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* Louis Renault from ''[[Casablanca]]'', although {{spoiler|Louis is really just too cool to remain a bad guy through the whole picture, so he reforms at the end so he and Rick can fight Nazis together.}}

* Both main mobsters in the ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'' (Falcone and Maroni). They're clever guys who've managed to keep a ''very'' nasty city under their control for a long time, but they're just not competing in the same league as the ''real'' supervillains in town... and yet, Falcone is clearly the most arrogant and condescending villain in [[Batman Begins]], while Maroni is at least ONE of the most arrogant and condescending villains in [[The Dark Knight]], second only to the Joker if even him. (And really, [[Magnificent Bastard|Joker is in more of a position to be condescending ANYWAY]].)

'''Maroni''': [[The Joker|Two-bit whackjob, wears a cheap purple suit and makeup.]] [[Tempting Fate|He's not the problem, he's a nobody.]] }}

* Doctor Emma Temple of ''[[The Ring]] Two'', a smirking, utterly insensitive psychiatrist. {{spoiler|Samara uses a [[Jedi Mind Trick]] on Dr. Temple [[Asshole Victim|to make her commit suicide]], which on the one hand is the least gory death in the series, but may be the most humiliating as it implies Temple is so [[Weak-Willed]] Samara can dominate her with a thought.}}

* Colonel Zaysen from ''[[Rambo III]]''. The Agony Booth [http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Rambo_III.aspx?Page=2 recap] gives an absolutely perfect distillation of this trope:

* The [[Large Ham|aptly-named]] Justin Hammer from ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man 2]]''. While he is a massively rich military industrialist, and not above the odd bit of sceming, he comes off as an ''unbeliveable'' douche and a vaguely pathetic shadow of Tony Stark: his Hammer Tech weapons {{spoiler|[[Epic Fail|fail utterly]]}}, he can't cobble together an Iron Man suit knockoff to save his life, and it's pretty obvious that he's being played like a fiddle by {{spoiler|[[Magnificent Bastard|Ivan Vanko]]}}. Even his ''trophy girfriend'' is one of Tony's cast-offs.

** It's pretty telling that when it comes down to Hammer versus the crazy murderous Russian, the audience tends to root for the latter.