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Evil, thwarted by its own boobery. The aul’ Skeletor treatment.

For further (and even more irritating) examples of this see Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (as they were known on this side of the pond - no ninjas please).

Shredder looked like a badass but he was constantly defeated by his henchmen (Bee Bop and Rocksteady) getting their belts cut. Down would fall their trousers and down would tumble their ‘evil’ schemes.

As I remember it, the original Mattel Darth Vader

Kenner! Mattel gave us Master of the Universe, whose bad guy was suitably scary {and maybe a little camp, in hindsight}, as long as you didn’t watch the cartoons.

Evil, thwarted by its own boobery. The aul’ Skeletor treatment.

Daragh, Factory masters worth their salt never slack off or go easy with the whip. Perhaps he simply worked the original artists to early graves, replacing them with less talented (cheaper) lads and lassies.

Darwin, the original Darth was indeed pretty manky in its own right. Too skinny, too (as you point out) feet-close-together-y. Only with his cloak was he even passably intimidating, though most children I knew seemed to have lost this early on - revealing his scrawniness to a disappointed world.