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* Sang-drax from ''[[The Death Gate Cycle]]'', who is basically evil incarnate (or rather, a piece of it) and feeds off of hatred, fear, and suffering—convincing mortals to do evil is his equivalent of popping a frozen dinner into a microwave.

* Calesta from the ''[[Coldfire Trilogy]]''.

** Sauron, not so much in the main trilogy, but definitely in the Downfall of Numenor chapter in ''[[The Silmarillion]]''—stripped of all other resources, his last resort is to corrupt the entire Numenorean Empire and then sit back and watch their civilization spectacularly implode (unfortunately on top of him). He also corrupted the nine mortal kings who would later become the Nazgul.

** Grima Wormtongue corrupted king Theoden, hho was in turn corrupted by Saruman who was corrupted (somewhat indirectly) by Sauron who was corrupted by Melkor. Suffice it to say Tolkien was fond of this trope.