History ForTheEvulz / WesternAnimation

** [[WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow Itchy]] kills his Best friend Scratchy for this. A good example is a cartoon where Itchy [[WoundedGazelleGambit pretends to commit suicide by jumping in a well]] so he can shoot Scratchy when he comes down to save him.

** It is explained in "Franny 911" that he not only can't help being mean, ''his race '''has to be,'''''' as if they go too long without letting out their "bitchiness", it turns to bile that slowly poisons them. It's not like he's making it up, mind you- that specific episode, the symptoms slowly show (headaches, nausea, then overall fatigue and sluggishness), and by the time they realize what's the problem, his skin is pale and falling off and he's near death.

* On ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' the [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness council]] of {{Big Bad}}s are [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinists]] dedicated to the advancement of humanity across the universe... except, apparently, for [[EnfantTerrible Klarion]], a [[HumanoidAbomination Lord of Chaos]], who WordOfGod says joined because he thought it would be fun.

* Mrs. Robinson from ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''. Virtually every action she takes is to cause suffering in others, just because she enjoys it, whether it is swapping newborn babies between two innocent families to make them fight each other to looking into a child's eyes as they choke to death and ''[[WouldHurtAChild smiling]]''. She takes such glee in this that the Season 4 episode "The Wicked" gives her a very fitting VillainSong [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwUAqzlc74s adaptation]] of ''My Favourite Things'' from ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''.

** His persona Ricky Spanish...''[-[[RunningGag (Ricky Spanish)]]-]''...is the pure embodiment of this trope. All he does is pure evil for the sake of it. This ranges from petty harmless evils like shutting an elevator while someone runs at it to murdering tens of people at a marriage.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ShadowRaiders'', this is the only motivation for [[BigBad The Beast Planet]]'s behavior of eating up planets and solar systems.

* There is no doubt this is the reason for The Beast's planet-eating behavior in ''WesternAnimation/ShadowRaiders''.

* Sarmoti from ''WesternAnimation/FatherOfThePride.'' In "The Siegfried and Roy Fantasy Experience Movie," he deliberately tells Larry to forbid Kate from going to her group. Later, when Larry tells Sarmoti he followed his advice, Sarmoti reveals that he gave him wrong advice due to his personal hatred for him.

* Sarmoti from WesternAnimation/FatherOfThePride. In "The Siegfried and Roy Fantasy Experience Movie," he deliberately tells Larry to forbid Kate from going to her group. Later, when Larry tells Sarmoti he followed his advice, Sarmoti reveals that he gave him wrong advice due to his personal hatred for him.

** [[MeaningfulName Discord]] loves causing chaos with his [[RealityWarper reality warping]] powers simply because he wants to. He shows pretty quickly that he possesses godlike power and could likely win with a fingersnap, but instead locks everyone in a rigged game where he can MindRape them at his leisure. Any possibility that his motivation might be more ItAmusedMe is put to rest when Fluttershy wins his game by being too mentally stable to fall for MoreThanMindControl, when he promptly loses his temper and cheats at his own game by breaking her through more brute force methods -- which incidentally makes her embrace this trope as well while under his influence, as she's brainwashed to be cruel and does things solely from that motivation.

* In {{Creator/Nelvana}}'s 1989 AnimatedSeries of ''{{Literature/ Babar}},'' [[EvilPoacher The Hunter]] killed the title character's [[YouKilledMyFather mother]] but didn't even bothered to remove her ivory tusks. While this is probably because of censors [[BloodlessCarnage as the dead body of Babar's mother shown no bullet holes]]. The Hunter seems only kill animals just for the sake of killing rather than profiting off the ivory trade. In fact, after discovering the animals' sentience and intelligence, motivated the Hunter to hunt the animals further.

** Vicky also counts. Her very purpose in life is either to swindle cash or torture those under her care, [[BigSisterBully even her own little sister.]] When Timmy asks why she is working in the hospital in the episode ''Open Wide and Say Aaagh'', she replies with this obvious answer: "I like volunteering in places where there's pain." When Timmy's parents tell her at the end of the special ''Channel Chasers'', Vicky gives a half-assed excuse for her obvious sadism: "I blame television!" Thankfully, for once, Timmy's parents don't buy this for a second.

** Vicky also counts. Her very purpose in life is either to swindle cash or torture those under her care, [[BigSisterBully even her own little sister.]] When Timmy asks why she is working in the hospital in the episode ''Open Wide and Say Aaagh'', she replies with this obvious answer: "I like volunteering in places where there's pain." When Timmy's parents stop being useless for once at the end of the special ''Channel Chasers'', Vicky gives a half-assed excuse for her obvious sadism: "I blame television!" Thankfully, Timmy's parents don't buy this for a second.

** WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck in at least half of his cartoons with WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales. Although in their first appearance together it was strictly MoneyDearBoy as Granny was paying him handsomely to exterminate Speedy.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToadPatrol'' has Medea the osprey, who relentlessly chases the Toad Patrollers throughout the course of the series. Justified in that she's a wild bird and she's probably hunting for food.

** Of course a s time went by Karai gained more motivation and eventually [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn became a good guy.]]]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has [[MeaningfulName Discord]], ironically the only villain without a goal, loves causing chaos with his [[RealityWarper reality warping]] powers simply because he wants to. He shows pretty quickly that he possesses godlike power and could likely win with a fingersnap, but instead locks everyone in a rigged game where he can MindRape them at his leisure. Any possibility that his motivation might be more ItAmusedMe is put to rest when Fluttershy wins his game by being too mentally stable to fall for MoreThanMindControl, when he decides to cheat at his own game by breaking her through more brute force methods -- which incidentally makes her embrace this trope as well while under his influence, as she's brainwashed to be cruel and does things solely from that motivation.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has [[MeaningfulName Discord]], ironically the only villain without a goal, loves causing chaos with his [[RealityWarper reality warping]] powers simply because he wants to. He shows pretty quickly that he possesses godlike power and could likely win with a fingersnap, but instead locks everyone in a rigged game where he can MindRape them at his leisure. Any possibility that his motivation might be more ItAmusedMe is put to rest when Fluttershy wins his game by being too mentally stable to fall for MoreThanMindControl, when he promptly loses his temper and cheats at his own game by breaking her through more brute force methods -- which incidentally makes her embrace this trope as well while under his influence, as she's brainwashed to be cruel and does things solely from that motivation.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** [[MeaningfulName Discord]] loves causing chaos with his [[RealityWarper reality warping]] powers simply because he wants to. He shows pretty quickly that he possesses godlike power and could likely win with a fingersnap, but instead locks everyone in a rigged game where he can MindRape them at his leisure. Any possibility that his motivation might be more ItAmusedMe is put to rest when Fluttershy wins his game by being too mentally stable to fall for MoreThanMindControl, when he promptly loses his temper and cheats at his own game by breaking her through more brute force methods -- which incidentally makes her embrace this trope as well while under his influence, as she's brainwashed to be cruel and does things solely from that motivation.
** Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon's reasons for bullying the Cutie Mark Crusaders are unclear but this seems to be their main motive for doing so. [[spoiler: During the class elections in Season 5, it's shown that Diamond Tiara is bullied into acting this way by her tyrannical mother. When the Cutie Mark Crusaders help her out after she loses the election, she becomes a much nicer pony, as does Silver Spoon]].

* Creator/LooneyTunes short "WesternAnimation/CannedFeud" is one of the more dramatic examples in the Warner Brothers canon. Sylvester the cat is battling with a clever mouse, as he often was if he wasn't battling with Tweety--but in this instance Sylvester isn't trying to eat the mouse. All he wants to do is eat his canned cat food after his owners left on vacation without leaving out any food. Unfortunately for Sylvester the only can opener is in the hands of a mouse. Not only does the mouse not give over the can opener, he tortures Sylvester with it, continually dangling it in front of him only to devise elaborate traps. The short ends with the canned food under lock and key, with Sylvester apparently doomed to starve to death. Oddly enough, the mouse is actually endangering '''himself''' by doing this.