History StupidEvil / AnimeAndManga

** This include the movie villains that many of them are greedy oportunists that want to exploit the pokemon or steal an ancient and powerful artifact for personal gain, but due to their callousness to the lives of pokemon and nature and their wrecklessness in using those artifacts as weapons, they are causing deadly catastrophies which Ash later has to team up with the legendary pokemon of the week to fix their mess, some which nearly kills the legendary pokemon and would make repremendable harm to the environment which their lack of presence. Some of those villains are the pokemons themselves, Palkia and Dialga almost destroy the universe for a feud

** Danzo does this as well. We find out he's behind Kabuto's tragic backstory — Kabuto's adoptive mother was one of Danzo's best spies. Kabuto offered to act as his spy as well. Danzo used his safety to guarantee the mother's loyalty… while subtly altering the photographs he sent her of Kabuto so when she met her son as an adult, she didn't recognize him. Why didn't he want her to recognize him? Danzo hoped they'd kill each other because they were too knowledgeable as spies. Keep in mind that both were still totally loyal at this point and he had leverage on Kabuto's mother. Instead, he just set off Kabuto's StartOfDarkness. So, in the end, he's out two spies and one has turned on the village. Danzo's downfall was agreeing to spare Sasuke as Itachi would tell him the truth of Danzo's betrayal and will come to kill him, Danzo thought he could use Karin as hostage to spare his life but Sasuke cares more for his revenge than her life and shot a energy shot at the two of them, at the end he never acomplished his goal of being hokage when he was the closest, he never deserved that position for his lies and greed

** Danzo does this as well. We find out he's behind Kabuto's tragic backstory — Kabuto's adoptive mother was one of Danzo's best spies. Kabuto offered to act as his spy as well. Danzo used his safety to guarantee the mother's loyalty… while subtly altering the photographs he sent her of Kabuto so when she met her son as an adult, she didn't recognize him. Why didn't he want her to recognize him? Danzo hoped they'd kill each other because they were too knowledgeable as spies. Keep in mind that both were still totally loyal at this point and he had leverage on Kabuto's mother. Instead, he just set off Kabuto's StartOfDarkness. So, in the end, he's out two spies and one has turned on the village.

** Madara Uchiha from start to finish was a global threat as he thought ninjas had to use brute force to make his people thrive, he never admitted his own flaws and he thought of compassion and unity as weakness. He manitpulated Obito Uchiha in becoming a terrorist telling him his team left him to die and he was taking care of him, actually he planned in killing his crush Rin to make him vulnerable to his lies. He used genjutsu on Kurama to make him attack other villages which fueled more Kurama's hatred for humans, and when Obito also used Kurama to attack Konoha, Danzo blamed all the Uchiha and conspired to kill all the Uchiha to save the village. The stupidest idea Madara had was summoning the ten tails beast to make a Tsukuyomi tree that will wrap all the people and animals in the world in cocoons and make them sleep in the utopian lives they want, but he didn't know that the Otsutsuki beings were using the tree to steal all the chakra in the world to expand their immortality and all life in the planet will be extinct if they succeeded

** ''Literature/FateApocrypha'': Astolfo/Rider of Black's initial master, Celenike Icecolle Yggdmillenia, is not just [[MoreDespicableMinion extremely vile]], but she's also incredibly stupid. She's only in the Holy Grail War to satisfy her lust on molesting her Servant and violating his honor for nothing but sheer [[{{Sadist}} sadism]]. She rarely to never discuss strategies with her fellow Yggdmillenia family members to improve their chances to win the Holy Grail, she's deliberately keeping her own Command Spells solely to force Astolfo to do a lot of sadism based on her own anger rather than doing something to give the Black faction an advantage. Even stupider, she's doing it in the middle of an open field when no faction has been declared a winner, allowing Mordred (Saber of Red), who doesn't even have a Presence Concealment, to sneak behind her and [[OffWithHisHead lop off her head.]]

** [[{{Sadist}} Frieza]] simply ''cannot'' resist an opportunity to KickTheDog or toy with his enemies no matter what. This bites him in the ass when he collects all the Dragon Balls but doesn't know how to summon the dragon to wish for immortality, and all but three Namekians who could tell him how have been killed under his orders. This is taken up to eleven in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', where Frieza goes out of his way to hurt Goku's friends ''right in front of him'' and put a bounty on Krillin's head since he knows that killing him would cause Goku great pain. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge This is despite knowing]] [[UnstoppableRage exactly what happened]] the last time he pushed Goku to his [[RageBreakingPoint breaking point]]. Luckily for Frieza, Goku maintained his cool even after he murdered Piccolo. And then there's [[spoiler:him killing Paragus in order to make Broly angry enough to defeat Goku in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly''. [[GoneHorriblyRight It goes about as well]] [[UnstoppableRage as you'd expect.]]]]

** Danzo does this as well. We find out he's being Kabuto's tragic backstory — Kabuto's adoptive mother was one of Danzo's best spies. Kabuto offered to act as his spy as well. Danzo used his safety to guarantee the mother's loyalty… while subtly altering the photographs he sent her of Kabuto so when she met her son as an adult, she didn't recognize him. Why didn't he want her to recognize him? Danzo hoped they'd kill each other because they were too knowledgeable as spies. Keep in mind that both were still totally loyal at this point and he had leverage on Kabuto's mother. Instead, he just set off Kabuto's StartOfDarkness. So, in the end, he's out two spies and one has turned on the village.

* ''Anime/VoltesV'': [[EvilUncle Emperor]] [[{{Narcissist}} Zambajil]] of [[AliensAreBastards Planet]] [[TheEmpire Boazania]] could be the poster boy for this trope. He wants his nephew, [[WarriorPrince Prince Heinel]], [[spoiler: dead because he is the true heir to the throne. Zambojil himself ascended to the throne by knocking [[TheGoodKing Heinel's father]] out of the game through dirty means, and intends to get rid of [[ObliviousToHatred Heinel]] by sending him to command an AlienInvasion against Earth. To his frustration, his nephew is actually quite [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership competent at warfare]] and just won't die. His hatred for Heinel comes off as irrational since the boy has nothing but respect for his uncle, disavowed his own father and never showed any intent of taking the throne from him. Oh, and Heinel's father, who Zambajil had imprisoned and enslaved? He also happened to the the Boazanian Minister of Science and Technology, and his absence causes the strength of the Boazanian military's weaponry to heavily detoriate. Many a fanfic have also pointed out that since Zambajil has no children of his own, killing Heinel would trigger a SuccessionCrisis. Heinel also graduated at the top of the Boazanian Institute of Military Sciences and Warfare, is the only one competent enough to lead the Earthern Invasion, is a MasterSwordsman and an excellent HumongousMecha pilot. He would be an extremely useful ally to Zambajil, and had he given him his favour, in the series finale Heinel would have successfully thwarted the Voltes Team and killed Kenichi, thus ensuring Zambajil would be able to keep his rule. Zambajil's biggest obstacle was his own narcissism and inability to view others as equals, and as such, he receives a KarmicDeath at the hands of Heinel himself]]. For bonus points, Zambajil makes all his cronies utter an absurdly long greeting before talking to him, which becomes a [[SarcasmMode tad bit inconvient]] when Gurul tells him that their planet is potentially under attack by [[CombiningMecha Voltes V]]. Keep in mind even ''Heinel'' doesn't do this, and he's literally named after the form of address "your highness".

* ''Anime/VoltesV'': [[EvilUncle Emperor]] [[{{Narcissist}} Zambajil]] of [[AliensAreBastards Planet]] [[TheEmpire Boazania]] wants his nephew, [[WarriorPrince Prince Heinel]], [[spoiler: dead because he is the true heir to the throne. Zambojil himself ascended to the throne by knocking [[TheGoodKing Heinel's father]] out of the game through dirty means, and intends to get rid of [[ObliviousToHatred Heinel]] by sending him to command an AlienInvasion against Earth. To his frustration, his nephew is actually quite [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership competent at warfare]] and just won't die. His hatred for Heinel comes off as irrational since the boy has nothing but respect for his uncle, disavowed his own father and never showed any intent of taking the throne from him. Oh, and Heinel's father, who Zambajil had imprisoned and enslaved? He also happened to the the Boazanian Minister of Science and Technology, and his absence causes the strength of the Boazanian military's weaponry heavily detoriates. Many a fanfic have also pointed out that since Zambajil has no children of his own, killing Heinel would trigger a SuccessionCrisis. Heinel also graduated at the top of the Boazanian Institute of Military Sciences and Warfare, is the only one competent enough to lead the Earthern Invasion, is a MasterSwordsman and an excellent HumongousMecha pilot. He would be an extremely useful ally to Zambajil, and had he given him his favour, in the series finale Heinel would have successfully thwarted the Voltes Team and killed Kenichi, thus ensuring Zambajil would be able to keep his rule. Zambajil's biggest obstacle was his own narcissism and inability to view others as equals, and as such, he receives a KarmicDeath at the hands of Heinel himself]]. For bonus points, Zambajil makes all his cronies utter an absurdly long greeting before talking to him, which becomes a [[SarcasmMode tad bit inconvient]] when Gurul tells him that their planet is potentially under attack by [[CombiningMecha Voltes V]]. Keep in mind even ''Heinel'' doesn't do this, and he's literally named after the form of address "your highness".

* ''Anime/VoltesV'': [[EvilUncle Emperor]] [[{{Narcissist}} Zambajil]] of [[AliensAreBastards Planet]] [[TheEmpire Boazania]] wants his nephew, [[WarriorPrince Prince Heinel]], [[spoiler: dead because he is the true heir to the throne. Zambojil himself ascended to the throne by knocking [[TheGoodKing Heinel's father]] out of the game through dirty means, and intends to get rid of [[ObliviousToHatred Heinel]] by sending him to command an AlienInvasion against Earth. To his frustration, his nephew is actually quite [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership competent at warfare]] and just won't die. His hatred for Heinel comes off as irrational since the boy has nothing but respect for his uncle, disavowed his own father and never showed any intent of taking the throne from him. Many a fanfic have also pointed out that since Zambajil has no children of his own, killing Heinel would trigger a SuccessionCrisis. Heinel also graduated at the top of the Boazanian Institute of Military Sciences and Warfare, is the only one competent enough to lead the Earthern Invasion, is a MasterSwordsman and an excellent HumongousMecha pilot. He would be an extremely useful ally to Zambajil, and had he given him his favour, in the series finale Heinel would have successfully thwarted the Voltes Team and killed Kenichi, thus ensuring Zambajil would be able to keep his rule. Zambajil's biggest obstacle was his own narcissism and inability to view others as equals, and as such, he receives a KarmicDeath at the hands of Heinel himself]]. For bonus points, Zambajil makes all his cronies utter an absurdly long greeting before talking to him, which becomes a [[SarcasmMode tad bit inconvient]] when Gurul tells him that their planet is potentially under attack by Voltes V. Keep in mind even ''Heinel'' doesn't do this, and he's literally named after the form of address "your highness".

* ''Anime/VoltesV'': [[EvilUncle Emperor]] [[{{Narcissist}} Zambajil]] of [[AliensAreBastards Planet]] [[TheEmpire Boazania]] wants his nephew, [[WarriorPrince Prince Heinel]], [[spoiler: dead because he is the true heir to the throne. Zambojil himself ascended to the throne by knocking [[TheGoodKing Heinel's father]] out of the game through dirty means, and intends to get rid of [[ObliviousToHatred Heinel]] by sending him to command an AlienInvasion against Earth. To his frustration, his nephew is actually quite [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership competent at warfare]] and just won't die. His hatred for Heinel comes off as irrational since the boy has nothing but respect for his uncle, disavowed his own father and never showed any intent of taking the throne from him. Many a fanfic have also pointed out that since Zambajil has no children of his own, killing Heinel would trigger a SuccessionCrisis. Heinel also graduated at the top of the Boazanian Institute of Military Sciences and Warfare, is the only one competent enough to lead the Earthern Invasion, is a MasterSwordsman and an excellent HumongousMecha pilot. He would be an extremely useful ally to Zambajil, and had he given him his favour, in the series finale Heinel would have successfully thwarted the Voltes Team and killed Kenichi, thus ensuring Zambajil would be able to keep his rule. Zambajil's biggest obstacle was his own narcissism and inability to view others as equals, and as such, he receives a KarmicDeath at the hands of Heinel himself]]. For bonus points, Zambajil makes all his cronies utter an absurdly long greeting before talking to him, which becomes a [[SarcasmMode tad bit inconvient]] when Gurul tells him that their planet is potentially under attack by Voltes V.

* The Apostle Wyald in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', a berserker who throughout his second life put so much effort into enjoying himself by being a vicious sadist to the point that he, in his dying frenzy, threatens to kill Griffith, the one person he was absolutely not supposed to kill, hoping to speed the process that would give him a second chance (or a third one if one wishes to take into account his early life). When he's called on it, he mouths off to his superior, [[BloodKnight Zodd]], who tears Wyald in half for being such a moron. He had spent the whole arc acting like a murderous loon, including doing far worse than killing people ([[BadBoss including his own subordinates]]) for the hell of it, even if it made his job harder--this event was merely the one time he made the mistake of doing it to someone who could actually punish him for it.

* The Apostle Wyald in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', a berserker who throughout his second life put so much effort into enjoying himself by being a vicious sadist to the point that he, in his dying frenzy, threatens to kill Griffith, the one person he was absolutely not supposed to kill, hoping to speed the process that would give him a second chance (or a third one if one wishes to take into account his early life). When he's called on it, he mouths off to his superior, [[BloodKnight Zodd]], who tears Wyald in half for being such a moron.

* The Apostle Wyald in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', a berserker who throughout his second life put so much effort into enjoying himself by being a vicious sadist to the point that he, in his dying frenzy, threatens to kill Griffith, the one person he was absolutely not supposed to kill, hoping to speed the process that would give him a second chance (or a third one if one wishes to take into account his early life). When he's called on it, he mouths off to his superior, [[BloodKnight Zodd]], who tears Wyald in half for being such a moron. Downplayed, since fear of death can make even someone this twisted act irrationally.

* The Apostle Wyald in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', a berserker who throughout his second life put so much effort into enjoying himself by being a vicious sadist to the point that he, in his dying frenzy, threatens to kill Griffith, the one person he was absolutely not supposed to kill, hoping to speed the process that would give him a second chance (or a third one if one con. When he's called on it, he mouths off to his superior, [[BloodKnight Zodd]], who tears Wyald in half for being such a moron. Downplayed, since fear of death can make even someone this twisted act irrationally

* The Apostle Wyald in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', a berserker who through his second life put so much effort into enjoying himself by being a vicious sadist that he, in his dying frenzy, threatens to kill Griffith, the one person he was absolutely not supposed to kill, hoping to speed the process that would give him a secnod chance. When he's called on it, he mouths off to his superior, [[BloodKnight Zodd]], who tears Wyald in half for being such a moron.

* The Apostle Wyald in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', a berserker who put so much effort into being a vicious sadist that he tried to kill Griffith, the one person he was absolutely not supposed to kill. When he's called on it, he mouths off to his superior, [[BloodKnight Zodd]], who tears Wyald in half for being such a moron.

** ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'': In a maddened fit, Tassilo Vago shoots [[spoiler:Maria Pia Armonia]] in front of Uso, even though her being his hostage was the only thing keeping Uso from killing him. The action is so pointlessly evil it sends Uso into a HeroicBSOD.

** ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'': Astolfo/Rider of Black's initial master, Celenike Icecolle Yggdmillenia, is not just [[MoreDespicableMinion extremely vile]], but she's also incredibly stupid. She's only in the Holy Grail War to satisfy her lust on molesting her Servant and violating his honor for nothing but sheer [[{{Sadist}} sadism]]. She rarely to never discuss strategies with her fellow Yggdmillenia family members to improve their chances to win the Holy Grail, she's deliberately keeping her own Command Spells solely to force Astolfo to do a lot of sadism based on her own anger rather than doing something to give the Black faction an advantage. Even stupider, she's doing it in the middle of an open field when no faction has been declared a winner, allowing Mordred (Saber of Red), who doesn't even have a Presence Concealment, to sneak behind her and [[OffWithHisHead lop off her head.]]

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'': Dio Brando zigzags this trope. At first, he wisely makes the decision to stop antagonizing Jonathan and instead [[BitchInSheepsClothing pretends to turn over a new leaf]] to lull him into a false sense of security. However, as a young adult, he poisons George in order to get his inheritance faster, but with the same exact poison he used on his father, leading to Jonathan connecting the dots and exposing him. This also comes off as unnecessary and ForTheEvulz due to the fact that Dio is already doing great in studying law, could have waited for George to die of natural causes, and could have used George's continued support while he was still alive. However, his actions do lead to him becoming a powerful Stand-wielding vampire due to his crazy luck.
** ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'': Two words: '''''STEELY. DAN.''''' He has one of the most versatile and inapproachable Stands in the series in Lovers, taking over Joseph's body so that any pain done to Dan is transferred to him, essentially taking him hostage. Dan could have ended Part 3 right then and there, but he's so overly sadistic and impractical with his powers that he wastes time bullying Jotaro and making him do humiliating tasks, like making him polish his shoes with his tongue or stealing from a jewelry store. By the time the heroes get Lovers out of Joseph, it's too little, too late for Dan to regain any sort of advantage, and he ends up [[VillainsWantMercy begging Jotaro for mercy.]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Jotaro doesn't oblige.]]
** ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'': Keicho Nijimura is looking for someone with a Stand power that can MercyKill his father, who's been reduced to a grotesque and nearly mindless shell of a man, but he goes about it in the stupidest way possible. After getting the Stand Arrow and a bow to fire it, he goes about shooting random citizens of Morioh, but there are two problems with that. The first is that if the target doesn't have the potential to develop a Stand, the Arrow will kill them, and the second is that there's no guarantee that if the person survives and gains a Stand power, they can or will help Keicho. As a result, Keicho ends up killing several people and creating several of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek enemies of the week]], one of whom ends up killing him. Worst of all, the Stand Arrow can guide its user to potential targets, a feature that Yoshihiro Kira, [[PragmaticVillainy a man with fewer scruples than Keicho but vastly more intelligence]], uses to create foes to slow Josuke and the other heroes down without any needless casualties.
** ''Manga/GoldenWind'': [[spoiler:Diavolo]]'s insane paranoia and obsession with absolutely nobody knowing anything about him leads him to direct Team Bucciarati to bring his newly discovered daughter to him. While this is pragmatic (as his hit squad had gone rogue and was looking for her), his hit squad had gone rogue because he'd denied them a pay raise and then had two members very brutally killed for trying to find info on him. Then he just had to [[spoiler:kidnap Trish from Bruno literally moments before he would've delivered her normally, and in the process driving Bruno to fight back and go rogue, bringing Team Bucciarati with him]].

* In ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'', Catarina Claes was this in the original game. She repeatedly bullied Maria Campbell, the original game's protagonist, for getting close to Catarina's fiance or adoptive brother, depending on the route, even though she has nothing to gain from it. In fact, Catarina's bullying Maria results in her getting exiled in Geordo or Keith's good endings, while her trying to murder Maria gets her killed in their bad endings. When Catarina regains her PastLifeMemories as someone who played the game and realizes what's in store for her, she immediately goes to great lengths to avoid this, even though all she needed to do was not be so pointlessly cruel.

* ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}'': Due to them being literally ''created'' to be or by players who were role-playing {{Card Carrying Villain}}s back in ''YGGDRASIL'', most of the Floor Guardians will default to just murdering everyone unless Ainz gives them very precise and unambiguous instructions not to. Apparently they aren't as capable of learning as he thinks because he makes it very clear that he wants to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, but they still cause massacres the moment he takes his eyes off of them. Even [[TokenGoodTeammate Sebas]] gets in on this in a way by picking a fight with the criminal underground of the kingdom and slaughtering even helpless surrendering mooks, though that's more GoodIsNotNice in his case. The main reason this hasn't really backfired on Nazarick is because they're so much higher-leveled and stronger than just about anything in the New World nothing actually ''can'' stop them nor does it really bite them in the ass (since the slaughtering tends to convince the survivors/onlookers to just give up).

* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Princess Malty Melromarc is pretty much the ''human personification'' of this trope. A CompulsiveLiar with ChronicBackstabbingDisorder and a bad habit of [[KickTheDog kicking the dog]] either out of [[EvilIsPetty petty spite]] or for [[ForTheEvulz the fun of it]], Malty tends to ruin the lives of anyone she comes in contact with, even when this ends up backfiring in the long run. A truly smart villain would KnowWhenToFoldEm after suffering from the humiliating punishment of having their name legally changed to Bitch after their lies are exposed, but Malty still continues to backstab and ruin other people just to get the last laugh, even if some of those people were her allies. Naturally, this makes her [[HatedByAll hated by everyone who knows her]], and by the time she's foiled in her schemes a second and third time and about to receive her punishment, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome nobody is willing to come to her aid no matter how much she begs since they all know her true nature]].
* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'':

** BigBad [[MisanthropeSupreme Ribbons Allmark]] in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' blows up his own allies, and replaces them with worthless kamikaze machines that are a complete waste of technology and time, and seem to serve no purpose other to make him look even eviler for using such weapons. Most of the atrocities his puppets committed early in the second season, including blowing up a country or two, were committed [[ForTheEvulz for no solid reason other than to show how much of q bastard he was]].
** [[GeneralFailure Iok Kujan]] of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' pretty much excels at this. His standout examples include ignoring [=McGillis=]'s warnings about a [[AIIsACrapshoot Mobile Armor]] and deliberately awakening it, which leads to his own men dying, and using weapons of mass destruction on a fleet of women and children ''who were already trying to surrender to him''. It should be no surprise that even his own allies find him distasteful.

** [[Sadist Frieza]] simply ''cannot'' resist an opportunity to KickTheDog or toy with his enemies no matter what. This bites him in the ass when he collects all the Dragon Balls but doesn't know how to summon the dragon to wish for immortality, and all but three Namekians who could tell him how have been killed under his orders. This is taken up to eleven in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', where Frieza goes out of his way to hurt Goku's friends ''right in front of him'' and put a bounty on Krillin's head since he knows that killing him would cause Goku great pain. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge This is despite knowing]] [[UnstoppableRage exactly what happened]] the last time he pushed Goku to his [[RageBreakingPoint breaking point]]. Luckily for Frieza, Goku maintained his cool even after he murdered Piccolo. And then there's [[spoiler:him killing Paragus in order to make Broly angry enough to defeat Goku in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly''. [[GoneHorriblyRight It goes about as well]] [[UnstoppableRage as you'd expect.]]]]

** Ribbons in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' blows up his own allies, and replaces them with worthless kamikaze machines that are a complete waste of technology and time and seem to serve no purpose other to make him look even eviler for using such weapons. Most of the atrocities his puppets committed early in the second season, including blowing up a country or two, were committed [[ForTheEvulz for no solid reason]].

** Hansel and Gretel, [[CreepyTwins the insane twins]]. After being hired to perform an assassination, they proceed to abduct and torture a bunch of random {{mook}}s for sport, and then murder the person who hired them, not because he was planning on betraying them, but because [[ForTheEvulz they just felt like it]]. They then decide to go through with the assassination anyway, even after it's pointed out to them that they are no longer being paid (in fact, they already took the money in the process of killing their employer). It should also be noted that their target makes a policy of surrounding herself with some of the most deadly soldiers in the world, is a world-class markswoman in her own right, and is justifiably considered within the series to be the most dangerous woman alive...and the twins try to take her out armed only with an axe. It turns out exactly how you'd expect. Balalaika even [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] this, stating that the only way that such an obvious trap would work would be for the target to be so blinded by bloodlust that they would obliviously walk right into it.