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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey

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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey	comment	In a great deal of media aimed at children or families, there will be more than one villain working together against the hero, and one or more of these villains will be in charge over the other(s). However, the lower-ranked of these villains is meant to be taken far less seriously than the higher-ranked, whether due to being more cowardly, more comical, less powerful, less competent, or even simply less motivated than their dark superior. This can have a lot of benefits to the writers, such as averting Villain Decay: no matter how many times the heroes triumph over the lesser villain(s), the fact that a more serious villain (or group of more serious villains) is still part of the same organization means there's still a credible threat that the heroes still need to deal with. Also, for works aimed at especially young children, this also allows the writers to have a genuinely scary Big Bad who pushes boundaries, but also make the lesser villain goofy and funny, thus keeping a work lighter and softer and generally less frightening for the kiddies. A common, but by no means the only, way to show that the higher-ranked villain is serious is to display the lower-ranked villains afraid of him/her, or show that the higher-ranked villain is a Bad Boss who will Shoot the Messenger when brought bad news, or who punishes his minions for failure or for otherwise ceasing to be useful. It's not really necessary for the higher-ranked villain to be cruel to his or her underlings for the trope to apply, though; it's only really needed for the higher-ranked villain to be played noticeably more seriously than his or her underling(s). The laughable lackey can be an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, but it's not necessary for the lackey to be sympathetic at all for this trope to apply, nor is it necessary for the laughable lackey to be ineffectual or a Harmless Villain: they can even win at times, as long as they're noticeably less serious than their superiors. It's not even necessary for the higher-ranked villain(s) to be out-and-out devoid of comedy for the trope to apply, either; a noticeable difference is all that's really needed. A Bumbling Henchmen Duo, a Quirky Miniboss Squad, or a Goldfish Poop Gang can also fill in the loser villain slot as well as a single villain can. It's also common for the laughable lackey to have an unpleasant, demeaning, or dumb-sounding name. The Laughable Lackey can also be The Igor, The Renfield, The Imp, a Minion with an F in Evil, a Sycophantic Servant, and/or a Punch-Clock Villain who only Pokes the Poodle, or possibly The Dragon, depending on his/her/their specific role in the evil organization—and in cases where The Dragon is comical due to ineptitude, this overlaps with Number Two for Brains. The Laughable Lackey is often the Butt-Monkey or The Chew Toy, as well, and can also be a Bumbling Sidekick to the serious villain, though there are more ways of being laughable than just clumsiness. They often form a Red Oni, Blue Oni duo. If the villain is also Laughably Evil, he will usually be the red to the lackey's blue. If the villain is played completely seriously, he will usually be the blue to the lackey's red. Compare Abusive Parents, Big Bad Wannabe, Brains and Brawn, Evil Duo, Eviler than Thou, A Lighter Shade of Black, The Man Behind the Man, My Master, Right or Wrong, Sliding Scale of Villain Effectiveness, Sorting Algorithm of Evil, Surrounded by Idiots, The Starscream, What Measure Is a Mook? A Terrible Trio can have this dynamic if one of them is in charge and meant to be taken more seriously than the other two, though the three of them together can act as the laughable lackey if they have a more serious boss, or they can even together act as the serious villain if they're not Played for Laughs and have one or more underlings who are. Sometimes overlaps with Vile Villain, Saccharine Show and Perky Female Minion. Contrast Hypercompetent Sidekick and More Despicable Minion, where it's the Big Bad that's humorous and/or sympathetic and the main minion that's fearsome. Can be a Sub-Trope of Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain if the lackeys are inherently more sympathetic (not just funnier) than their boss.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_100d4e39	comment	Aladdin: The Series: In the show, Xerxes, the flying eel, is this to Sorcerous Overlord Mozenrath, usually providing more slapstick humor while his master is the serious Knight of Cerebus antagonist.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_14549471	comment	Avenger Penguins: Harry Slime is a dense Minion with an F in Evil who routinely suffers abuse from his Card-Carrying Villain boss, Caractacus P. Doom.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_14cb9f30	comment	In A Bug's Life, Hopper is a cruel, sadistic, and dead-serious grasshopper, but his brother Molt is a bumbling and amicable Minion with an F in Evil. This trope is actually the reason he was written as Hopper's brother: during the movie's development it became apparent that a murderous psycho like Hopper wouldn't put up with Molt's buffoonery without a good reason, so it was explained that the only reason Hopper didn't kill him was because their dying mother made him promise not to. Molt pulls a Heelâ€“Face Turn at the end of the film after Hopper is lured into a trap and eaten by bird chicks. Thumper, Hopper's other henchman, on the other hand, averts this trope, being even more evil than Hopper is.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_1929cbce	comment	The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Downplayed with Bowser and Kamek: Bowser is huge, strong, ambitious, ruthless, unhinged, and has both dangerous fire breath and a willingness to use it even on minions who so much as annoy him. His dragon Kamek has powerful magic that includes flight, teleportation, and telekinesis, and probably includes object transformation if the games are any indication. Both have plenty of comical moments, but Bowser is clearly the one in charge and more dangerous than Kamek, as the scene were they play piano and Kamek's fingers are slammed under the key cover (and kept there at Bowser's command!!) clearly demonstrates.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_19d740d8	comment	The Great Mouse Detective: The film has the hammy but savvy and menacing villain in Ratigan, but his disabled bat lackey Fidget is just an enforcer with little initiative (while far from incapable of real villainy) and isn't nearly as threatening by comparison, but it is worth noting that Fidget manages to accomplish everything that Ratigan asks him to do.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_1ad92ed2	comment	Overlord DVD: Harvey Cthulhu and the Skull of CalderÃ³n were probably meant to invoke this trope's feel; they're both imprisoned and can't do more than join Overlord DVD in snarking at corporations' greed and idiocy, but technically they're his defeated enemies, not his minions: only Omnivac can really be called his minion, and given his motivations, even he counts as a defeated and imprisoned enemy. That said, Doomcock only tends to fire up Omnivac when it's time to crunch numbers, and Omnivac thinks this is so far beneath him that most of Omnivac's dialog consists of hilarious tirades that eventually end with him acquiescing and discussing the numbers.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_1bd85a46	comment	Superwomen in Love! has villains that, for the most part, are utterly harmless. One is a yuri fetishist willing to interrupt her own allies when she sees it, one is an otaku, and one is functionally the otaku's caretaker. Only two villains are legitimately threatening: the co-protagonist who defected for love in the first chapter, and X, the leader of the organization. Unlike the others, X is cunning and ruthless, constantly having the upper hand, willing to get her hands dirty, and very willing to play the long game. Even when she loses, she appears to take it completely in stride and is more amused by it than upset. Even when she just shows up to take the main character on a dinner date to learn more about her and has no ulterior motives, she's significantly more threatening than the other three villains while fighting.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_1d1cc72d	comment	Inverted in PokÃ©mon the Series: Sun & Moon where Jessie captures a Mimikyu who is always portrayed as a fairly competent opponent to Pikachu. Instead of capturing Pikachu, Mimikyu wants to kill him, making it a case of the vile lackey to the Team Rocket Trioâ€™s Laughable villains.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_1d7c3138	comment	Rose Petal Place: Horace is the laughable lackey to Nastina's vile villain. While not incompetent, his voice and mannerisms make him much less of a threat than she is.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_1e7ca85f	comment	Hercules: Pain and Panic are comical, slow-witted twerps and very afraid of their boss, the death god Hades. Downplayed in that, while much more competent, Hades isn't any less comical.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_1ee8851d	comment	Zed from the first Wild ARMs game is more or less a Large Ham Harmless Villain who fits squarely into the role of comic relief, in contrast to all the other demons. It's most notable with Zeikfried, who is far more serious, focused and ruthless.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_1f418bf4	comment	TaleSpin: Ivanod Spigot and Dunder, the two bumbling Thembrian air force men, are very comedic. Spigot is much more cruel than Dunder, but they both contrast with the much more threatening High Marshal.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_1fb03afb	comment	Freddi Fish: The main antagonists in the first couple of games are two sharks named Spongehead and Boss. Their names tell you a lot about the dynamic between them, but interestingly, they both answer a larger and even more sinister-looking villain called Squidfather, who ticks the Bad Boss checkbox on top of being Large and in Charge!
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Zigzag this with the Yiga Clan. It's Inverted in the relationship between their leader, Master Kohga, and the rest of the clan; while the generic Yiga Footsoldiers and Blademasters are portrayed as a genuinely dangerous threat (albeit with a few comedic quirks), Kohga is a portly, lazy, incompetent goofball who's played mostly for laughs. However it's Played Straight as the clan as a whole is working in service to the main antagonists of each game (an Animalistic Abomination Made of Evil and the Demon King Ganondorf, respectively), both of whom are absolute monsters who don't get even a single moment of levity (and for added insult, don't even know that the Yiga Clan exists in the first place).
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_22d74b2e	comment	Redwall loves this trope. Even the more competent and threatening of the Mooks aren't above getting involved in physical comedy; see Fangburn and Sela telling Blatant Lies about Redtooth's mysterious death, or Ripfang and Doomeye struggling to break into the hares' cell, in particular.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_22dfb2a	comment	All Dogs Go to Heaven: Carface is the main villain and he operates a crooked canine casino. When Carface discovers that his former partner has escaped the dog pound and survived an assassination attempt, Carface almost disposes of his henchman, Killer (even though Killer was not responsible for the attempts). A myopic, neurotic, weakling of a dog, Killer gets one last chance to avoid the Shark Pool: by killing Charlie Barkin with a Flash Gordon thermo-atomic ray gun. Carface himself becomes the laughable lackey to other villains in the sequel media, like Red in All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 and Belladonna in the animated series. Neither character is devoid of comedy, but they are unambiguously wicked and threatening in comparison to the incompetent buffoon Carface has become.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_23a2ae37	comment	Heart of Darkness: The Master is a terrifying figure, but his most direct underling is a pink trunk-nosed servant, who looks and sounds comical, cowers in fear before the Big Bad or the hero, and ends up helping Andy defeat his boss.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_260d57b3	comment	The title heroine of Excel♡Saga is her boss Il Palazzo's biggest obstacle on the path to Take Over the World, by the "virtue" of being a worthless (if fiercely devoted and energetic) underling. When Il Palazzo finally drops his Orcus on His Throne act towards the end of the series and fires Excel, he immediately proves himself a scarily efficient villain on his own (with a little help from Hyatt, who also proves a much more competent minion as soon as Excel is out of the picture).
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_261159e9	comment	Averted in Oliver & Company. Sikes' dogs Roscoe and DeSoto are every bit as competent and menacing as he himself is, providing very little in the way of comedy outside bleak sarcasm.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns is a horrible person who is willing to harm anyone and everyone for his own personal gain. His right-hand man, Waylon Smithers, on the other hand, is a genuinely nice guy (obedience to Mr. Burns and his creepy crush on him notwithstanding) who tries his best to help others, and is only evil due to his Undying Loyalty to Burns.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_28486597	comment	Aladdin: The Return of Jafar: Jafar is still serious and ruthlessly cunning, while his new associate, Abis Mal, is an idiotic, childish Big Bad Wannabe.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_28508de	comment	Winx Club: In Season 1, the Trix act as the Serious Villain, with their ogre Knut a more comical villain who eventually underwent a Heelâ€“Face Turn. In Season 2, the Trix were Demoted to Dragon and the status stuck, but they weren't laughable until Season 3 when they repeatedly lost battles immediately upon engaging the Winx and began some minor infighting. In Season 7, Brafilius is a comical, bumbling villain who acts as a lackey for his more serious sister Kalshara. He eventually ends up having this dynamic with the Trix, who are once again serious.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_2850dbb9	comment	Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation has the threatening Dragon Lord and his puny minion Wick.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_28b2079a	comment	Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando zig-zags this quite a lot, originally the antagonists were the Unknown Thief that stole a biological experiment from MegaCorp and the Thugs-4-Less leader, one an manipulative but clumsy obstacle who managed to kidnap Clank, and the latter an Affably Evil warmonger who runs a formidable mercenary business. Both are menacing but also have comical means. This changes halfway through, when after Ratchet defeats the Thief and gives it back to MegaCorp's CEO Mr. Fizzwidget, the Thief, a female Lombax named Angela Cross, reveals that MegaCorp was going to sell the biological experiment (now called the Protopet) as a marketable household companion, despite how dangerous and aggressive the experiment is. She was actually a hero in disguise trying to prevent a galaxy-wide cataclysm. It is also this time that MegaCorp later hires the Thugs-4-Less company to be their dragon and betray Ratchet and Clank. Even more surprising is that Mr. Fizzwidget was really Captain Quark from the first game in disguise, using Engineered Heroics to create the Protopet Crisis so he could stop it and become famous. And he actually would've won... if the batteries to the Helix-o-morph weren't backwards, causing him to be devoured alive by a mutated and massive Protopet.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_28d1c451	comment	The Copycats are the typical cartoonish slapstick villain (like the Coyote) in Kidd Video and serve this role for the much menacing Master Blaster.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_28e625af	comment	Dragamonz: Wormskull is a comical young Grimwrath who is the servant to Grimserver, the evil leader of the Grimwraths. He is often on the receiving end of Grimserver's abuse, which soon results in him pulling a Heelâ€“Face Turn during the final battle.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_29efc2f3	comment	Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty is considered one of the most (if not the most) dangerous villains in all of Disney Animated Canon. Her Goons however don't even understand that babies grow up — even after sixteen years they are looking for a baby. However her other lackey Diablo the raven averts this trope; he has very few comedic moments and proves to be her most capable minion as he finds Aurora very quickly once he's sent to find her, coordinates the Goons into a legitimate threat to Phillip's escape, and wakes Maleficent up, leading to the Final Battle.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_2d311a08	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) has Shredder and his henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady. Shredder is usually portrayed as competent, though he can provide comic relief, while his henchmen, a menacing anthropomorphic boar and rhino, are actually clumsy and cowardly.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_30d735ec	comment	Sky High (2005): Royal Pain is a supervillain whose sympathetic backstory produced a lifetime of bitterness and a desire for vengeance, and who turns genuinely nasty during a climax that comes as close to evoking a school shooting as you can get in a PG-rated Disney family comedy. Royal Pain's henchman Stitches, meanwhile, is Practically Joker minus any of the competence, existing mainly as the butt of jokes, his master's chew toy, and a cover story for Royal Pain's Secret Identity as Gwen Grayson, posing as her father.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_34d050c6	comment	Darkwing Duck: Taurus Bulba is a pretty intimidating and uncomical villain, whilst his trio of henchmen, Hammerhead, Hoof, and Mouth, are depicted as pretty goofy.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_3651bc0c	comment	In The Princess and the Frog, Dr. Facilier, the wicked and manipulative Witch Doctor, is assisted by the portly, bumbling, cowardly Lawrence (who was initially Prince Naveen's valet but did a Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal).
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_388eab30	comment	H.R. Pufnstuf: Witchiepoo had her comical moments to be sure, but she was conniving, greedy, and did wield powerful and dangerous magic. But she also had a minion named, we kid you not, "Stupid Bat". Downplayed with her other two minions, who were generally more competent, though this didnâ€™t stop her from hitting them whenever things didnâ€™t go her way.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_3a322a82	comment	Max, from Yellow Submarine, is usually at the end of a bitch slap from his boss, the Chief Blue Meanie, especially when Max says "yes" instead of "no".
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_3ac755dd	comment	Beauty and the Beast: Lefou and Gaston show this dynamic toward the end of the film when Gaston ceases to be Played for Laughs and becomes dead-set on murdering the Beast while Lefou remains a worshipful Butt-Monkey, who as usual follows along.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_3b05a9de	comment	Power Rangers Time Force has Nadira, the daughter of Ransik. While a legitimate threat, Nadira is nonetheless a Bratty Teenage Daughter whose villainy mostly involves petty crimes like stealing clothing and jewelry. This is in sharp contrast to Ransik's supervillainy, whose only comedic moments involve doting on Nadira.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_3b73f906	comment	The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: Episodes with villains were few and far between, but one had a giant monster made of goo named "Crud", who had a hyper, overenthusiastic, comical lackey named Smudge. Similarly Stan and Heff, a Heffalump and Woozle duo appeared in a couple of episodes. While both of them were bungling crooks, Stan was far more of a devious Card-Carrying Villain than Heff, an agreeable Dumb Muscle Heffalump with several phobias.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_3b7e691d	comment	Aladdin and the King of Thieves: Sa'Luk is a strong, genuinely threatening villain while the remaining seven thieves who follow him are comical bandits.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_3bf4b641	comment	Ready Player One (2018): I-R0k qualifies, and is a downplayed example in that, despite being a Hypercompetent Sidekick for all things in-game in the OASIS, I-R0k's neck issues and occasional immaturity are Played for Laughs, but his ruthless Corrupt Corporate Executive boss Sorrento is never funny.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_3f20192e	comment	Moonraker: Although widely viewed as the campiest film of the James Bond franchise, its Big Bad Hugo Drax is possibly the most chilling villain in Bond's rogues gallery. As a cold, snobbish, understated executive, Drax wishes to exterminate the human race, except for those he considers "superior beings". He hires Jaws, The Dragon from the previous film to be his own. However, this time, Jaws is much less menacing, almost going into Wile E. Coyote levels of ineptitude, and even performs a Heelâ€“Face Turn towards the end.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	In the New Jedi Order, Supreme Overlord Shimrra is the monstrous and tyrannical God-Emperor of the Yuuzhan Vong, and his sidekick and constant companion is Onimi, a capering, absurd jester who speaks in Rhymes on a Dime. However, it gradually becomes apparent that Onimi is much smarter than he looks and this is ultimately subverted when it turns out he was secretly controlling Shimrra all along, meaning that all of Shimrra's vile acts were really on Onimi.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_40b310c3	comment	Faz to his stepfather Blaine in Dumbing of Age: while Blaine is truly evil, works for the mob, and has resorted to kidnapping, blackmail, and murder to achieve his goals (namely getting his daughter to drop out so he didn't have to pay her tuition) Faz is more the goofy Smug Snake with No Social Skills who tries to get laid. This gets deconstructed later: It's been implied Blaine is just as much an Abusive Parent to Faz as he had been to Amber, Faz is more or less forced into helping Blaine out, and Faz knows Blaine is evil but is also the sole breadwinner in the household, so will help him to try to keep him out of jail. Blaine, for his part, is willing to risk Faz's own safety to ensure he gets away.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_42804a6	comment	My Little Pony: Make Your Mark: Both Opaline and her lackey Misty have comical moments, given Opaline's tendencies to start Chewing the Scenery and Misty's Bumbling Sidekick moments. But considering Opaline is an out-and-out alicorn implied to have lived long enough to have met Twilight, and Misty's a unicorn without so much as a cutie mark, it's no surprise Opaline is a far more serious threat!
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_43916a48	comment	Carface himself becomes the laughable lackey to other villains in the sequel media, like Red in All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 and Belladonna in the animated series. Neither character is devoid of comedy, but they are unambiguously wicked and threatening in comparison to the incompetent buffoon Carface has become.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Squat and Baboo are bumbling villains compared to Rita, Zedd, and Goldar. Power Rangers Time Force has Nadira, the daughter of Ransik. While a legitimate threat, Nadira is nonetheless a Bratty Teenage Daughter whose villainy mostly involves petty crimes like stealing clothing and jewelry. This is in sharp contrast to Ransik's supervillainy, whose only comedic moments involve doting on Nadira. Power Rangers Operation Overdrive: Flurious is one of the most dangerous villains of the show, and his bumbling sidekick Norg who is a Minion with an F in Evil.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV: Fandaniel is The Gadfly and a playfully flamboyant hooded underling of Zenos yae Galvus, a Bad Boss and an imposing and violent schemer who's not afraid to hurl weapons at Fandaniel when he annoys him.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: a few boss encounters have this dynamic: The dialog after the Krick is defeated in Pit of Saron shows Krick as a coward, ready to give out information on his dead-serious Lich King superior. Koramar, the captain of the ship at the Iron Docks, is confident in his army, even as the players slaughter them while working their way through the instance. His first mate Zoggosh is much savvier than his captain and is thus afraid of the players. As justified as his fears are, Zoggosh's cowardice is Played for Laughs, giving the two of them this dynamic.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_4a561051	comment	Care Bears (1980s): Professor Coldheart is a scheming Card-Carrying Villain but has a goofy and idiotic sidekick named Frostbite whose very character design is comical. Beastly and Shreeky function as Laughable Lackeys who bicker with each other and consistently lose to the Care Bears, but Shreeky's uncle Lord No Heart remains a credible threat.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_4a6f5c97	comment	Rocket Knight Adventures: The original game has the Terrible Trio of Emperor Devligus Devotindos, Axel Gear, and Captain Fleagle. This game provides a rare example of two vile villains and one laughable lackey. Emperor Devligus is the leader of the Devotindos Empire, and his motive is to reactivate the Pig Star so that he can use it to destroy Planet Elhorn. Axel Gear is Sparkster's arch-rival and Evil Counterpart, and a Rocket Knight gone rogue. He serves as The Dragon to Devligus, and his motives include destroying Sparkster, helping Devligus achieve his goal of reactivating the Pig Star, and eventually taking over the Devotindos Empire once Devligus is out of the picture. Captain Fleagle is a clumsy oaf who suffers a series of Amusing Injuries in his attempts to defeat Sparkster, and is comically represented by a tinny rendition of "Shave and a Haircut (Two Bits)" whenever he loses.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_4be3aedd	comment	Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Squat and Baboo are bumbling villains compared to Rita, Zedd, and Goldar.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_4c300a8c	comment	Lilo & Stitch: The Series: Experiment 625, AKA Reuben, works for the series' main villain Gantu. While Reuben has all of Stitch's abilities, he has zero motivation and isn't serious at all. Played around with since Reuben's laziness often led to Gantu being the sole Butt-Monkey of all their failed schemes, with a lot of the former's snark stemming from it while in turn making Gantu the Laughable Lackey to the show's Greater-Scope Villain, Dr. Hamsterviel.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_4c41602c	comment	Kingdom Adventure: It seems like each villain who is under the last villain is one of these in comparison to his superior: Magistrate Pitts has two dimwitted Dumb Muscle guards, and compared to them, Pitts is greedy, intentional, and cruel. Pitts himself answers to a demonic warlock named Zordock, and compared to him, Pitts is cowardly, weak, stupid, and clumsy. Dagger's squeaky voice, clumsiness, cowardice, and the fact that he never shuts up (even when he really should) make him laughable next to Zordock, as well.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_4c7b2c34	comment	A common sight with One Piece Arc Villains, especially early on; after an arc's main villain has been sent packing, it's not uncommon for the Laughable Lackey to get A Day in the Limelight in the form of a cover arc, and possibly even redeem themselves somewhat (prominent examples being Jango, Hatchan, and Gedatsu). However, note that even the goofiest of them tend to go into Beware the Silly Ones mode when fighting directly.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_4da11f30	comment	Return of the Jedi: Salacious Crumb is a tiny bird/monkey creature that laughs at Jabba's victims. He's no threat, himself, and gets a Butt-Monkey moment when R2D2 electrocutes him, but Jabba is a powerful and wealthy Hutt gangster who keeps Crumb around for no other reason than because he finds him amusing.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_4e621604	comment	Flying Rhino Junior High: Earl P. Sidebottom is an Evil Genius with a Reality Warper machine at his disposal, capable of putting the students in life-threatening situations. Though he fails pretty much Once an Episode, he's still far more of a threat than his Minion with an F in Evil, Ratticus.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_4efed37e	comment	Robin Hood (1973) has Prince John and Sir Hiss, presented in a case similar to Peter Pan. Prince John is a Laughably Evil type and also a Large Ham, while Sir Hiss is a more quiet and nervous type, but is definitely much less threatening than Prince John can be. The Faux Affably Evil but ruthlessly money-raking Sheriff of Nottingham has this dynamic with the vulture guards Nutsy and Trigger as well, for that matter.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_4fc8fae	comment	The Magician: Downplayed with Spade and Diamond. They're armed, dangerous, and generally competent, but their back-and-forth with each other is occasionally Played for Laughs, whereas their scheming mobster boss Black Jack is never funny.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_504f427f	comment	Sonic Underground: Dingo was childish Dumb Muscle, and far less intelligent than his clever, backstabbing partner mercenary Sleet. Both of them played comic relief lackeys to Robotnik however, who retains the same Evil Overlord role as in Satam.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_529ee66	comment	Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Scratch and Grounder have this dynamic with Dr. Robotnik. The pair are cartoonishly gormless goons, that even little children were meant to laugh at, unlike Robotnik who, while comedically conceited and blundering, can be a very dangerous and worthy foe for a superhero like Sonic.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Hel and Thrym in the sixth arc. Hel is the serious villain working towards her goal of ending the world so all of the souls of the dwarves are condemned to her realm while her underling Thrym is a goofy Dogged Nice Guy who isn't taken seriously by Hel or Thor.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_58990424	comment	Ratchet & Clank (2002) has Chairman Drek and Captain Qwark; while the former is a Corrupt Corporate Executive ruling over a species of Planet Looters and destorying multiple occupied worlds to make a new home for his people and get rich off the real-estate sales with very little comical presence, Qwark is a past-his-prime superhero who was offered an endorsement deal by Drek that Qwark hoped to use to fiance his big comeback, not really thinking of how the people would respond to him siding with a planet-destroying maniac.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_5c600b17	comment	Digimon Adventure: Demidevimon fills this role for Myotismon. While he keeps the Chosen Children/Digidestined separated while Tai is away, as soon as he comes back, Demidevimon begins comically failing and getting punished by Myotismon for his failings. The two Hagurumon working for Machinedramon fit this bill too; Machinedramon has incredible firepower and is willing to devastate his own city to get to the heroes. His gear-like minions cower before that plan, even though they aren't even the targets!
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_5e3832b5	comment	Cave Story: Balrog is an anthropomorphic soap bar and a one-man Goldfish Poop Gang who's pretty friendly to the heroes. He's partnered with Misery, a sorceress with a no-nonsense personality who forces Balrog to do all the grunt work; however, both of them are subservient to the wearer of the Demon Crown. That person is Dr. Fuyuhiko Date, a Mad Scientist out to Take Over the World by turning the cute Mimigas into his personal zombie army.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_5f6c09eb	comment	The Dragon and the Butterfly: Whiteout: Drago and Dagur seem to have this type of dynamic, Drago being the glower brute that sucks all whimsy from a room while Dagur tries acting all chummy and start small-talk around him (as fruitless as that would be).
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_603be5ed	comment	Mon Colle Knights has Ruthe, a smart-alecky, whiny-voiced imp, to the fallen angel Zaha, and later to his superior Reda.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_607f6b7	comment	With minions like Dr. Claw's who consistently lose to the hapless Inspector Gadget (or his niece), who needs enemies?
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_610a28dd	comment	Peter Pan: Captain Hook and Smee have this dynamic. Downplayed since Hook (at least in the Disney movie) is laughable and ridiculous as well, but can be menacing unlike his Bumbling Sidekick Smee.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_6366b41e	comment	Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: The main villain Forte is a downright scary and creepy Manipulative Bastard, while his lackey Fife is a silly Minion with an F in Evil who ultimately undergoes a Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House: Emperor Belos serves as the series' very stern and serious Knight of Cerebus main antagonist who lacks any quirks or visible redeeming qualities and whose ultimate goal is the complete annihilation of life in the demon realm with only a scant few of its inhabitants aware of his monstrous plan. Meanwhile, the rank-and-file coven scouts and coven guards often have comical personal behaviors and their own personalities, with even the coven heads possessing some of their own quirks and behaviors, with even the most bloodthirsty one, Terra Snapdragon having her own funny Black Comedy type moments, something not even Belos has.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_6b6e06e3	comment	Smee, as in all other representations, to Captain Hook in Peter Pan & the Pirates.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_6c8b9d4f	comment	Adventures of the Gummi Bears: Toady is a Sycophantic Servant and regularly suffers abuse from Duke Igthorn, who despite being a laughable villain himself, is nevertheless ambitious and Would Hurt a Child.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_6dbe6646	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Snively was comical compared to his ruthless and evil uncle, Dr. Robotnik, who was treated as the clearer threat as a ruthless Evil Overlord in this take. However, Snively was known for insulting Robotnik behind his back and did have plans to overthrow him.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	Jackie Chan Adventures: Throughout the five seasons, the Dark Hand Enforcers serve as easily beatable comic relief henchmen for the Arc Villains.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_7169b4ba	comment	Batman: The Dark Prince Charming has Archie, a neurotic clown (who's repeatedly tried to commit suicide and failed every time) working for the Joker. And was actually hired because the Joker thought Archie's story was funny.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_721ebbf	comment	The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: The film's version of Ginnabrik, Jadis's dwarf lackey, is a downplayed example of this. He's a lot more petty and taunting than Jadis is and has a few Butt-Monkey moments, though he Would Hurt a Child and is still as cruel as his book counterpart.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_77e22425	comment	Pinky and the Brain: While neither one is very threatening physically (what with being lab mice and all), the Brain, with his serious demeanor and great intellect, is far more of a threat than the spastic, dimwitted Pinky, who isn't even aware that he's a villain.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_77ff1111	comment	Cinderella: Lady Tremaine is never Played for Laughs, but her awkward daughters and buffoonish cat are. In a rarity for Disney, it's actually the buffoonish cat that gets the (apparent) Disney Villain Death rather than Tremaine (he does appear in the sequels so, he survived).
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_7b82aa31	comment	101 Dalmatians: Cruella de Vil is a crazy and scary-looking Rich Bitch who wants to skin Dalmatian dogs for her new coat. Horace and Jasper are her two bumbling henchmen.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_7cea4fb2	comment	Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Played With by King Ghidorah's Multiple Head Case. Ghidorah overall is extremely malevolent and dangerous, but the head named San/Kevin (the left-side head) is generally a goofball and a dunce, and for it, he gets bitten and pushed around by the central head Ichi (who acts more serious and much more sadistic).
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_7fcbd3e	comment	On Mystara, King Thar is a ruthless Orc Warlord whose dreams of leading The Horde to Rape, Pillage, and Burn every human, Elven Dwarven or Halfling nation in his sight. He combines strength, cunning, charisma and force of will that allowed him to unify monstrous races of the Broken Lands, be them Orcs, Ogres, Goblinoids, Trolls, Gnolls or Kobolds. He is also a rapist, who once assaulted a noblewoman from one of Principalities of Glantri, prompting its Prince, who happenned to be a Nosferatu to personally try to kill him by draining all blood of his body. Unfortunatelly, Thar has survived and became a Nosferatu himself. The main reason why Thar hasn't yet burned down the whole world is that...his forces are composed of absolute buffoons, each of his generals is just the least buffoonish of their people (and the most competent one defected to Glantri at first opportunitty), and even the tribes descending from past great warlords are now only interested in comitting cultural appriopriation of people their ancestors raided and conquered. To his frustration, Thar not only doesn't have army competent enough to conquer anything, he doesn't have army good enough to not get bullied into service by other villains of the setting.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_805343cd	comment	Despicable Me: The cute and hilarious minions are this for the Villain Protagonist, Gru. While Gru isn't devoid of comedy, he's very competent, unlike the minions who are mostly silly and childish.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_817ec44f	comment	In Captain N: The Game Master, Mother Brain may not be as dangerous as her Metroid counterpart, but she is treated as a genuine threat by the characters. Her minions, Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo however, are total failures whose antics provide most of the show's slapstick humour. Mother Brain both verbally and physically abuses the pair constantly. Averted whenever Dr. Wily, Dracula or Donkey Kong show up, as theyâ€™re usually portrayed as more competent than King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard. In the episode 'Germ Wars', Viroid wages a war to take over Kevin's body and gets quickly frustrated with his timid "Miserable excuse for an assistant". Said assistant asks Kevin's lead cell for forgiveness afterwards.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario RPG: in Nimbus Land, Valentina was a scheming, seductive usurper, but she had a lazy, fat, bumbling lackey in Dodo whose size and temper were Played for Laughs. Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga has the duo of Cackletta and Fawful. Despite her name, Cackletta was one of the nastiest and most dangerous foes the Mario Bros. had ever fought, while her Dragon Fawful was always played for laughs thanks to his unusual speech patterns. However, being goofy didn't make him any less of a threat than his boss; Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story gives him a shot as the Big Bad, and without losing any of the silliness, he's just as dangerous as Cackletta was, if not more so. Further, Fawful's chief enforcer, Midbus, doesn't qualify as this, as though he isn't bright, he proves to be quite resourceful in combat. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: Sir Grodus, leader of the X-Nauts, is consistently portrayed as a dead serious villain, while Lord Crump is more of a bumbling lackey who at one point even warns the player not to tell Mario about his Paper-Thin Disguise, the Shadow Sirens are a comically inept Terrible Trio, and the grunts have numerous dialogue. At least until Beldam, leader of the Sirens, is revealed as the real mastermind — but even she is this compared to the Shadow Queen she serves, as the Queen is one of the deadliest and most serious threats that Mario ever faced. Paper Mario: The Origami King: King Olly is a serious villain who brainwashes Bowser's army into becoming his minions and aims to exterminate the Toads, while the Legion of Stationary are a team of Animate Inanimate Objects who, aside from Scissors and Stapler, are a funny Quirky Miniboss Squad.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_82986c1d	comment	In Jenny and the Multiverse, the Man in Grey is a Deliberately Monochrome Humanoid Abomination and serious as a heart attack, while Colonel Major is a rotund, comical, colourful mook.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_82a6f3fe	comment	In Peter Pan, Captain Hook is a calculating and menacing foe. His sidekick, Smee, while desiring to be evil, is so genial that the captive children are said to not have the heart to tell Smee that they find him lovable instead of frightening.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_843a9d4	comment	Team Galactic's boss Cyrus in PokÃ©mon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! is a Knight Templar Omnicidal Maniac. The Galactic executives — Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars — are intimidating but this ability does not extend to grunts. B-2 is a near-literal Butt-Monkey who is constantly getting attacked on the butt and isn't a real threat. Subverted with some other Galactic grunts though when they try to bomb a tournament.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_854aece7	comment	Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction: while Tachyon, the true antagonist of the game, has no named lackeys, the robotic Space Pirates play this nearly-straight with Captain Slag (Scourge of the Galaxy!), a Fat Bastard who acts as the primary recurring threat for much of the game, and is a formidable force to be reckoned with. His first-mate, Rusty Pete, is far less intimidating.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_8b4cd3	comment	Lady Lovely Locks: Hairball is the Laughable Lackey to Duchess Ravenwaves. While not incompetent, his voice, cough-like laugh, and appearance make him less of a threat than she is.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_8c135a20	comment	Rainbow Brite: It's often hard to take Murky Dismal seriously, even if he is Rainbow Brite's nemesis throughout the series. In the premiere, he was working for an evil sorceror only known as "The King of Shadows" and while this setup lasted, Murky and the King of Shadows had this dynamic. After the King of Shadows' death and Murky's promotion to Big Bad status, Murky's idiotic assistant Lurky is even harder to take seriously than Murky, so he ends up creating this dynamic with him.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_8d318bad	comment	Super Mario RPG: in Nimbus Land, Valentina was a scheming, seductive usurper, but she had a lazy, fat, bumbling lackey in Dodo whose size and temper were Played for Laughs.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_8e0322a5	comment	102 Dalmatians: This Disney live-action sequel sees Cruella's butler Alonzo taking the role of the laughable lackey instead of Jasper and Horace. He has repeated Butt-Monkey moments where his hand gets hurt in slapstick moments, particularly during his heists of puppies for Cruella's latest fur coat idea that requires the eponymous 102 Dalmatian puppies' skins, and it almost seems like his injured hand was intended to be symbolic of his villainy, as he throws his sling off just as he's cementing his Heelâ€“Face Turn near the film's climax.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_8f24ece9	comment	Mowgli: The Big Bad Shere Khan is an enormous tiger who is genuinely threatening despite his crippled foreleg, and is a sadist who breaks the Jungle Law just for his own pleasure. His minion Tabaqui is a snivelling, cowardly hyena who always stays in Khan's shadow and runs at the first sign of danger.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_8f8df73b	comment	The Lion King (1994): The cunning, manipulative Scar has three stupid, unfocused, and constantly bickering hyena minions. Very much downplayed, as the hyenas, despite their stupidity, can pose a real threat to the protagonists and in the end they turn against their master and kill him.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_909ca4b1	comment	ReBoot: Megabyte could be a dangerous villain when he wanted to be, but his bumbling robotic henchmen Hack and Slash provided some of the show's best comedy.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: Inverted. Drakken is the apparent Big Bad, but given his immaturity and tendency to go off on tangents, he's not a very serious villain. His dragon Shego, however, is an intelligent, competent combatant and is either a supervillainess in her own right or wields powerful fist weapons. Either way, she gives Kim Possible a real fight. (They maintain their respective roles by mutual preference: Shego lacks vision and ambition, and would rather be a well-paid dragon who can snark at her boss than have to pay somebody else to do the planning for her — as well as that worked the one time she tried it.)
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_9181af2f	comment	Animal Detectives Kiruminzoo: Misa Hatori is the leader of the animalian revolution and she always does the effort in doing what she must to complete it, but her henchmen, the Kibagumi squad, are a team of Casanova Wannabes who can hardly bite at least one woman. And then there's Keiko. Whenever Kanon asks her a favor, or whenever they team up as the Beauty Bat duo, all she does is screw up her plans.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_920fd3e0	comment	DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp Plays with this. Merlock is a cruel, sadistic sorcerer while Dijon is his bumbling henchman who is very incompetent because his kleptomania almost always gets in the way. However, Merlock also has points where he suffers all sorts of abuse when he's shapeshifted into a smaller creature such as a mouse or a bug, and Dijon ends up proving to be a Not-So-Harmless Villain when he gets the lamp for himself and uses it to obtain all of Scrooge's fortune. Of course, he's still a Big Bad Wannabe compared to his former master, so as soon as Merlock steals the lamp back from Dijon, you know what follows...
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_94bfa327	comment	The Dreamstone: The Urpneys are comical. The Big Bad they work for, Zordrak, looks like an Evil Sorceror T-Rex, and, while supplying much Surrounded by Idiots humour, is played deadly seriously as a villain.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_95594cfc	comment	Larry, from Wizards is an Igor-like lizard creature that adores his master, Blackwolf: an undead wizard who wants to revive the Fourth Reich with irradiated mutants as its master race.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_968513c4	comment	Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?: A one-off villain from the past named Maelstrom had a lackey with a strange name: Bilge. Downplayed, in that Bilge's only comical aspects were his name and the fact that he is afraid of a giant squid kept in the ship's hold who attacks the heroes at one point.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_97218fa4	comment	Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal: Dr. Nefarious is a truly threatening mad scientist who seeks to destroy all organic life, but he is also Laughably Evil, and the target of the jokes from his lackey hench-robot butler Lawrence. Despite Dr. Nefarious being a serious danger to the galaxy, Lawrence isn't afraid to snark at him, and doesn't really care for Nefarious's schemes.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_98b51429	comment	Get Ed: Crouch is a robot minion that often fails against Ed and his friends, and who is easily frightened into launching toast out of his head. Bedlam, his employer, is a more serious villain who has admitted that he mainly keeps him around because he likes the toast.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_98b697e9	comment	Scream: Most of the films have a Big Bad Duumvirate donning the identity of the masked killer Ghostface, with one of them as the mastermind and the other as the accomplice. Barring the fifth film where the killers were presented as equals, the mastermind is usually a straight-up psycho with a personal and/or petty motive for the killings, while the accomplice is usually Laughably Evil. Even when they're in costume as Ghostface before The Reveal, the masterminds' phone calls to their victims sound more vicious, angry, and threatening, while the accomplices are often more theatrical and gleefully mock and cackle at their victims.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_9910cc85	comment	Averted with the Hun army from Mulan, as well as Shan Yu's pet falcon Hayabusa, who are all just as terrifying as Shan Yu is, with no comedic moments whatsoever... or at least until Mushu burns Hayabusa's feathers off.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_99e49e94	comment	Bug Fables: The Wasp King is a vile tyrant who is unfailingly brutal to his allies and enemies alike, and darkens every scene he appears in. His right-hand man General Ultimax is a shrill goofball who thinks he's tougher than he really is, and when his boss fights go poorly for him, he's reduced to a cowering wreck who can only fight by frantically slapping the heroes in a mad panic.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_9e250ff1	comment	Tales of the Tinkerdee: Taminella has an ogre henchman, Charlie, who's played by a human actor, but is only visible from the waist down. And while Taminella is fully capable of coming up with and adjusting schemes that come dangerously close to working and wields dangerous and effective magic, Charlie is a Dumb Muscle dimwit who frequently receives abuse from his boss when he says or does something idiotic.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_9ef055f4	comment	Ratchet & Clank has multiple examples of this: Ratchet & Clank (2002) has Chairman Drek and Captain Qwark; while the former is a Corrupt Corporate Executive ruling over a species of Planet Looters and destorying multiple occupied worlds to make a new home for his people and get rich off the real-estate sales with very little comical presence, Qwark is a past-his-prime superhero who was offered an endorsement deal by Drek that Qwark hoped to use to fiance his big comeback, not really thinking of how the people would respond to him siding with a planet-destroying maniac. Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando zig-zags this quite a lot, originally the antagonists were the Unknown Thief that stole a biological experiment from MegaCorp and the Thugs-4-Less leader, one an manipulative but clumsy obstacle who managed to kidnap Clank, and the latter an Affably Evil warmonger who runs a formidable mercenary business. Both are menacing but also have comical means. This changes halfway through, when after Ratchet defeats the Thief and gives it back to MegaCorp's CEO Mr. Fizzwidget, the Thief, a female Lombax named Angela Cross, reveals that MegaCorp was going to sell the biological experiment (now called the Protopet) as a marketable household companion, despite how dangerous and aggressive the experiment is. She was actually a hero in disguise trying to prevent a galaxy-wide cataclysm. It is also this time that MegaCorp later hires the Thugs-4-Less company to be their dragon and betray Ratchet and Clank. Even more surprising is that Mr. Fizzwidget was really Captain Quark from the first game in disguise, using Engineered Heroics to create the Protopet Crisis so he could stop it and become famous. And he actually would've won... if the batteries to the Helix-o-morph weren't backwards, causing him to be devoured alive by a mutated and massive Protopet. Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal: Dr. Nefarious is a truly threatening mad scientist who seeks to destroy all organic life, but he is also Laughably Evil, and the target of the jokes from his lackey hench-robot butler Lawrence. Despite Dr. Nefarious being a serious danger to the galaxy, Lawrence isn't afraid to snark at him, and doesn't really care for Nefarious's schemes. Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction: while Tachyon, the true antagonist of the game, has no named lackeys, the robotic Space Pirates play this nearly-straight with Captain Slag (Scourge of the Galaxy!), a Fat Bastard who acts as the primary recurring threat for much of the game, and is a formidable force to be reckoned with. His first-mate, Rusty Pete, is far less intimidating.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon games love to do this with their villain teams. The grunts are almost always low-leveled, bumbling Stupid Crooks with humorous dialogue, while the leaders are dead-serious and present a genuine threat to the region.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_a058fdcf	comment	Power Rangers Operation Overdrive: Flurious is one of the most dangerous villains of the show, and his bumbling sidekick Norg who is a Minion with an F in Evil.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_a495544e	comment	In Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, the alliance between NOS-4-A2 and XL in the episode "Revenge of the Monsters" plays out like this. XL is a comical villain who usually gets the most laughs in any episode he's in, while NOS-4-A2 is one of the most dangerous and seriously taken villains in the show, along with Evil Universe Buzz. They insist to each other they're actually partners throughout the episode, but it's clear who is calling the shots and who is probably going to be betrayed. In the end, the fear of being turned on causes XL to have a Heelâ€“Face Turn and join Star Command. Also Zurg, while having comedic traits, is quite evil and sinister compared to his Brain Pod and Grub henchmen, who, while having moments of competence, are almost purely comical.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_a535581a	comment	The Emperor's New Groove downplays this trope with Yzma and Kronk. While both are comedic characters, Yzma isn't above regicide, whereas Kronk is a genuinely Nice Guy.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_ab863e74	comment	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: The Master of Laketown is uncaring about his people, enriching himself while the people starve and become poorer. He has a more comical lackey, Alfrid, who is cowardly enough to use a Paper-Thin Disguise, pretending to be a woman to avoid going into battle. The difference is shown in their deaths: While the Masterâ€™s death is portrayed as karmic, Alfrid's death is used entirely for comedy.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_abfcff6a	comment	Rocky and Bullwinkle: Boris Badinov and Natasha Fatale often fail against Rocky and Bullwinkle, but their Potsylvanian superiors, Fearless Leader and Mr. Big, stay more believable as a threat.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_ac0d8dc2	comment	Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf had the Hunch Bunch, a pair of hunchbacked lackeys to Dracula who orders them to make Shaggy lose an auto race in order to change into a werewolf. Their constant bumbling is a source of irritation to Dracula.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_b0a7fc1e	comment	The Legend of Zelda (1989): Ganon was a competent, cruel villain, exasperated by his idiotic, bumbling moblin minions. It even got to the point where, when they invaded Link's bedroom in Hyrule Castle, Link didn't even need to get up from his bed: they managed to off each other with their clumsiness!
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_b0f81f82	comment	In Chicken Run, the main villain is Mrs. Tweedy, a deadly serious, totally merciless farmer who abuses her chickens (the protagonists) just because she can. Her Henpecked Husband Mr. Tweedy is a Butt-Monkey who provides some of the funniest lines in the movie.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_b11626d	comment	Paper Mario: The Origami King: King Olly is a serious villain who brainwashes Bowser's army into becoming his minions and aims to exterminate the Toads, while the Legion of Stationary are a team of Animate Inanimate Objects who, aside from Scissors and Stapler, are a funny Quirky Miniboss Squad.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Scratch and Grounder have this dynamic with Dr. Robotnik. The pair are cartoonishly gormless goons, that even little children were meant to laugh at, unlike Robotnik who, while comedically conceited and blundering, can be a very dangerous and worthy foe for a superhero like Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Snively was comical compared to his ruthless and evil uncle, Dr. Robotnik, who was treated as the clearer threat as a ruthless Evil Overlord in this take. However, Snively was known for insulting Robotnik behind his back and did have plans to overthrow him. Sonic Underground: Dingo was childish Dumb Muscle, and far less intelligent than his clever, backstabbing partner mercenary Sleet. Both of them played comic relief lackeys to Robotnik however, who retains the same Evil Overlord role as in Satam.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Invader Zim is an unusual case in several ways. Zim is a Villain Protagonist and an underling for The Empire, and characters from The Empire higher up than him are indeed far, far more capable, competent, and serious than Zim is. However, they don't actually care about conquering Earth: sending Zim to Earth is their idea of making him Reassigned to Antarctica.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_b637553	comment	The Lion King II: Simba's Pride: Zira is a female Scar, but more disturbingly Ax-Crazy. Played with concerning her Co-Dragons. Her son Nuka is vicious but also a bumbling, immature Boisterous Weakling who just wants to please her mother. Vitani by contrast is The Comically Serious but almost as menacing as Zira.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_b7e8e4b6	comment	My Little Pony 'n Friends: Many of the show's villains have a lackey with whom they share this dynamic: The witch Hydia is scheming, calculating, and evil, and has two inept daughters with no motivation for villainy who tend to serve as the butts of jokes and the target of their mother's abuse. The catwoman sorceress, Catrina, is a vicious, violent slave driver whose overall behavior reeks of drug addiction and domestic abuse, but her lackey, Rep, is a Nice Guy who loses a fight to a filly. Squirk is an immortal squid monster who wants to flood Dream Valley, and is assisted by the much smaller and less effective Crank, a miniature lobster, who spends most of his time on air getting punched about by his boss and their enemies. Arabus is a greedy and corrupt cloud wizard who likes to eat pony shadows, thereby removing the happiness from the pony in question. However, he is aided by a stupid and lazy zebra named Zeb. The very dangerous and competent Grogar, ruler of the evil kingdom of Tambelon, has as a minion the bumbling and cowardly donkey Bray.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_bc8d1b87	comment	Mad Jack the Pirate: Jack is a Villain Protagonist, and is generally more threatening than his dense Funny Animal first mate, Snuk.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: Downplayed with The Administrator and Miss Pauling. The Administrator is an Iron Lady who is controlling everything the RED and BLU teams are doing, whereas Miss Pauling, while not exactly laughable, and is in fact very competent, is much more of a Punch-Clock Villain.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_c2463c53	comment	Final Fantasy V has Exdeath and Gilgamesh, the Big Bad and The Dragon respectively. While Exdeath is an amalgamation of evil spirits and is a serious enough villain to kill one of the main characters, Gilgamesh is presented as a comical villain who brags about his abilities only to embarrass himself in front of the heroes.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_c29f1036	comment	The Prince of Egypt: The Egyptian priests Hotep and Huy, being voiced by Steve Martin and Martin Short respectively, have their funny moments. Neither of the two Pharaohs that they work for do.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_c43df4d8	comment	In the Doctor Who episode "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship", the Space Pirate Solomon is one of the more sinister villains the Doctor has encountered, while his two robots are bungling, squabbling dimwits, whom the Doctor describes as "tantrum machines". And they're voiced by Mitchell and Webb.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_c48d322f	comment	Tricky People: Reginald Charming is a ruthless, manipulative pedophile who uses pictures of his victims to blackmail them into silence. His sidekick Wendell is the cheerful, clumsy Plucky Comic Relief who exists mostly to provide slapstick. Given the film's deadly serious treatment of Charming and his victims, Wendell's presence seems downright bizarre.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_c50747b1	comment	LoliRock: Gramorr is a ruthless and treacherous Evil Sorcerer who will stop at nothing to take over Ephedia by destroying the princesses and acquiring the Oracle Gems. He would have to rely on Praxina and Mephisto to accomplish this, but their track record of being defeated by the princesses every single time leaves them much to be desired. And while Praxina is at least competent and wicked enough to be a challenge, the same can't be said about Mephisto. Come the end of Season 2, when Gramorr dies and Mephisto is seemingly killed as well, Praxina actively takes up his mantle.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_c9125d76	comment	Home on the Range: Downplayed with Alameda Slim and the Willie Brothers. Slim balances being cunning and manipulative with Evil Is Hammy (especially when he yodels), while his nephews/sidekicks the Willies are straight-up Bumbling Sidekicks.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_c9280e49	comment	The villains of the An American Tail films have these to varying degrees. Warren in the first film has the bumbling accountant Digit. In the case of Cat R. Waul's lackey Chula in the second film, he only really becomes laughable in the TV series, being Axe-Crazy in the film. The third film has O'Bloat, one of Grasping's Co-Dragons, and Scuttlebutt, the lowest-ranking of all the main villains.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_ca1bf20c	comment	Beethoven: In the first movie, the veterinarian's goons' bumbling and cowardice were Played for Laughs, but the veterinarian himself was not. In the second movie, Floyd's stupidity was Played for Laughs, but his greedy girlfriend Regina was much more cruel and intentional than he was.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_cc1865ec	comment	Tom and Jerry: The Movie: Aunt Figg is the primary antagonist: fat, abusive, ill-tempered and wants nothing more than to claim Robyn's inheritance. Her dog, Ferdinand, is just as evil as she is and also quite competent. However, his weight is played for laughs, needing a skateboard to get around because he can't use his legs.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_cf69b21e	comment	Beast Wars: Once Waspinator's role as Butt-Monkey was established, he had this dynamic with Megatron.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_d137c016	comment	Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass: The Petty Thugs are, as their name suggests, a group of petty thugs who mainly engage in Poke the Poodle acts like shaking people. Their employer, the titular Pulsating Mass, is a genuinely terrifying Eldritch Abomination who aims to destroy the world and single-handedly takes the game into surprisingly creepy territory.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_d25ddfc	comment	Pictured above from The Black Cauldron: Creeper is comically drawn (by comparison) and cowardly and he routinely suffers the abuse of the terrifying Horned King. His eagerness to please his boss makes him paradoxically both a very cruel minion and a ridiculous lap dog.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_d371eaa5	comment	Klonoa: Joker is definitely evil and cruel and more than willing to kill to get what he wants, but he has his comical moments. His Omnicidal Maniac boss Ghadius, however, is utterly devoid of comedy.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_d3e3e38a	comment	She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Hordak and Shadow Weaver are cold, cruel, and menacing, and Catra is self-destructive in ways that can be uncomfortable to watch. However, the bad guys also have Scorpia (who's big, kind, and ditzy) and Entrapta (a Genki Girl Mad Scientist) to lighten the mood a bit.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Aladdin: Jafar is a Comically Serious Evil Sorcerer, but his sidekick Iago is an upfront comical character. It must be added though that Iago is one of the most intelligent and competent sidekicks that a Disney villain ever had and is also as conniving as Jafar, being actually the one to suggest the idea of Jafar getting the throne by marrying Jasmine. He contrasts Jafar's cold brooding with his hilarious snarking, loud and obnoxious attitude (being voiced by Gilbert Gottfried helps in that regard), and being a regular victim of physical comedy.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: While Team Rocket members aren't always competent, only the Terrible Trio, and later Butch and Cassidy due to characterization changes, are actually goofy. Most members are some level of dangerous. Their boss Giovanni has a case of Adaptational Villainy as he is more violent than in the games in whenever he gets up to fight. Inverted in PokÃ©mon the Series: Sun & Moon where Jessie captures a Mimikyu who is always portrayed as a fairly competent opponent to Pikachu. Instead of capturing Pikachu, Mimikyu wants to kill him, making it a case of the vile lackey to the Team Rocket Trioâ€™s Laughable villains.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Sailor Moon: Sailor Iron Mouse wasn't a very serious villain, but when she failed, she was rightly terrified of how her boss would react. Naturally, when Galaxia decided sheâ€™d had enough of Iron Mouse's failures, she promptly appeared before her and removed her bracelets, killing her.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_d8505381	comment	Fanscription: In What if a Live-Action Super Mario Bros. (1993) 2 Happened, Wario and Waluigi are a quirky and bombastic duo (though plenty dangerous in their own right). King Wart, on the other hand, is a grim and unsettling presence even when talking to his Co-Dragons.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_da02c1ef	comment	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: Sir Grodus, leader of the X-Nauts, is consistently portrayed as a dead serious villain, while Lord Crump is more of a bumbling lackey who at one point even warns the player not to tell Mario about his Paper-Thin Disguise, the Shadow Sirens are a comically inept Terrible Trio, and the grunts have numerous dialogue. At least until Beldam, leader of the Sirens, is revealed as the real mastermind — but even she is this compared to the Shadow Queen she serves, as the Queen is one of the deadliest and most serious threats that Mario ever faced.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_e4b5d35b	comment	Freedom Planet has Serpentine, a barely competent cyborg snake, to Lord Arktivus Brevon, a cruel badass whose first act onscreen is to slay the king of Shuigang, and who demonstrates his power rather effortlessly when Lilac confronts him for the first time before torturing her.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_ebef1040	comment	The Bluffers: Clandestino is a greedy, polluting executive, and has a guard dog named Glum who is a Minion with an F in Evil and is frequently mistreated.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_ec28245c	comment	The Namek Saga of Dragon Ball Z introduced the audience to Frieza, a Galactic Conqueror who exterminates the populations of entire worlds and has destroyed a number of planets as well. His minions for the most part are as evil as one would expect, except, ironically, his strongest warriors the Ginyu Force. They are a Quirky Miniboss Squad whose first onscreen action is to go into a "Super Sentai" Stance, and before a fight play Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors to determine who fights. Despite their comedic quirks, the Ginyu Force do prove that they are Frieza's strongest warriors, nearly killing the main characters before Goku arrives.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_ece42231	comment	In Filmation's Ghostbusters, Prime Evil, the undead robotic skeleton overlord of the evil ghost afterlife, has two direct subordinates Bratarat, who's a small, bulbous, rat/worm hybrid that flies that only snarks at things, and Scared Stiff, a lesser robot skeleton who routinely falls apart out of fright. They sometimes have to perform menial tasks for Prime Evil. They tend to muck it up a lot.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_ef57d399	comment	The Mountain and the Wolf: The Wolf is a huge, terrifying Champion of Chaos spearheading an invasion of Westeros by the Ruinous Powers. His henchman Einarr is a Butt-Monkey who gets yelled at in every chapter, and even the prospect of death doesn't seem to faze him.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_ef9789a1	comment	In Krampus, the eponymous villain is a terrifying and satanic figure, the Evil Counterpart of Santa Claus. His minions, on the other hand, are evil spoofs of things traditionally associated with Christmas, up to and including crazy killer gingerbread men. Justified since it is a horror/comedy movie.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_f3cbb86a	comment	BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm: The Social Justice Warriors are comedic bumblers who serve to parody Tumblr misandrists and make silly quips whenever you fight them — even Anita and Laci aren't taken too seriously. Their leader Mother, however, is never played for comedy, instead being a terrifying Draconic Abomination who seeks to vaporize all men and almost succeeds in her goal. The Phishers, a gang of minor villains lurking in an area of the Deep Web, kidnap and attempt to impersonate your party members but are comically bad at it. The Phisher King is more threatening and creepy.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_f4291939	comment	The Rescuers: Snoops, with his stammering speech, name, softness relative to Medusa, and Butt-Monkey status, is laughable. Medusa herself is cruel, greedy, and emotionally manipulative — and has far fewer funny moments.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_f502a38a	comment	Scruple, a snarky, delinquent wizard-school dropout, is this to the vengeful Gargamel in The Smurfs (1981). Gargamel himself is not without his comical moments, and acts as a laughable lackey to his abusive godfather Balthazar in every episode the latter is in.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_f688799b	comment	My Little Pony: The Movie (2017): Grubber is a comical, cowardly, un-threatening hedgehog. But he works for the dead-serious Tempest Shadow and her threatening-but-not-quite-so-serious Storm King boss. Tempest's utter humorlessness, when contrasted with the Storm King's more comedic nature, could be considered an inversion.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Maleficent again. She's just as dangerous as in her original film and significantly more ambitious. Her sidekick? The bumbling Pete. To a lesser extent, the Gullwings also count but they quickly switch sides.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_fa44b9bb	comment	Carrie (1976): While Chris Hargensen is even more horrible here than in the book, her boyfriend Billy Nolan has been Demoted to Dragon in this version and is a dim-witted buffoon who is mainly comic relief, with Chris playing him like a fiddle throughout the whole movie.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_fb9ff82d	comment	Silverhawks has MonStar, his gang consisting of hardened, monstrous badasses with lethal machinery, all dangerous. Except for MonStar's Yes-Man (actually named Yes-Man), a timid, snake-like humanoid whose sole purpose seems to be operating the machine that exposes the Moon Star of Limbo's energy conveniently to MonStar's throne, and agreeing with everything MonStar says.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_fd3487b9	comment	Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga has the duo of Cackletta and Fawful. Despite her name, Cackletta was one of the nastiest and most dangerous foes the Mario Bros. had ever fought, while her Dragon Fawful was always played for laughs thanks to his unusual speech patterns. However, being goofy didn't make him any less of a threat than his boss; Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story gives him a shot as the Big Bad, and without losing any of the silliness, he's just as dangerous as Cackletta was, if not more so. Further, Fawful's chief enforcer, Midbus, doesn't qualify as this, as though he isn't bright, he proves to be quite resourceful in combat.
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Intertwined II The Lost Spirits / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Akazukin Chacha (Manga) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Excel♡Saga (Manga) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! (Manga) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Kingmaker Histories (Podcast) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
H.R. Pufnstuf / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Kingdom Adventure / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Odd Squad / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Tales of the Tinkerdee / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Dragon Force (Sega) (Video Game) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Freddi Fish (Video Game) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Heart of Darkness (Video Game) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Hypnagogia (Video Game) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (Video Game) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Video Game) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Video Game) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Psycutlery (Video Game) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Vigilante 8 (Video Game) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense (Video Game) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Tiny Bunny (Visual Novel) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Wolf Song: The Movie (Web Animation) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Overlord DVD (Web Video) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
A Bug's Life / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Adventures of the Gummi Bears / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
An American Tail / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Beast Wars / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Care Bears (1980s) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Chicken Run / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Cinderella / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Drak Pack / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Flying Rhino Junior High / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Get Ed / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Green Eggs and Ham (2019) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Jason And The Heroes Of Mount Olympus / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Lilo & Stitch: The Series / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Mad Jack the Pirate / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
My Little Pony: Make Your Mark / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
NIMONA (2023) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Peter Pan / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Pinky and the Brain / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Rainbow Brite / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
ReBoot / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Rock-A-Doodle / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Rocky and Bullwinkle / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Rose Petal Place / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Sleeping Beauty / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Sonic SatAM / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Sonic Underground / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Black Cauldron / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Devil and Daniel Mouse / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Dreamstone / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Magician / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Prince of Egypt / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Princess and the Frog / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Rescuers / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Smurfs (1981) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Super Mario Bros. Movie / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Tale Of Tillie's Dragon / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Transformers: Animated / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
Dark Sun (Video Game) / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
All Dogs Go to Heaven / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey

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