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* How has no one mentioned Isaac and Miria from ''Baccano'' ?! They stole the door to a museum once and people's watches...

-->'''Employee:''' Set up a companywide CoD4: Modern Warfare tournament each week?

*** Blackbeard in particular is famous for attacking a ship, stealing nothing but medicines for syphilis and other STDs, and leaving.

* And then there's the French terrorist organisation ''Le Front de Libération des Nains de Jardins''. They stole garden gnomes and left them in the forest. Their main claim to fame was to have "liberated" a Ronald [=McDonald=] once and really pissing off McDonald's in the process...

->'''Dr. Polaris:''' * Ahem*
->'''"[[TheFlash Luthor]]"''': ...What?
->'''Dr. Polaris''': You gonna wash your hands?
->'''"[[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain Luthor]]"''': No... 'Cuz I'm ''evil''.
--> -- ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited''

* [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/potatomattus2/lex.jpg When no one was looking]], [[[spoiler:[[{{Superman}} Lex Luthor]]]] took [[spoiler:forty cakes]]. He took [[spoiler:40 cakes]]. That's as many as [[spoiler:four tens]]. [[MemeticMutation And that's]] [[AndThatsTerrible terrible]].

* "Just some routine mischief..." PeterCook as George Spiggott, the Devil Incarnate in ''Bedazzled'', largely works by this trope, his evils consisting of petty acts of unpleasantness: scratching LPs, smashing crockery, ripping the last pages out of AgathaChristie mysteries, causing shopping bags to split, tinkering with parking meters...oh, and sinking oil tankers. In fact, he pretty much wrote the book for Crowley in GoodOmens (see below).

** To be fair (not that he deserves it), ThisTroper thought the hacker was trying to drum up support for said charity, not be mean. Wrong way to go about it, though.

* And then there's the French terrorist organisation ''Le Front de Libération des Nains de Jardins''. They stole garden gnomes and left them in the forest. Their main claim to fame was to have "liberated" a Ronald McDonalds once and really pissing off McDonald's in the process...

Compare KickTheSonOfABitch, where a KickTheDog moment seems to be [[DesignatedVillain perfectly justified to the audience]], due to the AssholeVictim. Contrast ALighterShadeOfGrey. Very closely related to WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous.

** Note she only lets him off after doing things that[[CorruptionOfAMinor possibly scar him for life.]]

** The bit with the door was more an outburst born of foul temper than a deliberate attempt at badassery. As well as something he had a legitimate complaint about. "I'm so evil that I'll demand my landlord fix something he's supposed to fix! Then I'll have cake with his cute daughter!"

** The bit with the door was more an outburst born of foul temper than a deliberate attempt at badassery.

* Some of [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Eva's]] more recent exploits in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' fall into this. Ordering someone looking to be her apprentice, being ready to force said apprentice to go on a date with her if he [[TournamentArc lost a match to her]]--and when ''she'' lost before they could even fight, she just ordered him onto the date anyway. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous Everyone else acted like she was pure evil]], [[NobleDemon but she let him out of it anyway]].

The polar opposite to this trope is MoralEventHorizon.

* ''ElGoonishShive'' [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-08-30 Sisters arc, Part VI: Scattered Pieces]]. Ellen (Elliot's magic-spawned OppositeSexClone) believes that she's his EvilTwin, and tries to get him in trouble at school by doing various "evil" acts such as telling off an incompetent teacher, choosing inappropriate topics for a speech and informing the principal that his toupee makes him look like Hitler. Her impending HeelFaceTurn is hinted at by her complete lack of success.

-->"A good person would get up, get dressed, brush his teeth… but not me. 'Cuz I'm EVIL! Mwa ha ha ha ha!"

-->'''Chimera:''' Gotcha. I see your problem. You have confused "bad" meaning "evil" with "bad" meaning "really stupid."

** I mean, really, actually read the thing. It says only the end consumer(you) can remove it. I've always hated those types of jokes.

** She also reads a book in a book store without paying for it. Luckily for Keiichi's health, it wasn't Borders. And although she's not ''trying'' to be evil, she's quite happy to let her younger sister attempt to murder her boyfriend with a Chainsaw.

* In the GilbertAndSullivan operetta, the protagonist of ''{{Ruddigore}}'' is compelled to commit a daily crime by a family curse. He claims such evil acts as filing a false income tax return, disinheriting his unborn son, and forging his own will. This is not to the liking of his ancestors, who enforce the curse.

->'''"[[TheFlash Luthor]]"''': "...What?"
->'''Dr. Polaris''': "You gonna wash your hands?"
->'''"[[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain Luthor]]"''': "No... 'Cuz I'm ''evil''."

* Deliberately invoked in [[WorldOfWarcraft The Argent Toureygrounds]] where Confessor Paletress is taking confessions from various races. They range from serious (the orc wondering about working with humans right after the human king declared open war, or the dwarf worrying about setting aside his axe for a lance) to the silly (the blood elf complaining about Helmet Hair!). But then the undead confessee arrives:

** However, he does tend to wreak villainous havoc as an avoidable side-effect of his harmless schemes or by accident, on occasion.

* Bowler Hat Guy in ''MeetTheRobinsons'' carries an enormous grudge against genius inventor Cornelius Robinson, which he has held since childhood, and hopes to destroy his success. He initially attempts to accomplish this by...throwing eggs and toilet paper at Robinson's house.