History Main / GigglingVillain

* Mukuro Rokudo, from ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' has an unsettling giggle similar to Orochimaru above.

* Being the only markedly AxeCrazy villain in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', Tsukuyomi does this often when fighting Setsuna, starting with an inhibited giggle as the fight beings, to a straight-out [[LaughingMad cackle]] as [[OrgasmicCombat she gets carried]] [[BloodKnight away with the fight]].

* [[PsychopathicManchild Russia]] from ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''..."ufufufu~"
* Takasugi from ''{{Manga/Gintama}}'', more often than not.

* ''FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi'':

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} 11: Subterranean Animism'' has [[GreenEyedMonster Parsee's]] little smile and music-note emote when she tells Reimu that it's NothingPersonal, she [[AxCrazy just wants to kill]] ''[[AxCrazy everybody]]'' who can travel freely across her [[TrollBridge bridge]].

* Aboshi from ''TheHakkenden'' could outgiggle anybody.

* Valtome from ''Franchise/FireEmblem 10'' (Radiant Dawn), who lets out a 'Uwee hee hee' every chance he gets, just like [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Kefka]].

** Volume 4 villain Tyrian fills this role better, though he sometimes strays into full EvilLaughter

* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': Near the end of the first season, Lo Po Bia Ren, an assassin posing as a magic teacher, tends to giggle a lot at least when showing his true nature. It also seems to occur in conjunction with overexcitement. The guy enjoys his job (of killing people) a bit too much.

* Zabulon, leader of the Day Watch's Dark Others in the ''Literature/NightWatch'' series, breaks into a giggle every so often. It serves as a warning sign that you've just screwed up in trying to counter his tactics, or that events have progressed into the category of utterly ''weird''.

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* Unknown of ''Series/{{Tekken}}'' giggles and smiles quite a bit, controlling a possessed and pissed off Jun, and fulfills the villainess part by her hit effects being screaming faces (hence victims she possessed) and the walls of goo she creates are adorned with skeletons, making her at the very least murderous if not evil.

** And of course, there's always [[CrazyAwesome Mukrezar]].

* Shadowthrone from the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' is dramatic, partially insane (albeit CrazyAwesome) and prone to erupting into fits of the giggles at least once in most of his appearances. [[spoiler: Though by the last book, while no one could ever really call him "good", he does prove rather less than villainous after it's revealed that he masterminded most of the plot's resolution in order to cement his place among the gods]].

* Nao Sadatsuka of ''Manga/ShokugekiNoSoma'' is more of a creepy StalkerWithACrush than a villain, but when she's alone she tends to go "Hihihihi!" out of nowhere, creeping everyone around her. It's sorta fitting considering that she has penchant for dressing and cooking as a WickedWitch.

* While Jafar from ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' has a full EvilLaugh once he becomes a sorcerer, his laughter shortly after discovering Aladdin has the lamp qualifies.
* Ratigan from ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective''. Creator/VincentPrice even went on record saying Ratigan was his favorite role of all time, mainly because he got to play one of these.
* Alameda Slim from Disney's ''Disney/HomeOnTheRange'' has a very annoying, yet somewhat still creepy-sounding giggle.

** However, it's Frank Gorshin's take on ComicBook/TheRiddler with his maniacal giggle on 1960s ''Series/{{Batman}}'' series that is the real classic.

* Next is Richard Widmark's PsychoForHire Tommy Udo from ''Film/KissOfDeath'', who likes sending old women in wheelchairs on short but exciting trips down the stairs. So much so that he inspired Frank Gorshin's portrayal of the Riddler in ''Series/{{Batman}}''.

* ''Series/{{Batman}}'': Frank Gorshin's version of ComicBook/TheRiddler had a hysterical, unhinged giggle.

* [[CreepyTwins Hansel and Gretel]] of ''Manga/BlackLagoon''.

* Frieza from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' does this occasionally with a distinct "Oh hohohoho" laugh in the Japanese version.

* The Infected from ''VideoGame/SurvivalCrisisZ'' have several sound effects dedicated to them, but for whatever reason females only use a distinct giggle that they repeat over and over, and several female infected can layer the sound over one another. While it seems a case of DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound at first, playing the game for an extended period of time quickly takes it over to HellIsThatNoise territory.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbg30GKkmQM This Pyro.]] (Oh God, it's [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments contagious]]!)

* The Infected from ''VideoGame/SurvivalCrisisZ'' have several sound effects dedicated to them, but for whatever reason females only use a distinct giggle that they repeat over and over, and several female infected can layer the sound over one another. While it seems a case of MostAnnoyingSound at first, playing the game for an extended period of time quickly takes it over to HellIsThatNoise territory.

* In ''Film/WonderWoman2017'', General Ludendorf kills an uncooperative German High Command by locking them in a room with a canister of Dr. Maru's latest poison gas. Before the door gets barred, he tosses in a single gas mask for them to fight over. Maru wanders why he did that, noting that the mask is useless against her new gas. After Ludendorf retorts "They don't know that!" they both giggle like a pair of school kids playing a prank.
* In ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', Ulysses Klaue has a ''serious'' case of the giggles, even while captured and being interrogated.

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* From ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'', Tzekel-Kan, the high priest. As he is already both comically [[LargeHam hammy]] and scarily eager to perform human sacrifices and see the townspeople horribly killed, his giggling walks a fine line between creepy and hilarious.
%%* [[FeatheredFiend Nigel]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}''.

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* The title characters in ''Literature/{{Duumvirate}}'' can do the EvilLaugh, but far more often they just do some version of this.
* This trope is at least half the reason many fans of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' hate [[SmugSnake Dolores Umbridge]] more than the series BigBad. It's even worse in the movie version, thanks to Creator/ImeldaStaunton's magnificent performance. There's tales of viewers with the powerful urge to ''somehow'' find a way to leap through the screen and punch her, if not worse.
* In "Guilty Pleasures," the first novel in Laurel K. Hamilton's 'Anita Blake Vampire Hunter' book series, the character Nikolaos is both a cruel and considerably powerful one-thousand-year-old master vampire. Her character was noted several times to giggle as she tortured and tormented, not laugh.
* Zabulon, leader of the Day Watch's Dark Others in the ''Literature/NightWatch'' series, breaks into a giggle every so often. It serves as a warning sign that you've just screwed up in trying to counter his tactics, or that events have progressed into the category of utterly ''weird''.

* At the end of ''Literature/ThePiloFamilyCircus'', Kurt Pilo, undergoing a VillainousBreakdown and [[OneWingedAngel mutating due to badly-restrained anger]] starts chuckling and giggling to himself: "Oh hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo... Well now, well now, isn't this something? Someone's having a ''laugh''... oh ho ho ha ha... There's, ha ha, ''traitors,'' and I'm..."
* Wilson Kemp from the Literature/SherlockHolmes story "The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter". He terrifies the poor Greek interpreter far more than the threats of physical violence.
* In ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', [[BigBad Count Olaf]] and his girlfriend, Esme, become an extreme and ridiculous version of this in The Grim Grotto. Working on perfecting their evil laughs, they ended up with things like "Ha ha heepa heepa ho!" "Tee hee terrycloth!" "Giggle giggle glandular problems!"
* From Robin [=McKinley=]'s ''Literature/{{Sunshine}}'': One of the vampires in Bo's gang giggles; it's how the titular character recognizes him in a later encounter.

* In Ian Fleming's ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'', we see how Mr. Big's henchman Tee-Hee got his name, as he giggles while breaking James Bond's finger.
* In the second book in the ''Literature/LosingChristina'' series, the title character finds herself chased by one of these. She describes his laughter as "insane".

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': [[ComicBook/TheJoker Jeremiah Valeska]] is prone to giggling to himself (and talking to himself) after undergoing serious {{sanity slippage}} between the fourth and fifth seasons. The change in his character is especially noticeable, because this version of character started out as more of an [[DissonantSerenity unnervingly calm]] {{cold ham}} than would be expected from a character who is so famously [[AxCrazy unstable]] and {{laughably evil}}. By his later appearances, he has devolved to the point of talking to himself in the voice of his dead twin brother, apparently having developed a split personality, and giggling about how Batman is going to love [[ItMakesSenseInContext the tunnel he dug for him]] from Gotham to the mainland.
-->'''Jeremiah''': [[StalkerWithoutACrush It's a nice gift for him. He'll like it!]]
-->'''Jeremiah''' (this time in Jerome's voice): No, he won't.
-->'''Jeremiah''' (as himself, again): Come on, he's gonna love it! He's gonna... (randomly breaks down in giggles.)

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%% * {{Invoked|Trope}} in one ''Webcomic/EvilFTW''.

* Marceline from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''.
* [[MonsterClown The Clown]] in the animated adaptation of ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}''
* While the Changeling Queen in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' can certainly pull off a full blown EvilLaugh, she does giggle creepily when she is amused.
* Chef Hatchet from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' is normally a chuckling villain; however, he has pulled off impressive evil laughs from time to time.
* The Troublesome Trucks from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' would always giggle and laugh like chipmunks whenever they've caused an engine pulling them to fall into an accident and teasing them for their misfortunes. The engines would more than often tell the trucks to be quiet.
* The Witch in ''WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies''' fairy tale episode.

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': [[ComicBook/TheJoker Jeremiah Valeska]] is prone to giggling to himself (and talking to himself) after undergoing serious {{sanity slippage}} between the fourth and fifth seasons. Especially noticeable, because this version of character started out as more of a {{cold ham}} than would be expected from a character who is so famously {{laughably evil}}.

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': [[ComicBook/TheJoker Jeremiah Valeska]] is prone to giggling to himself (and talking to himself) after undergoing serious {{sanity slippage}} between the fourth and fifth seasons. Especially noticeable, because this version of character started out as more of a {{cold ham}} than would be expected for the origin of such an eccentric character.

** However, it's Frank Gorshin's take on the Riddler with his maniacal giggle on 1960s ''Series/{{Batman}}'' series that is the real classic.

* Being the only markedly AxeCrazy villain in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', Tsukuyomi does this often when fighting Setsuna, starting with an inhibited giggle as the fight beings, to a straight-out [[ManiacalLaugh cackle]] as [[OrgasmicCombat she gets carried]] [[BloodKnight away with the fight]].

* Mistress Glenda Lee, retainer of Monster Pain, and later, Los Rabiosos in the World Wrestling League. Relatively deep voice, very high pitched giggle.[[/folder]]

* Albedo from ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}''. He can ManiacalLaugh with the best of them, but his giggles are even more chilling for how ''happy'' he sounds.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'''s mascot character Monokuma has his distinctive "upupu~" which he likes to say at inappropriate times. The game's official dub turns this into a slightly-less awkward sounding "puhuhuhu" while the anime's dub converts it to a more cartoonish "nyuk-nyuknyuk!"

* ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' is ''the'' dark and grim lady that giggles. She can do a full-blown EvilLaugh, but mostly it's this.