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{{quote|''"[[The Joker|Some]] [[Complete Monster|men]] aren't looking for anything logical [[Greed|like money]]. They can't be [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|bought]], [[Shut UP, Hannibal|bullied]], [[Kirk Summation|reasoned]] or [[Deal Withwith the Devil|negotiated with]]. Some men just [[Omnicidal Maniac|want to watch the world burn]]."''|'''Alfred''', ''[[The Dark Knight]]''}}

Some villains, on the other hand, cannot be reasoned with because there is ''nothing'' reasonable about their reasons for acting... well, evil. Unlike the ''amoral'' motivation we call [[It Amused Me]], which may lead to evil in the pursuit of attachment-free amusement, someone whose motivation is [['''For the Evulz]]''' acts ''evilly'' because they enjoy it. It's not that they don't know or don't care about the morality of their actions - they know and appreciate the difference between good and evil - so much as they enjoy the ''evil'' of it all. To them, evil is not [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|a bad means]] [[Utopia Justifies the Means|to a good end]] or even a [[Omnicidal Maniac|bad means]] [[Best Served Cold|to an evil end]]; to them, evil is an end in itself. The evil of an act is all the motivation they need for doing it and their resultant amusement is (as with [[It Amused Me]]) to them a justification in itself. Generally speaking, and eschewing better and more specific adjectives, the more ''evil'' something is the more amusement they derive from it. In many cases, [[Card-Carrying Villain|they will outright pride themselves in evil]], and think that [[Good Is Boring]] [[Good Is Dumb|and dumb]].

A villain whose defining characteristic is this motiveless malignity is almost without fail a [[Complete Monster]], with the Complete Monster being defined by, well, being [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|completely monstrous]] - needing no justifications for evil acts and having no humanising or sympathetic elements (e.g., [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|good intent]] or [[Anti-Villain|self-doubt]]) whatsoever. Other villainous personality types which dabble with [['''For the Evulz]]''' include the [[Generic Doomsday Villain]], the [[Psycho for Hire]] (who is very likely to be [[Ax Crazy]]), the [[Nietzsche Wannabe]], [[The Sociopath]] and the [[Chaotic Evil]]. Please note, [[Chaotic Evil]] is ''not'' the same thing; it's a likely alignment for someone with this as their motivation, but [[Chaotic Evil]] encompasses anyone else who is clearly more evil than good and more chaotic than not. This means that realistically, even if someone is Chaotic Evil, they still can and likely do have more logical motivations than For The Evulz. Furthermore, it's possible to be [[Neutral Evil]] or even [[Lawful Evil]] and be in it For The Evulz.

[[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] is when the player of a game is allowed or even encouraged to do things [['''For the Evulz]]'''. If a whole race has a motive like this, it's [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]] (but Always Chaotic Evil can have other flavours of shared evil). Compare [[It Amused Me]], for (comedically) callous or amoral seekers of amusement, [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten]] for the demand of evil acts as proof of evil, and [[Troll|Trolls]]s.

[[Sister Trope]] to [[Threw My Bike Onon the Roof]].

== [[Anime/]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Ladd Russo for ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano!]]'' makes it clear that the only reason why he works as an [[Career Killer|assassin]] and goes on a murderous rampage on the train is because he FEELS LIKE IT.

* (Dis)Honorable mention goes to Eliza Reagan from ''[[Candy Candy (Manga)|Candy Candy]]'' who specifically tortures and abuses Candy a lot ''just because she can'' and she is amused at torturing her.

* The motivation, understanding and epitome of ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball]]'' villain Majin Buu once he's stripped down to his true form. Frieza has an actual reason in doing it for power; for Cell, it was [[In the Blood]]. Super Buu ''kills every human on Earth'' to take up some time while waiting for Gotenks to fight him. This is, in hindsight, a hint as to what Kid Buu will be like.

* ''[[Elfen Lied (Manga)|Elfen Lied]]'': The reason the [[Kids Are Cruel|cruel kids]] from Lucy's childhood made Lucy watch while they beat her dog to death.

{{quote| '''Scar:''' And what is it you fight for?<br />

'''Kimbley:''' Nothing.<br />

* Ali al-Saachez from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' makes no secret that the many atrocities he's committed (including but not by any means limited to mass murder) are for his own personal enjoyment, and because [[Blood Knight|he finds peace "boring"]].

* Millennium from ''[[Hellsing (Manga)|Hellsing]]'' have no motive other than causing as much chaos and destruction as they can, because they [[Blood Knight|REALLY like war]]. [[Crazy Awesome|The Major]] himself [[Lampshade|lampshadeslampshade]]s this when he responds to the question of Millennium's purpose with "Our purpose is a complete ''[[Chaotic Evil|absence]]'' of purpose".

* In ''[[Houshin Engi (Manga)|Houshin Engi]]'', Dakki seems to delight in nothing more than sheer sadism to the point that her own allies find her actions incomprehensible, but what makes her truly dangerous is that she's apparently studied the [[Evil Overlord List]], thwarting her opponents at every turn -- andturn—and then she reveals that everything she's done was all part of a massive [[Gambit Roulette]].

* A strange deconstruction of this is one of the reasons why [[Complete Monster|Johan Liebert]], the titular ''[[Monster (Animemanga)|Monster]]'', is so horrifying. He has no reason ''at all'' for what he does. There's no evidence it's fun for him so it is not for the evulz per se and he demonstrates more than once that he can stop whenever he wants. In other words, while the Joker wants to watch the world burn, Johan just wants to set it on fire.

* Gauron, the character Ali is an [[Expy]] of, from ''[[Full Metal Panic (Light Novel)|Full Metal Panic!]]''. And, like with Ali, the fandom is divided on whether this makes him horribly, horribly flat, or utterly, utterly awesome.

* Kuroudo Akabane, the transporter from ''[[Get Backers (Manga)|Get BackersGetBackers]]'', fits this to a T. He basically is a transporter for the sole purpose of being a transporter is cutting people into bloody bits -- manybits—many of whom are not as skilled as him. The goal of this endeavor is to find someone who is a challenge to fight, which he finds with Ban and Ginji. (Cue the Ho Yay.) This is his idea of "fun."

* There are two quotes from ''[[Dangaioh (Anime)|Dangaioh]]'' both uttered by Gil Berg, who spent his first few appearances getting kicked around by the heroes. He has one of the (teenage female) pilots trapped, and is torturing her. He says "You might think I'm doing this for information, or revenge, but the truth is I just like torturing little girls. I know it's sick, but everyone needs a hobby." Later, after handing the heroes their asses and destroying their mentor, the camera zooms in on his face and he says "Do you know anyone who has as much fun as I do?"

* Wiseman/Death Phantom from ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]'' wants to wipe out all life in the universe with the power of his Evil Black Crystal just because he prefers silence and nothingness.

* Although Drosselmeyer in ''[[Princess Tutu (Anime)|Princess Tutu]]'' does have a few things in his back story that give him a motive, there's strong indication that his biggest motivator is he just finds tragedy... fun! As he was a writer, he may be [[Doing It for Thethe Art]] and it just so happens that he enjoys his art.

* Contrary to expectations, Ryuk from ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' is an example of [[It Amused Me]] and ''[[Averted Trope|not]]'' [[For the Evulz]]. He just wanted to see what a human would do with the absolute power of life and death and didn't care who might die as a result - he didn't enjoy the evil of it, he was just bored and amoral.

** [[Serial Killer|Beyond]] [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|Birthday]], on the other hand, totally did it [[For the Evulz]].

* Mon and Toshi of ''[[The World Is Mine]]'' are [[Mad Bomber]] [[Serial Killer|Serial Killers]]s (Mon is also a serial [[Rape Asas Drama|rapist]]) who don't really have a motive, although Toshi is a [[Butt Monkey]] turned [[Manipulative Bastard]] who "wants power"; Mon is just pure id. The only demand Toshi gives, "to live in a peaceful world where everyone is equal", is to stall the police and keep them from discovering that their hostage is already dead.

* This was a common theme in [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s later manga, such as in ''Alabaster'' and ''[[MW (Manga)|MW]]'', evil for the pleasure of evil, power and domination.

* ''[[Jo JoJoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'': Just about every awful thing Dio Brando does (read: everything he does) that's not motivated out of [[Greed]] or revenge is for his own amusement.

* Jail Scaglietti from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S (Anime)StrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]''. While his actions are partly to take 'revenge on the TSAB [[For Science!]]', he also admits that he enjoys gathering magical artifacts, making weapons and cyborg women, and rediscovering forbidden magical arts and technology. Hard to blame the guy for that though, as based on Chapter 12 of the ''StrikerS'' [[Comic Book Adaptation|manga]], that enjoyment {{spoiler|[[Artificial Human|was molded into him by the TSAB when they created him]]}} so that they will have the best [[Mad Scientist]] ever working for them. Understandably, the [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|not so good doctor]] wasn't very pleased about that arrangement for many reasons.

* Sakyou, from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', admits that he wanted to open a tunnel to the demon world -- whichworld—which would allow powerful demons free reign over the human world -- forworld—for his own personal amusement. As he puts it, it would make things interesting. At one point, he mentions how he once used to work at a pet store. At first it seems like he's about to describe a [[Pet the Dog]] moment he once had, [[Nightmare Fuel|but he turns it around pretty quickly]] [[Squick|as he explains he used to enjoy seeing how long he could keep an animal alive after cutting its heart out.]]

* Yokoya from ''[[Liar Game (Manga)|Liar Game]]'' participates in the namesake game solely for a chance to control, dominate and generally screw other participants, preying on their fear and desperation - unlike other players he's rich and does not need prize money. Being a tyrant and forcing the worst in people to the surface is his hobby.

* [[Eyes Always Shut|Gin]] [[Enigmatic Minion|Ichimaru]] from ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]'' seems to have this as his sole motivation for getting out of bed in the morning. Perhaps his most [[Kick the Dog|notorious demonstration]] of this was just prior to Rukia's execution. Seeing that she was prepared to die, he offered to save her, just to suddenly ''take it back'' and tear apart her resolve, leaving her a screaming wreck ''just because he could''. He managed to one-up that when he {{spoiler|sliced Hiyori in half}} for no apparent reason. He certainly didn't do it because she was attacking Aizen. He did it because he could. All this makes it pretty odd when {{spoiler|it's revealed that he joined Aizen just to get a chance at revenge against him for hurting his childhood friend Matsumoto. It fails to even explain why he went about doing it in the most jerk-like way possible. All this, of course, could point out to [[He Who Fights Monsters|Gin having become a bad guy while seeking to get back at another one]].}}

* Not that she's a bad person or anything but, this is pretty much the ''only'' reason why ''[[Kämpfer (Light Novel)|Kämpfer]]'s'' Student Council President would embarrass Natsuru.

* Orochimaru, former [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'', stated the only real motive he has for his (more noticeable) atrocities is that he finds peace too boring and wants to see what will happen when he kills the Kages. There's also [[Mad Bomber|Deidara]]. He actually [[Terrorists Without a Cause|worked for anti-government factions just because it gave him things to blow up]] and Akatsuki's leader said his reason for fighting was "a whim". [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|Hidan]] decided to kill his neighbors, abandon his village, join the [[Religion of Evil|Jashin religion]] and, later, the Akatsuki. The last one he did, because he wanted to spread [[Religion of Evil|Jashinism]]. The rest, we're led to understand at first, is ''because he was bored''. There is also Itachi who at first seemed to be this (the excuse given for slaughtering his whole clan in Sasuke's flashbacks was essentially to see how powerful he was). Later subverted, when it was revealed {{spoiler|he was doing so on an order}}. What would this list be without the current [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Tobi}}? He has all but outright stated that he's only doing all the horrible things he's done because he has nothing better to do with his time. When he was still pretending to be Madara, it was about vengeance on a world that had turned against him. Now, however, we're back to knowing nothing about him and why he wants to do something with the moon to reach his goals(...the hell?), except that he apparently wants to complete an [[Assimilation Plot]] because [[Nietzsche Wannabe|there is no hope or something]], it's all very vague like a crack-pot theory.

** After a couple of chapters, it becomes implicit that [[Invoked Trope|those reasons for joining Akatsuki ("because I wanted to")]] [[Subverted Trope|were just their ways to say "Not your f*ing business" to whoever asked]]. {{spoiler|Deidara was forced to join because he lost to Itachi. [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Pain]] wanted global peace, his motivations for ''joining'' Akatsuki being to [[Used to Be Aa Sweet Kid|promote peace, protect the people and be with his friends]] and his motivations for turning Akatsuki into a ring of psychotic S-class nuclear-happy terrorists-for-hire being vengeance and world peace by nuclear threat. Konan was following Pain. Itachi was keeping tabs on them all. Sasori needed some shelter after his status in Suna was compromised due to him killing the Kazekage. Hidan wanted to spread Jashinism and learn about immortality from Kakuzu. Even Tobi had stronger reasons than just being bored(much better as he could demand a clearer motivation). Orochimaru joined because he was after Itachi's body and a great deal of his atrocities was just part of a bigger [[Gambit Roulette]], his real reasons, after some digging, turning out to be him wanting to see his parents again.}} [[Ax Crazy|Kisame]] is the only one, who looks to be there because he feels like it. Even he eventually turns out to want a world without lies.

* [[Psycho for Hire|Luciano Bradley]] from ''[[Code Geass (Anime)|Code Geass]]'', one of [[The Empire|Britannia's]] most elite knights, whose every single action and line of text indicate that he's just doing it for the joy of hurting people.

* In the very first chapter of the ''[[Berserk (Manga)|Berserk]]'' manga (as well as the very first episode of the anime) there is the Baron of Koka Castle. As soon as he hears about the arrival of the Black Swordsman (our protagonist Guts), he goes on to slaughter the town he's been tyrannizing, even though the townsfolk have nothing to do with Guts at all(and, in the manga, Guts is, at the moment, imprisoned and tortured, so the Baron may have been able to get it over with right there had he bothered to give an order to dispose of Guts).

{{quote| '''Baron:''' Gold... Prisoners... I don't care about such things. All I wish to see are humans within a fiery apocalypse, trying to escape. All I wish to hear is the sound of snapping bones crushed under the hooves of horses. I don't even need an excuse. None at all.}}

* You'd think [[Ax Crazy|Munekata]] from ''[[Medaka Box (Manga)|Medaka Box]]'' would be this, with this little (paraphrased) speech:

{{quote| "I don't kill for no reason, I have ''reasons to kill''. I'll kill you because I don't want to fight you. I'll kill you because you're in my way. I'll kill you because the weather's nice. I'll kill you because my phone's batteries are low. I'll kill you because I had a good dream. I'll kill you because I'm in a hurry. And I'll kill you for no reason at all. (To Medaka in particular) ''I'll kill '''you''' because the chairman told me '''not to'''''."}}

** Chances are if you have a Minus Power in Medaka Box you are in it [[For the Evulz]], at one point the [[Battle Butler]] asks his fellow Minus' whether they would prefer to go to a Mountain or the Sea for a vacation, {{spoiler|the fact that he was referring to a Mountain of Corpses or a Sea of Blood was a ''given'' to the rest of them.}}

* This is pretty much the reason why Izaya does ''anything'' in ''[[Durarara (Literature)|Durarara!!]]''. It is subverted by the anime's finale in which Simon implies {{spoiler|that this is purely an excuse and he is jealous of Shizuo's influential status}} - only in the ''anime'' though. During that scene, Simon says something [[Wham! Line|''completely'' different]].

* ''[[Texhnolyze (Anime)|Texhnolyze]]'', Yoshii came down from the Class in order to instigate a massive war between the groups. He states that his goal is to awaken the people from their sleep in order to build leaders of them, or in other words, to help them realize their full potential, even if they don't want him to. This involves him murdering innocent people and starting gang wars because he finds it "interesting", all with a pleasant smile on his face. While he may have an ideological purpose behind it all, it is so obscure that it only makes him look all the more hysterical.

* ''[[School Days (Visual Novel)|School Days]]'': Otome's friends [[Girl Posse|Natsumi, Minami and Kumi]] are a bunch of unlikeable, backstabbing bitches and not only towards Kotonoha, but to their "friend" Otome and to Nanami. The first is the target of their bullying just because she's pretty and rich; the second is betrayed by them twice as they first videotape her having sex with Makoto and then they have sex with him; the third has her reputation absolutely ''smeared'' at school when they not only tape her having sex with her boyfriend, but ''they show the video to the whole school'', especially to the [[Jerkass]] sempai. '''And they do all of this shit for no reason at all'''.

* [[Creepy Twins]] Hansel and Gretel from ''[[Black Lagoon (Anime)|Black Lagoon]]''. Gretel does an [[Evil Laugh]] when Eda asks her why they're still after Balalaika even though they killed the guy who hired them and then she replies "We don't have a reason. We do it because we ''want'' to."

{{quote| '''Revy:''' She's the kind who prefers war over sex.}}

* While Mukuro of ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn (Manga)|Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' does have a reason for doing what he does (Changing the ugly world into a pure and beautiful sea of blood, starting a world war, etc.) no other explanation other than he did it [[For the Evulz]] can be made for how during his fight with Tsuna he possessed his friends' bodies, knowing Tsuna wouldn't attack them, and spent some time having Tsuna's friends beat him up, stating (and laughing) all the while that Tsuna "makes a good sandbag".

* Resident [[Ted Baxter]] Prussia of ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' does almost everything he does just for this, but most notorious are the times he realizes he's all alone on Valentine's and Christmas...so naturally, it's time to start [[Ship Sinking|sinking some ships]].

* In the second Japanese ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Animeanime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' anime (the version that was dubbed), this is pretty much Dark Malik's motivation. He just wants to cause havoc because he can, really. [[Motive Decay|Not so much in the dub...]]

* Agon Kongo from ''[[Eyeshield 21 (Manga)|Eyeshield 21]]'' has this as his motivation for playing football. He doesn't particularly like the sport, he just enjoys putting people down and crushing their hopes and dreams.

* [[Psycho Lesbian|Tsukoyomi]] from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. While most villains in this series seem to have some kind of motive, Tsukoyomi kills people because she likes it.

* King Dedede in ''[[Kirby: ofRight theBack Starsat (Anime)|Kirby of the StarsYa!]]'', while not necessarily evil, is a mean old bully, who makes other people's lives as miserable as possible just because he thinks it's fun. Especially by buying Demon Beasts/monsters to help him in doing just that.

* In ''[[Holyland (Manga)|Holyland]]'' it turns out that {{spoiler|Katou beat up Shinichi just because.}}

* ''[[Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions (Anime)|Pokémon Zoroark Master of Illusions]]:'' [[Big Bad|Grings Kodai's]] [[Moral Event Horizon]] is ''electrocuting a '''BABY''' in front of its '''MOTHER''''' for no other reason but sadistic pleasure. He even ''says'' he got a kick out of it! While most everything else he does can be chalked up to [[Selfish Evil]] and being part of his plan, this is were you know he's a true [[Complete Monster]].

* From ''[[Rosario to Vampire (Manga)|Rosario to+ Vampire]]'', we have Kamiya Kanade, who will claims that [[But for Me It Was Tuesday|killing humans is just something he does to pass the time and clear his head]], and [[Complete Monster|envisions himself atop a mountain of corpses he personally killed]].

* Assuming one character's interpretation is correct, {{spoiler|Pariston}} of ''[[Hunter X Hunter (Manga)|Hunter X Hunter]]'' falls into this. Despite showing he can do so easily, he's making not attempt to win {{spoiler|the election for Chairman of the Hunter's Association}}. Instead, he's merely dragging the race out as long as possible so he can take advantage of his position to {{spoiler|use especially dangerous monsters in the next Hunter's Exam.}}

* [[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]: In {{spoiler|Meakashi-hen, the killer begins with a motivation - avenging the boy she was [[Ax Crazy|madly]] in [[Yandere|love with]]. However, after killing said boy's little sister (who she was meant to be protecting in his stead), she breaks down screaming, which turns into her regular, sinister laughter}}:

{{quote| "Oh, what the hell? {{spoiler|I knew it all along. The fact that this side of me has been a demon all along!}}"}}

** Example: In one issue of ''Gotham Adventures'', the comic based on ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series]]'', Harvey Dent, the criminal [[Two-Faced|Two-Face]], has reformed and is starting a romance with his lawyer Grace Lamont. Joker hints to Harvey that Lamont is dating Harvey's friend Bruce Wayne, and is just seeing Harvey out of pity. Then he gets his assistant Harley Quinn to leak to a newspaper that Lamont is planning to marry Bruce and delivers the newspaper to Harvey. One breakdown, jailbreak, attempted murder and broken heart later, Batman asks the Joker why he caused such a horrible disaster. His response?

{{quote| '''Joker:''' ''[[But for Me It Was Tuesday|It was]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Tuesday]]. *[[Put the Laughter In Slaughter|maniacal laughter]]* ''}}

* ''[[Daredevil]]''{{'}}s Bullseye. It's the reason why Kingpin and other crime lords hire him. The cops have a hard time figuring out when he kills because he was hired to and when he kills because he felt like it. He even recently claimed he probably has more money than ''Norman Osborn'' yet doesn't feel the need to spend it and continues killing "because it's fun".

{{quote| '''Kingpin''' (motioning at the body): ''Was that really necessary?''<br />

* In the original ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage (Comic Book)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage]]'' comics, this trope was explicitly stated to be the motivation behind Baxter Stockman's plan to blackmail the city with his mousers. He was using the Mousers to rob banks as well. When April O' Neil tries to explain that he could have made millions of dollars legally, Baxter says he just did it because "it was FUN!"

* [[The Sandman (Comic Book)|Doctor Destiny's Diner of Death]]. A supervillain armed with the King of Dreams's ruby wandered into a diner full of perfectly ordinary people, and spent an entire issue just ''breaking'' them. When he briefly freed his victims from his control, one of them demanded to know why he was tormenting them this way. His answer? [[Complete Monster|"Because I can."]]

* [[Empowered (Comic Book)|Willy Pete from ''[[Empowered]]''. What else is there to say about a [[I'm a Humanitarian|cannibal]] who doesn't even need to eat at all, but just happens to like the taste? (Plenty, actually, but I'll spare you the [[Squick]].)

* Sid Fernwilter of ''[[Piranha Club]]'' (formerly known as ''Ernie''), who is vicious just because he can. Purely on principle, he refuses to spend money on anything useful or necessary. He would rather sit in the darkness and freeze than to pay the electricity bill - [[Stupid Evil|And he has]].

* Also, Mr. Mxyzptlk in ''[[Whatever Happened to Thethe Man of Tomorrow?]]?'' He explained that since [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|immortality is boring]], he tries out different things to break the monotony. He spent 2,000 years not moving at all, another 2,000 years being purely good, and then the last 2,000 years being a mischievous prankster. Now he's going to be evil. Things gets ugly, ''fast''.

* The "Reaver-Cleaver" killer from ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'' confesses to one of the protagonists that he only does what he does because it's fun, being amused at having gotten away clean with killing a man in a drunken hit-and-run and just kept on killing to see how far he could push his luck.

{{quote| "I didn't get involved in this because I'm some cackling super-villain who gets off on hurting people or anything."<br />

** Kaizen Gamorra from the very first [[Warren Ellis]]' arc. When asked why he orders his armies to invade major cities, he answers Gamorra -nation is built on terrorism, because ''Terror is its own reward''. In addition, just before his [[Karmic Death]] thanks to Midnighter, he whines: ''I just wanted to have some fun.''

{{quote| Lex Luthor: [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|You could make yourself very wealthy patenting some of this equipment, Prometheus.]]<br />

* The main character's former partner in ''[[End of Days (Film)|End of Days]]'' suggests they cast their lot with [[Satan]] under the reasoning that their long careers as mercenaries meant they had no chance of "going upstairs" anyway, so they might as well have fun while alive.

* Castor Troy from ''[[Face Off|Face/Off]]'' ought to qualify.

{{quote| '''Troy:''' You're not having any fun, are you, Sean? Why don't you come with us? Try terrorism for hire, we'll blow some shit up. It's more fun!}}

{{quote| '''Kathryn:''' You were very much in love with her. And you're still in love with her. But [[It Amused Me]] to make you ashamed of it. You gave up on the first person you ever loved because I threatened your reputation. Don't you get it? You're just a toy, Sebastian. A little toy I like to play with. And now you've completely blown it with her. I think it's the saddest thing I've ever heard.}}

{{quote| '''Joker:''' How can you shoot women and children?<br />

* All the [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]]s in ''[[Igor]]'' are of the traditional sort, loving evil for its own sake. But the prize goes to {{spoiler|the king, who created a weather-controlling device that cast the entire country under permanent storm clouds, destroying the citizens' livelihood, and then suggested they all turn to mad science to make the country successful again.}} Okay, and... ''why'' did he do this, again?

* ''[[Schindler's List (Film)|Schindler's List]]'': Amon GoethGöth. Oh so very much. The man sniped at his prisoners, severely beat and enslaved a woman who, in a different reality, he might have called a wife, blew the brains out of an argumentative engineer because 'we're not going to have arguments with these people,' shot a fourteen year old boy for failing to completely clean his bathtub, and when asked, during an 'Aktion' (pre-deportation sorting of prisoners) 'what was going on,' thought the question was about his semi-annual medical physical. "He does this," Schindler explains to Helen Hirsch, "because they [his other victims] mean ''nothing'' to him." (The actor who portrayed him -- Ralphhim—Ralph Fiennes, who also plays Voldemort--nailsVoldemort—nails his portrayal so effectively that the Other Wiki states that "When Mila Pfefferberg, a surviving Schindler Jew, was introduced to Fiennes while on the set of the film, she began to shake uncontrollably in terror, as Fiennes -- while in full SS-Hauptsturmführer uniform -- reminded her of the real Göth.")

{{quote| "Why are you doing this to us?"<br />

* ''[[The Warriors (Filmfilm)|The Warriors]]''.

{{quote| '''Swan''': Why'd you do it? Why'd you waste Cyrus?<br />

* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]'': The Wicked Witch of the West. Hey, bitch stole her shoes - that shit don't fly in the merry old land of Oz.

* Michael Myers from the ''[[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Halloween]]'' films is never given a concrete motivation (they're always retconned) and Dr. Loomis, his psychiatrist, is convinced that Myers [[Made of Evil|is pure evil]], plain and simple. Moreover, he isn't even shown to enjoy his actions. Apparently, he murders people for literally ''no reason'', which makes him all the more frightening.

{{quote| '''Doctor Loomis''': I met him fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six year old child with his blank, pale, emotionless face... the blackest eyes, the Devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply evil.}}

{{quote| '''Agent Smith:''' More.}}

** In the first film Agent Smith's motivation is simply entirely self-serving: "I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it." In the sequels his motives start sliding to that direction. It's clear at the very end of the trilogy that for all the philosophical nihilistic extracurricular motives he claims to be acting on, Smith doesn't really understand WHY in hell he is doing what he does, but he DOES''does'' seem to [[Evil Laugh|enjoy himself in the process]].

{{quote| '''Bane:''' (Beingbeing assimilated into Smith.)" Oh, God..."<br />

'''Agent Smith:''' "Mmm. '"Smith'" will suffice." }}

{{quote| '''Daisy''': The little old beetle goes 'round and 'round. Always the same way, y'see, until it ends up right up tight to the nail. Poor old thing!<br />

* The truck-driver in ''[[Duel (Filmfilm)|Duel]]''.

* Played straight rather well with [[Our Angels Are Different|Gabriel]] in ''[[The Prophecy (Filmfilm)|The Prophecy]]''.

{{quote| '''Gabriel:''' I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.}}

* Alex from ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Filmfilm)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' has no other motive for his rape and ultraviolence than that he enjoys it. This actually brings him into conflict with the rest of his gang when they start to insist that their crimes yield a more substantial payout.

* ''[[Josie and Thethe Pussycats (film)|Josie and the Pussy Cats]],'' of all places. As soon as the band and Wyatt meet he is nothing but rude and dismissive of Valerie, to the point of leaving her by the side of the road when their car starts (He thought she was "already in") and delivering only two party invitations instead of three (Well, she could still come anyway). Towards the end of the film she [[He Knows Too Much|learns too much]], so then he begins to deliberately try to push her out of the picture for the sake of the evil plan, but for the first hour there is absolutely no goal or plan, he seems to be doing it just to watch her squirm.

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Sidney'''}}: (over phone) So {{spoiler|Stu}}, what's your motive- I mean {{spoiler|Billy}}'s got one, the police are on the way. What're you gonna tell them?<br />

* Several of the villains in ''[[Eight MM|8mm]]''. The rich old man who commissioned the snuff film? According to his lawyer, "He did it because he could." Machine, the man who actually committed the murder, sums it up horrifically:

{{quote| '''Machine''': Mommy didn't beat me. Daddy didn't rape me. I'm this way because I am. There's no mystery. Things I do, I do them because I like them! Because I want to!}}

* Arguably, Count Rugen from ''[[The Princess Bride (Filmfilm)|CountThe RugenPrincess Bride]]''. Sometimes it's out of curiousitycuriosity but mostly not.

* [[Serial Killer|Scorpio]] from the ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' series starts out asking for ransom money, but as time goes on is implied to be more so motivated by the "fun" of committing his crimes.

{{quote| '''Scorpio''': {{spoiler|I've changed my mind. I'm going to let her die! I just wanted you to know that. You hear me? I just wanted you to know that before I killed you!}}}}

* The Martians from ''[[Mars Attacks (Film)!]]'' are the [[Played for Laughs]] version of this trope. They even make us think they can be negotiated with just to laugh at us when we try right before they kill us anyway, because they enjoy the killing so much.

* Freddy Krueger from the ''[[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street]]'' franchise can be viewed as an example born of deconstruction of [[Freudian Excuse]]. His mother was viciously raped by hundredhundreds of mental patients. He was bullied by his classmates. Growing up he killed animals and cut himself. He got beaten by his foster father, whom he later killed. Last of all, he was burnt alive. Obviously there is no excuse for killing children. Nonetheless, one can see how his past has molded him into a twisted person he is today, undoubtedly with deep mental issues. '''Except''', it's not like he minds himself being as monstrous as he is. He is quite content in being that way. Even before he turns into a [[A God Am I|King Of Nightmares]], he takes sadistic glee in raping and murdering children, as shown in the scene in the sixth movie where he's admiring a scrapbook of all the newspaper clippings of missing children. It is thus conclusive that he is the kind of person, who wouldn't even ''need'' an excuse. It is a fact that he takes all too much joy in hurting people.

* A relatively mild example occurs in the comedy ''[[Airplane! (Film)|Airplane!]]'' when airport-employee Johnny thinks it's funny to briefly unplug the runway lights just as the plane is making its emergency landing.

* The gang member at the beginning of ''[[Assault On Precinct 13 (Film)|Assault Onon Precinct 13]]'', who {{spoiler|shoots and kills a little girl while they're robbing an ice cream truck just because she's there}}.

* While Nyarlathotep from [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]]'s [[Cthulhu Mythos]] often works to fulfill the wishes of the Outer Gods or release the [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|Great Old Ones]], a lot of the times he seems to be messing with mankind for no other reason than his own amusement. In ''Nyarlathotep'', he seems to be destroying the world without any actual motive. In ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'', his goal is apparently to snatch off the earthly gods from their scented revels in the glorious sunset city purely to screw with them. Also, in spite of apparently sending Carter off to achieve this goal, he betrays Carter for no apparent reason other than, again, to be a real dick. The ways of the Outer Gods are essentially beyond human comprehension. In ''The Dreams in the Witch-House'', he appears as a black-skinned [[Expy]] of [[Satan]]. He's even worse in other authors' appropriations of the character.

* In ''[[Hells Children|Hell's Children]]'' by Andrew Boland an entire race of aliens travel light years to wipe out all life on earth. Their motivation for this,? theyThey were bored. I’m serious.

* [[Robert Silverberg]]'s short story "Flies", in ''[[Dangerous Visions]]'', deals with a man [[A God I Am|who is given God-like powers]], and uses them to torture people, [[For the Evulz|for his own amusement]].

* Inverted in ''[[The Acts of Caine (Literature)|The Acts of Caine]]''. The bad guys always act out of self-interest, ideology, or pure hedonistic lust. The ''protagonist'' is the one who, for shits and giggles, escalates conflicts almost compulsively. So far this includes "escalating" a verbal argument into a lethal fight, a skirmish with an [[Our Orcs Are Different|ogrillo]] tribe into ethnic cleansing, and a minor political conflict into ''a civil war''. (And the bad guys ''are still worse''.)

* In [[CSC. LewisS. (Creator)Lewis|CS Lewis]]' ''[[Space Trilogy|Perelandra]]'', Satan himself is this. While he has real (and [[Complete Monster|deeply]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|malicious]]) ambitions, when he can't move directly toward them he's just as happy torturing small animals or tearing up the turf, so long as he can hurt something.

* Averted in ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]''. The preface to later editions notes avoidance of "the absurd fancy that devils are engaged in the disinterested pursuit of something called Evil (the capital is essential). Mine have no use for any such turnip ghost. Bad angels, like bad men, are entirely practical. They have two motives. The first is fear of punishment.... Their second motive is a kind of hunger."

* Most of the villains in [[Thomas Berger]]'s Arthurian novel ''[[Arthur Rex]]''.

* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' -- The—The series has some minor villains, who seem to be along just for their own sick pleasures. The worst ones would be the huge rapist knight Ser Gregor Clegane (among countless other atrocities sickening in nature), the inhumanly cruel outcasts in the Brave Companions, aka the Bloody Mummers, sadistic Ramsey Snow and the heartless boy-king Joffrey Baratheon, who practically revels in his power and prefers to make people fear him ({{spoiler|not to forget what he did to Ned Stark}}).

* Alex from ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Literaturenovel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. This guy likes to kill, beat up and rape people for his own enjoyment and [[Alternate Character Interpretation|one could say]] he certainly deserves the treatment he gets after being brainwashed.

* ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'': Okay, so we know that Sol wants to {{spoiler|1=use the Three's powers to gain control over all cats living around the lake and eliminate belief in StarClan,}} but {{spoiler|his manipulation of the Twolegplace cats}} doesn't have ''anything'' to with his plans, and was seemingly done for the hell of it. Plus, he doesn't seem that committed to his goal, doesn't approach it with much urgency, and seems to get ''way'' too much enjoyment from messing with the main characters' minds.

* Dr. Mabuse from ''[[Dr. Mabuse the Gambler]]'', who was inspired by Fantomas (see above). In addition to spreading fear, however, Mabuse wants to destroy the world... and laugh maniacally over the rubble.

*** Much more obvious in her movie portrayal, where she spends quite a bit of her screen time laughing maniacally. Even more obvious near the end of ''Half Blood Prince'', {{spoiler|1=where while all the other Death Eaters are just calmly leaving the castle after Dumbledore's been killed, she decides to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTEU9H-zMYM&feature=related cause as much destruction as possible,] clearly enjoying herself.}}

* The protagonists of the Marquis de Sade's ''[[Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom|The 120 Days of Sodom]]'', as well as many of the men in the prostitutes' stories, like to rape, torture, murder, financially ruin, and otherwise harm innocent people, for pleasure.

* The protagonist in [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''The Black Cat'' starts hurting people and animals around him [[For the Evulz]] or, as he himself puts it: in the "spirit of [[Bold Inflation|PERVERSENESS]]". Poe's perverseness is an odd supposed psychological motive (but perhaps related to negative suggestion) that goes a step further than [[For the Evulz]], inspiring not just morally wrong acts harmful to others, but any kind of irrational and wrong acts even just harmful to oneself; inspires one to do anything they shouldn't just because they know they shouldn't.

* Melisande Shahrizai, of the ''[[KushielsKushiel's Legacy]]'' series. When asked why she started a civil war and tried to ''conquer her own country'' she responds with, "Because I could."

* The Vardii Collective Military in [[Earth 2350 (Literature)Surrealverse|Earth 2350]] killed '''all life on a planet''' because, hey, if you have a crust-melting superweapon on hand, why not use it on someone you don't like?

* An awful lot of misbehavior in the ''[[Nightside]]'' series, from heinous torture of innocents to the merely rude, is attributed to the "just because he/she/it/they could" motive.

* Venandekatra the Vile in ''[[Belisarius Series]]'' seems so evil that one wonders if the writer was doing a whimsical exercise in how to create the most evil villain.

* The sadistic serial killer in [[Spider Robinson]]'s novel ''[[Very Bad Deaths]]'' exemplifies this: He inflicts horrible cruelties upon his victims because he enjoys it. He derives the same sense of satisfaction from cruelty than most people get from kind ones.

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* Q in ''[[Star Trek: the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek theThe Next Generation]]'', half the time. The other half he's playing a [[Trickster Mentor|mentor]]...

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', we have this dialogue between Martha and a [[Monster of the Week|Toclafane]]:

{{quote| '''Martha:''' But why? Why come all this way just to cause all this death and destruction?<br />

'''Toclafane:''' Because it's ''FUNfun''. }}

** While he hasn't always been as open about it as in his John Simm incarnation, [[The Master (trope)|The Master]] has always been more interested in screwing with the Doctor than actually taking over the world. In ''The Sea Devils'', he flat-out admits he's only working with the villains so they can get rid of "the human race of which you are so very fond."

* Similarly, a villain in the ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' episode "Countrycide", when asked the reason for his actions, simply responds "Because it made me happy."

{{quote| '''Captain John Hart:''' Do I mean fun or carnage? I always get those two mixed up.}}

* Similarly, in the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "The Benders", Sam gets captured by a family of cannibal hillbillies, and Dean allies himself with a female county cop (whose brother was captured by the same hillbillies) to get him back. At the end, the female cop asks the hillbilly patriarch why they killed her brother, and he answers, "Because it was FUN." She shoots him off-screen.

* Subtly subverted in the ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]'' episode "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me". Four demons cause death and destruction behind the scenes apparently just because it's fun for them. Except at the end, it's revealed (by Frank Black himself) that the demons are very lonely, simply doing evil not because they like it, but because it's what they've been doing forever and they don't know what else to do.

* About the only reason why Arthur Petrelli of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' does anything. Mr. Linderman of Season One wanted to blow up NYC to heal the world and Adam Monroe of Season Two wanted to release a deadly virus to give his people a second chance, but Arthur didn't even bother with idealistic pretense. He just spouted the usual [[Card-Carrying Villain|villainous cliches]], and even then in a half-hearted fashion, as if he could barely be bothered to even offer a modicum of justification for his douchery.

* {{spoiler|Angelus}} during season 2 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', who nearly destroyed the world just for the giggles. Somebody earlier mentioned what could be more evil than leering at nuns? How about killing an entire convent just to drive one girl insane? Yeah, he did that because he ''could''. And then he made her a vampire.

** Most demons and vampires are like this, by their very nature. Two villains, however, get special mention: Spike and Ethan Rayne. Spike at least has an excuse, he's a vampire, and therefore is [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]]. Ethan doesn't even have this excuse; he's just an ordinary human who worships pain and chaos. Literally; his powers come from his worship of Janus.

*** Angel and Spike have a conversation in ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' concerning how they committed atrocities [[For the Evulz]] -- butEvulz—but in different ways. Spike loved killing for the sake of it and didn't bother to give his victims another glance. Angelus couldn't look away from his victims and relished their suffering.

{{quote| '''Spike''': "The thing is, I ''like'' this world. You've got Manchester United, dogracing, and ''people''. Millions of people, all walking around, like Happy Meals on legs."}}

** One episode of ''Angel'' had a twist on this; the demon possessing a small boy did all his crimes [[For the Evulz]], but the boy was a complete psychopath who trapped the demon in his mind and resisted control attempts, then burned things and killed people anyway (even after a successful exorcism) because he didn't see any reason not to. The demon was absolutely ''terrified'' by this, since demons see doing things out of a belief in evil as a valid reason but the boy lacked even that.

* ''[[Jonathan Creek (TV)|Jonathan Creek]]'', given that it focuses on [[Locked Room Mystery|Locked Room Mysteries]] and other planned murders, usually has very rational and logical villains with complex motives. Thus this trope came as something of a surprise when it was played in season four - after the media suggests that a series of murders are inspired by the fact that all the women killed were named after flowers (as an attempt to "deflower women") and the real killer is caught, Jonathan notes that no-one had considered the idea that a young woman would kill other young women "simply because she likes to". The floral connection of the names was just a coincidence.

* ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)|Criminal Minds]]'': A trio of killers graduate from vandalism to murder, and one of them is caught editing footage from their latest killing (to The Dead Weather of all things). When asked why they did it {{spoiler|especially in light of the fact that unlike the profile they had steady jobs in a bad economy}}, the lone survivor can only say "Because it's fun."

** Subverted in the ''episode'' ''"To Hell And Back"''. The team profile someone who is abducting random drug users and homeless people as someone who is killing For The Evulz - but it is actually an [[Adult Child]] who is carrying out orders of his crippled [[Manipulative Bastard]] brother, who says he was using the victims to perform horrible human experiments in the hope of finding a cure for his condition. Then [[Double Subverted]] when Rossi calls bullshit on that and says he's just a sadist, who enjoys forcing his brother to torture and kill people while he watches, since none of the equipment he has on hand is remotely suited to advanced medical research.

* Rico in ''[[Hannah Montana (TV)|Hannah Montana]]'' explains the fact that he is always trying to make people (his so called friends no less) miserable as "I'm rich and bored, [[It's What I Do]]."

* On an episode of ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit (TV)|Law and& Order: Special Victims Unit]]'', a serial rapist and murderer who is also a [[Phony Psychic]] keeps butting into a case in which he is actually the killer. After he's captured, a detective asks him why he did it, since he'd probably have gotten away with it if he hadn't. His response? "I just had to see what I had set in motion. The expressions on your faces were priceless. This place was like a big beehive that I poked with a stick."

* ''[[CSI (TV)|CSI]]'' episode "Fannysmackin'", where local teens beat tourists to death. The point made at the end is that these kids were bored and were stupid enough to pick this to break the boredom.

* Every villain in the 1960's ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV show. Has even ''one'' of them ever tried to commit a subtle and/or profitable crime?

* In the ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds" {{spoiler|Saffron}} implies she might be this, {{spoiler|after Mal questions her about why she needed such a convoluted plan.}}

{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Saffron}}''': "You're assuming the payoff is the point."}}

* [[Professional Wrestling]]: [[WWEWorld Wrestling Entertainment|The Big Bossman]] practically sprinted past the [[Moral Event Horizon]] and dove into [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsterdom]]dom for no reason whatsoever, other than that he enjoyed it.

* A rather light example in ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]'': Bill's just signed up to do a row of extremely violent shows for the BBC. Graeme and Tim, bewildered, simply ask why he'd join up for such 'immoral, gratuitous violence'.

{{quote| '''Bill:''' Oh, don't worry, I have a perfectly good reason.<br />

'''Graeme:''' Oh really? What's that?<br />

* {{spoiler|Jim Moriarty}} from ''[[Sherlock (TV)|Sherlock]]'': he threatens to blow up a series of bombs in London just because he was bored and to get Sherlock's attention.

* On ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'', Peter likes Manny, but Emma likes Peter. Manny gets drunk, and Peter films Manny stripping and uses it for blackmail. Emma then puts Peter [[Draco in Leather Pants|in leather pants]] and blames Manny, but starts dating the guy who filmed her best friend stripping. Strike that. That whole plot was [[For the Evulz]]. Peter's motives are more clear in season 6. (Sean likes Emma, Peter's dating Emma, Peter frames Sean for "possession".) And he actually gets a random [[Face Heel Turn]] in season 7.

* This is Sue Sylvester's primary motivation in ''[[Glee (TV)|Glee]]''.

* The killer in the ''[[Criminal Minds Suspect Behavior (TV)|Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior]]'' episode "Jane" outright claims he had no reason to torture and kill women, he just did it. According to [[The Profiler|Coop]], he's telling the truth; to the killer, people and even most things are just indistinguishable blurs, and he is incapable of anything even resembling emotion, especially (and even sadistic) joy or happiness, even while torture-murdering.

* Francis from ''[[Malcolm in The Middle (TV)|Malcolm in Thethe Middle]]'', during his youth, and even currently, was implied to have pretty much done things such as steal a neighbor's car, crash it onto a tree, as well as drink, smoke, gain multiple piercings, break curfew, slept around, as well as torture his brothers, lock them in a closet, steal their toys, and presumably scar Reese with a Bayonet because of this trope, almost certainly the prior stuff was simply to spite his mother.

* In [[Sentai]] series, a general rule is that the villain's ''only'' ideology is evil.

* ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'': Selto Durka, Peacekeeper Captain, enthusiastic torturer, and all around bastard. He's so horrible that when Rygel -- oneRygel—one of his former victims -- {{spoiler|finally kills him, Rygel spends the next several days carrying his head around on a stick. It's '''really''' hard to blame Rygel for being so happy.}}

* When {{spoiler|Methos}} from the ''[[Highlander (TV series)|Highlander]]'' tvTV series]] finally tells Duncan about his days as an evil marauder back in the depths of time, he sums up his motives as a combination of this and [[Evil Feels Good]].

{{quote| Killing was all I knew. Is that what you want to hear? I killed. But I didn't just kill fifty, I didn't kill a hundred. I killed a thousand. I killed TEN''ten'' thousand! And I was good at it. And it wasn't for vengeance, it wasn't for greed. It was because... I liked it.}}

{{quote| "''But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die."}}

{{quote| ''And it's so easy when you're evil<br />

''This is the life, you see<br />

''The Devil tips his hat to me<br />

''I do it all because I'm evil<br />

''And I do it all for free<br />

''Your tears are all the pay I'll ever need }}

{{quote| ''It ain't the money<br />

''And it sure as hell ain't just for the fame<br />

''It's for the bodies I claim<br />

''And those only go so far }}

{{quote| ''His teachers didn't understand,<br />

''They kicked him out of school at a tender, early age just because<br />

''He didn't want to learn things,<br />

''Had other interests...<br />

''He liked to burn things! }}

* "Such Horrible Things" by Creature Feature:

{{quote| ''I'm not a bad man<br />

''Even though I do bad things, very bad things, such horrible things<br />

''But it's not quite what it seems, not quite what I seem<br />

''Ah hell, I'm exactly what I seem. }}

* "French" by [[OFWGKTA|Tyler, the Creator]]:

{{quote| ''I'm openin' a church to sell coke and Led Zeppelin<br />

''And fuck Mary in her ass.. ha-ha.. yo<br />

''I'm fuckin' Goldilocks up in the forest<br />

''In the three bear house eatin' their muthafuckin' porridge<br />

''I tell her it's my house, give her a tour<br />

''In my basement, and keep that bitch locked up in my storage<br />

''Rape her and record it, then edit it with more shit }}

{{quote| ''We set fashion, not follow<br />

''Spit vitriol, not swallow<br />

''Good for nothing but being<br />

''Everything that's bad }}

{{quote| ''I keep telling them they're out to get me<br />

''They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer, why of<br />

''Course!<br />

''There is so much more I could have done if they'd let<br />

''Me! }}

* "Sinner" by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzNqHgBCItU a) Judas Priest] doesn't seem to give a motive to the subject of the song beyond enjoyment of his (or her) own sin (evulz), the same can be said of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlTupfMZP1Q b) Drowning Pool] song of the same name. Also note that no particular preference is given to any one [[Seven Deadly Sins|sin]] in particular over the others.

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* Doing this in pro wrestling is generally called garnering "[[Cheap Heat]]"; being booed by the fans not for doing something legitimately vile but simply for the sake of being jeered. Interrupting someone's well-deserved title match to spoil their opportunity at glory is a truly nefarious act and being booed for this is well-earned. Telling the town you're in that their local football team just lost to [some other city] is done [[For the Evulz]]. Sometimes, cheap heat really adds to a wrestler's charisma (it's a great way to show how arrogant their character can be) but done sloppily, the facade is easily lost and the obviousness that it's a swing at just being bad for bad's sake is made evident.

* In ''[[Exalted]]'', the Ebon Dragon is the incarnation of this trope. Seriously, when the world was being created from formless chaos, he invented the entire ''concept'' of betrayal. He also argued for the invention of a being of virtue and light to defend the world solely because its formation would empower him as something to oppose. His power suite is built entirely around dicking people over. Just to cap it off, while he's trapped in the prison-body of his king like the rest of his kin, he would gladly make his escape back into the world and slam the door shut behind him in the face of the Yozis, and possibly seal them away for all eternity just to laugh in their faces. This guy just doesn't do it [[For the Evulz]], he wrote the book on it as a checklist for personal life goals. The only consolation is that he is such a complete pathological dick that when sealing his kin while escaping, his own component souls are likely to betray him and trap the rest of him within the permanently sealed hell.

** Some of the material implies that he actually orchestrated the war that resulted in him and his fellows being trapped in said Hell. And actually came out ahead for it -- heit—he was a fairly minor Primordial, but he's one of the most powerful and prominent of the Yozis.

* Quite a few Dark Eldar and followers of Chaos in ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' have lost whatever reasons they once might have had for their journey to what lies beyond the [[Moral Event Horizon]] and are now in it for the giggles. The Dark Eldar are a particularly stellar example as the reason for their current predicament (hiding in the Webway and constantly hunted by the god of perversion) is that their entire civilization imploded in an orgy of hedonism and depravity, and they have no intention of stopping([[Deconstructed Trope|While this is buried away in some fairly obscure canon, the Dark Eldar carry on as they are out of a deep-seated spiritual dread. All the evuls are to try and stave off the attention of the god of perversion for just a bit longer]]).

* The old fantasy ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' has the Skaven... Frankly, most of their clans neither want nor need a motive for what they do.

* Depending on what Haunt you trigger in ''[[Betrayal Atat House Onon the Hill]]'', the Traitor's motivation can range from [[Tragic Monster]] to [[More Than Mind Control]] to this. The poor preacher might randomly turn into a werewolf, or the geeky [[Tagalong Kid]] may just decide the [[Giant Spider|Giant Spiders]]s are just ''too cool'' to fight.

* Fiends in ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]''. As the Witch-queen Iggwilv explains in the ''Demonomicon'':

{{quote| "To understand a [[Chaotic Evil|demon]] is to know what drives it. All demons crave carnage and absolute ruin, but to what end? Unlike [[Lawful Evil|devils]], demons do not commit acts of violence from a philosophical desire to foment evil for its own sake. The desires of a demon are less existential. More instinctual."}}

* In the ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'' set ''Ravnica'', the Rakdos Cult is populated entirely by [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]] demons and supplicants, whose entire reason for doing their actions is [[For the Evulz]]. Interestingly, in the magically-enforced government of Ravnica, there ''needs to be'' that sort of group as part of the government... even if it spends most of its time trying to destroy said government.

* Most agents of the Wyrm in ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Tabletop Game)|Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' don't have a whole lot of motive for what they do. A fair amount of the Pentex book is scary not because of the malevolence on display, but because most of it seems to have no motive at all beyond "yay Wyrm".

** Aaron of ''[[Titus Andronicus (Theatretheatre)|Titus Andronicus]]'' does everything he does over the course of the play because he simply likes being evil.

{{quote| Ah, why should wrath be mute and fury dumb?<br />

I am no baby, I, that with base prayers<br />

I should repent the evils I have done;<br />

Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did<br />

Would I perform, if I might have my will.<br />

If one good deed in all my life I did,<br />

{{quote| I wanna taste their tears<br />

I wanna hear their screams<br />

I want that special rush<br />

You get from crushing<br />

* The ''[[Purr Tenders|Purr-Tenders]]'' had to deal with Ed-grr, the grumpy pet dog of the owner of Pick-A-Dilly Pet Shop. While they'd all gotten adopted thanks to their [[Paper-Thin Disguise|disguises]], meaning his owner didn't have to care for them anymore and they were out of his hair, Ed-grr wanted to capture and drag them back to the shop ''just'' so they'd be unhappy and he could laugh at their misery.

== [[Video Games]] ==

{{quote| '''Undercity Champion''': I punched a penguin on my way in here.<br />

'''Argent Confessor Paletress''': Oh, my. Do you feel remorseful, at least?<br />

* Saleh, one of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] in ''[[Tales of Rebirth (Video Game)|Tales of Rebirth]]'' is an extreme case that he is very much repulsed with anything good and strives to do evil and it just delights him to see people suffer.

* {{spoiler|Kirei Kotomine}}, the [[Big Bad]] of the Fate route in ''[[Fate/stay Stay Night (Visual Novel)|Fate Stay Nightnight]]'', was going to {{spoiler|empty the contents of the Holy Grail, an [[Artifact of Doom]] containing a tangible form of all of man's evil}} upon the world, causing untold amounts of death and destruction. When [[The Hero]] asks him why he's doing it, he replies with a speech that can be summed up as: "Just as some people find music or art entertaining, I can only find amusement in watching other people suffer".

* The eponymous mask from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda MajorasMajora's Mask]]''. This is emphasized by the fact that the person it chooses to possess is a (skull) kid, and during one of its [[One-Winged Angel|three boss fights]], it dances around giggling like a [[Giggling Villain|child.]] It doesn't seem to have a clear reason for all of the horrible things it does, part of what makes it scary as fuck.

** Not Majora himself, but they establish a [[Freudian Excuse]] for the Skull Kid, who was being influenced by him at one point in the game. A long time ago, the Skull Kid and the Giants were friends (his ONLY''only'' friends), but the giants left to sleep in the four compass directions leaving the Skull Kid all alone and feeling he had been abandoned. This caused him to become bitter and antagonistic toward people, which got turned [[Up to Eleven]] when Majora possessed him.

* Minions (especially brown ones) from ''[[Overlord]]'' might also count toward this trope - they simply enjoy killing and crashing everything (this is evident from their constant remarks, like "Kill, kill!" or "Burn, burn!").

{{quote| '''Coco Bandicoot:''' Cortex, why do you keep doing stuff like this?<br />

{{quote| "I did that stuff 'cause I could. And it got interesting, so I watched."}}

* The [[Evil Matriarch]] Hilda from ''[[Fire Emblem]] 4''. Most of her acts seems to derive from her lust of power. But [[Break the Cutie|torturing her sister in law Tiltyu to death and then her daughter too]]? That's simply done [[For the Evulz]]. Also, when her husband was very much disdainful towards child hunting so they can be sacrificed to an evil god, she goes ahead and supports it wholeheartedly. For what? [[For the Evulz]].

* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"|Pokey/Porky]] Minch from the ''[[Earthbound (Video Game)|EarthboundEarthBound]]'' series seems to fit this trope perfectly in ''[[Earthbound (Video Game)EarthBound|Mother 2]]'' {{spoiler|and ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]''}}. He pretty much states that being the hero doesn't sound like fun to him. In ''[[Earthbound (Video Game)EarthBound|Mother 2]]'' he seemed more like a harmless example who usually appeared to taunt or hinder Ness. {{spoiler|[[Nightmare Fuel|Mother 3 however...]] his actions shifted more towards [[Complete Monster]] territory, transforming a peaceful island's plants and animals into violent chimeras, then gathered all the inhabitants on the island to his flying "utopia" so they could all watch as he awakened a dragon to destroy all of existence. All this because he was bored and needed a quick laugh.}}

* More than half of the Acts of Infamy in ''[[Evil Genius (Videovideo Gamegame)|Evil Genius]]'' are done solely to make sure ''you're'' the most evil genius trying to [[Take Over the World]].

* ''[[Spyro the Dragon|Malefor]]'': Malefor is a [[Complete Monster]], no matter [[Draco in Leather Pants|what fans try to portray him as]]. We're talking about a villain who kidnaps a baby dragon only too [[Freud Was Right|have some company]] after exposing her to darkness - no doubt putting her through terrible misery and suffering in the process. Then he launches an army of [[Maniac Monkeys|crazed apes]] (whom he eventually condemns to a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] simply because they do not seem totally loyal) to kill anybody who tries to stop him, so that he can [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroy the entire world with a deadly blast]]. His motive is apparently [[Because Destiny Says So]], but seriously - what would his actions accomplish?

* And if you you're really looking for nasty evil leadership, seems like the whole place of ''[[The Sims|Sim]] [[Sim CitySimCity|Nation]]'' is an ultimate [[Crapsack World]] that [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|corrupt]] mayors can run cities in. Crime can be rampant on the streets, or a mayor can summon a tornado to hit that peaceful neighborhood, or he can even drive around and spill toxic waste in shopping districts.

** The people living in those cities aren't too bright for staying there either. Try reducing all firefighter budget to zero and set a few fires. As the industries explode and set the entire map on fire, you will find that even with a third of the map burning and another third already turned to ashes, 30% of people polled will still find traffic or taxes to be the biggest problem in town...

* [[Word of God]] states that this is Wario's reason why he's working with the Subspace Army in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130617052223/http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/gamemode/modea/modea17.html\]

* ''[[Metal Wolf Chaos|]]'': RICHARD Hawk]], who laughs constantly while testing out a superweapon on New York City and filling Chicago with poison gas for no reason other than the fact that he just hates freedom for some reason.

{{quote| "What! Murray, I did you a favor!"<br />

{{quote| {{smallcaps|"Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything. ... The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilisations rise, evolve, advance and at the apex of their glory, they are extinguished."}}}}

* ''[[Summoner]]'': Emperor Murod, {{spoiler|Prince Sornehan, and Queen Galliene}} purposely cultivate [[Zero-Percent0% Approval Rating|Zero Percent Approval Ratings]] upon taking power? Because they're part of a demonic cult whose acolytes literally fuel their magical power with evil and suffering.

* SHODAN from ''[[System Shock]]''. She's an apegyapogee of villainy and bloodlust. First, Edward Diego tricks the hacker into removing her ethical restraints, and how does she thank him? By turning everyone except you into her [[Body Horror|mutant slaves]], while letting Diego still have at least [[Brainwashed and Crazy|somewhat of a mind]]. Worst of all, she plans to use Citadel Station's mining laser to destroy the cities of Earth, and then use her mutant virus on anyone who survives her wrath.

{{quote| Lucien Lachance: '''We kill for profit, for enjoyment and for the glory of our Dread Father Sithis."}}

** Some of the victims are slain for revenge, for selfish gain of whoever pays, to (assumably) remove someone seen as a threat or to send a powerful message to the Brotherhood's enemies. Even the murder of Baenlin on your second mission, the harmless old man who doesn't seem to have done ANYTHING''anything'' to deserve dying in the 'accident' you staged, is explained. {{spoiler|His nephew Caenlin moves into the house soon after the hit is complete. If you talk to him and/or read the black horse courier article about Baenlin's death, you'll likely assume Caenlin used the hit to claim his inheritance.}} However, there are a few instances where there is no hint in that direction. For example, in one mission you are sent to a fancy manor where five guests have been lured to by a false promise of hidden gold. No matter how much you socialize with the guests and how much information you get them to tell you about themselves(and each other), at no point do you get any slightest clue about why someone would pay the Dark Brotherhood for their deaths. Quite frightening, if you think about it.

** Again, that above statement about "for the glory of our Dread Father Sithis"? That gets even worse when you consider that canonically, Sithis ''isn't even sentient'', it's the term for the void, basically nonexistence. The Dark Brotherhood take up many of their missions to kill people in order to appease ''an abstract concept'' that ''wouldn't even care''. Talk about [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]]s.

* The Dark Star in ''[[Mario and Luigi Bowsers Inside Story|Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]] is this. He's already a [[Made of Evil]] [[Eldritch Abomination]], and as a result, has no motivations other than destruction. His 'plan' is to destroy the Mushroom Kingdom or world, and he doesn't even consider that he happens to be 'living' there at the time. Then again, he's [[Made of Evil]] itself, I don't think he'd understand the concept of having motivations or reasons.

* By the time Travis Touchdown reaches her, Bad Girl in ''[[No More Heroes]]'' is so utterly burned out by her career as an assassin that she slaughters countless gimp clones just for the fun of it. She openly admits that she has no reason to kill anyone, she does it to keep herself entertained. Travis, who is only slightly less of a [[Villain Protagonist]] than [[God of War (Video Gameseries)|Kratos]], finds himself disgusted.

* Most of the villains in the first ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' game have some sort of [[Freudian Excuse]] or another behind their criminal careers. Sir Raleigh, however, is simply a bored aristocrat who commits crimes and sinks ships to entertain himself.

* In ''[[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|Prototype]]'', you (as Alex Mercer) can run around murdering absolutely anyone you care to using a multitude of techniques and abilities. True, they drop some health for you, but then why not absorb them instead of, say, throwing the smoldering remains of a helicopter at some random grouping?

* [[Complete Monster|Terumi Yuuki]] from ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' is directly responsible for a lot of the bad things that have happened to Ragna, Jin, Noel, Kokonoe, Arakune, and many others, and he has no motivation for doing many of these things except to be a <s>dick</s>[[Troll]].

{{quote| '''Hazama/Terumi''': Seriously, I can't believe you just asked me that! OK, all right, fine! How about this reason? Seems as good as any. I do all the wonderful things I do because I want to see the miserable look on the faces of people like YOU when you're wallowing in despair, dismay, grief, frustration, misery... [[Faux Affably Evil|all sorts of other unpleasant nouns]]... I guess you could say I'm bored. [[Complete Monster|At least misery is interesting]].}}

* Seems to be almost the entire motivation for the witches in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'' {{spoiler|especially the Voyager witches Bernkastel and Lambdadelta.}} [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|But when you live for a thousand years, your sources of entertainment eventually start to run out.]]

* ''[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]]'' brings us Blados, a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] who just plain loves his job. Whether it's kidnapping a child, [[Lost Forever|blowing up and collapsing a cavern so the heroes can never go back to that area]], [[Blood Knight|taunting characters for being "too weak for a good fight"]], forcing the heroes to {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|activate a forbidden Alchemy Machine]] and plunge most of the continent into a [[Total Eclipse of the Plot]]}}, or {{spoiler|[[The Starscream|turning a giant laser superweapon against his own country]]}}, it looks like he's only doing it for laughs.

* Gary from ''[[Bully (Videovideo Gamegame)|Bully]]'' personifies this trope, what with his justification for {{spoiler|putting Jimmy into power as the King of the School, then sabotaging him completely and getting him expelled, then plunging the school into complete chaos}} being because he could...

* {{spoiler|Iris Sepperin}} of ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'' states that {{spoiler|she made the organization of RKS fight against the Holy Empire just for her own amusement. She also [[Complete Monster|amuses herself with other people's suffering]], such as Zorne's when she killed her father whom she was desperately trying to get to accept her as his real daughter, and Grolla's when she had arranged for her long-dead grandfather to be brought back by her father as [[The Grim Reaper]]}}.

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Iris''': I was born with [[Magnificent Bastard|absolute power and unparalelled brains]]. Now, when someone knows everything there is to know about something, they get bored with it. That's the reason why I chose to stage this little revolution: [[It Amused Me|to make this world just a little less boring]].}}}}

* [[Affably Evil|Reaver]] in ''[[Fable II]]'': "There's something rather [[Evil Feels Good|edifying]] about hurting people."

* In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', was there any sensible reason for Primarch Dysley to shoot Jihl Nabaat in the back when she was about to defend him from the party? Even if his killing her was important to the plot and his characterization, wouldn't waiting until she'd fought the party and then invoking [[You Have Failed Me...]] have made more sense?

* The Nightmare Court in ''[[Guild Wars 2]]'' manages to have an actual plan that requires its followers to kill and torment [[For the Evulz]]: By creating terrible memories for themselves and their victims, they try to make sure that their pseudo-[[Hive Mind]], the Pale Tree, gets darker too, and will cause newly born Sylvari to be less acceptiveaccepting of the [[LawfullLawful Good]] teachings from Ventari's tablet, which the Nightmare Court considers [[Stupid Good]] as opposed to their own [[Knight Templar]] approach.

* It isn't made very clear why Tuber kidnapped the fruits in ''[[The Caverns of Hammerfest (Video Game)|The Caverns of Hammerfest]]''.

* Solomon in ''[[Battlefield 3 (Video Game)|Battlefield 3]]'' was heavily implied to be this.

* [[Ax Crazy|Munenori]] from ''[[Onimusha]]'': Dawn of Dreams is a crazy piece of work. His motivation in this is cemented {{spoiler|when he learns that his eye from his mother was not forced upon him to make him strong but given by his mother willingly to save his life.}} He begins to break down....and then ''starts [[Evil Laugh|cackling]] and explaining that it's irrelevant to why he does anything.''

* ''[[OrderThe of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'':

{{quote| '''Xykon:''' ...sure, I could've just blasted you all from above with fire and lightning and such... But I've always felt that when it's really important, it's worth to go that extra mile. Don't you agree?<br />

{{quote| "But you can't make an omelette without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others."}}

* In the second ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons|Dungeons and Discourse]]'', Dmitri's character in ''[[Dresden Codak]]'' excuses stopping to eat the [[Our Souls Are Different|philosophical]] [[The Heartless|zombies]] with "[[Stupid Evil|Evil for Evil's sake]]." {{spoiler|Then he kills off the entire party with the [[Exclusive Enemy Equipment|Dungeon Boss's]] [[BFS|mega-weapon]].}} Again, [[For the Evulz]].

* Black Mage from ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|8-Bit Theater]]'' frequently has this as the motivation for his behavior. [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/11/04/episode-350-first-impressions/ Here's just one example out of many.]

{{quote| '''Dwarf Villager:''' By Moradin's beard! Why do only our homes and children burn!<br />

{{quote| '''Penny''': She never tries to win. She just tries to make everyone '''else lose'''.}}

* ''[[Juathuur]]'' averts this trope, and explicitly evokes it [https://web.archive.org/web/20100821053440/http://oneway.juathuur.com/1/?strip_id=254 here]. The comic, as a whole, makes a point that no one is evil 'just because', everyone has his reasons.

* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', most of the old Heterodyne family's sadistic experiments were [[For Science!]], but they left behind a [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot|Castle]] whose motivation for messing with prisoners is, aside from protecting heirs of the Heterodyne family, [[For the Evulz]].

* The Grand Highblood from ''[[Homestuck]]'' seems to be the troll incarnate of this trope, killing those who seek him out on a whim simply because he truly thinks of himself as the highest on the troll totem pole. {{spoiler|And he's also Gamzee's ancestor, and the moment Gamzee sobers up, he decides it's time to prepare for The Vast Honk via killing off all the other remaining trolls. Which he successfully does in a doomed timeline, considering he has their blood to paint with.}}

* This is the only discernible reason why [[Designated Hero|Christian Weston Chandler]]'s enemies continually try to ruin his Love Quests in ''[[Sonichu]]''.

** In fairness, Chris is a Jerkass at best, so it's probably the same reason why many people troll him in [[Real Life]]-[[Asshole Victim|they think he ''deserves'' to be trolled.]]

* The hat guy in ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' enjoys [http://xkcd.com/954/ inventive ways of being cruel], and only sometimes as payback for someone being stupid.

* Don Sebastiano of the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. His idea of 'romance' is seducing a classmate, having sex with her until she's in love, then humiliating her in front of the whole school. And that's the least damaging side of him.

* Entire basis of ''[[Evil FTW]]'', but not NEARLY''nearly'' so extreme.

* [[Dr. HorriblesHorrible's Sing -Along Blog|Dr Horrible's]] sole motivation for trying to take over the world is so that he can qualify as a supervillain and get into the Evil League of Evil.

* Dr. Heiter in ''[[Human Centipede the Musical (Web Video)|Human Centipede the Musical]]'', even more so than his film counterpart.

* [[That Guy With theThe Glasses]] did a sketch about the Joker from ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' trying to come up with an origin story. After several rather ridiculous attempts, he decides to forsake the attempt altogether.

{{quote| '''Joker''': "Argh, that will never work! You know what? I'll just say I'm an asshole!"}}

* In ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged|Dragon Ball Z Abridged]]'', it seems that this is part of Vegeta's motivation for his presence on (and subsequent attempt at destroying) Earth.

{{quote| '''Vegeta''': "Say goodbye to your planet, Kakarot!"<br />

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

* Veronica Carter of ''[[Shadowhunter Peril]]'', through a technicality, falls under this category. When she originally existed in Fan Fiction, Veronica was a psychotic vampire who had bullied her three siblings into working for her in her quest for total destruction of everything, murdered her rebellious little brother's best and only friend, killed and drained blood from the bodies of humans well after she was full satisfying her thirst, and went on a celebratory trek across of vandalism across the country after she killed her own army and attacked the opposing one (keep in mind that her idea of vandalism is burning everything she sees). Her reasoning for all this is because she "was just bored".

** Even in ''Shadowhunter Peril'', she will occasionally do something that could be slightly considered evil towards the Resistance, such as setting demonic, tentacled, man-eating pies on her friends (she literally commands them to eat Nicholas and Umbra); and [[BazookaMad FrenzyBomber|firing missiles at Oblivion.]] When asked why she does this, she just giggles.

{{quote| '''Zim:''' Well... back to my filthy evil, I guess.}}

{{quote| '''Hego:''' The more we fought evil, the more Shego liked it.<br />

'''Ron:''' The fighting?<br />

* The anti-fairies in ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' go out to cause bad luck, for no other reason than to go out and cause it.

* One memorable episode of ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' featured the season's [[Big Bad]] trying to create a giant tidal wave to drown the city - for no discernablediscernible reason at all. Admittedly, the one-shot villains often fell into this too, though were usually just following whatever their gimmick happened to be (except for [[Jerk Jock|Adonis]], who just seemed to wreck things because it helped boost his ego).

** Also the Brotherhood of Evil, at least in their first appearance. There is no logic reason, other than being a massive dick (quite an accomplishment for a [[Brain In Aa Jar]]), that the Brain would use a black hole machine to destroy the Titans' home city. They weren't even there at the time, and he knew it. Even their later plan to capture and freeze every hero only seems to be so they can be evil without interruption.

** Even ''Slade'' flirted with this -- seethis—see "Forces of Nature", where Robin wonders why Slade wanted to destroy the city, and never gets an answer. For that matter, Thunder and Lightning from the same episode would fit under this label, although they have a more believable "motive" of causing trouble for the fun of it because they're immature jerks. (Being forced to consider the victims of their actions gives Thunder pause.)

*** Slade in that episode could be [[Fan Wank|Fan Wanked]]ed into setting the whole thing up to see what the Titans would do to stop it (thereby helping pick an apprentice - and it's only ''after'' that episode he decides to focus on Robin alone). Or it could just be [[Characterization Marches On]], as they hadn't quite decided what they wanted to do with him yet.

** Trigon, being thea [[God of Evil]], kinda has to fit this trope.

* ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'' has Maleficent. She tries to murder the titular character. And when that fails, she captures her [[Prince Charming]] so she can send him back when he's old and grey. Why? 'Cuz she's "[[Large Ham|the mistress of all evil]]!"

* There is no doubt that this is the cause of [[Re Boot|Megabyte]]'s actions later in the series''[[ReBoot]]''. Shapeshifting as Bob and almost marrying Dot was done for no other reason than to amuse him.

* In the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' cartoons, King Koopa and his kids are [[Card-Carrying Villain|Card Carrying Villains]] that are always doing evil for the sake of doing evil. Occasionally they would have plans that involved financial gain, but evil always took top priority and financial gain was a bonus.

* Arguably, Swiper from ''[[Dora the Explorer]]'' might count. As a villain, Swiper's only motivation seems to be to steal Macguffins for the purpose of inconveniencing the protagonists and then throwing them away (similar to the jewel thief mentioned in ''[[The Dark Knight]]'').

{{quote| '''Luthor:''' That's right, conspiracy buff, I spent seventy-five million dollars on a fake presidential campaign ''just to tick Superman off.''}}

* Skeletor in the original ''[[He -Man and Thethe Masters of Thethe Universe]]'' certainly qualifies. His motive was simply that he enjoyed being evil. He waxed rhapsodic about how much he loved evil. He found joy in any act of nastiness, no matter how petty or arbitrary, and was repulsed by anything good or nice. (Of course, being an '80s cartoon character, he never did anything ''really'' evil like, say, trying to kill anyone. But given how much fulfillment he found in even the smallest acts of evil, maybe he didn't feel the need to.)

* Eris from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]''. Even though her actions are justified since she is the goddess of chaos after all, she seems to enjoy way too much what she does, and the worst part is that most of the time her goals are just petty or meaningless, like ruining a kung-fu tournament or tormenting the main characters while they aren't even bothering her.

{{quote| '''Mr. Black:''' ''(Raising his glass)'' Gentlemen-- to evil.}}

* Madam Mim in the Disney film ''[[The Sword in The Stone (Disney)|The Sword In Thethe Stone]]'' despises anything pleasant (such as flowers and sunshine) and tries to murder Arthur just because Merlin sees something good in him.

* The villains from ''[[Freddie As FROas F.R.O.7]]'', Freddie's aunt Messina and El Supremo, plan to take over the world by hypnotizing people for reasons completely unclear. However, El Supremo seems to be really into it, with evil laugh and everything, not to mention Messina, who boasts about her evil power in her song Evilmania.

* One episode of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' had the devil's nephew, IIRC, possess Johnny in order to turn off the filter to the city's water supply, giving the water a metallic taste. When Pops asks why the demon couldn't have done it himself, the demon says that he could, but it wouldn't be as interesting as forcing someone else to do it.

* Sid from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' spends most of his free time thinking up ways of torturing toys for a quick laugh, including, but not limited to, tearing them apart and switching their pieces together.

* Many villains in ''[[Megas XLR]]'' live by this trope. Two explicitly notable examples include Gerrkek the Planet Killer and Ender.

{{quote| '''Ender:''' My name is Ender. I end things. People, planets, galaxies.}}

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Azula may have her eyes set on the crown and other external motivations, but a lot of times she seems to just enjoy being an evil bastard. Then again, she's very clearly insane, even before her [[Villainous Breakdown]] toward the end of the series -- she even ends up ranting in an asylum.

* [[Complete Monster|The Coachman]] from ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'', who actually kidnaps naughty young boys, brings them all to Pleasure Island, turns them all into donkeys, and locks them all up in crates headed either for the salt mines or the circus just for the fun of it! And to make matters worse, he's actually a [[Karma Houdini]]!

* [[Meaningful Name|Discord]] from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' loves causing chaos with his [[Reality Warper|reality warping]] powers simply because he wants to. He shows pretty quickly that he possesses godlike power and could likely win with a fingersnap, but instead locks everyone in a rigged game where he can [[Mind Rape]] them at his leisure. Any possibility that his motivation might be more [[It Amused Me]] is put to rest when Fluttershy wins his game by being too mentally stable to fall for [[More Than Mind Control]], when he promptly loses his temper and cheats at his own game by breaking her through more brute force methods -- whichmethods—which incidentally makes her embrace this trope as well while under his influence, as she's brainwashed to be cruel and does things solely from that motivation.

* In ''[[G.I. Joe: Resolute]]'', Zartan says this about why he does what he does: "But I like the idea of living in a world where I can kill anyone I like, anytime I like. I don't need the money; I just need the killing."

* In the Disney ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' series, Mirage is a cat goddess who's labeled as "Evil Incarnate" and whose primary motivation is to destroy good and spread misery. She developed into wanting revenge on Aladdin, but started out trying to hurt Agrabah because there was too much good in it.

** SeingSeeing how the city is choke full of beggars and thieves, [[Fridge Horror|does this mean]] that the [[Crapsack World|rest of the world is even worse]]?

** Of note is the being literally named [[Reality Warper|Chaos]]. Aladdin and Co. ''think'' he's following this trope, but it's really more because [[It Amused Me]]. They eventually find out he's not ACTUALLY''actually'' evil, just making things "interesting" for them because of the "rut" that Aladdin is in, always being the hero and whatnot. When he accidentally lets slip that Mirage sent him there? They proceed to let him known that Aladdin's life is already pretty damn chaotic, but Mirage? ALWAYS''Always'' the same thing, nothing but evil, evil, ''evil''. He decides to go make HER''her'' existence a little more... Varied. {{spoiler|It's even revealed that screwing with Mirage for trying to manipulate him was his ''real'' plan all along.}}

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