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Expect them to have [[Dark Is Evil|relations with the dark]] and/or have [[Bad Powers, Bad People|evil powers.]]
See also [[
Why "card-carrying"? See [[Card-Carrying Villain/Trivia|the Trivia page.]]
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* Happōsai from ''[[Ranma ½]]'' has no motivation for being an asshole and enjoys making peoples' lives miserable, even more so when his students take the fall for him. He, at one point, declares himself "evil 'till the day [he] die[s]".
* Pixy Misa in the ''[[Pretty Sammy]]'' series is the self-professed evil mistress of chaos and destruction
* Ladd Russo from ''[[Baccano!]]!'' is a [[Large Ham|hammy ]][[Psycho for Hire]] who freely admits that all he loves is killing, killing, and more killing. When his uncle tells him "Homicidal lunatics think you're a nutcase!" He informs him that his "[[Insult Backfire|attempts at flattery are so ham handed]]."
* Lelouch from ''[[Code Geass]]'' {{spoiler|''pretends'' to be a heartless supervillain in order to unite the world through common hatred of him, then allows himself to be killed so everyone can move on and work together towards peace.}} Yeah, Lulu [[Gambit Roulette|can be a little weird.]]
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' has the freaking incarnation of the third sphere, Ali Al-Saachez. Gundam series generally (pretend to) have multidimensional villains with some understandable motivations. Or, at least, villains that are good at self-justification and excuses. Ali is probably the only villain in the entire franchise to readily admit that he loves war for war's sake, that he commits his (numerous) crimes [[For the Evulz]], and that this makes him the worst sort of person in the world. He has absolutely no problem with it.
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** On the other hand, several other Technomages definitely fit the trope. {{spoiler|Razeel}} willingly chooses to serve the Shadows for an unknown reason. {{spoiler|Circe}}'s motivation for betrayal is pure desire for power.
* Various characters in [[Andrew Vachss]]' Burke books, including the [[Anti-Villain]] [[Villain Protagonist]] himself, identify themselves as "thieves". How evil these characters are actually varies from person to person.
* Kurt Barlow from [['Salem's Lot]].
* ''[[In Death]]'': some of the bad guys reach this level in the series. Casto from ''Immortal In Death'' admits that he is a selfish man. Reanna Otts in ''Rapture In Death'' cheerfully describes herself as [[The Sociopath]] and completely agrees with that diagnosis!
* Lieutenant Colonel Korn from ''[[Catch-22]]'' takes positive delight in describing how odious and reprehensible his plans are.
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* The Big Cheese from the ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' "Secret Service Dentists" sketch, who not only shoots his own [[Right-Hand-Cat|Right Hand]] <s>Cat</s>[[Right-Hand-Cat|Rabbit]] but also makes death threats including phrases like "...and because I'm so evil..."
* Pretty much all the villains in most ''[[Super Sentai]]'' or ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' series.
* While the Goa'uld of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' are [[
* John Bly, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[The Adventures of Brisco County Jr]]'', actually cites uses this trope as the reason he refuses to free his now-useless hostage in the episode "Fountain of Youth". "Why don't you let me go? I'm no use to you anymore." "Because I'm evil, Professor."
* Doctor Chaotica from the ''Captain Proton'' [[Show Within a Show]] on ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]]'' is your typical retro sci-fi villain.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* "Evil" is one end of one of the two "alignment" axes in the [[Dungeons and Dragons|AD&D]] setting. Most Evil characters recognize this. Not to mention how they are ''penalized'' if they ''don't'' act evil.
** 3rd Edition ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' tossed out the penalties, but there are still races that are simply [[
** And now 4th Edition has tossed out the second dimension of alignment. The law-chaos scale determining another portion of one's mindset is gone, so now alignment is simply determining just ''how'' good or evil you are.
*** Debatable, since alignment in 4th Edition has absolutely zero effect on your character (no penalties for acting out of alignment, no "Evil" or "Good" spell descriptors, etc.), it could be said that alignment is now only cosmetic.
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{{quote|''I'd call that a successful first test. Golem! Rearm the [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|Doom Citadel]]!''}}
* Chaos and the Dark Eldar in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' take delight in being on the extreme wrong side of the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. Considering the latter group literally ''lives'' off of [[Squick]] taken to the point of nightmarish, this is perhaps understandable. A quote from the nearest thing they have to a leader: "Death is my meat, terror my wine."
* ''[[Exalted]]'' gives us the Infernal Exalted; while they aren't [[
** Also a subversion in that any given Infernal's [[Evil Plan|dastardly evil scheme]] could be [[Completely Missing the Point|"make creation into a utopia"]] and their [[Poke the Poodle|Acts of Villainy]] [[Good Feels Good|don't even have to be evil]]. All that matters is that they ''[[Dangerously Genre Savvy|act]]'' like a [[Card-Carrying Villain]].
**** Mind you, an Infernal could make such a deal solely [[Rule of Cool|for the sake of getting all the nifty powers]], with no intent to serve the Reclamation (and, in fact, with [[Faustian Rebellion|potential plans for a double-cross]]). Nothing forces the Infernals to truly be evil. The cards are ''supposed'' to be stacked against them, but the Ebon Dragon's [[Idiot Plot|so awful at planning]] that it backfires on every level...
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** In the series finale, despite never having self-identified as evil before (quite the opposite, in fact), the still-alive villain says to...no one in particular, "Evil does not die. It evolves," in an ill-fated [[Sequel Hook]].
* In ''[[Yin Yang Yo!|Yin Yang Yo]]'', every single villain is a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] and [[Large Ham]], like [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|Carl the EVIL Cockrotch Wizard]] or his tyrant brother, Herman. They're the biggest suspects, but there are a lot of runners up. These include everyone who's evil, basically. [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|The]] [[Ultimate Evil|Night Master]] is the worst, as he's the embodiment of EVIL until [[Villain Decay|his defeat]]. There's evil restaurants and everything.
* Most, if not all the villains on ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''. This includes [[Sadist Teacher]] Crocker, malicious babysitter Vicky (who wants to someday "share her hate with everyone"), [[Galactic Conqueror]] Dark Laser, the [[
* After [[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]] explains that [[Christmas Episode]] makes people "feel good," Skeletor responds, "I don't want to feel good! I want to feel evil!"
* Lucius on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''
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