History ForTheEvulz / LiveActionTV

** While he hasn't always been as open about it as in his Creator/JohnSimm incarnation, TheMaster has always been more interested in screwing with the Doctor than actually taking over the world. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E3TheSeaDevils The Sea Devils]]", he flat-out admits he's only working with the villains so they can get rid of "the human race of which you are so very fond."

** This was also the main motivation of his {{Blood Brother|s}} Kronos, and the AxCrazy Caspian. The last member of the FourHorsemen, Silas, is DumbMuscle more than anything else.

** Locke plans to gang-rape Brienne and then, having expected a larger ransom, he tosses her into a bear pit with nothing but a dress and a training sword instead, saying it gives him more pleasure than gold ever could. He cripples Jaime Lannister just to make a point. ''He would rather maim, rape and kill people for no reason than be a rich man until the end of his days''. Qyburn explains that such men live for the moment because they don't expect to be alive when all the fighting's done.

** Lore fed the inhabitants of Omicron Theta to the [[EldritchAbomination Crystalline Entity]] as ridiculously DisproportionateRetribution for ostracizing him (they were rather understandably uncomfortable having an unstable sociopath with superhuman strength, speed, and intelligence roaming their colony). He would later try to feed the ''Enterprise,'' itself, to the same creature for no particular reason.

** Lore fed the inhabitants of Omicron Theta to the [[EldritchAbomination Crystalline Entity]] as ridiculously DisproportionateRetribution for ostracizing him (they were rather understandably uncomfortable having an unstable sociopath with superhuman strength, speed, and intelligence roaming their colony). He would later try to feed the ''Enterprise,'' itself to the same creature for no particular reason.

** Having expected a larger ransom, Locke tosses Brienne into a bear pit instead, saying it gives him more pleasure than gold ever could. Qyburn explains that such men live for the moment because they don't expect to be alive when all the fighting's done.

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks GenesisOfTheDaleks]]", Davros, was posed a philosophical question by the Doctor: "If you had a virus that, when released, would kill everyone in the universe, would you release it?" Davros' answer was that yes, he would release it, for no other reason than because he could.

** In his first appearance their creator, Davros, was posed a philosophical question by the Doctor: "If you had a virus that, when released, would kill everyone in the universe, would you release it?" Davros' answer was that yes, he would release it, for no other reason than because he could.

** "Everything you say, Waterfield, is true. If we cannot find Jamie, the Daleks will take pleasure in killing everyone in sight, and their greatest pleasure will be in killing me." - the Doctor, ''The Evil of the Daleks''.
** Zaroff in ''The Underwater Menace'', when he tries to destroy Earth just for the fun of it.

** In ''The Parting of the Ways'', the Daleks arrive at the space station on floor 494 and must get to floor 500 to defeat The Doctor. Before doing that, however, they go all the way down to floor 0 to exterminate a group of innocent humans because they were there.

** While he hasn't always been as open about it as in his John Simm incarnation, TheMaster has always been more interested in screwing with the Doctor than actually taking over the world. In ''The Sea Devils'', he flat-out admits he's only working with the villains so they can get rid of "the human race of which you are so very fond."
** In the 2010 episode "Flesh and Stone", the Weeping Angels tell the Doctor they are forcing Amy to count down to her death "for fun, sir."
* Similarly, a villain in the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "Countrycide", when asked the reason for [[ImAHumanitarian his actions]], simply responds "Because it makes me happy." It's PlayedForDrama.
** And there's this quote from a charming recurring villain in "Exit Wounds". (Although [[spoiler: he was deliberately overacting, to try and hint at Jack that he was forced into being evil and that the real villain was listening.]])

* ''{{Buffyverse}}'':

** Armus, the liquid entity in "Skin of Evil", is a justified example because he's ''literally'' MadeOfEvil.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** In the episode ''Persistence of Vision'', Janeway asks the alien who's been [[MindRape mind raping]] the crew why he did it. His chilling response is "Because I can".

* In ''Series/{{Lexx}}'', Prince [[spoiler: Always implied to be but never named as Satan.]] locks an astronaut out of the Space Shuttle, stealing the ship. When the suffocating astronaut asks "Why you you do these things", Prince replies "Because I'm bad. Because I'm very, very bad."

* In {{sentai}} series, a general rule is that the villain's only ideology is evil.

** In one episode, a Romanian boy is kidnapped and murdered after school. The detectives are led to believe that a man with the mind of a child, who's living with his mother, committed the crime. But it was actually two teenage girls whom framed the mentally challenged man and planted evidence in his room. When the detectives finally figure it out, Olivia asked the [[BlondesAreEvil blonde teen]], who was the leader of the two, why she did it. Her answer? "Why not?"

*** In the season 2 finale of ''Buffy'', he tries to awaken the demon Acathla to suck everyone on Earth into hell for the fun of it. Beforehand, he kidnaps Giles with the intent to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture him]] for the information he needs to do so, and openly admits to Giles that he hopes that he ''won't'' part with said information willingly because he doesn't want to be deprived of the opportunity to torture someone.

* When [[spoiler:Methos]] from the [[Series/{{Highlander}} Highlander tv series]] finally tells Duncan about his days as an evil marauder back in the depths of time, he sums up his motives as a combination of this and EvilFeelsGood.