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** And that's when he's being "nice". When he's feeling mean towards you or, heaven forbid, you begin to ''bore'' him, he'll summon demons at you, give you potentially horrid mutations, enchant your enemies' weapons, or get really creative and make all stairs to leave the current level move around and slide away from you when you try to flee. Also, throwing a bolt of divine lightning at you is considered a "good" effect, and he has a ''chance'' of sheilding you from it (it's "good" because your enemies get zapped too... assuming you were fighting something that was more of a threat than a bolt of lightning).
* The Corwids of ''[[Zeno Clash]]'' combine this with [[Funny Schizophrenia]], and incidentally a [[Double Subversion]] of [[Insane Equals Violent]] -- [[Chaotic Stupid|they do whatever they want]], whether it's walking in one direction for as long as possible or killing and eating whoever passes by. Right now they're in the "killing and eating" phase.
* The Umgah of ''[[Star Control]] II'' are essentially intergalactic pranksters. Their favorite targets are the [[Lovable Coward]] Spathi, whom they like to scare the pants off of
** They wanted to drop an asteroid in an ocean as a "prank" on the Thraddash, but the Ur-Quan conquered both species and spoiled this fun. The Thraddash are the ones who nuked themselves into stone age in several of their civil wars and are proud of this.
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** When you rescue their entire race from [[Mind Control]], they gladly
* ''[[Mana Khemia]]'': Flay's motivation for [[Crazy Awesome|everything he does]], from forming the [[True Companions|workshop]] in the first place to founding an Evil Syndicate and taking over half the world before being stopped by Alchemy Man, [[Just As Planned]]. In the sequel, he does things like launching a traditional Berserker raid on the office of a fellow faculty members and implanting chips in people's brains. Flay would be [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] for treating a JRPG like [[James Bond]] meets [[Sentai]] with ninjas, except he's very good at [[Magnificent Bastard|beating the genre into submission]].
* It's arguable if Smilin' Jack had any ulterior motives in [[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines|VTM: Bloodlines]] or if he did it all simply for a good belly laugh.
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* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|The player. Often. In almost any game.]]
** When the player starts doing this online against other players when the game is not a [[Player Versus Player]] type, then this falls into [[Griefer]] status.
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** This seems to be the ''modus operandi'' for most of the Daedric Princes (though some mix it with [[Orange and Blue Morality]]). In [[Oblivion]], Molag Bal, Daedric Prince of Corruption, uses the player to corrupt the soul of an honorable paladin [[For the Evulz|just because he can]]. Meanwhile, Boethia, Prince of Plots, organizes a brutal tournament for the player [[For the Lulz|for no real reason; he's just bored]]. And if [[Mad God|Sheogorath]] is involved, chances are this trope will be invoked. Or not, it depends on his mood, really. When he gives you the Wabbajack, it's probably just because he wants to see what you'll do with it.
* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Mother 3]]'' falls into this trope. {{spoiler|Porky ruins the lives of many people and corrupts the rest of the island's population, along with making mechas out of the animals and pulling the seven needles to summon a dragon that could destroy everything, just because he was bored and needed a giggle.}}
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* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Uncle Time is an [[Odd Job Gods|Odd Job God]] with this attitude.
** Bun-bun can veer into this too if he's in a good mood, especially with his "friends", whom he has come to grudgingly care about a tiny little bit. [[For the Evulz]] is a better characterisation for many of the things he does, though.
* Immortals in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' apparently do for their own amusement a lot of things that humans take too seriously - sometimes for a good reason, sometimes not.
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** Pandora, who remained in "too powerful, too bored, too mad" phase for centuries, set out to make the world a better place for her son (as she sees it, at least), to which end she thoroughly demolishes the current status quo and sets the world on the ears. But if she's stirring magical chaos, why do it randomly, if there's a lot of bonus entertainment to be had?
{{quote|'''Pandora''': (looming in an intimidating manner) Now, then. [[Super Empowering|I have given you power]], and ''more'' than ''that'', [[Spirit Advisor|I have given you ''knowledge'']]. More than I have shared with a mortal in many a score.
'''Pandora''': And now? ''I want something in return.''
'''Sarah''': Uh... W-what's that?
'''Pandora''': (with crazy grin) {{spoiler|''{{smallcaps|[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|Don't. Be. Boring.]]}}''}} (vanishes) }}
* Donovan in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' reveals that his [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels|comically poor grasp of the Orcish language]] was just a front; he knew how to speak the language perfectly for roughly twenty years, but insisted on the mangled version because he thought it was funny (and that he was a bard, as being funny is the reason bards do ''anything'').
* Coyote from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. Comes with being a [[Trickster God]], as mentioned above under Mythology.
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