History MagnificentBastard / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pantheon}}'': Vinod Chanda, once a humble engineer for Alliance Telecom, becomes one of the first Uploaded Intelligences when he's used as a test subject by his corrupt boss Ajit Prasad. After escaping his digital confinement, Chanda develops a ruthless streak, orchestrating the deaths of Prasad and his family in revenge. Vowing to liberate his fellow Uploads, Chanda sends UI blueprints to world governments to create more of his kind and seeks out heroic UIs David Kim and Laurie Lowell [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas when they involve his mother.]] Discovering a flaw that is corrupting and killing the Uploaded, Chanda takes matters into his own hands and begins recruiting UIs to his cause, ultimately hacking and destroying Lowell when she tries to expose the truth of UIs to the world. Chanda then challenges David to erase Laurie's recorded message while threatening Sacramento and David's daughter Maddie with a missile, engaging in a brutal fight [[GeniusBruiser and using his UI powers in tandem with his intellect]] to overpower Kim. Thwarted when David tricks him and sacrifices his own life, Chanda still escapes with his allies. Later, Chanda is coerced into serving under the megalomaniacal UI Stephen Holstrom. Disgusted with the latter's genocidal plan for humanity, Chanda covertly leads a rebellion against Holstrom and [[HeroicSacrifice ultimately gives his own life]] to help stop him, ensuring humans and UIs alike have a brighter future.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': Kyle Katz is a thief the WOOHP could never catch as he committed countless jewelry heists throughout the world. Targeting the Uzbekistan Pearl, Katz seduces the three spies with his gentlemanly charm and putting the Pearl in his grasp. As the spies enter the vault to stop Katz, he steals the pearl and locks them inside while he makes his escape. Although defeated and caught in the end, Katz never sheds his affability, even throwing the girls a rose. Despite only having one appearance, Katz remains one of the suavest antagonists faced by the spies.

** [[SpacePirate Zix]] is the cunning and charismatic leader of a trio of space bandits along with Travoltron and Tee. Failing to steal astrorubies from Jimmy and his friends, he instead makes up a story about Ruby Madness to make the kids paranoid and turn them against one another before trying to steal the rubies again. Upon finding the residents of Retroville shrunken down, Zix, [[OpportunisticBastard not one to let an opportunity to make some money slide]], plans to sell them to alien children as toys. He and his partners later join the League of Villains and help to kidnap Jimmy for their revenge, but when the kids save him and Travoltron from a giant snake, Tee convinces them to turn good, as they have no reason to be villains. After saving the kids from a T-Rex by sending it after Baby Eddie, Zix realizes that GoodFeelsGood and befriends Jimmy for real. Whether as an enemy or an ally, he is skilled at improvisation and never loses [[AffablyEvil his charming demeanor]].

** "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS1E13CityOfThieves City of Thieves]]": [[BitchInSheepsClothing Penny]] is a thief and resident of the titular city. Taking advantage of Finn's heroic nature, Penny plays the part of a helpless little girl, tricking him into stealing the King of Thieves' treasure chest for her under the claim that it contained her stolen flower basket. After escaping with the treasure, Finn and Jake soon find Penny and scrub her down in an attempt to purify her. Penny then seemingly goes through a HeelFaceTurn, only to run off with Finn's clothes [[KarmaHoudini and continue her thieving lifestyle]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AgentElvis'': Music/ElvisPresley himself, famous rockstar beloved by all, moonlights as a [[HistoricalBadassUpgrade badass]], crime-fighting VigilanteMan with a massive body count of crooks and drug dealers left in his wake. Always suave yet ruthless when fighting or interrogating criminals, Elvis is recruited into The Central Bureau to protect the world from greater threats, nonchalantly carving a bloody path to safety and freedom for the unsuspecting innocents of the nation. The King's ingenuity and skills prove to be the saving grace of TCB in countless situations, from preventing Las Vegas from being nuked to stopping Nixon from learning of the organization's existence, even as he works behind the scenes to uncover his forgotten, tortuous past in their employ. Nonetheless dedicated to saving the world even after discovering the dark truth, Elvis prevents Malus and his hated rival Goulet from murdering millions before he sacrifices himself to save his friends' lives, proving once and for all the awesomeness of the King of Rock and Roll as he faces seemingly certain death with nothing but a confident smile.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'':
** "[[Recap/ArcherS2E6TragicalHistory Tragical History]]": George Spelvin is a computer programmer who manipulates [[TheSmartGuy Cyril Figgis]] into uploading a {{computer virus}} onto ISIS's network on the pretense that he will make Cyril a hero in front of his colleges, also bribing Cyril to unsure his loyalty. After Cyril uploads the virus, Spelvin reveals that he has no intention to help Cyril and his true plan was to use the virus to download the identities of all of ISIS's secret agents onto his servers, then sell them for $50 million to anyone willing to buy. With Spelvin's plans nearing completion, Cyril and Sterling Archer attempt to stop him only for Spelvin to effortlessly defeat Sterling [[CombatPragmatist with the help of his two bodyguards]], and is only stopped by Cyril [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt shooting at his servers]] before making his escape.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS2E7MovieStar Movie Star]]": [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Rona Thorne]] is a [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] spy under the guise of a famous movie actress who is assigned to [[ProfessionalKiller assassinate]] the Soviet Premier. When she learns that ISIS agent [[ActionGirl Lana Kane]] was task with protecting the premier, Rona convinces ISIS's director, Mallory Archer, to allow Rona to [[TagAlongActor tag-along]] with Lana on her mission, under the pretense that it will help Rona for her upcoming spy movie. Rona also exploits Sterling's jealousy of Lana to have him hinder her mission before injecting them both with tetrodotoxin and would successfully assassinating the premier before escaping.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS11E3HelpingHands Helping Hands]]": [[ActionGirl Hands]] is a [[GadgeteerGenius brilliant inventor]] who created an exo-suit that not gives the user SuperStrength and giving people with disabilities free mobility. Planning on [[OnlyInItForTheMoney selling her exo-suit to the highest bidder]], Hands laces her villa with lethal traps should anyone try to steal it, as shown with the ISIS agents. When Sterling Archer escapes Hands' traps and meets her, the two hang out before Hands attempts to convince Sterling to abandon his allies when they get into a shoot-out with their rivals, JUNO. When Sterling decides to help his allies defeat the JUNO agents before attempting to steal the exo-suit, Hand [[CrazyPrepared activates a failsafe on the suit]] that immobilizes Sterling before re-activating it to deal with the last JUNO agent standing.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS11E4RobotFactory Robot Factory]]" & "[[Recap/ArcherS11E5BestFriends Best Friends]]": [[BattleButler Aleister]] is an [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] hired to kill the ISIS agent Cyril Figgis. To get close to his target, Aleister exploits a job opening to be Sterling Archer's valet, using his skills and [[AffablyEvil charms]] to win over everyone in ISIS and get hired. Aleister discreetly plants traps for Cyril and later tries shooting Cyril while he's at the haberdashery before subduing and binding Sterling to bait Cyril. Successfully luring Cyril to his trap, Aleister only fails to kill Cyril due to battling with Sterling, where Sterling declares Aleister to be the best valet he ever had before killing him.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers''' "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E10PrestoTinaO Presto Tina-O]]": Mars Sazerac is a charming magician who takes advantage of Bob Belcher's 50% discount by inviting his friends to Bob's restaurants and performing magic tricks for them. When Bob bans Sazerac from his restaurant, the magician puts Bob's name in his [[DeadlyBook "Enemies of Magic" book]], cursing Bob into having to endure magic-related mishaps in his restaurant. Sazerac would also [[BatmanGambit anticipate]] Bob's attempt to get his name off his book, allowing Louise to steal his book, where he writes Bob a note saying that he farted on the salami Bob had licked.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'':
** [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything Reverend Rollo Goodlove]] is a [[StrawCharacter straw liberal activist]] whose motivations behind his multiple causes are [[{{Greed}} money]] and [[AttentionWhore publicity]]. First appearing in "The S-Word", Rollo convinces the Freemans to sue Mr. Petto for using a "racial slur" on Riley, and prolonging the issue by collaborating with Ann Colter in orchestrating a political debate. In "The Hunger Strike" he convinces Huey to continue his hunger strike in the kid's efforts to boycott ''Creator/{{BET}}'', only to abandon his cause once the network gives Rollo his own TV sitcom. Helping the Freemans once again in "The New Black", he manages to convince the public that Riley is a special needs child using the word "gay" to describe things he doesn't like, switching their ire to those who sued Riley for saying the slur. While the beliefs in his causes might not be genuine, his charisma and master planning are, making Rollo one of the most likable masterminds on the show.
** "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS1E12RileyWuzHere Riley Wuz Here]]": The "[[NoNameGiven Art Teacher]]" is a [[FromCamouflageToCriminal former veteran-turned-crook]] who moonlights as an educator. Upon overseeing Riley spray painting a house, he immediately takes a liking to him and takes him under his wing. Teaching Riley basic drawing before moving out a bigger canvas, he has Riley paint several beautiful murals on various homes. Proposing on the last night to paint someone who isn't in the picture anymore, he has Riley paint a mural of his deceased parents. When the police show up, the art teacher shoots their tires and takes off. Despite only appearing in one episode, the art teacher stood out as one of the most soft spoken antagonists and provided one of the most touching scenes in the show.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'''s "[[Recap/CloseEnoughS2E5JointBreak Joint Break]]": [[NeverMessWithGranny Barb]] leads a crew of elderly women on a series of successful bank robberies to pay off their medical bills, using their guise as elderly folks to avoid suspicion from the police. Befriending [[RetiredBadass Pearle Watson]], Barb tricks her into becoming her get away driver and persuades her to join her crew for a job involving stealing an armored truck filled with money. Aware of Pearle's past as a cop, Barb took all the bullets from Pearle's gun when she tries to stop them. Stopped by Pearle's friends on the force, Barb convinces Pearle to let her take one more water aerobics exercise in the ocean, letting the waves kill her and going out on her own terms.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Aélita Schaeffer's xanafied self]] combines her good self's intelligence with XANA's ruthlessness. [[Recap/CodeLyokoS2E6 Pretending to be her good self in her first appearance]], she manipulates Jérémie Belpois into sending her to Lyoko, talking Yumi Ishiyama into going with them when Jérémie expresses reluctance in Aélita going on Lyoko alone. On Lyoko, XANA-Aélita stays ahead of her fellow [[Characters/CodeLyokoLyokoWarriors Lyoko Warriors]] through clever uses of her Creativity powers, leading to her all but completing her mission. Returning as a recurring villain, XANA-Aélita works well in tandem with XANA and its monsters, successfully destroying three of the four main sectors and setting up XANA's victory in that season. [[Recap/CodeLyokoS4E25 In her final appearance]], XANA-Aélita cleverly reacts to Ulrich Stern's attack, stealing one of his swords and defeating him with only a limited use of her powers, nearly completing her mission. Always thinking on the fly and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide showing how truly dangerous Aélita's powers could be]], her xanafied self proved to be one of the Lyoko Warriors' most dangerous threats.

* ''WesternAnimation/FuggetAboutIt'''s "Al Capone Wears Ladies' Underwear": The titular UsefulNotes/AlCapone is revealed to have faked his own death, paying a body double to take his place before cryogenically freezing himself so the law would be off his back. After being freed by Jimmy, Cheech and Gina, Al Capone immediately gets back to building his criminal organization while keeping his [[AffablyEvil friendly disposition]]. Immediately willing to murder Jimmy when learning he was a rat, he managed to sneak into the psyche ward when Jimmy is placed for seemingly being insane. When Gina managed to convince Capone to spare Jimmy underneath a loophole, Capone immediately agrees and frees them all from the psyche ward, parting amicably with the Falcones before fleeing without detection to continue his criminal empire.

* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': [[AntiHero Mirror Tulip]], aka "M.T.", is the sentient reflection of Tulip, dedicated to asserting her free will and identity. Forced to mirror Tulip's actions against her will by the system of the Mirror World for years, she tricks Tulip into swapping places to pass through the Chrome Car while planning to strand her there, her scheme only failing due to not knowing she is restricted to reflective surfaces. M.T. relents, letting Tulip attach a mirror to her body and travels the train cars for months, evading the [[KillerCop Flecs]] only using a can of black spray paint. Gaining companions and an appreciation for them as she uses her wits to discover the solution for numerous cars, M.T. kills the Flec Mace and even throws an elder passenger from a transport pod in her quest to reunite with her friend Jesse. Her plan halted thanks to her nature as a denizen, M.T. still manages to recover from her HeroicBSOD and [[LogicBomb outwit the train's robotic conductor]] to join Jesse in the human world under her new identity, "Lake".

** [[OutlawCouple Bunny and Claude]] are a pair of infamous [[HairRaisingHare rabbit criminals]] who specialize in stealing carrots from stores. Often robbing multiple stores in a row with ease, the duo consistently outwit the persistent Sherrif, managing to thwart his attempts to catch them even on the odd occasion he corners them. In their second short, they manage to hijack the Carrot Train and successfully steals most of the carrots within, once again outwitting the Sherrif when he attempts to stop them.

* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'''s "The Secret of Quan-Chi": [[Characters/MortalKombatShinnokAndQuanChi Quan Chi]] himself is far less evil but just as cunning and manipulative as his [[Franchise/MortalKombat canon counterpart]]. Quan Chi is a free-roaming [[EvilSorcerer sorcerer]] who wants to conquer Earthrealm. To do so, he waits for the heroes to be distracted by an Outworld attack, then gets the gem of Tetsurri, which is an artifact that [[HatePlague brings out the worst traits of a person]]. Quan Chi disguises himself as an Outworld refugee to trick the heroes so he can secretly use the gem of Tetsurri on them, with his ultimate plan being to make the Earthrealm warriors fight each other, leaving their realm defensless and allowing Quan Chi to take over, a plan which [[NearVillainVictory nearly succeeds]].

** "[[Characters/RickAndMortyEvilMorty Evil Morty]]" is a version of [[Characters/RickAndMortyMortySmith Morty Smith]] who grew tired of being [[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]]'s sidekick and planned to break free from his role by escaping the Central Finite Curve to enter a multiverse where Rick isn't the smartest man. Evil Morty mind controls one universe's Rick, proceeding to kill other Ricks and kidnapping Morties, torturing the Morties to make a force-field to prevent the [[Characters/RickAndMortyTheCitadel the Citadel]] from finding them while framing Rick-C137 and his Morty for the crimes, luring them to their hideout where they scan Rick's mind. Making his brainwashed Rick his scapegoat, Evil Morty hides amongst the kidnapped Morties to go to the Citadel where he runs for president, using his charisma to get the majority to vote for him and killing anyone who could pose a threat to him. Using his position to modify the Citadel into a giant portal gun, Evil Morty invites Rick-C137 for dinner to complete scanning Rick's mind before having the Ricks and Morties killed to use their blood to activate the Citadel's portal gun for him to escape the Central Finite Curve. Matching Rick's intellect and even outwitting him, Evil Morty manages to [[TheBadGuyWins succeed]] in escaping the Central Finite Curve and destroy it.
** "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E3PickleRick Pickle Rick]]": [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Jaguar]] is a highly skilled and brutal freedom fighter who was imprisoned at a Russian Agency for his crimes against toppling his oppressive government. Taking a deal to earn the freedom of himself and his daughter, Katarina, he hunts down and goes against the Pickle-formed [[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]], using his [[GunFu acrobatics and gunship]] to stand on even ground. Realizing the agency lied about his daughter being alive, Jaguar teams up with Rick and tricks the agency director into calling a helicopter, the two hijacking the plane and blowing up the agency building, with the two of them parting on amicable terms. In TheStinger, Jaguar appears and [[BigDamnHeroes saves]] Rick and Morty from Concerto, sharing a nod before he leaves, ending up one of the few characters who [[WorthyOpponent gained Rick's respect]].

* ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiraciesAliensMythsAndLegends'': The ruthless General James Rinaker, secretly a Shadoen agent in disguise named Wraith, is the Alliance's cold, no-nonsense head and a mind more than worthy to lead the Alliance in keeping the {{masquerade}} steady. Rinaker's penchant for manipulation and subterfuge leads to countless successful missions with no fear about doing [[DirtyBusiness what has to be done]] in the process, with alliances made and broken at his own convenience and foes to his operation like Hanek swiftly disposed of through his agents. Even when he's ousted, Wraith nearly manages to wipe out everyone who knows his secret, and manipulates even the Shadoen commanders by convincing them humanity will be cowed through one show of force -- a ploy that ends with the Shadoen high command wiped out by the ensuing retaliation, allowing Wraith to take over. At the end, it takes the unification of all the alien races Wraith meticulously turned against each other as Rinaker to finally topple the web of deceit he's fostered through decades of cool-headed treachery.

** [[SpacePirate Zix]] is the cunning and charismatic leader of a trio of space bandits along with Travoltron and Tee. Failing to steal astrorubies from Jimmy and his friends, he instead makes up a story about Ruby Madness to make the kids paranoid and turn them against one another before trying to steal the rubies again. Upon finding the residents of Retroville shrunken down, Zix, [[OpportunisticBastard not one to let an opportunity to make some money slide]], plans to sell them to alien children as toys. He and his partners later join the League of Villains and help to kidnap Jimmy for their revenge, but when the kids save him and Travoltron from a giant snake, Tee convinces them to turn good, as they have no reason to be villains. After saving the kids from a T-Rex by sending it after Baby Eddie, Zix realizes that GoodFeelsGood and befriends Jimmy for real. Whether as an enemy or an ally, he is skilled at improvisation and never loses [[AffablyEvil his charming demeanor]].

** "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS1E13CityOfThieves City of Thieves]]": [[BitchInSheepsClothing Penny]] is a thief and resident of the titular city. Taking advantage of Finn's heroic nature, Penny plays the part of a helpless little girl, tricking him into stealing the King of Thieves' treasure chest for her under the claim that it contained her stolen flower basket. After escaping with the treasure, Finn and Jake soon find Penny and scrub her down in an attempt to purify her. Penny then seemingly goes through a HeelFaceTurn, only to run off with Finn's clothes [[KarmaHoudini and continue her thieving lifestyle]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AgentElvis'': Music/ElvisPresley himself, famous rockstar beloved by all, moonlights as a [[HistoricalBadassUpgrade badass]], crime-fighting VigilanteMan with a massive body count of crooks and drug dealers left in his wake. Always suave yet ruthless when fighting or interrogating criminals, Elvis is recruited into The Central Bureau to protect the world from greater threats, nonchalantly carving a bloody path to safety and freedom for the unsuspecting innocents of the nation. The King's ingenuity and skills prove to be the saving grace of TCB in countless situations, from preventing Las Vegas from being nuked to stopping Nixon from learning of the organization's existence, even as he works behind the scenes to uncover his forgotten, tortuous past in their employ. Nonetheless dedicated to saving the world even after discovering the dark truth, Elvis prevents Malus and his hated rival Goulet from murdering millions before he sacrifices himself to save his friends' lives, proving once and for all the awesomeness of the King of Rock and Roll as he faces seemingly certain death with nothing but a confident smile.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'':
** "[[Recap/ArcherS2E6TragicalHistory Tragical History]]": George Spelvin is a computer programmer who manipulates [[TheSmartGuy Cyril Figgis]] into uploading a {{computer virus}} onto ISIS's network on the pretense that he will make Cyril a hero in front of his colleges, also bribing Cyril to unsure his loyalty. After Cyril uploads the virus, Spelvin reveals that he has no intention to help Cyril and his true plan was to use the virus to download the identities of all of ISIS's secret agents onto his servers, then sell them for $50 million to anyone willing to buy. With Spelvin's plans nearing completion, Cyril and Sterling Archer attempt to stop him only for Spelvin to effortlessly defeat Sterling [[CombatPragmatist with the help of his two bodyguards]], and is only stopped by Cyril [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt shooting at his servers]] before making his escape.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS2E7MovieStar Movie Star]]": [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Rona Thorne]] is a [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] spy under the guise of a famous movie actress who is assigned to [[ProfessionalKiller assassinate]] the Soviet Premier. When she learns that ISIS agent [[ActionGirl Lana Kane]] was task with protecting the premier, Rona convinces ISIS's director, Mallory Archer, to allow Rona to [[TagAlongActor tag-along]] with Lana on her mission, under the pretense that it will help Rona for her upcoming spy movie. Rona also exploits Sterling's jealousy of Lana to have him hinder her mission before injecting them both with tetrodotoxin and would successfully assassinating the premier before escaping.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS11E3HelpingHands Helping Hands]]": [[ActionGirl Hands]] is a [[GadgeteerGenius brilliant inventor]] who created an exo-suit that not gives the user SuperStrength and giving people with disabilities free mobility. Planning on [[OnlyInItForTheMoney selling her exo-suit to the highest bidder]], Hands laces her villa with lethal traps should anyone try to steal it, as shown with the ISIS agents. When Sterling Archer escapes Hands' traps and meets her, the two hang out before Hands attempts to convince Sterling to abandon his allies when they get into a shoot-out with their rivals, JUNO. When Sterling decides to help his allies defeat the JUNO agents before attempting to steal the exo-suit, Hand [[CrazyPrepared activates a failsafe on the suit]] that immobilizes Sterling before re-activating it to deal with the last JUNO agent standing.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS11E4RobotFactory Robot Factory]]" & "[[Recap/ArcherS11E5BestFriends Best Friends]]": [[BattleButler Aleister]] is an [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] hired to kill the ISIS agent Cyril Figgis. To get close to his target, Aleister exploits a job opening to be Sterling Archer's valet, using his skills and [[AffablyEvil charms]] to win over everyone in ISIS and get hired. Aleister discreetly plants traps for Cyril and later tries shooting Cyril while he's at the haberdashery before subduing and binding Sterling to bait Cyril. Successfully luring Cyril to his trap, Aleister only fails to kill Cyril due to battling with Sterling, where Sterling declares Aleister to be the best valet he ever had before killing him.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers''' "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E10PrestoTinaO Presto Tina-O]]": Mars Sazerac is a charming magician who takes advantage of Bob Belcher's 50% discount by inviting his friends to Bob's restaurants and performing magic tricks for them. When Bob bans Sazerac from his restaurant, the magician puts Bob's name in his [[DeadlyBook "Enemies of Magic" book]], cursing Bob into having to endure magic-related mishaps in his restaurant. Sazerac would also [[BatmanGambit anticipate]] Bob's attempt to get his name off his book, allowing Louise to steal his book, where he writes Bob a note saying that he farted on the salami Bob had licked.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'':
** [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything Reverend Rollo Goodlove]] is a [[StrawCharacter straw liberal activist]] whose motivations behind his multiple causes are [[{{Greed}} money]] and [[AttentionWhore publicity]]. First appearing in "The S-Word", Rollo convinces the Freemans to sue Mr. Petto for using a "racial slur" on Riley, and prolonging the issue by collaborating with Ann Colter in orchestrating a political debate. In "The Hunger Strike" he convinces Huey to continue his hunger strike in the kid's efforts to boycott ''Creator/{{BET}}'', only to abandon his cause once the network gives Rollo his own TV sitcom. Helping the Freemans once again in "The New Black", he manages to convince the public that Riley is a special needs child using the word "gay" to describe things he doesn't like, switching their ire to those who sued Riley for saying the slur. While the beliefs in his causes might not be genuine, his charisma and master planning are, making Rollo one of the most likable masterminds on the show.
** "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS1E12RileyWuzHere Riley Wuz Here]]": The "[[NoNameGiven Art Teacher]]" is a [[FromCamouflageToCriminal former veteran-turned-crook]] who moonlights as an educator. Upon overseeing Riley spray painting a house, he immediately takes a liking to him and takes him under his wing. Teaching Riley basic drawing before moving out a bigger canvas, he has Riley paint several beautiful murals on various homes. Proposing on the last night to paint someone who isn't in the picture anymore, he has Riley paint a mural of his deceased parents. When the police show up, the art teacher shoots their tires and takes off. Despite only appearing in one episode, the art teacher stood out as one of the most soft spoken antagonists and provided one of the most touching scenes in the show.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'''s "[[Recap/CloseEnoughS2E5JointBreak Joint Break]]": [[NeverMessWithGranny Barb]] leads a crew of elderly women on a series of successful bank robberies to pay off their medical bills, using their guise as elderly folks to avoid suspicion from the police. Befriending [[RetiredBadass Pearle Watson]], Barb tricks her into becoming her get away driver and persuades her to join her crew for a job involving stealing an armored truck filled with money. Aware of Pearle's past as a cop, Barb took all the bullets from Pearle's gun when she tries to stop them. Stopped by Pearle's friends on the force, Barb convinces Pearle to let her take one more water aerobics exercise in the ocean, letting the waves kill her and going out on her own terms.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Aélita Schaeffer's xanafied self]] combines her good self's intelligence with XANA's ruthlessness. [[Recap/CodeLyokoS2E6 Pretending to be her good self in her first appearance]], she manipulates Jérémie Belpois into sending her to Lyoko, talking Yumi Ishiyama into going with them when Jérémie expresses reluctance in Aélita going on Lyoko alone. On Lyoko, XANA-Aélita stays ahead of her fellow [[Characters/CodeLyokoLyokoWarriors Lyoko Warriors]] through clever uses of her Creativity powers, leading to her all but completing her mission. Returning as a recurring villain, XANA-Aélita works well in tandem with XANA and its monsters, successfully destroying three of the four main sectors and setting up XANA's victory in that season. [[Recap/CodeLyokoS4E25 In her final appearance]], XANA-Aélita cleverly reacts to Ulrich Stern's attack, stealing one of his swords and defeating him with only a limited use of her powers, nearly completing her mission. Always thinking on the fly and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide showing how truly dangerous Aélita's powers could be]], her xanafied self proved to be one of the Lyoko Warriors' most dangerous threats.

* ''WesternAnimation/FuggetAboutIt'''s "Al Capone Wears Ladies' Underwear": The titular UsefulNotes/AlCapone is revealed to have faked his own death, paying a body double to take his place before cryogenically freezing himself so the law would be off his back. After being freed by Jimmy, Cheech and Gina, Al Capone immediately gets back to building his criminal organization while keeping his [[AffablyEvil friendly disposition]]. Immediately willing to murder Jimmy when learning he was a rat, he managed to sneak into the psyche ward when Jimmy is placed for seemingly being insane. When Gina managed to convince Capone to spare Jimmy underneath a loophole, Capone immediately agrees and frees them all from the psyche ward, parting amicably with the Falcones before fleeing without detection to continue his criminal empire.

* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': [[AntiHero Mirror Tulip]], aka "M.T.", is the sentient reflection of Tulip, dedicated to asserting her free will and identity. Forced to mirror Tulip's actions against her will by the system of the Mirror World for years, she tricks Tulip into swapping places to pass through the Chrome Car while planning to strand her there, her scheme only failing due to not knowing she is restricted to reflective surfaces. M.T. relents, letting Tulip attach a mirror to her body and travels the train cars for months, evading the [[KillerCop Flecs]] only using a can of black spray paint. Gaining companions and an appreciation for them as she uses her wits to discover the solution for numerous cars, M.T. kills the Flec Mace and even throws an elder passenger from a transport pod in her quest to reunite with her friend Jesse. Her plan halted thanks to her nature as a denizen, M.T. still manages to recover from her HeroicBSOD and [[LogicBomb outwit the train's robotic conductor]] to join Jesse in the human world under her new identity, "Lake".

** [[OutlawCouple Bunny and Claude]] are a pair of infamous [[HairRaisingHare rabbit criminals]] who specialize in stealing carrots from stores. Often robbing multiple stores in a row with ease, the duo consistently outwit the persistent Sherrif, managing to thwart his attempts to catch them even on the odd occasion he corners them. In their second short, they manage to hijack the Carrot Train and successfully steals most of the carrots within, once again outwitting the Sherrif when he attempts to stop them.

* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'''s "The Secret of Quan-Chi": [[Characters/MortalKombatShinnokAndQuanChi Quan Chi]] himself is far less evil but just as cunning and manipulative as his [[Franchise/MortalKombat canon counterpart]]. Quan Chi is a free-roaming [[EvilSorcerer sorcerer]] who wants to conquer Earthrealm. To do so, he waits for the heroes to be distracted by an Outworld attack, then gets the gem of Tetsurri, which is an artifact that [[HatePlague brings out the worst traits of a person]]. Quan Chi disguises himself as an Outworld refugee to trick the heroes so he can secretly use the gem of Tetsurri on them, with his ultimate plan being to make the Earthrealm warriors fight each other, leaving their realm defensless and allowing Quan Chi to take over, a plan which [[NearVillainVictory nearly succeeds]].

** "[[Characters/RickAndMortyEvilMorty Evil Morty]]" is a version of [[Characters/RickAndMortyMortySmith Morty Smith]] who grew tired of being [[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]]'s sidekick and planned to break free from his role by escaping the Central Finite Curve to enter a multiverse where Rick isn't the smartest man. Evil Morty mind controls one universe's Rick, proceeding to kill other Ricks and kidnapping Morties, torturing the Morties to make a force-field to prevent the [[Characters/RickAndMortyTheCitadel the Citadel]] from finding them while framing Rick-C137 and his Morty for the crimes, luring them to their hideout where they scan Rick's mind. Making his brainwashed Rick his scapegoat, Evil Morty hides amongst the kidnapped Morties to go to the Citadel where he runs for president, using his charisma to get the majority to vote for him and killing anyone who could pose a threat to him. Using his position to modify the Citadel into a giant portal gun, Evil Morty invites Rick-C137 for dinner to complete scanning Rick's mind before having the Ricks and Morties killed to use their blood to activate the Citadel's portal gun for him to escape the Central Finite Curve. Matching Rick's intellect and even outwitting him, Evil Morty manages to [[TheBadGuyWins succeed]] in escaping the Central Finite Curve and destroy it.
** "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E3PickleRick Pickle Rick]]": [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Jaguar]] is a highly skilled and brutal freedom fighter who was imprisoned at a Russian Agency for his crimes against toppling his oppressive government. Taking a deal to earn the freedom of himself and his daughter, Katarina, he hunts down and goes against the Pickle-formed [[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]], using his [[GunFu acrobatics and gunship]] to stand on even ground. Realizing the agency lied about his daughter being alive, Jaguar teams up with Rick and tricks the agency director into calling a helicopter, the two hijacking the plane and blowing up the agency building, with the two of them parting on amicable terms. In TheStinger, Jaguar appears and [[BigDamnHeroes saves]] Rick and Morty from Concerto, sharing a nod before he leaves, ending up one of the few characters who [[WorthyOpponent gained Rick’s respect]].

* ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiraciesAliensMythsAndLegends'': The ruthless General James Rinaker, secretly a Shadoen agent in disguise named Wraith, is the Alliance's cold, no-nonsense head and a mind more than worthy to lead the Alliance in keeping the {{masquerade}} steady. Rinaker's penchant for manipulation and subterfuge leads to countless successful missions with no fear about doing [[DirtyBusiness what has to be done]] in the process, with alliances made and broken at his own convenience and foes to his operation like Hanek swiftly disposed of through his agents. Even when he's ousted, Wraith nearly manages to wipe out everyone who knows his secret, and manipulates even the Shadoen commanders by convincing them humanity will be cowed through one show of force -- a ploy that ends with the Shadoen high command wiped out by the ensuing retaliation, allowing Wraith to take over. At the end, it takes the unification of all the alien races Wraith meticulously turned against each other as Rinaker to finally topple the web of deceit he's fostered through decades of cool-headed treachery.

** [[SpacePirate Zix]] is the cunning and charismatic leader of a trio of space bandits along with Travoltron and Tee. Failing to steal astrorubies from Jimmy and his friends, he instead makes up a story about Ruby Madness to make the kids paranoid and turn them against one another before trying to steal the rubies again. Upon finding the residents of Retroville shrunken down, Zix, [[OpportunisticBastard not one to let an opportunity to make some money slide]], plans to sell them to alien children as toys. He and his partners later join the League of Villains and help to kidnap Jimmy for their revenge, but when the kids save him and Travoltron from a giant snake, Tee convinces them to turn good, as they have no reason to be villains. After saving the kids from a T-Rex by sending it after Baby Eddie, Zix realizes that GoodFeelsGood and befriends Jimmy for real. Whether as an enemy or an ally, he is skilled at improvisation and never loses [[AffablyEvil his charming demeanor]].

** "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS1E13CityOfThieves City of Thieves]]": [[BitchInSheepsClothing Penny]] is a thief and resident of the titular city. Taking advantage of Finn's heroic nature, Penny plays the part of a helpless little girl, tricking him into stealing the King of Thieves' treasure chest for her under the claim that it contained her stolen flower basket. After escaping with the treasure, Finn and Jake soon find Penny and scrub her down in an attempt to purify her. Penny then seemingly goes through a HeelFaceTurn, only to run off with Finn's clothes [[KarmaHoudini and continue her thieving lifestyle]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AgentElvis'': Music/ElvisPresley himself, famous rockstar beloved by all, moonlights as a [[HistoricalBadassUpgrade badass]], crime-fighting VigilanteMan with a massive body count of crooks and drug dealers left in his wake. Always suave yet ruthless when fighting or interrogating criminals, Elvis is recruited into The Central Bureau to protect the world from greater threats, nonchalantly carving a bloody path to safety and freedom for the unsuspecting innocents of the nation. The King's ingenuity and skills prove to be the saving grace of TCB in countless situations, from preventing Las Vegas from being nuked to stopping Nixon from learning of the organization's existence, even as he works behind the scenes to uncover his forgotten, tortuous past in their employ. Nonetheless dedicated to saving the world even after discovering the dark truth, Elvis prevents Malus and his hated rival Goulet from murdering millions before he sacrifices himself to save his friends' lives, proving once and for all the awesomeness of the King of Rock and Roll as he faces seemingly certain death with nothing but a confident smile.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'':
** "[[Recap/ArcherS2E6TragicalHistory Tragical History]]": George Spelvin is a computer programmer who manipulates [[TheSmartGuy Cyril Figgis]] into uploading a {{computer virus}} onto ISIS's network on the pretense that he will make Cyril a hero in front of his colleges, also bribing Cyril to unsure his loyalty. After Cyril uploads the virus, Spelvin reveals that he has no intention to help Cyril and his true plan was to use the virus to download the identities of all of ISIS's secret agents onto his servers, then sell them for $50 million to anyone willing to buy. With Spelvin's plans nearing completion, Cyril and Sterling Archer attempt to stop him only for Spelvin to effortlessly defeat Sterling [[CombatPragmatist with the help of his two bodyguards]], and is only stopped by Cyril [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt shooting at his servers]] before making his escape.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS2E7MovieStar Movie Star]]": [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Rona Thorne]] is a [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] spy under the guise of a famous movie actress who is assigned to [[ProfessionalKiller assassinate]] the Soviet Premier. When she learns that ISIS agent [[ActionGirl Lana Kane]] was task with protecting the premier, Rona convinces ISIS's director, Mallory Archer, to allow Rona to [[TagAlongActor tag-along]] with Lana on her mission, under the pretense that it will help Rona for her upcoming spy movie. Rona also exploits Sterling's jealousy of Lana to have him hinder her mission before injecting them both with tetrodotoxin and would successfully assassinating the premier before escaping.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS11E3HelpingHands Helping Hands]]": [[ActionGirl Hands]] is a [[GadgeteerGenius brilliant inventor]] who created an exo-suit that not gives the user SuperStrength and giving people with disabilities free mobility. Planning on [[OnlyInItForTheMoney selling her exo-suit to the highest bidder]], Hands laces her villa with lethal traps should anyone try to steal it, as shown with the ISIS agents. When Sterling Archer escapes Hands' traps and meets her, the two hang out before Hands attempts to convince Sterling to abandon his allies when they get into a shoot-out with their rivals, JUNO. When Sterling decides to help his allies defeat the JUNO agents before attempting to steal the exo-suit, Hand [[CrazyPrepared activates a failsafe on the suit]] that immobilizes Sterling before re-activating it to deal with the last JUNO agent standing.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS11E4RobotFactory Robot Factory]]" & "[[Recap/ArcherS11E5BestFriends Best Friends]]": [[BattleButler Aleister]] is an [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] hired to kill the ISIS agent Cyril Figgis. To get close to his target, Aleister exploits a job opening to be Sterling Archer's valet, using his skills and [[AffablyEvil charms]] to win over everyone in ISIS and get hired. Aleister discreetly plants traps for Cyril and later tries shooting Cyril while he's at the haberdashery before subduing and binding Sterling to bait Cyril. Successfully luring Cyril to his trap, Aleister only fails to kill Cyril due to battling with Sterling, where Sterling declares Aleister to be the best valet he ever had before killing him.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers''' "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E10PrestoTinaO Presto Tina-O]]": Mars Sazerac is a charming magician who takes advantage of Bob Belcher's 50% discount by inviting his friends to Bob's restaurants and performing magic tricks for them. When Bob bans Sazerac from his restaurant, the magician puts Bob's name in his [[DeadlyBook "Enemies of Magic" book]], cursing Bob into having to endure magic-related mishaps in his restaurant. Sazerac would also [[BatmanGambit anticipate]] Bob's attempt to get his name off his book, allowing Louise to steal his book, where he writes Bob a note saying that he farted on the salami Bob had licked.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'':
** [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything Reverend Rollo Goodlove]] is a [[StrawCharacter straw liberal activist]] whose motivations behind his multiple causes are [[{{Greed}} money]] and [[AttentionWhore publicity]]. First appearing in "The S-Word", Rollo convinces the Freemans to sue Mr. Petto for using a "racial slur" on Riley, and prolonging the issue by collaborating with Ann Colter in orchestrating a political debate. In "The Hunger Strike" he convinces Huey to continue his hunger strike in the kid's efforts to boycott ''Creator/{{BET}}'', only to abandon his cause once the network gives Rollo his own TV sitcom. Helping the Freemans once again in "The New Black", he manages to convince the public that Riley is a special needs child using the word "gay" to describe things he doesn't like, switching their ire to those who sued Riley for saying the slur. While the beliefs in his causes might not be genuine, his charisma and master planning are, making Rollo one of the most likable masterminds on the show.
** "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS1E12RileyWuzHere Riley Wuz Here]]": The "[[NoNameGiven Art Teacher]]" is a [[FromCamouflageToCriminal former veteran-turned-crook]] who moonlights as an educator. Upon overseeing Riley spray painting a house, he immediately takes a liking to him and takes him under his wing. Teaching Riley basic drawing before moving out a bigger canvas, he has Riley paint several beautiful murals on various homes. Proposing on the last night to paint someone who isn't in the picture anymore, he has Riley paint a mural of his deceased parents. When the police show up, the art teacher shoots their tires and takes off. Despite only appearing in one episode, the art teacher stood out as one of the most soft spoken antagonists and provided one of the most touching scenes in the show.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'''s "[[Recap/CloseEnoughS2E5JointBreak Joint Break]]": [[NeverMessWithGranny Barb]] leads a crew of elderly women on a series of successful bank robberies to pay off their medical bills, using their guise as elderly folks to avoid suspicion from the police. Befriending [[RetiredBadass Pearle Watson]], Barb tricks her into becoming her get away driver and persuades her to join her crew for a job involving stealing an armored truck filled with money. Aware of Pearle's past as a cop, Barb took all the bullets from Pearle's gun when she tries to stop them. Stopped by Pearle's friends on the force, Barb convinces Pearle to let her take one more water aerobics exercise in the ocean, letting the waves kill her and going out on her own terms.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Aélita Schaeffer's xanafied self]] combines her good self's intelligence with XANA's ruthlessness. [[Recap/CodeLyokoS2E6 Pretending to be her good self in her first appearance]], she manipulates Jérémie Belpois into sending her to Lyoko, talking Yumi Ishiyama into going with them when Jérémie expresses reluctance in Aélita going on Lyoko alone. On Lyoko, XANA-Aélita stays ahead of her fellow [[Characters/CodeLyokoLyokoWarriors Lyoko Warriors]] through clever uses of her Creativity powers, leading to her all but completing her mission. Returning as a recurring villain, XANA-Aélita works well in tandem with XANA and its monsters, successfully destroying three of the four main sectors and setting up XANA's victory in that season. [[Recap/CodeLyokoS4E25 In her final appearance]], XANA-Aélita cleverly reacts to Ulrich Stern's attack, stealing one of his swords and defeating him with only a limited use of her powers, nearly completing her mission. Always thinking on the fly and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide showing how truly dangerous Aélita's powers could be]], her xanafied self proved to be one of the Lyoko Warriors' most dangerous threats.

** [[OutlawCouple Bunny and Claude]] are a pair of infamous [[HairRaisingHare rabbit criminals]] who specialize in stealing carrots from stores. Often robbing multiple stores in a row with ease, the duo consistently outwit the persistent Sherrif, managing to thwart his attempts to catch them even on the odd occasion he corners them. In their second short, they manage to hijack the Carrot Train and successfully steals most of the carrots within, once again outwitting the Sherrif when he attempts to stop them.

* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'''s "The Secret of Quan-Chi": [[Characters/MortalKombatShinnokAndQuanChi Quan Chi]] himself is far less evil but just as cunning and manipulative as his [[Franchise/MortalKombat canon counterpart]]. Quan Chi is a free-roaming [[EvilSorcerer sorcerer]] who wants to conquer Earthrealm. To do so, he waits for the heroes to be distracted by an Outworld attack, then gets the gem of Tetsurri, which is an artifact that [[HatePlague brings out the worst traits of a person]]. Quan Chi disguises himself as an Outworld refugee to trick the heroes so he can secretly use the gem of Tetsurri on them, with his ultimate plan being to make the Earthrealm warriors fight each other, leaving their realm defensless and allowing Quan Chi to take over, a plan which [[NearVillainVictory nearly succeeds]].

** "[[Characters/RickAndMortyEvilMorty Evil Morty]]" is a version of [[Characters/RickAndMortyMortySmith Morty Smith]] who grew tired of being [[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]]'s sidekick and planned to break free from his role by escaping the Central Finite Curve to enter a multiverse where Rick isn't the smartest man. Evil Morty mind controls one universe's Rick, proceeding to kill other Ricks and kidnapping Morties, torturing the Morties to make a force-field to prevent the [[Characters/RickAndMortyTheCitadel the Citadel]] from finding them while framing Rick-C137 and his Morty for the crimes, luring them to their hideout where they scan Rick's mind. Making his brainwashed Rick his scapegoat, Evil Morty hides amongst the kidnapped Morties to go to the Citadel where he runs for president, using his charisma to get the majority to vote for him and killing anyone who could pose a threat to him. Using his position to modify the Citadel into a giant portal gun, Evil Morty invites Rick-C137 for dinner to complete scanning Rick's mind before having the Ricks and Morties killed to use their blood to activate the Citadel's portal gun for him to escape the Central Finite Curve. Matching Rick's intellect and even outwitting him, Evil Morty manages to [[TheBadGuyWins succeed]] in escaping the Central Finite Curve and destroy it.
** "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E3PickleRick Pickle Rick]]": [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Jaguar]] is a highly skilled and brutal freedom fighter who was imprisoned at a Russian Agency for his crimes against toppling his oppressive government. Taking a deal to earn the freedom of himself and his daughter, Katarina, he hunts down and goes against the Pickle-formed [[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]], using his [[GunFu acrobatics and gunship]] to stand on even ground. Realizing the agency lied about his daughter being alive, Jaguar teams up with Rick and tricks the agency director into calling a helicopter, the two hijacking the plane and blowing up the agency building, with the two of them parting on amicable terms. In TheStinger, Jaguar appears and [[BigDamnHeroes saves]] Rick and Morty from Concerto, sharing a nod before he leaves, ending up one of the few characters who [[WorthyOpponent gained Rick’s respect]].

* ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiraciesAliensMythsAndLegends'': The ruthless General James Rinaker, secretly a Shadoen agent in disguise named Wraith, is the Alliance's cold, no-nonsense head and a mind more than worthy to lead the Alliance in keeping the {{masquerade}} steady. Rinaker's penchant for manipulation and subterfuge leads to countless successful missions with no fear about doing [[DirtyBusiness what has to be done]] in the process, with alliances made and broken at his own convenience and foes to his operation like Hanek swiftly disposed of through his agents. Even when he's ousted, Wraith nearly manages to wipe out everyone who knows his secret, and manipulates even the Shadoen commanders by convincing them humanity will be cowed through one show of force -- a ploy that ends with the Shadoen high command wiped out by the ensuing retaliation, allowing Wraith to take over. At the end, it takes the unification of all the alien races Wraith meticulously turned against each other as Rinaker to finally topple the web of deceit he's fostered through decades of cool-headed treachery.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'':
** "[[Recap/ArcherS2E6TragicalHistory Tragical History]]": George Spelvin is a computer programmer who manipulates [[TheSmartGuy Cyril Figgis]] into uploading a {{computer virus}} onto ISIS's network on the pretense that he will make Cyril a hero in front of his colleges, also bribing Cyril to unsure his loyalty. After Cyril uploads the virus, Spelvin reveals that he has no intention to help Cyril and his true plan was to use the virus to download the identities of all of ISIS's secret agents onto his servers, then sell them for $50 million to anyone willing to buy. With Spelvin's plans nearing completion, Cyril and Sterling Archer attempt to stop him only for Spelvin to effortlessly defeat Sterling [[CombatPragmatist with the help of his two bodyguards]], and is only stopped by Cyril [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt shooting at his servers]] before making his escape.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS2E7MovieStar Movie Star]]": [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Rona Thorne]] is a [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] spy under the guise of a famous movie actress who is assigned to [[ProfessionalKiller assassinate]] the Soviet Premier. When she learns that ISIS agent [[ActionGirl Lana Kane]] was task with protecting the premier, Rona convinces ISIS's director, Mallory Archer, to allow Rona to [[TagAlongActor tag-along]] with Lana on her mission, under the pretense that it will help Rona for her upcoming spy movie. Rona also exploits Sterling's jealousy of Lana to have him hinder her mission before injecting them both with tetrodotoxin and would successfully assassinating the premier before escaping.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS11E3HelpingHands Helping Hands]]": [[ActionGirl Hands]] is a [[GadgeteerGenius brilliant inventor]] who created an exo-suit that not gives the user SuperStrength and giving people with disabilities free mobility. Planning on [[OnlyInItForTheMoney selling her exo-suit to the highest bidder]], Hands laces her villa with lethal traps should anyone try to steal it, as shown with the ISIS agents. When Sterling Archer escapes Hands' traps and meets her, the two hang out before Hands attempts to convince Sterling to abandon his allies when they get into a shoot-out with their rivals, JUNO. When Sterling decides to help his allies defeat the JUNO agents before attempting to steal the exo-suit, Hand [[CrazyPrepared activates a failsafe on the suit]] that immobilizes Sterling before re-activating it to deal with the last JUNO agent standing.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS11E4RobotFactory Robot Factory]]" & "[[Recap/ArcherS11E5BestFriends Best Friends]]": [[BattleButler Aleister]] is an [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] hired to kill the ISIS agent Cyril Figgis. To get close to his target, Aleister exploits a job opening to be Sterling Archer's valet, using his skills and [[AffablyEvil charms]] to win over everyone in ISIS and get hired. Aleister discreetly plants traps for Cyril and later tries shooting Cyril while he's at the haberdashery before subduing and binding Sterling to bait Cyril. Successfully luring Cyril to his trap, Aleister only fails to kill Cyril due to battling with Sterling, where Sterling declares Aleister to be the best valet he ever had before killing him.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers''' "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E10PrestoTinaO Presto Tina-O]]": Mars Sazerac is a charming magician who takes advantage of Bob Belcher's 50% discount by inviting his friends to Bob's restaurants and performing magic tricks for them. When Bob bans Sazerac from his restaurant, the magician puts Bob's name in his [[DeadlyBook "Enemies of Magic" book]], cursing Bob into having to endure magic-related mishaps in his restaurant. Sazerac would also [[BatmanGambit anticipate]] Bob's attempt to get his name off his book, allowing Louise to steal his book, where he writes Bob a note saying that he farted on the salami Bob had licked.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'':
** [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything Reverend Rollo Goodlove]] is a [[StrawCharacter straw liberal activist]] whose motivations behind his multiple causes are [[{{Greed}} money]] and [[AttentionWhore publicity]]. First appearing in "The S-Word", Rollo convinces the Freemans to sue Mr. Petto for using a "racial slur" on Riley, and prolonging the issue by collaborating with Ann Colter in orchestrating a political debate. In "The Hunger Strike" he convinces Huey to continue his hunger strike in the kid's efforts to boycott ''Creator/{{BET}}'', only to abandon his cause once the network gives Rollo his own TV sitcom. Helping the Freemans once again in "The New Black", he manages to convince the public that Riley is a special needs child using the word "gay" to describe things he doesn't like, switching their ire to those who sued Riley for saying the slur. While the beliefs in his causes might not be genuine, his charisma and master planning are, making Rollo one of the most likable masterminds on the show.
** "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS1E12RileyWuzHere Riley Wuz Here]]": The "[[NoNameGiven Art Teacher]]" is a [[FromCamouflageToCriminal former veteran-turned-crook]] who moonlights as an educator. Upon overseeing Riley spray painting a house, he immediately takes a liking to him and takes him under his wing. Teaching Riley basic drawing before moving out a bigger canvas, he has Riley paint several beautiful murals on various homes. Proposing on the last night to paint someone who isn't in the picture anymore, he has Riley paint a mural of his deceased parents. When the police show up, the art teacher shoots their tires and takes off. Despite only appearing in one episode, the art teacher stood out as one of the most soft spoken antagonists and provided one of the most touching scenes in the show.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'''s "[[Recap/CloseEnoughS2E5JointBreak Joint Break]]": [[NeverMessWithGranny Barb]] leads a crew of elderly women on a series of successful bank robberies to pay off their medical bills, using their guise as elderly folks to avoid suspicion from the police. Befriending [[RetiredBadass Pearle Watson]], Barb tricks her into becoming her get away driver and persuades her to join her crew for a job involving stealing an armored truck filled with money. Aware of Pearle's past as a cop, Barb took all the bullets from Pearle's gun when she tries to stop them. Stopped by Pearle's friends on the force, Barb convinces Pearle to let her take one more water aerobics exercise in the ocean, letting the waves kill her and going out on her own terms.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Aélita Schaeffer's xanafied self]] combines her good self's intelligence with XANA's ruthlessness. [[Recap/CodeLyokoS2E6 Pretending to be her good self in her first appearance]], she manipulates Jérémie Belpois into sending her to Lyoko, talking Yumi Ishiyama into going with them when Jérémie expresses reluctance in Aélita going on Lyoko alone. On Lyoko, XANA-Aélita stays ahead of her fellow [[Characters/CodeLyokoLyokoWarriors Lyoko Warriors]] through clever uses of her Creativity powers, leading to her all but completing her mission. Returning as a recurring villain, XANA-Aélita works well in tandem with XANA and its monsters, successfully destroying three of the four main sectors and setting up XANA's victory in that season. [[Recap/CodeLyokoS4E25 In her final appearance]], XANA-Aélita cleverly reacts to Ulrich Stern's attack, stealing one of his swords and defeating him with only a limited use of her powers, nearly completing her mission. Always thinking on the fly and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide showing how truly dangerous Aélita's powers could be]], her xanafied self proved to be one of the Lyoko Warriors' most dangerous threats.

** [[OutlawCouple Bunny and Claude]] are a pair of infamous [[HairRaisingHare rabbit criminals]] who specialize in stealing carrots from stores. Often robbing multiple stores in a row with ease, the duo consistently outwit the persistent Sherrif, managing to thwart his attempts to catch them even on the odd occasion he corners them. In their second short, they manage to hijack the Carrot Train and successfully steals most of the carrots within, once again outwitting the Sherrif when he attempts to stop them.

* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'''s "The Secret of Quan-Chi": [[Characters/MortalKombatShinnokAndQuanChi Quan Chi]] himself is far less evil but just as cunning and manipulative as his [[Franchise/MortalKombat canon counterpart]]. Quan Chi is a free-roaming [[EvilSorcerer sorcerer]] who wants to conquer Earthrealm. To do so, he waits for the heroes to be distracted by an Outworld attack, then gets the gem of Tetsurri, which is an artifact that [[HatePlague brings out the worst traits of a person]]. Quan Chi disguises himself as an Outworld refugee to trick the heroes so he can secretly use the gem of Tetsurri on them, with his ultimate plan being to make the Earthrealm warriors fight each other, leaving their realm defensless and allowing Quan Chi to take over, a plan which [[NearVillainVictory nearly succeeds]].

** "[[Characters/RickAndMortyEvilMorty Evil Morty]]" is a version of [[Characters/RickAndMortyMortySmith Morty Smith]] who grew tired of being [[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]]'s sidekick and planned to break free from his role by escaping the Central Finite Curve to enter a multiverse where Rick isn't the smartest man. Evil Morty mind controls one universe's Rick, proceeding to kill other Ricks and kidnapping Morties, torturing the Morties to make a force-field to prevent the [[Characters/RickAndMortyTheCitadel the Citadel]] from finding them while framing Rick-C137 and his Morty for the crimes, luring them to their hideout where they scan Rick's mind. Making his brainwashed Rick his scapegoat, Evil Morty hides amongst the kidnapped Morties to go to the Citadel where he runs for president, using his charisma to get the majority to vote for him and killing anyone who could pose a threat to him. Using his position to modify the Citadel into a giant portal gun, Evil Morty invites Rick-C137 for dinner to complete scanning Rick's mind before having the Ricks and Morties killed to use their blood to activate the Citadel's portal gun for him to escape the Central Finite Curve. Matching Rick's intellect and even outwitting him, Evil Morty manages to [[TheBadGuyWins succeed]] in escaping the Central Finite Curve and destroy it.
** "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E3PickleRick Pickle Rick]]": [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Jaguar]] is a highly skilled and brutal freedom fighter who was imprisoned at a Russian Agency for his crimes against toppling his oppressive government. Taking a deal to earn the freedom of himself and his daughter, Katarina, he hunts down and goes against the Pickle-formed [[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]], using his [[GunFu acrobatics and gunship]] to stand on even ground. Realizing the agency lied about his daughter being alive, Jaguar teams up with Rick and tricks the agency director into calling a helicopter, the two hijacking the plane and blowing up the agency building, with the two of them parting on amicable terms. In TheStinger, Jaguar appears and [[BigDamnHeroes saves]] Rick and Morty from Concerto, sharing a nod before he leaves, ending up one of the few characters who [[WorthyOpponent gained Rick’s respect]].

[[.index]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'':
** "[[Recap/ArcherS2E6TragicalHistory Tragical History]]": George Spelvin is a computer programmer who manipulates [[TheSmartGuy Cyril Figgis]] into uploading a {{computer virus}} onto ISIS's network on the pretense that he will make Cyril a hero in front of his colleges, also bribing Cyril to unsure his loyalty. After Cyril uploads the virus, Spelvin reveals that he has no intention to help Cyril and his true plan was to use the virus to download the identities of all of ISIS's secret agents onto his servers, then sell them for $50 million to anyone willing to buy. With Spelvin's plans nearing completion, Cyril and Sterling Archer attempt to stop him only for Spelvin to effortlessly defeat Sterling [[CombatPragmatist with the help of his two bodyguards]], and is only stopped by Cyril [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt shooting at his servers]] before making his escape.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS2E7MovieStar Movie Star]]": [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Rona Thorne]] is a [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] spy under the guise of a famous movie actress who is assigned to [[ProfessionalKiller assassinate]] the Soviet Premier. When she learns that ISIS agent [[ActionGirl Lana Kane]] was task with protecting the premier, Rona convinces ISIS's director, Mallory Archer, to allow Rona to [[TagAlongActor tag-along]] with Lana on her mission, under the pretense that it will help Rona for her upcoming spy movie. Rona also exploits Sterling's jealousy of Lana to have him hinder her mission before injecting them both with tetrodotoxin and would successfully assassinating the premier before escaping.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS11E3HelpingHands Helping Hands]]": [[ActionGirl Hands]] is a [[GadgeteerGenius brilliant inventor]] who created an exo-suit that not gives the user SuperStrength and giving people with disabilities free mobility. Planning on [[OnlyInItForTheMoney selling her exo-suit to the highest bidder]], Hands laces her villa with lethal traps should anyone try to steal it, as shown with the ISIS agents. When Sterling Archer escapes Hands' traps and meets her, the two hang out before Hands attempts to convince Sterling to abandon his allies when they get into a shoot-out with their rivals, JUNO. When Sterling decides to help his allies defeat the JUNO agents before attempting to steal the exo-suit, Hand [[CrazyPrepared activates a failsafe on the suit]] that immobilizes Sterling before re-activating it to deal with the last JUNO agent standing.
** "[[Recap/ArcherS11E4RobotFactory Robot Factory]]" & "[[Recap/ArcherS11E5BestFriends Best Friends]]": [[BattleButler Aleister]] is an [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] hired to kill the ISIS agent Cyril Figgis. To get close to his target, Aleister exploits a job opening to be Sterling Archer's valet, using his skills and [[AffablyEvil charms]] to win over everyone in ISIS and get hired. Aleister discreetly plants traps for Cyril and later tries shooting Cyril while he's at the haberdashery before subduing and binding Sterling to bait Cyril. Successfully luring Cyril to his trap, Aleister only fails to kill Cyril due to battling with Sterling, where Sterling declares Aleister to be the best valet he ever had before killing him.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers''' "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E10PrestoTinaO Presto Tina-O]]": Mars Sazerac is a charming magician who takes advantage of Bob Belcher's 50% discount by inviting his friends to Bob's restaurants and performing magic tricks for them. When Bob bans Sazerac from his restaurant, the magician puts Bob's name in his [[DeadlyBook "Enemies of Magic" book]], cursing Bob into having to endure magic-related mishaps in his restaurant. Sazerac would also [[BatmanGambit anticipate]] Bob's attempt to get his name off his book, allowing Louise to steal his book, where he writes Bob a note saying that he farted on the salami Bob had licked.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'':
** [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything Reverend Rollo Goodlove]] is a [[StrawCharacter straw liberal activist]] whose motivations behind his multiple causes are [[{{Greed}} money]] and [[AttentionWhore publicity]]. First appearing in "The S-Word", Rollo convinces the Freemans to sue Mr. Petto for using a "racial slur" on Riley, and prolonging the issue by collaborating with Ann Colter in orchestrating a political debate. In "The Hunger Strike" he convinces Huey to continue his hunger strike in the kid's efforts to boycott ''Creator/{{BET}}'', only to abandon his cause once the network gives Rollo his own TV sitcom. Helping the Freemans once again in "The New Black", he manages to convince the public that Riley is a special needs child using the word "gay" to describe things he doesn't like, switching their ire to those who sued Riley for saying the slur. While the beliefs in his causes might not be genuine, his charisma and master planning are, making Rollo one of the most likable masterminds on the show.
** "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS1E12RileyWuzHere Riley Wuz Here]]": The "[[NoNameGiven Art Teacher]]" is a [[FromCamouflageToCriminal former veteran-turned-crook]] who moonlights as an educator. Upon overseeing Riley spray painting a house, he immediately takes a liking to him and takes him under his wing. Teaching Riley basic drawing before moving out a bigger canvas, he has Riley paint several beautiful murals on various homes. Proposing on the last night to paint someone who isn't in the picture anymore, he has Riley paint a mural of his deceased parents. When the police show up, the art teacher shoots their tires and takes off. Despite only appearing in one episode, the art teacher stood out as one of the most soft spoken antagonists and provided one of the most touching scenes in the show.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'''s "[[Recap/CloseEnoughS2E5JointBreak Joint Break]]": [[NeverMessWithGranny Barb]] leads a crew of elderly women on a series of successful bank robberies to pay off their medical bills, using their guise as elderly folks to avoid suspicion from the police. Befriending [[RetiredBadass Pearle Watson]], Barb tricks her into becoming her get away driver and persuades her to join her crew for a job involving stealing an armored truck filled with money. Aware of Pearle's past as a cop, Barb took all the bullets from Pearle's gun when she tries to stop them. Stopped by Pearle's friends on the force, Barb convinces Pearle to let her take one more water aerobics exercise in the ocean, letting the waves kill her and going out on her own terms.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Aélita Schaeffer's xanafied self]] combines her good self's intelligence with XANA's ruthlessness. [[Recap/CodeLyokoS2E6 Pretending to be her good self in her first appearance]], she manipulates Jérémie Belpois into sending her to Lyoko, talking Yumi Ishiyama into going with them when Jérémie expresses reluctance in Aélita going on Lyoko alone. On Lyoko, XANA-Aélita stays ahead of her fellow [[Characters/CodeLyokoLyokoWarriors Lyoko Warriors]] through clever uses of her Creativity powers, leading to her all but completing her mission. Returning as a recurring villain, XANA-Aélita works well in tandem with XANA and its monsters, successfully destroying three of the four main sectors and setting up XANA's victory in that season. [[Recap/CodeLyokoS4E25 In her final appearance]], XANA-Aélita cleverly reacts to Ulrich Stern's attack, stealing one of his swords and defeating him with only a limited use of her powers, nearly completing her mission. Always thinking on the fly and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide showing how truly dangerous Aélita's powers could be]], her xanafied self proved to be one of the Lyoko Warriors' most dangerous threats.

* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'''s "The Secret of Quan-Chi": [[Characters/MortalKombatShinnokAndQuanChi Quan Chi]] himself is far less evil but just as cunning and manipulative as his [[Franchise/MortalKombat canon counterpart]]. Quan Chi is a free-roaming [[EvilSorcerer sorcerer]] who wants to conquer Earthrealm. To do so, he waits for the heroes to be distracted by an Outworld attack, then gets the gem of Tetsurri, which is an artifact that [[HatePlague brings out the worst traits of a person]]. Quan Chi disguises himself as an Outworld refugee to trick the heroes so he can secretly use the gem of Tetsurri on them, with his ultimate plan being to make the Earthrealm warriors fight each other, leaving their realm defensless and allowing Quan Chi to take over, a plan which [[NearVillainVictory nearly succeeds]].

** "[[Characters/RickAndMortyEvilMorty Evil Morty]]" is a version of [[Characters/RickAndMortyMortySmith Morty Smith]] who grew tired of being [[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]]'s sidekick and planned to break free from his role by escaping the Central Finite Curve to enter a multiverse where Rick isn't the smartest man. Evil Morty mind controls one universe's Rick, proceeding to kill other Ricks and kidnapping Morties, torturing the Morties to make a force-field to prevent the [[Characters/RickAndMortyTheCitadel the Citadel]] from finding them while framing Rick-C137 and his Morty for the crimes, luring them to their hideout where they scan Rick's mind. Making his brainwashed Rick his scapegoat, Evil Morty hides amongst the kidnapped Morties to go to the Citadel where he runs for president, using his charisma to get the majority to vote for him and killing anyone who could pose a threat to him. Using his position to modify the Citadel into a giant portal gun, Evil Morty invites Rick-C137 for dinner to complete scanning Rick's mind before having the Ricks and Morties killed to use their blood to activate the Citadel's portal gun for him to escape the Central Finite Curve. Matching Rick's intellect and even outwitting him, Evil Morty manages to [[TheBadGuyWins succeed]] in escaping the Central Finite Curve and destroy it.
** "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E3PickleRick Pickle Rick]]": [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Jaguar]] is a highly skilled and brutal freedom fighter who was imprisoned at a Russian Agency for his crimes against toppling his oppressive government. Taking a deal to earn the freedom of himself and his daughter, Katarina, he hunts down and goes against the Pickle-formed [[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]], using his [[GunFu acrobatics and gunship]] to stand on even ground. Realizing the agency lied about his daughter being alive, Jaguar teams up with Rick and tricks the agency director into calling a helicopter, the two hijacking the plane and blowing up the agency building, with the two of them parting on amicable terms. In TheStinger, Jaguar appears and [[BigDamnHeroes saves]] Rick and Morty from Concerto, sharing a nod before he leaves, ending up one of the few characters who [[WorthyOpponent gained Rick’s respect]].