History Main / NeutralEvil

* [[AffablyEvil Alastor]] from ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' is a shrewd, dodgy Dealmaker. Though for the most part, he acts polite, classy and reassuring, the looming feeling of distrust still surrounds him. It's made very apparent he's a very deadly force to reckon with, yet him claiming to aid someone out of "boredom" seems too good to be true. Overall, whatever Alastor's true intentions are? Remain a very closely guarded secret.

* Most of the more amoral {{Professional Killer}}s who are OnlyInItForTheMoney: Hitmen, most more sinister mercenaries, and most evil {{Bounty Hunter}}s.

* Pigma Dengar in ''VideoGame/StarFox'' is motivated primarily by greed in every action he takes.

While they are usually villains, they can also switch to the good guy's side for a while, if it's better for them at the moment. True {{Magnificent Bastard}}s of the Neutral Evil persuasion can sometimes [[GambitRoulette (with a little luck)]] lure other villains into an EnemyCivilWar, usually along the lines of OrderVersusChaos -- playing LawfulEvil against ChaoticEvil -- and cleaning up at both sides' expense.

** Rusty Venture is an utterly amoral scientist who has no standards for his creation, as shown by his using an orphan's heart to power one of his inventions (To be fair, the orphan was probably already dead. Well, except for the fact that his heart was still beating), and shows little to no care for his sons, though the fact that he had [[ReplacementGoldfish a bunch of clones of them for backup]] may be part of this), and is generally recognized as a {{Jerkass}} by most everyone who knows him (Brock Samson himself considers Venture partly a VillainProtagonist, even if [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain he's not exactly terrifying.]]).
** The [[MothMenace Mighty Monarch]] is the most recurring and stubborn ArchEnemy to Dr. Venture. Unlike most members of the [[LegionOfDoom Guild of Calamitous Intent]] that are LawfulEvil [[PunchClockVillain Punch-Clock Villains]] devoted to a set of strict rules and guidelines [[TheFettered that keeps them in check]], The Monarch is completely obsessed with his hatred of Dr. Venture, for [[ItsPersonal very personal reasons never really explained or defined]]. When he is separated from Dr. Venture through villain-hero level ranking and Dr. Venture is given another Guild-sanctioned "Arch", he does whatever it takes to takes to haunt his nemesis, from abusng "prior escalation" standards in order to arch "guild sanctioned relatives", to annihilating every ScienceHero he is assigned to with ease. It goes so far as [[spoiler: killing other villains and fellow Guild members under the guise of the Blue Morpho is a MurderTheHypotenuse gambit]]. The Monarch is solely defined by his personal hatred towards Rusty Venture.
** Ironically, Dr. Venture himself sometimes falls under this list, especially in the first few seasons before he TookALevelInKindness. Building a machine PoweredByAForsakenChild (He "didn't use the whole thing"), cloning a kid that was killed by a gorilla at his day camp just to avoid consequences, and [[spoiler: seducing an underage Nikki Fictel(while he didn't know she was underage it was still a rotten thing to do)]] are just some of the things he has done. However, as the seasons continued, he made an effort to improve himself.

%%** Phantom Limb seems to fit this alignment as well. It's pretty common in the show's CrapsackWorld.

* Arcturus Mengsk from ''VideoGame/StarCraft''. Throughout the series he has displayed both lawful and chaotic tendencies, but they are always incidental for his own personal gain and anything goes as long as it suits him. He used to be a terrorist using [[HeWhoFightsMonsters increasingly extreme methods]] to fight the corrupt and oppressive Terran Confederacy. After the Confederacy’s fall he formed and established himself as TheEmperor of the equally oppressive Terran Dominion, once again using increasingly extreme methods to crush any opposition to his rule. His intentions may seem sound, but deep inside he is just a narcissistic bastard. To quote the man himself:

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'''s PeopleInRubberSuits rarely (if ever) fall anywhere outside of Neutral Evil. As far as they're concerned, greed and revenge are the building blocks of their ambition, and as far as the series is concerned, AmbitionIsEvil. Should one of the monsters turn out to be RealAfterAll (such as in ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo''), they'll probably end up being outright ChaoticEvil.
* Starscream from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' in all his forms. He's not the {{Trope Namer|s}} for TheStarscream for nothing. Ironically, whenever ''[[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 G1]]'' or ''[[Anime/TransformersArmada Armada]]'' Starscream did honestly bring up some issue of honor or rules, LawfulEvil Megatron berated him for even daring to respect Cybertron law.
-->'''Starscream:''' I was '''only''' raising a ''legal point''.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'': "Ancient Spirits of Evil..."
%%* ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'': Skeletor probably fits in here as well.
* Emperor Zurg from ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' would be a classic example. Compared to his LawfulGood arch-nemesis Buzz Lightyear, Zurg revels in evilness and has a comedic mean streak that is best to be respected. His acting as foil to Buzz is mainly due to his sarcastic cruelty clashing with the heroes' serious nature.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'', [[Characters/TheDragonPrinceViren Lord Viren]] started out as the wise and loyal advizor of King Harrow, at first he seemed like a pragmatic leader that knew what was necessary for the good of the kingdom but as the series progresses, it is revealed that Viren's actions made things worse as he doesn't care about the morality and long term consequences as he consider collateral damage as acceptable loses. After Harrow pointed out is his fault everything got worse, Viren stopped caring about serving the king so he decided to betray him and overthrow him to prove that he is the smartest and strongest man in the kingdom and the only one capable of saving humanity from Xadia, although this is just an excuse to not admit he only cares about boosting his ego. Viren falls into this category for being someone who would cross every line to get what he wants with lies, blackmails, extortion, threats, betrayals and assassinations, especially using emotional manipulation and bending the law to his convenience, then breaking the rules behind everyone's back if persuasion doesn't work. Among other morally questionable things he did in his quest to "save humanity" are encouraging poaching rare and endangered animals and creatures for dark magic, convincing Harrow to kill dragon king Avizandum for revenge and kill unborn dragon prince Zym to make sure he wouldn't get revenge on Katolis when grows up, imprisoning elves into coins, ordering his children to kill the princes and get Zym at any cost including letting his son Soren die for it, locking Gren in his dungeon, stealing the royal seal to summon the kings into meeting, lying to the kings of being the regent and convince them to start a war with Xadia with lies and rumors, making smoke elves to assassinate the kings, make a coup in the kingdom, blackmail king Ezran to abdicate and send him to the dungeon, making an alliance with archmage Aaravos, destroying Lux aurea and stealing their power source, turning his army into mindless sunfire zombies against their will, attacking the storm spire, try to kill Ezran even when he lost the war, try to harvest Zym and then kill whoever he wants after absorbing his power.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' has several villains that qualify, as most of them are out for personal gain:
** Fuzzy Lumpkins has serious anger issues and will do whatever he can to deal with it, even if it means destroying a city or running for mayor.
** Princess Morbucks is determine to be a Powerpuff Girls and has no qualms with harming them or helping out with other villains to accomplish that goal.
** The Smiths try to be an average family, but over time prove to be selfish after the girls ruined their dinner and threw Harold into prison for a week after he tried to melt the professor's head with a hair dryer. They trash their house in hopes of making them move and then try to run them over with a car after that plan failed.
** Femme Fatale is out to rob banks, seemingly to fight for women's rights. But it turns out that she is just doing it just so that she can get away with her crimes.
** Lenny Baxter is a comic-obsessed nerd who would do anything to collect anything that was Powerpuff Girl-related, even if it meant stealing their belongs and later kidnapping.
** Sedusa tries to seduce the professor to her side in order to take over his family and make the Powerpuff Girls do what she wants them to do.
** "Knock It Off" has Dick Hardly, as he's willing to create his set of knock-off Powerpuff Girls, sell copies of them in order to make money, and kill anyone that tries to stop him.
* Selfish Eric Raymond from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' fits in this slot better then Lawful Evil. At one point he outright admitted to [[spoiler:embezzling money from Starlight Records to personally fund The Misfits]].
%%* Thailog, the EvilTwin of Goliath from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''.
%%* Alejandro from ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]''.
%%** Heather from ''Total Drama Island'', Justin from ''Total Drama Action'', and Lightning late in ''Revenge of the Island'' also qualify.
%%** Blainley is another example in ''World Tour''.
* Rusty Venture of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', an utterly amoral scientist who has no standards for his creation, as shown by his using an orphan's heart to power one of his inventions (To be fair, the orphan was probably already dead. Well, except for the fact that his heart was still beating), and shows little to no care for his sons, though the fact that he had [[ReplacementGoldfish a bunch of clones of them for backup]] may be part of this), and is generally recognized as a {{Jerkass}} by most everyone who knows him (Brock Samson himself considers Venture partly a VillainProtagonist, even if [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain he's not exactly terrifying.]]).
%%** Phantom Limb seems to fit this alignment as well. It's pretty common in the show's CrapsackWorld.
* Shego from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. Granted, at times the writers have trouble deciding if she's Lawful Evil (she has no interest in taking over the world) or Chaotic Evil (but she doesn't want to destroy it either), but most of the time she's evil [[CardCarryingVillain for her own enjoyment]].

* Slade and Blackfire from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' both count. The former cares primarily about power, but there's enough pure cruelty in his motivation to shift him here from LawfulEvil, while the latter seems to live her life as one giant act of pure selfishness (which is all the more evil in contrast to [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the rest of her species]]).
* Sideshow Bob and Fat Tony from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' qualify for this alignment pretty well, both being ultimately in it for themselves and working within or outside the law when it fits them. [[ReformedButRejected Both have ''tried'' redeeming themselves at various points, but gotten rejected at every attempt]]. Bob varies between outright criminal and leader (he was in charge of a dam-building project and the mayor of a small town in Italy). Fat Tony is a crime lord who is just as often seen cooperating with the police ([[PoliceAreUseless who are too dumb to see through him]]) as well as evading them.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':
** [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsMrKrabs Mr. Krabs]] [[{{Flanderization}} developed into this]], as he has no qualms breaking the law to make a quick buck.
** [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsSheldonPlankton Sheldon Plankton]] is another example. He'll work within or outside the law if it suits his goals; while he does have ambitions to TakeOverTheWorld, the main thing that he cares about is his [[GreenEyedMonster envy]]-driven grudge with Mr. Krabs.

%%* BigBad Phobos (he likes to ''pretend'' he's LawfulEvil but really gives no shits for his subjects at all) and TheDragon Cedric from ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}''
* The (Utrom) Shredder from ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003''. Being both a respected philanthropist and a ruthless crime lord, in the end it means nothing to him. All that matters is power and absolute immortality.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' has A Pimp Named Slickback.

* Hobgoblin from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''. He's a cackling hitman played by Creator/MarkHamill doing his Joker voice, but, unlike Mr. J, he's motivated entirely by self-interest. He wants all the money and power he can get his hands on, and he'll do anything (that could get past the Fox Kids censors) for it.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': Malory Archer is a good example. While she shows some distaste for authority that leans her towards ChaoticEvil, she mostly just sides with whoever she thinks she can control with no regard for morality. The only person aside from herself whose well-being she shows a ''little'' concern for is Archer, but even then her standards only rise so high as to try to avoid getting him killed.

* Lil' Gideon, the phony psychic and child psychopath from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', certainly falls under this alignment. He is so power-crazed he ultimately [[NiceJobFixingItVillain undoes his own plans]] by going after the protagonists in a HumongousMecha in the mistaken belief that they have a book of hidden knowledge he desires, even though he had already driven them out of town and they were no longer a threat to him.
* Oddly, the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil whole Celestialsapien species]] from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' is this or the Selfish Neutral alignment, especially as of "Universe vs Tennyson". While in previous episodes, you could argue them to be of the TrueNeutral alignment, this one shows them [[{{Hypocrite}} accusing Ben of a crime they regularly commit]] ([[RealityWarper changing]] [[CosmicRetcon the universe]]), and get off scot-free. This, along with some of their previous members' behavior, like Bellicus and Serena arguing about saving the universe or not and later recreating it like it was something meaningless, a mother Celestiasapien being undecided to even try to save her own child, makes them a pretty scary example of the uncaring aspect of Neutral Evil, and a disturbing example of a more realistic (although possibly unintentional) approach on the AlwaysChaoticEvil trope.
* Wuya from ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' is this compared to villain-wannabe Jack Spicer, whose power is at times laughable. Wuya is malevolent and snide, unleashing evil in an appropriate way that befits her legend very well.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** Zapp Brannigan is a military commander who uses his position mainly as a means to stroke his own ego and get revenge on random groups he has a vendetta with. He sees no problem with destroying an inhabited planet or sending his men on suicide missions to preserve his own VillainWithGoodPublicity status.
** Lrr, RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8, is usually shown as a tyrant willing to commit mass murder whenever it suits his objectives. The typical Earthican response to his attacks is to give him whatever he wants, since there's nothing the Earthican army can really do to fight him. However, this may be more BlueAndOrangeMorality, as he shows occasional acts of mercy and compassion seemingly at random.
* The [[MothMenace Mighty Monarch]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' is the most recurring and stubborn ArchEnemy to Dr. Venture. Unlike most members of the [[LegionOfDoom Guild of Calamitous Intent]] that are LawfulEvil PunchClockVillains devoted to a set of strict rules and guidelines [[TheFettered that keeps them in check]], The Monarch is completely obsessed with his hatred of Dr. Venture, for [[ItsPersonal very personal reasons never really explained or defined]]. When he is separated from Dr. Venture through villain-hero level ranking and Dr. Venture is given another Guild-sanctioned "Arch", he does whatever it takes to takes to haunt his nemesis, from abusng "prior escalation" standards in order to arch "guild sanctioned relatives", to annihilating every ScienceHero he is assigned to with ease. It goes so far as [[spoiler: killing other villains and fellow Guild members under the guise of the Blue Morpho is a MurderTheHypotenuse gambit]]. The Monarch is solely defined by his personal hatred towards Rusty Venture.
** Ironically, Dr. Venture himself sometimes falls under this list, especially in the first few seasons before he TookALevelInKindness. Building a machine PoweredByAForsakenChild (He "didn't use the whole thing"), cloning a kid that was killed by a gorilla at his day camp just to avoid consequences, and [[spoiler: seducing an underage Nikki Fictel(while he didn't know she was underage it was still a rotten thing to do)]] are just some of the things he has done. However, as the seasons continued, he made an effort to improve himself.
--->'''Rusty:''' "Brock, am I... a bad person? Am I, Brock!?"\\
'''Brock:''' "Ehhh..." ''[makes a "kind-of" hand gesture]''
** Every awful attribute of Rusty Venture is amplified with his dad, Jonas Venture Sr. Despite [[VillainWithGoodPublicity being adored by everyone]] and being [[TheAce a brilliant scientist and charismatic celebrity]], he is a selfish, vile sociopath who abused his son by forcing him to go on traumatic adventures, committed horrible experiments ForScience, tempted his friend into infidelity and then blackmailing said friend with the evidence, and [[spoiler: turning his former best friend into a cyborg slave ([[BlueAndOrangeMorality he genuinely thought he did a good thing]])]] doesn't even begin to cover it.
* The [[VillainProtagonist main character]] of ''[[WesternAnimation/VillainousCartoonNetwork Villainous]]'', Black Hat, is a perfect combination of selfishness, greed, and deliberate malice. His whole shtick is to avert CutLexLuthorACheck, selling goods and services to help other villains commit horrendous actions and destruction. He never tries to hide his depravity, instead [[CardCarryingVillain proudly boasting about how vile he is]] and [[BadBoss abusing his underlings]]. He doesn't seem to really care for any legal authority, openly selling illegal weapons and other products frowned upon by international law. He also does not engage directly in any publicly destructive actions. In the end, all that matters in income and the spread of malignance. Finally he acts a master and balance to both the [[LawfulEvil sophisticated and submissive Dr. Flug]] and the [[ChaoticEVil volatile and psychotic Dimencia]], as well as [[TokenGoodTeammate 5.0.5.]] According to WordOfGod, he is retired, and left his life as a Galactic Conqueror who enslaved countless worlds so that he can sell his talents and resources to aspiring villains. While his business does help out other villains, [[FauxAffablyEvil there is little to no real goodwill]], as Black Hat is open to [[YourSoulIsMine many ways of payment]].

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': [[Characters/FamilyGuyGlennQuagmire Glenn Quagmire]] started out as more of a TrueNeutral pervert before getting {{flanderiz|ation}}ed into a [[BlackComedyRape date rapist]] motivated entirely by his own hyperactive libido.

** [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Goblins]] in the 1st and 2nd editions of the game were LawfulEvil and said in manuals to have a strict pecking order in their culture, but most of the time they were just played as screaming hordes. In 3rd edition, they were changed to Neutral Evil (though individual goblins can be any alignment, naturally).

** The first game has [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Chairman Drek]], who leads his race, the Blarg, in [[PlanetLooters destorying planets]] in otder to create a new homeworld after the old one was polluted. However, [[spoiler: [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist it turns out that he was behind the pollution of his own planet, and plans to continue polluting his people's planets in order to receive the funds to continue destroying other planets to build a new one.]] Basically, it's one massive real-estate scam]].

* The [[VillainProtagonist main character]] of ''[[WesternAnimation/VillainousCartoonNetwork Villainous]]'', Black Hat, is a perfect combination of selfishness, greed, and deliberate malice. His whole shtick is to avert CutLexLuthorACheck, selling goods and services to help other villains commit horrendous actions and destruction. He never tries to hide his depravity, instead [[CardCarryingVillain proudly boasting about how vile he is]] and [[BadBoss abusing his underlings]]. He doesn't seem to really care for any legal authority, openly selling illegal weapons and other products frowned upon by international law. He also does not engage directly in any publicly destructive actions. In the end, all that matters in income and the spread of malignance. Finally he acts a master and balance to both the [[LawfulEvil sophisticated and submissive Dr. Flug]] and the [[ChaoticEVil volatile and psychotic Dimencia]], as well as [[TokenGoodTeammate 5.0.5.]] According to WordofGod, he is retired, and left his life as a Galactic Conqueror who enslaved countless worlds so that he can sell his talents and resources to aspiring villains. While his business does help out other villains, [[FauxAffablyEvil there is little to no real goodwill]], as Black Hat is open to [[YourSoulIsMine many ways of payment]].

* ''Film/BulletInTheHead'': Paul decides that gold is the only thing that matters, betraying anybody he feels like including his own BloodBrothers to get more cash.

* The [[MothMenace Mighty Monarch]] from ''[[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros]]'' is the most recurring and stubborn ArchEnemy to Dr. Venture. Unlike most members of the [[LegionOfDoom Guild of Calamitous Intent]] that are LawfulEvil PunchClockVillains devoted to a set of strict rules and guidelines [[TheFettered that keeps them in check]], The Monarch is completely obsessed with his hatred of Dr. Venture, for [[ItsPersonal very personal reasons never really explained or defined]]. When he is separated from Dr. Venture through villain-hero level ranking and Dr. Venture is given another Guild-sanctioned "Arch", he does whatever it takes to takes to haunt his nemesis, from abusng "prior escalation" standards in order to arch "guild sanctioned relatives", to annihilating every ScienceHero he is assigned to with ease. It goes so far as [[spoiler: killing other villains and fellow Guild members under the guise of the Blue Morpho is a MurderTheHypotenuse gambit]]. The Monarch is solely defined by his personal hatred towards Rusty Venture.

* Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}} in his first appearances before becoming a ChaoticNeutral SociopathicHero. In ComicBook/UltimateMarvel, Deadpool goes from just plain screwy to a racist, murderous scumbag who hunts mutants on television for sport.
* Bluebeard and Goldilocks from ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}''. Bluebeard lives comfortably in Fabletown and appears to be a legitimate citizen, but in secret, he hoards magic objects, blackmails his fellow Fables, and forces the leaders of the city to bow and scrape for his annual donations, up until [[spoiler:Prince Charming kills him]]. Goldilocks presents herself as an [[ChaoticGood idealistic revolutionary]], but is really only concerned with gaining power as governments topple and people die around her.
* Characters/KangTheConqueror, while a builder of empires and a commander of armies, has shown to care little for their management and is obsessed with conquest, fighting, and warfare more out of a desire for the thrill it brings than any value he may place on them. Once he obtains something, he tends to lose interest in it, and battles ComicBook/TheAvengers for the challenge rather than hatred. His [[TheDragon dragon]] Baltag was LawfulEvil and turned on Kang when he made an exception to their code of honor in sparing a princess's life who had defied them in the past when Kang was in love with her. It has been shown that Kang will learn the value of statesmanship, proper management, and negotiation which will make him lean to more Lawful alignments, eventually becoming the Lawful Neutral Immortus.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]], one of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse's {{Magnificent Bastard}}s, has no compunctions about ordering murder, kidnapping, or arson against anyone who tries to stand up to him, and is quite content to enrich himself off the victims of his criminal empire, but he'll also exploit whatever legal loopholes he can to make sure the long arm of the law can't catch him.
* [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] is probably the only person in Franchise/TheDCU who can equal--or surpass--[[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Bruce Wayne's]] billions. Unlike Bruce, he's more of the AffablyEvil CorruptCorporateExecutive type. He's also a very busy guy; when he's not [[BullyingADragon fighting Superman]][[note]]Lex truly believes that Superman is ultimately [[NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech more dangerous]] than any of his opponents, and that he (Lex) is [[WellIntentionedExtremist defending humanity]].[[/note]], you can usually find him testing a new PoweredArmor, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney buying his way]] to the [[PresidentEvil Presidency]], or [[CutLexLuthorACheck making more money]]. Either that or stealing cakes; you can never tell. Generally falls into a combination of Type 1 and Type 3, and is a true MagnificentBastard.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]] from both Marvel and DC Comics (though mostly Marvel). Lying, deceitful, manipulative, cares less about power and glory than about making [[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor]] and the other [[Myth/NorseMythology Aesir]] miserable, and will engage in convoluted plans to make this possible.

* Wallenquist in ''ComicBook/SinCity'' is a simple businessman that never takes anything personal... he just so happens to be TheDon. The Roarks and Colonel almost fit this trope, but they have varying degrees of ForTheEvulz, resulting in them being a bit "purer" in their evilness.

* Terra (Tara Markov) from ''The New ComicBook/TeenTitans'' is very much this during ComicBook/TheJudasContract storyline where it is revealed that she was a ruthless mercenary who worked for Deathstroke all along. However, her animated counterpart is [[ChaoticNeutral a lot different]].
* Mainstream [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]] is certainly evil, but has famously stood outside the boundaries of Chaos and Order. Thanos is a high-functioning Neutral Evil-methodical, calculating, but ultimately usually driven by whatever the hell he feels like doing at a given time, or a nigh-omnicidal ''romantic'' obsession with Death, and usually a StrawNihilist who doesn't believe in any moral or ethical authority, answers to nobody but himself, and is TheUnfettered in ''everything'' he pursues. He will just as easily make alliances with good characters as evil ones, but can occasionally be relied on to keep his words. Even if it is his ExactWords.
* After embracing his supervillain lineage, Wesley of ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'' does plenty of things ForTheEvulz, including rape, killing everyone who ever slighted him, and killing everyone in a police station just for kicks. However, he gets along much better with the relatively restrained, LawfulEvil members of the Fraternity than he does with Mr. Rictus, who has ForTheEvulz as his sole motivation in life. What's true of Wesley is also true of his father, the Killer, and his/his father's girlfriend, The Fox.
* Franchise/WonderWoman's archenemy Ares wants nothing other than endless war and he'll use any means to achieve it.
* Franchise/GreenLantern villain Larfleeze/Agent Orange, the keeper of the Orange Light of avarice, is practically the living embodiment of selfishness. He kills other ring-users and steals their identities, crafting Orange Lantern constructs in their image to be his slaves. His only motivation is to hold onto what he has and take ever more from others.
%%* Sangreco from ''ComicBook/MesmoDelivery''. It's implied that he may actually be a demon or an agent of the devil.
* The Anti-Monitor, Guardian of the [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps Sinestro Corps]]. He started off completely conquering his home universe and made a chosen people who worshiped him as a God-King with some structure of rank (the Shadows and the Thunderers) and privilege. While his goal is often stated to be the destruction of every positive matter universe, his actual goal has always been to rule an anti-matter universe with the power provided from the destruction of the other positive matter universes. The Anti-Monitor has never been shown to use deception and always does what he says he is going to, even if it is limited to "you will die" or "I won't kill you yet", and has even offered to generously reward the minions that serve him (Psycho-Pirate was offered control of a world, DeathSeeker Hank Henshaw was offered oblivion) if they will help him meet his goal. However, he is completely solipsistic and kills inhabited planets in his universe to gain more power.
* Black Manta wants three things: money, power and ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'s head on a stick. He really doesn't care what methods he has to use to get them.

* Doctor Eggman from the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' series will ally with anyone and anything to get his way. He will release an EldritchAbomination to crush Sonic one day, and form an EnemyMine with Sonic to stop said Abomination the next. He seeks to tear down a functioning order to replace it with his own, and while he is AffablyEvil, his standards really only rise so high as to prevent the world being destroyed so that he can rule it.

* As debatable as...''[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible everything]]'' is in ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'', one thing is for sure: by the end, Daniel Plainview is only looking out for Daniel Plainview.

** Bhaal, the God of murder and patron of assassins in the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' setting promotes killing people for the sake of killing, it doesn't matter what purpose or effects the murders have as long as they are hurting people. What prevents Bhaal from being ChaoticEvil is that he imposes order and hierarchy in his temples and he doesn't care about freedom.

* [[spoiler:General Shepherd]] from ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'' instigated a US-Russian war which could quite possibly lead to WorldWarIII, all in the name of [[WellIntentionedExtremist reawakening America's military might]] after it went very gun-shy when 30,000 Marines were nuked in the first game. He does have a ''slight'' justification; those 30,000 Marines were all commanded by him, leading him to cross the DespairEventHorizon when they got nuked.

* Jin Kisaragi in ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' after hearing about the Grim Reaper in Kagutsuchi switches from LawfulEvil to this, as he tried to not notice his allies that he left his post to do his own agenda. He fell ''hard'' to ChaoticEvil when he is confronted with either Noel or Ragna for... lots of personal reasons. These days, however, Jin has slowly moved away from his Neutral Evil self and at best, he can be called TrueNeutral, due to his lingering care for Tsubaki, but mitigated in that he's still a little 'off' on Ragna and still a {{Jerkass}} to Noel, although he dreamed of being NeutralGood or ChaoticGood due to his hero complex.

* Jimmy Hopkins from ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' is a VillainProtagonist with a criminal record and a very antisocial personality. Surviving in a terrible school like Bullworth Academy, Jimmy does a lot of mean and questionable stunts, just to gain the respect of the scum that dwells around the school. Eventually his evil oddly enough saves the establishment, well at least saving it from total annihilation.

** Fire Nation officers generally skirt between this and LawfulEvil, though it's hard to tell from their lack of definite characterisation. The Warden of the Boiling Rock ''may'' count, as he is perfectly willing to drown himself and escaping prisoners in boiling water just to ensure he maintains the prison's 'no one escaped under my watch' ratio, but nonetheless "pulled some strings" to release his niece Mai from prison -- due to lack of specific information though, he may simply be LawfulEvil or even simply Neutral.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'', Lord Viren started out as the wise and loyal advizor of King Harrow, at first he seemed like a pragmatic leader that knew what was necessary for the good of the kingdom but as the series progresses, it is revealed that Viren's actions made things worse as he doesn't care about the morality and long term consequences as he consider collateral damage as acceptable loses. After Harrow pointed out is his fault everything got worse, Viren stopped caring about serving the king so he decided to betray him and overthrow him to prove that he is the smartest and strongest man in the kingdom and the only one capable of saving humanity from Xadia, although this is just an excuse to not admit he only cares about boosting his ego. Viren falls into this category for being someone who would cross every line to get what he wants with lies, blackmails, extortion, threats, betrayals and assassinations, especially using emotional manipulation and bending the law to his convenience, then breaking the rules behind everyone's back if persuasion doesn't work. Among other morally questionable things he did in his quest to "save humanity" are encouraging poaching rare and endangered animals and creatures for dark magic, convincing Harrow to kill dragon king Avizandum for revenge and kill unborn dragon prince Zym to make sure he wouldn't get revenge on Katolis when grows up, imprisoning elves into coins, ordering his children to kill the princes and get Zym at any cost including letting his son Soren die for it, locking Gren in his dungeon, stealing the royal seal to summon the kings into meeting, lying to the kings of being the regent and convince them to start a war with Xadia with lies and rumors, making smoke elves to assassinate the kings, make a coup in the kingdom, blackmail king Ezran to abdicate and send him to the dungeon, making an alliance with archmage Aaravos, destroying Lux aurea and stealing their power source, turning his army into mindless sunfire zombies against their will, attacking the storm spire, try to kill Ezran even when he lost the war, try to harvest Zym and then kill whoever he wants after absorbing his power.

** Mr. Krabs [[{{Flanderization}} developed into this]], as he has no qualms breaking the law to make a quick buck.
** Plankton is another example. He'll work within or outside the law if it suits his goals; while he does have ambitions to TakeOverTheWorld, the main thing that he cares about is his [[GreenEyedMonster envy]]-driven grudge with Mr. Krabs.

** Lord Tirek is a classic example of this alignment. He is obsessed with increasing his personal power by any means he can devise, for no greater purpose beyond having power for power's sake. He is willing to use and manipulate anyone in order to do so, and afterwards betray them without a twinge of conscience when he ceases to have a use for them.
** On a somewhat larger-scale note, Queen Chrysalis seems to qualify as this as well -- all she cares about is taking over Equestria so her and her minions can [[EmotionEater feed off]] [[ThePowerOfLove their love]]. To that end, she was willing to be a complete, unprincipled ManipulativeBastard. Her primary altruistic quality, her dedication to keeping her subjects fed, turns out to be little more than a ruse when it's revealed that she was keeping them in a state of constant starvation in order to be able to better manipulate them into being her personal army.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Glenn Quagmire started out as more of a TrueNeutral pervert before getting {{flanderiz|ation}}ed into a [[BlackComedyRape date rapist]] motivated entirely by his own hyperactive libido.

* Yuri Orlov, the VillainProtagonist of ''Film/LordOfWar'', is an utterly amoral arms dealer willing to sell weapons to anyone if there's a buck in it for him, even if said weapons will immediately be used to slaughter innocent people in front of him..

* Jordan Belfort, as depicted in ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet.'' Belfort's a morally bankrupt white-collar criminal who doesn't even ''try'' to hide the fact that his [[TheHedonist hedonistically repugnant lifestyle]] is entirely funded by illegal business practices. He has absolutely no scruples and will do anything to get what he wants, be it from [[DomesticAbuse beating his wife when she attempts to divorce him,]] [[NoHonorAmongThieves shamelessly ratting out his minions for a lenient sentence,]] or [[BondVillainStupidity trying and failing to bribe the LawfulGood FBI agent investigating him.]] Multiple times in the film he has moments of realization that what he's doing is wrong, but [[IgnoredEpiphany the lesson never sticks,]] and he's all too happy to slide back into this alignment at the slightest possible provocation rather than climb out of it.

* ''Film/LordOfWar'': Yuri Orlov is an amoral, utterly selfish arms dealer willing to sell weapons to anybody if he can make a buck doing so, even if he knows they'll immediately be used to slaughter innocent people.

** Shang Tsung is driven by a selfish desire for power and eternal life via YourSoulIsMine. In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'', he joins forces with the ChaoticEvil Quan Chi to betray his master Shao Kahn, raise an army of undead warriors, and open a portal to the Heavens to give Tsung a steady supply of souls to feast on forever. In the end, both Tsung and Quan Chi betray each other so they don't have to share power. Throughout the series Tsung is portrayed as a ManipulativeBastard and DirtyCoward who will go to any lengths to survive and further his own ambitions without giving scant regard to anyone else, and Kahn only kept him (and everyone else) in line through sheer terror.

* '''Type 1: Neutral over Evil''' -- This type is [[WhatIsEvil amoral]] and commit evil for self-serving, but not necessarily malicious purposes. They use Evil means to achieve Neutral ends. Perhaps they are a PunchClockVillain, or maybe they believe there is BetterLivingThroughEvil. Essentially, this is anyone who would be TrueNeutral if not for the lack of conscience or [[LackOfEmpathy empathy]], or their practice of putting either aside to further their own ends. A predatory creature [[ItCanThink capable of sadistically enjoying the hunt]], but ultimately just following its drives to kill and eat, would be a good example.
* '''Type 2: Evil over Neutral''' -- This type is [[CardCarryingVillain immoral and deliberately evil]]. They use Neutral means to achieve Evil ends. These characters are devoted to the spread of Evil in and of itself- they may serve the resident [[GodOfEvil dark gods]] or follow a ReligionOfEvil, or perhaps they are simply {{Sadist}}s who enjoy hurting others. Though sometimes portrayed as cartoonishly evil, the most serious of this type make very dangerous villains, as they truly [[FortheEvulz do Evil for its own sake]], and not (just) evil for the sake of themselves.
* '''Type 3: Balance Seeker''' -- This type balances Neutral with Evil, usually manifesting as [[ItsAllAboutMe pure selfishness]]. They enjoy committing evil yet still seek to get away with their crimes and live a comfortable and profitable life. [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder They have little or no sense of loyalty]] and they often enjoy [[ConsummateLiar lies]] and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulation]], and tend to see the people in their lives as tools to be used and abused as needed. They seek status, money and power through any means, but can't resist [[KickTheDog petty acts of villainy]] if they can get away with it to [[ItAmusedMe amuse themselves]], or getting revenge on those who have crossed them as long as they can get away with it.