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* 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}}:
{{quote| '''Ava:''' [[You're Insane!|Insane?]] Ha! That's so easy, so convenient -- and so wrong. Crazy people push shopping carts down the streets and talk nonsense. Crazy people sit in padded cells and soil their pants. A madwoman couldn't have pulled this off. No. There's a word for what I am, but nobody uses it anymore. Nobody wants to see the simple truth. If they did, they'd kill people like me as soon as we revealed ourselves. But they don't. They close their eyes and blather about psychology and say that nobody is truly evil. That's why I've won. That's why I always win.}}
* 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].
* Herr Starr of ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' starts out as a [[Knight Templar]], but, in the end, admits, however unrepentantly, that he's become a "monster" obsessed with hatred and revenge.
* 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.
* Dirk Anger, Director of H.A.T.E in ''[[Nextwave (Comic Book)|Nextwave]]''.
{{quote| I'm older'n you. I'm ninety years old. You want to know how I look so pretty? I take drugs. Special H.A.T.E. drugs. Life-extending drugs. H.A.T.E. has the best drugs because H.A.T.E. loves me. And I love H.A.T.E. Every day of my horrible drug-extended terrorist-fighting life. Every day I smoke two hundred cigarettes and one hundred cigars and drink a bottle of whiskey and three bottles of wine with dinner. And dinner is meat. '''Raw''' meat. The cook serves me an entire animal and I fight it bare-handed and tear off what I want and eat it and have the rest buried. In New Jersey! For H.A.T.E.!}}
* During [[Dark Reign (comics)|Dark Reign]], [[Marvel Comics]] introduced Zodiac, a guy who killed every single member of an old supervillain team with the same name so he wouldn't be confused with them. Zodiac plots about the fall of Norman Osborn. Why? Because he finds [[Villain with Good Publicity|Osborn's new position]] an insult to all who just wants to commit evil for it's own sake, like himself.
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