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** You can also sabotage computers. However, given that if you do this at somebody's house, they kick you out the second you begin<ref>Presumably not if you have the 'Inappropriate but in a Good Way' reward? Or try it at the library. Take that, public services!</ref>, nowhere near enough time to break their computer. So naturally, this means you can only sabotage your own computer. Muhaha.
** The worstest? "Donate money to undermine charity."
** "Evil" spells cast by warlocks in ''[[The Sims]] 2'' are usually mildly annoying at worst. They do things like [[Bee -Bee Gun|summon a swarm of bees]] or make a Sim vanish off your lot, but they don't cause much ''permanent'' harm to Sims.
* In the first ''[[Pokémon]]'' games (Red, Green, and Blue), one of the first towns the character visits has a police officer standing in front of a house. He explains that the house has been robbed, and that Team Rocket must be the culprits since only they could perpetrate such a "heinous" act. This is [[Fridge Logic|especially amusing]] when one considers how often the main characters commit this very act in many other video games.
* Deliberately invoked in [[World of Warcraft|The Argent Toureygrounds]] where Confessor Paletress is taking confessions from various races. They range from serious (the orc wondering about working with humans right after the human king declared open war) to the silly (the dwarf REALLY needs a drink, and the blood elf complaining about Helmet Hair!). But then the undead confessee arrives:
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== Real Life ==
 
* [[TV Tropes]] itself has been the poodle on occasion. Once it was hacked so that most pages were turned into an offsite redirect. Now, anyone with a cursory knowledge of internet prankery would expect the redirect to go to one of numerous shock sites, or possibly a site that displayed embarrassing images or sounds to get people into trouble at work. But nope, this prankster redirected people to a [[YouTube]] video for a Muslim charity. Even a [[Rick RollRickroll|Rick Astley video]] would have been better evil. Oh, and the date this hack took place? September ''tenth''. So close, yet so far.
* Anybody who pretends to be evil by [[Mattress Tag Gag|tearing off the tag on their mattress]], even though the only way that could be considered illegal is if the retailer were to remove it.
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Hornigold:Benjamin Hornigold|Captain Benjamin Hornigold]], a pirate, once captured a ship and boarded it, then apologetically asked for the passengers' ''hats''. He explained that his own crew had got drunk the night before and thrown their own hats overboard. After receiving the hats, the pirates left the ship alone. This would happen occasionally: pirates would often pillage ships of menial supplies and such that they, as wanted criminals, couldn't easily obtain, and, if nobody started anything, they generally just left people unharmed. Blackbeard himself (or was it Henry Morgan) was known for stealing medical supplies and clothes and not hurting people during such raids. Blackbeard in particular is famous for attacking a ship, stealing nothing but medicines for syphilis and other STDs, and leaving.
* American gangs smuggle in weapons and drugs. The [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Black Cobra gang]] in Sweden... [http://www.thelocal.se/25498/20100312/ steals cakes.] [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]?
** Of course it's heinous. [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|They stole 120 boxes of sweets]]. [[Memetic Mutation|That's as many as twelve tens]]. [[And That's Terrible]].
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