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-Arthur Dent
This gentleman is alarmingly simple and hapless for the situations he's thrust into. In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, his home planet is destroyed and he gets dragged along on a quest to find an ancient civilization of planet manufacturers and uncover the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, all the while grumbling about how no one in the universe seems to be able to make a decent cup of tea.
-Skagra
The villain in Shada, by Douglas Adams. An ego maniacal Drornidian that tried to realease a Time Lord called Salyavin and kidnapped a gaggle of other scientists to basically replace every mind in the universe with a copy of his. Most people that think that God might not exist react with relief or despair. Only Skagra responded by thinking "Wait a second, that means there's a situation vacant."
Claudius
-A crafty Shakespearean villain. He murders his brother and marries his sister in law to become king of Denmark. His only remaining obstacle is main character and tragic hero, Hamlet, who also happens to be his nephewson. Spoilers; he dies at the end.
Scar
-The Claudius of the Disney Kingdom. The parallels between Scar and Claudius were too many to go without giving him an honorable mention. In addition to the treachery he gets up to with taking over the pride lands, he also manages to turn a pack of goofy hyenas into the Third Reich with one song.
Angel
-If the shark from Jaws gets a mention, then the Mama Megalodon (huge shark(really huge(like, it's ridiculous))) in the MEG series by Steve Alten deserves to be here too. Angel wreaked a heckuva lot more havoc than Jaws, and she had a much greater finale; defending the son of the man who discovered her from mososaurs and liopleurodons.
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