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If they roll up and tell you they're going to save your soul, you say: "Guys, I wouldn't trust you to save my credit card info."
~ Leah Cassini about the Templars.
(yawns) I don’t feel like it.
~ SpongeBob SquarePants when Mr. Krabs tells him to do the job once.
"Good things come to those who don't wait around!" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...
~ Bennett about his bad luck

Heroes who are more likely to accidentally botch up their own plots than the ones of villains they're fighting against (unless if said villains are the same), often due to stupidity, cowardly behavior, weak strength or willpower, arrogance, poor planning, and/or unwillingness on their part. Depending on the circumstances, this could make some of them reach Scapegoat territory if them continually lacking in skills or success are what makes them inept and bumbling rather than brave and competent.

Incompetent heroes often have schemes that are ultimately stupid, have little effect in general to the point their efficiency is overall short-terms, or sometimes their ineptitude can otherwise cause chaos rather than help out on the long term. Sometimes, they are so unprepared and impractical, their hasty decisions and/or their attempts to fulfill in their ambitions (good or bad) will just blow up in their faces more times than not, which could lead to either causing themselves great harm, aid the villains or even their own rivals instead of aiding the heroes. However, even masterminds such as Sung Jinwoo for example, can still be classified as incompetent if they meet any of the previous qualifications and if they're characters who are made out to be smart in the media they appear in, especially if their intelligence varies. This shows that just because they are incompetent that does not mean that they aren't smart. It is possible for heroes to be good in a certain field, but still are too cowardly, lacking in common sense, or too arrogant to get the job done.

For obvious reasons, these heroes are likely not successful, but in certain cases, they can still succeed in their goals, albeit they have the help of much more competent heroes, sheer luck, or by learning from their past failures to become much better people (e.g Neito Monoma, BoJack Horseman, Cedric the Great, Eddy, Mr. Satan).

Keep in mind that this category only refers to incompetence in terms of heroism and helpfulness, not professionalism or occupational skills.

Pure Good heroes will NEVER qualify as this since they are capable of performing wondrous heroic acts and causing galvanization to others in a story which actually makes them incredibly competent and very beneficial in vast contrast.

Even if, in very rare cases, some Pure Good heroes that come off as somewhat incompetent (e.g. Luigi, Po, Hubie, Emmet Brickowski, Forrest Gump, Flik, Dewey Riley, Michelangelo (TMNT 2012), Papyrus, Walter Beckett, Ashley Graham, Bruno Madrigal, Flint Lockwood, Chicken Little, Bolt, Roddy St. James, and Mario (The Super Mario Bros. Movie)), they're still capable of doing serious heroic acts and thus, they must go under Cowards, Comic Relief, Dimwits, Misguided, and/or Weaklings categories instead.

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