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* Alec D'Urberville, from ''[[Tess of the D'Urbervilles]]'', is an early version of this trope played straight (it's Victorian melodrama with a Realist touch). Hardy starts to give him [[Hidden Depths]] when he attempts to become a religious man, but he soon drops it and goes back to his dastardly, womanizing ways.

* "Squire Hardman" from [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]]'s "Sweet Ermengarde" is an early parody:

"Curses!" he cried -- Hardman, not the cat -- "I am foiled in my plot to get the farm and the girl!..."'' }}

* Sir Percival Glyde, a "bad baronet" in ''[[The Woman in White]]'', is pretty much this, involved in the standard financial scheming and wife imprisonment.

** [[Lampshade Hanging]] in the [[Virgin New Adventures|novel]] ''Who Killed Kennedy'': when [[Intrepid Reporter]] James Stevens sees a TV report on "Reverend Magister", his reaction is that nobody who looks that much like a Dennis Wheatley villain could possibly really be a terrorist and this is obviously part of the UNIT coverup.

** Also lampshaded when Jo Grant—finding the Master speechless with fury over how she and the Doctor escaped his latest [[Death Trap]]—suggests "Curses, foiled again!" as an appropriate remark.

* [[Punny Name|M.T. Promises]] on ''[[The Great Space Coaster]]''.

* Robbie Rotten of ''[[LazyTown]]'' may not have the loftiest of goals (he just wants the kids to be lazy so they won't be running back and forth across the roof of his subterranean lair all day—one might suggest he move, but it's probably rent-controlled), but he more than makes up for it with the kind of elaborate costumes and schemes that define this trope.

* Phantom Phink in ''[[Yogi's Space Race|Yogis Space Race]]'' is pretty much a [[Captain Ersatz]] of Dick Dastardly, who was also a [[Hanna-Barbera]] character.

* The Amazing Mumbo from ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' definitely sports the look and one-dimensional villainy, although he's never seen engaging in mustache twirling or [[Antiquated Linguistics]]. Justified in that his whole theme is [[Magicians Are Wizards|stage magic turned horribly real]]; top hats, black suits, and cloaks just happen to be the stereotypical garb of stage magicians.

 

 

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