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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.
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