History Main / BondVillainStupidity

* Vaas ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' suffers from this trope badly, succumbing to it at least four times while trying to get rid of Jason Brody. First time he gives Jason a thirty-second headstart and Jason escapes. Second time Vaas gets the drop on Jason, but leaves him to die in a burning building and Jason escapes. Third time Vaas jumps Jason again, and ties him to a concrete block and throws him a pool which Jason escapes from. During this capture Vaas lectures Jason on his beliefs about insanity[[note]]''"Insanity is doing the exact same fucking thing over and over again expecting shit to change. That. Is. Crazy."''[[/note]], which may indicate that Vaas is aware that what he is doing is just not working but is too unstable to stop himself. [[spoiler: The fourth time Vaas walks up to Jason after a crash and shoots him in the chest, but buries him in a shallow grave without checking to see if he is really dead, missing the [[PocketProtector lighter that blocked his bullet]]. The fifth and final confrontation between Jason and Vaas, Vaas gets the drop on Jason '''again''' and stabs him through the chest with a large knife, but ''[[MindScrew something]]'' happens, the knife starts glowing yellow, and their last fight talks place in an alternate plane filled with television monitors, which Jason wins, and when Jason wakes up Vaas is gone and everyone is saying he is dead.]]

* Discord, the second-season villain from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', makes this mistake ''twice''. He allows Twilight Sparkle to get her hooves on the Elements of Harmony, since he's corrupted the bearers and rendered them unable to use the Elements, and he leaves Twilight to her own devices in the unraveling Ponyville because he delights in her misery and helplessness. As such, when she regains her confidence, gets her friends back and fighting, and unleashes a devastatingly harmonious rainbow on his face, he's very much taken by surprise. However, as a spirit of Chaos, it makes sense, that he wouldn't do thing the sensical way - it's boring!

** Edgar in ''Disney/TheAristocats''. Gee, leaving a bunch of cats out on the countryside to get rid of them, wonder if they'll find their way back! [[hottip:*:In RealLife, cats are known to be able to find their way back to their owners from extreme distances, but since Edgar was TooDumbToLive he probably did not know this. [[FridgeBrilliance This should explain why he simply assumed the cats would outlive him after taking the old saying that cats have nine lives literally and multiplying nine by their expected lifespan, an assumption that got the plot moving in the first place.]]

** [[Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective Professor Ratigan]] subverts this, but only because his DeathTrap is so [[XanatosGambit impossibly detailed]].

* [[http://www.empireonline.com/features/bond-villain-monologues/ Empire]] listed the [[EvilGloating Bond Villain Monologues]], while stating on all "[[StatingTheSimpleSolution What he should have done]]: [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim Shot Him]]", save ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''. There, the villain should have "Bought {{Google}}."

* [[FanWorks/DiamondsCut Diamond's Cut]] is a Bond fan film, so its presence is guaranteed.

** In the episode ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing The Clock King]]'' this trope is justified: Fugate, the ClockKing, gets Batman in a DeathTrap. But he can't resist pulling a JustBetweenYouAndMe with a mocking taped message left behind that Batman manages to repurpose into the tools with which to escape. Had he left no message at all, it's likely the DeathTrap would have worked, as Batman was ready to try getting out with a cutting torch until Fugate's message informed him that he'd deliberately thought of that already and made sure there wasn't enough time. Justified because being TheSociopath with severe ComplexityAddiction, Fugate is not familiar with emotions and he really doesn't know better.

** Edgar in ''Disney/TheAristocats''. Gee, leaving a bunch of cats out on the countryside to get rid of them, wonder if they'll find their way back! [[hottip:*:In RealLife, cats are known to be able to find their way back to their owners from extreme distances, but since Edgar was TooDumbToLive he probably did not know this. [[FridgeBrilliance This should explain why he simply assumed the cats would outlive him after taking the old saying that cats have nine lives literally and multiplying nine by their expected lifespan, an assumption that got the plot moving in the first place.]]]]

** The BigBad does this during the game as well. He goes off on a long winded display and speech that not only allows the hero to think but also [[BerserkMode pisses the hell out of him]] which allows him to retaliate.

* After [[CurbStompBattle stomping]] [[MahouSenseiNegima Negi]] and his team, Fate decides they aren't completely worthless because they ''barely'' pulled off [[strike:a recovery]] not dying of the wounds he inflicted. Instead of, you know, killing them in the face like he's clearly capable of, he basically says 'Okay I'm bored just gonna blow the gate up now. By the way, you suck Negi. Go level grind moar. Later' [[spoiler:May be justified in that he intended to use Negi and seems oddly reluctant to actually kill people. Also definitely planning on using Asuna for something, but we don't know what yet.]]

** Unbelievably [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with the power of Edo Tensei- everyone under its control is ''already dead.'' As such, a MagnificentBastard may pull any form of KickTheDog they want without fear of getting killed by retaliation. However, they can still have their souls sealed away or put to rest. Absolute villains like Deidara, Kakuzu and [[spoiler: Madara Uchiha]] push it to hellish extremes, while others, like Sasori, [[spoiler: Gaara's father]], Nagato and Itachi use it as means to apologize or atone. [[spoiler: Itachi]] even has his free will back!
* At one point in ''Manga/{{Saki}}'', [[OpposingSportsTeam Amae Koromo]], who has been totally dominating the game since she appeared, has the opportunity to give one of her opponents a negative score, thus instantly ending the game and winning the tournament for her team. However, instead of doing this, she quite deliberately makes a lower-scoring move which reduces said opponent's score to exactly zero instead (according to [[HouseRules the rules of this particular tournament]], someone with a score of zero has a chance to come back) just because she wants to psychologically manipulate everyone and prevent the other players from making a certain type of high-scoring move. Sure enough, this buys our hero just enough time to come up with a way to win.

* In ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', [[spoiler:Ryoko Asakura]] tries to kill Kyon with a knife, giving him a chance to dodge. When that doesn't work, she freezes him in place, and it is later implied that she could have just outright deleted him from existence. Of course, she's a malfunctioning alien bio-robot, so it makes sense.
* The Dark Signers from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' weren't known for being smart, but the biggest example of stupidity on their part was when Yusei's duel with Kiryu left the hero battered, wounded, close to death, and with a fear of the villain that would take ''several'' episodes to recover from. Why didn't Kiryu finsih him off when he had the chance? He claimed it "wasn't the right time." (Of course, Kiryu was almost the living definition of AxeCrazy at the time, so at least he had ''that'' as an excuse.)

* ''ThePhantom'' wouldn't have lasted for one generation, let alone [[LegacyImmortality the twenty-one he's currently at]], without practically ''every'' enemy he's ever met falling for this trope. Of course, Phantoms do get occasionally killed in the line of duty, but it's usually in open combat and not because someone's clever enough to JustShootHim when they have him captured.

* [[FanWorks/DiamondsCut Diamond's Cut]] is a Bond fan film, so its presence is pretty much guaranteed.

* In ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', Red Grant's plan is ''literally'' to [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just shoot Bond]], and he actually manages to get the drop on his target and have him completely at his mercy, but he still fails because he can't resist indulging in some EvilGloating and a JustBetweenYouAndMe speech.
* Averted by ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', who keeps Bond alive because if he dies, then the [[SecretIntelligenceService Secret Service]] will just send in [[HeroOfAnotherStory some guy called 008]]. Goldfinger instead tricks Bond's superiors into thinking that the situation is well in hand. Also justified in the same film - Goldfinger originally was going to have Bond sliced in half by a laser. The inversion is that this was going to work; Bond had to talk his way out of it, and was literally seconds away from losing his manhood when Goldfinger agreed.

** Justifiably invoked by Scaramanga late in the film; he freely admits that he could have used his solar-powered laser to blow up Bond's plane before he even landed on the island, but chose not to do so because of how unsatisfying it would be. (Of course, Scaramanga previously [[{{Hypocrite}} got angry at Fat for the previous incident]] and killed him.)

*** Wholly averted by the BigBad of the film. Given Janus's identity and motivations, it's not merely enough to kill Bond, and even if it would be he usually has more pragmatic reasons for keeping them alive. The aforementioned frame up is just the first such example.

* After John's cover is blown in ''Stone Cold'', the bad guys put him into a chopper (which is vital part of their EvilPlan) where they plan to strap him with explosives and then drop him on unsuspecting cops below. Of course, he gets loose, some other guy gets blown to bits mid-air instead and the chopper crashes.

** Near the end of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Harry has been disarmed, gagged, and tied securely to a gravestone. Rather than simply killing Harry after using his blood to regain his body, Voldemort not only has Wormtail cut him loose and give him back his wand, but insists on fighting him in a one-to-one duel and forbids interference from any of his Death Eaters, for no other reason than to prove, once and for all, that he is the stronger of the two. Of course the final result of this is that Harry manages to escape and tell the world about his return (not that many people listen at first).

** Basically, the only reason the Witch initially kept Edmund alive was because she learned he had two sisters and a brother, fitting the prophecy that two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve would reclaim Narnia, and thus hoped to get all four dead or [[TakenForGranite petrified]] and be done with it. Her plan almost did work at one point, when the other three Pevensie siblings seriously gave thought to breaking into the Witch's castle to save Edmund, but were talked out of it by the Beavers. She finally gives up on the plan when the three Pevensie siblings reach Caer Paravel thus making their capture impossible, and realizes that simply killing Edmund would stop the prophecy from being fulfilled. By ''that'' point, the other assassins she'd sent to kill the children failed, and were used to track down and save Edmund.

* Happened ''all the time'' on ''Series/RobinHood''. The worst examples were Guy using a half-dead lion to try and kill Robin instead of ordering the fully-armed elite soldiers to just shoot him dead; and later trapping Robin in a dungeon that was slowly filling with water and then...wandering away mid-execution. Needless to say, Robin survives both attempts on his life.

* The Infernal {{Exalted}} have Acts of Villainy which they commit in order to please their Yozi masters if they've managed to offend them somehow. Most of them have them act in line with this trope - picking a favoured arch-enemy as per Best Enemy Recognition (FoeYay optional), leaving the enemy to slow death instead of killing them quickly (Fiendish Deathtrap Compulsion), lecturing them about your plans (Infernal Genius Proclamation), leaving clues or sending them straight to your enemy (Insane Death-Dealing Provocation) or just driving people insane for giggles (Kindly Lunatic's Blessing). And of course it's best to perform as much of them at once as possible.

** Of course, the [[JustifiedTrope reason]] they were placed there at all and not just [[MundaneSolution executed]] is because of religious tradition. It's called "The Path of Repentance" for a reason. [[spoiler:Also, the bad guys break every Bond villain tradition in the book when they actually realize that this was a bad idea and place guards at the exit.]]

** In ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'', near the end [[spoiler: the main character [[ViolationOfCommonSense willingly climbs into a transport]] within the alien citadel that totally immobilizes him. Naturally, its a trap and it carries him helplessly right to the Big Bad, who does not take the opportunity to shoot him. Justified later when the main villain tries to recruit him.]]
* Parodied in the computer game ''VideoGame/EvilGenius''. In the game, super agents cannot be killed by normal means. When they run out of health, they simply fall unconscious for a few minutes. They can only be defeating by exploiting a [[AchillesHeel specific weakness]]. So until you figure out what their particular weakness is, your options are pretty much limited to locking them up and torturing them regularly to keep their stats down.

** Edgar in ''TheAristocats''. Gee, leaving a bunch of cats out on the countryside to get rid of them, wonder if they'll find their way back! [[hottip:*:In RealLife, cats are known to be able to find their way back to their owners from extreme distances, but since Edgar was TooDumbToLive he probably did not know this. [[FridgeBrilliance This, of course, should explain why he simply assumed the cats would outlive him after taking the old saying that cats have nine lives literally and multiplying nine by their expected lifespan, an assumption that got the plot moving in the first place.]]]]
** [[TheGreatMouseDetective Professor Ratigan]] subverts this, but only because his DeathTrap is so [[XanatosGambit impossibly detailed]].
* DoubleSubverted in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' with Roland Daggett when he had Batgirl and Catwoman at his mercy. When Batgirl taunted him with the suggestion that he leave them trussed up over one of his vats of deadly chemicals with acid burning through the rope, he pointed out how often this method had failed him before, and announced he was just going to [[StatingTheSimpleSolution have his men shoot them and toss their bodies into those vats instead.]] In the end, however, his stopping to tell them this gave them just enough time to get loose and take him down anyway.
** At the ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing The Clock King]]'' this trope is justified: Fugate, the ClockKing, gets Batman in a DeathTrap. But he can't resist pulling a JustBetweenYouAndMe with a mocking taped message left behind that Batman manages to repurpose into the tools with which to escape. Had he left no message at all, it's likely the DeathTrap would have worked, as Batman was ready to try getting out with a cutting torch until Fugate's message informed him that he'd deliberately thought of that already and made sure there wasn't enough time. Justified because being TheSociopath with severe ComplexityAddiction, Fugate is not familiar with emotions and he really doesn't know better.
* In ''KimPossible'', this trope is literally part of the Tradition.

* {{Lampshaded}} in ''TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' - in the Film/JamesBond parody "Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion", Jimmy and Jet are left in an elaborate death trap... and, of course, manage to escape.
* Shown clearly in ''TheFairlyOddparents'' when Mr. Crocker meets Norm the Genie. They both hold a deep hatred for Timmy Turner, and Norm suggests sending him to Mars, while Crocker tries out a horde of elaborate impractical traps
* Played straight then subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', where Homer's new employer, a megalomaniac, tries to kill Mr. Bont with such a deathtrap, and, of course, Bont escapes, only to be promptly tackled by Homer. Wising up, the guards just shoot him.

** While not adequately explained in-game, the Document of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' reveals there ''is'' a reason Solidus does this; [[spoiler: he was trying to extract information on the GW AI (which would reveal the identities and locations of the Patriots), from the nanomachine's in Raiden's brain.]]

** At the ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing The Clock King]]'' this trope is justified: Fugate, the ClockKing, gets Batman in a Death Trap. But he can't resist pulling a Just Between You and Me with a mocking taped message left behind that Batman manages to repurpose into the tools with which to escape. Had he left no message at all, it's likely the Death Trap would have worked, as Batman was ready to try getting out with a cutting torch until Fugate's message informed him that he'd deliberately thought of that already and made sure there wasn't enough time. Justified because being The Sociopath with severe ComplexityAddiction, Fugate is not familiar with emotions and he really doesn't know better.

* The explanation for the frequency of this happening in the ''James Bond'' RPG is the villains have huge egos and want to sate them by discussing their ideas with someone who's proven themselves intelligent enough to appreciate them.

* Discord, the second-season villain from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', makes this mistake ''twice''. He allows Twilight Sparkle to get her hooves on the Elements of Harmony, since he's corrupted the bearers and rendered them unable to use the Elements, and he leaves Twilight to her own devices in the unraveling Ponyville because he delights in her misery and helplessness. As such, when she regains her confidence, gets her friends back and fighting, and unleashes a devastatingly harmonious rainbow on his face, he's very much taken by surprise.

* Annoyingly present in ''TerminatorSalvation'', when after luring John Connor into the heart of its main base, Skynet sends a single unarmed T-800 to dispatch our hero. Yeah. In a base probably full of hundreds of killer robots with guns, Skynet decides to send ONE unarmed unit to kill the hero. And it doesn't bother to send more armed killer robots after the fight drags out, with Connor getting backed up by Cyborg Marcus.

** Near the end of ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Harry has been disarmed, gagged, and tied securely to a gravestone. Rather than simply killing Harry after using his blood to regain his body, Voldemort not only has Wormtail cut him loose and give him back his wand, but insists on fighting him in a one-to-one duel and forbids interference from any of his Death Eaters, for no other reason than to prove, once and for all, that he is the stronger of the two. Of course the final result of this is that Harry manages to escape and tell the world about his return (not that many people listen at first).
** Oddly averted in ''[[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix The Order of the Phoenix]]'', where Voldemort apparently has [[GenreSavvy learned]] his lesson and tries to kill Harry quickly, only to be stopped by [[TheCavalry Dumbledore]]. However, [[spoiler:Umbridge]] plays this straight several chapters into the same book ([[HoistByHisOwnPetard as revealed later on]]) with one word: [[spoiler:"DETENTION!"]]
** In ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', [[spoiler:Draco Malfoy]] gloats triumphantly when [[spoiler:Albus Dumbledore]] lies in a weakened state completely at his mercy, but fails to kill him despite having been ordered to do so on pain of death as he can't bring himself to do it. This leads to [[spoiler:Severus Snape having to step in for Draco and finish off Dumbledore]].

* [[spoiler: Hugo Strange]] in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''. [[spoiler: Even though he knows you are the goddamned {{Batman}}, he doesn't take the opportunity to kill Bats at the beginning when Bruce was unconscious and shackled. He wakes you up and then dumps you into Arkham City without even bothering to track you. And ''then'' he tasks an assassin to kill you, suggesting that he wanted you dead the entire time.]]

* Name ''any'' villain that {{Batman}} has fought at least twice, and it's a sure bet that he or she has done something like this. The [[SanityHasAdvantages fact that his enemies tend to be insane]] is one of the biggest reasons he's survived so long.

[[folder:Films -- James Bond Series]]

Bond Villain Stupidity is a form of GenreBlindness commonly exhibited by villains. It occurs when a villain fails to kill the hero when he has him cornered, incapacitated, or otherwise defenseless, thus giving the hero a chance to escape and later come back to defeat the villain. It is so named because it occurs frequently in JamesBond movies. A common form of Bond Villain Stupidity is to place the hero in an elaborate DeathTrap from which he can escape (slow dipping mechanisms over [[SharkPool pits of sharks, alligators, or lava]] are perennial favorites). If you ever asked why the villains [[StatingTheSimpleSolution don't just shoot him]] then use their pets/lava to dispose of the body, then congratulations, you are smarter than the average megalomaniac. Also common is the inability to resist a JustBetweenYouAndMe moment before putting the hero in said death trap. Several variants of this one made the EvilOverlordList.

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* From the TropeNamer series.
** Classic example in ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''. Elektra King drops a loaded pistol for Bond to collect, before she runs up a set of stairs - unarmed.
*** In her case, she thought she was GenreSavvy enough to believe that [[ChivalrousPervert Bond]] [[WouldntHitAGirl wouldn't shoot a woman]]. [[WouldHitAGirl She was wrong]].
** After a dinner goes wrong, Film/DrNo just orders his guards to beat up Bond and get him imprisoned. 007 later escapes, nearly getting drowned in the process (however, being the first Bond film nobody knew how dangerous he could be).
*** In the book, he also had Bond run through Dr. No's death course. Bond was close to dying through it, multiple times.
**** As did everyone else Dr. No had "tested"; the course was designed to kill. The only difference Dr. No ever expected was how long it would take. Funny how much difference a stolen lighter and a steak knife (and Bond!) can make...
*** Professor R.J. Dent has his moment when he empties his entire magazine on a dummy Bond had put on his bed just before Bond himself intercepts him from behind the open door instead of just shooting once, making sure the "body" wasn't moving, and being done with it. "You've had your six", indeed.
**** In fairness to Dent, if he hadn't emptied fired all his six Bond wouldn't have taken his eyes off him after ordering him to drop the weapon. Once he fell for the dummy Bond he was toast.
** Justified in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', where just for once the villain genuinely has an actual sensible reason for keeping the captured JamesBond alive and explaining the plot to him: Bond is trusted by the authorities and familiar with Blofeld's record, so his report will help convince the UN that the threat is serious.
** Similiarly averted by ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', who keeps Bond alive because if he dies, then the [[SecretIntelligenceService Secret Service]] will just send in [[HeroOfAnotherStory some guy called 008]]. Goldfinger instead tricks Bond's superiors into thinking that the situation is well in hand.
*** Also justified in the same film - Goldfinger originally was going to have Bond sliced in half by a laser. The inversion is that this was going to work; Bond had to talk his way out of it, and was literally seconds away from losing his manhood when Goldfinger agreed.
** The worst example is probably ''Film/GoldenEye'', when the villains have several opportunities (most notably in the Statue yard) to just shoot Bond and don't. Then Ouroumov has the chance to shoot Bond, ''announces that he is about to do it'', and then is promptly cold-cocked. What moves this into beyond-belief territory is that ''both'' have direct evidence of how dangerous he is when cornered.
*** In the Statue yard, they were trying to frame Bond and Natalya for the theft of the helicopter. If a post-explosion examination of the bodies revealed that they had been shot beforehand, it would have raised suspicion.
**** Wholly averted by the BigBad of the film. Given Janus's identity and motivations, it's not merely enough to kill Bond, and even if it would be he usually has more pragmatic reasons for keeping them alive. The aforementioned frame up is just the first such example.
** In ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd]] had Bond unconscious and they simply dumped him in an unfinished pipeline and left, [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere assuming he'd eventually die]].
*** Doubly stupid, as this was the ''second time'' the pair had been given an unconscious James Bond to dispose of; the first time they tried to burn him alive, and it didn't work then; Shady Tree and Morton Slumber get him out of the retort when Tree discovers that Peter Franks' remains had been stuffed with fake diamonds planted by Bond and the CIA before being transported to Slumber, Inc. to be burned, and Bond takes the opportunity to just waltz out of Slumber, Inc. when Tree tries to question him about the whereabouts of the real diamonds.
** In ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', Bond takes up Hai Fat's invitation to join him for dinner in his mansion while pretending to be Scaramanga, not knowing that the ''real'' Scaramanga had already gotten in touch with the guy. When he arrives there late at night, he's incapacitated by some guards in an ambush. As they're about to kill him, Hai Fat forbids them from doing so because he doesn't want Bond killed in his home. They'll just take him somewhere else to finish him off right? Nope. Hai Fat has Bond placed in a karate school to... get beaten up? Maybe?
*** Justifiably invoked by Scaramanga late in the film; he freely admits that he could have used his solar-powered laser to blow up Bond's plane before he even landed on the island, but chose not to do so because of how unsatisfying it would be. (Of course, Scaramanga previously [[{{Hypocrite}} got angry at Fat for the previous incident]] and killed him.)
** In ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', Red Grant's plan is ''literally'' to [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just shoot Bond]], and he actually manages to get the drop on his target and have him completely at his mercy, but he still fails because he can't resist indulging in some EvilGloating and a JustBetweenYouAndMe speech.
** The villain in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' initially toys with Bond instead of killing him because it was part of his plan to get to his real target, M. Later, however, his failure to take advantage of various opportunities to kill the heroes is best chalked up to PlotArmor and SanityHasAdvantages.
** It's either {{Lampshaded}} or a spectacularly bad example, albeit not involving Bond himself: in ''DieAnotherDay'', two henchmen have Jinx at their mercy, and one ''actually proposes shooting her''... but the other one wants to do it with lasers, and gets his way, allowing Bond time to arrive and rescue her.

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* ''[[Manga/DragonBall Dragon Ball Z]]'' has many examples of this:

** Dragonball in General inverts this trope almost as much as it plays it straight. The Heroes are just as prone to holding back in their fights or letting the villains go, just to result in them coming back stronger later. The worst offender is probably Gohan, who has a problem with holding back too much during his fights and giving the villains too many openings.