Who is the most incompetent villain in fiction?

[acri1]

I'm talking TV, movies, comics, games, anime, video games, whatever.

Who would you say is the WOAT as far as their competence goes?


I might have to go with this guy -

Spoiler

I'm talking specifically the 80s cartoon version. I mean not many villains in the 80s were competent but this guy might be the WOAT. Dude is constantly beaten by four talking turtles and a rat who live in a sewer despite having a Technodrome, an alien with advanced technology on his side, and thousands of goons on call. His plans failed 100% of the time and 99% it was his own fault. They had to go out of their way to make the other versions of Shredder as different from him as possible.

 

[Neuromancer]

Megatron, hands down. If we count the multi-versial entity in all his incarnations. He constantly hires people who hate him. And in the end he quit after realizing he was wrong.

 

[acri1]

Megatron, hands down. If we count the multi-versial entity in all his incarnations. He constantly hires people who hate him. And in the end he quit after realizing he was wrong.

In all fairness though, he didn't really have a choice about hiring people who hate him, because pretty much everybody in the universe hates him.

 

[MartyMcFly]

I'm talking TV, movies, comics, games, anime, video games, whatever.

Who would you say is the WOAT as far as their competence goes?


I might have to go with this guy -

Spoiler

I'm talking specifically the 80s cartoon version. I mean not many villains in the 80s were competent but this guy might be the WOAT. Dude is constantly beaten by four talking turtles and a rat who live in a sewer despite having a Technodrome, an alien with advanced technology on his side, and thousands of goons on call. His plans failed 100% of the time and 99% it was his own fault. They had to go out of their way to make the other versions of Shredder as different from him as possible.

That's my answer

Damn shame what they did to that man in that cartoon. The latter cartoons corrected that tho. Duke Acureds

 

[ThaBronxBully]

 

[MartyMcFly]

King of the Ls

 

[He Who Posts Well]

The video game version of Team Rocket

Their whole operation was foiled by a a kid who isnt even old enough to drive. I'm sure there will be better examples but this was the first name to come to mind.

 

[He Who Posts Well]

 

[Devilinurear]

Brain from pinky and the Brain. Pinky would tell him all the time why his plan would fail and he never listened.

 

[acri1]

Well he has definitely got the incompetence part down , but I wouldn't really consider Wil E. a villain.

He's not really good or evil so much as he's just an idiot.

 

[acri1]

Brain from pinky and the Brain. Pinky would tell him all the time why his plan would fail and he never listened.

You know how the theme song lyrics say "one is a genius, the other's insane"? According to the writers, it's up to the viewer to decide which character is which.

 

[parallax]

You know how the theme song lyrics say "one is a genius, the other's insane"? According to the writers, it's up to the viewer to decide which character is which.

Are these the same individuals that thought elmyra was a good fit to the crew too?

 

[acri1]

Are these the same individuals that thought elmyra was a good fit to the crew too?

No. That wasn't the writers' idea, they actually hated it.

The Elmyra thing was completely because of the executives, not the writers.

 

[NYChase718]

dikk dastardly

Hes such a failure...even his dog laughs at him everytime

 

[Alpha Male]

winner

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