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6->'''Prisoner''': ''[while punching Bruce]'' You are in hell, little man. And I am the devil.\
7'''Bruce Wayne''': You’re not the devil. You’re ''practice.''
8-->-- ''Film/BatmanBegins''
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10They're not the BigBad; they're too small time for that. Heck, they're not even MonsterOfTheWeek level. But they're not working for another villain, either, so they're not really {{Mooks}}. These are {{Villains}} whose duty is to [[SpearCarrier show up for a single scene, maybe two if they're lucky]], and cause some minor trouble before the heroes [[CurbStompBattle kick them into next week]] and move on to the ''real'' plot.
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12Why bother including such a meaningless bad guy? It could be the story was running a little light on its action quotient and needed an excuse for some mindless violence. Maybe the writers wanted to show what the heroes' lives are like in-between more significant adversaries, or create an EstablishingCharacterMoment for a hero we don't know very well yet. Maybe the episode was running a little short, and they had to fill up an extra five minutes with ''something''.
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14Or maybe, while the Bit Part Bad Guys themselves aren't important, something that happens during the fight with them is. The hero might meet the GirlOfTheWeek by saving them from one of these villains, or maybe it's during one of these quick fights that the {{Superhero}} will discover something's wrong with their powers, or maybe, because the hero was busy taking this bad guy down, they weren't at home to stop someone from getting [[DamselInDistress kidnapped]] or worse, which may even elevate them to the level of SmallRoleBigImpact.
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16Whatever the case may be, the Bit Part Bad Guy always gets the short end of the butt-kicking stick. They'll almost always be quite low on the SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat and, compared to the rest of the story, on the silly side of the SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness. Now it must be said that all this doesn't mean that they are necessarily [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain ineffectual]] or not a threat to a random citizen, it just means that they are small fries in a much bigger pond. They can be quite dangerous and evil on their own for non-powerful heroes and will often in fact be given KickTheDog or PoliticallyIncorrectVillain traits, if only to justify their getting a comeuppance. The best hope a Bit Part Bad Guy has is to make a strong enough impression during their brief appearance that audiences demand they be brought back again, possibly upgraded to MonsterOfTheWeek status. Only once in a scarlet moon can such a villain even dream of [[FromNobodyToNightmare becoming Big Bad material]], though. Their tendency to think small and opportunistically look for [[EvilIsPetty easy targets]] generally disqualifies them from becoming someone with grander plans or vision of any sort. A FillerVillain could be considered one step up-- at least ''he'' gets to be the villain of a whole episode or arc, even if it's [[{{Filler}} not a very important one.]]
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18Common varieties include [[BankRobbery Bank Robbers]], [[BadGuyBar Thuggish Bar Patrons]], Muggers, Purse Snatchers and generally StupidCrooks. Also known as the LowlyCriminal. May overlap with VeryPunchableMan, whose role is to be such an unlikeable {{Slimeball}} that we'll feel justly pleased when he gets clobbered.
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20SubTrope of BitCharacter and PlotIrrelevantVillain; SuperTrope of MuggingTheMonster. Common in a BatmanColdOpen, when said ColdOpen doesn't feature a recurring villain; however, Bit Part Bad Guys can show up anywhere in the story, up to and including right before (and after) the climax. Particularly interesting ones can be examples of WeHardlyKnewYe.
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22See RandomEncounters for the [[VideoGames Video]] and TabletopGames version of this trope.
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25!!Examples:
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29[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
30* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' has occasional appearances of {{Yakuza}}, TriadsAndTongs and sundry thugs, most of whom exist just to be beaten up or killed in horrible ways by major characters.
31* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'':
32** The Snake Baron's bandits in the first story arc basically exist for Guts to show off his repeating crossbow skills and his [[{{BFS}} gigantic sword]] for the first time.
33** The Female Apostle from the very first scene in the manga also acts as this, showing how ruthless Guts can be (though it's later revealed that [[spoiler:she was the one who ate Corkus during the Eclipse]]).
34** And one that escalates from minor antagonist to a (not-so) supporting member of the cast is Corkus, whose attempt to assault Guts leads into his integration in his very own Band of the Hawk and is not followed by anything else other than verbal assaults given his self-consciousness about his chances against him.
35* ''Manga/RamenFighterMiki'' presents protagonist Miki as she encounters an unfortunate thief, minor {{Yakuza}}, and JapaneseDelinquents, all of them only there to [[MuggingTheMonster Mug the Monster]] and give her an excuse to {{curbstomp|Battle}} them, and then be forgotten.
36-->'''Delinquent:''' Hey Missy, [[BumpIntoConfrontation are you going to pretend that you didn't bump into me?]] You shouldn't distress us [[BlatantLies ordinary citizens]]. Maybe you should pay me as an apology.
37* ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' has a few ordinary bandits and other criminals who exist only to show that Minako wants to humiliate the police by stealing their job, introduce a number of police officers as recurring characters and explain why Sailor V is a celebrity by the time of ''Manga/SailorMoon''. The plot of one chapter was kicked off by Sailor V wasting time in beating up two bullies, thus not having time to change back into Minako to take part to a lottery and winning a vacation to Hawaii as Sailor V.
38* Richard Hellsing, the unnamed vampiric priest, Leif and Jessica from the beginning of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. The [[spoiler: prostitute]] from the [[Anime/{{Hellsing}} anime]] as well.
39* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', Goku visits West City looking for Bulma and, after earning 100,000 zeni in a street fight, is accosted by some criminals thinking he's an incredibly easy mark. Little do they know that Goku is NighInvulnerable and trained with the world-famous Turtle Hermit, and after he headbutts one into a wall his buddy suggests he asks a policeman. Their role is [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] in the anime where they're {{Mooks}} for Husky, thus shooting right by this trope.
40* ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia [[Anime/MyHeroAcademiaTwoHeroes Two Heroes]]'' has the two unnamed L.A. villains that appear at the beginning whose only role is to allow a young Toshinori Yagi[=/AllMight=] make his [[EstablishingCharacterMoment grand entrance]] by [[CurbStompBattle defeating them in a record time]].
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44* Creator/MarvelComics have loads of these villains who show up in single issues or possibly in the middle of larger story arcs just to get beaten up: [[ComicBook/SpiderMan The Rhino]], [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor The Wrecking Crew]], and [[ComicBook/XMen The Blob]] just to name a few. That's not even getting into the numerous nameless crooks that crime-fighting superheroes beat up on a regular basis, who are lucky enough if they even get a line in.
45* ''ComicBook/SinCity'':
46** The beginning of ''A Dame To Kill For'' features the private investigator main character spying on an [[DomesticAbuse abusive boyfriend]] and beating him up when he tries to hurt his mistress.
47** Also in ''ADTKF'' is a brief scene where Marv shows up to take out some bad guys at Kadie's. This is subverted in that Marv was a secondary character in that story.
48** ''Hell And Back'' also features a brief scene when Manute shows up to fight Wallace. Manute was working for a different mob boss that had ties to the BigBad but otherwise, this was a bit part for him.
49* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Any of the petty criminals Dredd deals with on a daily basis are this, particularly in one shot strips. Even in some of the Mega Epics, Dredd can be seen cracking skulls or getting into firefights with minor criminals while musing over the greater storyline.
50* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
51** In a ''ComicBook/BatgirlRebirth'' crossover ''ComicBook/EscapeFromThePhantomZone'', eco-terrorist villain Red Spur shows up in the two first pages and is chased away by ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} before the beginning of the main plot.
52** In ''ComicBook/ManyHappyReturns'', super-villain Rebel harasses Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} several times until the Girl of Steel gets tired of beating him up and scares him away stating he was not important. He was ''something to do'' until the real BigBad came along.
53** ''ComicBook/TheOtherSideOfDoomsday'': A criminal gang called the "Wind Pirates" are defeated in the first three pages by ComicBook/TheFlash, ComicBook/TheAtom and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, and their only plot relevance is introducing and getting the tale's heroes together in the same place.
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57* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'', [[spoiler:the rude chef, the homophobe, and the bully were all minor villains of sorts. Although [[NoNameGiven not given names]], they do play a part in the plot.]]
58* ''Fanfic/TheVow'' has a group of bandits who kidnap Lady Lianne in hopes of a high ransom. In addition to her being rescued by Lord Shen providing action and relationship development, the sadistic way Shen [[ItsPersonal personally]] executes the bandit leader Haun serves as one of the warning signs of [[ForegoneConclusion what he becomes in the future]]. Most of the other bandits die as well, and the rest aren't heard of again.
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62* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' has an example in the smallest way possible both figuratively and literally with the Fly Brothers who do not even meet/interact with Flik at all. They only try to cause a bar-brawl in order to get back at Francis because of some earlier cutting remarks which instead ends with everything in the bar turning topsy-turvy including a huge misunderstanding that leads to Flik mistaking the Circus Bugs for warriors and hiring them.
63* ''{{WesternAnimation/Hercules}}''
64** Hades's giant three-headed guard dog Cerberus has very little screen time, first appearing when Hades returns to the Underworld and feeds him and wasn't seen again until the climax when Hercules tames it.
65** The very first monster that Hercules encounters after completing his hero training, is the River Guardian Nessus who is in the process of forcing Meg upon him. Naturally, he comes between them saving her and costing Hades a possible recruit (and leaving the river unguarded), essentially also coming between a bit-part bad guy and his chance to escalate into a {{Mook|s}} (not that this would give him much more importance seeing as how Herc dealt with most others of course).
66* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge1'': The reason that the two brontotheres Carl and Frank want to murder Sid is because he, in his characteristic clumsiness, ruined a rare delicacy for them. There isn't much of an interesting plot let alone a film that can be made with such a motivation, so they fight Manny, Manny saves him, Sid latches on to him for protection and they (mostly) depart from the story.
67* "WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown" has Lucky Luke's arrival to the titular town heralded by a bunch of thugs immediately attempting to browbeat him with the first one [[EnemyEatsYourLunch stealing his beer]] and even [[KickTheDog blowing the froth into his face]] and with his retaliation it escalates to multiple [[GrievousBottleyHarm attempts on his life]], all of them destined to failure.
68* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', Bomb Voyage's confrontation with Mr. Incredible is significant only in that it gives Buddy an opening to try to get recruited as a sidekick and puts the hero under enough pressure to sharpen [[StartOfDarkness the rudeness of his rejection]].
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72* ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'': The android criminals encountered by Alita in her first fight after she follows Ido and are killed by her within moments. However, this is subverted by [[TheBrute Grewishka]], who retreats when he realizes he's outclassed and becomes a recurring bad guy working for Nova.
73* All over the place in all three of the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' movies.
74* The bank robbers from ''Film/DirtyHarry'' were basically there so Harry could show off his skills with the .44 Magnum and deliver his famous "Do you feel lucky?" speech.
75* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
76** Two muggers show up at the beginning of the ''Film/Batman1989'', robbing an innocent tourist family (with one mugger pulling a KickTheDog moment by turning his gun on the family's kid), laying down the fearsome reputation of "the bat" and then getting their asses kicked by the Batman.
77** Just about every ''Batman'' film since then has featured at least one such character. ''Film/BatmanReturns'' included a brief scene with a nameless, nondescript mugger (and, it is strongly implied, rapist) who exists only as an AssholeVictim to get butchered by Catwoman -- and, of course, to establish that Selina Kyle has [[TookALevelInBadass Taken a Level in Badass]] after all the injustices done to her and will never be the same again.
78** ''Film/BatmanForever'', on the other hand, featured an entire street gang sporting a weird combination of tribal face paint and ''Tron''-like glow-in-the-dark uniforms who are so eye-catching that they veer dangerously close to EnsembleDarkhorse territory. What makes this so jarring is that they only appear in one scene, and then only as an opportunity for Dick Grayson (the future Robin) to demonstrate his latent fighting skills and also to work through his great anger at having seen his entire family murdered by the [[TheDragon Dragon]] of the film, Two-Face. (Interestingly enough, a lot of planning went into the creation of these one-shot villains, with the film's costume designers studying Aboriginal rock paintings to get a feel for how they should look.)
79** ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' has two instances: the punk bikers whom Dick Grayson and Barbara Wilson race on motorcycles through a tunnel in the "bad" part of town; and ''another'' group of Day-Glo, tribal thugs who exist only for Bane to have somebody to beat up.
80* ''Film/TheExpendables'' starts out with the crew negotiating with some RuthlessModernPirates for the release of some hostages. Though things turn sour, the pirates get their comeuppance.
81* ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'' begins with Clint Eastwood's character busting unimportant counterfeiters while undercover.
82* ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': Bond travels to Beirut to retrieve a golden bullet that was kept as a charm by a belly dancer. While there, he gets into a messy brawl with a couple of criminals who are apparently wholly unrelated to [[BigBad Scaramanga]] or [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Hai Fat]]. In fact, the entire sequence is rather pointless, since Scaramanga had already sent him one of his golden bullets.
83* Creator/StevenSeagal's ''Film/OutForJustice'' features some random goons in a bar ripe for beating up.
84* 1978's ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' has a mugger go after Lois Lane... with [[ClarkKenting Clark Kent]] right next to her.
85* In ''Film/SupermanReturns'', Superman's first act upon returning is against a pack of bank robbers, armed for bear.
86* The two muggers that try to rob the blinded Jenny soon after the first shootout of ''Film/TheKiller1989'', only to get beaten up by Ah Jong.
87* The first humans the T-800 interacts with in the first two ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' movies, with the parallel scene in ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' being a bit more of a tonal inversion of the biker bar scene from ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
88* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'' has two scenes involving purse snatchers.
89** The first, which serves as the Turtles' introduction, has April getting mugged by a bunch of bad guys who wanted her purse. One of Raph's sai is lost during the battle, and is only reclaimed when April is attacked by the Foot Clan sent by Shredder to silence her.
90** Another scene involves Raph getting a purse back from two more purse snatchers and then scaring them off. The two then encounter vigilante Casey Jones, who is a lot more vicious in dealing with them, setting up a fight between him and Raph, who doesn't share his methods.
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93[[folder:Literature]]
94* Block and Tackle of the ''Literature/HIVESeries'' have little impact on the story besides what others tell them to do. They are simply generic mooks who happen to be mean, and show up to terrorize the protagonists in every volume whether or not they contribute to the plot. They're usually gone in five pages or less.
95* Duke, a villain from the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book ''The Lost Warrior'' is one of these. His only reason for existing was so that Graystripe could fight someone in the first book, and out of all the villains in the series, he is one of the quickest to go down.
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99* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': As the show continued, vampires gradually lost their VillainPedigree, going from {{Big Bad}}s to MonstersOfTheWeek, to {{Mooks}}, until in the later seasons (around Season 3 or so) they appeared almost exclusively as Bit-Part Bad Guys. We'd see Buffy patrolling the graveyard, quickly dispatching a few vampires who don't even get a single line, then we'd shift scenes to the real plot of the episode. Other kinds of demons would occasionally fill this role, too, but since those required more expensive makeup effects than vampires, they tended to be saved for more important roles. To the point where it was lampshaded ''in song''.
100* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'':
101** While occasionally having one or two episodes devoted to them, the Weevils fall under this. If any character needs to be [[ContrivedCoincidence in a specific place at some point during the episode in order for the plot to work]], more often than not they'll be hunting a Weevil. They're so minor, "weevil hunting" is the excuse Jack and Ianto use when they need to sneak out of work for some alone time.
102** The Blowfish in "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" is basically used to set up Torchwood Three's status as EveryoneKnewAlready and Jack's return.
103* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'':
104** Poor old Cenred. He was only incorporated because the {{Big Bad}}s Morgana and Morgause needed his army to overrun Camelot, and he never gets to fight either Arthur ''or'' Uther before he's killed off in a classic case of YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.
105** It happens again with Helios in series three, a warlord whose sole purpose is to provide the man-power for a takeover, and then die in battle.
106* The subjects of the BatmanColdOpen in ''Series/PersonOfInterest''.
107* Across the Marvel Netflix shows, [[ButtMonkey Turk Barrett]] tends to function as one. While he starts ''Series/Daredevil2015'' season 1 as an indirect associate of Wilson Fisk's, by season 2, he's an independent smalltime ArmsDealer who sells guns that don't work. Then in ''Series/LukeCage2016'', he's easily fleeced out of money he was promised by Tone for ratting out Chico because of Cottonmouth killing Tone (and in season 2 there, gets his pot shop vandalized by Luke and Danny). In ''Series/ThePunisher2017'', he also has the unlucky fortune of giving Frank a pink Ruger Mini-14 rifle.
108* ''Series/ResurrectionErtugrul'': The Templar legion that Ertugrul encounters halfway through season 2, during which he searches for new land for the tribe to migrate to, are the only antagonists during that season who have no connection to either Baiju Noyan or [[spoiler: Emir Sadettin Kopek]]. They only exist to serve as a threat to a small group of non-Templar Christians living over there before Ertugrul arrives and slays them, allowing him to gain the support of the locals.
109* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower:'' The snow-troll shown in the pilot is not linked to any of the major villains. He exists only to show how badass and unhinged is Galadriel. Despite her being the one invading his home, he gets killed by Galadriel for defending it.
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113* Invoked by Ash regarding Ed, in ''Theatre/EvilDeadTheMusical''. Then doubly subverted, because Ed gets a song - "Bit-Part Demon" - before [[spoiler: he gets shot, likely because [[FridgeBrilliance not being a Bit Part Bad Guy meant he really was a potential threat]]. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Ash immediately afterward]].
114-->'''Ash:''' [[spoiler: Now you'll have a bit part... in hell!]]
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118* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games often include one of these as the culprit for the first trial that serves as a tutorial for new players.
119* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
120** The Powder Gangers are a gang of escaped convicts. They're probably the weakest faction in the game and play no role in the main story line, beyond being warm up for players at the beginning.
121** Other than possibly the Fiends and the White Legs -- who both have a loose alliance with the Legion and are genuine threats to the region -- pretty much any group of raiders in the games is this.
122* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' games almost always have the opening chapter deal with the protagonists army facing bandits or pirates [[RapePillageAndBurn raiding villages]]. [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Gazzak]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Batta]] are particularly memorable examples. Occasionally criminals will show up after the early chapters as [[FillerVillain filler baddies]] outside of the main conflict.
123* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'': The Great Moblin has no connection whatsoever to the main stories of the games -- he isn't working for the villains, and he doesn't guard any PlotCoupon or story progression element involved in the central narrative. He's simply a petty thug making trouble for others, who happens to coincidentally cross into greater events and make himself Link's problem to deal with.
124* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': The general formula in the series is that the first two bosses will have absolutely nothing to do with the plot, and the third will actually kick the main plot off (either by being loyal to the villains or leading you to them). These bit part bosses are often quite popular (one eventually starred her own game) and most of them are grouped together in fanworks. Exceptions to both rules exist though.
125%%* ''VideoGame/TheUrbz'': Urbzville is terrorized by three villains, Urangoo [=McBain=], Kiki Blunt and Harry Snivel, who show up once in a while to mug the local Urb and generally cause trouble. However, once the player perform the district's Power Social move on them, they'll leave for good.%%Not the trope.
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129* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the mugger that [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-03-09 threatens Sarah and Grace in the dark alley]] serves only to let Grace [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-03-10 reveal her half-squirrel form and telekinesis]].
130* Arguably Daimyo Kubota from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. While it's noteworthy that Kubota is a competent villain and hangs around in the comics or a fairly decent stretch of time, in the end he's just a scheming noble whose ambition is to take over his particular DecadentCourt, largely by political manipulation and taking advantage of the local justice system. By comparison the comic's BigBad is a sadistic and cruel PersonOfMassDestruction who [[ItMakesSenseInContext killed an entire room of paladins with a bouncing ball]], is looking to TakeOverTheWorld, and stands a pretty decent chance of actually destroying the world along the way. Kubota is pretty small time in comparison, regardless of the amount of attention he got in a minor story arc. Lampshaded when [[spoiler:V casually murders Kubota]] and then asks in exasperation "Now can we PLEASE resume saving the world?"
131* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' Oasis takes down some [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/060821 random convenience store robbers]], establishing her as a [[VigilanteMan Vigilante Woman]] for the "Phoenix Rising" StoryArc.
132* ''Webcomic/WeakHero'':
133** The trio of Sir Lee, Professor Park, and Professor Kim, minor bullies who show up to fill the void that Phillip Kim leaves after he's humbled. They prove their cowardice when they hold down Rowan and Eugene in the fight against Wolf, and their cruelty when they throw rocks at a kitten.
134** Originally a nameless mook serving under Wolf, Hayden gets ''slightly'' more relevant after Wolf is taken down. Unfortunately for him, that takes the form of getting his ass handed to him by Gray to demonstrate how the latter has [[TookALevelInBadass taken a level in badass]].
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138* Parodied in WebVideo/CalebCity's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFX3-wd1a-k "How EVERY throw away villain acts when the MC needs to be power scaled."]] Two random bar thugs waylay the protagonist and threaten to mug him. The protagonist repeatedly warns the thugs that he is so strong that he can defeat a horde of a hundred bad guys who intend to murder him, but the thugs attack him anyway. [[spoiler:One thug is killed when just the protagonist's DisapprovingLook causes him to explode, while the other dies after attempting to punch the protagonist only to be attacked by his skin oils.]]
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142* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' often begins its episodes with Rex beating the tar out of a rampaging EVO and usually curing it afterward.
143* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' did this occasionally, in one case with Batman and Superman fighting some sports-themed villains while [[CasualDangerDialogue casually talking about Captain Marvel]]. Apparently they're so caught up in the conversation they ''forget'' what the bad guys were even after in the first place.
144* The Box Ghost from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. Until he gets his hands on ''PandorasBox''.
145* The general census amongst ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' fans was that, should Carmendillo make appearance, he usually fills this role.
146* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' had a lot of these, usually of the bizarre monster variety.
147** However, Control Freak made a good enough impression during his brief fight in "Fear Itself" that he was later made the main villain of a couple episodes.
148** Also Dr. Light was used as the punching bag to show Raven losing control of her emotions briefly. Which leads to a funny CallBack when Dr. Light shows up again:
149--->'''Raven:''' Remember me?\
150'''Dr. Light:''' I'd like to go to prison now.
151* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' had a lot of these, mostly in the [[BatmanColdOpen Cold Opens]], but many times as a way to start or end the story proper.
152* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has a ton of these, especially in earlier seasons. Ultimately, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Count Spankulot]] is the only one to graduate to full-on MonsterOfTheWeek.
153* Amazing Rope Guy from ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'', whose incompetence is to the point that when criminals go on the rampage after she is weakened by a Kryptonite equivalent, he's the only one she catches.
154* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' has a couple in its extensive RoguesGallery.
155** In "The Giant Bacteria", Morbulus [[DiscOneFinalBoss seems to be the episode's main villain]], complete with a unique gimmick (360 degree vision, due to literally having [[ExtraEyes eyes in the back of his head]] as well as the front). Then he runs into [[MadScientist Dr. Viper]]. [[WeHardlyKnewYe It doesn't end well for him]].
156** Chopshop shows up for the first half of one episode ("SWAT Kats Unplugged") and is never seen or mentioned again. The main reason he's remembered is because fans still debate whether T-Bone meant it literally when he called him a "laughing hyena".
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