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* RoboGadget, the evil android imposter of the protagonist of ''[[Inspector Gadget (film)|Inspector Gadget]]''. When inevitably confronted by the real Gadget, he actually makes the iconic [[Idiot Hero]] seem competent in comparison.
* The eponymous monsters in ''[[Attack of the Killer Donuts]]''. They manage to kill a few humans (mostly folks that had it coming, and one of the heroes who makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to stop them) but most of the intended victims are able to swat them aside with relative ease. In the end, living, evil donuts aren't very dangerous.
* The Purgers in ''[[The Purge (film)|The Purge]]''. While [[This Troper]] is no expert on the subject, one would assume that gangs intending to invade a home and murder the occupants on the day of the year it is most likely to happen would expect some level of resistance. Nobody wants to be dragged out of bed and murdered in the middle of the night by people wearing horrendous-looking masks, right? Yet, the Purgers in this movie aren’t exactly up for the task. Despite this movie occurring in America, [[Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight|they carry surprisingly little in the way of firearms]]. Plus two of them they literally act like children (sociopathic murderous children, that is) [[Evil Laugh|giggling wickedly]] and giving each other piggyback rides, actions that [[Obviously Evil|make them seem like evil lunatics]], right up to the part where the much savvier homeowner James blows their brains out with a shotgun. The rest fare little better, easily ambushed and killed by the Sanders’ neighbors, seemingly forgetting that when you go out on Purge Night, [[The Hunter Becomes the Hunted|you are not the only ones purging.]]
* ''[[No One Lives]]'' combines this with [[Eviler Than Thou]]. The film’s [[Villain Protagonist]]s are a gang of hardened, violent killers who make the mistake of going up against a monstrous [[Serial Killer]] who is far better at killing than they are. Contrary to the film's name, a couple of characters ''do'' survive, but it isn't them.
* ''[[You’re Next]]''. The masked intruders are sadistic, brutal killers, hired to murder a family as part of an inheritance scam orchestrated by two of them, Felix and Zee. Obviously, however, these two didn’t know enough about ''their own siblings'' to know that one of them, [[Final Girl| Erin]], is an [[Action Girl]] survivalist trained in a mercenary compound to kill without fear or pity, and her evil brothers and their hired killers are completely unprepared to deal with what is essentially a [[Distaff Counterpart]] to [[Rambo]] out to exact bloody retribution on them.
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