History EvilerThanThou / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': [[TheDreaded Ryomen Sukuna]], period.
** After Yuji [[SummonBiggerFish forces Sukuna to take his place]] as the [[DiabolusExMachina Finger Bearer]] is about to kill him, Sukuna reluctantly {{curbstomp|Battle}}s the cursed spirit with the same ease one would swat a fly. This, [[UnsportsmanlikeGloating while letting it know exactly how weak he thinks it is]].
** The Disaster Curses spend a lot of time plotting and scheming to have cursed spirits take humanity's place as Earth's dominant lifeform, and attempt to recruit Sukuna to their cause; the King of Curses quickly makes it clear tha not only does he have no interest in working with them, he's ''offended'' that they think they can stand on equal ground.
*** When Mahito attempts to force him to come out during his fight with Yuji, Sukuna drags Mahito to his MentalWorld and warns him not to touch his soul again. When Mahito does so again by accident after Yuji forces his way into his {{Domain|Holder}}, Sukuna effortlessly slashes Mahito and injures him to the point [[VillainExitStageLeft he has to retreat]] before Yuji and Nanami can kill him.
*** When Jogo forces Sukuna to come out by force-feeding his fingers to Yuji, Sukuna slashes the top of his head off [[KneelBeforeZod for only getting on one knee]], and threatens to kill him if he speaks out of turn. Once Sukuna deigns to give him his attention, Jogo counsels him to form a Binding Vow with Yuji so that he's permanently in control; Sukuna ignores his counsel in favor of his own plans, flat out refuses to join him and challenges him to a fight, promising to join him if Jogo can land a single hit on him. Needless to say, [[CurbStompBattle Sukuna spends the entire fight toying with Jogo]], who can't so much as scratch him even with his strongest techniques. That being said, [[WorthyOpponent Sukuna enjoys their fight enough to commend Jogo's strength in his final moments]], which makes the Disaster Curse cry.
** [[spoiler:After [[GrandTheftMe stealing Megumi's body for himself]], Sukuna fights and kills [[AbhorrentAdmirer Yorozu]], who has taken the body of Megumi's sister Tsumiki, [[WillfullyWeak using nothing but Megumi's Ten Shadows Technique]], solely so that he can crush Megumi's spirit by indirectly forcing him to kill Tsumiki, not giving a damn that Yorozu is attempting to display her affection for him in her own psychotic way.]]

* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth II'' has the girls fending off three invading nations that are all plotting against each other. But when Lady Debonair starts showing up, she ends up coming off as a far more imposing threat.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'':
** Done all the time by Naraku. He's constantly employing lesser villains to help him out and ultimately they die, sometimes due to his direct influence. Seemingly subverted when [[spoiler: Naraku is absorbed and seemingly killed by Moryumaru, but later on we find out Naraku let Moryumaru absorb him so he (Naraku) could absorb Moryumaru from the inside-out]], proving anew Naraku is Eviler than Thou.
** In [[Anime/InuYashaTheMovieTheCastleBeyondTheLookingGlass the second movie]], Naraku is killed during the opening credits, but it turns out it's a ploy to lure the film's main villain out of hiding so Naraku can kill her and steal her powers, and thus he returns at the climax alive and well. Nonetheless, Kaguya proves the greater evil than Naraku this round and sends him packing. When he appears yet again to absorb her while she's distracted, [=InuYasha=] blasts him with a Wind Scar, and he calls it quits... for that movie.

* From Chapters 75 to 77 of the Manga ''Manga/ElfenLied'', we have a three-way portrayal of this trope, showing the three most [[AxCrazy dangerously psychotic]] characters from the whole Manga fighting one another: [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Lucy]], [[PsychoForHire Bando, and The Unknown Man]].

* Goes along with the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil in ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' and its sequel ''Anime/UltimateMuscle''. At first, there's the Zangyaku/Brutal Choujin, who have no shame in fighting dirty. They don't kill unless they absolutely have to. Then we get the Akuma/Demon Choujin, who fight to kill but have a strong sense of friendship and morals. Then we get the Perfect Choujin, who feel they can do whatever they want provided their "rules" such as "Never lose, use weapons, or show emotion" don't forbid it. ''Then'' we now have the Jikan/Time Choujin, who don't even care if they ''mess up history'' to achieve their nefarious goals.
* ''Manga/LoneWolfAndCub'' has Abe-no-Kaii making a pretty good try at this trope, what with his willingness to [[spoiler: poison a whole river just to kill Itto, or leaves poisoned spikes on the ground to kill Itto]], plus his tendency to drink urine for no particular reason. Culminates in his [[spoiler: accidentally flooding all of Edo, probably killing thousands.]] The regular evil, Retsudo Yagyu, [[spoiler: eventually sets him up for suicide after Kaii betrays Yagyu.]]
* The current battle between the newly-reincarnated [[DarkMessiah Griffith]] and Emperor Ganishka in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''.
* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': caps off its Hansel and Gretel arc with a confrontation between [[AxCrazy insane]] [[CreepyChild child-]][[PsychoForHire mercenary]] Hansel and [[AffablyEvil charismatic]] [[TheBaroness mafia queen]] [[MagnificentBastard Balalaika]]. [[spoiler:Balalaika uses snipers to effortlessly fell the psychopath and then delivers a crushing BreakingSpeech to him as he bleeds to death on the floor in front of her.]]
* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' finishes off the Flying Pussyfoot incident with a train-top show-off between the AxCrazy PsychoForHire Ladd Russo and the AxCrazy ''Awesome'' SociopathicHero Claire Stanfield. In this case it's not so much Eviler than Thou as ''Crazier'' Than Thou (especially since Claire is actually fairly heroic and virtuous compared to Ladd)
** In addition, in the DVD bonus episodes, Ladd and Claire both separately have Crazier-Than-Thou showdowns with TalkativeLoon Graham Spector.
*** And ''then'' Claire gets into a Crazier-Than-Thou match with PsychopathicManchild Christopher Shouldered in the LightNovels. (For those wondering, by the way: ''nobody'' is crazier than Claire.)
** There's also a strange, ongoing Eviler Than Thou competition going on between [[spoiler:Fermet]] and [[spoiler:Elmer]]. [[spoiler:Fermet]] considers [[spoiler:Elmer]] his nemesis, and has tried long and hard to break him through tormenting his loved ones and tearing down any faith in the world he might have - something that's entirely ineffective, because [[spoiler:Elmer]]'s a [[LackOfEmpathy genuine]] [[TheSociopath sociopath]], only sees his "loved ones" as tools, doesn't give a damn about the world beyond [[ItsAllAboutMe what he can get out of it]], and [[UnknownRival couldn't care less about how vile his self-proclaimed "nemesis" may be.]] While [[spoiler:Fermet]] may be an awful human being, as far as he's concerned, [[spoiler:Elmer]] is far worse.
--->'''[[spoiler:Fermet]]:''' Your existence ''itself'' is a world-destroying evil.
* The epic match between [[SociopathicHero Ryo Mashiba]] vs. [[ChaoticEvil Ryuuhei Sawamura]] in ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo''. They even let off lines like "If Mashiba is a demon, then Sawamura is the devil himself". Naturally, the match involves lots of brutal cheating on both sides. In the match however, Mashiba practically loses the veneer of humanity he had and proceeds to lay down a savage beating on Sawamura, gloating over the fact that his bloodlust is back and that he silenced his ''own fandom'' with his cruel actions. Mashiba gets disqualified for it, making Sawamura the winner, but technically Mashiba was the better boxer.
* [[DiabolicalMastermind Tobi]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Kabuto]] spent most of the Fourth Shinobi World War Arc competing for the BigBad position of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. Tobi was presented as the traditional BigBad and had far more influence over the story than Kabuto, but Kabuto had a trump card over him, along with the StoryBreakerPower of [[AnimateDead Edo Tensei]]. Their goal was to gain the power of the Sage of Six Paths but each went to do it in their own way. Kabuto planned to achieve this by getting Sasuke's body and developing his Sharingan into a Rinnegan. Tobi planned to achieve this by resurrecting the Ten-Tails in order to become its Jinchuuriki and advance his plan known as [[AssimilationPlot Infinite Tsukuyomi]]. The conflict has been resolved with [[spoiler:Kabuto being defeated by Sasuke and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard one of his resurrected pawns Itachi]], his trump card (the real Madara Uchiha) [[EvilIsNotAToy breaking free of Edo Tensei]], and Tobi having used two resurrected shinobi who owned Nine-Tails chakra to resurrect the Ten-Tails in any case.]]
* This isn't really touched by the actual villains in ''Manga/DeathNote'', but in the manga, Rem really starts to see [[KnightTemplar Light]] [[VillainProtagonist Yagami]]'s good points when a CorruptCorporateExecutive obtains his ArtifactOfDoom.
* In ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', many have tried to manipulate Johan Liebert for their own means. Johan shows these people that EvilIsNotAToy. He follows along with them to achieve his own plans but as soon as they have served their purpose, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he disposes of them without a second thought]]. There are also quite a few insane serial killers who meet him and instantly realize that they are way out of their league and become awed by him. For example, one who believed he was a vampire, later claimed he was a mere baby bat compared to him.
* ''Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns'': Domino proves herself to be q greater evil than Jessie, James, and Meowth; after revealing herself as a Team Rocket Elite, she pops the trio's balloon while expressing disgust at their [[HarmlessVillain bumbling natures]] and declaring them a disgrace to Team Rocket. Later, she frees them from a cage simply to force them to work as cleaning staff.
** Jessie, James, and Meowth also often got this from Butch and Cassidy in the early seasons, at least before the latter were Flanderized to become just as incompetent as them.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Frieza proves to be this to Vegeta, even to the point of making the latter cry and beg Goku to defeat him, claiming that Frieza is the reason why he and most of his race ended up the way they did.
** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' reinforces this trope with Frieza. Whenever he shows up, the story goes out of its way to portray him as more evil than any other villains who happen to be around. King Yemma even states that most other villains that Goku has fought over the years have had their souls purified in Hell and been reincarnated, but Frieza's soul is still intact because he's actively resisting being purified, simply out of pure spite. Particularly in the Tournament of Power, wherein [[spoiler:Universe 9, ruled by incompetent gods with a smarmy, greedy Supreme Kai, are horrified by Frieza's willingness to betray his own Universe if it meant an advantage, and he betrays his Universe 6 counterpart, Frost, while cruelly mocking him for being too soft and trusting (for the record, Frost has deliberately engineered genocides and profiteered off the ensuing wars).]]
* Parodied in ''Manga/TentaiSenshiSunred'': A new and up-and-coming Evil Organization moves into Kanzaki city and demands to become Sunred's ArchEnemy. Sunred points out he already ''has'' an Evil Organization Arch Enemy, {{Harmless Villain}}s Florsheim, and tells them to go beat up Florsheim if they want the spot. Kayoko, his girlfriend, then scolds Sunred for being mean to his Arch Enemies by forcing them into actually fighting people. [[spoiler:Sunred then reveals that Florsheim are actually very powerful as Evil Organizations go, they're just not ''anywhere'' near his level. Que GilliganCut of the up-and-coming Evil Organization being beaten up by a single one of Florsheim's boss monsters and [[WhenIWasYourAge Vamp scolding them for looking like no-good punks who make his monsters look bad]].]]
* ''Anime/{{Shinzo}}'': [[ArcVillain Queen Rusephine]] uses her time travel powers to summon a past version of the [[BigBad Dark King Mushrambo]] so that he'll take care of Mushra, Sago, and Kutal. He immediately kills her instead to absorb her power.
* Not exactly evil, but in the last ''Manga/{{Tomie}}'' story, a male model eventually develops immunity to Tomie's [[CharmPerson seductive power]] by being even ''vainer'' than she is. To put this into perspective, Tomie is so vain that seeing any less than perfect depiction of herself gives her a brain aneurysm. His actions upon losing his beauty are also even pettier than Tomie's. Instead of just taking revenge on pre-existing Tomie, he intentionally creates new Tomies from innocent children to strip away their regenerative powers and watch them grow old.

* [[DiabolicalMastermind Tobi]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Kabuto]] spent most of the Fourth Ninja War Arc competing for the BigBad position of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. Tobi was presented as the traditional BigBad and had far more influence over the story than Kabuto, but Kabuto had a trump card over him, along with the StoryBreakerPower of [[AnimateDead Edo Tensei]]. Their goal was to gain the power of the Sage of the Six Paths but each went to do it in their own way. Kabuto planned to achieve this by getting Sasuke's body and developing his Sharingan into a Rinnegan. Tobi planned to achieve this by resurrecting the Ten-Tails in order to become its Jinchuuriki and advance his plan known as [[AssimilationPlot Infinite Tsukuyomi]]. The conflict has been resolved with [[spoiler:Kabuto being defeated by Sasuke and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard one of his resurrected pawns Itachi]], his trump card (the real Madara Uchiha) [[EvilIsNotAToy breaking free of Edo Tensei]], and Tobi having used two resurrected shinobi who owned Nine-Tails chakra to resurrect the Ten-Tails in any case.]]

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' finishes off the Flying Pussyfoot incident with a train-top show-off between the AxCrazy PsychoForHire Ladd Russo and the AxCrazy ''Awesome'' SociopathicHero Claire Stanfield. In this case it's not so much Eviler than Thou as ''Crazier'' Than Thou (especially since Claire is actually fairly heroic and virtuous compared to Ladd)

* In ''Anime/{{Monster}}'', many have tried to manipulate Johan Liebert for their own means. Johan shows these people that EvilIsNotAToy. He follows along with them to achieve his own plans but as soon as they have served their purpose, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he disposes of them without a second thought.]] There are also quite a few insane serial killers who meet him and instantly realize that they are way out of their league and become awed by him. For example, one who believed he was a vampire, later claimed he was a mere baby bat compared to him.

* ''Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns'': Domino proves herself to be the greater evil than Jessie, James, and Meowth; after revealing herself to be a Team Rocket Elite, she pops the trio's balloon while expressing disgust at their [[HarmlessVillain bumbling natures]] and declaring them a disgrace to Team Rocket. Later, she frees them from a cage simply to force them to work as cleaning staff.

* [[DiabolicalMastermind Tobi]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Kabuto]] spent most of the Fourth Ninja War Arc competing for the BigBad position of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. Tobi was presented as the traditional BigBad and had far more influence over the story than Kabuto, but Kabuto had a trump card over him, along with the StoryBreakerPower of [[AnimateDead Edo Tensei]]. Their goal was to gain the power of the Sage of the Six Paths but each went to do it in their own way. Kabuto planned to achieve this by getting Sasuke's body and developing his Sharingan into a Rinnegan. Tobi planned to achieve this by resurrecting the Ten Tailed Beast in order to become its Jinchuuriki for advance his plan entitled [[AssimilationPlot Infinite Tsukuyomi]]. The conflict has been resolved with [[spoiler:Kabuto getting defeated by Sasuke and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard one of his resurrected pawns Itachi]], his trump card (the real Madara Uchiha) [[EvilIsNotAToy breaking free of Edo Tensei]] and Tobi having used two resurrected shinobi owning Nine-Tails chakra to resurrect the Ten-Tails in any case.]]

* Mayuri Kurotsuchi VS Szayel-Aporro Granz in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', though it is less an "Eviler Than Thou" moment so much as "More CrazyPrepared Than Thou".
** Though Mayuri's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech is all about what he sees as the unscientific nature of Szayel's way of thinking. "More [[MadScientist Mad Scientific]] Than Thou"?

** Though Mayuri's BreakingSpeech is all about what he sees as the unscientific nature of Szayel's way of thinking. "More [[MadScientist Mad Scientific]] Than Thou"?

* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Capone Bege thinks he can take on [[spoiler:Big Mom. He is wrong. And Big Mom also pulls it on Vinsmoke Judge simultaneously.]]