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"Yes, Ali's destined to be another flunky
A sad fate not even saved by the goatee
His rivalries are all gone
He's just an Innovade pawn
And all his screentime is brief little clips
And he's just Evil Amuro's bitch
And his fights are shortened, his character thwarted
Killed by Lyle Dylandy
Farewell,
ex-Prince Aaaaa-LIIIIIII!!!!!"
Gundam 00 song parody, to the tune of "Prince Ali (reprise)" from Disney's Aladdin

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    Literature 
Skulduggery: ...So we'll be fine.
Stephanie: You sure about that? Vampires are fast.
Skulduggery: Vampires are overrated.
Stephanie: You once called them the most efficient killing machines on the planet.
Skulduggery: Ah, they're not so tough.

    Live-Action TV 
"You're not the 'Big Bad' anymore. You're not even the 'Kind Of Naughty'."
Xander to Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Magazines 
Messy: You may have beaten us this time! And you may have beaten us last time!
Lame: And you'll beat us next time! And the time after that! And the five times... um, what was our point again?!

    Video Games 
"The times turn Jack the Lad into a pitiful figure. The local horror story - the one children have long been taught to fear - must now accept that he is not the only terror in town, and certainly not the greatest."
The Dragon, commenting on an in-universe example of this trope, The Secret World.

"Imbeciles! Fools! Nincompoops! Can't you idiots do anything right?! According to this, your track-record for spreading evil is pathetic!"

    Webcomics 
"Wotch! You've foiled my plans for the last time! You've turned my own minions against me, but who needs them! Plan #340 will spell my triumph!"

"See, I've fought you guys enough, you're basically not level bosses anymore. It's like a videogame!"
Dr. McNinja, after flawlessly beating one of his oldest foes

    Web Original 
"I see a Nine Inch Nails video. I see an NBC Mystery Movie of the Week. I see a video game politicians decry in order to win voters. I see Dante being ripped off for the umpteenth time in the course of history. But most of all... I see that you haven't achieved anything the humans haven't already thought of before. You and the other Dark Generals have been at this for so long that it stopped being original centuries ago."
Dark General Cobalt, Sailor Nothing

Arcade's as much a victim of [Villain Decay] as anyone else. When he's introduced, it's as an assassin who commands a million dollars per kill, and that's in 1978 dollars. So when he consistently fails to do so, even with assurances that Murderworld is killing enough people off-panel to keep him financially solvent, he does lose a little something. The story that we're told doesn't match up with the story we're actually reading. It's one of the reasons that, as much as I love the character, I'm actually perfectly fine when he doesn't show up all that often. If a villain is a constant presence, then he's usually a constant loser. They need to recharge to keep that illusion of being a threat.

Maleficent: I am back, baby!
Pete: So Maleficent, what are we gonna do this game?
Maleficent: Absolutely nothing!

    Western Animation 
"You got kicked out of here for being a headstrong rebel, and now you're such a whiny little bitch."
God to Satan, South Park, "Probably"

Henchman: Hey! There's a review ... of you!
Devil: Whazzat? Ooh gimme! "Once in a rare while, a figure commands our respect, summons our fear, and effortlessly tempts us into unhinged depravity." Did you hear that, Henchman? Unhinged depravity! "For a millennia, it was clear without debate who that figure was. After a recent string of... humiliating setbacks however, it has become blatantly apparent that The Devil is... LOSING HIS TOUCH!? A silly caricature of his once powerful self... Time to pass the walking stick onto the next contender...!?" IT'S A PITCHFORK!
The Cuphead Show!, "The Devil's Pitchfork"

    Real Life 
"... Michael Myers was an absence of character. And yet all the sequels are trying to explain that. That’s silliness — it just misses the whole point of the first movie, to me. He’s part person, part supernatural force. The sequels rooted around in motivation. I thought that was a mistake."

"Everything has an end. I felt that K wasn’t getting a fair shake anyway. It’s not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it. I wanted more indepth ideas about the character and it never came. It kind of stopped being fun to play."
Nicholas Lea on Alex Krycek's death


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