Not-So-Harmless Villain: Difference between revisions

** 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 ''[[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.

* In the ''[[Kill Bill]]'' movies, Budd is the only member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad to be down-on-his luck and there is some lip service paid to his lack of fighting ability. Bill has no doubt the Bride would be too much for him, Elle has a long list of insults for him, and even the Bride herself seems overly confident when going after him. Despite this, {{spoiler|he is the only member who defeats and captures the Bride.}}

I'm the quivering of your heart

A stabbing pain, a sudden start.'' }}

 

 

* Joshua in ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' is incredibly hard to fight with, until you get him floating, then he can shoot very powerful [[Jesus Beams]] {{spoiler|not to mention he's actually [[The Chessmaster]] for the entire game}}

* Shrowdy von Kiefer, villain of ''[[A Vampyre Story]]'', is basically black magic incarnate. This means he has every negative trait you can think of--[[Psychopathic Manchild|childishness, selfishness, a complete lack of dignity]], [[Oedipus Complex|an obsession with his mother]], [[Torture Technician|a fondness for torture]], [[If I Can't Have You|the capacity to coldly kill someone he claims to be in love with]] . . .

* In ''[[Saints Row 2]]'', in the beginning Maero, the leader of the Stilwater Brotherhood, sees the Boss as a "washed-up gangbanger" and for this reason offers him/her only 20% of his shipment and by extension, 20% of Stilwater. And after the Boss angrily turns him down, he barely does anything in response, still seeing him/her and the Saints as a nuisance. Then the Boss permanently burns his face with radioactive waste, then s/he kills his girlfriend and has his best friend crippled. After that he devotes all energy to killing the Boss and destroying the Saints.

* Dr "Eggman" Robotnik has started playing into this manner in the recent ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games. He's even more clownish and bumbling as ever, however his plans are more stable, and manage to take Sonic by surprise a few times. Even his ''super form'' recently got neutralized by one of the doctor's machines after taking him too lightly.