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** The film version of ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'' avoids this by having Magneto simply call his group "The Brotherhood of Mutants".

** Similarly, recent issues of [[Savage Dragon]] have subverted this a bit with the new [[Overlord]] referring to his team (the Vicious Circle) simply as The Circle. Since there are a number of similarities between Magneto's Brotherhood and [[Overlord]]'s Circle, it's arguable that one is in response to the other.

* Ava Lord from the ''[[Sin City]]'' story "A Dame to Kill For" identifies herself as evil in her [[Evil Gloating]] speech to Dwight McCarthy, who she has just manipulated into {{spoiler|murdering her husband Damien so that she can inherit his money}}:

{{quote|'''Ava:''' [[You're Insane!|Insane?]] Ha! That's so easy, so convenient -- and so wrong. Crazy people push shopping carts down the streets and talk nonsense. Crazy people sit in padded cells and soil their pants. A madwoman couldn't have pulled this off. No. There's a word for what I am, but nobody uses it anymore. Nobody wants to see the simple truth. If they did, they'd kill people like me as soon as we revealed ourselves. But they don't. They close their eyes and blather about psychology and say that nobody is truly evil. That's why I've won. That's why I always win.}}