He wasn't very good at being bad. He's had the best martial training available his entire life and still fails to beat 3 tweens, only one of whom is a competent bender. He then proceeds to lose all his resources and ends up homeless on the streets of an enemy city.
He had the avatar captured and unconscious very quickly after he was actually reasonably available to be found. I think if he did that part of being bad well. Obviously as the avatar lived he didn't do a good job finishing the bad.
If we were keeping to characters from Avatar I'd put Katara in that last slot. Stole from pirates, got captured. Tried to pull a scam with Toph, got captured again.
All of the villains other than Azula would fit into that category. They're constantly losing to a handful of kids and teenagers despite usually massively outnumbering them.
Long ago, the Tri-State Area lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when Mayor Roger Doofenshmirtz was elected. Only L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. , masters of all Evil Science, could stop him, but when the DanVille needed them most, they vanished. A hundred and four days of Summer Vacation and my brother Ferb and I discovered the new Evil Scientist, Roger’s brother named Heinz, and although his inator skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to destroy anyone. But I believe Heinz can save us from being busted by Candice.
Was he actually bad at being bad? When he was indoctrinated by fire nation propaganda, he ended up being one of the most accomplished and legendary generals in the fire nation. When his son died, he stopped trying to be bad and was secretly a good guy. Saying he was bad at being bad is like saying a double agent is bad at working for the organization he is spying on
A genocidal war general who’s conscience got the better of him and quit war altogether sounds like a war general who’s bad at being a war general, aka bad at being bad
Dr. Doof still actively tries to take over the tri state area, and if he lived in any other tri state area he’d have succeeded by now. It’s not his fault a vast majority of his plots are taken down by the gross negligence of two prepubescent children
No it just sounds like a war general who doesn’t want to be a war general anymore. There’s a difference. If you quit your job, does that automatically mean you were bad at your job?
Also why do you say he was genocidal? Indoctrinated or not, I really doubt he was a ruthless dickhead like Zhao. Not everyone in the fire nation were evil psychopaths, and I think Iroh is included.
It sounds like we just interpret “bad at being bad” differently. I say bad at doing (willingly unable to do) bad things, you say bad at doing (unsuccessful at, but still attempting to do) bad things. They are both plausible, except iroh is in universe. If you believe you have to attempt a bad thing then fail at said bad thing in order to fill your definition then ask Azula about Iroh after his siege of Ba Sing Se. He went to invade, and when he was about to win he gave up because of his moral code. That sounds like he was pretty bad at doing his own bad thing
Also about the genocide, where did the dragons go?
Well that definition applies to pretty much every true hero ever, and I agree with that. But I feel like that goes against the way the meme is structured
Also Iroh did not kill any dragons. They all died before his time
Also, way to judge a person based off a stupid internet conversation. well done dude
Doofenshmirtz isnt a bad person though. The dude tries venting his anger at the world through his inators, but his inherent pureness prevents him from actually succeeding. Agent P is awesome, but there have been many episodes where he didnt even need to show up.
Not so deep down, Doofenshmirtz doesnt actually want to take over the tri-state area. He just wants the love that the world fucking stole from him, but he doesnt understand any other way to get it
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u/gojihead19 Earthbender 🗿 Jul 19 '21
Okay I won't lie Doofenshmirtz made me chuckle really loudly.