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* The Nephandi from ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' want to send the entire world to Hell and rule over what dark landscape remains. They often serve as TheCorrupter, luring people into vice, violence, and hatred. The very process of even becoming a Nephandus involves entering a cancerous rent in reality where the mage is faced with everything they consider anathema to their very nature... and embracing it fully, literally inverting their soul.
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* The Nephandi from ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' want to send the entire world to Hell and rule over what dark landscape remains. They often serve as TheCorrupter, luring people into vice, violence, and hatred. The very process of even becoming a Nephandus involves entering a cancerous rent in reality where the mage is faced with everything they consider anathema to their very nature... and embracing it fully, literally inverting their soul. That said, the Nephandi do not boast or act openly, because they know that every other mage will put everything else aside in order to reduce the Nephandus to a greasy smear. Rather, the closest some come to acting openly is to embrace dark or Satanic imagery in a fashion that could just be written off as shitposting, especially in a community with as much countercultural influence as the Awakened.
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** The series' BigBad Monokuma/[[spoiler:Junko Enoshima]] specifically spreads despair and hosts the killing games ''aware'' that despair itself is a bad thing. [[spoiler:Junko's {{Motive Rant}}s during the final trial of the first and second game confirm as much that she knows what she's doing is bad, and she [[TheHedonist yearns for the satisfaction]] of despair ''precisely'' for how unpredictable it is.]]
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* ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': Unlike [[KnightTemplar Governor Maxwell, Tyler Wittebane and Emperor Belos]], All For One knows he's an evil bastard and doesn't even bother pretending otherwise to Luz or anyone else.
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* ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': Unlike [[KnightTemplar Governor Maxwell, Tyler Wittebane and Emperor Belos]], [[Characters/AllForLuzAllForOne All For One One]] knows he's an evil bastard and doesn't even bother pretending otherwise to Luz or anyone else.
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* ''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-magician-in-gotham-dc-self-insert.982177/#post-80695096 A Magician in Gotham]]'': A literal and figurative example. When [[MadScientist Hugo Strange]] finds a tarot card, specifically the Devil, in his pocket, he looks at it, says "Yes, I suppose I am," and puts it back in his pocket.
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* [[Creator/JeffDunham Achmed the Dead Terrorist]] boasts about being a suicide bomber and wanting to kill people. ("[[IllKillYou I KEEL YOU!]]") The problem is that he's not good at it; in fact, he's dead because he botched his one and only attempt. He now just comes across as an AffablyEvil HarmlessVillain.
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* [[Creator/JeffDunham Achmed the Dead Terrorist]] boasts about being a suicide bomber and wanting to kill people. ("[[IllKillYou I KEEL YOU!]]") The problem is that he's not good at it; in fact, he's dead because he botched his one and only attempt. He now just comes across as an AffablyEvil LaughablyEvil HarmlessVillain.
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* [[Creator/JeffDunham Achmed the Dead Terrorist]] boasts about being a suicide bomber and wanting to kill people. ("[[IllKillYou I KEEL YOU!]]") The problem is that he's not good at it; in fact, he's dead because he botched his one and only attempt. He now just comes across as an AffablyEvil HarmlessVillain.
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* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teNODnJTVHw this]] ''Website/GoAnimate'' video, after Boris gives WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} white torture, he calls him a psychopath. [[InsultBackfire Boris agrees]], and goes on to admit to being a serial killer, a child abuser, and a criminal mastermind.
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** Aaron in ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' states outright that all he wants to do with his life is be evil; the only reason he aids the play's antagonist instead of working against her is because it gives him a chance to do very evil, uncouth things. His last line in the play is:
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** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'': Downplayed with Celestia Ludenberg. Gambling is illegal in Japan, so attending Hope's Peak as the Ultimate Gambler means declaring herself a criminal. And while gambling probably one of the ''least'' severe crimes that Hope's Peak students regularly get away with (Fuyuhiko's part of the Yakuza, Nagito bombed the school, Mondo leads an outlaw biker gang etc.), Celestia likes to lean into the 'criminal underworld' angle of gambling in Japan by calling herself the Queen of Liars and priding herself on her ruthlessness and deception.
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* ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'': Max is completely open about and comfortable with the fact that he's a JerkJock who lives to torment other students, and spends his introductory song relishing in his status as TheDreaded of Hatchetfield High.
-->''I roar, and you cry!''\\
''I'm the reason you run and hide!''
-->''I roar, and you cry!''\\
''I'm the reason you run and hide!''
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A subversion is for these folks to ''not'' actually be cruel, greedy, or unnecessarily violent, but [[PunchClockVillain just doing their jobs]]. A NobleDemon is a Card-Carrying Villain who talks the talk, but has a tendency to hold back or even help from time to time.
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* [[Wrestling/RicFlair Ric "The Dirtiest Player in The Game" Flair]]. There was really no difference between [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor his heel and face personas]]: he'd low-blow and cheap shot heel and face alike and tell you beforehand he would.
* [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]] - "Say hello to the bad guy" as a play on the [[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} Tony Montana]] line.
* Wrestling/TheUndertaker, when giving his MotiveRant upon one of his heel turns, said, "And I know that some of you are wondering how it is that I can join forces with such an evil, despicable, maniacal individual [as Wrestling/PaulBearer]...well, if that isn't reason enough all by itself then I don't guess I can explain it to you folks any better!" He would go around calling himself The Lord of Darkness and saying things like, "Embrace the purity of evil," leading to the official debut of the Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness (UT, Paul, Wrestling/{{The A|PA}}colytes), with Dennis Knight being "sacrificed" and renamed Mideon, on the January 11, 1999 ''Raw.''
* Wrestling/EddieGuerrero (along with nephew Wrestling/{{Chavo| Guerrero Jr}} as a TagTeam) was pushed as a heel in 2003 as someone who would always "lie, cheat and steal" his way to victory. It backfired, as fans grew to ''like'' the fact that Eddie was honest about his dishonesty (and because it made him look smarter than his foes).
* Tasha Simone at points has given "The Darker Side Of Evil" as her hometown.
* Wrestling/{{Kane}} makes no effort to hide the fact that he's evil. It's in his intro video.
* Kaientai (Wrestling/TAKAMichinoku and SHO Funaki). Whilst [[HongKongDub clearly speaking Japanese but being dubbed into English over the mic with no regard to what he was actually saying]], Michinoku would make an amusing speech that always ended with "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis We. Are. EEEEEVVVVILLL]]" and Funaki would make a long speech that was translated "[[LargeHam INNNDEEEEEEEEED]]". Of course, they were huge {{face}}s and didn't favour cheap tactics.
* Wrestling/WilliamRegal actually has the word "Villain" written on his tights. More to the point; ''Villain'' is the name of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILWzrItgn70 Ring Entrance Music.]]
* Crazy Rudy and Bandido, starting in WWC. The name of their tag team was "[[GratuitousEnglish Bad Guys]]" even.
* Team PMA, made up of Malia Hosaka, Syren and their referee, Evil Zebra. Hosaka also proved EEEEEVVVVILLL enough to briefly join TAKA Michinoku and Funaki.
* Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1 had, among others, the Real Evil Makers, REM.
* Wrestling/{{Chikara}}'s resident super villain, Wrestling/UltramantisBlack. He used to be a good guy but that got tiring.
* Wrestling/CMPunk will never deny how much of a jackass he is, or can be, to the point that he was extremely proud to be the recipient of "Dick Move of the Year" for [[ItMakesSenseInContext singing "Happy Birthday"]] to Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio|Jr}}'s daughter.
* To bring Suffering, Chaos, Ugliness and Mayhem to Wrestling/RingOfHonor. Such was the mission of S.C.U.M.
* April Hunter would like to inform you "her" {{tag team}} of Taylor Made and Wrestling/AllysinKay, Made In Sin, is not a play on their names but what they are! They embody the {{seven deadly| sins}}, and will teach you the eighth.
* More along the lines of card carrying {{jerk ass}}, but El Rudo De Los Rudos Axel Cruz fits otherwise, even though he's [[NiceIsNotGood surprisingly friendly]].
* Act Yasukawa of Wrestling/WorldWonderRingSTARDOM self identifies as "Evil Actress Soul".
* The [[TeensAreMonsters monstrous teens]] of UCW Zero, Team Bad
* Wrestling/{{E|C3}}than Carter The Third in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] openly admits to being a bad guy, because as he says, bad guys win in real life.
* In 2015, Takaaki Watanbe changed his name to King of Darkness Wrestling/{{EVIL|Wrestler}}.
* "The Villain" Wrestling/MartyScurll of Wrestling/{{Progress Wrestling}}, you've got to be one of these for that to be your nickname.
* Wrestling/TaelerHendrix as her ROH career went on. She released a video for the fans explaining how good vs evil was the greatest story ever told, how it must never come to an end, and how she would be doing everything she could to let them see good fail as many times as possible, encouraging them all to embrace their inner villains.
* In Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling, Wrestling/DumpMatsumoto's faction was named the "Atrocious Alliance". They were the most over heels in the history of the promotion, mainly because they were [[JapaneseDelinquents the kind of bullies]] the target audience of schoolgirls were likely to have to deal with in real life.
* [[Wrestling/{{MJF}} Maxwell Jacob Friedman]] calls himself the Salt of the Earth.
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* [[Wrestling/RicFlair Ric "The Dirtiest Player in The Game" Flair]]. There was really no difference between [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor his heel and face personas]]: he'd low-blow and cheap shot heel and face alike and tell you beforehand he would.
* [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]] - "Say hello to the bad guy" as a play on the [[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} Tony Montana]] line.
* Wrestling/TheUndertaker, when giving his MotiveRant upon one of his heel turns, said, "And I know that some of you are wondering how it is that I can join forces with such an evil, despicable, maniacal individual [as Wrestling/PaulBearer]...well, if that isn't reason enough all by itself then I don't guess I can explain it to you folks any better!" He would go around calling himself The Lord of Darkness and saying things like, "Embrace the purity of evil," leading to the official debut of the Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness (UT, Paul, Wrestling/{{The A|PA}}colytes), with Dennis Knight being "sacrificed" and renamed Mideon, on the January 11, 1999 ''Raw.''
* Wrestling/EddieGuerrero (along with nephew Wrestling/{{Chavo| Guerrero Jr}} as a TagTeam) was pushed as a heel in 2003 as someone who would always "lie, cheat and steal" his way to victory. It backfired, as fans grew to ''like'' the fact that Eddie was honest about his dishonesty (and because it made him look smarter than his foes).
* Tasha Simone at points has given "The Darker Side Of Evil" as her hometown.
* Wrestling/{{Kane}} makes no effort to hide the fact that he's evil. It's in his intro video.
* Kaientai (Wrestling/TAKAMichinoku and SHO Funaki). Whilst [[HongKongDub clearly speaking Japanese but being dubbed into English over the mic with no regard to what he was actually saying]], Michinoku would make an amusing speech that always ended with "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis We. Are. EEEEEVVVVILLL]]" and Funaki would make a long speech that was translated "[[LargeHam INNNDEEEEEEEEED]]". Of course, they were huge {{face}}s and didn't favour cheap tactics.
* Wrestling/WilliamRegal actually has the word "Villain" written on his tights. More to the point; ''Villain'' is the name of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILWzrItgn70 Ring Entrance Music.]]
* Crazy Rudy and Bandido, starting in WWC. The name of their tag team was "[[GratuitousEnglish Bad Guys]]" even.
* Team PMA, made up of Malia Hosaka, Syren and their referee, Evil Zebra. Hosaka also proved EEEEEVVVVILLL enough to briefly join TAKA Michinoku and Funaki.
* Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1 had, among others, the Real Evil Makers, REM.
* Wrestling/{{Chikara}}'s resident super villain, Wrestling/UltramantisBlack. He used to be a good guy but that got tiring.
* Wrestling/CMPunk will never deny how much of a jackass he is, or can be, to the point that he was extremely proud to be the recipient of "Dick Move of the Year" for [[ItMakesSenseInContext singing "Happy Birthday"]] to Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio|Jr}}'s daughter.
* To bring Suffering, Chaos, Ugliness and Mayhem to Wrestling/RingOfHonor. Such was the mission of S.C.U.M.
* April Hunter would like to inform you "her" {{tag team}} of Taylor Made and Wrestling/AllysinKay, Made In Sin, is not a play on their names but what they are! They embody the {{seven deadly| sins}}, and will teach you the eighth.
* More along the lines of card carrying {{jerk ass}}, but El Rudo De Los Rudos Axel Cruz fits otherwise, even though he's [[NiceIsNotGood surprisingly friendly]].
* Act Yasukawa of Wrestling/WorldWonderRingSTARDOM self identifies as "Evil Actress Soul".
* The [[TeensAreMonsters monstrous teens]] of UCW Zero, Team Bad
* Wrestling/{{E|C3}}than Carter The Third in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] openly admits to being a bad guy, because as he says, bad guys win in real life.
* In 2015, Takaaki Watanbe changed his name to King of Darkness Wrestling/{{EVIL|Wrestler}}.
* "The Villain" Wrestling/MartyScurll of Wrestling/{{Progress Wrestling}}, you've got to be one of these for that to be your nickname.
* Wrestling/TaelerHendrix as her ROH career went on. She released a video for the fans explaining how good vs evil was the greatest story ever told, how it must never come to an end, and how she would be doing everything she could to let them see good fail as many times as possible, encouraging them all to embrace their inner villains.
* In Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling, Wrestling/DumpMatsumoto's faction was named the "Atrocious Alliance". They were the most over heels in the history of the promotion, mainly because they were [[JapaneseDelinquents the kind of bullies]] the target audience of schoolgirls were likely to have to deal with in real life.
* [[Wrestling/{{MJF}} Maxwell Jacob Friedman]] calls himself the Salt of the Earth.
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* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}:''
** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': Gundham Tanaka, the Ultimate Animal Breeder, is a {{Chuunibyou}} to the extreme, [[LargeHam loudly proclaiming]] himself to be an evil warlock who will one day use his peerless dark sorcery to conquer the world, and insisting that his four adorable hamsters [[DeathbringerTheAdorable are actually his terrifying evil minions]]. [[spoiler:Underneath it all, though, he's actually a nice guy. While he does commit murder, he does it for selfless reasons (everybody was trapped in a funhouse with no food until a murder occurred), and while he does try to avoid getting caught (and would have very likely done so if not for a SpannerInTheWorks), he admits his guilt pretty much the moment suspicion falls on him. His victim was also his consenting opponent in a DuelToTheDeath, who recognized that he just wanted to save everyone from starvation and shared that desire, making it more of a SuicidePact than an actual murder]].
** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': Kokichi Oma, the Ultimate Supreme Leader (or so he claims), claims to be the boss of a NebulousEvilOrganization with sights set on world domination (essentially the Bond movie villain to Gundham's fantasy anime villain). However, he's a self-admitted ConsummateLiar and a massive {{Troll}} who screws with everybody pretty much 24/7, so everyone assumes this is just another one of his lies. [[spoiler: Unlike Gundham, he actually is as depraved as he claims, [[{{Sadist}} getting pleasure from his classmates' suffering]] and had orchestrated, directly or indirectly, most of the deaths in the killing game. Despite this, he is shown to dislike being forced to participate in the game and controlled by the mastermind, which leads to him blackmailing another student into murdering him. He masterminded his own death with the goal of making it [[PerfectCrime so utterly unsolvable that not even]] ''[[PerfectCrime Monokuma]]'' [[PerfectCrime would be able to figure it out]], hoping that this would cause him to end the killing game prematurely. However, his status as a nefarious criminal organisation's leader is more of an exaggeration. He ''is'' the boss of an organization of sorts, but it's just him and his ten {{Mooks}} who go around in clown masks committing nonviolent petty crimes and pulling harmless pranks [[ItAmusedMe for the lulz]], and have [[ThouShaltNotKill an explicit rule against killing]]. His actions in the game put what exactly he considers "harmless pranks" under question, though, especially considering that he pretends to ''rape'' Shuichi as a joke in his Love Hotel scene]].
* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}:''
** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': Gundham Tanaka, the Ultimate Animal Breeder, is a {{Chuunibyou}} to the extreme, [[LargeHam loudly proclaiming]] himself to be an evil warlock who will one day use his peerless dark sorcery to conquer the world, and insisting that his four adorable hamsters [[DeathbringerTheAdorable are actually his terrifying evil minions]]. [[spoiler:Underneath it all, though, he's actually a nice guy. While he does commit murder, he does it for selfless reasons (everybody was trapped in a funhouse with no food until a murder occurred), and while he does try to avoid getting caught (and would have very likely done so if not for a SpannerInTheWorks), he admits his guilt pretty much the moment suspicion falls on him. His victim was also his consenting opponent in a DuelToTheDeath, who recognized that he just wanted to save everyone from starvation and shared that desire, making it more of a SuicidePact than an actual murder]].
** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': Kokichi Oma, the Ultimate Supreme Leader (or so he claims), claims to be the boss of a NebulousEvilOrganization with sights set on world domination (essentially the Bond movie villain to Gundham's fantasy anime villain). However, he's a self-admitted ConsummateLiar and a massive {{Troll}} who screws with everybody pretty much 24/7, so everyone assumes this is just another one of his lies. [[spoiler: Unlike Gundham, he actually is as depraved as he claims, [[{{Sadist}} getting pleasure from his classmates' suffering]] and had orchestrated, directly or indirectly, most of the deaths in the killing game. Despite this, he is shown to dislike being forced to participate in the game and controlled by the mastermind, which leads to him blackmailing another student into murdering him. He masterminded his own death with the goal of making it [[PerfectCrime so utterly unsolvable that not even]] ''[[PerfectCrime Monokuma]]'' [[PerfectCrime would be able to figure it out]], hoping that this would cause him to end the killing game prematurely. However, his status as a nefarious criminal organisation's leader is more of an exaggeration. He ''is'' the boss of an organization of sorts, but it's just him and his ten {{Mooks}} who go around in clown masks committing nonviolent petty crimes and pulling harmless pranks [[ItAmusedMe for the lulz]], and have [[ThouShaltNotKill an explicit rule against killing]]. His actions in the game put what exactly he considers "harmless pranks" under question, though, especially considering that he pretends to ''rape'' Shuichi as a joke in his Love Hotel scene]].
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** 3rd Edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' tossed out the penalties, but there are still races that are simply [[AlwaysChaoticEvil unable to act otherwise]].
** 4th Edition tossed out the second dimension of alignment. The law-chaos scale determining another portion of one's mindset is gone, so now alignment is simply determining just ''how'' good or evil you are.
** 5th Edition [[DownplayedTrope downplays]] this. There is no spell to determine what someone's alignment is (the spell ''detect evil and good'' still exists, but it detects creatures based on their type rather than their alignment), and there's no particular penalty for acting contrary to your alignment, only any formal moral codes you might have. Evil people are generally implied to be very selfish rather than reveling in being evil in the Backgrounds as well. The AlwaysChaoticEvil races are also said to have members who buck the trend and are usually given explanations for their behavior (aboleths, for example, are all actually the same LawfulEvil creatures who oppressed the world in TheDarkTimes-they reform in the Plane of Water if killed). However, there are occasional slip-ups. For instance, the Talisman of Ultimate
** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': Kokichi Oma, the Ultimate Supreme Leader (or so he claims), claims to be the boss of a NebulousEvilOrganization with sights set on world domination (essentially the Bond movie villain to Gundham's fantasy anime villain). However, he's a self-admitted ConsummateLiar and a massive {{Troll}} who screws with everybody pretty much 24/7, so everyone assumes this is just another one of his lies. [[spoiler: Unlike Gundham, he actually is as depraved as he claims, [[{{Sadist}} getting pleasure from his classmates' suffering]] and had orchestrated, directly or indirectly, most of the deaths in the killing game. Despite this, he is shown to dislike being forced to participate in the game and controlled by the mastermind, which leads to him blackmailing another student into murdering him. He masterminded his own death with the goal of making it [[PerfectCrime so utterly unsolvable that not even]] ''[[PerfectCrime Monokuma]]'' [[PerfectCrime would be able to figure it out]], hoping that
*** [[FridgeBrilliance Perhaps the
** 2nd Edition's concept of alignment was often deeply stupid (for example, it was outright stated that a TrueNeutral character torn between a Good hero and
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' gives us the Infernal Exalted; while they aren't AlwaysChaoticEvil, the cards are stacked against
** Also a subversion in that any given Infernal's [[EvilPlan dastardly evil scheme]] could be "make creation into a utopia" and their [[PokeThePoodle Acts of Villainy]] [[GoodFeelsGood don't even have to be evil]]. All that matters is that they ''act'' like a CardCarryingVillain.
** And then there's the whole reason they're like that -- the Ebon Dragon had an active hand in their creation. Each of the Primordials represents a principle of Creation, and the Ebon Dragon once represented betrayal. Every thing he does is based around screwing someone over, even if it screws him as well.
* The Devil-Tiger Dharma of ''TabletopGame/KindredOfTheEast'' combines card-carrying villainy with punch-clock villainy. The path to enlightenment the Devil-Tigers walk expects them to be magnificent devils, both in the wickedness they perform and the punishments they deliver to sinners - even devils have their place in existence, after all, and that place is the punishment of evil. The Devil-Tigers throw themselves into the role wholeheartedly, devoting themselves to its pursuit.
* Volrath from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' was just absurdly over-the-top in how eeeeeevil he was. ''"I once had a race killed just to listen to the rattling of their dried bones as I waded through them."'' To be fair, he was R&D's first real attempt at creating a BigBad, and, as it turned out, he was TheDragon to someone just as evil but with no bloody time or inclination for theatrics.
** They subsequently created a new variant for casual play called Archenemy, a one-vs.-many game where, by dint of being the BigBad of the game, the outnumbered player gets a number of benefits, including use of a "scheme" deck, a set of cards (that actually have the type Scheme) maintained separately from the library that give special benefits (usually for free) once per turn. (The idea is that the Archenemy is such a threat that other Planeswalkers have put
--->''I'd call that a successful first test. Golem! Rearm the [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom Citadel]]!''
* Certain Imperators (and possibly their associated Powers) in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' will be like this, with Devils and Magisters of the Dark being the most obviously villain looking and acting (although Third Edition made this a bit more complicated; Devils are motivated by compassion for all things, especially
* Chaos and the Dark Eldar in
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* Jonathon from ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace''. His "similarity" to Creator/BorisKarloff (constantly played for laughs as in Broadway production he was played by Boris Karloff) marks him as ObviouslyEvil. He even [[spoiler: attempts to kill his own brother]] just so he can top his aunts' {{Mercy Kill}}s.
* Mordred of ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'' is so ObviouslyEvil he might as well have a Dick Dastardly mustache. Not only is he openly proud of being the bastard (in more ways than one) son of Arthur and Morgana, he actually has a VillainSong where he outright rejects all of the virtues Arthur lives by. To be fair, Lancelot isn't always the most sympathetic character, so having the villain wear a "Hello my name is Asshole" badge may be [[JustifiedTrope called for.]]
* Played with, even subverted, in ''Theatre/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'' -- in the prologue, [[UsefulNotes/PopeAlexanderVI Rodrigo Borgia]] hears the way people talk about him ("He walks around the Vatican like he owns the place! That unrefined jerk from Spain is making the church rot!" and replies that he doesn't care what people say, he'll do whatever it takes to become pope. He then says that his children must work for his advancement, and gives an EvilLaugh, after which his son Cesare, the protagonist, says "My father is a monster". However, after that, we don't see Rodrigo doing anything monstrous, besides the same political scheming as everyone else, and loving his illegitimate children too much -- he wants to grow his own power so that he can pass it on to Cesare, [[ParentalLoveSong he says]]. The play counteracts the family's general HistoricalVillainUpgrade, as [[UsefulNotes/PopeJuliusII his rival]] is the one sending assassins after the 16-year-old Cesare and getting his classmates killed.
* ''Theatre/DoctorFaustus'' insists that he's evil beyond redemption.
* Mr. Lethe from ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'' takes utmost pride in being an awful person, and has seeded the living world with his drugs for years.
* ''Theatre/NoExit'': Ines, unlike the other two {{Villain Protagonist}}s, is well-aware of and open about the fact that she is an evil person who deserves to be damned.
* Captain Hook in ''Theatre/{{Peter Pan|1904}}'' and subsequent productions is proud of being, in his own words the sleaziest sleaze of the seven seas.
* In ''Theatre/PokemonLive'', the entirety of Team Rocket is devoted to world conquest in the name of evil, including Giovanni, who boasts of his evilness in a villain song.
* In ''Theatre/SonicLiveInSydney'', Robotnik is proud of being big, bad, and mean, as detailed in his villain song.
* [[spoiler:Junior]] in ''Theatre/{{Starship}}'' is a third generation villain and proud of it, even having a line in his VillainSong claiming that he's "evil and bad to the bone!" His rampage against the bugs is entirely ForTheEvulz.
* Many Creator/WilliamShakespeare villains were motivated simply by wanting to be a villain:
** Most famously, ''Theatre/RichardIII'', who notes "I am determined to prove a villain." To be sure, the root meaning of "villain" is "villein, serf" -- and just as "noble" or "gentleman" became a term of praise, so it became an insult, starting with meaning unchivalrous and crude. In Shakespeare's time, it still carried some of the connotations. So it could be interpreted as, "If everyone thinks I'm just a common thug, by golly [[ThenLetMeBeEvil I'll show them how scary a thug I can be]]". Interpret that thought how you will. (Creator/CSLewis discusses the term at length in ''Studies In Words''.)
** Lady ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' is at one point in the play shown praying for demons to remove any capacity to do good from her body.
** Don John in ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', counseled to act nice to remain in the Prince's good books, retorts that he's always believed in being true to your nature. Since his nature is that of a villain, he's going to go ahead and ''be'' one, rather than pretend not to be -- even if it's counter to his best interests.
*** And, of course, in case you have any doubts about that true nature, he's also a [[ValuesDissonance bastard]]. Being born out of wedlock makes you inherently a jerk.
*** The Elizabethans would have regarded an illegitimate-born person as a stereotypical villain. But in this case it's also [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Don John is jealous because he will never have the status and wealth of his brother Don Pedro - because unlike his brother, Don John was born outside of wedlock.
** Iago continually changes his reasoning for his actions in ''Theatre/{{Othello}}''. Originally, it was out of jealousy because he was passed over for promotion; however, he eventually abandons not only this justification, but ''all'' possible rationalizations. He is identified simply as a "Villaine" in the list of characters in the first folio, and Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge famously noted his "motiveless malignity". Iago himself, when questioned on his motivation, simply refuses to explain anything...though there are those who [[EpilepticTrees attribute his actions]] to [[HoYay less incomprehensible motives]].
*** Or there's the possibility that he's simply jealous of ''anyone'' who has anything good that he doesn't and fucks with Cassio, Desdemona, and Othello accordingly.
*** Then again, in the play he says it is "thought abroad that twixt my sheets/He's done my office," when referring to Othello. In other words, it's rumored Othello and Emilia are themselves making the beast with two backs.
*** The "Othello/Emilia" interpretation is certainly the motive most commonly cited, though as stated above, it's not the ''only'' reason he gives, it's just the first. If you don't count his general racist hatred towards Othello prior to that. Really no matter which way you look at it, Iago's motive could be any of the potential four explicitly stated in the play or something completely different...but the most likely is [[ForTheEvulz nothing at all,]] which ultimately makes him have the bizarre combination of playing this trope straight, [[AvertedTrope averting it]], [[SubvertedTrope subverting it]], or [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzagging it]] ''simultaneously''.
** Aaron in ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' states outright that all he wants to do with his life is be evil; the only reason he aids the play's antagonist instead of working against her is because it gives him a chance to do very evil, uncouth things. His last line in the play is:
--->'''Aaron:''' If one good deed in all my life I did, \\
I do repent it from my very soul.
*** [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Modern interpretations]], including Julie Taymor's [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs memorable version]], sometimes have his actions as [[FreudianExcuse payback for the way he is treated]], and add a PetTheDog moment or two.
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* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}:''
** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': Gundham Tanaka, the Ultimate Animal Breeder, is a {{Chuunibyou}} to the extreme, [[LargeHam loudly proclaiming]] himself to be an evil warlock who will one day use his peerless dark sorcery to conquer the world, and insisting that his four adorable hamsters [[DeathbringerTheAdorable are actually his terrifying evil minions]]. [[spoiler:Underneath it all, though, he's actually a nice guy. While he does commit murder, he does it for selfless reasons (everybody was trapped in a funhouse with no food until a murder occurred), and while he does try to avoid getting caught (and would have very likely done so if not for a SpannerInTheWorks), he admits his guilt pretty much the moment suspicion falls on him. His victim was also his consenting opponent in a DuelToTheDeath, who recognized that he just wanted to save everyone from starvation and shared that desire, making it more of a SuicidePact than an actual murder]].
** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': Kokichi Oma, the Ultimate Supreme Leader (or so he claims), claims to be the boss of a NebulousEvilOrganization with sights set on world domination (essentially the Bond movie villain to Gundham's fantasy anime villain). However, he's a self-admitted ConsummateLiar and a massive {{Troll}} who screws with everybody pretty much 24/7, so everyone assumes this is just another one of his lies. [[spoiler: Unlike Gundham, he actually is as depraved as he claims, [[{{Sadist}} getting pleasure from his classmates' suffering]] and had orchestrated, directly or indirectly, most of the deaths in the killing game. Despite this, he is shown to dislike being forced to participate in the game and controlled by the mastermind, which leads to him blackmailing another student into murdering him. He masterminded his own death with the goal of making it [[PerfectCrime so utterly unsolvable that not even]] ''[[PerfectCrime Monokuma]]'' [[PerfectCrime would be able to figure it out]], hoping that this would cause him to end the killing game prematurely. However, his status as a nefarious criminal organisation's leader is more of an exaggeration. He ''is'' the boss of an organization of sorts, but it's just him and his ten {{Mooks}} who go around in clown masks committing nonviolent petty crimes and pulling harmless pranks [[ItAmusedMe for the lulz]], and have [[ThouShaltNotKill an explicit rule against killing]]. His actions in the game put what exactly he considers "harmless pranks" under question, though, especially considering that he pretends to ''rape'' Shuichi as a joke in his Love Hotel scene]].
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* Jonathon from ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace''. His "similarity" to Creator/BorisKarloff (constantly played for laughs as in Broadway production he was played by Boris Karloff) marks him as ObviouslyEvil. He even [[spoiler: attempts to kill his own brother]] just so he can top his aunts' {{Mercy Kill}}s.
* Mordred of ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'' is so ObviouslyEvil he might as well have a Dick Dastardly mustache. Not only is he openly proud of being the bastard (in more ways than one) son of Arthur and Morgana, he actually has a VillainSong where he outright rejects all of the virtues Arthur lives by. To be fair, Lancelot isn't always the most sympathetic character, so having the villain wear a "Hello my name is Asshole" badge may be [[JustifiedTrope called for.]]
* Played with, even subverted, in ''Theatre/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'' -- in the prologue, [[UsefulNotes/PopeAlexanderVI Rodrigo Borgia]] hears the way people talk about him ("He walks around the Vatican like he owns the place! That unrefined jerk from Spain is making the church rot!" and replies that he doesn't care what people say, he'll do whatever it takes to become pope. He then says that his children must work for his advancement, and gives an EvilLaugh, after which his son Cesare, the protagonist, says "My father is a monster". However, after that, we don't see Rodrigo doing anything monstrous, besides the same political scheming as everyone else, and loving his illegitimate children too much -- he wants to grow his own power so that he can pass it on to Cesare, [[ParentalLoveSong he says]]. The play counteracts the family's general HistoricalVillainUpgrade, as [[UsefulNotes/PopeJuliusII his rival]] is the one sending assassins after the 16-year-old Cesare and getting his classmates killed.
* ''Theatre/DoctorFaustus'' insists that he's evil beyond redemption.
* Mr. Lethe from ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'' takes utmost pride in being an awful person, and has seeded the living world with his drugs for years.
* ''Theatre/NoExit'': Ines, unlike the other two {{Villain Protagonist}}s, is well-aware of and open about the fact that she is an evil person who deserves to be damned.
* Captain Hook in ''Theatre/{{Peter Pan|1904}}'' and subsequent productions is proud of being, in his own words the sleaziest sleaze of the seven seas.
* In ''Theatre/PokemonLive'', the entirety of Team Rocket is devoted to world conquest in the name of evil, including Giovanni, who boasts of his evilness in a villain song.
* In ''Theatre/SonicLiveInSydney'', Robotnik is proud of being big, bad, and mean, as detailed in his villain song.
* [[spoiler:Junior]] in ''Theatre/{{Starship}}'' is a third generation villain and proud of it, even having a line in his VillainSong claiming that he's "evil and bad to the bone!" His rampage against the bugs is entirely ForTheEvulz.
* Many Creator/WilliamShakespeare villains were motivated simply by wanting to be a villain:
** Most famously, ''Theatre/RichardIII'', who notes "I am determined to prove a villain." To be sure, the root meaning of "villain" is "villein, serf" -- and just as "noble" or "gentleman" became a term of praise, so it became an insult, starting with meaning unchivalrous and crude. In Shakespeare's time, it still carried some of the connotations. So it could be interpreted as, "If everyone thinks I'm just a common thug, by golly [[ThenLetMeBeEvil I'll show them how scary a thug I can be]]". Interpret that thought how you will. (Creator/CSLewis discusses the term at length in ''Studies In Words''.)
** Lady ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' is at one point in the play shown praying for demons to remove any capacity to do good from her body.
** Don John in ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', counseled to act nice to remain in the Prince's good books, retorts that he's always believed in being true to your nature. Since his nature is that of a villain, he's going to go ahead and ''be'' one, rather than pretend not to be -- even if it's counter to his best interests.
*** And, of course, in case you have any doubts about that true nature, he's also a [[ValuesDissonance bastard]]. Being born out of wedlock makes you inherently a jerk.
*** The Elizabethans would have regarded an illegitimate-born person as a stereotypical villain. But in this case it's also [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Don John is jealous because he will never have the status and wealth of his brother Don Pedro - because unlike his brother, Don John was born outside of wedlock.
** Iago continually changes his reasoning for his actions in ''Theatre/{{Othello}}''. Originally, it was out of jealousy because he was passed over for promotion; however, he eventually abandons not only this justification, but ''all'' possible rationalizations. He is identified simply as a "Villaine" in the list of characters in the first folio, and Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge famously noted his "motiveless malignity". Iago himself, when questioned on his motivation, simply refuses to explain anything...though there are those who [[EpilepticTrees attribute his actions]] to [[HoYay less incomprehensible motives]].
*** Or there's the possibility that he's simply jealous of ''anyone'' who has anything good that he doesn't and fucks with Cassio, Desdemona, and Othello accordingly.
*** Then again, in the play he says it is "thought abroad that twixt my sheets/He's done my office," when referring to Othello. In other words, it's rumored Othello and Emilia are themselves making the beast with two backs.
*** The "Othello/Emilia" interpretation is certainly the motive most commonly cited, though as stated above, it's not the ''only'' reason he gives, it's just the first. If you don't count his general racist hatred towards Othello prior to that. Really no matter which way you look at it, Iago's motive could be any of the potential four explicitly stated in the play or something completely different...but the most likely is [[ForTheEvulz nothing at all,]] which ultimately makes him have the bizarre combination of playing this trope straight, [[AvertedTrope averting it]], [[SubvertedTrope subverting it]], or [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzagging it]] ''simultaneously''.
** Aaron in ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' states outright that all he wants to do with his life is be evil; the only reason he aids the play's antagonist instead of working against her is because it gives him a chance to do very evil, uncouth things. His last line in the play is:
--->'''Aaron:''' If one good deed in all my life I did, \\
I do repent it from my very soul.
*** [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Modern interpretations]], including Julie Taymor's [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs memorable version]], sometimes have his actions as [[FreudianExcuse payback for the way he is treated]], and add a PetTheDog moment or two.
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* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}:''
** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': Gundham Tanaka, the Ultimate Animal Breeder, is a {{Chuunibyou}} to the extreme, [[LargeHam loudly proclaiming]] himself to be an evil warlock who will one day use his peerless dark sorcery to conquer the world, and insisting that his four adorable hamsters [[DeathbringerTheAdorable are actually his terrifying evil minions]]. [[spoiler:Underneath it all, though, he's actually a nice guy. While he does commit murder, he does it for selfless reasons (everybody was trapped in a funhouse with no food until a murder occurred), and while he does try to avoid getting caught (and would have very likely done so if not for a SpannerInTheWorks), he admits his guilt pretty much the moment suspicion falls on him. His victim was also his consenting opponent in a DuelToTheDeath, who recognized that he just wanted to save everyone from starvation and shared that desire, making it more of a SuicidePact than an actual murder]].
** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': Kokichi Oma, the Ultimate Supreme Leader (or so he claims), claims to be the boss of a NebulousEvilOrganization with sights set on world domination (essentially the Bond movie villain to Gundham's fantasy anime villain). However, he's a self-admitted ConsummateLiar and a massive {{Troll}} who screws with everybody pretty much 24/7, so everyone assumes this is just another one of his lies. [[spoiler: Unlike Gundham, he actually is as depraved as he claims, [[{{Sadist}} getting pleasure from his classmates' suffering]] and had orchestrated, directly or indirectly, most of the deaths in the killing game. Despite this, he is shown to dislike being forced to participate in the game and controlled by the mastermind, which leads to him blackmailing another student into murdering him. He masterminded his own death with the goal of making it [[PerfectCrime so utterly unsolvable that not even]] ''[[PerfectCrime Monokuma]]'' [[PerfectCrime would be able to figure it out]], hoping that this would cause him to end the killing game prematurely. However, his status as a nefarious criminal organisation's leader is more of an exaggeration. He ''is'' the boss of an organization of sorts, but it's just him and his ten {{Mooks}} who go around in clown masks committing nonviolent petty crimes and pulling harmless pranks [[ItAmusedMe for the lulz]], and have [[ThouShaltNotKill an explicit rule against killing]]. His actions in the game put what exactly he considers "harmless pranks" under question, though, especially considering that he pretends to ''rape'' Shuichi as a joke in his Love Hotel scene]].
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* [[Music/BlueOysterCult "I'm makin' a career of evil..."]]
* Danish metal band Evil only released one EP, but half the tracks on there fit this trope perfectly: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fOy3n-MHAI their namesake track]] and[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNtQ4k96Vjc "Son of the Bitch."]]
* George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone" is a song sung from the point of view of someone who ''really'' likes being bad. (And is often played in movies when actual Card-Carrying Villains appear.)
* Creator/DenisLeary's song "Asshole" describes someone who delights in making other people miserable, and proudly proclaims himself to be the "world's biggest asshole". He does such things as driving really slowly in the ultra-fast lane, and intentionally parking in spots for handicapped people when said people need the parking spots.
* The Diamond Head song "Am I Evil?". The answer is, unsurprisingly, "Yes I am!".
* Music/{{Eminem}}'s Slim Shady character uses "Evil" as one of his pseudonyms, often brags about how twisted and perverted he is, claims he's here to [[AntiRoleModel corrupt your kids]], declares himself a criminal, and describes himself like this:
-->You can't miss me: I'm white, blonde-haired, and my nose is pointy.\\
I'm the bad guy who makes fun of people that die\\
in plane crashes and laughs, as long as it ain't happenin' to him
* The narrator of Music/TheFurnacesOfPalingenesia is fully aware how [[ChaosIsEvil chaotic]] and [[InsaneTrollLogic insane]] the fascist regime [[MouthOfSauron he works for]] is.
--> You will be made to deny the dissonance and conflict that is at the heart of the experience of our World. You shall join the chorus of praise that flows from the absolute perfection we have created by the sole power of our will. We shall bleed you white, but you will think that it is an act of unconditional love.
* ''Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'''s albums feature the recurring villain Zargothrax, [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard Bane of Cowdenbeath, Scourge of Auchtermuchty, Arch-foe of the Questlords of Inverness, Master of Nightmares, Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abernathy, Wielder of the Vorpal Laserblaster of Pittenweem, Wizard-King, Chaos Incarnate, Binary Thaumaturge]]. While he's never referred to by all these titles in the same song, he does hold them all by the end of the fourth album.
* Quasi-subversion: the ''Something Wicked'' two-part ConceptAlbum by Music/IcedEarth deals with the AncientConspiracy of the Setian race. The Setians are {{AntiVillain}}s with a detailed StartOfDarkness and a reasonable motivation for wanting to destroy mankind...but they still, consistently and repeatedly, refer to themselves as "Wicked".
* Many songs from the point of view of a serial killer. For example, "The Ripper" by Music/JudasPriest.
* Music/{{Voltaire}}'s song "When You're Evil" is a song about a guy who admits how much he loves being evil...or possibly actually ''is'' evil itself, as the speaker/singer says "The Devil tips his hat to me."
* Music/{{NWA}}'s MC Ren.
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* The narrators of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kbH1QEmkU "Mr. Bad Example"]] by Music/WarrenZevon and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fELrliuqZvM "The Future"]] by Music/LeonardCohen.
* Uncle Ernie from Music/TheWho's ''Music/{{Tommy}}'': "I'm your wicked Uncle Ernie..."
** Same with Cousin Kevin: "I'm the school bully/The classroom cheat/The nastiest play-friend you ever could meet..."
* ''Music/KidsPraise'': Risky Rat's VillainSong cements his status this way: he describes himself as a conman, a spiritual gangster, and he's clearly proud of it!
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* [[Music/BlueOysterCult "I'm makin' a career of evil..."]]
* Danish metal band Evil only released one EP, but half the tracks on there fit this trope perfectly: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fOy3n-MHAI their namesake track]] and[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNtQ4k96Vjc "Son of the Bitch."]]
* George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone" is a song sung from the point of view of someone who ''really'' likes being bad. (And is often played in movies when actual Card-Carrying Villains appear.)
* Creator/DenisLeary's song "Asshole" describes someone who delights in making other people miserable, and proudly proclaims himself to be the "world's biggest asshole". He does such things as driving really slowly in the ultra-fast lane, and intentionally parking in spots for handicapped people when said people need the parking spots.
* The Diamond Head song "Am I Evil?". The answer is, unsurprisingly, "Yes I am!".
* Music/{{Eminem}}'s Slim Shady character uses "Evil" as one of his pseudonyms, often brags about how twisted and perverted he is, claims he's here to [[AntiRoleModel corrupt your kids]], declares himself a criminal, and describes himself like this:
-->You can't miss me: I'm white, blonde-haired, and my nose is pointy.\\
I'm the bad guy who makes fun of people that die\\
in plane crashes and laughs, as long as it ain't happenin' to him
* The narrator of Music/TheFurnacesOfPalingenesia is fully aware how [[ChaosIsEvil chaotic]] and [[InsaneTrollLogic insane]] the fascist regime [[MouthOfSauron he works for]] is.
--> You will be made to deny the dissonance and conflict that is at the heart of the experience of our World. You shall join the chorus of praise that flows from the absolute perfection we have created by the sole power of our will. We shall bleed you white, but you will think that it is an act of unconditional love.
* ''Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'''s albums feature the recurring villain Zargothrax, [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard Bane of Cowdenbeath, Scourge of Auchtermuchty, Arch-foe of the Questlords of Inverness, Master of Nightmares, Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abernathy, Wielder of the Vorpal Laserblaster of Pittenweem, Wizard-King, Chaos Incarnate, Binary Thaumaturge]]. While he's never referred to by all these titles in the same song, he does hold them all by the end of the fourth album.
* Quasi-subversion: the ''Something Wicked'' two-part ConceptAlbum by Music/IcedEarth deals with the AncientConspiracy of the Setian race. The Setians are {{AntiVillain}}s with a detailed StartOfDarkness and a reasonable motivation for wanting to destroy mankind...but they still, consistently and repeatedly, refer to themselves as "Wicked".
* Many songs from the point of view of a serial killer. For example, "The Ripper" by Music/JudasPriest.
* Music/{{Voltaire}}'s song "When You're Evil" is a song about a guy who admits how much he loves being evil...or possibly actually ''is'' evil itself, as the speaker/singer says "The Devil tips his hat to me."
* Music/{{NWA}}'s MC Ren.
%%context, anyone? I don't know the source material.
* The narrators of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kbH1QEmkU "Mr. Bad Example"]] by Music/WarrenZevon and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fELrliuqZvM "The Future"]] by Music/LeonardCohen.
* Uncle Ernie from Music/TheWho's ''Music/{{Tommy}}'': "I'm your wicked Uncle Ernie..."
** Same with Cousin Kevin: "I'm the school bully/The classroom cheat/The nastiest play-friend you ever could meet..."
* ''Music/KidsPraise'': Risky Rat's VillainSong cements his status this way: he describes himself as a conman, a spiritual gangster, and he's clearly proud of it!
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* In their VillainSong the ''Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' devote at least four sentences in the lyrics into characteristing themselves as rascals, scoundrels, villans, knavesdevils, black sheep, really bad eggs, blighters, and ne'er-do-well cads. The rest of the song is devoted to their misdeeds.
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* In their VillainSong the ''Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' devote at least four sentences in the lyrics into characteristing themselves as rascals, scoundrels, villans, knavesdevils, black sheep, really bad eggs, blighters, and ne'er-do-well cads. The rest of the song is devoted to their misdeeds.
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