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* Some of ''[[Redwall]]'''s villains clearly revel in this trope. Vilu Daskar, upon being praised by his crew for inventive sadism, modestly says "Oh, I do my best to be the worst." The trope gets even more obvious in ''Triss'', when the villainous pirate crew does ''three [[Villain Song|song and dance numbers]]'' dedicated to their own gruesome behaviour. The irony here being that Grubbage, one of the singers of the second song (''"'Tis nice to be a villain/wot all honest creatures fears/and terrorise the beasts for miles around"''), does a [[Heel Face Turn]] in a sadly ''very'' brief skimmed-over epilogue.
* The Nome King from [[L. Frank Baum]]'s ''[[Land of Oz]]'' stories is a sadistic old bastich who enjoys being angry because it makes everyone around him miserable.
* Godelot, a historical personage in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' and author of ''Magick Most Evile'', reveled in his villainy (although a passage quoted in ''[[
** Fenrir Greyback could also count. There's his memorable line towards the end of ''Half-Blood Prince'', in which he openly admits to coming to the castle without being invited, just because he wants to kill and eat children. While still in human form.
** The villain of ''[[
** If ''The Methods of Rationality'' is right, anyone creating a horcrux would pretty much have to be a completely unironic Card-Carrying Villain. The theory is, you need to do something so depraved and inhumane that you literally cannot live with yourself and break your own soul to get a piece to put in the horcrux. ([[Nightmare Fuel|Yikes]].)
* The poster-boy for [[Yellow Peril]], [[Fu Manchu]], started out as one of these ("They die like flies! And I am the God of Destruction!"), before turning into something closer to a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]].
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