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* ''[[Resident Evil]]'' may have one of the best villains in video games with Albert Wesker, but also has one of the worst with Ramon Salazar from the fourth game. He claims to be a twenty-year-old man who has been prematurely aged by the Plagas, but acts like a whiny 8 year old. The one edge he has is [[Plot Armor]], as the storyline seems to go out of its way to make up reasons why time after time, Leon is unable shoot the little brat and end the threat once and for all.
* [[Mega Corp|Majestic]], from ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]''. What does it say in a game with a name like ''that'' when the genocidal alien looks more competent and more ethical than his human foes? Majestic is a large international organization dedicated to defeating the Furons, while secretly plotting their own goals of [[Take Over the World| world domination.]] Thing is, the Furon invasionary force consists of… [[Easy Logistics| one guy, the protagonist, Crypto]]. For all their highly-trained agents and cutting edge technology, Majestic - A [[Non-Indicative Name]] if there ever was one - can’t capture or defeat this one alien. Seriously.
* The ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' has many, often a result of the character being an [[Adaptational Weakling]]:
* Zsasz is a villain who appears in ''every'' game in the ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' series, and he's lame in ''all'' of them. He has no motivation whatsoever (other than kill anyone he comes across) and is almost laughably easy to defeat. If his "plan" involves hiding from Batman, there will be about a hundred ways the player can spot him, and if it involves combat, he'll be floored in one punch. Even compared to most [[Jobber]] opponents in video games, he's pathetic.▼
** First, we have the elephant in the room, the [[Big Bad]] of the first game himself, the Joker. He was actually doing okay up until the [[Final Battle]] where he {{spoiler| purposely injects himself with Titan and turns himself into a huge, hulking, super-strong, utterly-ridiculous looking buffoon. You would be hard pressed to find a review of this game (no matter how positive) to say that this is the very last thing the Clown Prince of Crime would do, that it just isn't him, and almost all of them agree that this was the one thing keeping an otherwise great Batman game from being flawless.}}
** Of course, there’s Lester Buchinsky, the Electocutioner, a would-be assassin and Large Ham who turns out to be not even as tough as any of the mooks, almost a [[Harmless Villain]] there. But then, the “fight” against him was intended to be played for laughs.
** Deathstroke was a decent villain in ''Origins'', but [[Sarcasm Mode| the idiot in his costume pretending to be him]] in ''Arkham Knights'' was an insulting joke. He is supposed to be a world-class assassin, weapons expert, and combatant that is near equal to the Dark Knight himself, but for his [[Boss Battle]], Batman fights him via [[Vehicular Combat]]. An okay idea yes, but not how the legendary Slade Wilson does things at all. Worst of all, when he does decide to fight Batman mano-a-mano, the hero floors him with one punch.
** Bane in the first game. This is not the Man Who Broke the Bat, he’s a [[Dumb Muscle]] thug. In fact, the only real difference here between him and the first Titan that Batman encounters is that Bane has a few mooks backing him up. Nothing more.
** Killer Croc was [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot| a good idea that was done wrong]]. A trek through the sewers being hunted by the remorseless killer… It’s something that has worked so many times before. But it gets boring very quickly, and Croc can never succeed in surprising the player, his attempts at ambush far too easy to predict.
▲** Zsasz is a villain who appears in ''every'' game in the
* Rick the Door Technician from ''[[Star Wars Jedi: Survivor]]''. When you enter the Imperial Base on Koboh, you will come across a figure that ''appears'' to be a boss, with a boss's health bar. But he's just a Scout Trooper with Scout Trooper attributes, and the game identifies him as "Rick the Door Technician". He'll charge madly at you and attack, but will do barely any damage. And you can drop him with a single swipe of your lightsaber. Rick has become so beloved that fans have made jokes, memes, videos and even [https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fi-made-a-poster-for-the-best-boss-in-the-game-v0-dgp7mrrm9mza1.jpg%3Fs%3D8d00fd841cf08cfb835143366c5f59888a9d5e63 posters] celebrating him.
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