History Quotes / ForTheEvulz

->''"Tonight we unveil my most diabolical creation. Swank. [[UpToEleven Ten times more addictive]] [[DrugsAreBad than marijuana]]. To human misery!"''

-->-- '''Creator/AugustineOfHippo'''

->'''Superman:''' Is that how a warped brain like yours gets its kicks? By planning the death of innocent people?\\
'''Lex Luthor:''' No. By ''causing'' the death of innocent people.
-->-- ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''

->'''Harry Callahan:''' You know, you're crazy if you think you've heard the last of this guy. He's gonna kill again.\\
'''District Attorney Rothko:''' How do you know?\\
'''Harry Callahan:''' 'Cause he likes it.
-->-- ''Film/DirtyHarry''

->''"I like being bad. It makes me happy."''
-->-- '''Eddie Brock''', ''Film/SpiderMan3''

->''"What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick, and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultra-violence."''
-->-- '''Alex''', ''Film/AClockworkOrange''

->''"I didn't do it for science. I didn't do it for glory. I'm just mean!"''
-->--'''Willum''', ''Chopper Chicks in Zombietown''

->''"[[FreudianExcuseDenial Mommy didn't beat me. Daddy didn't rape me]]. I'm this way because I am. There's no mystery. Things I do, I do them because I like them! Because I want to!"''
-->-- '''Machine''', ''Film/EightMM''

->'''Kristen:''' Why are you doing this to us?\\
'''Dollface:''' Because you were home.
-->-- ''Film/TheStrangers''

->'''Ming:''' Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?\\
'''Klytus:''' An obscure body in the S-K system, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet... Earth.\\
'''Ming:''' How peaceful it looks.\\
''[Ming activates a console that causes natural disasters to ravage the planet, much to Ming and Klytus' amusement]''\\
'''Klytus:''' Most effective, Your Majesty. Will you destroy this, uh, Earth?\\
'''Ming:''' Later. I like to play with things a while... before annihilation.
-->-- ''Film/FlashGordon1980''

->'''Wyatt:''' What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?\\
'''Doc:''' A man like Ringo's got a great hole right through the middle of him... and he can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.\\
'''Wyatt:''' What does he ''need''?\\
'''Doc:''' Revenge.\\
'''Wyatt:''' For what?\\
'''Doc:''' ...Being born.
-->-- ''Film/{{Tombstone}}''

->'''Billy Costigan:''' [[EvilOldFolks You're seventy fucking years old]]. One of these guys is going to pop you. As for running drugs, what the fuck? You don't need the pain in the ass, and they're going to catch you. And you don't need the money.\\
'''Frank Costello:''' I haven't "needed the money" since I took Archie's milk money in the third grade. Tell you the truth, I don't need pussy any more either... but I like it.
-->-- ''Film/TheDeparted''

->''"People are killed every day for no reason at all."''
-->-- '''Radish''', ''Film/FinalExam''

->'''Robin Hood:''' Come now, Sir Guy. You would not kill a man for telling the truth, would you?\\
'''Sir Guy of Gisbourne:''' If it amused me, yes!
-->-- ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood''

->'''Veronica Sawyer:''' Heather, why can't you just be a friend? Why do you have to be such a mega-bitch?\\
'''Heather Duke:''' Because I can be.
-->-- ''Film/{{Heathers}}''

->'''Quentin:''' Why put people in it?\\
'''Worth:''' Because it's here. You have to use it, [[SunkCostFallacy or you admit it's pointless]].\\
'''Quentin:''' But it -- it ''is'' pointless.\\
'''Worth:''' Quentin... that's my point.
-->-- ''Film/{{Cube}}''

->'''Collins:''' Why don't you come over here, darlin'. Don't worry. Promise I'll make it quick.\\
'''Tian Xiao Xian:''' Do you remember the first time you felt your soul slipping away?\\
'''Collins:''' My soul? ''[laughs]'' No, there's no souls here, sweetheart. Just a bunch of blokes doin' our jobs like everybody else. Now granted, wasn't exactly what I wanted to be doing when I was all grown up, but you know what? Turned out I was pretty bloody good at it.
-->-- ''Film/TripleThreat2019''

->'''Dracula:''' Why do you torment that thing so?\\
'''Igor:''' It's what I do.
-->-- ''Film/VanHelsing''

->''"Why do you hate us?" I whispered aloud, gasping. "Why do you attack us?" \\
"Malice is its own reason... Malice needs no justification."''
-->-- ''Literature/AwakeInTheNightLand''

->''"I've got the kids! I THINK I'M GONNA KILL ONE OF THEM NOW JUST FOR THE HECK OF IT!"''
-->-- '''Bill Cipher''', ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''

The moral of the story is [[AlwaysChaoticEvil there are no morals here]]. Don't bring your grey morality near these goddamn rats, the only thing grey about the Skaven is their mages.''

The moral of the story is [[AlwaysChaoticEvil there are no morals here]]. Don't bring your grey morality near these goddamn rats, the only thing grey about the Skaven is their mages.

-->-- ''Film/TripleThreat''

->'''Franchise/{{Batman}}:''' You took his wife. His unborn child. And his city from him. '''Why?'''\\

'''Joker:''' Every time you and I play, I lose. I was getting a bit bored of always losing. I thought I'd try this on ''[[{{Sadist}} easy mode]]'' for a bit. And it was easy. It was as easy as beating a puppy to death with a kitten. Someone took it all away from you once too, didn't they, Bats? And look what you became -- an all-punching, all-kicking little ball of angst. What do you think Franchise/{{Superman}} will become? [[PhysicalGod He's a god]] [[AGodIAmNot who has deluded himself into believing he's a man]]. ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion What will he turn into]]?''\\

-->-- ''ComicBook/TheSandman''

->''"I'm evil! Get it?"''

-->-- '''O'Brien''', ''Literature/NineteeenEightyFour''

'''O'Brien:''' That was stupid, Winston, stupid! You should know better than to say a thing like that. Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake]]. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

'''O'Brien:''' That was stupid, Winston, stupid! You should know better than to say a thing like that. Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake]]. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.

-->-- '''Luis Suarez''': ''WebAnimation/{{The Champions|2018}}''

-->-- '''Luis Suarez''': ''WebAnimation/TheChampions2018''

-->-- '''The General''', ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA JLA]]'' #38

-->-- ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}:'' ''Attack Of The Mutant''

->Gold...prisoners...I don't care about such things. All I wish to see are humans within a fiery apocalypse. Trying to escape. All I wish to hear is the sound of snapping bones crushed under the hooves of horses. I don't even need an excuse. None at all...
-->--'''The Baron of Koka Castle''', ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''

->'''Man about to be hanged''': Sp... Spare us, please... Wh... What wrong have we done that you would hurt us?\\
'''Diamond''': Why? We don't need a reason, pest! We do as we wish!
-->-- ''[[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Fist of the North Star]]''

->To put it in the simplest possible terms, our "purpose" is a total ''absence'' of purpose! You should be aware, fraulein, that there are some people in this world, some irredeemable louse, for whom the means do not ''require'' an end! I speak, of course, of myself.

->You want my motivation? [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Fuck. You.]] ''That's'' my motivation. I make gang members fight to the death and I get scantily clad women to serve me drinks while I watch. Why ''wouldn't'' I be doing this?

->True evil is often terrifyingly incomprehensible.
-->--'''Over Justice''', ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco''

->'''All Might''': ... What do you want? What ''did you'' want? You surpassed your human limits. You might have lived forever with that body... Instead, [[YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood you squandered your gifts]] on manipulation. Exploitation. Toying with people. What did you hope to achieve?\\
'''All For One''': This is hardly a productive discussion. I could tell you, but [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil you'd never accept it]]. There ware always people who just refuse to understand. [[NotSoDifferentRemark We're the same]]. [[{{Foil}} You and I]]. You looked up to heroes who stood for justice... while I looked up to the Devil. [[EvilFeelsGood Simple as that]]. [[ItsAllAboutMe I held on to my ideals]]... and acquired the power to embody them. [[TheUnfettered I would have spared no effort]] to live forever in a world shaped by those ideals.
-->-- ''[[TheCape All Might]] and [[CardCarryingVillain All For One]] discussing the reasons why the latter choose to become a comicbook Supervillian generations ago'', ''[[Manga/{{MyHeroAcademia}} My Hero Academia]]''

->Here's to crime.
-->-- '''ComicBook/TheJoker''', ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''

->'''Bullseye''': I once tracked an Eskimo huntsman across 200 miles of frozen tundra on foot and killed him with [[OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement an icicle made of my own frozen feces.]]\\
'''Kingpin''': Who on earth would hire you to do that?\\
'''Bullseye''': Nobody. I did that for fun.\\
'''Kingpin''': [[YoureInsane You're]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards a madman.]]\\
'''Bullseye''': [[PsychoForHire I kill people for a living]]. What did you expect?
-->-- ''[[Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX Punisher MAX #6]]''

->'''Batman''': You took his wife. His unborn child. And his city from him. '''Why?'''\\
'''Joker''': Why? You need a reason? [[ButForMeItWasTuesday It's probably the same reason I beat that puppy to death with a kitten last week.]] When the howling and meowing stops, and all you're left with is a mess of fur and blood and brains — well, you can't beat that warm glowing feeling inside.\\
'''Batman''': This has always been about us. Why did you do this to ''him''?\\
'''Joker''': Every time you and I play, I lose. I was getting a bit bored of always losing. I thought I'd try this on ''[[{{Sadist}} easy mode]]'' for a bit. And it was easy. It was as easy as beating a puppy to death with a kitten. Someone took it all away from you once too, didn't they, Bats? And look what you became — an all-punching, all-kicking little ball of angst. What do you think ComicBook/{{Superman}} will become? [[AGodAmI He's a god who has deluded himself into believing he's a man.]] ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion What will he turn into?]]''\\
'''Batman''': There are some things even ''you'' can't corrupt, Joker.\\
'''Joker''': Ha! Oh, Batsy. You're so cute. You ''honestly think'' your friend will still be fun to play with?\\
'''Batman''': [[DespairEventHorizon He will grieve.]] [[DramaticIrony But he will stay one of the best men I know.]]\\
'''Joker''': [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids No.]] [[StartOfDarkness I think it's going to be]] [[TheBadGuyWins a whole lot funnier than that.]]

->Why? Why? Just to see the disappointment on your cornfed, gee-whiz face, Superman. And because a great dark voice on the edge of nothing spoke to me and said you all had to die. There is no why!
-->-- '''The General''', ''ComicBook/{{JLA}}'' #38

->'''Marsh:''' Why us, goddammit? Why are you doing this stuff to us? You're going to kill us!\\

-> '''Mecha "M" Robotnik:''' [[PragmaticVillainy Is there not a more efficient way?]] Can you not [[TakeOverTheWorld reach your vision]] in a quicker way?\\

->'''Dass Jennir:''' "Why? Why buy a child just to kill her?"\\
'''Dezono Qua:''' "Because I could. And to eat her, of course. She was delicious."

->'''ComicBook/{{Carnage}}:''' Would you like to know ''why'' you're gonna die?\\

'''Carnage:''' Hey, score one for the Chip-meister! NOW you're catchin' on! But you don't get it at all, do you? This ain't a movie, Chip-man! Ya can't run off the set! No white-horse hero's gonna ride in and save your butt before the last reel! Uh-uh! This is reality, compadre! And in reality-- there ain't ''no'' escape!\\

'''Coltrane:''' Because it's fun. Two years back, I was driving home drunk when I ran a guy over. I got out to help, saw I'd killed him. It was four A.M.: No one around. I got back in the car and drove like Hell, and it was five minutes before I realized I was '''laughing fit to bust''-- 'cause I'd gotten clean away with it. So I began seeing what else I could get away with, and it just got funnier each time. Why? You were expecting some crap about getting raped by my dad? Or being a wolf that preys on humanity, blah-blah-blah? Anyway, don't scream, or the cops'll come and they'll get Jesse anyway. I'm gonna go tell Bridges about his lucky break. Then we'll head up to my folks' place, and I'll get them out of the freezer...and then I'll show you just how much fun serial killing can be.

->'''Jovian''': "Why is it that whenever we can't find somebody, your first instinct is to blow up everything around you?"\\
'''Jacqueline''': "Because it's fun."
-->--''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness''

->'''First Aid''': I won’t betray the Autobots.\\
'''Vortex''': Oh, you don’t have to. You have the honor of being the core of a new device that will harness your living energy into a weapon that will bring the end of the Autobots once and for all, and usher in a new era of Decepticon rule!\\
'''First Aid''': You can’t be serious!\\
'''Vortex''': ''[{{beat}}]'' No, you’re right, [[ILied I’m not]]. I’m really just doing [[ColdBloodedTorture this]] for the fun of it.
-->--''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4742365/1/A-Rock-and-a-Hard-Place A Rock and a Hard Place]]''

->'''Tari:''' Please don't do this!
->'''[=SMG3=]:''' Why not? It's fun.
-->--''Fanfic/SaikoRocks''

->''[[EvilFeelsGood It feels so good to be bad]]!''\\
''So '''[[EvilTastesGood delicious]]''' to be a despicable cad!''\\
''It's just so thrilling''\\
''And so fulfilling''\\
''To give somebody the worst time they've ever had!''\\
''It feels so good to be bad!''

->Men who kill without reason '''cannot''' be reasoned with!
-->--'''Stoick the Vast''', ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2''

->Greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy: now ''that's'' fun!

-->--'''Top Dollar''', ''Film/TheCrow''

-->--''Film/SupermanTheMovie''

-> "Now I'm gonna shut you in again, Wade, not because I need to, because I want to."
-->-- '''Ajax''', also known as '''Francis''', tortures [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]], ''Film/Deadpool2016''

->I like being bad. It makes me happy.

->Listen kid, I'm not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. [[ItAmusedME It's amusing, to me]], to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, [[ToThePain which you ain't gonna get.]]

->What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick, and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultra-violence.

->I didn't do it for science. I didn't do it for glory. I'm just mean!
-->--'''Willum''', ''Chopper Chicks in [=Zombietown=]''

->[[FreudianExcuseDenial Mommy didn't beat me. Daddy didn't rape me.]] I'm this way because I am. There's no mystery. Things I do, I do them because I like them! Because I want to!
-->--'''Machine''', ''Film/EightMM''

* Ming activates a console that causes natural disasters to ravage the planet, much to Ming and Klytus' amusement.*\\

'''Doc:'''...Being born.

->'''Film/JamesBond''': You're a hard man to kill, [[spoiler:Blofeld]]. ''[looks at Franz Oberhauser's scar]'' Ouch. I do hope that doesn't hurt too much.\\
'''Franz Oberhauser/[[spoiler:Ernst Stavro Blofeld]]:''' ''[shrugs]'' My wounds will heal. What about yours? Look around you, James — look. This is what's left of your world. Everything you ever stood for, everything you believed in — a ruin.\\
'''Bond''': Why are we here? Did you miss me?\\
'''Oberhauser/[[spoiler:Blofeld]]''': No. ''[blows into the glass and makes a heart sign, indicating that he's taken BondGirl Madeleine Swann hostage]'' But I know someone who does.\\
'''Bond''': Where is she?\\
'''Oberhauser/[[spoiler:Blofeld]]''': That's for you to find out. In three minutes, this building will be demolished. I can get out easily, but ''you'' have a [[SadisticChoice choice]]. Die trying to save her, or save yourself and live with the pain.\\
'''Bond''': You're bluffing.\\
'''Oberhauser/[[spoiler:Blofeld]]''': Am I? ''[snickers smugly]'' I've really put you through it, haven't I? Oh well, [[CainAndAbel that's brothers for you]] — they always ''know'' which button to press!

->'''Billy Costigan''': You're seventy fucking years old. One of these guys is going to pop you. As for running drugs, what the fuck? You don't need the pain in the ass, and they're going to catch you. And you don't need the money.\\
'''Frank Costello''': I haven't "needed the money" since I took Archie's milk money in the third grade. Tell you the truth, I don't need pussy any more either... but I like it.

->'''Robin Hood''': Come now, Sir Guy. You would not kill a man for telling the truth, would you?\\
'''Sir Guy of Gisbourne''': If it amused me, yes!

-->--'''Tasha''', ''Film/Tormented2009''

->'''Veronica Sawyer''': Heather, why can't you just be a friend? Why do you have to be such a mega-bitch?\\
'''Heather Duke''': Because I can be.
-->--''Film/{{Heathers}}''

->'''Il-Gwang''': Even among other demons, he's a master of evil.\\
'''Jong-Goo''': If that's true, why did it have to be...\\
'''Il-Gwang''': ...your daughter? What sin did that young girl ever commit?\\
'''Jong-Goo''': Yes.\\
'''Il-Gwang''': If you go fishing, do you know what you'll catch?\\
'''Jong-Goo''': No.\\
'''Il-Gwang''': He's just fishing. Not even he knows what he'll catch. He just threw out the bait, and your daughter took it.
-->--''Film/TheWailing''

->'''Quentin''': Why put people in it?\\
'''Worth''': Because it's here. You have to use it, or you admit it's pointless.\\
'''Quentin''': But it, it *is* pointless.\\
'''Worth''': Quentin... that's my point.
-->--''Film/{{Cube}}''

->'''Collins''': Why don't you come over here, darlin'. Don't worry. Promise I'll make it quick.
->'''Tian Xiao Xian''': Do you remember the first time you felt your soul slipping away?
->'''Collins''': My soul? (Laughs.) No, there's no souls here, sweetheart. Just a bunch of blokes doin' our jobs like everybody else. Now granted, wasn't exactly what I wanted to be doing when I was all grown up, but you know what? Turned out I was pretty bloody good at it.
-->--'''Collins''' expresses a grim satisfaction towards his career as a mercenary before attempting to kill '''Tian Xiao Xian''', ''Film/TripleThreat''

->'''{{Dracula}}''': Why do you torment that thing so?\\
'''Igor''': It's what I do.
-->--''Film/VanHelsing''

'''Winston:''' You are ruling over us for our own good. You believe that human beings are not fit to govern themselves, and therefore-- ''(O'Brien eletrocutes him)''\\
'''O'Brien:''' That was stupid, Winston, stupid! You should know better than to say a thing like that. Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.

->It is not that I cannot create anything good, but that I will not.
-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Angra Mainyu]]'''

->I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart -- one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than [[RebelliousSpirit because he knows he should not?]] Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

->"The point?" said Mr. Weasley, with a hollow laugh. "Harry, that's their idea of fun. Half the Muggle killings back when You-Know-Who was in power were done for fun. I suppose they had a few drinks tonight and couldn't resist reminding us that all lots of them are still at large. A nice little reunion for them."

->"Why do you hate us?" I whispered aloud, gasping. "Why do you attack us?" \\
"Malice is its own reason ... Malice needs no justification."

->''“What say you, [[TheEmperor Empress of Praes]]?\\

Why, o Empress of Ruins?”\\

“Why not?”''
-->--'''Last lines of the “The Fall of Empress Triumphant, First and Only of Her Name,”''' ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil''

->"This plan involves making an enemy of one of the most dangerous men on this continent for no tangible gain," Anaxares said. "It is not a good plan."\\
"Don't be foolish, advisor," [[TheCaligula Kairos]] said. "Making an enemy of one of the most dangerous men on this continent is the point of the plan, not a side-effect."
-->-- ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil,'' [[https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/villainous-interlude-stormfront/ Villainous Interlude: Stormfront]]

-->--''[[Literature/AlexVerus Bound]]''

->'''Skipper:''' He worked for you, and you melted him?!
->'''Masked Mutant:''' I'm a villain, remember? I do very bad things to people.
-->--''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}:'' ''Attack Of The Mutant''

->He did it because he liked it. Still does. Dr Lecter is not crazy [[BlueAndOrangeMorality in any common way we think of being crazy]]. He did some [[ImAHumanitarian hideous things]] because he enjoyed them. But he can function perfectly when he wants to.
-->--'''Will Graham,''' ''Literature/RedDragon''

->What he thought of as [[TheSymbiote the black worm]] couldn't make him do anything against his will. Sure, it could use pain to force him into a certain course of action, but it didn't control him. [[NotBrainwashed He still had his own freedom of choice]].
->No, the reason why Buddy didn't pull the trigger that night was at once simpler and infinitely more complex than mind control. Buddy didn't pull the trigger, because Buddy ''liked'' what he was doing. [[{{Plaguemaster}} Passing on to others some aspect of the disease that had colonized his own body]] gave him not only release, but pleasure. He enjoyed it. He relished the sense of power it gave him, the ability to decide who lived and who died. It was godlike.
-->--''[[Creator/JohnConnolly The Cancer Cowboy Rides]]''

->It was [[BigBad Hugh Farnham]], the Monster. [[RedScare Joe McCarthy]] had got all the contemporary press coverage and had an ism named after him, and UsefulNotes/RichardNixon had used the hearings as a springboard into grown-up politics. Even [[AmoralAttorney Roy Cohn]], the legal eminence grise who had died of [=AIDs=] a few years back, was comparatively well-remembered. But Farnham was [[TheSpook Something Else]]. The others were in it for [[PatrioticFervor patriotism]], [[AmbitionIsEvil self-advancement]], [[ItsAllAboutMe megalomania]], [[TheParanoiac paranoid self-justification]], and [[OnlyInItForTheMoney financial gain]]. Halfway through his delicate dissection of Martin Ritt, Anne realized with a dizzying rush of vertigo that Farnham tormented people because it was his idea of fun. It met a need in him he could not slake any other way.
-->--''Literature/BadDreams''

->Edie had assumed that [[DiabolicalMastermind Shem Shem Tsien]] would be occupied with rebuilding his citadel, licking his wounds and looking for another genius.
->He did nothing of the kind. Before he had been [[EvilOverlord Khaygul of Addeh Sikkim]], she realized, he had been the Opium Khan, master of the heroin trade in Europe and Asia. The nation [[TheUsurper he had usurped]] had been little more than an amusement park for him; his own personal Brighton Pier. He had killed his family because they were in the way - not of some great unfulfilled desire, but of a whim.
-->--''Literature/{{Angelmaker}}''

->'''Magnus:''' Ratatosk...
->'''Blitz:''' Yeah. His bark is literally worse than his bite. He... He's the most destructive creature in the World Tree. He spends his time running up and down the trunk, carrying insults from the eagle who lives at the top to Nidhogg, the dragon who lives at the roots.
->'''Magnus:''' Why would a squirrel do that?
->'''Blitz:''' To damage the tree. Ratatosk keeps the eagle and the dragon whipped into a frenzy. He tells them lies, rumors, nasty gossip about each other. His words can...well, you know what his words can do. The dragon Nidhogg is always chewing on the roots of the World Tree, trying to kill it. The eagle flaps his wings and creates windstorms that rip the branches and cause devastation throughout the Nine Worlds. Ratatosk makes sure the two monsters stay angry and in competition with each other, to see which one can destroy their end of Yggdrasil faster.
->'''Magnus:''' But that's...crazy. The squirrel ''[[StupidEvil lives]]'' in the tree.
->'''Blitz:''' We all do, kid. People have destructive impulses. Some of us want to see the world in ruins just for the fun of it...even if we're ruined along with it.
-->--''Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard'', "The Sword of Summer"

-->-- '''Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson''' on '''Cory Littleton''', ''Literature/MercyThompson : Blood Bound''

->People always thought in terms of [[DealWithTheDevil souls]], and of course he would take as many of those as he could when he closed his shop; they were to [[HumanoidAbomination Leland Gaunt]] what trophies were to the hunter, what stuffed fish were to the fisherman. They were worth little to him these days in any practical sense, but he still bagged his limit if he possibly could, no matter what he might say to the contrary; to do any less would not be playing the game.
->Yet it was mostly amusement, not souls, that kept him going. Simple amusement. It was the only reason that mattered after a while, because [[{{Immortality}} when the years were long]], you took diversion when you could find it.
-->--''Literature/NeedfulThings''

->You can be good for the mere sake of goodness. [[DeconstructedTrope You cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness.]] You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right. But no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong, only because it was pleasant or useful to him.
-->--[[Creator/CSLewis C. S. Lewis]], ''Mere Christianity''

->"Don't try anything, Angua," said Wolf, grinning happily. "Or else I'll break [Carrot's] arm. Oh, perhaps I'll break his arm anyway! Yes!"

->"Everything I told you is a lie. [[ColdBloodedTorture This isn't happening to you for a reason]][[{{Beat}} ...]]well, one reason: '''I enjoy it'''."

->[[spoiler: Piper]] taught me that killing people is way more fun than therapy! So, we made the sheriff and the medical examiner look like idiots, we tortured them with a killing spree they could not stop!
-->-- '''Ghostface''' / [[spoiler: Kieran Wilcox]], ''Series/ScreamTVSeries'', "[[Recap/ScreamTVSeriesS02E12WhenAStrangerCalls When a Stranger Calls]]"

->I know what it's like to take a life. To feel a future, a world of possibilities, snuffed out by your own hand. I know the power in it. The exhilaration. It was like a drug for me.
-->--'''Angel''', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' ("Consequences")

->I enjoy destroying lives. It turns me on.
-->-- '''Wrestling/VinceMcMahon'''

->I see on the news, on the TV, that people question. They question why -- why people do this. It's the same reason people do anything, 'cause, 'cause they feel like it, they like the way it feels. When I was a kid, my dog, Poppy, running across the grass. When I [[KickTheDog hit her]], I liked that feeling. That has not changed.
-->--'''Ben Bradstone''', ''Series/CriminalMinds'' ("Proof")

->I wanna gorge on human blood, not because some fucking Bible tells me too, but because I like it. It's ''fun''. It makes my ''dick hard''!
-->--'''Russell Edgington''', ''Series/TrueBlood''

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Sea Devils"

'''Missy:''' Oh silly, why does one bother popping a balloon? Because you're pretty.
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Death in Heaven"

->'''Gwen:''' I've seen things you would never believe, and this is the only thing I can't understand.
->'''[[IAmAHumanitarian Evan]]:''' [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow So keep on wondering]].
->'''Gwen:''' Tell me. [[DespairEventHorizon I need to know why]]!
->'''Evan:''' I'll tell you something [[SchmuckBait if you let me whisper]].
->'''Gwen:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Okay]]. (''leans down'')
->'''Evan:''' 'Cos it made me happy.
->'''Gwen:''' ([[HeroicBSOD wide stare, tears streaming]])
-->-- ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', "Countrycide"

->"What do you want from us? We're evil! ''EVIIIIIIIIL!!!''"
-->--'''Dr. Forrester and Frank''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''

->''"I had every reason to kill the others. They just had no reason to die. They never saw me coming unless I wanted them to see me coming. I could wave at a lady and smile, chew the fat with her in church, knowing I killed her husband. There is something beautiful about that ball of silence at a funeral, all those people around you, knowing that you made it happen."''
-->-- SerialKiller '''Lawrence Wells''', ''Series/{{Hannibal}}''

->''And it's so easy when you're evil!'' \\
''This is the life, you see,'' \\
''The devil tips his hat to me!'' \\
''I do it all because I'm evil,'' \\
''And I do it all for free,'' \\
''Your tears are all the pay I'll ever need!''

->Do Evil Better.
-->-- {{Tagline}} of ''Podcast/KakosIndustries''

->Simon Fairchild is one of the recurrent figures that I think disquiets me the most. Not simply for what he does, the endless spaces of height or depth to which he’s so quick to condemn his victims, but the ''joy'' he seems to take in doing so. And I don’t think there is much to this tale beyond that - an evil man tormenting and killing simply for his own pleasure, and to feed the [[EldritchAbomination power that sustains him.]]
-->--'''Jonathan Sims''', ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'', "Left Hanging"

->'''The Doctor:''' So you are [[EldritchAbomination Elder Gods]], am I right?
->'''"Commissar Leonov":''' [[AC: You are correct.]]
->'''The Doctor:''' Which leads me onto my second question - why destroy the Earth?
->'''"Valentina":''' [[AC: Because we]] ''[[AC: can.]]''
->'''The Doctor:''' Yes, I thought there wouldn't be a good reason. There never is with you: chaos for chaos' sake.
-->--''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho162ProtectAndSurvive Protect And Survive]]''

->'''King Krun:''' With my battlecruisers and [[RobotsAreJustBetter your brain]] it will be an easy matter to reduce Earth to a small brown stain. ''(EvilLaugh)'' By the way, what sort of reward do you want for your services?
->'''[[RobotMe Bionic Kremmen]]:''' Oh, I don't want anything for myself, Krun.
->'''King Krun:''' No?
->'''Bionic Kremmen:''' Just misfortune for everyone else.

->''Once bad -- What's the good of turning?''\\
''In Hell, I'll be there a-burning''\\
''Meanwhile, think of what I'm earning''\\
''All on account of...''\\
''My name!''
-->-- '''[[TheDreaded Bill Sykes']]''' VillainSong, ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}''

->"I was old before this world was even born. I watched my brothers rule for a thousand years until little worms like you overcame them. But I am not my brothers. I am older than they are, greater. I have devoured stars and shattered worlds. I have sired whole races, populated entire planes, and then hunted them to extinction for my amusement."
-->-- [[SatanicArchetype Nicol Bolas]], ''[[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Emperor's Fist]]''

->"Destroy, for the sake of Destruction.\\
Kill, for the sake of Killing."
-->-- '''Unknown Chaos Space Marine''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->"So answer me this before you kill me, [[SinisterMinister Brother]]. Why do these things if there is no God for your Inquisition to grant reason for the things you do? Why end so many lives? Why go to such lengths to gain yourself victims?”
->He smiled again. "Because I can."
-->--''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil: Slasher''

->Some folks is... just evil, ain't no point trying to explain it.

->'''Terra''': Just stop! None of this makes any sense!\\
'''Kefka''': [[EvilLaugh Mwhehehe]]! Destruction isn't ''supposed'' to make sense! It's only fun when it's ''senseless!''

->'''Asahi''': You could've taken the sword without attacking the forest. Why'd you do it?\\
'''Titan''': I don't need a reason. It was in my way.\\
'''Asahi''': You burned down the fairies' home for fun? [[YouMonster You're a monster]].\\
'''Titan''': [[ShutUpKirk Like I care what you think]]. The will of the Divine Powers is law. Know your place.

'''Matt''': Killing me will stop nothing.\\
'''Frank Horrigan''': That may be true, but seeing your body rotting on the floor will bring a smile to my face.

->'''The Lone Wanderer:''' Why are you doing all of this?
->'''Stanislaus Braun:''' ''[in a child's voice]'' [[PsychopathicManchild Because I can, of course]]. ''[in his own voice]'' [[DomainHolder I have total power here]]. [[RealityWarper I may do whatever I wish]], and over these many years I have found that I wish to see others suffer.
-->--''VideoGame/Fallout3''

->'''Princess Peach''': We never did anything to you! Why are you keeping us prisoner?\\
'''Wizardheimer''': Because I'm an evil Koopa wizard! I don't need a'' reason ''to be mean and nasty! It's my nature!

->Well all right then, Slick. Yes. I turned all the villagers into pigs. Big deal. [...] You know, they're all so depressing and boring and dimwitted all the time... so instead of wallowing in gloom, I figured they might as well wallow in mud! HA! How brilliant is THAT? [[DontExplainTheJoke Now they're pigs, get it?]] Isn't that just soooo perfect? It's like irony, or something.
-->--'''[[spoiler:Doopliss]]''', ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''

->Rivers of blood... Mountains of flesh! A glorious world of pain! Feeble humans, crushed like the insects that they are!

'''Doctor Neo Cortex:''' Well, actually, it's pretty fun! You should try it! You know, riding around in huge, rumbling machines and what-not... very stimulating!

->'''Pearl''': Why would you do something so wrong...?
->'''[[spoiler:Matt Engarde]]''': Because I'm a grown-up, and I can. Good enough for you, little girl?
-->--''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Justice For All''

->I had reasons deeper than the deepest ocean! - [[ILied That was a fuckin' lie!]] I had no such reasons!

->'''Pit''': I get what [[MotherNature Viridi]] has against [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades]]. He's destructive and evil. But what does Hades have against Viridi?\\
'''Palutena''': I think you answered your own question. Destruction is ''fun'' for him.\\
'''Hades''': Well, five points for the squares! It's true. This ''is'' just my idea of a good time.
-->--''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising''

->I killed them because I could! Because it was fun! Do you know what it's like to determine another man's fate? And did you see the way the people cheered? The way they feared me? I was like a god! You'd have done the same if you could! Such power!

->'''Jacob Frye''': Why did you do it? All of it?\\
'''Maxwell Roth''': What? Snap a baby crow's neck between my thumb and forefinger? Slice to bits the ones you deem innocent? Keep the world in its divine manic state? For the same reason I do anything!\\
''(Roth drags Jacob down into a TakeThatKiss)''\\

-->--''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate''

->'''Hakumen''': Terumi! Why must you repeat the mistakes of the past? What possible purpose could explain all this?\\
'''[[BigBad Terumi]]''': Huh? Purpose? Ahahahahaha! Oh, you are a laugh riot! Ahahahahahahahaha! *gasping for breath* Ahahahahahahahaha! C'mon, you know me better than that 'old buddy!' Surely you don't mean to imply ''I'' need a reason to destroy and manipulate and ''kill!?'' OK, all right, fine! How about this reason? Seems as good as any. I do all the wonderful things I do because I want to see the miserable look on the faces of people like YOU when you're wallowing in despair, dismay, grief, frustration, misery... [[FauxAffablyEvil all sorts of other unpleasant nouns.]] [...] I guess you could say I'm just bored. At least misery is interesting.

->Oh, so you don't like needless bloodshed, Lt. Jaggar? Well that's too bad. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment I do enjoy needless bloodshed]]. Especially from the innocents.

->[''upon discovering that [[spoiler:Adachi]] was behind the murders and kidnappings throughout the game'']\\
'''Yukiko''': Why? What reasons could you have for doing that?!\\
'''[[spoiler:Adachi]]''': [''chuckles''] Reasons? None, really. I could do it, that's all. And [[ItAmusedMe it was]] ''[[ItAmusedMe fun]]''... I guess that's my reason?
-->--''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''

-->--'''Shadow''' to '''Mephiles the Dark''', ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006''

->[[TheWormThatWalks The revenant]] is cunning. They stalk and observe their targets, and are rarely in a rush. They patiently enjoy toying with their prey. They take pleasure in trickery, using emotional deception to provoke their targets to take risks. The abduction of children, destruction of homes, and violence against loved ones are among their favourite lures. And for all of this, [[ChaoticEvil they do not seem to have any greater plan or intelligent design]]. Suffering is its own reward.
-->--'''The Buzzing,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

It is nothing. There is no meaning, no purpose. We murder. We kill, it is mindless savagery, this ''universe'' is ''mindless!''\\

They will scream, they will ''burn,'' and for no purpose, but that [[WarGod mighty Khorne]] may revel in their bloodshed.\\
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LET! THE GALAXY! '''BURNNNNNNN!!!!!!'''''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Chapter Master Azariah Kyras]] before his ascension to daemon princehood,''' ''VideoGame/DawnOfWarII: Retribution''

->[[spoiler:She]] is a maniac... A person who's only goal is to see people suffer and die!

-->-- ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' Wiki description of Kefka Palazzo from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''

->Someone had opened a nether gate within the city. Who and why we'll never know. The situation was already so dire before this point it fails me to think of a reason behind such actions. As if someone could possibly want to haste the end of everything for no other purpose than the end itself.

->''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I. Like. To. Kill. Things.]] How is that not clear by now?"''

->Let me put it this way: If Team Avolition goes to a minecraft server, which do you think they are more likely to grief(assuming they can't grief both): A random dirt newb house out in the middle of nowhere, or the ULTIMATE DIAMOND BLOCK SUPER-SPIRE displayed in the creation museum that someone worked many long hours to build?"
-->--'''[=TT2000=]''', on the Godmodder, in ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder''

->Yes! Make this cat suffer for no goddamn reason other than that I THINK IT'S FUNNY!
-->-- '''Tiger's Eye, in [[Script/ShadowjackWatchesSailorMoon Shadowjack's]] [[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?726458-IWIW-Shadowjack-Watches-Sailor-Moon-Thread-13-The-Magic-Horse-Ate-Our-Fancy-Title&p=18358769#post18358769 take]] on Episode 133 of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'''''.

->On the other hand I'm getting quite sick to all those [[FreudianExcuse "they're just misunderstood"]] trend in fiction. Sometimes the dude trying to kill all life by bringing in eternal winter IS just a huge [[CountryMatters cunt]].
-->--'''ryuan''', on the [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/purple-days-asoiaf-au.391394/page-99 White Walkers]]

->'''Yugi''': Ask yourself: what would killing me accomplish? \\
'''Melvin''': Other than [[EvilLaugh making me laugh like a maniac]], not much. But it's enough.
-->--''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''

->[[spoiler:'''Felix''']]: God, I just really want to savor this. You know, once [[spoiler:the feds and rebels kill each other]], [[AndThenWhat I don't know what I'm gonna do]]. I mean, we've been playing these guys for years. How do you just walk away from something like that?\\
'''Tucker''': What happened to retirement?\\
[[spoiler:'''Felix''']]: Oh, well, yeah I'll be filthy stinking rich. But I'm still in my prime. There's so much more I could do.
-->-- [[spoiler:'''Felix''']] trying to kill '''Tucker''', ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Season 12, episode 18, "Fed vs. New"

-->-- [[spoiler:'''Felix''']], ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Season 12, episode 18, "Fed vs. New"

A: [...] There's a very simple answer to this question, which is that it's absolutely right. The arch-criminals of Batman '66 will never, ever reform, mostly due to the fact that [[StatusQuoIsGod nothing is ever meant to change on that show]]. [...] The quirks of the crimes were different, of course, with cat's eye opals, gold-plated sarcophagi and valuable clown paintings all reserved for the appropriate villains, but if you swapped out a couple of adjectives and a bit of set dressing, one could work as well as the next. The motivations were all the same, particularly in that they didn't actually exist. [...] The crooks of Batman '66 didn't really have any life-changing, motivating tragedies -- and, incidentally, neither did that version of Batman. They just had affectations, high pitched giggles and sparkly catsuits that were applied to the same formula of crime and deathtrap. Nobody ever really seemed like they were that hard up for cash, so crime wasn't a vocational thing for them. They didn't need the money they'd get from heisting the ancient riddle scrolls or whatever, and there's only really one episode I can think of where someone is actually frustrated at being unable to fence stolen goods and actually profit from the crime. It wasn't about the money for them, it was about the act. They weren't just criminals, they were arch-criminals -- they only existed to break the law, committing crime simply for crime's sake. [...] But that's only one facet of crime, and if Batman is a new kind of person, someone with limitless resources and fantastic determination, then Crime is going to have to evolve to keep up with him, metastasizing into a purer strain of criminal. Just like Batman no longer really needs to avenge the death of his parents, the criminals of Gotham City don't really need to profit from their crimes, making them a means to an end. Crime is the profit, evil is the end, re-establishing that imbalance, trying to inject that element of fear and chaos back into a city that outgrew traditional ideas of evil. If you take that idea and flatten it out, ironing out all the psychological complexities and simplifying it for a 22-minute time slot every Tuesday and Wednesday, smoothing everything over with a healthy amount of irony, you're left with Batman '66: Criminals who commit crimes purely for the sake of crime, and a crimefighter who battles against them purely for the sake of the law. [...] The criminals commit crimes because they are capital-C Criminals, compelled to do so for no reason other than Crime For Crime's Sake.

-> The best thing about playing for Atletico Madrid...is now I don't even have to pretend to be nice!
-->-- '''Luis Suarez''': ''WebAnimation/{{The Champions|2018}}''

-> '''Nostalgia Critic:''' You have no reason for doing any of this, do you?\\
'''Black Willy Wonka:''' Nope. Sometimes, it's fun to be an asshole for no reason. (A bird flies up to BWW, who shoots it.) See?
-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''', ''[[https://youtu.be/ORS3CqPTgDg Ghostbusters (2016)]]''

->''"[Dream] could probably kill me in an instant if he wanted to, he could just get on right now and kill me, but... He doesn't. 'Cause he knows that it would just... He likes to play with us, he likes to toy with us. He likes to... light the fire under us and see us squirm a little. That's what he likes, this isn't... This entire thing, this isn't about people. This is about entertainment for him. This is all just about entertainment for him... 'Cause he's cruel. He's cruel."''

'''Tommy:''' Our story isn't over Dream, but it ''will'' be.\\
'''Dream:''' I don't think it'll ever be over. You're too ''fun.''

->''Evil is just so much more profitable than good -- and more fun!''
--> -- '''Warp Darkmatter''', ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand: The Adventure Begins''

->'''Dr. Polaris''': You gonna wash your hands?\\
'''[[spoiler:The Flash in the body of]] Lex Luthor''': ''No''. 'Cuz I'm ''evil''.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited''

->''Tonight we unveil my most diabolical creation. Swank. [[UpToEleven Ten times more addictive]] [[DrugsAreBad than marijuana]]. To human misery!''
-->-- '''Senator Mendoza''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E17LastExitToSpringfield "Last Exit to Springfield"]]

->'''Princess Toadstool:''' We never did anything to you! Why are you holding us prisoner?
->'''Wizenheimer:''' Because I'm an evil Koopa Wizard! I don't need a reason to be mean and nasty! It's my nature!

->When you're playing a character of solid blackness, that in itself is very interesting, in the sense that you have no other motivation other than the accumulation of power. It's not so much about not having a moral center, it's just that the only thing that mattered is increasing power.

->Iago's soliloquy, the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity -- how awful it is!

->I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from [[{{God}} your]] firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.
-->-- '''[[HeelFaithTurn Saint]] Augustine'''

->The task of carrying out violence, of killing, leads to perversion. The seductiveness of violence, the fascination with the grotesque--the Bible calls it 'the lust of the eye'--the god-like empowerment over other human lives the drag of war combined, like the ecstasy of erotic love, to let our senses command our bodies. Killing unleashing within us dark undercurrents that see us desecrate and whip ourselves into greater orgies or destruction.

->I lost track of time because I was enjoying myself so much... [[AxCrazy It made me feel powerful. It was better than any drug I'd ever had, the high, the rush I was getting.]]

->"Why did you kill everybody in the house?"\\
"They was home!"

->"I wanted to do it because it's fun. It's fun to do bad things."
-->-- '''Latarian Milton''', after being asked why he stole his grandmother's car and took it for a joyride.

->"I like killing people because [[EvilFeelsGood it is so much fun]]. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame man is the most dangerous animal of all]]. To kill something gives me the most thrilling experience. It is [[BetterThanSex even better than getting your rocks off with a girl]]. The best part of it is that, when I die, I will be reborn in paradise and those I have killed will become my slaves. I will not give you my name because you will try to slow down or stop my collection of slaves for my afterlife."

'''Kingpin''': {{You're|Insane}} [[EvenEvilHasStandards a madman.]]\\