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* ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]'' - The Bowler Hat Guy is an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] who lives in a run-down building, [[The Pig Pen|never showers]], never thinks his evil plots through, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|still has the handwriting of a kid]]. {{spoiler|This is deliberately done to show that he has never mentally moved on from one traumatic incident in his childhood.}}

* [[Elvis]] was the King of Rock & Roll, and thus the coolest guy alive by default...so it seemed forced and counterproductive in his (post Army) movies to make him ''look'' cool by having ''every'' other guy around him be an ineffectual goofball.

* Sometimes beginner screenwriters tend to do this—where instead of writing a standard hero with a combination of strengths and flaws, they will have a [[Mary Sue|statically perfect protagonist]] with an overly-flawed, meant-to-be-unlikeable associate who is always wrong and needs to be put in their place and learn their lesson. Said lesson usually involves the designated scapegoat realizing how awesome the protagonist is compared to them.

 

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