Bond Villain Stupidity: Difference between revisions

 

== Western Animation ==

* In ''[[Kim Possible]]'', this trope is literally part of the Tradition.

** Averted and lampshaded in the episode "Best In Show".

** To be fair to Homer, he did think that Bont was a loafer.

** In a scene made for the episode where gambling became legal but only shown in a special, a Bond-like character asked the villain to describe the plan but the villain said he wouldn't fall for that again.

* ''[[Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers]]'' has Pete doing this to Mickey. This is notable in that he averts this with Goofy and [[Donald Duck]], who he flat out attempts to kill.

* In ''[[The Perils of Penelope Pitstop]]'', the villain Hooded Claw constantly tries to murder the eponymous heroine(ish). The entire episodes are devised of the heroes foiling his extremely elaborate and overly complex homicide attempts.

* In the ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' episode "X", [[Mad Scientist|Professor Chang]]'s [[Mooks|minions]] actually defeat [[Superhero]] team leader Robin. But, not only do they not kill him, they don't even bother taking him prisoner! Instead they just pass on a message that Chang has kidnapped the rest of the Teen Titans and will kill them if Robin interferes Chang's plans. They might as well have been ''daring'' Robin to [[Big Damn Heroes|swoop in and save the day at the last minute]].

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in the first season finale of ''[[Generator Rex]]''. When [[Big Bad|Van Kleiss]] gives the order {{spoiler|for [[The Dragon|Biowolf]] to dispose of a [[Brought Down to Normal|depowered]] Rex to be disposed of, Rex}} asks him if he'd rather lock him a cage or tie him to a slab and use a slow moving laser on him, {{spoiler|Biowolf simply says "No", and tosses him out the window of [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier|the Keep]]}}. Interestingly enough, this is played straight later in the episode by the {{spoiler|[[Big Good|Big]] [[Designated Hero|"Good"]]}} of all people, who {{spoiler|chooses not to turn his electromagnet defense system high enough to tear the nanites out of Biowolf's body, but simply to immobilize him for a good old fashioned beat down.}}

* In a similar example to the above Sherlock Holmes example, ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'' has [[Big Bad|Ratigan]] set up an ''incredibly'' elaborate deathtrap for Basil and Dawson instead of just killing them outright. However, the movie does at least give reasons for why he made it so elaborate (he couldn't decide on just one killing method) and why he left rather than stay to watch their deaths (Basil arrived at Ratigan's hideout later than expected, forcing him to leave early to carry out his [[Evil Plan]]). Ultimately [[Justified]] in that Ratigan probably didn't expect {{spoiler|that Dawson would taunt the defeated Basil into creating a plan that set off the trap early and started a chain reaction that freed them rather than killed them.}}

* ''[[Futurama]]'' pulls this with the Slurm Queen during the 'Fry and the Slurm Factory' episode.

 

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