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** Edgar, from ''[[The Aristocrats]]''. Given his age, clumsiness, bad driving, and no real skills other than that of any other butler, his "scheme" is almost laughable. Granted, he managed to get rid of the Dutchess and her kittens (for a short while at least), but lets be honest, it doesn't exactly take a genius to fool three cats, and ultimately, he is beaten up and humiliated by a bunch of alley cats in a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] - how pathetic can you get? One has to question just ''why'' he was so dead set on getting rid of them - not like they'd have been able to do much to stop him from spending most of the money on himself by doing the bare minumum of what had been required of taking care of them.
* Peter Lorre in ''[[M]]''. And again in ''[[Casablanca]]''. And in ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]''. And ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]''. In fact, [[Peter Lorre]] in general.
** Peter Lorre in ''[[
** Exception: he was pretty unsympathetic and effective in ''[[Casino Royale 1954]]''. And as Mister Moto, he's a two-fisted detective hero.
** Further exception: he's [[Playing Against Type|the hero]] in the film of ''The Mask of Dimitrios'' (aka ''[[A Coffin for Dimitrios]]''), and Sydney Greenstreet, who was usually the more competent villain to Lorre's ISV, is the ISV of this film.
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