History Main / EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor

* Zuko of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' starts off as type one. Azula is a type two, though she has Type 1 moments as well ("It's okay, you can laugh. It's funny.")

Contrast AffablyEvil. LaughablyEvil is this trope's polar opposite. Also see NoSenseOfHumor.

* Apparently, there were jokes in ''{{FATAL}}''. Perhaps that makes Byron Hall a RealLife example of this trope.
** One or two of them were actually funny. (An average of about 1 joke per 500 pages.)
*** Well? (Don't worry about spoiling them ? it's not like anyone who knows about it'll ever read it.)
*** It may have been deleted since the original review, but the spell miscast result that made the caster think he was a housecat was pretty funny. When compared to the rest of the magical fumbles table, that is.
*** If you utilize FridgeLogic especially on the ability/spell/magical effect charts, it CAN be funny...after you snip the 3000 redundant effects to use in a better game system.

* In ''HikaruNoGo'', although they're definitely not ''evil'', Touya Akira and Touya Majin ''are'' Hikaru and Sai's main rivals for most of the series. And both Hikaru and Sai ''definitely'' have much more of a sense of humor than those two. Especially noticeable in the beginning. For Hikaru, however, after [[spoiler: Sai disappears and he gets more serious]], it follows this trope less.

* A clever early scene in ''Titanic'' hints at the likeability of several of the key characters. As Ismay brags about the size of the vessel, Rose (a likeable character, of course) comments on how Ismay might be interested in the works of Sigmund Freud, and in Freud's opinions on men and their facination with size. Mr. Andrews and Molly Brown (both likeable) are amused, Cal, Ruth, and Ismay (all varying degrees of unlikable) are either apalled or confused.

-->'''{{Mook}}s:''' ...And what do you plan to do with this 'aquisition', Mr. Smith?\\

* ''{{TwistedMetal}}'' is rife with this, some of the characters have it as their background, and then of course there's [[LiteralGenie Calypso]] and, in [[{{Discontinuity}} Twisted Metal 4]], [[strike:Sweet Tooth]] [[MonsterClown Needles Kane]]. A minor subversion however, due to Needles simply being in it ForTheEvulz occurs when General Warthog wins. Warthog wishes for a world of eternal warfare so he can play wargames all the time. With both possible wish granters being vicious bloodthirsty curs, it seems like such a dream wouldn't end well for the rest of us, as they tend to reward selfish or savage wishes by playing them straight, but in his TM4 incarnation Needles is more like The Joker. And so, his wish is granted...Warthog is turned into a talking toy ala Tommy Lee Jones in Small Soldiers and dropped into a sandbox full of toy vehicles.

*** A Horus Guard, and Serpent Guard and a Setesh Guard meet, it is a tense moment; the Horus Guard's eyes flash; the Serpent Guard hisses; the Setesh Guard's nose drips. That's ''funny''.

->''Here, stick this in your pipe and bleed to death slowly.''
-->--'''Jack Noir''', ''{{Homestuck}}''

For some reason, capital E Evil and most villains just don't ''get'' humor. And we don't just mean in a [[DontExplainTheJoke "doesn't understand the joke"]] sense, they're usually [[TheStoic completely humorless]] or they're [[EvilLaugh cackling]] [[strike:like]] because they're complete lunatics and ''[[CardCarryingVillain "Eeeeevil!"]]'' Maybe it's because of some implicit assumption that "laughter heals the soul", so someone who doesn't laugh or laughs at the wrong things can't be right in the head. Perhaps it's that humor requires perspective, which villains usually don't have in abundance.

* Type 1: The first is as a complete lack of humor, the villain is either incapable of understanding humor (like an evil TinMan) or can, but they're so [[TheStoic stone hearted and taciturn]] they [[{{Unfunny}} find nothing funny]], never even cracking witty remarks or [[DeadpanSnarker exchanging repartee]] with the hero. While there are plenty of stoic {{Anti Hero}}es, heroes as a whole can generally at least laugh at least once in a while. Understandably, they often get placed opposite a wise cracking hero who uses them as an unwitting StraightMan.

Contrast AffablyEvil. LaughablyEvil is this trope's polar opposite.

* ''DeathNote'', with L and Light. Light, being the VillainProtagonist, ''really'' lacks any sort of sense of humor. And although L isn't exactly the funniest person in the world, he ''does'' have more of a sense of humor.

* In ''{{Berserk}}'', pretty much all the big villains have absolutely no sense of humor. Granted, Berserk is not known for its rip roaring comedy... but the protagonist, Guts, ''is'' a DeadpanSnarker that has a habit of making fun of his enemies. Even [[spoiler: Griffith]] had (has?) less of a sense of humor than him.

* Often appears on ''DoctorWho,'' especially with the Fourth Doctor--the villains have no sense of humor, the Doctor does. The Master is an exception, especially during the 3rd Doctor-- he doesn't really take himself seriously.

* Major Neuheim of ''PrivateSchulz'' is a PointyHairedBoss, not to mention a Nazi, who is totally lacking in warmth and anything resembling a sense of humor. However, his humorlessness is itself a source of comedy.

[[AC: Literature]]
* [[http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2009/04/tf-not-funny.html Apparently]], the early interlude with Verna Zee in [[LeftBehind Tribulation Force]] is meant to be funny.
* The Dasati from the RiftwarCycle find pain in and of itself to be amusing (or at least ''other people's'' pain). They are depicted as laughing hysterically while watching other Dasati torn to pieces by the local equivalent of wolves, for example.

* In EdgarRiceBurrough's ''A Princess of Mars'', JohnCarterOfMars observes that Green Martians consider hitting a helpless prisoner the height of jests.

** One of my favorite SG-1 scenes: "You have no idea what Lord Ba'al is capable of." "You ended that sentence in a preposition! ''Bastard!''"

*** A Horus Guard, and Serpent Guard and a Setesh Guard meet, it is a tense moment; the Horus Guard's eyes flash; the Serpent Guard hisses; the Setesh Guard's nose drips. This troper doesn't care what anybody says, that's ''funny''!

** Are you serious? Delgado's Master was practically a walking stalactite of iciness. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXrAK6sUZ_0 Watch how he kills a man with . . . just watch.]]
** Special note also goes to Ten's Master, who is hilariously, brilliantly campy and OTT (and knows it) while murdering rooms full of people. He dances to amusing pop music while destroying the world!

** In the anime, L has more of a sense of humor than the manga. He's actually a bit of a {{Deadpan Snarker}}.

** This troper would like to add that, in the anime, L has more of a sense of humour than the manga. He's actually a bit of a {{Deadpan Snarker}}.

For some reason, capital E Evil and most villains just don't ''get'' humor. And we don't just mean in a [[DontExplainTheJoke "doesn't understand the joke"]] sense, they're usually [[TheStoic completely humorless]] or they're [[EvilLaugh cackling]] [[strike:like]] because they're complete lunatics and ''[[CardCarryingVillain Eeeeevil!]]'' Maybe it's because of some implicit assumption that "laughter heals the soul", so someone who doesn't laugh or laughs at the most wrong things can't be right in the head. Perhaps it's that humor requires perspective, which villains are not noted from having in abundance.

Point is, you'll never see a villain who [[VillainsOutShopping moonlights as a successful standup comic]] in the {{Muggle}} world.

[[AC: Film]]
* A clever early scene in '''Titanic''' hits at the likeability of several of the key characters. As Ismay brags about the size of the vessel, Rose (a likeable character, of course) comments on how Ismay might be interested in the works of Sigmund Freud, and in Freud's opinions on men and their facination with size. Mr. Andrews and Molly Brown (both likeable) are amused, Cal, Ruth, and Ismay (all varying degrees of unlikable) are either apalled or confused.

* The Monkey King in Jackie Chan Adventures, whose sense of humor ranges from absurd concepts like WestSideStory-esque greaser frozen chickens to Joker-esque delight at ''running someone through a sawmill.'' He lets loose the nasty part of his personality ''very'' quick.

* In Max Beerbohm's DealWithTheDevil story Enoch Soames, Satan is a very well-dressed (or even over-dressed) and respectable looking guy who is deeply offended when the narrator (Beerbohm himself, who wrote humorous fiction) laughs out loud when he announces his identity, and gives him the cold shoulder in a later meeting and seems to be completely humorless. Ironically, Soames, who is tricked by the Devil, is the kind of Satanist who is a decent guy but thinks that SatanIsGood (or at least cool).

For some reason, capital E Evil and most villains just don't ''get'' humor. And we don't just mean in a [[DontExplainTheJoke "doesn't understand the joke"]] sense, they're usually [[TheStoic completely humorless]] or they're [[EvilLaugh cackling]] [[strike:like]] because they're complete lunatics and ''[[CardCarryingVillain Eeeeevil!]]'' Maybe it's because of some implicit assumption that "laughter heals the soul", so someone who doesn't laugh or laughs at the most wrong things can't be right in the head.

* In DungeonsAndDragons, [[ArchdevilsAndDemonlords Asmodeus and Demogorgon]] are noted as both having senses of humor; though they find humor in the fact that their underlings(or in Demogorgon's case, chief rivals) are constantly plotting/fighting [[EnemyCivilWar amongst themselves instead of uniting against them.]]

* In DungeonsAndDragons, [[ArchdevilsAndDemonLords Asmodeus and Demogorgon]] are noted as both having senses of humor; though they find humor in the fact that their underlings(or in Demogorgon's case, chief rivals) are constantly plotting/fighting [[EnemyCivilWar amongst themselves instead of uniting against them.]]

* In DungeonsAndDragons, [[ArchDevilsAndDemonLords Asmodeus and Demogorgon]] are noted as both having senses of humor; though they find humor in the fact that their underlings(or in Demogorgon's case, chief rivals) are constantly plotting/fighting [[EnemyCivilWar amongst themselves instead of uniting against them.]]