Card-Carrying Villain: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Burns''': I'm absolutely evil.

'''Bart''': You're preaching to the choir, man.

 

Appealing to my better nature? I'm a villain! Here is [[My Card]]! "[[Steven Ulysses Perhero|Eve L. Duehr]]: [[Academy of Evil]] graduate, [[Take Over the World|aspiring]] [[Evil Overlord|tyrant]], [[Kick the Dog|kicker of kittens]], and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|spontaneous singer of]] ''[[Barney and Friends|Barney songs]]''." I crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] while [[Enfant Terrible|still in grade school]] and [[Complete Monster|have never once looked back]]. And you think you can [[Kirk Summation|talk me out of my evil deeds]]? [[Evil Laugh|Ahahahahahahahahaa]]!

 

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* In [https://www.ispot.tv/ad/AqCt/etrade-benedict-arnold this commercial] for E*TRADE, Benedict Arnold seems proud of his reputation as the "infamous traitor".

 

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' gives us [[Bigger Bad|Yami Marik]], the [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] of [[Big Bad|Marik Ishtar]] in the Battle City Arc. While Marik is primarily motivated by {{spoiler|wanting revenge on the Pharoh, the man he believed responsible for killing his father}}, Yami Marik is primarily motivated by [[Omnicidal Maniac|wanting to kill the universe]], kicking as many dogs as he can along the way.

** In the 4Kids dub, Marik Isthar also falls into this trope, going from a sympathetic motive to simply wanting to [[Take Over the World]].

* Contagion, the villain of the first arc of ''[[Wolverine]]: The Best There Is''.

{{quote|I am not the hero in my own story. I am the bad guy. I have no [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|end in mind that justifies my means]]. There are no skeletons in my closet, no [[Freudian Excuse|abusive childhood]] or inciting misery that might expiate my vile behavior. Nor am I insane. I know the difference between good and evil. And I am fully capable of empathizing with the pain, emotional or physical, of others. No [[Lack of Empathy|sociopath]], I. Rather, I simply prefer bad over good. Wrong over right. Dirty over clean. Sick over healthy. Untrue over true.}}

{{quote|I've heard it said, everyone is the hero of their own story. The thought is that even the most vile villain believes his actions to be right and thinks of himself as "good". I am here to tell you, right now, that I am evil. I am greedy, selfish, I do not care for the plight of others. }}

* [[Bomb Queen]]