History ChaoticEvil / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/{{Thanos}}'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos]] the Mad Titan is also high-functioning Chaotic Evil -- methodical, calculating, but ultimately usually driven by whatever he feels like doing at a given time, or a nigh-omnicidal ''romantic'' obsession with Death, and usually a StrawNihilist who doesn't believe any moral or ethical authority, answers to nobody but himself, and is TheUnfettered in ''everything'' he pursues.

* Evil Ernie, created by writer Brian Pulido and artist Steven Hughes, who spreads death and destruction so he can get Lady Death's love and and because he hates order, peace and heroes.
* It [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the writer]], but [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] is almost quintessentially Chaotic Evil, insane and indiscriminately destructive, enough as to why he's pictured in this trope's page. He puts the emphasis on Chaotic -- he may not be as likely to jump off a bridge as cross it, but he's almost as likely to blow it up. The only indication we get that he has any restraint at all is in the [[AlternateContinuity storyline]] where he has terminal cancer, and we find out what he's like when he has even less to lose. Sometimes the Joker is too chaotic to be evil. One story has him driving a truck through the wall of a television stage to hijack a quiz show; as soon as a woman gets a question wrong, he grabs her and pulls her towards his button flower, and she screams for mercy -- but instead of acid, he sprays her with ginger ale. He goes on like this for the rest of the strip, punishing incorrect answers with normal, run of the mill pranks, and generally acting like [[HarmlessVillain his Silver Age counterpart]]. All the while, the station manager refuses to cut the transmission, as [[IfItBleedsItLeads a live Joker rampage would boost their ratings sky high]]; he gets increasingly frustrated waiting for the Joker to stop playing around and get to the carnage, but he doesn't. Eventually Batman arrives to stop him and Joker surrenders peacefully, not having harmed a single person for the entire strip, but before he leaves, he reveals he was filming the station's control room the entire time, and starts playing the footage; then he looks at the camera and says "So, who's the real sicko, America? Me, for carrying out this little prank? The producers and executives at the network, who let it all happen -- or is it you people, who mindlessly watched it all on your television sets?". The last panel is the producer holding his head in his hands while the Joker laughs insanely. Most fans agree that when the Joker does the HarmlessVillain routine, it's always because, in that particular situation, it's much more [[ManipulativeBastard psychologically and emotionally scarring]]. Letting everyone know that you enjoy a harmless prank and coldblooded murder in equal measure [[TheDreaded does wonders for your sinister reputation]]. He would probably be a type 2 (more evil than chaotic) as [[{{Sadist}} he likes hurting and killing people so much]].

* Similarly, there's ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}. Like Bullseye, he absolutely loves killing and thinks of himself as a hunter stalking a kill. Unlike Bullseye, however, he's ''incredibly'' self-centered and views everyone who isn't a potential victim as someone to use to further his own goals, and he's exceptionally good at manipulating people into doing exactly what he wants them to do without them even knowing it. Absolutely no one ever trusts him with anything, and that's because he has a [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder very long list of people whom he has either murdered or completely screwed over]] once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they've served their purpose]]. What separates him from your standard [[StupidEvil aimless moron]] is that he's very, very deliberate about it and knows exactly how to get away with what he does; like Bullseye, he WOULD be NeutralEvil if it wasn't for the incredible body count that he has to his name. He's a Type 4 through and through: he lives for nothing but violence, bloodshed, and (if it involves Wolverine) psychological torture, but he's terrifyingly cunning and crafty and will always find a way to rope large amounts of people into his latest scheme without their even knowing it.

** Spidey's foe ComicBook/{{Carnage}}, a sadistic serial killer who sees violence, bloodshed, and mayhem as the ultimate freedom.
** When fully corrupted, the [[Characters/VenomTheSymbiote Venom symbiote]] is little better than its progeny, seeing itself as an agent of chaos and seeking only to vent its rage and satiate its ravenous appetite. Eddie Brock in his first voyage as Venom also befits this alignment: causing as much havoc as he needs to and even severely injuring and killing those who stand in his way, just to completely dismantle Spider-Man - his at-the-time arch-nemesis - and his life as both civilian and hero.
** The Green Goblin could serve as an interesting example. ComicBook/NormanOsborn himself is NeutralEvil, working within and without the system as the situation demands in a ruthless quest for money and power, as well as petty vengeance on Spidey. But Osborn is also mentally unstable and genuinely insane, and sometimes (and originally) his Goblin identity was a case of SplitPersonality. His Goblin side also originally wanted the same things -- maybe even for Osborn -- but is clearly much more homicidal and reckless. In recent issues Osborn has given up his Goblin identity to be a straighter VillainWithGoodPublicity under the name of the Iron Patriot (and towards LawfulEvil), but he is unable to properly control his homicidal tendencies to the point where it seriously threatens his plans, which is being exploited by his evil rivals.
* ComicBook/DRAndQuinch are this to the core, albeit mostly for laughs (theirs and ours). They prank the Phi Delta frat house by nuking it, and indirectly engineer the [[EarthShatteringKaboom destruction of Earth]] to get back at their dean for suspending them.
%%* ComicBook/{{Cattivik}}, even with his ButtMonkey and HarmlessVillain status.
* The ComicBook/RedSkull, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's arch-nemesis, is another example of intelligent Chaotic Evil. While he originally started as LawfulEvil, he eventually moved here. Not content to seize control of a country from within, he and his close friends in HYDRA actively seek to cause mayhem and destruction, undermining the governments of the world in both subtle and openly vicious ways. He's so nasty that even most of the other {{Big Bad}}s of the Marvel Universe [[EvenEvilhasStandards dislike him]].
* The 616 universe version of ComicBook/{{Ultron}} is of the Intelligent Monster variety. This KillerRobot started out as a methodical criminal mastermind and MasterOfDisguise willing to cooperate with human supervillains in order to defeat the Avengers, but a few reincarnations later, he went full RoboticPsychopath and MisanthropeSupreme, reflecting the darker aspects of his creator Henry Pym without any [[AxCrazy moral and rational restrictions]] and most of his plans boil down to petty vengeance against Pym and the Avengers while causing plenty of death and destruction in the process, with little care for his original goal of becoming the ruler of a robotic utopia, sometimes on a galactic scale as seen in ''Annihilation:Conquest'',.
* Spiral from the ''X-Men'' universe. She's practically the Joker of the Marvel Universe in that she's unpredictable, and the impression is clearly given that without Mojo there to hold her leash, we'd ''all'' be in serious trouble.
* ComicBook/{{Thanos}} the Mad Titan is also high-functioning Chaotic Evil -- methodical, calculating, but ultimately usually driven by whatever he feels like doing at a given time, or a nigh-omnicidal ''romantic'' obsession with Death, and usually a StrawNihilist who doesn't believe any moral or ethical authority, answers to nobody but himself, and is TheUnfettered in ''everything'' he pursues.
* Prometheus, Creator/GrantMorrison's penultimate 'Anti-Batman', definitely fits into this trope. He's got Batman's eye for discerning weakness but none of his restraint -- in his first appearance, he very nearly murdered the entire ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica. In a later comic storyline, [[spoiler:he caused the deaths of thousands upon thousands of people just to prove he could best the heroes of the world (because said heroes had gotten rather serious after ComicBook/FinalCrisis and Batman's apparent death). He did all this while strapped to a chair in League headquarters, calmly mocking the League as their every attempt to out-think him failed, until they finally were forced to release him to get the codes to shut down his machines (a destroyed city, maimed hero, lost loved one and ''at least'' a hundred thousand dead later).]] Anti-Batman indeed. Unfortunately for Prometheus, this made things beyond [[ItsPersonal personal]] for ComicBook/GreenArrow, who proceeded to [[spoiler:PayEvilUntoEvil]].
* Willy Pete from ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' is a sociopathic [[PyroManiac fire-elemental]] with a more-or-less human mind that lives to indulge human appetites such as food and sex in the least socially acceptable manner possible.
* Mr. Dark and Max, The Pied Piper, from ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}''. Mr. Dark is the embodiment of fear of the unknown, and enjoys spreading death and misery to this end. Max is a psychopath who thinks the world owes him whatever he wants, and flies into murderous rages when his demands aren't instantly met. He also has a penchant for luring entire cities of children to their deaths.
** Bloody Mary makes it clear that the only reason she works for the crooked man is because it gives her more opportunities to kill and spread suffering. She is a sadistic sociopath who admits to becoming aroused by her own cruelty.
%%* Amatsu-Mikaboshi, the Chaos King of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
* President Gary 'The Smiler' Callahan from ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}''. The entire reason he became president is so that he could fuck everyone over. He says so himself!
%%* [[ComicBook/{{Spawn}} Violator]].
* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': The Yellow Bastard says it himself: "I get to do whatever I want!" It definitely doesn't help things that he's protected from any punishment he might otherwise receive for his horrible acts by his corrupt U.S. Senator father.
* Lobo fits this perfectly; all the stuff he does is mostly because he felt like doing it. He wiped out his own race as a school project, for which he gave himself an A.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'': Although he went through a period of amnesia, Fleetway's version of Super Sonic is otherwise a hardcore Type 4. While he starts out by wiping out whatever evil he's up against, he is ready to murder his friends and spin-dash the entire planet if he doesn't burn himself out in time. In fact the only reason he kills is for something to ''do,'' since being completely invincible in every way is boring, and Super Sonic gets bored faster than a sack of live weasels. It doubles as Fleetway's explanation as to why Sonic doesn't go Super more often.
* ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock'': Nemesis himself fits here by his own admission. Whereas Torquemada is the incarnation of LawfulEvil as the psychopathic god-dictator of the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters hostile human empire of Termight]], Nemesis himself is a bloodthirsty demonic alien who loves his arch-enemy for posing an amusing threat. At first he seems like ChaoticGood until he reveals his true motivations, lambasting the person who thought that Torquemada being evil must have meant that Nemesis is good. As he explains, the forces of Khaos and Order can be either.
* [[spoiler: Ghost Kid Loki]] from ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' uses this exact phrase to describe the original Loki: "His alignment is totally Chaotic Evil!"
%%* In ''ComicBook/AmericanVampire'', Skinner Sweet (both in his pre-vampire, human outlaw days and afterward) and [[spoiler: Hattie Hargrove]].

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

* ComicBook/TheJoker. [[DependingOnTheWriter Depends on the writer]], but The Joker is almost quintessentially Chaotic Evil, insane and indiscriminately destructive, enough as to why he's pictured in this trope's page. He puts the emphasis on Chaotic -- he may not be as likely to jump off a bridge as cross it, but he's almost as likely to blow it up. The only indication we get that he has any restraint at all is in the [[AlternateContinuity storyline]] where he has terminal cancer, and we find out what he's like when he has even less to lose. Sometimes the Joker is too chaotic to be evil. One story has him driving a truck through the wall of a television stage to hijack a quiz show; as soon as a woman gets a question wrong, he grabs her and pulls her towards his button flower, and she screams for mercy -- but instead of acid, he sprays her with ginger ale. He goes on like this for the rest of the strip, punishing incorrect answers with normal, run of the mill pranks, and generally acting like [[HarmlessVillain his Silver Age counterpart]]. All the while, the station manager refuses to cut the transmission, as a live Joker rampage would boost their ratings sky high; he gets increasingly frustrated waiting for the Joker to stop playing around and get to the carnage, but he doesn't. Eventually Batman arrives to stop him and Joker surrenders peacefully, not having harmed a single person for the entire strip, but before he leaves, he reveals he was filming the station's control room the entire time, and starts playing the footage; then he looks at the camera and says "So, who's the real sicko, America? Me, for carrying out this little prank? The producers and executives at the network, who let it all happen -- or is it you people, who mindlessly watched it all on your television sets?". The last panel is the producer holding his head in his hands while the Joker laughs insanely. Most fans agree that when the Joker does the HarmlessVillain routine, it's always because, in that particular situation, it's much more [[ManipulativeBastard psychologically and emotionally scarring]]. Letting everyone know that you enjoy a harmless prank and coldblooded murder in equal measure [[TheDreaded does wonders for your sinister reputation]]. He would probably be a type 2 (more evil than chaotic) as [[{{Sadist}} he likes hurting and killing people so much]].