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* Cyndi of ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' toys with others' lust for her, and manipulates people into abandoning their friends or into [[Moral Event Horizon|eating disorders and suicide attempts]], simply because it amuses her: "I do like to play." Best summed up by Penny: |
* Cyndi of ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' toys with others' lust for her, and manipulates people into abandoning their friends or into [[Moral Event Horizon|eating disorders and suicide attempts]], simply because it amuses her: "I do like to play." Best summed up by Penny: |
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{{quote|'''Penny''': She never tries to win. She just tries to make everyone '''else lose'''.}} |
{{quote|'''Penny''': She never tries to win. She just tries to make everyone '''else lose'''.}} |
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* ''[[Juathuur]]'' averts this trope, and explicitly evokes it [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. |
* ''[[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. |
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* This is the motivation for easily half the people and events involved in ''[[Ansem Retort]]''. Axel even explicitly stated that this is why Zexion should steal tax dollars from his constituents to finance Axel's wedding: just to prove he ''could''. |
* This is the motivation for easily half the people and events involved in ''[[Ansem Retort]]''. Axel even explicitly stated that this is why Zexion should steal tax dollars from his constituents to finance Axel's wedding: just to prove he ''could''. |
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* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', most of the old Heterodyne family's sadistic experiments were [[For Science!]], but they left behind a [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|Castle]] whose motivation for messing with prisoners is, aside from protecting heirs of the Heterodyne family, For the Evulz. |
* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', most of the old Heterodyne family's sadistic experiments were [[For Science!]], but they left behind a [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|Castle]] whose motivation for messing with prisoners is, aside from protecting heirs of the Heterodyne family, For the Evulz. |
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