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* Godelot, a historical personage in ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'' and author of ''Magick Most Evile'', reveled in his villainy (although a passage quoted in ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince|Half-Blood Prince]]'' indicates that {{spoiler|[[Even Evil Has Standards|even he would not dare go into the field of Horcruxes]]}}).

** 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.

** 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]].

{{quote| ''"We all have flaws," he said, "and mine is being wicked."''}}

* When you're almost literally [[God|the Creator's]] [[Evil Twin]] and your most common name is [[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant|Lord Foul the Despiser]], it's pretty safe to assume that you aren't an [[Anti-Villain]].

* One gets the impression that Pryrates, [[Evil Sorcerer]] and [[The Dragon]] to the [[Big Bad]] of [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Memory Sorrowand Thorn]]'', has a list of [[Villain]] tropes in his pocket and is working his way through it as the story goes on. [[Kick the Dog]], check. [[Torture Cellar]], check. [[Deal With the Devil|Sell your king's soul]] for power, check. All we need is the [[Evil Gloating]]...oh, there he goes.

* Alex DeLarge of ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Literature)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' happily rapes, murders, and beats as he pleases. Why? Because, as he freely admits, he just prefers to be evil.

** And the First Evil does what she does because she is, well, evil.

** Buffy vampires are pretty much unapologetically evil in general, unless they [[Angel (TV)|have souls]].

** The <s>Knacker's Yard</s> <s>Railyard</s> Valeyard.

*** Even more so, surely, Sutekh! "Your evil is my good.I am the Sutekh the Destroyer.Where I tread I leave nothing but dust and darkness.I find that good."

* [[Complete Monster|Yuuki Terumi]] of ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|pretended to be good]] at the beginning of ''Calamity Trigger'', but by ''Continuum Shift'', abandons the facade entirely, nicely encapsulated by this little speech he gives to Hakumen:

{{quote| "OK, all right, fine! How about this reason? Seems as good as any. I do all the wonderful things I do because [[For the Evulz|I want to see the miserable look on the faces of people like YOU when you're wallowing in despair, dismay, grief, frustration, misery]]...all sorts of other unpleasant nouns."}}

** However, if it suits his plan, he would still present himself as a 'mild mannered' officer of NOL, as shown with anyone else not Hakumen, Ragna, Kokonoe or Rachel. He still gave off the vibes of 'suspicious and is dangerous to trust' regardless.

* Most demons from the ''[[Disgaea]]'' series actively try to cultivate an evil and [[Badass]] image for themselves through means that vary from [[Kick the Dog|wanton acts of violence and depravity]] to [[Poke the Poodle|not recycling and playing Ding Dong Ditch.]] Most of them [[Noble Demon|fall into the latter category]] - place them next to the former, and they will [[Even Evil Has Standards|recoil in disgust.]]

* Bio-Haz, in the obscure Game Boy RPG ''Great Greed'', is a textbook [[Evil Overlord]] trying to conquer Greene Kingdom, and he's generating as much pollution as possible because it makes him and his army stronger. {{spoiler|It's not until the end of the game that you learn he has another motive besides his [[Title Drop|great greed]]; he wants to save the ''human'' world from pollution by using Greene Kingdom as its garbage dump.}}

* Ridley, and most of the Space Pirates for that matter, in ''[[Metroid]]'' seems to have no other motivation for trying to (ostensibly) take over the galaxy, other than that it's an evil thing to do. They commit horrors and atrocities just for the pure fun of it (although some games suggest most of the Pirates are just a mindless drone race following the orders of dominant intelligent figures like Ridley). Sometimes, a motivation will be supplied from the villain of the week, but usually, they're there, they're bad, kill'em all and reap your rewards.

* The Ilwrath of [[Star Control]] II go on at length about how evil they are, as a matter of [[Religion of Evil|religion]]. They certainly do enjoy torture, genocide, murder, etc. However, you can induce a [[Logic Bomb]] by pointing out that, although they are certainly evil by external measures, by following the tenents and customs of their society, they are, in fact, good.

* The super-villain Rictus in ''[[Anachronox (Video Game)|Anachronox]]'':

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