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* Makoto Aizen of ''Series/UltramanRB''. While not an actual villain, he is behind all of the monster attacks in Ayaka City and transforms himself into Ultraman Orb Dark (an EvilKnockoff of Series/UltramanOrb) as part of his EngineeredHeroics. [[spoiler:As we found out later on, Makoto was possessed by an alien named Cereza, whose extreme fixation on Ultraman Orb and his human form Gai Kurenai started due to being rescued by the real Ultra. Inspired by his act, Cereza created Ultraman Orb Dark as his alter ego under the notion of [[ExactWords being an Ultra just like Orb]].]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Joe [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Coyne]] demonstrates the rationality and levelheaded demeanor typical of this trope as he begins his career as the Penny Plunderer.]]
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* Joe Coyne (pictured above) was a failure as a criminal. Not only was he regularly caught by the police ("coppers"), his crimes only netted him pennies. Thus, to get back at "coppers and pennies," he launched a career as the Penny Plunderer. It was a very short career which Batman ended on his very first outing, but Joe's theme outlived him; he (not, as is often assumed, Two-Face) provided the giant penny that [[SuperheroTrophyShelf became a fixture of the Batcave]].
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* Joe Coyne (pictured above) was a failure as a criminal. Not only was he regularly caught by the police ("coppers"), his crimes only netted him pennies. Thus, to get back at "coppers and pennies," he launched a career as the Penny Plunderer. It was a very short career which Batman ended on his very first outing, but Joe's theme outlived him; he (not, as is often assumed, Two-Face) provided the giant penny that [[SuperheroTrophyShelf became a fixture of the Batcave]].
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* ComicBook/TwoFace is usually compelled to commit crimes based on the number two or the concept of duality. Whether or not he kills a given individual is often determined by the outcome of a coin toss.
* ComicBook/TheJoker, DependingOnTheWriter, may only commit crimes based on the theme of jokes or pranks. Alternatively, the crime itself must be "funny" (albeit according to the Joker's own highly warped sense of humor).
* ComicBook/TheJoker, DependingOnTheWriter, may only commit crimes based on the theme of jokes or pranks. Alternatively, the crime itself must be "funny" (albeit according to the Joker's own highly warped sense of humor).
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* ComicBook/TwoFace is usually compelled to commit crimes based on the number two or two, the concept of duality. duality, or the theme of chance. Whether or not he kills a given individual is often determined by the outcome of a coin toss.
toss. He also has a tendency to get law-court and criminal justice-themed crimes, reflecting on his origins as a former district attorney driven to criminal insanity by his deformities, but this is a much less frequent motif.
* ComicBook/TheJoker, DependingOnTheWriter, may only commit crimes based on the theme ofjokes jokes, pranks, clowns or pranks. comedy. Alternatively, the crime itself must be "funny" (albeit according to the Joker's own [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor highly warped warped]] sense of humor).
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* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} version of the Mad Hatter - the one with the red handlebar mustache - centered all his crimes around hats and other headgear. Everything he does is also themed around ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
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* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} version of the Mad Hatter - the one with the red handlebar mustache - centered all his crimes around hats and other headgear. Everything he does A more consistent motif for the Mad Hatter in general is theming his crimes around the works of Creator/LewisCaroll -- especially ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''. This particular focus is also themed around ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.shared by lesser villains Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who often work together with the Mad Hatter as a result.
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* It's DependingOnTheWriter, but ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} has a tendency to go after anything that has to do with cats.
* Early versions of ComicBook/ThePenguin were obsessed with committing umbrella-based or bird-based crimes, though these days he's usually just a portly sociopath with a high opinion of himself.
* Maxie Zeus is a gang leader who believes himself to be the reincarnation of the Greek god Zeus. [[WrongGenreSavvy He is not.]] It's almost laughable given that the Greek Gods' existence is an established fact within the DC universe, what with [[Franchise/WonderWoman a well-known superheroine]] tracing her origin back to [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]]. The key word being ''almost'', as he's very intelligent and resourceful despite his delusions.
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* Maxie Zeus is a gang leader who believes himself to be the reincarnation of the Greek god Zeus. [[WrongGenreSavvy He is not.]] It's almost laughable given that the Greek Gods' existence is an established fact within the DC universe, what with [[Franchise/WonderWoman a well-known superheroine]] tracing her origin back to [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]]. The key word being ''almost'', as he's very intelligent and resourceful despite his delusions.
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* Early versions of ComicBook/ThePenguin were obsessedComicBook/ThePenguin; introduced with a fixation on committing umbrella-based or bird-based crimes, though these days he's that angle was dropped and he came to usually be portrayed as just a portly sociopath with a high opinion of himself.
* Maxie Zeus is a gang leader who believes himself to be the reincarnation of the Greek godZeus.Zeus, which informs both his criminal persona and his choice of crimes, always relating back to Greek Mythology or electricity in some way. [[WrongGenreSavvy He is not.]] It's almost laughable given that the Greek Gods' existence is an established fact within the DC universe, what with [[Franchise/WonderWoman a well-known superheroine]] tracing her origin back to [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]]. The key word being ''almost'', as he's very intelligent and resourceful despite his delusions.delusions.
* ComicBook/PoisonIvy is typically portrayed as what happens when this trope meets up with EcoTerrorist, as many of her crimes revolving around committing extreme acts of violence or terrorism either to steal rare plants or to "avenge the suffering of plantkind" upon humanity.
* Zigzagged with ComicBook/TheScarecrow, whose crimes tend to be split about 50/50 between "using fear gas and other means to terrorize others to ostensibly continue studying fear" and "steal the funds to be able to make more fear gas".
* Minor villain Magpie is a jewel thief with a particular obsession with gemstones or other valuable objects named after birds.
* Golden Age villain Mirror Man was, as his moniker suggests, obsessed with mirrors and how they could be used to commit crimes.
* The first Ventriloquist, Arnold Wesker, is a variant of this; whilst he doesn't have a specific motif to his crimes beyond "getting rich", his entire criminal personality is built around a ''serious'' case of disassociative identity disorder, causing him to legitimately believe that his secondary personality, "Scarface", whom he associates with the ventriloquist puppet he's always carrying around, is both the "man in charge" and an entirely separate individual. In layman's terms: he really, truly thinks that the '''puppet''' is the one giving orders.
* Downplayed with Basil Karlo, the 1st and most famous Clayface, who is sometimes portrayed as having a tendency to commit crimes themed or otherwise based around movies, especially his own movies.
* Cornelius Stirk is a downplayed example; his motif revolves exclusively around murdering victims by terrorizing them to death, then eating their hearts, as he suffers from the delusion that he must do so in order to survive.
* Similarly to Cornelius Stirk, Victor Zsasz is a murderous nihilist who kills people and cuts tallymarks into his skin with an obsessive-compulsive enthusiasm.
* Firefly always, ''always'' commits crimes of arson. Not just because he's an arsonist for hire, but because he's also a pyromaniac who gets off on burning things.
* Humpty Dumpty is an unusual overlap of this and TragicVillain: he always commits acts of deadly sabotage... in the name of fixing things that inconvenienced him, and so he reasoned they were "broken". He didn't want to hurt anybody, he just... did a terrible job at fixing things. Even when he murdered his abusive grandmother and badly sewed her corpse back together, he did so because he's too mentally deficient to really understand he was doing something wrong.
* Lock-Up is a psychotic would-be vigilant driven to crime to punish lawbreakers he felt the government was too soft on; his crimes therefore are always done against other criminals, and revolve around capturing, imprisoning, torturing, and sometimes even killing those he feels are guilty.
* Doodlebug is a MadArtist who murders people to use their blood to scrawl repulsive artistic murals... which are actually arcane sigils and glyphs stemming from his knowledge of BlackMagic.
* Jane Doe is what happens when you cross this trope with an identity thief. She's so obsessed with living a better life that she targets individuals at random, memorizes as much information about them as she can, learns to mimic their voice, then ''[[FlayingAlive murders them and skins their corpse to wear as a costume]]'' so she can perfectly imitate them. Inevitably, she gets bored with the problems of her latest victim's life. So she goes hunting for another life to steal...
* While most of Batman's opponents who suffer from this trope debuted in the Golden and Silver Ages, the Absence, aka Una Nemo, is an example who debuted in ''2011''! She's obsessed with leaving holes in things, and in stealing precious items, since she was driven mad by a combination of nobody caring about her absence and her surviving a [[ArtMajorBiology comic-style]] case of Dandy Walker Syndrome, leaving her with ''[[FacialHorror a softball-sized hole straight through her head]]''.
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* Early versions of ComicBook/ThePenguin were obsessed
* Maxie Zeus is a gang leader who believes himself to be the reincarnation of the Greek god
* ComicBook/PoisonIvy is typically portrayed as what happens when this trope meets up with EcoTerrorist, as many of her crimes revolving around committing extreme acts of violence or terrorism either to steal rare plants or to "avenge the suffering of plantkind" upon humanity.
* Zigzagged with ComicBook/TheScarecrow, whose crimes tend to be split about 50/50 between "using fear gas and other means to terrorize others to ostensibly continue studying fear" and "steal the funds to be able to make more fear gas".
* Minor villain Magpie is a jewel thief with a particular obsession with gemstones or other valuable objects named after birds.
* Golden Age villain Mirror Man was, as his moniker suggests, obsessed with mirrors and how they could be used to commit crimes.
* The first Ventriloquist, Arnold Wesker, is a variant of this; whilst he doesn't have a specific motif to his crimes beyond "getting rich", his entire criminal personality is built around a ''serious'' case of disassociative identity disorder, causing him to legitimately believe that his secondary personality, "Scarface", whom he associates with the ventriloquist puppet he's always carrying around, is both the "man in charge" and an entirely separate individual. In layman's terms: he really, truly thinks that the '''puppet''' is the one giving orders.
* Downplayed with Basil Karlo, the 1st and most famous Clayface, who is sometimes portrayed as having a tendency to commit crimes themed or otherwise based around movies, especially his own movies.
* Cornelius Stirk is a downplayed example; his motif revolves exclusively around murdering victims by terrorizing them to death, then eating their hearts, as he suffers from the delusion that he must do so in order to survive.
* Similarly to Cornelius Stirk, Victor Zsasz is a murderous nihilist who kills people and cuts tallymarks into his skin with an obsessive-compulsive enthusiasm.
* Firefly always, ''always'' commits crimes of arson. Not just because he's an arsonist for hire, but because he's also a pyromaniac who gets off on burning things.
* Humpty Dumpty is an unusual overlap of this and TragicVillain: he always commits acts of deadly sabotage... in the name of fixing things that inconvenienced him, and so he reasoned they were "broken". He didn't want to hurt anybody, he just... did a terrible job at fixing things. Even when he murdered his abusive grandmother and badly sewed her corpse back together, he did so because he's too mentally deficient to really understand he was doing something wrong.
* Lock-Up is a psychotic would-be vigilant driven to crime to punish lawbreakers he felt the government was too soft on; his crimes therefore are always done against other criminals, and revolve around capturing, imprisoning, torturing, and sometimes even killing those he feels are guilty.
* Doodlebug is a MadArtist who murders people to use their blood to scrawl repulsive artistic murals... which are actually arcane sigils and glyphs stemming from his knowledge of BlackMagic.
* Jane Doe is what happens when you cross this trope with an identity thief. She's so obsessed with living a better life that she targets individuals at random, memorizes as much information about them as she can, learns to mimic their voice, then ''[[FlayingAlive murders them and skins their corpse to wear as a costume]]'' so she can perfectly imitate them. Inevitably, she gets bored with the problems of her latest victim's life. So she goes hunting for another life to steal...
* While most of Batman's opponents who suffer from this trope debuted in the Golden and Silver Ages, the Absence, aka Una Nemo, is an example who debuted in ''2011''! She's obsessed with leaving holes in things, and in stealing precious items, since she was driven mad by a combination of nobody caring about her absence and her surviving a [[ArtMajorBiology comic-style]] case of Dandy Walker Syndrome, leaving her with ''[[FacialHorror a softball-sized hole straight through her head]]''.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Evidently hounded by her own name Tigra Tropica finds a way to use tigers in all of her crimes, no matter how much they make her schemes far more complicated and convoluted.
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* The ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' featured several supervillains who were this: The Conundrum has to leave puzzles as clues; The Great White Hunter, who hunts superheroes for sport; and The Widdershins Man, who only commits crimes based on opposite concepts are only three examples.
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* Also invoked in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Sheldon is obsessive-compulsive, neurotic, mysophobic and other many disorders that can be easily classify as monomania, prompting Leonard to say in one episode:
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* Given how the world of ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'' is borderline lawless there's not much in the way of crime to commit, but the Corwids are typically utterly fixated on performing a single task [[BlueAndOrangeMorality to the exclusion of outside morality]] or even their own physical well-being, and sometimes that single task involves them hurting or killing other people.
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* Given how The Corwid of the world of Free from ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'' is borderline lawless there's not much in the way of crime to commit, but the Corwids are typically utterly fixated a bunch of insane forest-dwellers who each have a singular obsession that they fixate on performing a single task [[BlueAndOrangeMorality to the exclusion of outside morality]] all else, regardless of whether or even their own physical well-being, and sometimes that single task involves them hurting not it hurts themselves or killing other people.people. For example, one guy wants to be invisible, and accomplishes this by reasoning that being invisible means people can't see you, [[EyeScream and people need eyes in order to see]]. Another guy just straight up [[ImAHumanitarian wants to eat people]]. The only thing that stops them from fulfilling the "criminal" aspect of this trope is that there's probably no such thing as "crime" in a lawless place like Zenozoik.
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* Early versions of the Penguin were obsessed with committing umbrella-based or bird-based crimes, though these days he's usually just a portly sociopath with a high opinion of himself.
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** [[FreakLabAccident Dr. Two-Brains]], who will only ever attempt to steal cheese.
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** [[FreakLabAccident Dr. Two-Brains]], who will only ever attempt to steal cheese. On the rare occasion that he actually steals something valuable, it's only because he plans on turning it ''into'' cheese with his TransformationRay. When his henchmen request that they have their cut of the loot ''before'' he turns it into cheese, he berates them for their lack of commitment to the whole cheese gimmick.
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* Most of the villains on ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' fit into this. There's Quackerjack, who uses toys, and the cinematically-inclined Tuskernini, who "directs" his crimes as if he were a movie director, and Ammonia Pine, whose crimes invariably involve cleaning things up, and Splatter Phoenix, fixated on paintbrush artistry.
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* Most of the villains on ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' fit into this. There's Quackerjack, who uses toys, and the cinematically-inclined Tuskernini, who "directs" his crimes as if he were a movie director, and Ammonia Pine, whose crimes invariably involve cleaning things up, and Splatter Phoenix, fixated on paintbrush artistry.
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* Some of the villains made up for the 1966 ''{{Series/Batman}}'' TV series make Batman's comic book rogues gallery seem calm and subdued by comparison:
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the Guild of Gamblers has risen up the wealth and prestige ladder and can now afford to employ its own in-house enforcers, the Dealers and Croupiers. Used as debt collectors who will call round to politely explain that a person of honour and decency does not try to evade or wriggle out of a gambling debt, sometimes they are used to perform more ''emphatic'' tasks to explain to somebody that the Guild is concerned about their behaviour. Given the unique ethos of Ankh-Morpork and to spare the City Watch an un-necessary investigation, they leave a single Caroc card next to the body so as to signal to the Watch this is a Guild matter. From the point of view of Sam Vimes, discovering the Ten of Swords next to the body means he can then call the matter a case of Attempted or Actual Suicide, and close the case. [[note]]In the real-world Tarot, the truism is that the Death card very rarely means actual death. This begs the question of which card ''does'' mean Death or at the least serious bodily injury. The Ten of Swords shows a body floating face-down in a river with ten daggers sticking out of its back. This means, broadly, "you have annoyed people and they ''really'' do not like you."[[/note]]
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the Guild of Gamblers has risen up the wealth and prestige ladder and can now afford to employ its own in-house enforcers, the Dealers and Croupiers. Used as debt collectors who will call round to politely explain that a person of honour and decency does not try to evade or wriggle out of a gambling debt, sometimes they are used to perform more ''emphatic'' tasks to explain to somebody that the Guild is concerned about their behaviour. Given the unique ethos of Ankh-Morpork and to spare the City Watch an un-necessary investigation, they leave a single Caroc card next to the body so as to signal to the Watch this is a Guild matter. From the point of view of Sam Vimes, discovering the Ten of Swords next to the body means he can then call the matter a case of Attempted or Actual Suicide, and close the case. [[note]]In the real-world Tarot, the truism is that the Death card very rarely means actual death. This begs the question of which card ''does'' mean Death or at the least serious bodily injury. The Ten of Swords shows a body floating face-down in a river with ten daggers sticking out of its back. This means, broadly, "you have annoyed people and they ''really'' do not like you."[[/note]]
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* Joe Coyne (pictured above) was a failure as a criminal. Not only was he regularly caught by the police ("coppers"), his crimes only netted him pennies. Thus, to get back at "coppers and pennies," he launched a career as the Penny Plunderer. A career that Batman ended on his very first outing, but Joe's theme outlived him; he (not, as is often assumed, Two-Face) provided the giant penny that [[SuperheroTrophyShelf became a fixture of the Batcave]].
* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} version of the Mad Hatter--the one with the red handlebar mustache - centered all his crimes around hats and other headgear. Everything he does is also themed around ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} version of the Mad Hatter--the one with the red handlebar mustache - centered all his crimes around hats and other headgear. Everything he does is also themed around ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
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* Joe Coyne (pictured above) was a failure as a criminal. Not only was he regularly caught by the police ("coppers"), his crimes only netted him pennies. Thus, to get back at "coppers and pennies," he launched a career as the Penny Plunderer. A It was a very short career that which Batman ended on his very first outing, but Joe's theme outlived him; he (not, as is often assumed, Two-Face) provided the giant penny that [[SuperheroTrophyShelf became a fixture of the Batcave]].
* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} version of the MadHatter--the Hatter - the one with the red handlebar mustache - centered all his crimes around hats and other headgear. Everything he does is also themed around ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} version of the Mad
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* Invoked but also subverted in the original ''Film/HomeAlone'' movie. Every time Marv and Harry rob a house, Marv plugs a sink and leaves the water running so it floods, because he says that they need to have a sort of gimmicky calling card; he wants them to be known as the Wet Bandits. Subverted because Marv's not really crazy so much as he is just an idiot, and when Kevin's efforts lead to them being caught by the police, the officer even mentions that it's because of what Marv did that they'll be able to trace all their criminal activity.
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-->It's not like Batman, where there's three crooks in the city and everybody pretty much knows, who they are. Very few crooks even go to the trouble to come up with a theme for their careers anymore. It makes them a lot tougher to spot. "Did Did you lose a sony? It could be the Penguin...Penguin... I think we can round him up, he's dressed like a PENGUIN! We can find him, he's a PENGUIN!
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** [[BuffySpeak Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy]], who uses a condiment gun (also parodied in that he, tired with the same old routine, tried to become the "Handsome Panther").
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* Erika from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' is ''obsessed'' with [[SchoolIdol Kaguya]], and her spin-off series shows that just about everything she does is motivated by her desire to be just like Kaguya or get closer to her. One prime example would be when she studied really hard for the end of semester exams specifically so she could get third place and have her name listed right after Kaguya's on the score list.
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* All that ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' gives a damn about is killing goblins. All goblins must be wiped out with extreme prejudice. All goblin stragglers must be purged. All nests must be burned to the ground, flooded, gassed, whatever will get the job done. Even the slightest hint of goblins must be investigated. If a request isn't about killing goblins, it isn't worth even a glance. Goblins today, goblins tomorrow, goblins 24/7.
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* Rare heroic example: All that ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' gives a damn about is killing goblins. All goblins must be wiped out with extreme prejudice. All goblin stragglers must be purged. All nests must be burned to the ground, flooded, gassed, whatever will get the job done. Even the slightest hint of goblins must be investigated. If a request isn't about killing goblins, it isn't worth even a glance. Goblins today, goblins tomorrow, goblins 24/7.
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* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Android 16 is obsessed with exactly two things: birds, and killing Son Goku, with the latter coming up during and after his HeelFaceTurn. It's hardwired into his programming.
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* ''Manga/MaouJouDeOyasumi'': Everything the Princess does is in the name of getting a good night's sleep. Escaping? Getting rescued? Making friends? She couldn't care less. She just wants a nice comfy sleep.
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* ''Manga/MaouJouDeOyasumi'': ''Manga/SleepyPrincessInTheDemonCastle'': Everything the Princess does is in the name of getting a good night's sleep. Escaping? Getting rescued? Making friends? She couldn't care less. She just wants a nice comfy sleep.
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* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} version of the Mad Hatter--the one with the red handlebar mustache - centered all his crimes around hats and other headgear.
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** In other instances, Calendar Man is relatively sane and calm for most of the year...except on holidays, when he always commits some horrific themed crime (such as cutting a woman's brake line on April Fool's Day as a "prank" or attempting to blow up a maternity ward on ''Labor'' Day).
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* Given how the world of ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'' is borderline lawless there's not much in the way of crime to commit, but the Corwids are typically utterly fixated on performing a single task, and sometimes that single task involves them hurting or killing other people.
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* Given how the world of ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'' is borderline lawless there's not much in the way of crime to commit, but the Corwids are typically utterly fixated on performing a single task, task [[BlueAndOrangeMorality to the exclusion of outside morality]] or even their own physical well-being, and sometimes that single task involves them hurting or killing other people.
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* Given how the world of ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'' is borderline lawless there's not much in the way of crime to commit, but the Corwids are typically utterly fixated on performing a single task, and sometimes that single task involves them hurting or killing other people.
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* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} version of the Mad Hatter - the one with the red handlebar mustache - centered all his crimes around hats and other headgear.
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* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} version of the Mad Hatter - the Hatter--the one with the red handlebar mustache - centered all his crimes around hats and other headgear.
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* It's DependingOnTheWriter, but ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} has a tenancy to go after anything that has to do with cats.
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* It's DependingOnTheWriter, but ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} has a tenancy tendency to go after anything that has to do with cats.
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* Maxie Zeus is a gang leader who believes himself to be the reincarnation of the Greek god Zeus. [[WrongGenreSavvy He is not.]] It's almost laugable given that the Greek Gods' existence is an established fact within the DC universe, what with [[Franchise/WonderWoman a well-known superheroine]] tracing her origin back to [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]]. The key word being ''almost'', as he's very intelligent and resourceful despite his delusions.
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* Maxie Zeus is a gang leader who believes himself to be the reincarnation of the Greek god Zeus. [[WrongGenreSavvy He is not.]] It's almost laugable laughable given that the Greek Gods' existence is an established fact within the DC universe, what with [[Franchise/WonderWoman a well-known superheroine]] tracing her origin back to [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]]. The key word being ''almost'', as he's very intelligent and resourceful despite his delusions.
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** [[MindControlDevice Mr. Big]], who extensively uses mind control in his schemes.
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* Serial killers in real life often have a distinctive modus operandi that allows criminal investigators to identify them, some of them even leave clues behind to taint the authorities.
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* Serial killers in real life often have a distinctive modus operandi that allows criminal investigators to identify them, some of them even leave clues behind to taint taunt the authorities.
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* Also invoked in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Sheldon is obsessive-compulsive, neurotic, mysophobic and other many disorders that can be easily classify as monomania, prompting Leonard to say in one episode:
-->The guy's one lab accident away from being a super villain.
-->The guy's one lab accident away from being a super villain.
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* Serial killers in real life often have a distinctive modus operandi that allow criminal investigators to identify them, some of them even leave clues behind to taint the authorities.
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* Serial killers in real life often have a distinctive modus operandi that allow allows criminal investigators to identify them, some of them even leave clues behind to taint the authorities.
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* Spoofed by Creator/JerrySeinfeld in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s episode "The Robbery":
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* Spoofed [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Creator/JerrySeinfeld in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s episode "The Robbery":
