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* ''Literature/Timeline191'': Jake Featherston [[spoiler:seeks to [[FinalSolution annihilate]] the Confederate States of America's black population because he feels that they screwed him out of promotion to second lieutenant.]]
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* ''Literature/BloodMeridian'': For all of Judge Holden's grand designs about becoming the suzerain of the world and how he would like to create a [[TheSocialDarwinist dog-eat-dog world]], he is not above doing smaller-scale acts of evil, such as falsely accusing a priest he had never met before of various crimes to start a mob against him, or buying two puppies from a boy only to immediately throw them into the water in front of his face, just to spread even more misery than he already has.
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* ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado'': Montresor murders Fortunato in an extremely cruel manner for merely offending him (and quite possibly not even intentionally at that).

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* ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado'': Montresor murders Fortunato in an [[CruelAndUnusualDeath extremely cruel manner manner]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for merely offending him him]] (and quite possibly not even intentionally at that).

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