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* When it comes to [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]], few excel at it better than the [[Predator]] - it is [[Planet of Hats| their “hat” as a species]]. But the Predator in the aptly named movie ''[[Prey]]'' seems to have no plan on what to do should the prey try to beat it at its own game. Sure, it slaughters the French voyageurs who are after Naru and Naru's unfortunate brother, but it seems this is because they make the mistake everyone else does when up against a Predator, trying to fight it directly. As a skilled hunter herself, Naru quickly learns that the only way to survive against a monster like this is to use its own strategy against it, and despite the Predator possessing superior technology (the movie takes place in 1719) and hunting skills common of its people, Naru proves the better hunter, outwitting and outsmarting it until she leads it into her own deadly trap.
* Biff Tannen in ''[[Back to the Future]]''; for all his his sadism and macho posturing, Biff was nothing but a wimp with a glass jaw, his rotten temper often causing him to make mistakes he could have avoided - a lot of fans pointed out that he was ''lucky'' George humiliated him, he might have been doing hard time in prison for rape otherwise. And ''that'' is just the ''first'' movie, in the ''second'', his older self's attempt to change the timeline gets himself [[Ret-Gone]], while the ''third'' shows that his great-grandfather was just as dumb, making his incompetence hereditary.
* Jerry, the [[Villain Protagonist]] of ''[[Fargo]]''. The main humor of this [[Black Comedy]] movie is how his ludicrous plot to become rich - kidnapping his own wife and making a ransom demand to her rich father - backfires due to his own ineptitude. The thugs he hires to do the job are violent sociopaths who ''seriously'' botch the plan by murdering a state trooper and two witnesses, starting a series of [[Disaster Dominoes]] that results in his wife and her father murdered, and Jerry left with nothing and in prison, the true victim being his ten-year-old son who has lost both his parents as a result. While Jerry does come off as borderline sympathetic, one must remember he caused this tragedy via his own stupidity and has nobody to blame for it all but himself.
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