Not-So-Harmless Villain: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|Batman Begins]]'':

** The Scarecrow gets this treatment. Prior to this movie, he was best known as the go-to incompetent villain on ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]''. In the movie, he's introduced as a skinny and unintimidating psychologist with big pretty eyes. And then he sets Batman on fire.''[[This Is Sparta|He. Set.]] [[The Batman|BATMAN.]] [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|ON. FIRE.]]'' And still gets defeated pretty much instantly.

** In ''The Dark Knight'', both Batman and the mob are shown dismissing [[The Joker]] out of hand. The mob considers Batman their more pressing problem, while Batman (somewhat hypocritically) rationalizes that he's just one man, and so can't possibly be more dangerous than the mob. He ends up destroying quite a bit of the city, driving the last nail into the mob's coffin, [[~~Near Villain Victory~~|and almost doing the same for Batman]] and [[The Corrupter|drives Harvey Dent to madness.]]

** In ''The Dark Knight'', both Batman and the mob are shown dismissing [[The Joker]] out of hand. The mob considers Batman their more pressing problem, while Batman (somewhat hypocritically) rationalizes that he's just one man, and so can't possibly be more dangerous than the mob. He ends up destroying quite a bit of the city, driving the last nail into the mob's coffin, [[Eucatastrophe|and almost doing the same for Batman]] and [[The Corrupter|drives Harvey Dent to madness.]]

* The [[Killer Rabbit]] from ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''.

* In ''[[Blindness]]'', The King Of Ward 3 is shown to be an obnoxious punk who simply disrespects the protagonists and loudly makes an ass of himself. Then he manages to find a gun, and becomes the most powerful tyrant in the place.

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* ''[[Kim Possible]]'':

** Most of Dr. Drakken's schemes ''nearly'' work, but there's usually some fatal flaw that destroys them. If not that, there always a [[Genre Savvy]] cheerleader or a certain molerat who gets in the way.

** ''[[The Movie|So the Drama]]'' saw him [[~~Near Villain Victory~~|succeed on a grander scale]], and showed how dangerous he ''can'' be when he [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|finally learns from his past mistakes]].

** ''[[The Movie|So the Drama]]'' saw him [[Eucatastrophe|succeed on a grander scale]], and showed how dangerous he ''can'' be when he [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|finally learns from his past mistakes]].

** In the second finale, he underwent a plant mutation that at first made it look like he was [[One-Winged Angel|turning into a monster]], but then it appeared to make him look even more ridiculous. Turns out though, this mutation gave him powerful, destructive vines that he used to crush the [[Tripod Terror|alien walkers]], earning him his very first victory. If the writers had decided to continue the series, he really would be a force to be reckoned with.

* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'':