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In the event everyone in the faction is dumb, they're likely a [[Goldfish Poop Gang]] designed to be the [[Butt Monkey]] everyone laughs at and maybe sympathizes with a little. In the rare event everyone in it is competent, then they're likely going to be understaffed, the ground level [[Mooks]]/[[Red Shirt|Redshirts]] are less than effectual, or they are [[Drama-Preserving Handicap|disadvantaged]] in some other way.
* Competent supporters: [[Beleaguered Assistant]], [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]], [[Reliable Traitor
* Incompetent leaders: [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]], [[Pointy-Haired Boss]], [[General Failure]].
* Competent leaders: [[Reasonable Authority Figure]], [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]].
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** There's also the fact that Cyrus is a [[Authority Equals Asskicking|far better trainer than the average grunts.]] The final fight with him in Platinum is easily [[That One Boss|one of the hardest battles of the game.]]
** And that the big evil plan is kept hidden from the grunts because {{spoiler|it would result in said grunts, and everything else in the Universe, ceasing to exist}}.
* ''[[Touhou]]'s'' Sakuya Izayoi, [[Ninja Maid]] extraordinaire, has to use her [[Reality Warper]] superpowers to turn the Scarlet Devil Mansion [[Bigger on the Inside]], and then single-handedly guard and ''clean'' said mansion because, in spite of having a virtually inexaustable army of guards and other maids, they are so universally [[The Stoner|lazy and incompetent]] that they are as likely to cause harm as good. Her boss, [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]] [[Ojou]] Remilia is capable of being competent most of the time, but, being [[Not Allowed to Grow Up|permanently a child]], both physically and emotionally, she would rather just play (and force Sakuya to set up those games for her). During ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', she even turns into [[
** Several similar comparisons could be made to other girls in the touhou fame (Youmu, a samurai whose boss forces her to use her skills as a gardener and ocasionally as a cook, while she, uh... watches a Cherry Tree bloom) as well as the trope still applying but the other way around (Komachi, a slacker God of Death and her Boss Shikieki Yamaxamanadu, who takes her job too seriously; Reisen, who is constantly scolded for her screwups by her master Eirin, who invented ETERNAL LIFE) What really can destroy the trope's validity is when we consider their abilities as Danmaku Boss Fights. While Sakuya can be the perfect maid in her daily life, she still pales in comparison to the bratty child Remilia when it boils down to their world's selected form of fighting. In fact, one could think there's too much competence in every house.
*** If you think about it though, this trope applies when looking at every game in itself. In the aforemented example with with members of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, you have the [[Baka]] Cirno, Daiyousei, and Rumia to offset the competence of the others.
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