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== [[Literature]] ==
* Draco Malfoy is this most of the time in the early ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' books. He only really starts to dovetail with the actual villains in [[
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* This applies to most movies made by the SciFi/SyFy Channel. You have a decent monster/phenomenon story, then you throw a bunch of criminals in. Maybe they are trying to get us to root for the monster, or increase the body count without angst (because the extra victims are bad people, and they have it coming), but it usually just muddies up the movie.
* The Jabberwock in the 1985 Irwin Allen version of ''Alice in Wonderland'' is an unnecessary addition to the 'Through the Looking Glass' portion of the film. In the original book, the Jabberwock never appeared outside the poem "Jabberwocky". Irwin Allen, however, believed the story needed an equivalent to the Boogeyman, so he made the Jabberwock appear and scare Alice when she reads the poem, and then turn up again twice later (once at the end of the Humpty Dumpty scene, the second during the climax). But really it contributes nothing to the story, aside from allowing the producers to put in a climax somewhat more comprehensable than the book's [[Gainax Ending|rather bewildering finale]].
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Initially ''[[Candy Land]]'' had no villain or even much of a plot, but an updated version added Lord Licorice, whose scheme involves turning ''all'' the candy in Candy Land into [[Stock Yuck|licorice]] - but he's a clumsy fool who is easily sidetracked. Not much more than that.
== [[Toys]] ==
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