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[General] What famous villains would still have ultimately failed in their plans even if they'd succeeded in killing the protagonists in the climax?

I thought of this based on an earlier post of my very own in which I stipulate that *Frozen*'s Hans probably falls under this category.

Note that I'm not looking for examples where this is *explicitly* the case (such as Zod at the end of *Man of Steel*, where he's already lost everything and is just in a blind rage), but rather ones where it could merely be stipulated as such based on presumably unintentional fridge logic.
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Luke had nothing to do with the Death Star's destruction at the end of *Return of the Jedi*. Even if Luke had been killed by Vader, or been corrupted to the Dark Side, Lando would have blown up the space station a few minutes later, and the Emperor would have been so much cosmic dust.

The Joker's goal in *The Dark Knight* was to prove that humans are generally shit, and willing to murder each other at the drop of a hat. Even if Batman had died during the climax, the inmates and citizens proved the Joker wrong. On top of that, the Joker genuinely loves fighting Batman. Seeing him dead would have robbed him of his fun.