A Useless Villain

Description

High-school student Dongjin Kim seems like a typical moody teenager, but underneath it all, he’s a powerful psychic “villain” who aims to destroy humanity. But there’s a catch -- every time he uses his powers to kill, he is thrown back in time. Trapped in this time loop, Dongjin tries to narrow down the culprit by doing the one thing he knows: killing those around him. Will he be able to escape from the time loop and achieve his goal as a villain?

Original Webtoon:
Naver Webtoon, Naver Series

Official Translations:
English, T.Chinese, S.Chinese

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

Incompetent Villain

無能 Villain

無能反派

무능빌런

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Latest Release(s)

c.53 by LINE Webtoon 3 years ago

c.52 by LINE Webtoon 3 years ago

c.51 by LINE Webtoon 3 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

53 Chapters (Cancelled)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 5.2 / 10.0 (44 votes)

Bayesian Average: 5.61 / 10.0

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11%

Last Updated

October 18th, 2025 11:34am PDT - 2 months ago

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Genre

Comedy School Life Supernatural
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Category Recommendations

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Recommendations

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Author(s)

HEEN Yeoul

Artist(s)

LEE Changjun

Year

2021

Original Publisher

Naver

Serialized In (magazine)

Naver Series (Naver)

Naver Webtoon (Naver)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

LINE Webtoon

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #842

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Monthly Pos #1459

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3 Month Pos #3290

(-375)

6 Month Pos #4021

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Year Pos #6185

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List Stats

On 162 reading lists

On 89 wish lists

On 56 completed lists

On 17 unfinished lists

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Absolutely hilarious

by fishiiie
3 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

Man this series. LOL I have no words. The art is worth a 10/10, hands down without a doubt. But the plot and storyline and progression? 0/10. LOL. You don't realize how important it is to have a good story buildup until you read this one. Well, one good thing out of this is that I learned to appreciate that lmao

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The ending?!

by ekushay
3 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

I am incredibly stunned at the ending -- it's a big WTF. Even the comments on Webtoons are complaining about it.

The story had a LOT of potential. A villain as a main character that kills with no remorse? Heck yeah! It was a great premise, but it was ruined by background politics, probably. You can tell it got worse with each chapter and it was going downhill, and then eventually the story was cut short. I have absolutely no words, except...

WHAT AWFULNESS! This series deserves better, and I'm sure the author knows too. I feel so sorry for it. This rating is because of the great art and interesting storyline, and that I know it could've been better. It if it weren't for those elements, then it would've been a 1. I'm so livid at this ending that I'm in stunned disbelief. 🤣

... Last updated 3 years ago

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In short

by connectedwizzard
4 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

Nah, unique, but not worth reading.

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Really good if you actually read it

by LordOfTheThunder
4 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Unique premise, intriguing protagonist. He's not a Gary Stu or a harem lead who shows off to girls, he's someone who is desperate to free himself from his timeloop so he can kill everyone, for unknown reasons. It is very violent, and he does constantly try to kill people, so if you need that in a series, this is fine.

High quality art, protagonist is a murderous psycho, but a likeable and complicated one. He's smart and determined but not infallible. Plot so far has been solid. A lot of people in the comments seemed to be worried cliches were getting flagged and it would fall into them, but it turned out groundless, so don't worry.

To address Mr/Ms. Completely Stupid's issue, he had absolutely no reason to not wait until the next day (he's not on a timer or anything), and in fact it was probably a good idea as an anomaly had popped up and he wanted to investigate it first before muddying the waters randomly by chasing down a now-scattered group of people for no reason.

His goal was to systematically go through the school to find the time user, not to murder arbitrary students. I don't know why you had the impression he was in a rush. He spent probably at least several weeks being a student before deciding to go after the entire school. Don't read this if you just want to see a 1-dimensional moron instantly flex on everyone who crosses him.

I don't normally give 10/10 ratings for series that aren't either long or complete, so this is around an 8 or a 9, but I'm giving it a 10 because its average is ridiculously low considering the quality and lots of people give 10s on much less interesting series.

... Last updated 4 years ago

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Completely stupid

by TribesX
4 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

Made it to the fifth chapter before giving up.

Author says about MC : "he’s a powerful psychic “villain” who aims to destroy humanity", but when he can't kill, he doesn't even think of simply crippling people or hurting them instead of being b**ch slapped.

Then he goes on a killing spree to find who is the time ability's user, and retreat when all the students are out of class. DFK ?! They are all right there ! He's not a ninja or an assassin who need to stay hidden ! Either the user dies or he goes back in time again, where's the problem ?!

Author simply liked his idea and threw all coherence by the window while writing this.
Everything happens "for plot's sake", and that's all.

1 point for the idea, but that's the only interesting things.
1 point for the art, which is nice.

(Yeah, I'm upset because it looked really interesting, and I'm totally disappointed.)

... Last updated 4 years ago

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Unsettling

by Ascension
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

After reading the first 2 chapters I can agree completely with the title of the previous comment.
The webtoon MC feels like the MC in Onani Master Kurosawa.

There's 1 specific thing which I absolutely hate though. The guy that is being extremely friendly to the MC.

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gay ass

by sloez
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

😐

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