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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''Burns''': I'm absolutely evil.
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'''Zorg:''' *Smirking* I know. }}
* Bowler Hat Guy from ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]'' aspires to be one of these. He's [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|not very good]] [[Hilarity Ensues|at it]].
* In ''[[Kung Pow! Enter the Fist]]'', [[Fluffy the Terrible|Betty]] is the loyal enforcer of the [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|Evil Council]]. And there's also the fact that he is formally known as Master Pain.
{{quote|'''Mayor''': Master, what exactly is the Evil Council's plan?
'''Betty''': [[Department of Redundancy Department|It is evil. It is so evil. It is a bad, bad plan that will hurt...many people...who are good. I think is great, because it is so bad.]] }}
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Subverted in the
{{quote|'''Greenyham''': ''You can't do that!''
'''Vetinari''': ''Can I not? I'm a tyrant. It's what we do.'' }}
*** Greenyham has been calling Vetinari a tyrant through most of the book,{{context|reason=Which book? There are over 40 in the series.}} on the grounds that Vetinari runs the government. (Vetinari probably ''is'' a tyrant in the original Greek sense of the word: a guy who bosses the polis.) It's a [[Take That]] to libertarian propaganda.
*** Note that he also classifies ''everyone'' as "bad people". But some of them are on [[Evil Versus Evil|opposite sides]].
** Lady Felmut, in ''[[
** Also somewhat subverted with Dr. Hix (né Hicks), head of UU's Department of <s>Necr--</s> Post-Mortem Communication in ''[[Unseen Academicals]]''. Because necromancy is a so-called evil curriculum, he wears the skull ring and forces himself (if apologetically) to take an Evil stance on things, simply because it goes with his job description.
** <s>Sub--</s><s>Lampsh--</s> ''Done something with'' by Abrim, [[The Grand Vizier]] in ''[[Sourcery]]''. He points out that the evil things he does ''are'' expected of him. But he doesn't apologize for doing them, like Dr. Hix, or do them for the greater good, like Vetinari. Probably closest to lampshaded.
* Acheron Hades of the ''[[Thursday Next]]'' series ''literally'' wrote the book (''Degeneracy for pleasure and profit'') and extols the wonder of doing evil for its own sake. He also complains that profit "dilutes the taste of wickedness".
* Some of ''[[Redwall]]'''s villains clearly revel in this trope. Vilu Daskar, upon being praised by his crew for inventive sadism, modestly says "Oh, I do my best to be the worst." The trope gets even more obvious in ''Triss'', when the villainous pirate crew does ''three [[Villain Song|song and dance numbers]]'' dedicated to their own gruesome behaviour. The irony here being that Grubbage, one of the singers of the second song (''"'Tis nice to be a villain/wot all honest creatures fears/and terrorise the beasts for miles around"''), does a [[Heel Face Turn]] in a sadly ''very'' brief skimmed-over epilogue.
* The Nome King from [[L. Frank Baum]]'s ''[[Land of Oz]]'' stories is a sadistic old bastich who enjoys being angry because it makes everyone around him miserable.
* Godelot, a historical personage in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' and author of ''Magick Most Evile'', reveled in his villainy (although a passage quoted in ''[[
** Fenrir Greyback could also count. There's his memorable line towards the end of ''Half-Blood Prince'', in which he openly admits to coming to the castle without being invited, just because he wants to kill and eat children. While still in human form.
** The villain of ''[[
** If ''The Methods of Rationality'' is right, anyone creating a horcrux would pretty much have to be a completely unironic Card-Carrying Villain. The theory is, you need to do something so depraved and inhumane that you literally cannot live with yourself and break your own soul to get a piece to put in the horcrux. ([[Nightmare Fuel|Yikes]].)
* The poster-boy for [[Yellow Peril]], [[Fu Manchu]], started out as one of these ("They die like flies! And I am the God of Destruction!"), before turning into something closer to a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]].
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