- Andor:
- The series starts with two drunk corporate guards deciding to shake down Cassian for money. His Accidental Murder of one (and intentional murder of the other) kicks off the plot.
- Minor character Tigo asks to be named "prefect" when he is put in charge of the Imperial garrison. He acknowledges that it comes with no extra pay, but he really wants to wear the cape.
- In the first season finale, Tigo gets a much less funny moment, when he interrupts Maarva's funeral by kicking over the droid who is projecting her last words. Considering that she was inciting a rebellion, stopping the broadcast was understandable (albeit too little too late), but kicking the droid was just unnecessary.
- Arrested Development: Lucille Bluth invents a holiday, "Cinco de Cuatro", just so there would be no party supplies left for the Hispanic community on Cinco de Mayo.
- Arrowverse:
- Eobard Thawne/The Reverse-Flash/ Harrison Wells of The Flash (2014) is a legitimately threatening Big Bad, but also spends a lot of time just being a major dick: He killed Barry's mom just because the Barry from his stopped his plan to kill the present-day Barry and he was pissed about it. Also, he apologizes to Cisco, whom he killed in an alternate timeline, then adds that he isn't sorry for doing it since he's sure he had a good reason, but he's sorry that Cisco remembers it.
- In Legends of Tomorrow "Doomworld", the Legion of Doom have rewritten reality to their liking. Some of these differences actually make the world better, but they get extremely petty with how they deal with the Legends.
- Thawne keeps Rip trapped in a miniaturized Waverider, turned Stein into a browbeaten employee, and Jax into a jerkass security chief who enjoys tormenting Stein. He's also turned Nate into a Basement-Dweller (with a far less stylish haircut, to boot) and Ray into a janitor.
- Darhk uses Sara and Amaya as his personal attack dogs.
- They are all topped however by Malcolm Merlyn who took the time to ensure Nyssa (who isn't even a Legend) is living a "miserable, closeted life in Ohio". Making it even more petty is that he apparently didn't make himself Ra's Al-Ghul in this reality, so he really did it just to be a dick. The mere mention of it even brings a smile to his face.
- Crisis on Earth-X: Professor Zoom works alongside the Nazis of the titular Alternate Universe not because he aligns with their beliefs or something similar — he just wishes to continue to make Barry Allen's life hell and attacking his wedding with a bunch of Nazis sounded as good a way as any other.
- Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) has an example of petty evil so excessive that it's insane: The Lex Luthor of Earth-38 steals the Book of Destiny and goes on a multiversal killing spree of Alternate versions of Superman and then later defaces the Book so he'll be one of the few people that remain alive once the antimatter wave eats everything, and then when the multiverse is restored and he becomes a Villain with Good Publicity via Retcon, he takes the time to covertly gloat his victory to Supergirl on national television, just to be a dick and literally nothing more.
- The crossover also has another example that stands out because it's a hell of a Happy Ending Override: The Joker massacred all of the staff of the Daily Planet (including Lois Lane) in the years in between Superman Returns and the Crisis, purely because he was pissed off that the Planet, which is a respected periodical but based nowhere near Gotham City, wasn't printing enough news about his atrocities.
- Breaking Bad:
- "Cornered": Walter White's slip into villainy takes a new low when, after tricking his former boss into selling his business at a loss, White refuses to let the man keep his framed "first dollar" keepsake purely out of spite. He then breaks it out and sticks it in a soda machine.
- In "Ozymandias", having already sold Jesse into slavery, Walt stops the Neo-Nazis dragging him away just long enough to tell Jesse that he was there the night Jane died, and chose not to save her. Vince Gilligan considers this one of Walt's worst deeds due to its simple, pointless sadism.
- Better Call Saul
- Jimmy breaks down Chuck's door and destroys a cassette tape containing an incriminating recording. Jimmy is later ordered to pay Chuck damages of $321 to cover the cost of repairing the door. Chuck insists on adding the cost of the tape — a lousy $2.98.
- It runs in the family, as Jimmy does it too. Now broke due to getting disbarred for a year, and learning that the premiums for his malpractice insurance will go up when his suspension finally ends, Jimmy decides to spread the misery by making sure that the insurance company goes after Chuck when Chuck is already down. It's the first time in the series where we are expected not to side with Jimmy, as it's Jimmy's turn to be the petty one, not Chuck.
- After Chuck commits suicide due to the above incident setting off Disaster Dominoes, Jimmy starts acting like a complete dick to Howard out of Misplaced Retribution and not wanting to deal with his own shit. In season 5, Howard at one point sincerely asks if Jimmy would like to be the new McGill in HHM - for this, Jimmy wrecks his car, tries to ruin his reputation by hiring two prostitutes to make a scene during a public meeting, and then gaslights the hell out of him when finally called out on it.
- Whenever Satan drops by to check on Ezekiel Stone in Brimstone, he will engage in some petty prank of anonymous evil. Such as ticketing a legally parked car or loosening a salt shaker. Interestingly enough, this does not stop him from being Affably Evil. Probably because he's played by John Glover, who performs even petty acts of evil with style and panache.
- Deputy Chief Madeline Wuntch, Holt's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis on Brooklyn Nine-Nine takes this to an art form. True, she's on the right side of the law, and she's at least not a bigot, but she's also the sort of person who'd install a portrait of herself in her foe's office just so she'd always be looking down on him, send an internal investigations officer into his precinct as a mole just to see if she can catch him screwing up, and threaten to make his squad, whom he considers his True Companions, miserable by transferring to jobs they'd hate if he doesn't go along with what she wants. Why? Because she doesn't like Holt; that's the only reason. Wuntch is so petty, it's actually kind of impressive.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- In "Seeing Red", in addition to being a blatant Straw Misogynist, when he gets the Orbs of Nezzla'Khan, the very first thing Warren Mears decides to use them for is to get revenge on a jock who bullied him in high school and try to steal his girlfriend.
- When Glory finds out that Buffy is the Slayer after their first fight, she is absolutely horrified and offended, describing such a face-off as "unbelievably common."
- Spike often indulged in this after being chipped.
- In "Doomed", after nearly staking himself, Willow and Xander take him along out of pity. Spike doesn't want their pity and gives them a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, showing he can still inflict damage even with the chip in his head, and smirks evilly to himself once his back is turned.
- In "A New Man", he nonchalantly grabs Xander's radio when packing up to leave Xander's apartment. When Xander calls him on this, Spike replies, "And you're what, shocked and disappointed? I'm evil!"
- In "Crush", he steals money from Xander at the Bronze to buy himself drinks.
- In "Life Serial", Spike attempts to demonstrate to Buffy how to extract information from a group of demons by playing poker, which they're playing with kittens as currency. Spike has no use for kittens, but cheats anyway, which Buffy notices.
- Throughout Season 2, Angelus' Evil Plan amounts to little more than "mess with Buffy's head and torture her and her pals as much as possible," because he's disgusted that Buffy made him feel human while ensouled ("She made me feel like a human being. That's not the kinda thing you just forgive."). It isn't until Acathla enters the picture that he has an actual goal to work towards, and even that is centered around making people suffer as much as possible because he thinks it's hilarious.
- Castle featured an interesting variant where it actually worked in the heroes' favour; in the seventh season episode "Reckoning", Richard Castle is lost for leads on serial killer Jerry Tyson, AKA 3XK, and so he goes to ask Tyson's former cellmate and accomplice Marcus Gates for leads. Gates and Castle both know that Gates isn't in a position to make deals of information in exchange for a reduced sentence given his crimes, so the only reason he would help Castle is the chance to make Tyson suffer. This proves to be enough for Gates to guide Castle to a cabin where he lures Tyson into a trap and takes him out.
- Many fans felt that the Master beating his wife in Doctor Who was an example of this. He killed a huge percentage of the Earth's population, the president of the US, and enslaved the last pathetic remnants of humanity from the end of time to do his bidding. But only seeing him beat his wife would let us realize just how evil he is! The Doctor points out the Master's pettiness to him in "The Deadly Assassin": "You would delay an execution to pull the wings off a fly!” By the time the Master becomes Missy, all of the mass murder he/she casually leaves behind whenever they are in town is compared to texting the Doctor of all things. When the Master kills Missy, it's partially an elaborate Spiteful Suicide and he makes clear that he can't stand the very thought of any incarnation of him being friends with the Doctor.
- Fargo:
- In Season 1, Lorne Malvo is an evil bastard who kills close to 40 people. However, he seems to take particular delight in petty acts of evil that corrupt other people. He convinces a teenager working at a motel to urinate in his boss's gas tank...and then calls up the boss so the kid will be caught in the act. Malvo also calls up the dimwitted son of the late Sam Hess, pretends to be the late Hess's lawyer, and tells the kid that the will left everything to his younger brother. Malvo keeps a briefcase filled with tape recordings of strangers that he corrupted and led into ruin.
- Sam Hess is the crooked owner of a trucking company with strong mob connections. However, he still takes great delight in tormenting Lester Nygaard the same way he did when they were in high school.
- Lester Nygaard starts off as a sympathetic Butt-Monkey who finally snaps and commits a horrible act when he kills his wife Pearl. However, when he gets away with his crimes, he becomes a Smug Snake and soon starts exhibiting petty behavior similar to that of Hess.
- In Season 3, VM Varga often likes to exert petty shows to emphasize how rotten he is. He insults Sy's wife by calling her fat, insinuates she's unfaithful, then rubs his penis on the inside of Sy's "World's Best Boss" mug, and forces Sy to drink from it at gunpoint.
- The Following: Joe Carroll is a Magnificent Bastard. He has one of his followers however, target the book critics that gave his book (which came out after he was arrested no less) bad reviews. Hardy even comments on how this seems unusually petty of him, but Carroll comments that he isn't above being petty.
- Game of Thrones:
- Joffrey Baratheon:
- The Caligula Joffrey mocks Tommen for crying while Myrcella is sent to Dorne, then after having spent three seasons racking up an impressive list of atrocities, Joffrey demonstrates that he's not above a bit of small-scale dickery by taking away his dwarf uncle Tyrion's stepladder at his wedding, making him embarrass himself by struggling to reach up to his much taller bride, so that Tyrion has to ask Sansa to kneel for the fastening of the bridal cloak, causing the guests to laugh at Tyrion. A larger-scale version comes about during his wedding when Joffrey humiliates many of his former adversaries and current allies with a mocking reenactment of the recent war staged with dwarf actors, simply because he finds it funny. It's little wonder that next to no one cared about finding his killer.
- Cersei Lannister has plenty of moments whenever she's feeling powerless where she makes people miserable, assuming she can get away with it, including deriding Sansa for keeping hope alive during the Battle of Blackwater and domineering Pycelle. This is best typified in "The Lion and the Rose", in which to make herself feel better about her son's wedding, she makes a circuit of the reception and upsets everyone she crosses. This plays into her Stupid Evil tendencies, as she'll act to hurt someone who's wronged her in the short term without regard to the long-term consequences. Case in point: after detonating the Great Sept of Baelor with everyone who ever stood in her way within, Cersei happily skips to the dungeons to torture a servant who once copped an attitude with her. Meanwhile, her despairing son Tommen, having lost literally everyone else in his life with the explosion and knowing full well Cersei was the responsible party, was left alone to step out of a very high window.
- Locke maims Jaime Lannister just because his aristocratic attitude was annoying.
- Due to jealousy over Tywin more or less running the kingdoms, when Tywin advised something, Aerys Targaryen would do the opposite purely out of spite and even turned most of the Lords against Tywin.
- Joffrey Baratheon:
- House of the Dragon: Daemon Targaryen is feuding with Ser Otto Hightower in the pilot, so during the King's tournament, he selects Otto's eldest son to joust against first and cheats so that he can force Otto to watch his son get brutally injured. Then he "requests" that Alicent give him her favour after she just saw what he did to her brother, and she can't refuse for fear of committing a massive public faux pas.
- The Good Place:
- The demons of the Bad Place inflict terrible tortures, but they are also petty jerks who do things like ordering thousands of Hawaiian pizzas (the worst pizza) to someone's office, clipping their toenails at the dinner table, and having a train dining car that serves only room-temperature Manhattan clam chowder and is always closed. The first season finale then reveals that the set-up for the whole show is that one Bad Place architect (Michael) decided it would be more fun for them to pose as Good Place inhabitants and gaslight the damned humans into torturing themselves and each other.
- In Season 3, the heroes discover that nobody has gotten into the Good Place in over 500 years, as the world has become so deeply interconnected to the point that no one can score Good Points anymore just because their actions have far-reaching consequences that can either bring harm to another person or benefit a bad person in some way. This was the very reason why people like Florence Nightingale could get hit hardest, because, in their attempts to help as many people as they could, they happened to help a few bad apples, never mind that they could help the bad apples become good apples. This means that since 1497 AD, every good person has gone to the Bad Place just because they exist in the same world as bad jerks who they have never met, all because humanity developed culturally and learned to trade with and tolerate other cultures who had a few bad people. The Accountants, the celestial beings in charge of the system, see this as a perfect form of justice and refuse to change it for human concerns.
- In Season 4, Shaun celebrates Gen's decision to wipe out all of existence by gleefully smashing glass sculptures and peeing in a fountain.
- Gotham: A lot of the villains on the show fit this description:
- Penguin has such a Hair-Trigger Temper that he sometimes kills people because they are unfortunate enough to be in his vicinity when he gets bad news or because they failed him.
- Riddler sometimes kills people if they are unable to solve his Riddles, and once went on a murder spree for that reason, though he was more unstable than usual that episode because he had just killed his best friend and had drugged himself to the point that he was hallucinating.
- Jerome Valeska, though he's a terrifying, laughably evil mass murderer, also acts as a petty bully to his fellow inmates in Arkham by forcing new inmates to do something humiliating to make him laugh as a sort of horrifying initiation into life in an insane asylum. (Horrifying, because if they can't make him laugh, he has them lobotomized.)
- His identical twin brother, Jeremiah Valeska, also has his moments. At the end of the fourth season, he takes every opportunity possible to gloat about what he sees as his victory over his brother and try and convince people that he's superior to his brother in every way even after Jerome is dead. He even makes sure to tell all of Jerome's former followers to spit on his grave, and kicks his brother's body back in his grave like it's garbage. To be fair, Jerome sprayed him with insanity toxin immediately prior to those episodes as revenge for lying about him when they were children, so it's not surprising if that made him a little bitter, no matter how insistent he is that the toxin helped him reach his true potential.
- Theo and Tabitha Galavan, a brother and sister team who are part of an ancient conspiracy to get revenge on Bruce's family, can be very petty, though Tabitha gets better after she stops working with her brother. When she's introduced, though, she's a sadist who enjoys tormenting her brother's captives, and repeatedly taunts Penguin after she kills his mother, seemingly just because reminding him that his mother died in his arms amuses her. Her brother, if possible, is even worse, setting up an elaborate plan of revenge for something that happened hundreds of years ago. His plan involves hiring criminally insane murderers to commit terrorist acts around the city and then, only after dozens of people have already died, saving the city from them on national television. This is all so he can become popular enough to be elected as mayor, which then puts him in a position to get revenge on someone who is related to someone that was mean to a member of his family centuries ago.
- This was a common motivation for murderers in Homicide: Life on the Street, since most of them are morons with poor impulse control. One of the more horrific examples occurs in "Zen and the Art of Murder", where a homeless man murders a Buddhist monk because the monk had offered him a spoon while feeding him at a soup kitchen, which he felt was disrespectful.
- House:
- In the first season, the Arc Villain Edward Vogler is gradually revealed to be extremely petty in his running of the hospital. He demands House fire one of his team and give a speech praising Vogler's heart disease medication, all because House refused to wear a doctor's coat and was rude towards Vogler. While he may have been justified in criticizing House's attitude, his actions show him going far beyond the appropriate behavior of a well-adjusted boss.
- The third season's Tritter arc revolves around the titular detective bullying House and all of his associates with Dirty Cop tactics in retaliation for House making him wear a rectal thermometer for several hours in retaliation (which in itself was in response to Tritter being an ass to House and kicking his cane when he came to the clinic, so one could say that the whole thing started with Tritter being a jerk for no reason). Like Vogler, Tritter may be right that House is too much of an asshole (and a drug addict), but there is absolutely nothing noble about his quest to put House behind bars.
- House of Anubis: When turned into a Sinner, Fabian's evil actions range from whispering cruel things to Joy and taunting Alfie, to ripping out the last pages of every book, to putting jam in the milk.
- iCarly: Nevel always holds petty grudges against people for the simplest of things that annoy him the most. He tried to kiss Carly and vowed to destroy iCarly after she rejected his advances. He also yelled at a little girl for knocking over his jar of pickles in the supermarket. Pretty much anything that Nevel does is out of pettiness rather than actual evil.
- Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "In Throes of Increasing Wonder...", Lestat de Lioncourt claims he gives death "to those deserving," but in truth, he kills people over what he perceives as slights against him or things that don't warrant such an extreme reaction, such as humiliating and killing an opera singer for having a subpar voice in "...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self". Claudia uses this against him in the first season finale, poisoning Tom Anderson's blood as she knew Lestat would murder him personally for making a rude comment towards him.Claudia: Always the petty slights with you, Uncle Les.
- Kuroto Dan/Kamen Rider Genm from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, despite being the man who put the planet at risk with the Bugster Virus, is largely motivated by equal parts spite and God complex. When his own ally Pallad turned on him in order to protect Emu Hojo out of his desire to have a fair fight with the hero, Dan responds by telling Emu that he's Patient Zero for the Bugster Virus, hoping to kill him entirely to screw over Pallad. He considers himself the "one true Game Master" and thus whenever someone develops an "unauthorized" Gashat, he sets out to destroy it with a vengeance. Then The Reveal of his Start of Darkness makes it even worse, showing that he's had these attitudes since he was a young man, thanks to being a prodigy who helped design video games for his father's company. Then one day, he got a fan letter from a little boy named Emu Hojo, who submitted his own ideas for a game. The idea that anyone else would dare try to step on his glory offended Kuroto so much that he sent Emu a prototype game infected with an early version of the Bugster Virus to breed stronger Bugsters.
- This trope put a damper on the popularity of Silas from Kings. Killing political enemies and manipulating the press? Par for the course for the resident Magnificent Bastard. Publicly dropping a six-letter F-bomb on his own son? Not so much with the magnificent.
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The middle sister from the episode "Stranger" turns out to be this. In addition to being an existing bully to her younger sister, we also learn that she killed the real Heather, who she said had run away to avoid being sent to fat camp, years earlier due to the fact she caught her and her boyfriend at the time doing drugs and was going to tell.
- LazyTown: In "The Greatest Gift," after attending Ziggy's birthday party and making an effort to be nice, Robbie steals back the gift he gave Ziggy at the end of the episode and mocks everyone's Imagination-Based Superpower.
- Luna Nera: When Valente rejects the Bishop's offer to become his pupil, he sentences him to death with the other witches.
- Malcolm in the Middle: Mr. Herkabe, the Sadist Teacher of Malcolm's class, goes way out of his way to make the students miserable because he was forced to become a teacher because he lost all of his money by investing in the dotcom bubble and needs to feel better about himself. He also goes way too far with Malcolm (including repeatedly trying to blackmail him to have a sub-par performance) because he really hates how clever Malcolm is.
- In the midst of trying to destroy Camelot from the inside, Morgana from Merlin often takes the time to goad Guinevere on her relationship with Arthur.
- Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Rita Repulsa, between moments of actual villainy and plots to take over the world, tends to use her evil sorcery just to ruin the Rangers' day. In one instance, she sends a team of putties down to ruin a model of a parade float Kimberly was making, "Just to make Kimberly feel bad."
- Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck, the arch nemesis of Adrian Monk, was a master at using his wealth and power to inconvenience others and make people miserable. When Monk's wife, Trudy, published an article criticizing Biederbeck, he sued her and the magazine for libel, knowing that he wouldn't win, just to torment her. Because that wasn't enough, he deliberately drew out the proceedings for a year; the legal costs forced the Monks to sell their first home—which Biederbeck purchased, and used to store his porn collection.
- When Trudy was murdered by a car bomb a short time later, Biederbeck learned the identities of the men responsible, and that Trudy (rather than Adrian) had been their intended target. He kept this information to himself for years, allowing Adrian to torture himself with false guilt. He later dangled the promise of information in front of Adrian to manipulate him into doing a favor. When Adrian followed through, Biederbeck revealed that Adrian (rather than Trudy) was the intended target of the bomb, and the name of the man who built and planted it...but not the name of the man who hired the bomber (or even that another person was involved). Oh, and the bomber? He was on the opposite side of the country, on his deathbed — and didn't know the identity of the man who had hired him. Biederbeck knew all of this, of course.
- Mr. Robot: After Elliot found out that Angela had manipulated him and exploited his mental illness, her response is to blame him for setting the events in motion in the first place, harshly ridicule him for his mental illness and then act like she doesn't know him anymore. And this is all because he was upset with her.
- In One Tree Hill Dan repeatedly ridicules Lucas for being poor and fatherless, which is cruel in and of itself, but tips into petty when you remember that Dan is Lucas' biological father who abandoned Lucas and his mother. Dan also makes sure that no one, including Lucas, ever forgets Dan really loves, acknowledges, and provides for Nathan, Lucas' half-brother and early series rival.
- Oz:
- Ruthless Neo-Nazi leader Schillinger spends a good chunk of his time bullying around other, weaker inmates and generally behaving like an obnoxious jackass for no other reason than he can.
- Recurring character Mark Miles is a death row inmate who spends his days throwing constant and often bigoted insults at everyone else in the row and doing his best to make everyone around him miserable, apparently just for his own amusement.
- Power Rangers Dino Fury: In one episode, Lord Zedd specifically targets Ollie the Blue Ranger for a brainwashing scheme, explicitly because Ollie once called him "Radiator Face" in a previous episode. And then he targets Ollie again in the premiere episode of Power Rangers Cosmic Fury.
- Scrubs: While more of a Jerkass than outright evil, the Janitor hates JD and constantly goes out of his way to make JD's life difficult simply because JD accidentally lodged a penny in the door on his first day at Sacred Heart and didn't come clean about it.
- Sherlock:
- In "His Last Vow", blackmailer Charles Augustus Magnussen exercises power over his victims through very petty actions. For example, having information that could get John Watson's wife killed, he tells him to try to keep his eye open while he (Magnussen) flicks it, and says that he's done the same thing to at least one other person. He also urinates in Sherlock's fireplace to demonstrate that he can do whatever he wants.
- A grimmer example of this happens in "The Six Thatchers", wherein Vivian Norberry shoots and kills Mary in response to Sherlock's attempt to Break Them by Talking after she is arrested. It is made clear to the audience that this wouldn't have happened had Sherlock just shut up.
- The crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation encountered a being Made of Evil, "Armus", a black oil slick that had been created by some other race when they purified themselves of evil. The thing isn't too bright or clever, and all it wants is to torment people for its own amusement, but in rather pedestrian ways like "make Data point guns at everyone." Everyone else refuses to give him the emotional hand-wringing he desires, which frustrates him to no end.
- Stranger Things: The Eldritch Abomination that rules the nether is this, full stop. Sure, it's an all-powerful, nigh-unkillable, world-devouring horror that has a recent body count in the dozens. Except that means it has next to no understanding of coping with failure, social behaviors, and feeling weakness; any time someone causes it pain, it plans specifically to get revenge regardless of how thoroughly that compromises its agents. After Eleven barely beats it once, it develops an unhealthy obsession with torturing Eleven as long as possible instead of taking her out discretely, and even with that goal in mind, it gets distracted with murdering anything that barely begins to slip away from its thousands-strong mind control.
- Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad: Malcolm Frink is practically the embodiment of this.
- Supernatural:
- As Season 5 goes on, more and more characters start to point out that, for all his wisdom and power, in trying to bring on the Apocalypse, Lucifer is being little more than a bratty child throwing a tantrum because 'Daddy' (God) loved 'the new baby' (humanity) more. He doesn't listen.
- Sam's Inner!Lucifer seems to be all about this trope after his mental wall is taken away by Cas. Two episodes are dedicated to mentioning/showing all the things Lucifer does simply to keep Sam from getting a night's sleep. They include singing "Stairway to Heaven" upwards of fifty times, shouting at him with a megaphone, making him think his food is filled with maggots, and blasting "Wake Up Little Susie" from a stereo while throwing firecrackers at the side of his bed.
- Zachariah goes to the trouble of making a fake Mary Winchester, just so he can make out with her to Squick Dean and Sam. He even proudly tells them as he's doing it, that while Lucifer may be strong — he's petty. Tellingly, Supernatural is one of the few places you can see an angel refer to someone as a MILF.
- On 3rd Rock from the Sun, Dick's Evil Twin has plans to take over the world by breeding his own slave army, but he also takes pleasure in asserting his dominance over the rest of the Solomon family in various ways, from forcing one of them to wear skirts, forbidding them from using the car, and changing all of their names to "Tommy". As the Big Giant Head put it: "He should be considered armed and extremely unpleasant."Evil Dick: When coupons arrive in the mail, I get first dibs. I may open a box of cereal to get the prize, but I do not then have to eat the cereal. The bathroom has been stocked with two kinds of toilet paper; I, and I alone, get the quilted kind.
- The Tick (2016) gives us The Terror, a geriatric supervillain who does everything For the Evulz. He's the kind of psycho who, sure, gleefully slaughters an entire superhero team and an innocent bystander out for ice cream with his son, but he's also the special kind of rat-bastard who would then saunter over to the traumatized kid, and just steal his milkshake because he could. He even brags about owning a soft drink company, and adding his own urine to the recipe, just because it makes him happy.
- Too Old to Die Young: Vigilante Man Martin is spying on the maker of Snuff Films at a bar. The man orders four drinks and doesn't have enough hands to carry them back to his table, so he enlists Martin himself to carry two of them. Martin complies. When Martin deposits the drinks on the man's table, the man just stares rudely back at him and then dismisses him without even acknowledging the favor.
- The Wire:
- In Season 2 Valchek has a personal vendetta with Frank Sobotka (chairman of the stevedore's union) after a local church accepted the latter's donation of a stained glass window over his own. He considers the Major Crimes Unit's investigation at the time to be solely a means of getting revenge on the man and absolutely blows his top when he is told that the case is about more than a few dockers helping to run drugs into the city.
- Even by the standards of Baltimore's criminal underworld, Marlo Stansfield is bad. He will order the death of absolutely anyone he wants to, simply for the feeling of power it gives him (this includes a store security guard who he purposefully antagonises in the first place).
- He forces Ol' Face Andre to hand over a silver ring which had a lot of sentimental value for him after the stash house he ran for Marlo got raided by Omar.
