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* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: When an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would be a bona fide KnightOfCerebus were they not hobbled by incompetence or the narrative
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: PeekABogeyman: a villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harming them. * PokeThePoodle (when villain does lame and ridiculous things trying to be evil), TeamRocketWins (when a normally ineffectual villain achieves a temporary victory) and {{Troll}} (when the most insulting thing the character does is [[PokeThePoodle annoy people until they become angry]]).
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PeekABogeyman: a villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harming them. * PokeThePoodle (when villain does lame and ridiculous things trying to be evil), TeamRocketWins (when a normally ineffectual villain achieves a temporary victory) and {{Troll}} (when the most insulting thing the character does is [[PokeThePoodle annoy people until they become angry]]).
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PeekABogeyman: a villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harming them. * PokeThePoodle (when villain does lame and ridiculous things trying to be evil), TeamRocketWins (when a normally ineffectual villain achieves a temporary victory) and {{Troll}} (when the most insulting thing the character does is [[PokeThePoodle annoy people until they become angry]]).
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Compare with: BigBadWannabe (when a villain tries to be dangerous and may be to an extent, but the more harmful villains quickly [[EvilerThanThou snuff them and make them know their place]]), IneffectualSympatheticVillain (when a villain has genuinely malicious intentions yet constantly fails to do anything nasty because of their incompetence or because the hero is so overwhelmingly superior to them[[note]]A good example of the differences between a Harmless and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain is this: An IneffectualSympatheticVillain will plan and try to shoot you [[TooDumbToLive but accidentally leave their weapon at home]]. A HarmlessVillain will plan and try to shoot you... [[PokeThePoodle with a water pistol]]. [[FelonyMisdemeanor And gloat about it.]][[/note]]), TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily (when an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would be a bona fide KnightOfCerebus were they not hobbled by incompetence), PeekABogeyman (a villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harming them), PokeThePoodle (when villain does lame and ridiculous things trying to be evil), TeamRocketWins (when a normally ineffectual villain achieves a temporary victory) and {{Troll}} (when the most insulting thing the character does is [[PokeThePoodle annoy people until they become angry]]).
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* BigBadWannabe: When a villain tries to be dangerous and may be to an extent, but the more harmful villains quickly [[EvilerThanThou snuff them and make them know theirplace]]), IneffectualSympatheticVillain (when place]]).
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: When a villain has genuinely malicious intentions yet constantly fails to do anything nasty because of their incompetence or because the hero is so overwhelmingly superior to them[[note]]A good example of the differences between a Harmless and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain is this: An IneffectualSympatheticVillain will plan and try to shoot you [[TooDumbToLive but accidentally leave their weapon at home]]. A HarmlessVillain will plan and try to shoot you... [[PokeThePoodle with a water pistol]]. [[FelonyMisdemeanor And gloat about it.]][[/note]]), TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily (when ]][[/note]]).
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: When an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would be a bona fide KnightOfCerebus were they not hobbled byincompetence), PeekABogeyman (a incompetence or the narrative
: PeekABogeyman: a villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harmingthem), them. * PokeThePoodle (when villain does lame and ridiculous things trying to be evil), TeamRocketWins (when a normally ineffectual villain achieves a temporary victory) and {{Troll}} (when the most insulting thing the character does is [[PokeThePoodle annoy people until they become angry]]).
* VillainyFreeVillain: When the antagonist is a huge {{Jerkass}} but doesn't actually do anything especially criminal or evil beyond just being an unpleasant person who happens to oppose the heroes.
* BigBadWannabe: When a villain tries to be dangerous and may be to an extent, but the more harmful villains quickly [[EvilerThanThou snuff them and make them know their
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: When a villain has genuinely malicious intentions yet constantly fails to do anything nasty because of their incompetence or because the hero is so overwhelmingly superior to them[[note]]A good example of the differences between a Harmless and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain is this: An IneffectualSympatheticVillain will plan and try to shoot you [[TooDumbToLive but accidentally leave their weapon at home]]. A HarmlessVillain will plan and try to shoot you... [[PokeThePoodle with a water pistol]]. [[FelonyMisdemeanor And gloat about it.
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: When an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would be a bona fide KnightOfCerebus were they not hobbled by
: PeekABogeyman: a villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harming
* VillainyFreeVillain: When the antagonist is a huge {{Jerkass}} but doesn't actually do anything especially criminal or evil beyond just being an unpleasant person who happens to oppose the heroes.
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* The title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' appears to be this. Despite having 87 life sentences, it is implied that he never really causes physical harm to anyone, seeing as he chooses unoccupied areas for his base of operations (such as an abandoned observatory) and repeatedly abducts reporter Roxanne Ritchie but leaves her unharmed everytime and all his threats are pure bluster that both him and Roxanne know will never go beyond that. Even after he 'wins' and takes over the city, he merely causes property damage. He even tells the citizens to proceed as usual. It's even shown that the only reason he had a rivalry with Metro Man in the first place to begin with, is because the latter deliberately pretended Megamind was a threat to him by barely trying to oppose him using his powers.
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* The title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' appears to be this. Despite having 87 life sentences, it is implied that he never really causes physical harm to anyone, seeing as he chooses unoccupied areas for his base of operations (such as an abandoned observatory) and repeatedly abducts reporter Roxanne Ritchie but leaves her unharmed everytime and all his threats are pure bluster that both him and Roxanne know will never go beyond that. Even after he 'wins' and takes over the city, he merely causes property damage. He even tells the citizens to proceed as usual. It's even shown that the only reason he had a rivalry with Metro Man in the first place to begin with, place, is because the latter deliberately pretended Megamind was a threat to him by barely trying to oppose him using his powers.powers. To reinforce this point, he's outright horrified at the evil of the film's true villain, Tighten, and when the latters starts his rampage the news state that Metrocity had never seen destruction on the scale of Tighten's before.
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* The title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' appears to be this. Despite having 87 life sentences, it is implied that he never really causes physical harm to anyone, seeing as he chooses unoccupied areas for his base of operations (such as an abandoned observatory) and repeatedly abducts reporter Roxanne Ritchi but leaves her unharmed. Even after he 'wins' and takes over the city, he merely causes property damage. He even tells the citizens to proceed as usual.
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* The title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' appears to be this. Despite having 87 life sentences, it is implied that he never really causes physical harm to anyone, seeing as he chooses unoccupied areas for his base of operations (such as an abandoned observatory) and repeatedly abducts reporter Roxanne Ritchi Ritchie but leaves her unharmed.unharmed everytime and all his threats are pure bluster that both him and Roxanne know will never go beyond that. Even after he 'wins' and takes over the city, he merely causes property damage. He even tells the citizens to proceed as usual. It's even shown that the only reason he had a rivalry with Metro Man in the first place to begin with, is because the latter deliberately pretended Megamind was a threat to him by barely trying to oppose him using his powers.
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* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', the Nihilists. Despite having a ferret that could bite the Dude's ''manhood'' off and one of them has a sword, it's clear they are simply pretentious blowhards. The worse thing that they ever done was simply commit arson to the Dude's car. It's even shown near the ending that Walter manages to incapacitate one of them, bites the guy holding the sword's ear off and the last one doesn't even bother trying to attack the Dude and just makes weird karate moves while bragging that he's going to 'f*** him in the ass' and Walter takes him down with ease.
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* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', the Nihilists. Despite having a ferret that could bite the Dude's ''manhood'' off and one of them has carrying a sword, it's clear they are simply pretentious blowhards. The worse thing that they ever done was simply commit arson to the Dude's car. It's even shown near the ending that Walter manages to incapacitate one of them, bites the guy holding the sword's ear off and the last one doesn't even bother trying to attack the Dude and just makes weird karate moves while bragging that he's going to 'f*** him in the ass' and Walter takes him down with ease.
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* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', the Nihilists. Despite having a ferret that could bite the Dude's ''manhood'' off and one of them has a sword, it's clear they are simply pretentious blowhards. The worse thing that they ever done was simply commit arson to the Dude's car. It's even shown near the ending that Walter manages to incapacitate one of them, bites the guy holding the sword's ear off and the last one doesn't even bother trying to attack the Dude and just makes weird karate moves while bragging that he's going to 'f*** him in the ass' and Walter takes him down with ease.
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* ''WebAnimation/DrBees'' has the Comforter, the perfect possible foe for Dr. Bees. His evil strategy? He invented a machine called the Comfortizer that makes you... feel really comfortable. He uses this machine to waltz into a bank, zap the security guards, and while they're enjoying a soothing nap... he leaves the bank to find more people to comfort. Even the police remark that he hasn't actually committed any crimes, but still treat him like a true supervillain and send Dr. Bees to capture him. Keep in mind, Dr. Bees [[BeeBeeGun released a swarm of bees]] in the bank immediately before meeting with the police.
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* Played with in Literature/TheSupervillainySaga by Creator/CTPhipps. Gary Karkofsky a.k.a Merciless: The Supervillain without [=MercyTM=] is considered this by both superheroes and supervillains. This is brutally averted just about every time Gary elects to use his powers and they are shown to be highly lethal as well flexible under his imaginative usage. It gets to the point that people assume he's using ObfuscatingStupidity by the sixth book.
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* Bank and Vault of ''Webcomic/WakeOfTheClash'' are two mismatched cartoon villains with a gang of faceless bank robbers. Both are loud and ineffective at their jobs, celebrating their minor victories to comedic effect, before being swiftly dealt with by a few passing heroes. The Hourglass may also fall under this trope, as he is practically harmless, though he is much more adept at making a sneaky getaway, and appears to keep far more threatening company.
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* Bank and Vault of ''Webcomic/WakeOfTheClash'' are two mismatched cartoon villains with a gang of faceless bank robbers. Both are loud and ineffective at their jobs, celebrating their minor victories to comedic effect, before being swiftly dealt with by a few passing heroes. The Hourglass may also fall under this trope, as he is practically harmless, though he is much more adept at making a sneaky getaway, and appears to keep far more threatening company.
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* ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'' has several villains that have harmless and lukewarm plans; just sabotaging the Queen’s party by distracting the corgis, [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink putting a potion in the cake]] (which doesn’t hurt whoever eats from it; just [[OneDoseFitsAll transforms the children]] [[BalefulPolymorph into mice]]), and stealing the Queen’s [[MacGuffin handbag]]. Only exception is the Grand High Witch, who mentioned about [[EatsBabies cooking and boiling children]].
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* ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'' has several villains that have harmless and lukewarm plans; just sabotaging the Queen’s party by distracting the corgis, [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink putting a potion in the cake]] (which doesn’t hurt whoever eats from it; just [[OneDoseFitsAll transforms the children]] [[BalefulPolymorph into mice]]), and stealing the Queen’s [[MacGuffin handbag]]. Only exception is the Grand High Witch, who mentioned about [[EatsBabies cooking and boiling children]].
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Villains are vile, ruthless, merciless, and bloodthirsty; any pretension of civility is just a smokescreen to hide a ''really'' twisted BigBad. Not exactly kid-friendly, is it? So what are kids shows and movies supposed to do, if the original source's baddy eats babies? Why, [[{{Disneyfication}} make them]] a [[TitleDrop Harmless Villain]], of course!
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Villains are vile, ruthless, merciless, and bloodthirsty; any pretension of civility is just a smokescreen to hide a ''really'' twisted BigBad. Not exactly kid-friendly, is it? So what are kids shows and movies supposed to do, if the original source's baddy eats babies? Why, [[{{Disneyfication}} make them]] a [[TitleDrop Harmless Villain]], harmless villain]], of course!
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* ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'' has several villains that have harmless and lukewarm plans; just sabotaging the Queen’s party by distracting the corgis, [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink putting a potion in the cake]] (which doesn’t hurt whoever eats from it; just [[OneDoseFitsAll transforms the children]] [[BalefulPolymorph into mice]]), and stealing the Queen’s [[MacGuffin handbag]]. Only exception is the Grand High Witch, who mentioned about [[ChildHater cooking and boiling children]].
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* ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'' has several villains that have harmless and lukewarm plans; just sabotaging the Queen’s party by distracting the corgis, [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink putting a potion in the cake]] (which doesn’t hurt whoever eats from it; just [[OneDoseFitsAll transforms the children]] [[BalefulPolymorph into mice]]), and stealing the Queen’s [[MacGuffin handbag]]. Only exception is the Grand High Witch, who mentioned about [[ChildHater [[EatsBabies cooking and boiling children]].
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Compare with: BigBadWannabe (when a villain tries to be dangerous and may be to an extent, but the more harmful villains quickly [[EvilerThanThou snuff them and make them know their place]]), IneffectualSympatheticVillain (when a villain has genuinely malicious intentions yet constantly fails to do anything nasty because of their incompetence or because the hero is so overwhelmingly superior to them[[note]]A good example of the differences between a Harmless and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain is this: An IneffectualSympatheticVillain will plan and try to shoot you [[TooDumbToLive but accidentally leave their weapon at home]]. A HarmlessVillain will plan and try to shoot you... [[PokeThePoodle with a water pistol]]. [[FelonyMisdemeanor And gloat about it.]][[/note]]) and its subtrope TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily (when an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would be a bona fide KnightOfCerebus were they not hobbled by incompetence), PeekABogeyman (a villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harming them), PokeThePoodle (when villain does lame and ridiculous things trying to be evil), TeamRocketWins (when a normally ineffectual villain achieves a temporary victory) and {{Troll}} (when the most insulting thing the character does is [[PokeThePoodle annoy people until they become angry]]).
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Compare with: BigBadWannabe (when a villain tries to be dangerous and may be to an extent, but the more harmful villains quickly [[EvilerThanThou snuff them and make them know their place]]), IneffectualSympatheticVillain (when a villain has genuinely malicious intentions yet constantly fails to do anything nasty because of their incompetence or because the hero is so overwhelmingly superior to them[[note]]A good example of the differences between a Harmless and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain is this: An IneffectualSympatheticVillain will plan and try to shoot you [[TooDumbToLive but accidentally leave their weapon at home]]. A HarmlessVillain will plan and try to shoot you... [[PokeThePoodle with a water pistol]]. [[FelonyMisdemeanor And gloat about it.]][[/note]]) and its subtrope ]][[/note]]), TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily (when an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would be a bona fide KnightOfCerebus were they not hobbled by incompetence), PeekABogeyman (a villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harming them), PokeThePoodle (when villain does lame and ridiculous things trying to be evil), TeamRocketWins (when a normally ineffectual villain achieves a temporary victory) and {{Troll}} (when the most insulting thing the character does is [[PokeThePoodle annoy people until they become angry]]).
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Compare with: BigBadWannabe (when a villain tries to be dangerous and may be to an extent, but the more harmful villains quickly [[EvilerThanThou snuff them and make them know their place]]), IneffectualSympatheticVillain (when a villain has genuinely malicious intentions yet constantly fails to do anything nasty because of their incompetence or because the hero is so overwhelmingly superior to them[[note]]A good example of the differences between a Harmless and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain is this: An IneffectualSympatheticVillain will plan and try to shoot you [[TooDumbToLive but accidentally leave their weapon at home]]. A HarmlessVillain will plan and try to shoot you... [[PokeThePoodle with a water pistol]]. [[FelonyMisdemeanor And gloat about it.]][[/note]]), ]][[/note]]) and its subtrope TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily (when an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would be a bona fide KnightOfCerebus were they not hobbled by incompetence), PeekABogeyman (a villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harming them), PokeThePoodle (when villain does lame and ridiculous things trying to be evil), TeamRocketWins (when a normally ineffectual villain achieves a temporary victory) and {{Troll}} (when the most insulting thing the character does is [[PokeThePoodle annoy people until they become angry]]).
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Compare with: BigBadWannabe (when a villain tries to be dangerous and may be to an extent, but the more harmful villains quickly [[EvilerThanThou snuff them and make them know their place]]), IneffectualSympatheticVillain (when a villain has genuinely malicious intentions yet constantly fails to do anything nasty because of their incompetence or because the hero is so overwhelmingly superior to them[[note]]A good example of the differences between a Harmless and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain is this: An IneffectualSympatheticVillain will plan and try to shoot you [[TooDumbToLive but accidentally leave their weapon at home]]. A HarmlessVillain will plan and try to shoot you... [[PokeThePoodle with a water pistol]]. [[FelonyMisdemeanor And gloat about it.]][[/note]]), (TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily (when an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would be a bona fide KnightOfCerebus were they not hobbled by incompetence), PeekABogeyman (a villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harming them), PokeThePoodle (when villain does lame and ridiculous things trying to be evil), TeamRocketWins (when a normally ineffectual villain achieves a temporary victory) and {{Troll}} (when the most insulting thing the character does is [[PokeThePoodle annoy people until they become angry]]).
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Compare with: BigBadWannabe (when a villain tries to be dangerous and may be to an extent, but the more harmful villains quickly [[EvilerThanThou snuff them and make them know their place.]]), place]]), IneffectualSympatheticVillain (when a villain has genuinely malicious intentions yet constantly fails to do anything nasty because of their incompetence or because the hero is so overwhelmingly superior to them[[note]]A good example of the differences between a Harmless and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain is this: An IneffectualSympatheticVillain will plan and try to shoot you [[TooDumbToLive but accidentally leave their weapon at home]]. A HarmlessVillain will plan and try to shoot you... [[PokeThePoodle with a water pistol]]. [[FelonyMisdemeanor And gloat about it.]][[/note]]), (TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily (when an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would be a bona fide KnightOfCerebus were they not hobbled by incompetence), PeekABogeyman (a villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harming them), PokeThePoodle (when villain does lame and ridiculous things trying to be evil), TeamRocketWins (when a normally ineffectual villain achieves a temporary victory) and {{Troll}} (when the most insulting thing the character does is [[PokeThePoodle annoy people until they become angry]]).
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* BigBadWannabe: A villain tries to be dangerous and may be to an extent, but the more harmful villains quickly [[EvilerThanThou snuff them and make them know their place.]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: When a villain has genuinely malicious intentions yet constantly fails to do anything nasty because of their incompetence or because the hero is so overwhelmingly superior to them. A good example of the differences between a Harmless and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain is this: An IneffectualSympatheticVillain will plan and try to shoot you [[TooDumbToLive but accidentally leave their weapon at home]]. A HarmlessVillain will plan and try to shoot you... [[PokeThePoodle with a water pistol]]. [[FelonyMisdemeanor And gloat about it.]]
** TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: When an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would be a bona fide KnightOfCerebus were they not hobbled by incompetence.
* PeekABogeyman: A villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harming them.
* PokeThePoodle: A villain does lame and ridiculous things trying to be evil.
* TeamRocketWins: When a normally ineffectual villain achieves a temporary victory.
* {{Troll}}: When the most insulting thing the character does is [[PokeThePoodle annoy people until they become angry]].
* BigBadWannabe: A villain tries to be dangerous and may be to an extent, but the more harmful villains quickly [[EvilerThanThou snuff them and make them know their place.]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: When a villain has genuinely malicious intentions yet constantly fails to do anything nasty because of their incompetence or because the hero is so overwhelmingly superior to them. A good example of the differences between a Harmless and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain is this: An IneffectualSympatheticVillain will plan and try to shoot you [[TooDumbToLive but accidentally leave their weapon at home]]. A HarmlessVillain will plan and try to shoot you... [[PokeThePoodle with a water pistol]]. [[FelonyMisdemeanor And gloat about it.]]
** TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: When an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would be a bona fide KnightOfCerebus were they not hobbled by incompetence.
* PeekABogeyman: A villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harming them.
* PokeThePoodle: A villain does lame and ridiculous things trying to be evil.
* TeamRocketWins: When a normally ineffectual villain achieves a temporary victory.
* {{Troll}}: When the most insulting thing the character does is [[PokeThePoodle annoy people until they become angry]].
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: When]]), IneffectualSympatheticVillain (when a villain has genuinely malicious intentions yet constantly fails to do anything nasty because of their incompetence or because the hero is so overwhelmingly superior to them. A them[[note]]A good example of the differences between a Harmless and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain is this: An IneffectualSympatheticVillain will plan and try to shoot you [[TooDumbToLive but accidentally leave their weapon at home]]. A HarmlessVillain will plan and try to shoot you... [[PokeThePoodle with a water pistol]]. [[FelonyMisdemeanor And gloat about it.]]
** TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: When]][[/note]]), (TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily (when an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would be a bona fide KnightOfCerebus were they not hobbled by incompetence.
* PeekABogeyman: Aincompetence), PeekABogeyman (a villain or monster whose sole intention is to briefly scare people instead of harming them.
* PokeThePoodle: Athem), PokeThePoodle (when villain does lame and ridiculous things trying to be evil.
* TeamRocketWins: Whenevil), TeamRocketWins (when a normally ineffectual villain achieves a temporary victory.
* {{Troll}}: Whenvictory) and {{Troll}} (when the most insulting thing the character does is [[PokeThePoodle annoy people until they become angry]].
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* ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'' has several villains that have harmless and lukewarm plans; just sabotaging the Queen’s party by distracting the corgis, putting a potion in the cake (which doesn’t hurt whoever eats from it; just [[BalefulPolymorph transforms them into mice]]), and stealing the Queen’s handbag. Only exception is the Grand High Witch, who mentioned about cooking and boiling children.
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* ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'' has several villains that have harmless and lukewarm plans; just sabotaging the Queen’s party by distracting the corgis, [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink putting a potion in the cake cake]] (which doesn’t hurt whoever eats from it; just [[OneDoseFitsAll transforms the children]] [[BalefulPolymorph transforms them into mice]]), and stealing the Queen’s handbag. [[MacGuffin handbag]]. Only exception is the Grand High Witch, who mentioned about [[ChildHater cooking and boiling children.children]].
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: When a villain has genuinely malicious intentions yet constantly fails to do anything nasty because of their incompetence or because the hero is so overwhelmingly superior to them. A good example of the differences between a Harmless and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain is this: An IneffectualSympatheticVillain will plan and try to shoot you [[TooDumbToLive but accidentally leave their weapon at home]]. A HarmlessVillain will plan and try to shoot you... [[PokeThePoodle with a water pistol]]. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous And gloat about it.]]
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: When a villain has genuinely malicious intentions yet constantly fails to do anything nasty because of their incompetence or because the hero is so overwhelmingly superior to them. A good example of the differences between a Harmless and an IneffectualSympatheticVillain is this: An IneffectualSympatheticVillain will plan and try to shoot you [[TooDumbToLive but accidentally leave their weapon at home]]. A HarmlessVillain will plan and try to shoot you... [[PokeThePoodle with a water pistol]]. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous [[FelonyMisdemeanor And gloat about it.]]
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* ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'' has several villains that have harmless and lukewarm plans; just sabotaging the Queen’s party by distracting the corgis, putting a potion in the cake (which doesn’t hurt whoever eats from it; just [[BalefulPolymorph transforms them into mice]], mice]]), and stealing the Queen’s handbag. Only exception is the Grand High Witch, who mentioned about cooking and boiling children.
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Villains are vile, ruthless, merciless, and bloodthirsty; any pretension of civility is just a smokescreen to hide a ''really'' twisted BigBad. Not exactly kid-friendly, is it? So what are kids shows and movies supposed to do, if the original source's baddy eats babies? Why, [[{{Disneyfication}} make them]] a Harmless Villain, of course!
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Villains are vile, ruthless, merciless, and bloodthirsty; any pretension of civility is just a smokescreen to hide a ''really'' twisted BigBad. Not exactly kid-friendly, is it? So what are kids shows and movies supposed to do, if the original source's baddy eats babies? Why, [[{{Disneyfication}} make them]] a [[TitleDrop Harmless Villain, Villain]], of course!
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* CompleteMonster: Instead of (or [[LaughablyEvil despite]]) [[PokeThePoodle being a total goofball]], the villain commits [[MoralEventHorizon terrible acts]] that leaves everybody ([[EvenEvilHasStandards possibly even other villains, if they're evil enough]]) shocked and appalled.
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* The palace eunuchs in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms.'' They do manage to off He Jin, but only because he was TooDumbToLive.
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* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':
** Marik tries to be evil, but his evil plans usually involve things like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jnCcejkpjg stealing the Pharaoh's leather pants]], asking to borrow Yugi's Millenium Puzzle and not returning it for three weeks, and [[PokeThePoodle pushing him off a boat. Into the sea.]] And on top of that, he is ''very'' easily distracted.
** During his first appearances in the Marik's Evil Council Videos, Dartz manages to be even more pathetic. Then, he suddenly becomes an {{Expy}} of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Coiffio]] whose [[TheUnintelligible unfortunate accent]] causes both his henchmen and the audience to not be sure of whether his plans are the standard card game shenanigans or [[{{Squick}} something much worse]].
** Marik tries to be evil, but his evil plans usually involve things like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jnCcejkpjg stealing the Pharaoh's leather pants]], asking to borrow Yugi's Millenium Puzzle and not returning it for three weeks, and [[PokeThePoodle pushing him off a boat. Into the sea.]] And on top of that, he is ''very'' easily distracted.
** During his first appearances in the Marik's Evil Council Videos, Dartz manages to be even more pathetic. Then, he suddenly becomes an {{Expy}} of [[WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever Coiffio]] whose [[TheUnintelligible unfortunate accent]] causes both his henchmen and the audience to not be sure of whether his plans are the standard card game shenanigans or [[{{Squick}} something much worse]].
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* The evil AI Omega from ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' can qualify for this, depending on who he's possessing at the time. In the body of Tex or any other sufficiently trained soldier, he's a genuinely terrifying threat. In the bodies of the Blood Gulch crew, and most especially Doc, he's little more than a nuisance.
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* The Goths at SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. Despite serious attempts at summoning monsters and other evil acts, what they mainly manage to do is get their leader dumped into a FateWorseThanDeath and re-uniting Carmilla with her father (who ''is'' a monster). They also attack Phase... and get a CurbStompBattle because they have no idea what they're facing.
* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':
** Among the various horrors the Foundation houses is [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1370/ SCP-1370]], an artificial lifeform [[OmnicidalManiac hostile to everything else]]. Luckily for everything else, 1370 is poorly designed to the point of losing a fight with a potted plant. Not even a paranormal potted plant, just a regular philodendron.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2006 SCP-2006]] is a potentially omnipotent shapeshifter, whose goal is to scare people for fun. Fortunately, the Foundation has it convinced that the most terrifying thing in the world are [[NightmareRetardant men in rubber suits from old '50s horror films]] (its favorite form is Ro-Man of ''Film/RobotMonster'' fame). Because of that, it's almost completely harmless, and its scaring strategies consist of jumping out and saying "Boo!" Of course, if it were to ever realize how ineffective this is, it could quickly ascend to a NotSoHarmlessVillain.
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* Lee Phillips of ''WebVideo/KateModern'' attempts to take revenge on Gavin and Tariq by...forcing them to play a treasure hunt game to retrieve their stolen software. He still manages to be a serious threat because there are other, decidedly less harmless villains who are also after the software.
* The leader of the Gangster Squad in ''WebVideo/TheSwagLifeOfJustinYargenschmargol'' doesn't have much of an agenda other than just making sure he's the swagiest dude around.
* Dr. Poque from ''WebVideo/Mega64'' is arguably this, while he did kidnap and lock Rocko, Derek, and Sean in his basement, he's to much of a ButtMonkey to be a real threat. Episode six of Version 2 amps this up to {{Woobie}} status.
* Dr. Horrible is pretty much harmless for the first two acts of ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog''. Then, SmugSuper Captain Hammer steals his would-be girlfriend and taunts him mercilessly about it. This drives Dr. Horrible to [[NotSoHarmlessVillain get dangerous]], with tragic results.
* Although having a villainous outer appearance, Music/DoctorSteel's goals are really very positive and even kid-friendly. He just wants to make the world a better place (for himself).
* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'':
** Dr. Linksano starts out as this, especially since he was first used for a Breather Arc between the Mechakara and Lord Vyce storylines. He does show more competence later though, but mainly after his HeelFaceTurn to became a double agent for Linkara.
** In a parody of the badly written villains of the comic, his Fourth Year Anniversary had Phelous (wearing a suit and mask) randomly come out of nowhere as his "mysterious" new enemy "Mysterior", who kept rambling about how he was mysterious and how Linkara had to solve the "Mystery". Both he, and a later replacement (exactly the same only with a different coloured mask and a slightly different name) were immediately shrugged off by Linkara.
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