History Main / EvilSorcerer

** Dabura the Demon King although he is TheDragon to the aforementioned Babidi is also a powerful demonic sorcerer himself, on top of being a FlyingBrick who can physically throw down with Saiyans. His sister Towa seen in expanded material like ''VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse'' is a Morgan le Fay-esque sorceress [[ScienceFantasy crossed]] with a MadScientist

* Zeref, the BigBad of ''Manga/FairyTail'', is a {{deconstruction}}. He was just an ordinary young man who was cursed by a JerkassGod for his curiosity and dedication to resurrecting someone important to him, turning him into a WalkingWasteland with CompleteImmortality who stole life the more he valued it. Many of his inventions, which could easily be used for evil in the wrong hands, were made to reunite him with said cherished person, and the [[CreatingLifeIsBad legion of demons he created]] were designed to [[DeathSeeker help him end his own life]]. His actual StartOfDarkness began after he accidentally "[[OnlyMostlyDead killed]]" the [[LoveMakesYouEvil love of his life]] and came to believe that HumansAreBastards thanks to the unique perspective his immortality provides on the more unfortunate side of human nature, leading him to [[ThenLetMeBeEvil embrace his image as the ultimat evil]].

* ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'': Many members of [[NebulousEvilOrganization Al-Thamen]] qualify as this, but the most notable example is Judar.

* Magica de Spell from the ''[[ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck Uncle Scrooge]]'' comics, who also appeared in ''Franchise/DuckTales''.
** Magica is also an interesting case as, [[DependingOnTheWriter at least in early appearance]], she depended on magical artifacts and theatrics, having no real innate powers of her own.

** Kemmler, a mortal wandless {{Necromancer}} of immense power and evil who returned from the grave so often his coffin should have had a revolving lid. He engineered World War I to get raw material for his work, then popped up again during World War II, reanimating mass graves under Grindelwald's command. He was finally destroyed in 1962, triggering the Buin Zahra earthquake as a side-effect, killing over 12,000 people.

* Though not the BigBad, Shamuhaza from ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'' is still the ArcVillain of the two [[StoryArc story arcs]] that marks this fanfic's SerialEscalation. He ticks off most of, if not all, the boxes of this trope. Has a legion of mutated EliteMooks with BodyHorror? Check. Tampers with ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow [[spoiler:(or in this case, the Eldritch Truth)]]? Check. [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Strives to gain great power at the expense of his sanity and soul]]? Check. Oh, and he also [[spoiler:ends up turning into an EldritchAbomination himself]].

* ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' is the marriage of RealRobot mecha anime, ''The Guyver'', and ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''. Needless to say, twisted sorcerers are a dime a dozen.

** Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer, whose hordes of [[ZombieApocalypse undead]] and {{demon|icInvaders}}s plagued the continent of Terisiare during the Ice Age; [[spoiler:Lim-Dûl is later revealed to be another Evil Sorcerer, Mairsil the Pretender, whose soul had been trapped and possessed an innocent man years later]].

** Mannimarco, the King of Worms, who appears in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline Online]]''. Cold, cruel, and ruthless, the powerful {{Necromancer}} had been reigning terror in Tamriel since the 2nd Era and has been a constant threat to the Mages Guild before being "killed" in the 3rd Era. He was the [[OurLichesAreDifferent "world's first of the undying liches"]], a step taken toward his desired goal of [[GodhoodSeeker becoming a god]]. As a result of one of ''Daggerfall'''s MultipleEndings, which were all [[MergingTheBranches canonically merged]] as the "[[TimeCrash Warp in the West]]" event, he as a separate being (the [[DeityOfHumanOrigin God of Worms]]), lives on as a divine entity (but is considered distinct from the Mannimarco who is killed in ''Oblivion''.)

* ''VideoGame/{{Lusternia}}'': [[StrawNihilist The Nihilist Priesthood]] is a whole ''church'' full of Evil Sorcerer[=s=]. They worship extradimensional [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Demon Lords]], practice [[{{Necromancer}} Necromancy]] and wage a [[RageAgainstTheHeavens veritable war]] against the [[TheHecateSisters Three Fates]] (since the Nihilists regard predestination as slavery, and undead immortality as the path to freedom from it).

* The first campaign of ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' has Lady Delilah Briarwood, a LadyOfBlackMagic with a focus on {{Necromancy}}, Percy's nemesis.

** Circe, one of ComicBook/WonderWoman's enemies who has raised dead Amazons to force them to fight their still living sisters and teleported their whole island into a Hellscape.

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'':
** Jon Irenicus, BigBad of Shadowns of Amn. Evil by reason of having no soul and a resultant fascination with playing around with innards. Although at one point he was just your regular "driven by overpassionate love and misplaced pride" sort of evil. You could have some understanding for his situation, if he wasn't so smug about his superiority. You WILL hate him.
** [[SmugSnake Edwin]] [[ButtMonkey Odesseiron]] ''wishes'' he were an evil sorcerer. His inexperience, social ineptitude, [[EvilIsPetty relentless pettiness]], and massive hubris make him a rather [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain hapless, pitiable figure]] despite his tremendous magical talent.

* ''TableTopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' loves this trope oh-so-much. Nex, Geb, Tar-Barphon, Karzoug and six other Runelords, Adivion Adrissant, The Splatter Man, Arazni, Areelu Vorlesh, Vordakai, and dozens more are in the setting. It's rare for an adventure not to have at least one, even if they aren't the primary antagonist.

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': Shang Tsung and Quan Chi embody this trope very well. Shao Kahn and Shinnok pull this off as well, while also overlapping with GodOfEvil. There's also Ermac who is always somewhere between [[EliteMooks Elite Mook]] and TheDragon being MadeOfMagic and judging by hierarchy among the villains is likely the most powerful under Shao Kahn himself. [[spoiler:Justified since being a SoulJar made up of Edenian souls LongDeadBadass King Jerrod (Kitana's father) is inside Ermac.]]

* ''Webcomic/PrincessPrincess'': Claire can do magic, and only uses it to harm other people.

** The supplement ''Spirit of the Season'' brings magic more fully into the game, and naturally has a couple of magical villains, including Salomon Mizrahi, a evil kabbalist who is convinced he is a Tzadikim Nistarim, one of the 36 Righteous People whose existence supports that of the world. Interestingly, he's actually better at Science! than he is at magic, making him particularly dangerous.

** ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': Deimos, arch-enemy of the main character. Also Ashiya, sometimes TheDragon to Deimos, and Motalla. Both of them also qualify as {{Hot Witch}}es and {{Vain Sorceress}}es.

** Khartom is a supremely powerful, evil wizard imprisoned on the cover of a large magical book by his longtime enemies. His only hope of release is a magical gem called the Philosopher's Stone which contains the god-like energy and abilities of the cosmos itself. All he needs is someone greedy enough to create the stone and willingly release him from his prison.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':