History Main / EqualOpportunityEvil

* Lampshaded during the ''ComicBook/ActsOfVengeance'' event, in which [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]] assembles an evil team supreme consisting of [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]] (Romani), Characters/{{Ma|rvelComicsMagneto}}gneto (Jewish), the Mandarin (Chinese), [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]], the Wizard, and the [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]] (a Nazi). (He tried to recruit Namor too, which would have added an Atlantean to the group had Namor accepted, but he did not). It ''really'' didn't work out. Entirely apart from the clash of egos, none of them could stand the Skull, and vice-versa. When you put the most evil Nazi in fiction in the same team as [[SwissArmySuperpower the most powerful]] and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters pissed off Holocaust survivor]] in history, you are really pushing the limits of this trope. To the surprise of nobody, the event ended with Magneto [[KickTheSonOfABitch locking the Skull]] in [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere an underground bunker with no light and limited water]], to [[AndIMustScream die painfully of thirst and starvation]] with just his sins for company. The two men had never met, but Magneto hated him anyway (with ''very'' good reason; nobody else liked him either). When his minions broke him out, the first thing he did was [[TitleDrop swear vengeance on the mutant.]]

* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'' has the Serpent Society. From the group's inception, about half of them were women -- and supervillain teams have tended to be boys' clubs. There were several black members, at least one Hispanic member, and at least one Middle Eastern member. The Society also welcomed disabled people: Death Adder was mute, Rattler was deaf, and Bushmaster was an amputee. (The last was a case of DisabilitySuperpower, as he'd replaced his missing limbs with super-strong cybernetic parts). Funny thing is that the Serpent Society started out as a spin-off from HYDRA... Who were [[ThoseWackyNazis NAZIS]]. (Although they kind of [[MotiveDecay grew into "generic evil organization" over time]]).

* Lampshaded during the ''ComicBook/ActsOfVengeance'' event, in which ComicBook/{{Loki}} assembles an evil team supreme consisting of ComicBook/DoctorDoom (Romani), ComicBook/{{Magneto}} (Jewish), the Mandarin (Chinese), ComicBook/TheKingpin, the Wizard, and the ComicBook/RedSkull (a Nazi). (He tried to recruit Namor too, which would have added an Atlantean to the group had Namor accepted, but he did not). It ''really'' didn't work out. Entirely apart from the clash of egos, none of them could stand the Skull, and vice-versa. When you put the most evil Nazi in fiction in the same team as [[SwissArmySuperpower the most powerful]] and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters pissed off Holocaust survivor]] in history, you are really pushing the limits of this trope. To the surprise of nobody, the event ended with Magneto [[KickTheSonOfABitch locking the Skull]] in [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere an underground bunker with no light and limited water]], to [[AndIMustScream die painfully of thirst and starvation]] with just his sins for company. The two men had never met, but Magneto hated him anyway (with ''very'' good reason; nobody else liked him either). When his minions broke him out, the first thing he did was [[TitleDrop swear vengeance on the mutant.]]

* Discussed in ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'', an AlternateUniverse story where ComicBook/{{Magneto}} and his army managed to conquer the world. Thunderbird mentions that he joined Magneto's cause precisely because of the racism he suffered as a Native American, a form of discrimination that he no longer experiences in a world run by mutants.

* Another Marvel example is [[LegionOfDoom the Masters of Evil]], archenemies of the Avengers and the Marvel heroes in general. Their roster changes a lot just like their heroic counterparts and has included villains from just about every demographic (women like Moonstone and Titania, non-white men like Radioactive Man and Thunderball, and even LGBT members in the form of [[ButchLesbian Man-Killer]] and Machinesmith). This is especially notable as the Masters' default leader, ComicBook/BaronZemo, is the son of the infamous Nazi member Heinrich Zemo, who helped found/lead HYDRA before his death at the hands of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica (granted, Zemo long ago abandoned his father's Nazi ideals, to the point that he once dated a Jewish woman). The Masters of Evil being equal opportunity goes all the way back to their first incarnation, when Heinrich Zemo, a former member of the Third Reich, was willing to recruit a woman, Enchantress, and a Chinese communist, Radioactive Man. This actually made them more diverse than the Avengers, who at that time were all white.

* Carl Grissom's criminal syndicate in ''Film/Batman1989'' was remarkably diverse, containing representatives with [[FacialProfiling stereotypically Italian, Jewish, and Chinese facial features]]; when ComicBook/TheJoker takes over this gang, he hires a Black kung-fu expert (by far his most lethal henchman) and adds him to the mix. There's even an AmbiguouslyBrown (Arab? Latino? Half-Polynesian?) samurai-swordsman with EightiesHair who appears to have a high rank in the gang hierarchy. Inverted with Lieutenant Eckhardt's squad of crooked cops, who are all white; Commissioner Gordon, meanwhile, has at least two Black men working for him, one of whom appears to have the rank of captain, as he reports to Gordon personally.

* ''Film/EndOfWatch'': Curbside Gang members range from just barely teens up to late twenties or early thirties in the case of Big Evil, and both male and female participate in the drive-by shooting [[spoiler: and the ambush hit on Taylor and Z at the climax of the film.]] One is also a lesbian-no one cares.

** The [[AllThereInTheManual comic book prequel]] to ''Film/IronMan3'' has Comicbook/WarMachine facing a Ten Rings chapter from Hong Kong.

** The Red Room from ''Film/BlackWidow'' is a particularly tragic example. Girls from all over the world were kidnapped to become Widows. Dreykov doesn't care about their ethnicity or where they come from because he sees all of them as equally disposable and replaceable.

* ''Literature/ThePostman'': Holnists, but only if you are male, although one of the augments clearly does not like the idea that black soldiers might serve with them. General Macklin chides him for this, however, saying Nathan Hold wasn't a racist and expresses admiration for a black man who's fighting them (a former Marine) while saying his own sons would be required to earn their place in the Holnist army, or else be serfs. The fact that all the Holnists seem to be white is explained by Macklin saying most of the racial minorities didn't survive after the apocalypse as the result of being disadvantaged. It seems probable people of color would be less attracted to such a philosophy given its [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany historical associations though]] too.

* In ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' the Commission is shown to have quite a few women and people of color in positions of power. The Handler, the highest-ranking member we meet in season one, is a woman and a skilled killer. Cha-Cha is a black woman and one of the best assassins. Many of the background characters are women. [[spoiler: Another assassin of note is Lila, a woman of color.]] There's even a [[WorldOfWeirdness talking goldfish]] who's the Chairman of the Board of Directors. This is treated as perfectly normal.

* Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling's Wrestling/InnerCircle was a good example during their initial heel run, with the Puerto Rican Wrestling/SantanaAndOrtiz and the Cuban-American Sammy Guevara wrestling alongside Wrestling/ChrisJericho and Wrestling/JakeHager as fully equal team members. This formed a pretty noticeable contrast to their initial arch-rivals Wrestling/TheElite, whose members were all white guys from the United States and Canada. Funnily enough, though, the Elite became a minor example following their FaceHeelTurn (which happened shortly before the Inner Circle's HeelFaceTurn), when the Japanese Michael Nakazawa joined the group.

* The Jokerz in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' seem to take anyone with a sick sense of humour (of course, considering [[ComicBook/TheJoker whom the gang members have as their hero]], [[MonsterClown almost everyone's face ends up getting whitened anyway]]), regardless of gender and ethnicity, and of the three spliced hoods in "Splicers" one's female and one's black.

* Emperor Belos from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' only cares that his followers abide by the Coven system and are loyal. Indeed, the Boiling Isles as a whole are shockingly progressive for a fascist dictatorship where MightMakesRight, with discrimination based on species, race, gender, and sexual orientation being pretty much non-existent. [[spoiler:However, "Hollow Mind" reveals that Belos is a 17th century Witch Hunter, [[SubvertedTrope who plans to kill all witches]] as he sees them as AlwaysChaoticEvil]].

* ''Literature/BloodMeridian'': While many people in Glanton's gang hold racist views, most of them are still willing to accept non-white people into their ranks. The only one who does actively discriminate against them, White John Jackson, [[spoiler:is quickly murdered by one of the gang's black members, and nobody else in the group objects]].

* ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'': Michael Myers doesn’t care if you're white, hispanic, black, gay, straight, or disabled. He ''will'' kill you.

* ''Series/CobraKai'': The [[ThugDojo Cobra Kai]] student body seen in ''Film/TheKarateKid'' was all-male and all-white. Upon starting up the new Cobra Kai, Johnny's initial students include Miguel Diaz (Hispanic), Aisha Robinson ([[TwoferTokenMinority black and female]]), and Eli "[[DoNotCallMePaul Hawk]]" Moskowitz (AmbiguouslyJewish - and [[AmbiguousDisorder implied to be on the autism spectrum]] on top of that). While [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero Johnny]] is initially resistant to taking female students, he quickly comes around once Aisha proves herself. The new Cobra Kai is admittedly a downplayed example - while Johnny teaches the students to fight ruthlessly, he intends for them to use it as a form of self-empowerment, and is dismayed when they [[HeWhoFightsMonsters become the kinds of bullies they used to hate]]. [[spoiler:After [[BigBad Kreese]] takes back control of Cobra Kai, it's played straight, as Kreese continues Johnny's policy of accepting both boys and girls of all different races. This is because Kreese is TheSocialDarwinist at heart - he doesn't give a damn about what any of his students are, just that they can fight and are willing to be vicious.]]

* The Lost Brotherhood in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned'' are a fairly diverse bike gang with [[OldSoldier Clay]] (African-American), [[TheLancer Jim]] (AmbiguouslyBrown), [[DisabledSnarker Angus]] (wheelchair-bound) and the main protagonist [[NobleDemon Johnny]] (Jewish, albeit [[InformedJudaism non-practicing]]) in contrast to their rivals, the white supremacist Angels of Death. That is not to say all their members are tolerant; [[FalseFriend Billy Grey]] and [[SmugSnake Brian Jeremy]] are [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain bigoted towards Slavs and the Chinese]] and occasionally throwing antisemitic slurs towards Johnny. Unsurprisingly, they happen to be the most despicable members of the Lost [[spoiler:who end up betraying them at one point or another]].

* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'': Clan Lasombra, in keeping with their SocialDarwinist ideals, is cheerfully colorblind and will happily Embrace anyone who meets their standards of ambition, willpower and resilience. Lasombra vampires tend to be of either South European or Latin American origin, but that's just because those areas are Lasombra's traditional homeland. They also have a special hate-on for racists in general, and ThoseWackyNazis in particular.

* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'': Clan Lasombra, in keeping with their SocialDawinist ideals, is cheerfully colorblind and will happily Embrace anyone who meets their standards of ambition, willpower and resilience. Lasombra vampires tend to be of either South European or Latin American origin, but that's just because those areas are Lasombra's traditional homeland. They also have a special hate-on for racists in general, and ThoseWackyNazis in particular.

** The Dark Eldar Archons are not really picky about who they let in to their royal court so long as they can be trusted. This actually means that the majority of ''their own race'' is disqualified since the Dark Eldar are an entire race of [[TheStarscream Starscreams]].

Needless to say, this trope is TruthInTelevision. For example, pirates were a notoriously motley crew, while mercenaries have accepted members on purely meritocratical basis in their gangs. Perhaps the most striking example has been [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Waffen-SS]], which recruited ''dozens'' of volunteer divisions from the occupied enemy nations, especially later on when the war was turning against the Axis. Many of those foreign volunteers were often among the hardest fighting units at the end of the Third Reich. Any other specific RealLife examples are too controversial.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', Scar generally gets along with the hyenas (though being a snob, he looks down on ''everyone'') and is more than willing to employ them in his plans to take the throne, and integrates them into the Pride Lands after becoming king, whereas the other "good" lions are pretty big pricks to them (though they may have their reasons). (Hilariously, this has led [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical some conservative propagandists to portray Scar as an evil socialist]] because he gave special privileges to the hyenas and the Pride Lands fell into decay as a result). Additionally, going by the voice actors, the hyenas [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed]] are respectively black, Hispanic, and white.

* In the original ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976'', the gang attacking the eponymous station isn't united by race or much of anything really. The police officers even mention how weird it is. It fits though, they have no dialog and almost seem like a supernatural force.

** Stock incompetent villains of ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'', Zhentarim. They're bad, sometimes mad, used to serve a God Of {{Evil Overlord}}s and ended up with a pair of even worse ones. But their armies and poisoned knives work for a simple strategical purpose: power to ''control the trade''. As such, The Black Network is understanding as to the strange tastes of its subsidiaries, but [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=fr/fx20010403e when]] things like [[FantasticRacism hostility to nonhumans]] threaten the trade, Zhent high-ups remind the locals their style is about "AnOfferYouCantRefuse", not "A StronglyWordedLetter". For that matter, an elf Ashemmi is one of their top-ranked wizards and Sememmon's consort.

** The humanoid tribes from TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'s Broken Lands, though each is numerically dominated by a specific majority race, often include substantial minorities of other D&D humanoids.
** A somewhat tongue-in-cheek editorial in an old issue of ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine pointed this out as a benefit of having devils and demons in D&D: they make great villainous equal-opportunity employers because they honestly couldn't care less what their "native" agents on the Prime Material Plane look like as long as they serve their purpose.
** The Five Nations of TabletopGame/{{Eberron}} are rather integrated, at least among the common humanoid races, so several villainous groups (such as the Emerald Claw or some Dragon Below cults) have a nicely varied make-up as well. The Inspired rulers of Riedra are also fairly unbiased in their general oppression, settling for mere dictatorial tyranny over anyone who bows down to them and cold extermination for anyone who doesn't.
* Some of the street gangs in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' accept a diverse mix of ethnicities and/or metatypes, often because they're united by their [[GangOfHats Hats]] rather than their backgrounds (e.g. all-decker gangs).

* In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', the Wyrm isn't choosy about those he recruits into his ranks. Corrupted shapeshifters, spirits, and humans of all backgrounds are welcome.
* In ''TabletopGame/SirenTheDrowning'', the [[ApocalypseCult Current of Acheron]] is noted to be very lax in who they recruit, accepting any Siren as long as they are willing to embrace their StrawNihilist ideology. They do it mostly out of PragmaticVillainy: because few people are insane enough to want the destruction of the world, [[HatedByAll they are hated by pretty much everyone]] and [[EvilVersusOblivion even other Abyssal Currents want them dead]], so they can't afford to be picky about who they recruit.
* In "Ashes of the Motor City" (a supplement to ''TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful'') C.O.R.D., the Tainted organization devoted to ruining Detroit, has an ally in Jenni August, an outwardly-cheerful, white suburban transgender activist. C.O.R.D. won Jenni's loyalty by rescuing her after her parents rejected her, and paying for her reassignment surgery using embezzled funds.

* The trolls in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' seem to be pretty thoroughly egalitarian when it comes to gender: they're just [[FantasticRacism terribly strict about the roles and rights of different blood castes.]] This trope is pretty well justified when it comes to sex: trolls are born in hatcheries en masse, with no knowledge of their genetic parentage, and any romantic coupling (male/female, female/female, male/male) is equally viable for breeding. Since biological gender became completely irrelevant to them ages ago, it makes sense that they don't feel the need to split up their galaxy-conquering firepower with sexism. Officially, anyway; according to Porrim Maryam, the fact that the trolls are ruled by an empress does not make the lower blood ranks less patriarchal.

* The gang of {{Jerk Jock}}s who pick on Jesse and Chester in ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar'' includes a black member - more than fair, given the gang's extremely small size. They also don't like [[TheChick the lone female flunky]] of the gang getting her breasts fondled - although this has much more to do with jealousy than sensitivity, especially as said flunky ''likes'' being felt up and actually encourages Jesse and Chester to do so (not knowing that the jocks are not far away).

** The League of Villains goes in this direction after they start recruiting. One of their members, Kenji Hikishi Magne), is male-to-female transgender and everybody refers to her with the proper pronouns -- even Shigaraki, who generally seems to care very little about what people think. In fact, Magne's teammate Jin (Twice) gets violently angry at someone for misgendering "Big Sis Magne" [[spoiler:and even moreso when that same person kills her]].

** The Quincies hunt Hollows and hate Shinigami. That hasn't stopped Yhwach forcibly enlisting Hollows (or rather Arrancars) and attempting to recruit Shinigami to their ranks. Although some Arrancar accepted the offer, no Shinigami has. The Quincies themselves are a diverse group that comes from all over the world.

* In ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', Shishio's main followers include a former [[HighClassCallGirl prostitute]], a [[CreepyCrossdresser crossdresser]], a [[DisabilitySuperPower blind guy]], a giant who is about 20-feet tall, an [[EvilGenius financial expert]], and an ArrogantKungFuGuy. Further, his philosophy itself fits this. Shishio is a [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] who dreams of Japan becoming a militaristic warrior paradise. While he has no empathy at all for those he considers weak, Shishio doesn't gauge strength based on wealth and background.

** [[TheGeneralissimo Antón Castillo]] from ''VideoGame/FarCry6'' is also this to some extent. While he brutally suppresses and even enslaves anyone who shows even smallest signs of dissent, he otherwise doesn't care much about his subjects' ethnicities or genders as long as they pledge their loyalties to his regime. Most notably, unlike Pagan's Royal Army above, Castillo's FND foot soldiers and officers consist of people from both genders, and a female soldier is almost as likely to be encountered in gameplay as a male one.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Dr. Doo is usually depicted as having meritocratic beliefs (definitely not an egalitarian, but believing that the elite can come from any background) and having specific contempt for racism due to his own Roma background and the discrimination he encountered in his youth as a result. Occasionally, the odd writer will ignore this and make him a bigot of some kind to [[KickTheDog make him seem more evil]].

** Aizen was willing to use anyone if it meant they could help him achieve his goals. He enlisted Shinigami such as the [[TwoferTokenMinority blind, black-skinned]] Tousen and [[EyesAlwaysShut Gin]]. He also enlisted Hollows (as Arrancars) the arch-enemies of Shinigami, such as the black-skinned, witch-doctor-themed Zommari, the female DarkSkinnedBlond Harribel, the misogynistic Nnoitra, and the [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette nihilistic]] Ulquiorra.

** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'': The Terran Empire is deeply racist and xenophobic against all kinds of aliens, but the empire itself is racially diverse, as long as they are all human.
* ''Series/SWAT2017'': Like the SLA they emulate, the Emancipators have men and women in their ranks. They have equal Black and White members too, with a Black man leading them. Women also have leading roles, with Empress Georgiou being the current ruler.

* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Padmasa accepts greedy, power-hungry people who harbor a secret hatred for the rest of the world from every race and nation. Women are mostly desired as {{breeding slave}}s, but they have some along with men too if they're useful in other ways.

* ''VideoGame/FarCry4'' has the Royal Army of [[TheCaligula Pagan Min]], who unlike the Golden Path resistance opposing him has many women in it while the Golden Path has very few, and their previous leader (and father of the protagonist, Ajay) Mohan had an extreme StayInTheKitchen attitude that had lethal consequences in the backstory of the game. Pagan also casually comments that he has no problem with homosexuality (while mentioning that he is frequently MistakenForGay but not particularly bothered by this) and by implication accepts openly gay members in his organization.
** [[TheGeneralissimo Antón Castillo]] from ''VideoGame/FarCry6'' is also this some extent, while he brutally suppresses and even enslaves anyone who shows even smallest signs of dissent, he otherwise didn't care much about his subjects' ethnicities or genders as long as they pledge their loyalties to his regime. Most notably unlike Pagan's Royal Army above, Castillo's FND foot soldiers and officers are consisted of people from both genders and a female soldier is almost as likely to be encountered in the gameplay as with a male one.