History PlayingWith / NotSoHarmlessVillain

** Dracon has been fighting and losing against some of the strongest characters in the setting thus giving him a bad reputation. When faced with characters of normal power he destroys them.
* '''Implied''': The camera continuously lingers on Dragone and ominous music plays on the moments he's not being funny.

* '''Exaggerated''': Dracone goes [[FromNobodyToNightmare from harmless comic relief to world-destroying psychopath]] in the span of about five minutes.

** Dracone was already a [[{{Jerkass}} cruel]] [[TheBully bully]], but when his victims have finally had enough and stand up to him, he promptly pulls out a knife and stabs them to death.

* '''Downplayed''': Dracone is a fairly pacifistic minion of [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] and he's more likely to open the door for the heroes than he is to try and attack them. However, when the [[BerserkButton heroes try to kill his boss,]] he proves himself to be quite a CombatPragmatist and is able to seriously injure the heroes long enough for his boss to escape.

** He doesn't seem that dangerous, until he succeeds in taking over his country. Then he uses his newfound power to create several homes for children orphaned during his bloody rise to power. The heroes decide not to fight against the benevolent ruler, until the first inspection day at the orphanage, when he reveals that he EatsBabies. And once they have finished taking the babies away, Evulz arrives and pretty much whips Dragone into being his minion.

* '''Enforced''': "Ah crap, the FiveManBand has already beaten all the bad guys. Wait, what about that comic relief character? Let's make him into a badass!"

** Dracone is a NobleDemon whose plans are hardly extreme. (Sometimes they're [[PokeThePoodle downright laughable]].) But one day, he goes berserk and unleashes his full might... [[EvilVersusEvil against Emperor Evulz]] [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou for daring to hunt down and almost kill]] [[WorthyOpponent his nemesis Hiro]].

'''Basic Trope''': A villain reveals they're much more badass than previously thought.

* '''Exploited''': Emperor Evulz, realizing that Dracone has the potential to be more dangerous than he is, sends him out to perform a vital mission. The heroes underestimate Dracone and either send a B-list team (assuming he'll be a pushover) which gets wiped out, or they don't send anyone (assuming whatever he's doing isn't worth reacting to). Either way, Evulz gets what he was after.

** Dragone becomes the most over-dramatic, intense, most dangerous villain the world has ever seen... and then his favorite show comes on and has to cancel being evil, and decides to reschedule the world domination plan to next week, but he has terrible taste in TV shows and the heroes beat him up for that instead. And steal his ice cream.

* '''Zig Zagged''': He doesn't seem that dangerous, until he succeeds in taking over his country. Then he uses his newfound power to create several homes for children orphaned during his bloody rise to power. The heroes decide not to fight against the benevolent ruler, until the first inspection day at the orphanage, when he reveals that he EatsBabies. And once they have finished taking the babies away, Evulz arrives and pretty much whips Dragone into being his minion.

* '''Zig Zagged''': He doesn't seem that dangerous, until he succeeds in taking over his country. Then he uses his newfound power to create several homes for children orphaned during his bloody rise to power. The heroes decide not to fight against the benevolent ruler, until the first inspection day at the orphanage, when he reveals that he EatsBabies.

** The FailureHero develops into an [[InvincibleHero extremely effective one]].

* '''Exaggerated''': Dracone goes from harmless comic relief to world-destroying psychopath in the span of about five minutes.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''':
** Dracone goes from harmless comic relief to world-destroying psychopath in the span of about five minutes.

* '''Deconstructed''': The nations of the world were entirely unprepared for Dracone to rise to power - they just didn't see it coming. As a result, he's able to rule unchecked.
* '''Reconstructed''': ...But because of how unobstructed his ascension is, Dracone deems the nations harmless, and what goes around comes around.

Back to NotSoHarmlessVillain.
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* '''Invoked''': Dracone intentionally makes people underestimate him.

* '''Exaggerated''': Dracone goes from harmless comic relief to world-destroying psychopath in the span of about five minutes.
* '''Justified''': Dracone relied on ObfuscatingStupidity to get his work done.

* '''Inverted''': Dracone, thought to be the world's biggest threat, is suddenly demoted to comic relief overnight.

* '''Averted''': No one thinks of Dracone as harmless.