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A subversion is for these folks to ''not'' actually be cruel, greedy, or unnecessarily violent, but [[Punch Clock Villain|just doing their jobs]]. A [[Noble Demon]] is a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] who talks the talk, but has a tendency to hold back or even help from time to time.
[[Tropes Are Not Good|If not done right (and it is very, very easily done wrong)]], that is to say, if the card is [[Narm|too serious or obvious]], the result can be cheesy, annoying, and [[Anvilicious]]. (Of all the evil people in [[Real Life]], how many have ever ''self-identified'' as evil? [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]], [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], and [[Mao
In the final stage, you have a villain who insists on justifying their actions because "it's what villains are ''supposed to do''"; see [[Contractual Genre Blindness]].
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* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' has the freaking incarnation of the third sphere, Ali Al-Saachez. Gundam series generally (pretend to) have multidimensional villains with some understandable motivations. Or, at least, villains that are good at self-justification and excuses. Ali is probably the only villain in the entire franchise to readily admit that he loves war for war's sake, that he commits his (numerous) crimes [[For the Evulz]], and that this makes him the worst sort of person in the world. He has absolutely no problem with it.
* Xellos from ''[[Slayers]]'' is this whenever he isn't siding with the protagonists. Being a powerful demon in the service of powers that want to destroy the world and feeding off from negative human emotions does that to a person. He makes an effort to avoid killing the good guys because they're such fun, though.
* Dio from ''[[
* Evangeline of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' tries [[Noble Demon|and fails]] to be a type 2. She makes token attempts to turn Negi and Asuna to [[The Dark Side]] as her "sub-bosses", and occasionally tries to scare people, but other than that, [[Offstage Villainy|she doesn't do anything all that evil]] and, as a matter of fact, helps the heroes a ''lot''. Negi attempts to point this out to her, but she still claims to be evil.
* ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]'' has Neuro, an actual demon who enjoys eating mysteries; while he claims to be evil, he never kills humans and tends to be more an amoral ''[[Troll]]'' than a "monster". On the other hand, we have Sicks, who is a [[Complete Monster]] and doing it [[For the Evulz]].
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* 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 ''[[Harry Potter
** 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 ''[[Harry Potter
** 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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