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Of course, [[Tropes Are Not Good]] without fail. Poor writing of this trope can lead to [[Stupid Evil]] territory from villains do [[Evil Is Petty|petty]] things to [[Too Dumb to Live|doing things that'll kill them.]]
[[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 [[
[[Sister Trope]] to [[Threw My Bike on the Roof]].
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== Anime/Manga ==
* Ladd Russo for ''[[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]]'' 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]]'' 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.
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** [[Complete Monster|Kumagawa]], though, probably is a straight example. It is technically possible, that he might want [[Revenge]] against the rest of the world, but so far all of his actions were aimed towards torturing other characters, because he could (up to and including intending to return one of his most dangerous enemies to life to hurt him some more). Also, the main character of the series considers Kumagawa the main exception from her character-defining belief that no human is truly evil (rather than twisted by circumstances) and unworthy of trust.
** 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!!]]''. 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]]'', 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]]'': 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'''.
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** The only justification for anything Sylar has ever done aside from wanting more abilities is simply because he can.
* {{spoiler|Angelus}} during season 2 of ''[[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 [[
*** Angel and Spike have a conversation in ''[[Angel]]'' concerning how they committed atrocities [[For the Evulz]] -- 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.
*** Spike could also be considered a subversion. While he enjoys killing humans as individuals, he actually likes human society in general (with [[Sex Pistols]] being his favorite rock band) and doesn't want to see it destroyed.
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* 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: The Gathering]] set ''Ravnica'', the Rakdos Cult is populated entirely by [[
* Most agents of the Wyrm in ''[[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".
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