Chaotic Evil / Live-Action Films

• Battle Royale: The film version of Kazuo Kiriyama, who transferred into the school just so he could have the chance to kill people, qualifies.
• The Matrix: Smith, after being brought back in The Matrix Reloaded, becomes this. He has nothing but contempt and hatred for humans, believes everything in reality to be futile and pointless, wishes to destroy everyone and everything in the world, including himself, and viciously beats Neo within an inch of his life whenever the opportunity presents itself.
• Depraved Bisexual Catherine Tramell from Basic Instinct: although she may appear to be Neutral Evil, the film never actually makes clear why she does what she does, which may just be bad writing.
• Star Wars:
  • Darth Maul of The Phantom Menace seems to exist as a vessel of pure fury, hate, and bloodlust... and occasional sadistic glee when he hurts or kills someone. Though he veers more towards Neutral Evil in Star Wars Rebels.
  • Most Sith are this way. Their affinity for stabbing each other in the back over the smallest of slights, or indeed, just because they can, makes you wonder why anyone expects to live long enough to reach tyrant level when they join them. That's the purpose of the Rule of Two: to limit the destruction and ensure the survival of the Sith as a philosophy.
  • The original and default position of The Sith is Neutral Evil — they believe that Force sensitives should use the Dark Side and have a right to lord over other people, and selfishly pursue power. Individual Sith will have their own alignments depending on their goals and values — Vader and Tyranus both wanted to impose order on a corrupt and chaotic galaxy (Lawful Evil), and Palpatine mostly just wanted power (Neutral Evil). The best examples of Chaotic Evil would be Malak, who was Drunk on the Dark Side; Sion, who mostly just wants to kill Jedi; and Nihilus, who was an Omnicidal Maniac Eldritch Abomination.
  • General Grievous might have been a Proud Warrior once, but now he is just a bloodthirsty slaughterer, who wants to commit genocide against the Jedi and is ready to kill and betray everyone who is in his way. And he really takes A LOT of joy in doing so.
  • Kylo Ren is a Sith-in-training and swore himself towards the Dark Side, yet struggles to deal with both his inner turmoil. And what's left of his nicer self, many would agree that he is definitely not as professional as Darth Vader. In fact it's precisely his childish outbursts and desperate nature that make him lose a lot of credit with older fans (and possibly his troopers too).
• The Joker from The Dark Knight is the poster boy for this alignment. The Joker was written in a way that demonstrates what lengths you have to go to to get a seriously Chaotic Evil character; the several different writers of the movie all had their own ideas of the Joker's motivation, character and backstory, but they decided not to discuss them with each other, and instead produced a script where different parts of the script are written with different character interpretations in mind so that the Joker's actions seem genuinely disordered and unpredictable. He also exhibits an idealistic devotion to chaos, which he spends the movie "promoting" to the world.
  • He convinces the mob to give him half of the fortune they've hidden in exchange for killing Batman, and then...burns his half.
  • When Dent, the nascent Two-Face, says that he'll decide whether he kills the Joker based on the flip of a coin, the Joker loves this. Never mind that he has a 50% chance of dying; life and death being determined by something completely random is his happy place.
• Get Out (2017):
  • Rose derives sadistic kicks by forming false relationships with her victims before handing them over to be experimented on.
  • Jeremy is more outwardly violent and is the muscle in the operation.
• Saw:
  • Even though he sees himself as being Chaotic Good, most of John Kramer's victims would beg to differ, particularly when the tests he planned in later films (which were set up by Mark Hoffman) show that he's gone well beyond what his backstory would allow for a Freudian Excuse.
  • Hoffman himself is an even bigger example. Besides having most of John's traits in regards to Chaotic Evil, he tried to exploit the Jigsaw legacy to turn it into his own name, has directly killed many people without using traps, and progressively becomes more sadistic and sociopathic as the series progresses.
• Arthur Burns from The Proposition. Although he does love his friends, he is a monstrous man and an outlaw that disregards the rules of civilization.
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has a Villain Protagonist who is a Chaotic Evil Serial Killer, who manages to retain our sympathy mainly due to his revenge motivation and being pitted against the Lawful Evil Judge Turpin. Mrs. Lovett completes the trifecta as Neutral Evil, turning Sweeney's murders into a vehicle for profit for her restaurant in quite the ghoulish fashion.
• The Gremlins, whose only purpose seems to be going around destroying and killing, are this, and border on both Chaotic Stupid and Stupid Evil.
• A Clockwork Orange: Alex. Rape, murder, theft, a little classical music...
• In his cinematic debut, one minute he's an Affably Evil Wicked Cultured Magnificent Bastard Villain Protagonist, the next he's Ax-Crazy and the stuff of nightmares. It's difficult to imagine a different alignment to hang on Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
  • Buffalo Bill ([[The Silence of the Lambs) and Francis Dolarhyde ([[Literature/Red Dragon) being sadistic, impulse-driven Serial Killers, are Chaotic Evil as well.
• Halloween: Michael Myers, and for that matter all the great slasher flick villains.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The family of Leatherface, who bully him around and manipulate him into killing people to satisfy their own sick and twisted goals. Leatherface himself is usually portrayed as somewhat sympathetic in contrast to his family, despite being the main killer of the movies.
• The normally Lawful Evil Pinhead ends up as this in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth due to a series of complicated circumstances that separate his human spirit and evil self into separate beings.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger is a Type II example, as he depends on the dream demons for his powers to work. There is some attempt to give him a revenge motive in the earlier movies (killing the children of the parents who killed him), but eventually that flimsy excuse is done away with and he's revealed to just be a sick bastard who likes killing people.
• Henry Evans from The Good Son. Essentially what if Kevin McAllister was an emotionless psycho who uses his craftiness against his family instead of burglars.
• In the Company of Men offers an interesting test case in the limits of Chaotic Evil. The main character in that film is Chad, a typically sociopathic and misogynistic Wall Street banker who decides, ostensibly in anger over a bad break-up, to get revenge on womankind by targeting the most fragile, the most helpless and the most vulnerable woman he can find, leading her on, and then psychologically breaking her. So far, so Neutral Evil. However, Howie, the Omega Male he drags along with him on this crusade, has the misfortune to actually fall in love with the girl, and, wanting to call it off, visits Chad at his home, where he sees him happily ensconced with his girlfriend, who never left him in the first place. When asked why then did he embark on his escapade, he simply responds, "Because I could".
• The fictional version of Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland is an impulsively violent and cruel dictator.
• Clarence Boddicker from RoboCop (1987) has committed every crime in the book, does not work well with his Lawful Evil superior Dick Jones of the OCP, and has fun with violence, making him textbook Chaotic Evil.
• Top Dollar, the Big Bad from the film of The Crow (1994), gives a speech about evil and chaos that is practically a psalm about this alignment.
  Greed is for amateurs. Chaos, disorder, anarchy... now that's fun!
• Lord John Whorfin from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. "He's a vicious psychopath, Tommy. Just as soon kill ya as go fishin'..."
• Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas is an arrogant hothead and a sociopath who will just as soon shoot you or knife you to death as laugh with you. He is infamous for his Hair-Trigger Temper (in fact, that trope used to be called "The Pesci" because of Pesci's performance as Tommy in the movie), which ultimately gets him killed when he makes the mistake of killing a made man.
• Godzilla, as portrayed in the original Gojira, Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack!, and Shin Godzilla. While more sympathetic interpretations show him as Chaotic Neutral, in his original portrayal his only goal seems to be to get revenge on all mankind.
  • Destoroyah, from Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, being revived and mutated by the Oxygen Destroyer, revels in destruction and death, especially when it tortures the King of the Monsters.
  • Most versions of King Ghidorah love to inflict pain and suffering, spreading murder and mayhem with no higher purpose at all. The Showa version kills planets for fun, and most others are, at best, a Psycho for Hire who loves his job. Notably, his "roar" is designed to resemble high-pitched giggling.
• Yuri from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured movie Werewolf (1996) is hot-tempered, willing to assault anyone over the slightest provocation, and has only the vaguely defined goal of injecting people to see if he can turn them into werewolves and that will somehow give him fame and fortune, but it's clear that he has no plan to make that happen, and so is fascinated to watch his victims transform into werewolves for its own sake.
• Speaking of Mystery Science Theater 3000 villains, J.C. from The Sidehackers can be considered a clear example of this alignment, being a Faux Affably Evil Psychopathic Manchild who reacts to dissapointment with murderous violence as the protagonist Rommel and his girlfriend found out the hard way.
• Likely unintentional but Griffin, the Villain Protagonist from Red Zone Cuba is a disturbingly realistic portrayal of this alignment, a violent thug combining an Hair-Trigger Temper with Chronic Villainy which leads him to assault his two companions at the drop of a hat and murder a restaurant owner and rape his blind daughter for unexplained reasons, despite Griffin's claims of wanting to go legit.
• Samara from The Ring is an unstoppable force with powers she can't or won't control that allow her to kill people with her mind alone, which remain potent even after her death. She states outright that she wants to hurt people, she drove her own parents to murder and suicide, and she is willing to possess a young child in order to hijack his loving relationship with his mother. The only way to prevent her from killing you after you've watched her video is to sic her on someone else.
• The Ax-Crazy teenager J.D. of Heathers is a surprisingly realistic example of Chaotic Evil, manipulating events so he can blow up his entire school out of a desire to tear down the social cliques.
• Vincent from Collateral represents the element of chaos in Max's carefully ordered world. Though he seems quite affable and likeable, he is a cold-blooded and sociopathic hitman with more than a bit of Straw Nihilist in him.
• Andre Baptiste Sr., an Ax-Crazy warlord and would-be Caligula who is Neutral Evil arms-dealing protagonist Yuri Orlov's number one customer in Lord of War. His son Andre Jr. is also pure, distilled Chaotic Evil — his favorite hobby is riding around in a convertible gunning down random people with a gold-plated AK-47.
• Ax-Crazy Psycho for Hire Gaear Grimsrud from the Coen brothers' Fargo. Unlike his partner in crime, who only kills people when they get in his way, he'll do it just because he feels like it.
• Zé Pequeno (Lil' Zé), the vicious gangster who is the primary antagonist in City of God. He's absolutely ruthless in running his gang, takes whatever he wants and kills whoever gets in his way when he does so. At one point, he goes into a seedy hotel/whorehouse and, after robbing it, slaughters everyone there just for the hell of it. When he does this, he's all of twelve years old.
• Simon Phoenix from Demolition Man is a very pure example of Chaotic Evil; he just wants to see the world burn for fun, to the point where he sees a nanny state future as a fun toy to break.
• Rocky III: Clubber Lang is most certainly Chaotic Evil being a thuggish and sadistic arrogant boxer guy who doesn't care for sport rules and public decency.
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God: Aguirre is a raving lunatic who endlessly dreams up betrayals, executions and incest. Doubles as Stupid Evil, since he is too far gone to even notice his followers dying around him.
• Carl Denham, the greedy filmmaker in King Kong (1933), is listed as Chaotic Evil in the official D&D supplement Complete Scoundrel.
• Raoul Silva of Skyfall fluctuates between being a giggling goofball and a dangerous murderer with little provocation. Sometimes he's both. His messed up psyche has some justification, given that he was betrayed by M and survived a suicide by cyanide tablet.
• Agent Kruger from Elysium is a really unhinged Psycho for Hire who works for the Lawful Evil government that rules the titular station in the film. His personal bio◊ includes multiple mentions of human rights violations, rape, torture and more. If given any kind of weapon, he will gladly use it to blow up or cut up some poor fool, as evidenced many times through out the story. When he finds out about the codes that could allow any to control the station, he gladly jumps on the opportunity to do so to turn Elysium into his personal playground.
• The Laughably Evil Will Wharton, aka. Wild Bill from TheGreenMile antagonises and picks fights with practically everyone around him for the sheer joy of it and fears absolutely nothing except the padded room, although he can be calculating too, like Obfuscating Stupidity that allows him to get the drop on the guards and almost kill Dean Stanton, and spit a whole square of saliva'd-up moon pie into Brutus Howell's face. It makes him all the more despicable when it's revealed that he was the real rapist and murderer of the two girls that John Coffey was accused of killing, manipulating them to be silent as he did the deed and seemed to revel and toy with John Coffey with the false accusation.
• Joe from Nymphomaniac grows more and more depraved over the course of Part 2 and eventually becomes an extortionist specializing in physical and psychological torture.
• Loki becomes a Type 1 in Thor, having started out more Neutral Good good, and continues to be (the Well-Intentioned Extremist and/or Type 4 version of) this in The Avengers. However, in Thor: The Dark World, he may be becoming either more (some form of) good or Lawful Evil, but it's hard to tell and it may not help the heroes much even if it happens.
• Frank Booth from Blue Velvet is a vile, perverted, sadistic and psychopathic gangster, who definitely fits the Chaotic Evil category given his actions throughout the film. From his introduction, which consisted of huffing oxygen while raping Dorothy Valance, it can be seen that he is one of the most evil characters in David Lynch's films, and that's saying a lot.
• Mary Lou Maloney from the Second and Third Prom Night movies. An Ax-Crazy Depraved Bisexual who comes back from the dead to murder people (partly out of revenge for her death, though mainly just for fun) as well as using her possession and Mind Control powers to make people do evil. Even in life she was a cruel and selfish girl who thought nothing of dumping her boyfriend right on Prom Night.
• The DC Extended Universe version of Harley Quinn is this, being a lot more psycho and violent than her original (DCAU) version. Despite this she is still type one (more chaotic than evil), and not incapable of showing kindness. She's probably shifted to Chaotic Neutral by the end of Birds of Prey (2020).
• Adrian Griffin from The Invisible Man (2020) is an arguable Type 4. He was willing to do anything to get back with Cecilia, though, despite his wealth, only resorted to more illegal methods like breaking and entering, drugging Cecilia, attacking Sydney, and murdering her sister (Though whether he was doing all of it or using his brother as an enforcer is entirely up to speculation).
• Yoon Tae-goo, "The Weird" from The Good, The Bad, The Weird starts off as a Laughably Evil Villain Protagonist that uses underhanded tactics and deceit to deal with his adversaries, in contrast to his Lawful Good partner. He, often unintentionally, causes a ton of destruction wherever he goes, whether it is by robbing and killing a train full of innocent people or taking down the Lawful Evil occupying Japanese army.
• The Kurgan from Highlander is a textbook example, being a bloothirsty psychotic asshole who murders and tortures people mainly just for fun, and for whom getting the Prize seems like more of an afterthought that anything.
• Masked Avengers: Lin Yung Chi forms a gang of masked killers to rape and murder for his own amusement.
• Mad Max: The Toecutter leads a gang of bikers exploiting his time's social decay to rape and murder as they please, and specifically kills a cop's family because he dared to kill one of his henchmen in a car chase.
• Teenagers from Outer Space: Thor, a mad dog who joins his planet's military because he genuinely believes his race are supreme and also enjoys killing. When sent to capture a deserter, he ends up deciding to defy his superiors and kill him instead.
• 13 Assassins: Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira spends his days raping and murdering random people, exploiting the fact that he's the shogun's brother to get away with it all. When a group of assassins sets off to kill him, he finds the ensuing carnage absolutely beautiful and decides to overthrow his brother to plunge Japan into war.
• Trancers: Martin Whistler, a zombie-making madman who deliberately wants to destroy his society via time travel so he can rule the ashes.
• Black Christmas (1974): Billy is a complete lunatic who shows up at a random sorority house and starts killing the residents for no reason while taunting them with obscene, incoherent phone calls and completely trashing noms for no reason.
• The Black Cobra: The bandit leader genuinely believes that true freedom is the ability to brutalize and murder anybody he wants, and leads a biker gang in doing just that.
• Goth (2003): Goth genuinely believes the true goth lifestyle is murdering and raping whoever she wants to, and loves corrupting people to her worldview.
• Wrestlemaniac: El Mascarado is a ravenous beast that exists only to murder people via wrestling.
• Alien Outlaw: The aliens basically show up on Earth and start murdering people For the Evulz.
• Time After Time: Jack the Ripper steals a time machine to keep killing, and finds the modern world to be beautiful because warfare has been perfected, fully intending to use the machine to kill with impunity.
• Satan's Little Helper: The Satan Man basically shows up one day to slaughter an island town For the Evulz, and corrupts a child into helping him on a whim.
• Witchfinder General: Matthew Hopkins takes advantage of people's religious anxieties regarding the chaos of the English Civil War to torture and murder women for cash.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): Ronan the Accuser, a racist fanatic willing to betray his own government to attempt planetary genocide.
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming: The Vulture steals alien tech from the government and sells it to criminals because he believes the government steps too much on the little guy.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except: The cult leader thinks he's the Second Coming of Christ, and this gives him the right to slaughter anybody he feels like.
• The Howling: Eddie Quist rejects the Colony's philosophy of self-control and uses his lycanthropy as a means to become a Serial Killer.
• Warriors of the Wasteland: One leads a warband to slaughter the few survivors of humanity and destroy all their knowledge, because he believes that the species doesn't deserve to survive.
• Blade: Deacon Frost despises the idea of vampires hiding in the shadows and views humans as nothing but food, being willing to summon a blood god to do so.
• Bubba the Redneck Werewolf: The Devil acts like a slick-talking Lawful Evil deal-maker, but deliberately wrecks them all for his own amusement, while also walking down the street and causing random accidents, including literally taking candy from a baby.
• Don't Kill It: Demons are creatures of pure chaos and exist to slaughter whoever they feel like for fun.
• Ghostbusters (1984): Gozer the Destructor literally exists entirely to destroy things, showing up to various alternate universes to cause apocalypses for no reason.
• Night Watch: Zavulon acts like the Lawful Evil head of the Dark Others, but secretly hates the orderly system and plots to descend it into war.
• Hellbenders: Surtr is a Destroyer Deity whose very existence causes a spate of murders, and wants to cause the apocalypse for fun.
• Night of the Scarecrow: The warlock makes a deal with a small town to make their crops bountiful so long as he can be above the law, starts a hedonism cult amongst the townsfolk, then when he's killed for it goes on a horrific Roaring Rampage of Revenge on his killer's descendants.
• War Witch: Great Tiger and his militia are Terrorists Without a Cause fighting against an unnamed African government. It is never specified what they want, but they're willing to conscript Child Soldiers and kill civilians.

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