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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': In order to beat some enemies, Caboose tries to make himself angry and say mean things. While this works ([[BewareTheNiceOnes he slaughters everyone]]), his repertoire of hurtful comments are less than impressive, such as "I will eat your unhappiness!" and "Your brain is a mountain of hatred!" Though it is unclear if this is because he's too nice to be evil, or just too stupid. What's more, the "evil" things he forces himself to think of before he goes into his unstoppable rage are incredibly strange, with milk, kittens, and chickens covered in spikes being among them.

* Creator/StuartAshen literally pokes a poodle just to check off on his Wiki/TVTropes list.

** The various "tortures" inflicted on the Princess consist of offering her foods she's never had or has always wanted to try, playing video games with her, or showing her cute animals. The primary gag of the series is that these seemingly silly "tortures" regularly ''work'', as the Princess succumbs to eat that food, play games with her new friends, or cuddle with cute critters.
** The secondary gag of the series is the Hell-Lord dismissing the secrets gained by this, no matter how big or small, often for petty reasons such as because taking advantage of the secret would involve missing his Sunday morning anime as they're broadcast and he doesn't like to watch them later.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V", when an under-appreciated Barnacle Boy is TemporarilyAVillain and joins forces with Man Ray and the Dirty Bubble, one of the acts they're seen performing on a newscast is a ding-dong-ditch. They also make fun of teenagers at Makeout Reef.

* In ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}'', protagonist Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd 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 the ghosts/portraits of his ancestors, who enforce the curse. The fellow is written into John Myers Myers' book ''Silverlock'' as well, where he "kidnaps" helpless country girls. The kidnapping amounts to ''taking them to his manor and feeding them lunch.'' He always sends them home before dinnertime, too, so that their families won't worry.

** Demons [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad consider evil to be a virtue]] but [[NobleDemon are generally too nice to do anything particular evil]], causing their attempts at being evil to fall into this trope. For example, [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Laharl]]'s villainous schemes involve such wonderfully evil deeds as raining pepper on the heads of humans or giving them addictive video games so they won't be able to sleep. [[VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories Axel the Dark Hero]] does stuff such as Ding-Dong-Ditching, prank phone calls, and nabbing Adell's siblings (and giving them candy), yet he becomes upset when Taro falls into the river. And [[VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice Maritsu Evil Academy]] has rules such as "Lick the inside lid of your yogurt", "run in the halls", and other petty villainy. However, when demons go bad, they ''[[MoralEventHorizon really]]'' go bad. [[spoiler:Overlord Zenon is an EldritchAbomination in human form and only differentiates between people based on whether they declare themselves enemies or not, Zenon takes over Adell's body in the worst ending, and he eats his adopted siblings.]]

** [[NobleDemon Demons]] are textbook examples. [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Laharl]]'s villainous schemes involve such wonderfully evil deeds as raining pepper on the heads of humans or giving them addictive video games so they won't be able to sleep. [[VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories Axel the Dark Hero]] does stuff such as Ding-Dong-Ditching, prank phone calls, and nabbing Adell's siblings (and giving them candy), yet he becomes upset when Taro falls into the river. And [[VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice Maritsu Evil Academy]] has rules such as "Lick the inside lid of your yogurt", "run in the halls", and other petty villainy. However, when demons go bad, they ''[[MoralEventHorizon really]]'' go bad. [[spoiler:Overlord Zenon is an EldritchAbomination in human form and only differentiates between people based on whether they declare themselves enemies or not, Zenon takes over Adell's body in the worst ending, and he eats his adopted siblings.]]

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Home}} Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh]]'', all of Smek's schemes just amount to mildly inconveniencing Oh that day.

* Evil Superman in ''Film/SupermanIII'' was really more of a superhuman {{Jerkass}}: completely straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa[[note]]A team of engineers worked on it from 1990-2001 to stop it from tilting more every year, but they deliberately stabilized its lean at about four degrees so as not to ruin the appeal of their tourist attraction[[/note]], tearing a hole in an oil rig, and blowing out the Olympic Torch.

* ''Literature/TheSuperdictionary''

* The original Marvel run of ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'' has issue #23, featuring the Battlechargers, a pair of particularly incompetent Decepticons with extremely childish notions of evil. Other Decepticon plans involve stealing fuel, attacking military bases, and generally being actual villains. The Battlechagers plot the entire issue... to vandalize various US monuments by spray painting them with "humans are wimps" and other schoolyard insults. [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain They're not particularly good at the whole 'villainy' thing]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

* The WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil, who make most other entries on this page look like Doctor Doom in comparison.

Compare KickTheSonOfABitch, where a KickTheDog moment seems to be [[DesignatedVillain perfectly justified to the audience]], due to the AssholeVictim, and TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily. Contrast ALighterShadeOfGrey. For when this is treated in-universe as a terrible thing, see FelonyMisdemeanor. Usually unrelated to StopPokingMe. A lot of jokes about DigitalPiracyIsEvil are built this way. The polar opposite of this trope is MoralEventHorizon. For a trope about literal poodles, see PsychoPoodle. A particularly ineffective DismissiveKick can be an example.

* Prince Rupert in ''Literature/SearchingForDragons'' had to do an evil act or get thrown out of the Men's Auxiliary to the Right Honorable {{Wicked Stepmother}}s' Travelling, Drinking, and Debating Society. So he decided, while regent, [[EvilUncle to abandon his nephew the crown prince]] in the Enchanted Forest (it was actually the nephew's idea; he was hoping to have an adventure). But Rupert couldn't find anywhere that he felt sure the boy wouldn't ''really'' come to any harm. Later, Mendanbar and Cimorene convince him that sending the nephew to boarding school would be a sufficiently wicked act even though it was ultimately good for him since the kid hated the idea.

--->'''Murray''': I will hide your keys beneath the cushions of your upholstered furniture, and NEVERMORE will you be able to find socks that match!

-->'''Mao''': What? I only replaced all stop signs with yields, hid people's shoes, and prank called a few places at most!

* King Dedede from ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}''. Despite being Kirby's arch nemesis, the most villainous thing he's ever done is steal all the food in Dream Land just to be a dick, which is very mild compared to the far more malevolent plans of many of the other villains of the series. If Dedede is doing anything actually villainous, it's because he's either being possessed or he's preventing something ''worse'' from happening.

-->'''Captain [=McGillicutty=]''': Tell me the ritual words or you'll be sleeping with the fishes!\\

* In ''Film/KaamelottPremierVolet'', the suitors of Karadoc's daughters bragging about their "feats of arms" in LaResistance... which amounts to mild insults against Lancelot's soldiers ([[ArsonMurderAndjaywalking which they didn't shout too loudly]]) and the like. Including [[DidntThinkThisThrough shouting their intentions to go to the Resistance]], leading to everyone being caught by the Saxons.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Deliberately invoked in The Argent Tournament Grounds 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) to the silly (the dwarf REALLY needs a drink, and the blood elf complaining about Helmet Hair!). But then the undead confessee arrives:

* ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' in Chapter 6 has the spirit of the cursed mirror. Possessing [[spoiler:[[IncorruptiblePurePureness Nina]], the vampire kid [[VegetarianVampire feeding exclusively on chocolate]]]] was less than fortunate for it--the result was mostly limited to inane pranks.
-->'''[[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/less_abominable Doppleganger]]:''' Hmm. My wickedness seems a tad less abominable than once it was.

** The girls' [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterparts]] are just likely to do this as more serious evil acts, spending their time doing graffiti and spitting at planes.

* In ''Manga/GabrielDropOut'', this is a RunningGag with the demon characters. Satanichia [[EvilIsHammy boasts about being the future ruler of hell]], while she... tosses bottles with lids on them in the recycling. Pulling someone's hair apparently crosses the line into "too evil to contemplate" for her. Vignette is supposedly a demon, but is terrified by the prospect of doing anything remotely bad--she can't handle the idea of skipping class to earn evilness points, so she skips taking notes instead (and still takes some notes accidentally).

-->'''Doofenshmirtz:''' Wait! My evil plan isn't evil enough for you to foil? Is that it? Really? I just insulted the macaroni and cheese recipe ''of a whale''! What part of that is not evil?!