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** [[Godzilla vs. Destoroyah|Destoroyah]] is this even moreso. At one point he even {{spoiler|[[Kick the Dog|brutally murders Junior right in front of Godzilla and then proceeds to drag the mourning Godzilla around by the throat with his tail]]}} while ''laughing''. Why? For no other reason than for his own sick amusement.

* Terry Silver in ''[[Karate Kid]] III'' is an unintentional example. He's supposed to be helping avenge his war buddy John Kreese and restore the dignity of the Cobra Kai, but in practice he's far too into it given that it's not his disgrace, seems to be aware that his buddy Kreese is the one who stepped over the line and is neglecting his multi-million dollar business to get vengeance on a teenager and his elderly mentor. Also, the vengeance is all his idea and is planned and executed by him with Kreese only getting to jump out from behind a cardboard cut out to scare Daniel in one scene.

* Freddy Krueger from the [[A Nightmare on Elm Street]] franchise can be viewed as an example born of deconstruction of [[Freudian Excuse]]. His mother was viciously raped by hundred 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!]]'' when airport-employee Johnny thinks it's funny to briefly unplug the runway lights just as the plane is making its emergency landing.

** The stark contrast from ''Morrowind's'' [[I Did What I Had to Do]] Morag Tong can be very disappointing for people coming to Oblivion from that game. Of course, the Dark Brotherhood are in ''[[Morrowind]]'' too, albeit as NPC antagonists, specifically set up as the [[Chaotic Evil]] [[Evil Counterpart|counterpart]] to the [[Lawful Neutral]] Morag Tong. The disparity ''is'' deliberate.

** 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]].

* 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 (series)|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.

* Seems to be almost the entire motivation for the witches in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' {{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.]]

* My own personal theory on how any why [[Kaizo Mario World]] was born. If so, it worked.

* Gary from ''[[Bully (video game)|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...

* In the second ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]'' game, it's never explained why {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Darkrai]]}} wanted to {{spoiler|cover the world in darkness aside from destroying both space and time in order for his evil plan to work.}}