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** [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Florent L\'Belle]] bankrupts himself by borrowing money to create expensive products he\'s too vain to actually sell, then commits a ComplexityAddiction murder to ([[AllForNothing unsuccessfully]]) access a hidden treasure. Even the other characters lampshade this, and even the case\'s secondary IneffectualSympatheticVillain comes out better (for managing to enter said treasure\'s chamber via MundaneSolution instead).
It seems like a shoehorn. StupidEvil is not just a villain who is dumb, but a villain whose villainy is itself counterproductive. The way Florent bankrupted himself is colossally idiotic, but not evil, just vain. His way back was evil but not really dumb, at least not to the point of being self-harmfull, had he succeeded, he\'d be at least no worse than he as before. Therefore even though he\'s a biggest dumbass of the game\'s villains, he doesn\'t seem like an example of this specific trope.
It seems like a shoehorn. StupidEvil is not just a villain who is dumb, but a villain whose villainy is itself counterproductive. The way Florent bankrupted himself is colossally idiotic, but not evil, just vain. His way back was evil but not really dumb, at least not to the point of being self-harmfull, had he succeeded, he\'d be at least no worse than he as before. Therefore even though he\'s a biggest dumbass of the game\'s villains, he doesn\'t seem like an example of this specific trope.
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