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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''You're quasi-evil. You're semi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough.''|'''Dr. Evil''' (to his [[Genre Savvy]] son Scott)|''[[Austin Powers]]: The Spy Who Shagged Me''}}
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* The children's book ''Which Witch?'' features Belladonna, who tries her hardest to be an evil, hag-faced black witch like all the rest. Unfortunately her natural tendency is that of a [[Purity Sue]]-level white witch that makes all the other witches feel sick.
* Some of the mooks in the ''[[Redwall]]'' series.
* Draco Malfoy from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''. For the first five books, he was a [[Jerkass]] who never got closer than [[Red Herring]] to being a real villain. When he was finally given an important job by the bad guys in ''Half-Blood Prince'', it quickly became clear that he couldn't do real evil; he tried to kill Dumbledore indirectly but all of his attempts failed. When he finally had a golden opportunity to kill him on the spot, he couldn't go through with it, and only disarmed him. The only reason he tried to go through with it was fear of what Voldemort would do to him and his family. {{spoiler|Oh, and Dumbledore was perfectly aware of what he was up to the whole time, but didn't approach him for fear of Voldemort catching on through Legilemency.}}]
** Also in ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', when the trio are caught and brought to Malfoy Manor, and Draco is asked to take a look at them to see if they've got the real Harry Potter, he clearly knows it's them, and is clearly reluctant to identify them, since he knows that doing so will ensure that Voldemort will come and kill them.
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has plenty of examples, most recently{{when}} Luke Rattigan in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E05 The Poison Sky|The Poison Sky]]'', who thinks the Sontarans killing people with his inventions is cool but lacks the nerve to get his own hands dirty and {{spoiler|ultimately sacrifices himself so the Doctor won't have to.}}
** Davey in the pilot of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''. This is the guy who refuses to follow Maria and Luke into a womens' bathroom, because "That room is designated for females only. We are males... this culture says we must never go in."
* Damar in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' is a non-silly version.
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'''[[Impossible Thief|Thief]]:''' Seriously, hiding the bodies is as important as the murder. }}
* The minon in [http://www.superstupor.com/sust04072008.shtml this] ''[[Super Stupor]]'' comic; not so much an F in Evil as U for "Ungraded".
* Inverted with Khrima of ''[[Adventurers!]]'' who despite his [[Big Bad]] status [https://web.archive.org/web/20090725032840/http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0036.html keeps forgetting to act villainous]. Sometimes his [[Evil Minions]] have to remind him.
** His minion, Mitzuna, is a [https://web.archive.org/web/20150502113331/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030408.html straightforward example.]
* During the "That Which Redeems" story arc from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', the Dimension of Pain demons start turning people in the Dimension of Lame into demons as well. However, as one demon puts it, "When you start with wussie mortals you get wussie demons."
* [[Butt Monkey|Neeg]], one of the aliens from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20200313130906/http://www.agameoffools.com/ A Game of Fools]'', who is [https://web.archive.org/web/20101212100717/http://www.agameoffools.com/comic_22.html terrified at the very sight of humans] and is repeatedly abused (and, it's implied, [https://web.archive.org/web/20101212100941/http://www.agameoffools.com/comic_28.html much worse]) by his [[Depraved Bisexual]] superior Gloog eventually ends up [https://web.archive.org/web/20101212100946/http://www.agameoffools.com/comic_29.html betraying him] and [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal|helping the heroes]]. Ironically, he then comes to closest out of any of the aliens to actually [https://web.archive.org/web/20101212100951/http://www.agameoffools.com/comic_30.html killing the main characters], but that was more due to his own cowardice than any actual malice.
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* Heartbreaker and Jello of The Masterminds, in the [[Whateley Universe]]. They seem a lot more interested on protecting their friends than in actual villainy.
* Anni Hilator from [[Coyle Command]]. Doesn't help that so far his most useful action has been getting shot to test a gun.
* Hilariously done in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_788TYlzCSI this web comic/animatic]. A knight is tricked by a harpy who proceeds to carry him to her nest with the intent of feeding him to her daughters. Then she leaves, comes back, and is upset to see the two young harpys "playing with their food", as in, playing cards with him.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* [[Brainless Beauty|Lindsay]] and [[Not Good with People|Beth]] to [[Alpha Bitch|Heather]] in ''[[Total Drama Island]]''. Eventually, both [[Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch|betray]] Heather ''epically''.
* Several members of the '''Evil''' Horde in ''[[She-Ra and the Princesses of Power]]'' are far too nice to be in a group with such a name. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2NFU0C1iZc Scorpia is probably the "worst" in that regard] - she is friendly almost to a fault.
{{reflist}}
[[Category:No One Respects the Spanish Inquisition]]
[[Category:Villains]]
[[Category:Minion with an F In Evil]]
[[Category:Competence Tropes]]
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