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* [[Characters/GravityFallsBillCipher Bill Cipher]] from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' is another much darker take on this trope, to the point of subversion. "A trickster [[{{Jerkass}} jerk]]" according to WordOfGod, Bill has the voice, the look and the mannerisms of a Gazoo, but even at his best he is creepier than Discord (above) '''at his worst'''. Right off the bat, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment one of the first things we see him do]] is rip all the teeth out of a deer's mouth, and he gets '''worse''' as the series progresses. By the finale, [[spoiler:where he flat-out invades our dimension,]] he's more ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' than Great Gazoo.

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* [[Characters/GravityFallsBillCipher Bill Cipher]] Cipher from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' is another much darker take on this trope, to the point of subversion. "A trickster [[{{Jerkass}} jerk]]" according to WordOfGod, Bill has the voice, the look and the mannerisms of a Gazoo, but even at his best he is creepier than Discord (above) '''at his worst'''. Right off the bat, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment one of the first things we see him do]] is rip all the teeth out of a deer's mouth, and he gets '''worse''' as the series progresses. By the finale, [[spoiler:where he flat-out invades our dimension,]] he's more ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' than Great Gazoo.

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** Superman can be thankful he is '''merely''' a pest most of the time. ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'' offers a rather disturbing look at what would happen were Mr. Mxy to [[NotSoHarmless stop]] [[EldritchAbomination playing]] [[RealityWarper around]], and ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' reveals what might happen if [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] were to gain his power.

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** Superman can be thankful he is '''merely''' a pest most of the time. ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'' offers a rather disturbing look at what would happen were Mr. Mxy to [[NotSoHarmless stop]] [[EldritchAbomination playing]] [[RealityWarper around]], and ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' reveals what might happen if [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] were to gain his power. An early Silver Age ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperheroes'' story had Mxyzptlk V avenge his ancestor's defeat by killing all of the Legion until his magic was undone at the last second.


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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' didn't have an imp, but did have the leprechaun Shaggy of Shamrock Land, who pestered her and Etta Candy.
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* Tom Bombadil, in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. Tom is so powerful that he is able to wear the One Ring as if it was just a regular piece of jewellery and give it up freely without a thought, but spends most of his time wandering in the Old Forest and whimsically singing about himself, and is said by Gandalf to be capable of withstanding an assault by any force of the world, unless they were [[GonnaNeedMoreX all allied against him]]. He provides a convenient plot device to allow the hobbits to escape the Barrow Wights and take their swords (which later prove [[ChekhovsGun essential to the story]], since the swords are the only thing deadly to Nazgûl). Let's just say that Bombadil ''really'' doesn't fit neatly into Tolkien's larger backstory and there's a ''lot'' of fannish speculation about who or what he really is. Gandalf implies that Bombadil being unaffected by the Ring is just that Tom doesn't ''care'' about the Ring (beyond a brief passing interest in it as a pretty shiny thing), so it has no power over him one way or the other.

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* Tom Bombadil, in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. Tom is older than any living thing save possibly Treebeard the Ent, so powerful that he is able to wear the One Ring as if it was just a regular piece of jewellery and give it up freely without a thought, but and Gandalf believes that it would take the entire might of Sauron's armies to defeat him on his own turf. But he spends most of his time wandering in the Old Forest and whimsically singing about himself, and is said by Gandalf to be capable of withstanding an assault by any force of the world, unless they were [[GonnaNeedMoreX all allied against him]]. himself. He provides a convenient plot device to allow the hobbits to escape the Barrow Wights Old Forest and take their then the Barrow-wight, in the process acquiring swords (which from a Barrow-wight's hoard which later prove [[ChekhovsGun essential to the story]], since the swords are the only thing deadly to Nazgûl). story]]. Let's just say that Bombadil Tom ''really'' doesn't fit neatly into Tolkien's larger backstory backstory[[note]]even Tolkien himself never really figured out Tom's nature and origin[[/note]], and there's a ''lot'' of fannish speculation about who or what he really is. Gandalf implies suggests that Bombadil being Tom is unaffected by the Ring is just that because Tom simply doesn't ''care'' about the Ring (beyond a brief passing interest in it as a pretty shiny thing), thing). The Ring influences people by appealing to their greed and desire for power, but Tom has all he wants and wants nothing more, so it the Ring has no power over him one way or the other.to influence him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': The titular Merman of the episode “The Laughing Merman” is quite the flamboyant showman and skilled [[MasterOfIllusion illusionist.]] The only problem is that he desires a captive audience, literally, and is willing to resort to the [[ForcedTransformation usual]] [[ExactWords tricks]] to get it.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': *''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': The titular Merman of the episode “The Laughing Merman” is quite the flamboyant showman and skilled [[MasterOfIllusion illusionist.]] The only problem is that he desires a captive audience, literally, CaptiveAudience, and is he’s willing to resort to the [[ForcedTransformation usual]] [[ExactWords tricks]] to get it.
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*''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': The titular Merman of the episode “The Laughing Merman” is quite the flamboyant showman and skilled [[MasterOfIllusion illusionist.]] The only problem is that he desires a captive audience, literally, and is willing to resort to the [[ForcedTransformation usual]] [[ExactWords tricks]] to get it.

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