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Thats right. I want to see what DAKKA thinks is the worst Badguy screw ups ever. You know those moments, when the bad guy just does a serious WTF and your left with that feeling of DUMB because you were rooting for him. List it. And pictures/vids are always a plus.

Ill start with my personal fav


Is that Toad from Xmen? No its Darth Fail? Im just curious how a dark knight BADASS can take on a master AND his padawan at the same time, with ease, kill the master like its nothing, then take down the padawan, and then SUDDENLY suck so bad as to let the padawan do a super jump/flip/lightsabergrabinair/land and slice in half move so easily? DAMMIT! LUCAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I had another one I thought of while brushing this morning.....but it has left my brain. So think up so goodies folks!

Predator

Fearsome hunting skills. Check
Intergalactic travel. Check
Invisibility. Check
Lasers. Check
Ability to see prey when it is dirty. FAIL!

All those bad guys who design their foot soldier/guard/etc uniforms so that no one can see your face.

Hero dressed up as one of your guards: Hello there, got a special delivery for the boss
Guard: Righty-ho *opens portal of ultimate doom* You on for the card game this evening?
Hero: Don't know if I can make it this evening, got extra guard duties over in the west wing.
Guard: Bummer, anyway, have a good one!
Hero: Oh, I will, don't worry!

Rather than:
Hero takes out guard and puts on the uniform and approaches door guard: Hi there! Fellow guard coming through!
Guard: Hey - aren't you the hero we have all been warned about and have pictures of up in the barracks? You are!

*opens fire and sounds the alarm*

And speaking of opening fire; why do bad guys always buy their guns from the lowest bidder so they can't shoot straight? And then bring in the "We will train your men not to be able to hit the side of a starship from 1m away" Training Company?

Darth Vader.


When converted to 3D.

Ooff, man theres alot of "wars in the stars" hate going on here.


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Ill add Donald Sutherland from VIRUS is a fail worthy badguy. The movie was pretty decent and you KNEW he was going to become part of the VIRUS. So now hes all super robo screepy. But he only says a few lines in his robo sutherland form and then DEAD. God I hate build ups that suck.

Megatron in any form, for repeatedly trusting Starscream. The newest movie version is slightly less so (and also my fav - heresy I know), but it's still there a little in the form of "The Fallen can kill anyone except a Prime; I can kill a Prime, therefore he's clearly more powerful than me - wait, what?"

"So Mr Bond, let me take 15 minutes to reveal my plan to you, let you escape, prevent my plan and then kill me"

Rather than...

BANG!
"So Mr Bond, being as it didn't matter whether you were listening or not and therefore alive or not, I shall describe my plan now...."

The OC-D

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Megatron in any form, for repeatedly trusting Starscream. The newest movie version is slightly less so (and also my fav - heresy I know), but it's still there a little in the form of "The Fallen can kill anyone except a Prime; I can kill a Prime, therefore he's clearly more powerful than me - wait, what?"

Well......he DID smoke his ass after becoming Galvatron. But I totally see what you mean. And for such a badass, thats really sad, he should of shot StarScream decades ago.

Could this work since he becomes a villain?

Anakin Skywalker, seriously a festering bitchfit. At least he mans up though when he becomes Vader.

Pein...Deidara...Hidan?

I mean seriously.

Shadowbrand wrote:Could this work since he becomes a villain?

Anakin Skywalker, seriously a festering bitchfit. At least he mans up though when he becomes Vader.

Oh yea thatll count for sure. I blame the cat that played him. Man that kid was a sissypanzy

The stormtroopers in Star Wars. If they die even if they get shot in the foot, then why wear armor?

Along the same lines as theocd's Bond Villains - although this sort of thing often applies to heroes as well.

Making sure the guy's dead.

Alright, so you've taken down your nemesis, rescued (or kidnapped) the girl and everything's peachy. Would it really kill you to put a round through the guys skull, just to be sure? I know you're not opposed to killing - you slaughtered legions just to get into this place, and even if you're out of ammo, you could use that backup weapon you have holstered there.
But - oh no, you've decided instead to turn around, put your BACK to the guy, and start kissing/talking/discussing your maniacal plans.

Look! He's getting up! Just there! His hand's twitching! No? Aaaand now you're dead. Screw this, I'm getting another drink. Anyone want a beer?


Kills me, every time.

Blackheart in Ghost Rider. Oh man that pisses me off. He was being made out to be super duper powerful, then becomes legion or whatever and still lasts like 10 secs, to Nick Cage of all people.

KingCracker wrote:Blackheart in Ghost Rider. Oh man that pisses me off. He was being made out to be super duper powerful, then becomes legion or whatever and still lasts like 10 secs, to Nick Cage of all people.

Yeah I always thought that the Ghost Rider beat the bad guys way too easy. There really wasn't any fear of failure. I liked the movie but that was definitely one of the flaws.

GG

More Star Wars joy. Is there no end to the fail that Stormtroopers have?

Let's see...
Can't hit the broadside of a barn from a few meters away? Check. (Despite having taken over the galaxy due to their elite forces)
Wearing useless-ass armor that doesn't help one bit, since everybody seems to die from a single blaster shot to the anywhere? Check.
Going to war on Endor - and NOT CHANGING THE ARMOR COLOR FROM BRIGHT WHITE? Check!
Losing to Ewoks? Yet another check!

The whole armor thing really makes you scratch your head when you realize that the Snowtrooper outfit actually bothers to cover up some of the black bits on the armor - yet they think that stark white is going to blend in with dark green and brown?

Oh! And to those who haven't seen it: (A very, very entertaining read)

http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html

Grand Moff Tarkin:

"Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?"
2 minutes later... no more Tarkin, no more Death Star... oops!
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Thulsa Doom:
"...see the strength in your body... the desire in your heart... I GAVE THIS TO YOU!"

Conan: (chop off Thulsa's head) thinking to self... yup, you sure did...
Conan then goes on to brood about his meaning in life, wearing the crown of Aquilonia on a troubled brow etc etc, now bereft of any motive for living since he finally had his revenge he had been seeking since a boy.

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Finally, at the top of my list...
DESTRO. I mean come ON MAN! You take that whiney bitch cobra-commander guy seriously? Just off him and take over cobra as your own. You're huge, you're built, your competent, you can create weather controlling doomsday devices, you have a big booming voice, and your head is totally metal! Why the hell don't you stage a coup so cobra can win for once instead of listening to the temper tantrums of the fool who shares the same voice actor as starscream? jeez man! talk about not applying yourself!

Grevious.
I GOT A LIGHTSABER YET I DONT REFLECT THE BULLET FROM TH LASER AIMED AT MY HEART.
so stupid. or count dooku.

garret wrote:Grevious.
I GOT A LIGHTSABER YET I DONT REFLECT THE BULLET FROM TH LASER AIMED AT MY HEART.
so stupid. or count dooku.

I think that's more to do with training.

Now for a classic. Not a movie, but from Dr Who, everyone's favourite Pepper Pot Dictator, Davros!

That's right, Davros. The head of the Kaled's Scientific Elite, creator of the Daleks, crippled from the waist down with only one arm due to mutation and self experimentation/augmentation, spends his time in a Life Support chair thingy, which I hasten to point out, is of his own design.....AND HE BUILT IT WITH AN OFF SWITCH!! WHY! Even worse, when asked, he tell's The Doctor what it is, then says 'please don't switch me off'. Thankfully, he then shows a smidge of competence thanks to have a Second In Command who is shockingly loyal, and rather good at his job, coming to Davros' rescue in the nick of time..

But then he goes on to cock it all up again, as he forgot that racial purity is incredibly subjective, and that he was not in fact a Dalek, hence the Daleks telling him to sod off, then shooting him.

Twonk.

Well I've got more on Davros. Your life support chair can't fly (or even hover for that matter), while your creations are FLYING AROUND YOU! you then die because a flaming pole falls in your way, leaving you trapped.

How about Robert Shaw as Col. Hessler in "Battle of the Bulge" when he tells his panzers "no shooting" as he leads them up the hill to a fierey death?

Souron spends the duration of the Lord of The rings rebuilding his tower in Mordor. When perhaps a better idea might have been to build a wall, or maybe just a Hobbit sized fence, around mount doom.

contains very naughty bad words so apologies for that but just have to share in case you haven't seen it already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EWfllJ6kNw

whatwhat wrote:Souron spends the duration of the Lord of The rings rebuilding his tower in Mordor. When perhaps a better idea might have been to build a wall, or maybe just a Hobbit sized fence, around mount doom.

...and flak batteries round the top just in case the hobbits and eagles get creative.

Blowing up the wall (that does nothing) of the castle in the second film is pretty dumb too.

Raiders III ....he chose.......poorly.

Oh yeah, Saruman in Two Towers. Do you honestly think arming Orcs with bombs is a good idea? He lost about a tenth of his army to friendly fire.

Transformers 1985 cartoon movie

unicron

1. huge planet sized robot that eats other planets
2. betrays all knowing master (primacron)
3. turns badass villian into nearly unstoppable badass villian (megatron into galvatron)
4. survives a moon exploding inside of him
5. rakes hand over cybertron as if he is raking his hand through wet sand
6. crushes starships with bare hands and breathes fire on others
7. some of the best villian lines of all time (" you underestimate me galvatron" procedes to transform and scare the life out of galvatron)
8. all knowing himself (knows who's dead, who's not and where they are)
9. dies when an insignificant little ball of light is opened inside of him and plays 80's rock music

EPIC FAIL

The Emperor at the battle of endor. He has an entire battlefleet of Star Destroyers and yet doesn't have them engage because he wants to show off the death star. He should've just let Piet engage them, battle would've been over in no time. Also, he never should've let the rebels onto the moon in the first place.

Pretty much the ROTJ is a epic fail on the emperor's part.

Guitardian wrote:
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Thulsa Doom:
"...see the strength in your body... the desire in your heart... I GAVE THIS TO YOU!"

Conan: (chop off Thulsa's head) thinking to self... yup, you sure did...
Conan then goes on to brood about his meaning in life, wearing the crown of Aquilonia on a troubled brow etc etc, now bereft of any motive for living since he finally had his revenge he had been seeking since a boy.

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Finally, at the top of my list...
DESTRO. I mean come ON MAN! You take that whiney bitch cobra-commander guy seriously? Just off him and take over cobra as your own. You're huge, you're built, your competent, you can create weather controlling doomsday devices, you have a big booming voice, and your head is totally metal! Why the hell don't you stage a coup so cobra can win for once instead of listening to the temper tantrums of the fool who shares the same voice actor as starscream? jeez man! talk about not applying yourself!

Or Thulsa Doom: for using a one-shot Kull villain in a Conan movie.

Destro eventually forms his own faction in most continuities, for whatever that's worth. "Waaasssssss a man... wasssssssss a man..."

Spaceballs: Colonel Sanders... for having a self destruct cancelation button that is out of order.

"dammit! even in the future nothing works!"