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* Freeza of ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'' only cares about staying in power as "The Strongest Being in the Universe" and will commit the genocide of entire races who threaten his power. That's why he seeks out immortality, so he can stay that way forever.

* ''[[Death Note]]'': Light wants more to be the [[A God Am I|God of the New World]] than he wants to [[Utopia Justifies the Means|make the world a better place]].

* [[Complete Monster|Madara]] [[Magnificent Bastard|Uchiha]], ~~the~~ ~~current~~ [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Naruto]]'', will occasionally try to say that his [[Instrumentality|goal]] is for [[Utopia Justifies the Means|the greater good of the world]], but he freely admits that his actions are for an entirely selfish [[A God Am I|cause]] to anyone that he isn't trying to [[More Than Mind Control|manipulate]]. {{spoiler|Since he was exposed as not actually being Madara, he has started to claim that [[Utopia Justifies the Means]] really is his goal after all. Presumably, the selfish reasons belonged to the ''real'' Madara, who came up with the [[Evil Plan]] originally.}}

* [[Complete Monster|Madara]] [[Magnificent Bastard|Uchiha]], one of the [[Big Bad]]s of ''[[Naruto]]'', will occasionally try to say that his [[Instrumentality|goal]] is for [[Utopia Justifies the Means|the greater good of the world]], but he freely admits that his actions are for an entirely selfish [[A God Am I|cause]] to anyone that he isn't trying to [[More Than Mind Control|manipulate]]. {{spoiler|Since he was exposed as not actually being Madara, he has started to claim that [[Utopia Justifies the Means]] really is his goal after all. Presumably, the selfish reasons belonged to the ''real'' Madara, who came up with the [[Evil Plan]] originally.}}

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Father decides that his final evil master plan to {{spoiler|bring a god and his power into his body}} is a fine trade for {{spoiler|the 50 million+ souls of Amestris civilians.}}<ref>Basically the equivalent of killing off all Canadians and Australians or Californians and New Yorkers and then some (as of 2009).</ref>

* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', Gihren Zabi fully believes this. He's a [[Social Darwinist]] and [[Adolf Hitler]]-wannabe, but his own personal power comes first and foremost. His sister, Kycilia, is more ideological than he is, but given her [[The Starscream|treacherous nature]] and desire for power, it's likely that she too subscribes to this.

** Gihren's clone, {{spoiler|Glemmy Toto}} of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ]]'' also subscribes to this trope, nearly destroying Neo-Zeon in his attempts to take it over and reinstate the Zabi dictatorship.

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