Special:Badtitle/NS90:Talk:Complete Monster/Dragon Ball/Examples that should remain here.


 * Cell - Moral agency questions arise because he was created to be evil, but it's made very evident that Cell is choosing to pursue the fulfillment of his design out of curiosity, egomania, and power-lust solely because he wants to. This might be justified by the traits he inherited through cells but it doesn't excuse or absolve him of anything, especially since Android 8 and Android 16, who were totally mechanical men created for similarly destructive purposes, had enough sentience and moral agency to choose to be good, giving Cell, a artificially created living organism, even less of an excuse. With that aside, there's no doubt that Cell is up there with Frieza in topping the series' heinous standard by being utterly pure evil.


 * Tao Pai Pai - He's deemed to be a non-example because his onscreen body count isn't too high and his rapsheet gets eclipsed by other villains in the series. But going by the trope's criteria, he's the first villain in the series to sufficiently hit them off and his character, in depiction and actions, served as a trendsetter for the especially evil villains of this series. To put it this way: killing for fun and profit. Threatening innocent people, including children. Killing people allied with him. (General Blue and to an extent the Tailor) Begging for Goku to spare his life and then attempting to kill him when his back is turned even after he's been shown mercy. Not having a loving relationship with a family member but still working with him professionally out of common interest, namely revenge. Guess who ended up doing all of those things in greater capacity? Frieza. Toriyama might have derived a lot of Frieza's character from what he'd previously written for Tao.


 * Babidi - He has some Laughably Evil qualities and a few comedic moments added for him in the anime, but his actions are sufficiently heinous and treated seriously in the narrative and by others in-universe. He has no serious love for Buu since he only values his power but thinks nothing of abusing him otherwise, he's a dick to his henchmen and treats them like disposable goods, and he doesn't even truly love his late father Bibidi since he's actually a doppleganger spawn of Bibidi, thus he views himself and his father as extensions of one another, explaining why he'd want vengeance for Bibidi - it's an affection fueled by pride and selfishness, and he uses it as his self-justification to commit atrocities against others.


 * Super Buu - While the Evil Buu that emerged from Fat Buu was Made of Evil, as soon as he ate Fat Buu, he gained his abilities and consciousness, becoming his own being with sentience and moral agency. He's essentially an alternate version of the previous Buu who sheds his redeeming qualities to the point he'd be willing to harm Mr. Satan's daughter and even Mr. Satan himself.