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1	An index documenting tropes about silly and/or incompetent villains and what makes them incompetent and silly.
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3	!!Tropes:
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5	[[AC:Villains Themselves:]]
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7	* AdolfHitlarious: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler is portrayed as an ineffectual goofball.
8	* AffablyEvil: Can qualify if the villain is ''too'' friendly to be effectively evil.
9	* BewareTheSillyOnes: The villain comes off as a bumbling doofus, but is by no means harmless.
10	* BraggartBoss
11	* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily
12	* GoldfishPoopGang
13	* HarmlessVillain: Nearly every harmless villain is comical, [[BewareTheSillyOnes though not all comical villains are harmless]]. The [[TropeNamer trope namers]], [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python's counterparts of the Spanish Inquisition]], fit this trope with their ways to force confessions out of their victims.
14	* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: A villain who keeps losing and suffering humiliation no matter how hard they try.
15	* LaughablyEvil: A villain whose antics are humorous.
16	* MinionWithAnFInEvil: A henchman who is too nice and ineffectual to be evil.
17	* NerdInEvilsHelmet
18	* PeekABogeyman
19	* VileVillainLaughableLackey: The main villain is a serious threat, but their underling is a complete joke.
20	* VillainForgotToLevelGrind
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23	* DesignatedMonkey: The author believes that they're punishing a bad character by giving them their just deserts, but to the audience he's just inflicting undeserved punishment upon a character he dislikes out of spite.
24	* DesignatedVillain: The character is supposed to be the bad guy simply because he's against the hero, but the audience doesn't believe the character to be evil because the character isn't shown doing anything that can be considered bad.
25	* KnightTemplar: A character who stands for noble goals, but takes their heroic efforts a bit too far.
26	* ReformedButRejected: The villain has reformed, but no one wants to trust him because of his shady past.
27	* VillainBallMagnet
28	* HeroWithAnFInGood: A hero who isn't very good at doing heroic deeds.
29	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: A villain initially thought of as nothing but a harmless joke proves that they can be dangerous when they want to be.
30	** BewareTheSillyOnes
31	* QuirkyMinibossSquad
32	* VillainousHarlequin
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35	* BondVillainStupidity: The bad guy causes their own undoing by revealing their plan to the hero.
36	* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: The villain cheats during a competition even though there is no way the hero can beat them. Ironically, the villain could've won if they didn't waste time setting up obstacles for the other competitors.
37	* PokeThePoodle: The villain attempts to do a bad deed, but their evil scheme comes off as being more of a harmless prank than a serious felony.
38	* VillainsOutShopping
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41	* HumiliationConga: The villain's defeat has a bunch of humiliating misfortunes pile up on them.
42	* VillainDecay: The villain was originally a real threat, but nowadays comes off as too incompetent and unimpressive to take seriously.
43	[[/index]]

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