History WesternAnimation / LeagueOfSuperEvil

* StylisticSuck: The animation of the characters looks jarringly expressive and the textures of the background appear smooth. Musically corroborating.

* SelfDeprecation: The show comments on the traits it uses to set the theme of a particular moment, but doesn't use a tone of admiration around those moments. It's usually sarcastic or made to show the harm the self-proclaimed villain protagonists are incapable of causing.

* CardCarryingVillain: If they didn't keep telling you it would be hard to tell they are evil.

''League of Super Evil'' ([[FunWithAcronyms acronym L.O.S.E.]]) is a cartoon series on Creator/{{YTV}} in its native Canada and Creator/CartoonNetwork in USA about a QuirkyMinibossSquad made up of {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s. The team is led by the PointyHairedBoss Voltar, a CardCarryingVillain and all-around LargeHam. He constantly attempts to be evil, but is largely incompetent of anything more serious than PokeThePoodle. Forming Voltar's posse of mooks is the MadScientist ButtMonkey Doktor Frogg and the DumbMuscle [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Red Menace]]. Their TeamPet Doomageddon is a pandimensional [[strike: hell]] [[{{Bowdlerized}} doom]]hound and ExtremeOmnivore.

Every episode they pull some harebrained scheme in an attempt to be evil, [[PokeThePoodle but usually manage only to be annoying.]] So far their most ambitious schemes have been to annoy the neighborhood, steal $5 to open a bank account for a free toaster, host a neighborhood barbecue and not invite the neighbors, and sneak their way into a fancy restaurant. They have also sold Evil Lemonade and Evil Pinatas. They have also stolen an ice ray that can turn the planet into an ice cube, but only to use it as an air conditioner.

The show premiered in 2009 and finished its run in 2012, lasting three seasons.

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''The League of Super Evil'' ([[FunWithAcronyms acronym L.O.S.E.]]) is a cartoon series on Creator/{{YTV}} in its native Canada and Creator/CartoonNetwork in USA about a QuirkyMinibossSquad made up of {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s. The team is led by the PointyHairedBoss Voltar, a CardCarryingVillain and all-around LargeHam. He constantly attempts to be evil, but is largely incompetent of anything more serious than PokeThePoodle. Forming Voltar's posse of mooks is the MadScientist ButtMonkey Doktor Frogg and the DumbMuscle [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Red Menace]]. Their TeamPet Doomageddon is a pandimensional [[strike: hell]] [[{{Bowdlerized}} doom]]hound and ExtremeOmnivore.

* HarmlessVillain: All of L.O.S.E., and how. These guys make [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Doctor Horrible]] look like Doctor Doom.

* IdiotBall: Voltar.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: Do we ''really'' have to say it?

* KnightTemplar: Justice Gene, despite absolute incompetence.
* LargeHam: Voltar.

* MadScientist: Doktor Frogg.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The Cougar bears a strong resemblance to ''Eartha Kitt,'' one of the actresses who played Catwoman in ''Series/{{Batman}}.''

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the early episodes, Frogg takes just as much pride in [[PokeThePoodle "evil" schemes that are really just mildly irritating]] as the rest of the League, and shows none of the unhinged madness that would later become one of his defining traits.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A very old ClassyCatBurglar known as the Cougar who repeatedly hits on the League. Think about it, it'll come to you. [[spoiler: Clarification: A 'cougar' is a slang term for an older woman, usually middle-aged, who seduces young men.]]
** Red Menace actually refers to Doomageddon as a "Pan-dimensional Hellhound" in "Table for Four".
** Rose, the leader of the Force Fighters V, is named after a type of wine.
** In one episode, L.O.S.E. decide to go to the center of the earth to escape a bitterly chilly day. There they find a hotel for villains where [[{{Hellhound}} Doomageddon]] is a special guest. It's run by a red man with horns, a goatee, hooves, and a tail and fire is everywhere...[[AHellOfATime Wonder where they were...]]
** In "Trashpocalypse Now" the scene where Voltar and Frogg catch Red Menace cleaning in the bathroom is played out like [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown catching someone doing something else in the bathroom.]]
---> '''Red Menace:''' Don't look at me! Don't look at me!

* ArtImitatesArt: Frogg and Red imitate ''Series/AmericanGothic'' as part of a disguise, while Voltar and Doomy dress like farm animals.

* CluckingFunny: As part of a farm disguise (which also saw Frogg and Red dress like ''Series/AmericanGothic''), Voltar dresses like a chicken, and amazingly is able to lay an egg.

** Red Menace actually refers to Doomageddon as an "Pan-dimensional Hellhound" in "Table for Four".

** Red Menace actually refers to Doomageddon as an "Inter-dimensional Hellhound" in "Table for Four".

** They actually got away with saying Hellhound once. As of late, this has been heard in most broadcasts of the episode that aired... Without censoring, even during early hours when kids would be watching.

* CreepyCircusMusic: This type of music serves as the {{Leitmotif}} for the MonsterClown robot Chuckles.

'''''The League of Super Evil''''' ([[FunWithAcronyms acronym L.O.S.E.]]) is a cartoon series on Creator/{{YTV}} in its native Canada and Creator/CartoonNetwork in USA about a QuirkyMinibossSquad made up of {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s. The team is led by the PointyHairedBoss Voltar, a CardCarryingVillain and all-around LargeHam. He constantly attempts to be evil, but is largely incompetent of anything more serious than PokeThePoodle. Forming Voltar's posse of mooks is the MadScientist ButtMonkey Doktor Frogg and the DumbMuscle [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Red Menace]]. Their TeamPet Doomageddon is a pandimensional [[strike: hell]] [[{{Bowdlerized}} doom]]hound and ExtremeOmnivore.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: "Justice Gene". [[spoiler: Gene is defeated by his own organization's stringent rules. Specifically, he wears the wrong type of socks.]]

** You could also count one episode where at the end, Voltar and Justine Gene are trapped in cement and are freed thousands of years in the future to find out that Red Menace had since conquered the world (A giant statue of him riding a unicorn) Though this was only for a one-shot gag, not an actual plot point.

** In one episode, two of the Hero Antagonists perform one of these, [LampshadeHanging and afterwards basically saying: "No wonder bad guys love doing that"]]