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** Also in ''Sandman'', Desire does a unique kick the dog moment that doubles as a demonstration of what a [[Magnificent Bastard]] he/she is: Desire tells a random party-goer how she can win and cruelly break another woman's heart. Apparently, he/she can figure such things out just by looking at people.
* DC's Maxwell Lord. He shot the [[Blue Beetle|second Blue Beetle]], Ted Kord, in the head. He made [[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Guy Gardner]] flip out at his [[Back From the Dead|revived]] girlfriend, fellow superhero [[An Ice Person|Ice]], for apparently [[Blackest Night|trying to kill him]] (it wasn't really her, but Maxwell "pushed" Guy into thinking it was). If that wasn't dickish enough, he mind controls two police officers into shoooting each other. Their dialogue makes it clear that they don't know what's going on. What makes it even worse is that he could have just mindwiped the police officers instead of killing them.
* Not that Jody from ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' needed any further proof of his unredeemable bastardry, but in a feat fitting for the trope, he went beyond kicking Jesse Custer's pet dog Duke when it made the mistake of humping his leg: ''he nailed it by the head on a fence''.
** Ironically, in their final fight, Jesse would nail Jody in the head with a piece of the fence. In both terms. The fact Jody no-sells it gives one last demonstration of [[The Determinator|how inhuman he is]].
* In a story from the 1940s newspaper comic strip of ''[[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]]'', a giant thug is shown caring for a kitten. After attacking Batman and Robin when they show up (and hence causing the his boss undue suspicion) the thug's boss breaks the kitten's neck as punishment. While the crime boss ultimately ends up [[Karmic Death|drowning in a swamp]] while his thug stands by, the revenge is soured by the crime boss being able to shoot the thug to death before he's pulled under.
* Nothing demonstrates one's evil properties quite like [http://www.superdickery.com/oneshot/23.html attempting to destroy an entire city of orphans].
* Colonel Boris/Jorgen is generally considered ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]'''s most unpopular villain. Why? He kicks Snowy down the rocket chute in ''Explorers on the Moon'', breaking the poor thing's leg. To quote the Captain: "Monster! Vivisectionist!"
** One of the villains in ''Flight 714'' orders his men to open fire on Snowy (who escapes).
* [[Superman (Comic Book)|Doomsday]] has several, including crushing a small bird and beating up a little boy and his cat. To be entirely fair, though, it's not like he can help it, as he was raised to see anything and everything as a threat that must be destroyed.
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* In ''King of Klondike'', the eighth chapter of ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', Soapy Slick kidnaps Scrooge, steals his plot of land and reads his mail. When a letter from home reveals that Scrooge's mother had died, the villain mocks the young duck for it and tells his cronies to kill him. No wonder [[Badass|Scrooge went berserk and trashed the entire steamboat they were on]].
** Scrooge himself... well, [http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/ScroogeDishonest.jpg just watch].
* In the fourth volume of ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'', we see the mastermind who turned the 'Capies' award ceremony into a deathtrap discovered by the titular superheroine. Upon the revelation of his identity, he gives a [[Motive Rant]] that seems tailor made to win sympathy from any reader who has bothered following the title (not to mention the [[No Respect Guy|No Respect Girl]] before him). Then he attempts to use the lives of Emp's lover and her best friend to extort sexual favors out of her. Empowered is not pleased, {{spoiler|and her suit is [[Not
** The sixth volume of said book presents [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Deathmonger]]. {{spoiler|Collecting the various [[Our Zombies Are Different|SuperDead]] and taking control of them to use as (un)living weapons is his entire shtick, we get it. However going out of his way to leave them [[And I Must Scream|self aware]] while [[People Puppets|controlling thier every move]] goes [[Moral Event Horizon|over the line into needless sadism]].}}
* In ''[[Final Crisis]] Aftermath: Run'' #1, the Human Flame--the archetypical small time thug who had [[Martian Manhunter]] killed--returns to his family's home, embraces his wife, and tells her how much he had missed her and their daughter. This is all a pretext to steal his car, with the daughter's bike still attached, while the wife is tied to a kitchen chair. Note that the Flame had already crossed a [[Moral Event Horizon]] by leading a shootout through a [[Brand X]] Chuck E. Cheese. But just when it looked like writer Matt Sturges was humanizing him as at least a loving family man, whammo!
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