History Main / DeliberatelyBadExample

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Flintheart Glomgold is this in comparison to Scrooge McDuck. Has as mch greed and ambition as scrooge, but no integrity, no love for anyone (as opposed to Scrooge, who loves his nephews and has respect fr his employees), and no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

* ''Anime/{{Scryed}}'' is practically littered with examples. Many of Ryuhou's associates from HOLY serve to emphasize that he really does believe in what he's doing as a KnightTemplar by showing what people with less noble motives might do with their powers. The way a number of Kazuma's fellow alter-users behave also indicates that his noble behavior as the AntiHero is more the exception than the rule out where he lives.

* ''WebOriginal/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG'': Through the reading of the absurdly LongList of things Mr. Welch's game master has had to do an ObviousRulePatch in writing, it's obvious that Welch is this for the regular roleplayer, and even through the lens of the "murderhobo" and "[[TheLoonie the crazy dude who is raising random havoc on the game world for kicks]]" he comes off as… rather disturbed.

* The main factions of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' are neck-deep in GreyAndGrayMorality with many characters having their own moral failings, miscommunications, and blood on their hands participating in warfare. [[GreaterScopeVillain Those who slither in the dark]] by contrast are a group of racist supremacists who engage in deadly eugenic experiments, enact genocidal campaigns, and actively help to start a bloody war as a means of ruling the devastated continent. Each of the lords end up looking like saints compared them, story route be damned.

** Team RGB brings enemy weapons into battle, despite said weapons being extremely impractical against players, who have shields to protect against them. They end up easily getting defeated by Team SHINC, who'd placed second in the first Squad Jam.

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': We have <Daybreak>, the UnknownRival of <Twilight>/Loyd Forger. He really wishes to be a well-known spy, and is an absurdly OvertOperative in his search to achieve this goal. He is also a complete fool who gets by on sheer dumb luck ([[BornLucky which he has plenty of]]) and actually makes Loid yell at him in their first encounter [[EnragedByIdiocy about how much of an idiot he is]]. The other spies in the plot may be vile, and Anya is lacking in espionage skills because she is an assassin (and good at it), but none of them are this incompetent.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Butch and Cassidy were intended to be this to Jessie and James. They had none of the sympathetic or humorous qualities Jessie and James did, and were treated as the more "serious" members of Team Rocket, to the point that Jessie and James would often team up with Ash and his friends to defeat them. However, as time went on, their own portrayal became less threatening, and eventually they were phased out of the show.

** ''Despair Arc'' has the Hope's Peak StudentCouncilPresident [[LightNovel/DanganronpaZero Soshun Murasame]], who despite being designated leader has no charisma to keep his fellow council members in line. When the game begins, he's all but forgotten about following his introduction.

* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', a few of the teams qualify in varying ways. Some end up making the protagonist LLENN, who starts out as a newbie, look competent by comparison, while others serve as fodder for the rival teams.

* In ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'', Taku's "parent," the person who introduced him to Brain Burst, is this to Kuroyukihime, who's Haru' parent. Taku's parent pressured him into making choices that ended up being bad ideas, resulting in his duel avatar becoming a MasterOfNone, and ultimately used him to test out a backdoor program, presumably hoping that he'd hunt down Kuroyukihime for the bounty on her. The latter offense got him kicked off Brain Burst by his Legion head. By comparison, Kuroyukihime is much more considerate of Haru's interests, making her a better parent to him.

** Team ZEMAL loves firing fully automatic weapons without any regard for tactics or stealth, so they end up easily getting taken down by Team Narrows.

** Team DOOM consists of players who converted from other games, resulting in them [[UnskilledButStrong having high stats but no GGO experience]]. They specialize in ''[[TakingYouWithMe suicide bombings]]'', [[AwesomeButImpractical which cause massive explosions that cause the death of the bomber]], and are a terrible idea in Squad Jam, in which the last team standing wins. LLENN manages to take out most of the team by herself, since they'd rather not waste their explosions on a single small and nimble target, and manages to avoid the last one's self-destruction when he tries to take her down with him.

* In ''Panzer und Uni'', Isla Sato, the commander of [[Anime/GirlsUndPanzer Miho]] and [[OriginalCharacter Nicholas]]'s college tankery team is a {{Jerkass}} and TheNeidermeyer who throws her weight around, kicks Mako off the team for low blood pressure (despite Sato missing required medical checkups herself) and ultimately crossing the MoralEventHorizon by [[spoiler:firing on Nicholas's sister Darjeeling's tank while she was in the process of saving Hana's boyfriend, a member of Sato and Nicholas' team.]]