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** ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': Doctor Starline is Eggman's HypercompetentSidekick, who eventually gets tired of his master's incompetence when he realizes that Eggman has zero means of handling the now out of control [[ZombieApocalypse Zombot horde]], and tries to show him up by recruiting the Deadly Six to help. Anticipating their betrayal, he has the Cacaphonic Conch ready to deal with them...only to find out at the critical moment that it only provides ''temporary'' control of the Zeti, who proceed to overpower him and take control of Eggman and Starline's resources, forcing them to flee and [[EnemyMine team up with Sonic]] to survive. [[spoiler: Following the ''Bad Guys'' miniseries, however, he abandons his fanboy ways and is determined to outdo Eggman, [[TookALevelInBadass becoming more dangerous in the process]].... until issue 50 when all of Starline's plans fall apart, having been thoroughly outmaneuvered by Eggman while his creations Kit and Surge are soundly beaten by Tails and Sonic, leading to his final, ignoble death.]]

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** ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': Doctor Starline is Eggman's HypercompetentSidekick, who eventually gets tired of his master's incompetence when he realizes that Eggman has zero means of handling the now out of control [[ZombieApocalypse Zombot horde]], and tries to show him up by recruiting the Deadly Six to help. Anticipating their betrayal, he has the Cacaphonic Conch ready to deal with them...only to find out at the critical moment that it only provides ''temporary'' control of the Zeti, who proceed to overpower him and take control of Eggman and Starline's resources, forcing them to flee and [[EnemyMine team up with Sonic]] to survive. [[spoiler: Following the ''Bad Guys'' miniseries, however, he abandons his fanboy ways and is determined to outdo Eggman, [[TookALevelInBadass becoming more dangerous in the process]].... until issue 50 when all of Starline's plans fall apart, having been thoroughly outmaneuvered by Eggman while his creations Kit and Surge are soundly beaten by Tails and Sonic, leading to his final, ignoble death. Even more damningly, Surge and Kit [[TheStarscream actually managed to overpower him before that fateful issue]] and considered killing him before hypnotizing him into forgetting this little rebellion with his own tech just so they could use and discard him once Sonic, Tails, and Eggman were dealt with, and despite his death and their own failure they go on to continue menacing hero and villain alike in their own ways.]]
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* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'':
** In the "Dark Age" arc, The Platypus pushes himself as a major crime boss when he's really a low-level hood made good and nowhere near as competent as he thinks. That's proven when he ends up taken down in a coup by his own supposedly silent underling who becomes The Deacon who will continue to rule the Astro City Underworld into the 2000s.
** An even better example is a one-shot on Major Domo, who captures a bunch of "sideliners" (people with powers who don't wear costumes) to turn them into his army. He ends up beaten badly as they rebel with one pointing out to this moron that "major domo" is the title of a servant, not a master.
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*** Even then, however, it's pointed out by Sonic, Jules and even Fiona, Scourge's current girlfriend, that Scourge's conquest of Moebius wasn't really impressive since, unlike Mobius, his world isn't full of powerful villains and monsters. All he did was beat up various warlords across the planet and [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership believed that made him king]]. When he came to Mobius with plans to conquer it as well, nobody but the Freedom Fighters considered him a threat and he was nearly defeated by Metal Sonic and Metal Scourge, the latter of whom was literally put together by Eggman at the last minute.

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*** **** Even then, however, it's pointed out by Sonic, Jules and even Fiona, Scourge's current girlfriend, that Scourge's conquest of Moebius wasn't really impressive since, unlike Mobius, his world isn't full of powerful villains and monsters. All he did was beat up various warlords across the planet and [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership believed that made him king]]. When he came to Mobius with plans to conquer it as well, nobody but the Freedom Fighters considered him a threat and he was nearly defeated by Metal Sonic and Metal Scourge, the latter of whom was literally put together by Eggman at the last minute.

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