Villainous Benchmark Wiki
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ā€œ I'm not a bad person. I just had bad luck. ā€ž
~ Sandman speaking to his daughter
ā€œ WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M STANDARD?!?! THIS IS JUST RiDICULOUS. ā€ž
~ Mega Jack Horner being mad that he is considered Standard.

Villainous Benchmarks whose worst crimes fail to go beyond the baseline heinous standards of the work that they're in. An example would be a serial killer from a franchise full of terrorists, warlords, genocidal maniacs, and dictators.

This category also extends to some variations:

  1. Villains that hold back on their resources too much and fail to make the most of them by merely committing standard villainy (e.g. Alejandro Sosa, Jabba the Hutt, Victor Perkins, and Pigsaw).
  2. Villains whose worst actions fall under Fridge Horror if not offstage villainy (e.g. Jafar, Shinigami King, Bowser Jr., and Monstro the Whale).
  3. Villains who fails the System Standard for sharing the crimes with other villains (e.g. Riq IV, Aria and Clove).
  4. Villains who take orders from someone else and thus failing the heinous standard to the order givers (Kiyomi Takada, Lucius Malfoy, Kaecilius, Nute Gunray, and Catherine).

If the in-story heinous standard is only bog-standard crimes, all but one of the villains in that story automatically qualify.

They are the villainous counterpart of Insufficiently Admirable Heroic Benchmarks.

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