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* Runabout and Runamuck, a.k.a. the Battlechargers of the various comics bearing ''Franchise/TheTransformers'' name, often try their hand at malicious and evil things, but are regularly stymied by their [[ChaoticStupid breathtaking incompetence]], [[PsychopathicManchild complete lack of maturity]], and [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny attention spans that don't last thirty seconds]]. Their most infamous act was setting out to spray-paint the Statue of Liberty with "Humans are wimps!" instead of, you know, actually doing some real MonumentalDamage. Just to give you an idea how ''bad'' these two are at being evil, lovable loser Scavenger of the Constructicons has been shown killing more Autobots than the Battlechargers. Website/TFWikiDotNet aptly labels them the Cybertronian equivalents of WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead. Notably, Runabout and Runamuck even laugh like Beavis and Butt-head ''years before the latter were created''. They proved to be such entertaining yet pathetic villains that several fans actually admitted to being sad when the two idiots got killed off during both the Marvel and IDW runs.

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* Runabout and Runamuck, a.k.a. the Battlechargers of the various comics bearing ''Franchise/TheTransformers'' the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' name, often try their hand at malicious and evil things, but are regularly stymied by their [[ChaoticStupid breathtaking incompetence]], [[PsychopathicManchild complete lack of maturity]], and [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny attention spans that don't last thirty seconds]]. Their most infamous act was setting out to spray-paint the Statue of Liberty with "Humans are wimps!" instead of, you know, actually doing some real MonumentalDamage. Just to give you an idea how ''bad'' these two are at being evil, lovable loser Scavenger of the Constructicons has been shown killing more Autobots than the Battlechargers. Website/TFWikiDotNet aptly labels them the Cybertronian equivalents of WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead. Notably, Runabout and Runamuck even laugh like Beavis and Butt-head ''years before the latter were created''. They proved to be such entertaining yet pathetic villains that several fans actually admitted to being sad when the two idiots got killed off during both the Marvel and IDW runs.
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* The pirates and most Romans in the ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' books. No match for the superpowered Gauls and not smart enough to deal with them in more insidious ways. There are a few Romans who avert this and are quite fearsome schemers however, most notably Julius Caesar himself. Especially as the reputation of the invincible Gauls spreads and they start running from any hint of conflict. Most of the generals of the fortified camps surrounding the village are this combined with PunchclockVillain and tend to act out of fear for what the higher-ups would do if they were not seen to be acting, and the foot soldiers tend to be put-upon {{Mauve Shirt}}s who [[JoinTheArmyTheySaid would rather be doing anything else]].

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* The pirates and most Romans in the ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' books. No match for the superpowered Gauls and not smart enough to deal with them in more insidious ways. There are a few Romans who avert this and are quite fearsome schemers however, most notably Julius Caesar himself. Especially as the reputation of the invincible Gauls spreads and they start running from any hint of conflict. Most of the generals of the fortified camps surrounding the village are this combined with PunchclockVillain and tend to act out of fear for what the higher-ups would do if they were not seen to be acting, and the foot soldiers tend to be put-upon {{Mauve Shirt}}s who [[JoinTheArmyTheySaid would rather be doing anything else]].else.

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