wins]]''}}.

** Megabyte's bastardy in the first few seasons was completely overshadowed {{spoiler|by what he got up to in the fourth season. At this point, he has decided to forgo his pursuit of power in favor of personal revenge, which he does in truly epic fashion. He uses his newfound [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]] to return to Mainframe in the guise of the original (Season One/Two) Bob, and comes within literal seconds of ''marrying Dot'' just to mess with everyone's heads.}}

** Finally, he had Ed and Rummy set up a bomb in one of his buildings, and then calmly reveals when Huey and super agent Jack Flowers foil this plot that it was designed to inspire patriotism, sell merchandise, and make a movie about an obnoxious security guard who would have died in the explosion. And to top it off, when Flowers counts down 3 seconds before he shoots him, Wuncler calls PRESIDENT FUCKING OBAMA to stops him, then calmly tells them to let themselves out. And does all of this just by being crafty, evil and obscenely wealthy. [[Magnificent Bastard]] indeed.

* ''Carmen Sandiego''. In the mid-90's cartoon version, ''[[Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?]]'', she was as slick and suave as a female James Bond, but would steal priceless artifacts either just for the thrill or for a huge not-so-evil plan (in one episode, she stole several rare statues to make the worlds largest chess game) and would constantly bait and taunt the two detectives trying to catch her, all for the sport of the hunt (even though she was the prey.) And said detectives actually greatly ''respect'' her for this!

* Chase Young from ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'', mostly during the second season in which he debuted, would meticulously manipulate events so that even if the monks won, Chase would benefit from it, mostly with regard to his plans to corrupt Omi. This lead to him, on several occasions, helping the monks in order to gain Omi's trust, as well as manipulating other villains to force Omi into situations where he would have to resort to underhanded tactics not approved of by his friends.

* Alejandro from ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]''; at least by the usual standards of ''Total Drama''. He manipulates more successfully than other antagonists in the past, and is responsible for more eliminations than anyone else.

* {{spoiler|Rava}} from ''[[Galtar and the Golden Lance]]''. When she's assigned to take down Galtar, she actually ''succeeds'' in capturing him, and only ultimately loses because {{spoiler|she also used the assignment to set ''Tormack'' up, she tried to pull an [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]] and imprisoned Galtar when he refused, and Tormack and Galtar pulled an [[Enemy Mine]] to restore the [[Status Quo Is God|status quo]].}} In a series where the villains tend to be generally a touch more credible than most similar action cartoons of the age, {{spoiler|Rava}} is by far the most dangerous.

* Loki from ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'', first established during flashbacks in his first appearance and cemented when {{spoiler|he explains how pretty much the entire twenty-six episode season was the result of his plotting during the [[Season Finale]]}}.

* Discord from the opening episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' season 2. He's as old as-possibly older than-both Luna and Celestia and the Avatar of Disharmony that ruled Equestria in an endless maelstrom of anarchy and madness and led to the discovery of the Elements of Harmony; yet he's also one of the [[Large Ham|Largest Hams]] available, while still being incredibly sneaky and evil. By the end of the first episode, he's played ''everyone'' for fools ''without even trying'', all the while enjoying every second and relishing in the mayhem and suffering he causes.

** It helps greatly that he is both [[Word of God|apparently inspired by]] and shares actors with another magnificent bastard, [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Q.]]