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** The [[Blackest Night|Black Lantern Corps]] have forced all of the other seven corps to [[Enemy Mine|work together just to survive]].
* In the ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' story ''Goblins at the Gate'' the Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley) thinks he's manipulating the Green Goblin ([[Norman Osborn]]) to free him from prison and help him defeat Spider-Man, before he executes a takeover of Osborn's business empire. Turns out Osborn ''knew'' Kingsley was trying to use him and was just playing along to find out if Kingsley really had any blackmail material on him- and has managed to take over all of ''Kingsley's'' business empire instead. How was he able to carry it off so quickly? Easy:
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** Fellow Spider-Man villain Mr. Negative feels no one can approach him when it comes to evil ''or'' good, because he is ''both'' in equally ridiculous proportion. He subscribes to a philosophy that because his alter ego Mr. Li is as kind as a saint, this makes his evil as Mr. Negative all the more despicable, and vice versa. In being both, he is greater than any who is but one.
* As proved by Alexander Luthor's fate at the end of ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', no matter what cosmic scale genocide or Crisis a DCU villain has carried out, the most dangerous villain is still a [[The Joker|psychopath in a purple suit.]] Cross him at your peril.
* While responding to fan mail in his ''[[Dark Reign (comics)|Dark Reign]]'' tie-in, [[Venom (Comic Book)|Venom]] said:
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* Whole point of ''Resurrection'' from ''[[Star Wars]] Tales #9'' - Sith cultists clone Darth Maul to make him [[Let's You and Him Fight|fight Darth Vader]], because they believe Vader has too much good inside him to be Palpatine's apprentice. This could be a [[Secret Test of Character]], schemed by Palpatine to find out if Vader is evil enough as well.
* In the ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' storyline "The Judas Contract", Slade quickly realized that his own Dragon Terra was far more evil and dangerous than him. His plan to bring down the Titans from within went off without a hitch thanks to her prowess, but immediately fell apart the moment she got pissed off at him.
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** Another real life example, during WWII the US government asked the Mafia for help in order to uncover Nazi spies, or preventing them from sabotaging the production of ships which were necessary to keep up the support for Great Britain.
* A major plot element in ''[[The Ninth Gate]]'' is that two very rich and rather nasty people—a Satanist and a guy who [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|just wants the power]]—are both after [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|a book believed capable of summoning the devil]]. Ultimately this leads to an epic scene in which the latter crashes the former's black mass, kills her in plain sight of the other cultists, and gives a rant basically saying "You Satanists are amateurs, only ''I'' understand the true power of this book" while they flee in terror.
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* The "black" Predators in ''[[Predators]]'' are bigger, nastier and somehow even ''uglier'' than the ''classic'' green Preds. Instead of hunting humans on their own turf, they kidnap human warriors to hunt them on a "game preserve" planet, in between torturing the classic ones they've captured.
* In ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'', [[The Joker]] constantly berates small-time crooks [[The Mafia|mobsters]] for being petty and shallow enough to care only about profit while ignoring [[For the Evulz|loftier ideals]] [[Complete Monster|of Evil]]:
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**** A rare example when a mediocre villain invoked much more disgust and ire than the major one. I'm referring, of course, to the Druuge. Unlike the Ur-Quan who, despite their omnicidal/totalitarian tendencies, retained a strict code of honour and had thorough and near-commiserable motivation, the Druuge were nothing but greedy heartless dregs.
* Not strictly evil, but in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' Origins, upon being told that the man before you is a veteran of many battles, you can reply as follows:
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* Kuja, Garland and Queen Brahne in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' all come into conflict with each other over who gets to be the main villain. Brahne and Kuja work together until she betrays him and he kills her, and Kuja is Garland's servant until he overthrows him.
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' the forces of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Illidan]] and [[Legions of Hell|The Burning Legion]] are in conflict in the Burning Crusade expansion. Indeed, a large part of Illidan's perceived [[Orcus on His Throne]] behavior can be attributed to the fact that his citadel is being besieged by Legion forces.
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* ''[[Castlevania: Chronicles of Sorrow|Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow]]'' has this all over the place. The [[Big Bad]] orders Dario, the brute, and Dmitrii, the schemer, to compete for the position of [[Big Bad]]; {{spoiler|Dario winds up dead and Dmitrii goes on to kill the [[Big Bad]] and become the [[Big Bad]] himself, albeit only briefly. Unless, of course, [[Split Personality Takeover|the hero does it first.]]}}
* ''[[Halo (series)|Halo]]: The Flood'', led by the [[Hive Mind|Gravemind]], and the Covenant, led by the Prophet of Truth. {{spoiler|in ''Halo 3'', the heroes manage to stop Truth's plan to destroy the galaxy, which plays into the hands of Gravemind's plan to infect the galaxy.}}
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'''Gravemind:''' You will be food. }}
* Most games with a [[Karma Meter]] will end up with something like this if the player chooses the Evil end of the spectrum - for example, ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'' ends, if you choose to go Dark, with the Sith Lord {{spoiler|Revan}} facing off against {{spoiler|his old apprentice}} Malak, whereas ''KotOR 2'' has the evil Sith Lord Jedi Exile (again, if you decide to go that way) fighting Darth Traya- {{spoiler|formerly known as Kreia- in the ruins of the world she destroyed ''in the backstory'' to prove there's nothing more she can teach her}}.
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* During the "Love Potion PART 2" arc of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', [[Yandere]] assassin Oasis comes into conflict with [[Demonic Possession|demon possessed]] Gwynn. The demon K'Z'K proves eviler.
** When Riff first meets [[Evil Mastermind]] Minion Master, they face off in a 'Madder Scientist Than Thou', until he bribes Bun-bun to show he's Eviler.
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* The quote at the top of the page pretty much sums up the Xykon/Redcloak relationship from ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', as seen in ''Start of Darkness''. It is used to end a crushing [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] by [[Evil Overlord]] Xykon as he makes it clear to his [[The Dragon|second-in-command]], [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] Redcloak, what the pecking order of Evil is between the two.
** More recently, in the main comic, {{spoiler|[[Co-Dragons]] Redcloak and Tsukiko -- who already had a strong rivalry -- finally went head to head and... well, suffice to say, Redcloak's the only Dragon again.}}
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* Michelle Clore and Terrence in ''[[Kate Modern]]''. One is a high-ranking member of an evil secret society, the other a psychopathic [[All Devouring Black Hole Loan Sharks|loan shark]].
* LifesBlood Labs, the evil corporation from ''[[LG15: the resistance|LG 15 The Resistance]]'', along with the good old Order of Dederah, the [[Ancient Conspiracy]] from ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' who don't take kindly to their new rivals. LBL don't exactly do anything to endear themselves to the Order either, as Sarah notes:
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* Garrelf and Beardbeard of ''[[Dorf Quest]]'' both get declared the ultimate villains of the plot when things hit the fan and they end up on opposite sides.
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** Also, the girls were once defeated by an alien, who was using some of Mojo's ideas. When Mojo realized the alien was actually achieving everything he always wanted to, [[Berserk Button|he went berserk]], beat the tar out of him, and forced him to admit that he's more evil.
* ''[[Total Drama Island|Total Drama World Tour]]'' gives us this little gem from [[Manipulative Bastard|Alejandro]]:
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** And Alejandro himself compared to [[Depraved Kids' Show Host|Chris]].
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes|Jimmy Two Shoes]]'', this is the relationship every member of the Heinous family has with their offspring. When Lucius VI is [[Human Popsicle|unfrozen]], the first thing he does is chastise Lucius VII for not making everyone miserable enough.
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* ''[[Filmation's Ghostbusters|Filmations Ghostbusters]]'' has at least two episodes featuring Big Evil trying to usurp Prime Evil's status as the main [[Big Bad]]. The first episode even had Jessica commenting that Big Evil makes Prime Evil seem to be a good guy. Both episodes invoked the [[Enemy Mine]] trope by having Prime Evil teaming up with the heroes against Big Evil.
* An episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' featured Lois seducing Meg's boyfriend. After getting caught, Lois goes to apologize, but drops hints that she's better looking and if she really wanted him, she could have him. Meg responds with this type of speech.
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* Doofenshmirtz goes through this twice in ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', first when Agent P gets reassigned to the Regurgitator, making the OWCA drop Doofenshmirtz down to a "minor threat". He's extremely offended by this and decides to take care of it... only to realize how bad the Regurgitator really is, and starts working for him (hey, the job came with maternity leave). Of course, {{spoiler|being as incompetent as he is, his incompetence actually defeats the Regurgitator, puts him in jail and his threat level goes back to normal}}.
** Later said word for word by Doofenshmirtz to his more evil counterpart in ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension|Across the 2nd Dimension]]''.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* In prison, serial killer Joel Rifkin once got into a fight with mass murderer Colin Ferguson. The brawl was apparently set off by this exchange:
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'''Rifkin:''' "Yeah, but I had more victims." }}
* When they shared adjoining cells, serial killers Edmund Kemper and Herbert Mullin (who were active in the same area, at around the same time) constantly bickered, argued, and belittled each other. As an article on Mullin put it:
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