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** {{spoiler|Or Stark is her [[Imaginary Friend]]. He states for both of them that they've been together so long that he can't even remember who is the real one anymore.}}
** Ukitake even lectures the girl on how her determination is admirable, but she simply lacks the ability to 'fight' him properly (i.e take the sword back). She fires a [[Ki Attack|cero]], he deflects it with his [[Nonchalant Dodge|hand]]. No wonder she was pissed off.
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has had some of the best villains in anime during its long run, but for every great villain like Sir Crocodile and Donquixote Doflamingo, there are sure to be a few lame fools:
** Hannyabal Initially presented as [[The Starscream]], but eventually shows that [[The Determinator|he has it where it counts]] when the going gets tough.
** The [[Laughably Evil]] [[Gonk]], Foxy the Silver Fox, particularly in the anime where he gets more screen time. He's relatively [[Weak but Skilled]] and has only built up such a large crew because he won them in games stacked in his favor, but they seem to genuinely enjoy serving under him because of the fun carnival atmosphere of the Davy Back Fights.
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** Blueno is another of those reasons. To his credit, he's not stupid, nor is he a bad fighter, but he has an odd eccentricity (for lack of a better term) which prevents him from believing anything that he cannot confirm with his own senses, never trusting ''any'' sort of third-party information. Thus, during the Enies Lobby Arc, he had been duly warned of Luffy's skills and the gumption the Straw Hat Captain had in intending to declare war on the World Government itself, and nonetheless confronted Luffy alone. Luffy at that point had mastered his Gear Third technique, but barely needed it, as he mopped the floor with Blueno using "only" Gear Two.
** Charlotte Daifuku, one of Big Mom’s sons and a high-ranking (for some odd reason) officer in her army, and thus an antagonist during the Whole Cake Island Arc. A man who values physical strength among all else, he has an uncontrollable temper, a trait that made his attack on the Thousand Sunny almost laughable. In his attempt to bring Carrot down after she assumed her [[One-Winged Angel| Sunlong form]], he used his Devil Fruit power to create a giant, sword-wielding genie - who, in its efforts to hit Carrot with its weapon, inadvertently sunk about half of Daifuku’s fleet, never hitting Carrot even once.
** Cidre and his guild from the [[Filler Arc|Cidre Guild Arc]]. If not for the fact that they enslaved a group of workers at a beverage factory and treated them like garbage, these idiots would be laughable. [[Badass Normal|No Devil Fruit or Haki powers]], Cidre stupidly believed he had an edge against Luffy and Boa with his carbonated weaponry (high pressure water guns that use soda as ammunition) . While large amounts of water are indeed effective against Devil Fruit users, such reliance on [[Attack! Attack! Attack!|massive blunt force in a frontal assault]] proved ineffective against Luffy. The Straw Hat captain was far more annoyed and angered by his treatment of the enslaved laborers than actually worried, and soundly trounced him. But ''wait'', there’s more. Cidre actually intended to lead an assault on the Pirate Festival (where many past and current members of the Seven Supernovas and Seven Warlords of the Sea would be attending) where he claimed he would take down and apprehend every pirate in attendance, including his arch-enemy Douglas Bullet (one of [[The Paragon|Gol D. Roger’s]] original crew). It seems likely Buena Festa (his former business associate) only invited him to the Festival [[Unwitting Pawn|as a patsy]], hoping he’d initiate a fight; Festa himself claims [[Small Name, Big Ego|Cidre is all talk.]]
** And for that matter, Buena Festa himself, the [[Dragon-in-Chief]] of ''One Piece: Stampede'', the 14th movie. Driven by jealousy against Roger himself, he planned to end the Age of Piracy by making [[Big Bad|Douglas Bullet]] the King of the Pirates and ruling the world as the power behind the throne. A rather grandiose (if absurd) goal, seeing as [[The Empire|the World Government]] has been trying to quash the trend since Roger’s death. Festa planned to do this by turning the the Pirate Festival into a free-for-all where Bullet would be the last man standing, and shifted into [[Stupid Evil]] territory by broadcasting it to the [[Yakuza|Emperors of the Underworld]], boasting that he planed to have them executed once he assumed control - and is then humiliated when Luffy takes Bullet down. To drive the point home, Luffy’s brother Sabo shows up to give Festa [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]], telling him he’d have done much better had Luffy been his partner in such an endeavor, although he seriously doubts Luffy would have agreed to it.
* Buaku from ''[[Dominion Tank Police]]'' and his sidekicks, the Puma sisters. They've always been wannabe [[Magnificent Bastard]]s, but they were slightly more competent in the manga. Granted, their failures are rarely their own fault, discounting their lack of foresight.
* ''[[Heavy Metal L-Gaim]]'s'' Gavlet Gabre is a particularly jarring example. He's introduced as the primary rival, but never once defeats the protagonist, Daba Myroad. {{spoiler|During the final battle at Sveto, he fails to defeat the unimportant and generic villain Rockley Ron, which makes the later the sole villain who makes it out of the show without being captured or killed.}}
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