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The Card Carrying Villain demands [[Villain Cred|to be respected and feared and on top of the heap over everyone else]] because [[Evil Is Cool]] and [[Good Is Dumb]].

A [[Black Cloak]], a low-ranking [[Terrible Trio]], an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]], or someone who's succumbed to [[The Dark Side]] is usually most likely to identify themselves this way.

 

 

[[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 Ze Dong|Mao]]--all of them believed with messianic zeal that they were doing good.) Though, in comedy situations/shows, this fate is usually averted, as it's a humorous thing (and thus right in place). It can also be used with a darker twist - showing a person so beyond redemption, so beyond what we call usual morality, that he is literally impossible to argue and reason with.

Card-carrying villains are particularly likely to do something [[For the Evulz]].

 

 

See also [[Always Chaotic Evil]], [[Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad]], [[Lawful Stupid Chaotic Stupid]], [[Stupid Evil]], and [[Punch Clock Villain]].

 

 

== Anime ==

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

* The Digimon Kaiser from ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' refered to himself as evil...{{spoiler|before he [[Sixth Ranger|became a good guy]].}}

* ''[[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.

* Evangeline of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|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]].

* Hagurou Dou is one of these in ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'', as his goal in life is to be seen as a cold blooded monster. A rare example that is NOT [[Played for Laughs]], considering [[Complete Monster|what he is]].

* Mint from "Trouble Chocolate" is a parody of this.

* Lust from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' is very proud of being evil. She revels in causing humans pain and suffering, and compliments Mustang's determination while he's killing her, stating that one day soon, his eyes will widen with agony and despair.

{{quote| {{smallcaps| [[Running Gag|IT'S BUTCH!!!]]}}}}

 

* [[Darkseid]] openly admits to being an evil god and that he desires to crush all happiness and free will in the Universe.

* [[Miracleman (Comic Book)|Kid Miracleman]]/Marvelman displays this trope when he goes over the edge. Moments after starting his slaughter-spree, he spares the life of a nurse who had been kind to him. He returns a moment later, saying "They'd only say I was going soft...", and pulverises the top of her skull with a blast of his eye-beams.

** The film version of ''[[X-Men (Film)|X-Men]]'' avoids this by having Magneto simply call his group "The Brotherhood of Mutants".

** Similarly, recent issues of [[Savage Dragon]] have subverted this a bit with the new [[Overlord]] referring to his team (the Vicious Circle) simply as The Circle. Since there are a number of similarities between Magneto's Brotherhood and [[Overlord]]'s Circle, it's arguable that one is in response to the other.

** In the comics, one version of the Brotherhood working for the US Government and led by Mystique takes a smart idea and calls itself by the innocuous moniker "Freedom Force".

* Ava Lord from the ''[[Sin City]]'' story "A Dame to Kill For" identifies herself as evil in her [[Evil Gloating]] speech to Dwight McCarthy, who she has just manipulated into {{spoiler|murdering her husband Damien so that she can inherit his money}}:

* In Rick Veitch's early-2000s run on ''[[Aquaman (Comic Book)|Aquaman]]'', the titular hero confronts his archnemesis (and murderer of his son), Black Manta, and, after defeating him, uses his new magic powers to re-wire his brain and cure him of his autism; the painful and incompetent treatment he received as a child was part of why he'd become such an insane monster. He appears to turn himself around, but the apparent [[Freudian Excuse]] and [[Heel Face Turn]] are subverted when, at a critical moment, Manta stabs Aquaman in the back and explains: "Y'see, deep down, in my most secret heart of hearts, I'm still a totally depraved sonuvabitch whose main goal in life is to watch you die. Slowly and painfully. Just like your kid."

* ''Queen of the Universe'': [http://www.eyebeam.com/Queen1991/index.php?num=278 Dober-Man].

* The very first appearance of [[Captain America]]'s archenemy, the Red Skull, had him exit stage left saying "I'll be back - with ''more murder!''"

* [[The Joker]] once identified himself to Black Canary as "genuine, card-carrying, lock-me-up-throw-away-the-key lunatic!" It sparked a letter column debate (remember those?) about whether or not insane people could recognize themselves as being, well, insane.

* In ''[[Judge Dredd]]'', Pa Angel is openly trying to raise his sons to be the "meanest, orneriest, baddiest bunch a' men that ever lived." The boys are only too happy to learn from him.

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

* Set, apparent leader of [[The Syndicate|The Order]] in ''[[Invincible (Comic Book)|Invincible]]'' spinoff ''Guarding The Globe''. In an issue released the same week as the issue in which Contagion makes the speech above, Set begins a meeting of The Order with this:

{{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. }}

== Film ==

* In classic ''[[James Bond]]'' movies starring Sean Connery, the top villains are brought together by an organization named SPECTRE - that literally stands for "Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion".

{{quote| '''Dr. Evil:''' An ''evil'' petting zoo?<br />

'''Scott:''' You always do that! (Storms off) }}

{{quote| You're all a bunch of assholes, you know why? You don't have the guts to be what you want to be. You need people like me! You need people like me so you can point your fucking fingers and say 'That's the bad guy!' What that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide. How to lie. Me? I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say goodnight to the bad guy!}}

* Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg from ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' is a great example, though he tries to justify this behavior by claiming that life comes from chaos and, therefore, destruction actually creates and improves life.

'''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]].

 

== Literature ==

{{quote| '''Greenyham''': ''You can't do that!''<br />

'''Vetinari''': ''Can I not? I'm a tyrant. It's what we do.'' }}

** 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 (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire|Goblet of Fire]]'' might count: "Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter..."

* The wicked duke in [[James Thurber]]'s ''[[The 13 Clocks (Literature)|The 13 Clocks]]''

{{quote| ''"We all have flaws," he said, "and mine is being wicked."''}}

* ''[[Emberverse|Dies the Fire]]'' by [[SM Stirling]]. The [[Big Bad]] who's turned Portland into a feudal dictatorship uses the [[The Lord of the Rings|Eye of Sauron]] on his flag. One of the protagonists comments how stupid this is, as it would make more sense to use the Stars & Stripes to give himself legitimacy. When his colleague points out that "[[Evil Is Sexy|Hey, it's cool to be bad!]]", he responds "What's the point of letting people know you're evil enough to backstab them at the first suitable opportunity?"

* One gets the impression that Pryrates, [[Evil Sorcerer]] and [[The Dragon]] to the [[Big Bad]] of [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Memory Sorrowand Thorn]]'', has a list of [[Villain]] tropes in his pocket and is working his way through it as the story goes on. [[Kick the Dog]], check. [[Torture Cellar]], check. [[Deal With the Devil|Sell your king's soul]] for power, check. All we need is the [[Evil Gloating]]...oh, there he goes.

* Alex DeLarge of ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Literature)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' happily rapes, murders, and beats as he pleases. Why? Because, as he freely admits, he just prefers to be evil.

* Every villain of a Wilbur Smith novel basically lives and breathes this trope. They're so ''obviously'' evil that it's as if they all came from the same [[Kick the Dog|dog-kicking]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|litter]].

* A rare case of this trope being played both seriously and non-[[Narm|Narmfully]] is the Hunter of C.S. Friedman's ''[[Coldfire Trilogy]]''. Living in a world where the human mind can unconsciously shape reality, he has made an absolute monster of himself in a bid to deliberately invoke the trope of the invulnerable evil overlord.

** Beyond that, he's getting his immortality through a [[Deal With the Devil|pact]] with an entity that's basically the unholy lovechild of [[Satan]] and [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhu]] - if he ever ''stopped'' being knowingly and extremely evil, it would withdraw its end of the bargain, killing him.

* Partially [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] in the ''[[Babylon Five]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] trilogy ''The Passing of the Techno-Mages'' with Galen, whose original high ideals for the [[Magic From Technology|Technomage]] order are shattered when he [[The Reveal|finds out]] that {{spoiler|Technomages are products of Shadow technology}}. As such, he starts to believe himself to be inherently evil, incapable of good. Turning into a [[Person of Mass Destruction]] doesn't help. He later changes his mind.

** On the other hand, several other Technomages definitely fit the trope. {{spoiler|Razeel}} willingly chooses to serve the Shadows for an unknown reason. {{spoiler|Circe}}'s motivation for betrayal is pure desire for power.

* Kurt Barlow from [[Salems Lot]].

* ''[[In Death]]'': some of the bad guys reach this level in the series. Casto from ''Immortal In Death'' admits that he is a selfish man. Reanna Otts in ''Rapture In Death'' cheerfully describes herself as [[The Sociopath]] and completely agrees with that diagnosis!

** The only thing the UAE was ever seen doing was throwing celebration parties for themselves, complete with streamers and conga lines. That's one awesome organization.

*** ''And'' launching a massive, coordinated attack on the entire universe in the ''In Space'' finale.

*** Adding more to this scene is the fact that, unlike the previous villain's announcing themselves as evil, it's actually truly menacing here.

* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' was mostly pretty good about avoiding this, going by the motto "The monster never sees a monster in the mirror." In fact, there are still a sizable number of fans who believe that one or more of the show's villains was right. Except for President Clark, whose ideology was basically future human fascism, with [[Fantastic Racism|extreme xenophobia]] against the other races. When the rebellion is winning and he's about to be deposed, Clark is going to destroy everyone with him for spite and fear of its eventual fall, with the very appropriate order "Scorched Earth." It's actually a fairly prescient examination of how simple American-style patriotic conservatism could morph into fascism and, extending the analogy, Clark tries to do more or less what Hitler would have liked to have done had his domain been larger than Berlin/had there been much of Germany left to destroy anyway.<ref>Or rather, what he ''ordered'' Albert Speer to do, but [[Punch Clock Villain|Speer]], [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil|despite his friendship and loyalty to Hitler]], [[Noble Demon|just couldn't get behind the order]], [[Pragmatic Villainy|seeing as it was pointless]].</ref>

** Early on, the Shadows seem to be this (deliberately maximizing the [[Nightmare Fuel]] of all their technology, always calling themselves "shadows" in the language of whomever they're talking to), but we later learn this is a mask, facing fear (of them) makes us stronger , and they're doing it [[Knight Templar|for our own good]]. Like most such people, they [[Motive Decay|eventually forget why it's for their own good]] and morph into [[Chaotic Stupid|general chaos-mongers]] intent only on antagonizing the Vorlons (who have themselves become [[Lawful Stupid|general order-mongers]]).

* The Trio from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', three supernerds who explicitly set out to become supervillains because they thought it was cool. They were ''really'' bad at it though.

** Spike, on multiple occasions, proudly reminds the Scoobies that, although defanged, he is still a demon and therefore evil. Harmony (in ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'') is more ambivalent; apparently, she doesn't mind being good but, ultimately, cannot help doing evil.

{{quote| '''Harmony''': "Is this okay? I mean. I am evil, technically. I don't mind torturing her for the team. "}}

** While he's this trope, he chucks it off to being ''born'' a [[Sealed Evil in A Can]] (in this case, a planet), with the intended purpose of keeping balance, and blames his existence on [[Neglectful Precursors]] of some sort. He likes the being evil part, but he doesn't like the being sealed or keeping balance parts. {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini|He gets his wish]]...sort of.}}

* Alex Russo in ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]''. Whenever someone refers to her as evil, dark, or scary, she just grins and/or giggles, she actively encourages her [[Cool Loser]] status at school and deliberately provokes fights with her brother, Justin, because "that's how things are supposed to be".

* Pretty much all the villains in most ''[[Super Sentai]]'' or ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' series.

* While the Goa'uld of ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'' are [[Always Chaotic Evil]], none of them ever seem aware of how evil they are. Anubis, who also happens to be the most evil Goa'uld, however, is a little different. From his dialogue as "Jim", it's implied that he knows ''exactly'' how evil and vicious he is. He spends a good deal of his appearance complaining about how cruel Anubis' actions are and how unfair it is that nobody is stopping him. All while pretending to be a good guy.

 

== Music ==

* Voltaire's song "When You're Evil" is a song about a guy who admits how much he loves being evil...or possibly actually ''is'' evil itself, as the speaker/singer says "The Devil tips his hat to me."

* Uncle Ernie from [[The Who]]'s ''[[Tommy]]'': "I'm your wicked Uncle Ernie..."

* Chaos and the Dark Eldar in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' take delight in being on the extreme wrong side of the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. Considering the latter group literally ''lives'' off of [[Squick]] taken to the point of nightmarish, this is perhaps understandable. A quote from the nearest thing they have to a leader: "Death is my meat, terror my wine."

* ''[[Exalted]]'' gives us the Infernal Exalted; while they aren't [[Always Chaotic Evil]], the cards are stacked against them. For one thing, if they go against the will of their [[The Legions of Hell|Yozi]] masters, they accrue Torment, which can backlash and affect mortals in nasty ways. The only way to bleed off torment is to engage in Acts of Villainy -- stick your foes in death traps, force an innocent into an arranged marriage, monologue at your archnemesis, etc. This is what happens when the guy behind the plan is ''the cosmic embodiment of douchebaggery''. Mind you, it's doesn't say ''who'' you have to perform some of those Acts of Villainy on...

**** Mind you, an Infernal could make such a deal solely [[Rule of Cool|for the sake of getting all the nifty powers]], with no intent to serve the Reclamation (and, in fact, with [[Faustian Rebellion|potential plans for a double-cross]]). Nothing forces the Infernals to truly be evil. The cards are ''supposed'' to be stacked against them, but the Ebon Dragon's [[Idiot Plot|so awful at planning]] that it backfires on every level...

** And then there's the whole reason they're like that -- the Ebon Dragon had an active hand in their creation. Each of the Primordials represents a principle of Creation, and the Ebon Dragon once represented betrayal. Every thing he does is based around screwing someone over, even if it screws him as well.

{{quote| '''Charnel''': Kill the blasphemer!<br />

'''Persephone''': Charnel! Death is not the answer to everything...<br />

* In ''[[Super Mario Bros (Franchise)|Super Mario Bros]]'', Bowser actively pursues a life of evil debauchery, seeks evil locales for his castles, and enjoys being called "your vileness". However, in the spinoffs and ''[[Super Mario Sunshine (Video Game)|Super Mario Sunshine]]'', his evilness began to decline with being a "[[Noble Demon]]" too much, especially as in the Mario RPG's. Despite helping his enemies to his status as a Card-Carrying Villain, they only show that Bowser has become capable of goodness, at least to some degree. Still, his attempts to be a Card-Carrying Villain in the main platformers are still effective, whether Mario defeats him or not. His attempts in the Super Mario Galaxy games take him up a level, since he planned to take over his galaxy and, later, the entire universe, which would still end in disaster {{spoiler|and kill him with the entire universe}}.

** The Smithy Gang from ''[[Super Mario RPG (Video Game)|Super Mario RPG]]'' seem to enjoy causing widespread chaos. Smithy even says he'd like to "Get rid of all wishes and create a world filled with...WEAPONS!!

** Despite not being played for laughs, there are quite a few instances where Regal comes off as pretty narmtastic.

** Then let me introduce Dr. Weil, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Mega Man Zero (Video Game)|Mega Man Zero]]'', who had the ambition of fulfilling all three spheres, and ''even succeeding''. And this is one of the modern examples that's ''not'' played for [[Laughably Evil|laughs]] or [[Evil Is Cool|cool]]; he provides us with one of the quotes before battling Zero, [[Complete Monster|describing himself really well]].

* ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]''. In the third game, this is used literally; the villains belong to an organization known as Dealer, and they carry Noise Cards with them to make Wizards go out of control.

* The non-Naughty Dog installments of the ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' series portray many of its main antagonists as card-carrying villains, especially as the series took a more comedic turn.

* Team Rocket, introduced in the original [[Pokémon Red and Blue|Pokémon]] games, pretty much embodied this attitude. They not only declare how evil they are repeatedly, but generally seem more concerned with making sure that Pokémon are harmed and exploited than actually profitting from their plans

* The super-villain Rictus in ''[[Anachronox (Video Game)|Anachronox]]'':

** I shall kill you...with '''death'''!

** "No, you merit no villain's exposition."

* The Soviets in ''[[Command and Conquer]]:[[Red Alert]]'' series.

* House Steiner in the ''[[Mechwarrior]]'' game franchise: on the couple of occasions you aren't fighting them, they're setting you up for a murderous betrayal. The original ''[[Battle Tech]]'' universe portrays them as more morally ambiguous.

** Somewhat justified in ''[[Mech Commander]] 2'' and ''[[Mechwarrior]] 4: Vengeance/Mercenaries'', as they are being lead by [[Complete Monster|Katherine Steiner-Davion.]]

** The Linear Guild literally carries (business) cards.

** As do {{spoiler|their masters}}, the Inter-Fiend Cooperation Commission, though, considering they're fiends (and therefore literal incarnations of evil), this trope rather goes with the territory.

** Elan's long-lost father turned up and explained why he chose to become an evil tyrant: every story calls for one, so he will be the villain and "live like a god for three decades" until some heroes come along to vanquish him. He'll still be immortalized in bardic lore ''and'' he'll get to be emperor for a while, so, in his opinion, eventual [[Karmic Death]] is worth the payoff.

* Helen, Mell, and, later, Dave in ''[[Narbonic (Webcomic)|Narbonic]]''. Helen is, in fact, a Shirt Wearing Villain -- her habitual outfit includes an old T-shirt which reads ''"evil"'', with a heart dotting the ''i''.

* In ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'', all of the monsters of the mountain identify themselves as evil, though only the Drow (and King Louie the Liche) act like it. The only real difference between the rest of the monsters and the "good" humans and elves are a tendency to eat other sentient beings and a casual approach to mortal violence.

* ''[[Concerned]]'' has Wallace Breen of ''[[Half-Life]]'' become something like this.

* ''GU Comics'' [http://www.gucomics.com/comic/?cdate=20050524 demonstrates.]

** Hell, he even tried joining the bad guys after gleefully wasting all his fire spells on [[Goddamned Bats|BATS]] and leaving the Light Warriors to die inside a block of solid ice:

{{quote| '''Drizzl:''' What do you think you're doing?<br />

'''Black Mage:''' I'd say I was joining the winning side, but that would imply that there was some point where I wasn't part of team evil. }}

* ''[[Bob the Angry Flower]]'' once had a violent confrontation with a man who only gave his name as the Evil Business Guy Made of Butter. Well, allegedly had a violent confrontation with an alleged Evil Business Guy made of pure creamy butter.

* ''[[Precocious (Webcomic)|Precocious]]''? Well, the main kids [http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2009/06/30 play as the Super Villain Union]. And when it's time to pick the Class President? Dionne quickly turns the campaign negative [http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2010/03/12 as her selling point.]

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', Ellen was this initially in an effort to give herself some sense of identity.

 

== Web Original ==

* In ''[[Unforgotten Realms]]'', the [[Evil Overlord]] Timmy the Evil spends his evil time discussing his evil plans for the destruction of the not-so-evil heroes with the evil Professor Walrus. All of his evil plans so far include using evil crystals with a variety of evil powers. Evil.

* {{spoiler|Sarah Genatiempo}} is revealed to have been this [[The Mole|all along]] in the ''[[LG 15 The Resistance]]'' finale. "[[Back to The Future|Hello? McFly?]] ''I'm evil!'' Completely and utterly evil."

* [[Making Fiends|Vendetta]]. In the web cartoon, Vendetta's main reason to destroy [[The Pollyanna|Charlotte]] seems to be because she thinks Vendetta and the fiends are nice and her friends, although in the TV series, this boils down to [[Motive Decay|"Charlotte is annoying"]]. Same with [[Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher|Mrs. Minty]], who is unaware(?) of Vendetta's evilness and treats her like another misbehaving student, which doesn't end well.

* Evil Blah in ''[[The Demented Cartoon Movie]]''.

{{quote| '''Bakura''': Why do we even need the [[Duels Decide Everything|card game]] at all? Why can't we just push him off the boat?<br />

'''Marik''': No! The card game is essential to the plot! [[Evil Is Hammy|The EVIL plot!]] }}

{{quote| '''Vegeta:''' That's it, everyone dies! Say goodbye to your planet, Kakarot!<br />

'''Goku:''' That's not very nice.<br />

** Also Freiza, he even demands God to strike him down [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulu|and laughs when he survives unscathed]]

 

 

== Western Animation ==

** Evil is a whole lifestyle in ''[[Kim Possible]]'', with its own magazines (Shego reads ''Villainess'' while not listening to Drakken's [[Evil Plan|Evil Plans]]), supervillain conventions and trade shows, and a corporation that supplies equipment and henchmen ("[[Trope Co|HenchCo]]"). Though a [[Disney]]-produced show, they aren't above take potshots at the corporate lifestyle and how nicely it dovetails with being a villain.

*** It even has an own TV show: Evil Eye for the Bad Guy.

** Krang also has been known to say this more than once and being even more evil or cruel than Shredder, OR towards Shredder when Shredder's plans sometimes backfire on him big time.

* Negaduck's goal on ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' is to be Public Enemy #1. He was already the [[Evil Overlord]] dictator of the [[Mirror Universe]], but [[Pride|"like death is never satisfied."]]

** Jade also references this trope when referring to the Dark Hand as "Card Carrying Members of the Forces of Darkness."

* You can tell that [[The Spectacular Spider Man|Doc Ock]] has fully become one by the mug he drinks out of that has "Evil Genius" written on it.

* A bit of a ''plot point'' in the ''[[Legion of Super Heroes (TV)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'' episode "Phantoms". Phantom Zone escapee Drax hears the voices of his still-imprisoned parents in his head, constantly reminding him that he's ''evil'' and always will be. Supervillains really do make [[Abusive Parents]].

** In the series finale, despite never having self-identified as evil before (quite the opposite, in fact), the still-alive villain says to...no one in particular, "Evil does not die. It evolves," in an ill-fated [[Sequel Hook]].

* Most, if not all the villains on ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''. This includes [[Sadist Teacher]] Crocker, malicious babysitter Vicky (who wants to someday "share her hate with everyone"), [[Galactic Conqueror]] Dark Laser, the [[Always Chaotic Evil]] anit-fairies, and the always [[Lawful Evil]] pixies. Special mention goes to [[Enfante Terrible|Foop]], who was born with a single goal in mind: to be hated and feared.

* After [[He-Man and The Masters of The Universe (Animation)|He-Man and The Masters of The Universe]] explains that [[Christmas Episode]] makes people "feel good," Skeletor responds, "I don't want to feel good! I want to feel evil!"

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'' has [[Harmless Villain]] Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. He calls himself evil and has a company called 'Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated', complete with [[Jingle]]. In several episodes, he has a [[Villain Song]] where he declares how evil he is. It comes to the point he'd erase the media just to prevent his fellow villains from finding out he (accidentally) saved a kitty. In the [[Christmas Special]], he feared he'd be expelled from his evil scientist association for not hating Christmas.

* Dick Dastardly is a true, if ineffective, card-carrying villain, and probably the most popular bad guy in the Hanna-Barbera stable. The narrator of ''[[Dastardly and Muttley In Their Flying Machines]]'' calls him "the deadly, diabolical, despicable demon of the skyways."

{{quote| '''Captain Zero:''' You're a team! The best, the better-looking, more powerful, and, dare I say? More devious!<br />

'''[[Minion With an F In Evil|Zip]]:''' What is devious?<br />

'''Captain Zero:''' What's devious is what's necessary to make an honest living in these days of corruption and bad business ethics!<br />

'''Zip:''' ...Oh. }}

* A number of ''[[Danny Phantom (Animation)|Danny Phantom]]'' villains refer to themselves as such (most notably [[Large Ham|Technus]]). [[Big Bad]] Vlad Plasmius initially averted this - for the first two seasons, being called a villain was almost a [[Berserk Button]] for him - but after [[Villain Decay]] began to set in he started acting more like a conventional card-carrying baddie.