History EvilVersusEvil / Literature

* Michael Marano's ''Dawn Song'', in which there is a battle for dominion over humanity between the demon lord Belial and his [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]] minion who represent the [[EvilIsSexy aesthetic side]] of evil and the demon Leviathan who represents mindless, chaotic ugly evil.

* In the ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' series, the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar is described as this, since both sides are religious fanatics whose war aim is to [[GuiltFreeExterminationWar convert or kill the whole of the other side]].

* The final battle of the ''Literature/BookOfSwords'' trilogy is fought between Yambu, the Silver Queen, BigBad of the first 2 novels, and [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Vilkata, the Dark King]] of the third book. Interestingly, Yambu only does her HeelFaceTurn ''after'' she wins the battle but loses her throne. The third book does give Yambu a [[BrokenBird sympathetic backstory]], including something of a FreudianExcuse. But it's not an accident that she wins the battle using Soulcutter, also known as the Tyrant's Blade, a name she acknowledges.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is often presented as a simplistic Good vs Evil, but in fact the conflict between Saruman and Sauron forms an important part of the plot of ''The Two Towers'', although nothing much in the way of real Evil-Versus-Evil warfare ever comes of it. Likewise Ungoliant and Morgoth in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''. Morgoth wants to take control of Middle-Earth, Ungoliant just wants to sate her enormous hunger and attacks Morgoth when he doesn't relinquish the Silmarils. She is driven away by the Balrogs.
** One of the most significant events during the Second Age that determine the future of Middle Earth, is the military expedition of Numenor in order to contest for the control of its peoples with Mordor. By this point, Numenor has become a tyrannical conquering [[TheEmpire empire]] and has reached its moral nadir with its last king Ar-Pharazon, who in his greed and arrogance sees Sauron as a rival for the title of indisputable, absolute ruler over Arda rather than a Dark lord who needs to be stopped. Immediately Sauron realises that in order to win, he will have to feign defeat and submit himself to the king stopping short of actual battle. This sets the first step into Numenor becoming a theocratic, tyrannical conquering empire.

* PrivateDetective and VigilanteMan Literature/MikeHammer, as quoted in ''One Lonely Night'' just before he blew away a bunch of DirtyCommunists who were torturing Velda.

* A good portion of the ''Literature/WarOfTheSpiderQueen''.

* The videogame / comic / novel ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'' had the Emperor keep Darth Vader and Prince Xizor, head of the criminal enterprise Black Sun, at his right and left hands. Naturally they hated each other; for Xizor it was [[ItsPersonal personal]]. But they had to remain outwardly civil with each other until the end. It's implied that the Emperor set things up like this because he found it entertaining.
** And because it distracts his minions from plotting against ''him''; a man who rose to ultimate power by treachery naturally takes many precautions to avoid falling victim to more of the same.
** Unfortunately, this policy led to a complete fragmenting of the Empire upon his death with warlords running rampant.

* ''Literature/AClockworkOrange'': Alex is a VillainProtagonist gang leader, murderer, and serial rapist, who is betrayed by his own gang in revenge for the brutal way he asserts his leadership. His ColdBloodedTorture at the hands of the government and the PoliceBrutality that goes with it means that those stopping him aren't much better. Things get more complicated when he allies himself with LaResistance after that, and they betray him by [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide deliberately driving him to attempt suicide]]]] to give the government bad publicity, making ''them'' cross the MoralEventHorizon too. Then, the ''government'' publicly apologizes to Alex to restore their reputation... by [[spoiler: letting him go back to murdering and raping people]].

* ''Literature/{{Grunts}}'' chronicles the struggle between the '''INCREDIBLY''' {{Jerkass}} Light, and the at best FauxAffablyEvil Orcs. And then [[spoiler:the extraterrestrial armor-plated killing machines the planet.]]

* ''Literature/{{Grunts}}'' chronicles the struggle between the '''INCREDIBLY''' {{Jerkass}} Light, and the at best FauxAffablyEvil Orcs.