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* Wapol, the [[Big Bad]] (the term should be applied loosely) from the Drum Island Arc. While this guy had a cool Devil Fruit power with the potential to make him a threat, he was never even a ''small'' threat to the heroes, he was just... ''there'', and the arc would have gone smoother had he ''not'' been there. Ironically, he became a rather complex and interesting character after he quit being a villain and went into toymaking.
* In ''[[Wizard's Soul - Koi no Seisen]]'', the [[Alpha Bitch]] and her two lackies try to sabatoge Monika's chance at victory in the TCG tournament by doing things like file Monika's card sleeves so it looks like Monika's a cheater.
* ''[[Sword Art Online]]'' has an odd in-universe example, which might overlap with [[Tropes Are Not Bad]] given how ''awesome'' it was. It seems that the [[Big Bad]] and [[Final Boss]] of the [[Fictional Video Game]] was originally a demon (for lack of a better term) called An Incarnation of the Radius, which was to be fought at the summit of the giant tower of Aincrad; the tower's full name is "Anicrad, an Incarnating Radius" so this Boss is supposed to be a personification of the tower itself. However, when Kayaba Akihiko (the [[Big Bad]] of the original series and the game's in-universe designer) turned SAO into a [[Deadly Game]], he placed an avatar of himself as the Final Boss, and the Incarnation went unused. ([[Word of God]] states that Kayaba believed he had made the monster too strong and that no players would ''ever'' defeat it; while he had no concern for their lives, his ultimate goal required someone to eventually defeat the final boss.) However, the villain in the full-length movie ''Sword Art Online The Movie -Ordinal Scale-'' discovered this unused Boss through data mining, figured it was a shame to waste it, and used it as a weapon against the heroes, resulting in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xp8F4V39k4 an epic battle where ''every'' survivor from the original series squared off against the boss-who-never-was.
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