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An Index documenting Tropes about silly and/or incompetent villains and what makes them incompetent and silly.

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Villains Themselves:

• Affably Evil (Related. Usually when they're too friendly)
• Beware the Silly Ones
• Braggart Boss
• Goldfish Poop Gang
• Harmless Villain (nearly every harmless villains is comical, but not all comical villains are harmless) The trope namers, Monty Python's counterparts of the Spanish Inquisition, fit this trope with their ways to force confessions out of their victims.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
• Laughably Evil
• Minion with an F in Evil
• Peek-a-Bogeyman
• Villain Forgot To Level Grind

Villains Depending on Point of View:

• Designated Monkey
• Designated Villain
• Reformed, But Rejected
• Villain Ball Magnet
• Hero with an F in Good
• Well-Intentioned Extremist

Not So Harmless:

• Beware the Silly Ones
• Quirky Miniboss Squad
• Villainous Harlequin

Tactics:

• Bond Villain Stupidity
• Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
• Poke the Poodle
• Villains Out Shopping

Typical Fate:

• Humiliation Conga
• Villain Decay (when it is played up)

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Nonfiction Series

Index Index

Not Quite Human

Non-Malicious Monster

Villains

No Song for the Wicked

No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine

Just for Pun

No Periods, Period