History EvilIsPetty / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'': The first arc of this manga features a noble couple who takes in common travelers to the capital before dragging them down into their TortureCellar to torture them to death for fun. Their innocent-seeming daughter Aria is just as twisted as the couple, and took a personal hand in torturing one of Tatsumi's friends, a girl named Sayo, to death. Why? Because Aria was pissed about Sayo having naturally smooth hair while she herself had to struggle with her own hair, and she didn't like Sayo's sassy attitude at all.

* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'': The first arc of this manga features a noble couple who takes in common travelers to the capital before dragging them down into their TortureCellar to torture them to death. Their innocent-seeming daughter Aria is just as twisted as the couple, and took a personal hand in torturing one of Tatsumi's friends, a girl named Sayo, to death. Why? Because Aria was pissed about Sayo having naturally smooth hair while she herself had to struggle with her own hair, and she didn't like Sayo's sassy attitude at all.

* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'': The first arc of this manga features a noble couple who takes in common travelers to the capital before dragging them down into their TortureCellar to torture them to death. Their innocent-seeming daughter Aria is just as twisted as the couple, and took a personal hand in torturing one of Tatsumi's friends, a girl named Sayo, to death. Why? Because Aria was pissed about Sayo having naturally smooth hair while she herself had to struggle with her own hair.

** Commander Red, leader of the [[ArmiesAreEvil Red Ribbon Army]]. We're initially led to believe that he wants to use the [[MacGuffin Dragon Balls]] to TakeOverTheWorld. By the end of the saga, it turns out he only wants to use the balls to [[WastefulWishing make himself taller]], and he's perfectly willing to [[WeHaveReserves sacrifice every last soldier in his army]] to do so. And mainly because he thinks the Red Ribbons Army has the strength to comquer the world anyways, so he thinks using the Dragon Balls for that would be redundant. When his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Staff Officer Black finds out, [[EvenEvilHasStandards he's not pleased and promptly shoots him dead]].

** Vegeta, during his Evil Prince days. For starters, his response to Goku giving him a bloody lip was to devolve inti a massive VillainousBreakdown and try to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up the Earth]] out of spite.

*** In the past [[:spoiler: Sabo almost died because of a World’s Noble fury, who justified his attack because Sabo was waving a pirate flag on his boat, but felt more furious that a mere human dared to cross his ship in his path.]]

** None of the previous mentioned could topple the [[AristocratsAreEvil World Nobles.]] As the direct descendants of the World Government’s founders, they’re all given free rein to do whatever they want. And it’s speaks volumes that slavery and murder is like a walk in the park to them. Should anyone dare to stand up to them, let alone walk past them without bowing, you’ll either be riddled with bullets, or they’ll put a hit on you with Marine Admiral at their back and call.

** While she's not necessarily ''evil'', Erina Nakiri's attitude at the start of the series (at least until her DarkAndTroubledPast is explored in full) doesn't give her a very good reputation. She's haughty, overly-critical, and tried deny Soma his entry into the school solely because he made a common dish instead of trying to be fancy like all of the other applicants (granted that Soma was being irreverent towards her, which she took as a personal offense). Her multiple efforts to get him expelled after he still manages to get in also help with this, and she makes a habit of beating down clubs that she finds unnecessary in order to make food labs (of which she has at least ''five''). And then there's her KickTheDog when she cut off ties with Ikumi Mito, [[YouHaveFailedMe just because she failed to defeat Soma]].

* Ren Sohma from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' is a selfish bitch who ruins the life of [[spoiler: her daughter, Akito, the God of the Zodiac]], and thus those of everyone surrounding her, purely because [[spoiler: Ren was deathly jealous of how her husband, Akira, adored her. Envious of the attention Akito receives, Ren insists people should be worshipping her instead as she was the one who gave birth to Akito]]. Considering [[BigScrewedUpFamily the horrifying consequences]], Ren comes off as not just evil, but repulsively self-centered, vain, and ''pathetic''.

* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'''s BigBad Knives Million is very much this, in spite all of his actually sympathetic and [[TheyWouldCutYouUp understandable hatred]] of humans, he still devolves into a BigBrotherBully PsychopathicManchild when things don’t go his way or he gets particularly offended. Case in point when Vash shoots him in both the manga and anime (or just even point his gun at him in the former) Knives despite having a HealingFactor and SuperToughness carries on like a big child over the fact Vash would ''dare'' to do something like that to him. He also kills or maims his own loyal subordinates whenever he gets upset. Knives’ hatred of Rem is especially petty as he acts like she “poisoned” Vash’s mind with her altruism and prevented Vash from being loyal to him even though the only reason he’s alive in the first place is because of her love and kindness.

* [[BigBad All for One]] from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' is a petty {{jerkass}} on top of his general bastardness. For example, he deliberately picked Tenko Shimura for his plan just to spit in the legacy of Nana Shimura, and when he gave a Quirk to [[spoiler:Yuga Aoyama]] he chose one he knew damn well would hurt the kid just because he liked the idea of him being in pain.

* K from ''Manga/KarakuridoujiUltimo'' has no problem with killing five billion people, because it means he won't have to wait in lines as much.

** Rubber Soul from ''Stardust Crusaders'' is another sterling example. His Stand, Yellow Temperance, lets him impersonate anyone perfectly...but he acts like a fool while doing so because he likes making the people he's copying look like idiots. Of course, this wasn't too bright a move since his [[{{Pun}} bizarre]] behavior is exactly what clued Jotaro into the fact that "Kakyoin" wasn't what he seemed.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Although he was TheDreaded and ShroudedInMyth in backstory, [[spoiler: Madara Uchiha]] is striking in several aspects once he makes an appearance; he is strikingly powerful, to the point that OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow actually hits a WritersBlock... and yet, as a person beneath all that power and status, he's... well, a bit of a petty {{Jerkass}}. [[spoiler:Though judging from his last bits of dialogue before his death, his dreams for peace, despite having been partly motivated by pettiness and pride (a not so very charming combination) as shown by his previous actions, were still nonetheless genuine to a degree--as shown by his admittance that his way was wrong, and accepting that Hashirama's ideals for peace was probably the correct path.]]
** It says a lot that even the Nine-Tailed Fox, a self-proclaimed "living mass of malevolence", finds [[spoiler: Madara]] to be too much of a douchebag to tolerate, though it certainly helped that he was also forcibly subjugated by him against his will. [[spoiler:Enough that he's willing to unconditionally help the protagonist defeat him. Edo Tensei Hashirama]] is more sympathetic and believes that [[spoiler:Madara]] is still lashing out in grief over [[spoiler:his brother Izuna's death.]]

** Griffith’s reasons for betraying Guts and Casca in particular are the absolute epitome of this. His pride crushed after Guts not only leaves him [[labelnote:*]] Something Griffith believed impossible since practically everyone else is blindly swept away by his magnetism [[/labelnote]] but defeats him too. When after a year of being tortured and rendered lame, he sees that Guts and Casca are still healthy and have started a relationship, Griffith snaps and takes [[RapeAsDrama horrific]] [[ForcedToWatch revenge]] upon them in the midst of the Eclipse. He ruined his two most loyal allies’ lives simply out of pure jealousy and hatred over the fact they would ''dare'' to love each other, rather than him alone.

* [[TheEvilPrince Prince Julio Asuka Misrugi]] in ''Anime/CrossAnge'' might as well embody this trope. In the entirety of his screen time, he has outed [[CainAndAbel his sister]] [[FallenPrincess Ange]] [[FantasticRacism as a]] [[AntiMagic Norma]], and sent her to a hellhole island to fight against the otherworldly [[OurDragonsAreDifferent DRAGON]] invaders. Then he lures her out by making their youngest sister Sylvia pull off a WoundedGazelleGambit, makes Sylvia attack Ange, and then he subjects her to a KangarooCourt leading to a public lashing and hanging. All of this in order to get rid of her, quell any uprisings that might have been caused by the revelation of the family secret of harboring a Norma, and to reclaim the royal ring given to Ange. After that plot fails and Ange escapes, Julio jumps at the opportunity given to him by the true BigBad, [[AGodAmI Embryo]]. [[FinalSolution That solution being extermination of all Norma]], which naturally includes Ange. Mind you, Embryo is more focused on [[RestartTheWorld restarting creation as is]], and he actually would prefer the Norma to serve him as his BattleHarem. Julio, however, would like nothing more than to ''destroy'' all the Norma and kill his own sister. [[spoiler:This gets Julio killed, too, as once Embryo sees he's acting outside of his intended plan, [[KickTheSonOfABitch he viciously kills him without a second thought]].]]

** Commander Red, leader of the [[ArmiesAreEvil Red Ribbon Army]]. We're initially led to believe that he wants to use the [[MacGuffin Dragon Balls]] to TakeOverTheWorld. By the end of the saga, it turns out he only wants to use the balls to [[WastefulWishing make himself taller]], and he's perfectly willing to [[WeHaveReserves sacrifice every last soldier in his army]] to do so. And mainly because he thinks the Red Ribbons Army has the strength to comquer the world anyways, so he thinks using the Dragon Balls for that would be redundant. When his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Staff Officer Black finds out, [[EvenEvilHasStandards he's not pleased]] and [[KickTheSonOfABitch promptly shoots him dead]].

** Griffith’s reasons for betraying Guts and Casca in particular are the absolute epitome of this. His pride crushed after Guts not only leaves him [[labelnote:*]] Something Griffith believed impossible since practically everyone else is blindly swept away by his magnetism [[/labelnote]] but defeats him too. When after a year of being tortured and rendered lame, he sees that Guts and Casca still healthy and whole have started a relationship, Griffith snaps and takes [[RapeAsDrama horrific]] [[ForcedToWatch revenge]] upon them in the midst of the Eclipse. He ruined his two most loyal allies’ lives simply out of pure jealousy and hatred over the fact they would ''dare'' to love each other, rather than him alone.

* ''LightNovel/{{Inukami}}'': As if [[spoiler:killing Kaoru]] and beating down the Inukami weren't enough, [[spoiler:Jesei]] stoops to reading Yohko's diary aloud.

** Princess Malty Melromarc. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is to [[FalseRapeAccusation falsely accuse Naofumi of trying to rape her]], after she stole all of his money and equipment, just for her own amusement. Later, she tries to have her younger sister Melty assassinated simply because Melty gave her a mild reminder that it was her duty to care about the kingdom, as the next in line for the throne. Later webnovel chapters reveal [[spoiler:she was ''programmed'' that way by her true self, Medea Pideth Machina, an absolute narcissist of an evil goddess who intentionally seeds the worlds she plans on devouring with narcissistic heroes from completely alien worlds and daughters reality-warped into existence and created from her soul fragments, just to drag the brutal conflict out as long as possible. Note that this isn't a tactic to weaken worlds -- she's strong enough to devour them at full-strength but simply enjoys the show. Also, she enjoys watching her own daughters pray to her to save them since she loves the feeling of subsequently betraying and murdering them]].

** Griffith’s reasons for betraying Guts and Casca in particular are the absolute epitome of this. His pride crushed after Guts not only leaves him [[labelnote:*]] Something Griffith believed impossible since practically everyone else is blindly swept away by his magnetism [[/labelnote]] but defeats him too. When after a year of being tortured and rendered lame, he sees that Guts and Casca still healthy and whole have started a relationship, Griffith snaps and takes [[RapeAsDrama horrific]] [[ForcedToWatch revenge]] upon them in the midst of the Eclipse. He ruined his two most loyal allies’ lives simply out over pure jealousy and hatred of the fact they would ''dare'' to love each other, rather than him alone.

** Guts's adoptive father, Gambino, also takes a cake to this trope. [[spoiler: He sold out his own adopted son to a pedophile mercenary for one single night, for ''[[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil 3 silver coins]]''. Said mercenary then proceeded to rape him outright. Gambino [[AssholeVictim failed to exist for long]] after this came out. And why did he do that? Because Gambino blamed Guts for his girlfriend Shisu's untimely death[[note]]Which was due to a plague[[/note]].]]

* Julio Ikaruga Misrugi in ''Anime/CrossAnge'' might as well embody this trope. In the entirety of his screen time, he has outed his [[FantasticRacism sister as]] a [[AntiMagic Norma]], sent her to no-person's island to fight against dragons from a different world, lures her out by making their youngest sister pull off a WoundedGazelleGambit, making their youngest sister attack Ange, and subject her to a KangarooCourt leading to a public lashing and hanging. All in order to get rid of her and quell any uprisings that might have been caused by the revelation of the family secret of harboring a norma and reclaim the royal ring given to Ange. After that plot fails and Ange escapes, Julio jumps at the opportunity given to him by Embryo: [[FinalSolution extermination of all norma]], which naturally includes Ange. Embryo's [[RestartTheWorld motives]] are a little different; Julio only wants to kill his sister.

** Commander Red, leader of the [[ArmiesAreEvil Red Ribbon Army]]. We're initially led to believe that he wants to use the [[MacGuffin Dragon Balls]] to TakeOverTheWorld. By the end of the saga, it turns out he only wants to use the balls to [[WastefulWishing make himself taller]], and he's perfectly willing to [[WeHaveReserves sacrifice every last soldier in his army]] to do so. When Staff Officer Black finds out, he's not pleased and promptly shoots him dead.

** This is Frieza's FatalFlaw. Going hand in hand with his overwhelming arrogance, Frieza can't resist doing unnecessarily cruel things to those weaker than him, often just to prove he can. This became [[StupidEvil his downfall]] as it was his murder of Krillin in front of Goku -- and ''then'' threatening to do the same to his son -- that ultimately triggered Goku's ascension to Super Saiyan, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge and resulting in him being blown to pieces and left for dead.]] Even when he is brought back as a VillainProtagonist for the Tournament of Power, Frieza can't help but indulge in this: Upon finding out that Cabba is something of a student for Vegeta, he resolves to defeat and ring out Cabba for ''just'' that reason. Surprisingly, Frieza's beatdown of Cabba was arguably the least drawn out or brutal one he had handed out until that point, but even so, he tells the helpless Saiyan that he will hunt down his teammates next ''just'' to get a rise out of him.
** Vegeta, during his Evil Prince days. For starters, his response to Goku giving him a bloody lip was to absolutely FreakOut and try to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up the Earth]] out of spite.

** In the manga and ''Brotherhood'', Shou Tucker voluntarily sacrificed his own family for a ''research grant'', first his wife, then [[MoralEventHorizon his daughter and her dog]]. ''Brotherhood'' adds a scene after Ed's done beating the stuffing out of him and while Al's trying to comfort Nina/Alexander. Tucker just crawls up to his nearly-broken State Alchemist pocket watch on the floor and happily declares that he'll get to ''keep his job''. Ed breaks the watch completely by kicking it out of Tucker's hand, saying there's no way in hell he'll get to keep his job after what he did.

* Muruta Azrael of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'', who commits genocide against Coordinators because he was slapped around by Coordinators once as a kid. He's also a misogynistic BadBoss prick who seems to get off on belittling his subordinates.

** Guts's adoptive father, Gambino, also takes a cake to this trope. [[spoiler: He sold out his own adopted son to a pedophile mercenary for one single night, for ''[[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil 3 silver coins]]''. Said mercenary then proceeded to rape him outright. Gambino [[AssholeVictim failed to exist for long]] after this came out. And why did he do that? Because Gambino blamed Guts for his girlfriend Sys's untimely death[[note]]Which was due to a plague[[/note]].]]

** Bisca T. Balmus, the Pope of The Three Heroes Church: A fanatical religion that solely worships the Sword, Spear, and Bow Heroes along with demonizing the Shield Hero whom they refer as [[TheAntiChrist "The Devil of The Shield"]]. During the events of the story, The Three Heroes who were the object of the Churchs' faith wound up leaving a trail of pain and destruction in their escapades which were only resolved later on when Naofumi: the titular "Devil" of their religion passed through [[AlmightyJanitor and not only fixed the initial problems caused, but also provide the populace with something much better before leaving.]] When the Church got fed up with the current crop of Heroes and planned to have them killed off so they could summon an entirely new set: [[VillainHasAPoint Pope Bisca called out the Three Heroes for their actions.]] However, because of how hard Naofumi worked [[ClearMyName to undo all of the baggage that the public had levied against him]]; Biscas' reason for wanting him dead showed how delusional and shallow he was: when Naofumi stopped by The Three Heroes Church to pick up some Holy Water for treating Raphtalias' curse, the Nun tried to scam him with lesser-quality Holy Water, Pope Bisca had resolved this issue by giving Naofumi the Holy Water he wanted to purchase; but Naofumi didn't immediately say "Thank You" for it.

** Vinsmoke Niji has pretty much established himself as the most spiteful of his siblings. When Sanji chastises him for not eating his food, he hurls the untouched meal at the family cook Cosette. When he's given a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech by Sanji, he responds by launching a kick at Sanji's head. He later beats up Cosette off-screen as recompense for Sanji's disrespect, with Sanji discovering the results. It's later deconstructed and justified in [[WhamEpisode chapter 852]]: [[spoiler:A combination of having his empathy in-utero by Judge to weaponize him, then having his worst flaws enabled since childhood, turned Niji into a bratty asshole who literally can't understand that what he's doing is wrong. While it doesn't excuse what he did, it paints his actions in a more tragic light]].

** Princess Malty Melromarc. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is to [[FalseRapeAccusation falsely accuse Naofumi of trying to rape her]], after she stole all of his money and equipment, just for her own amusement. Later, she tries to have her younger sister Melty assassinated simply because Melty gave her a mild reminder that it was her duty to care about the kingdom, as the next in line for the throne. Later webcomic chapters reveal [[spoiler:she was ''programmed'' that way by her true self, Medea Pideth Machina, an absolute narcissist of an evil goddess who intentionally seeds the worlds she plans on devouring with narcissistic heroes from completely alien worlds and daughters reality-warped into existence and created from her soul fragments, just to drag the brutal conflict out as long as possible. Note that this isn't a tactic to weaken worlds -- she's strong enough to devour them at full-strength but simply enjoys the show. Also, she enjoys watching her own daughters pray to her to save them since she loves the feeling of subsequently betraying and murdering them]].