History Main / StupidEvil

** Mr. Huph threatens to fire Bob if he stops a mugging, while it was more convenient for the former if the mugging was thwarted, as the company wouldn't have to pay insurance to the victim.

** Chester V in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2''. Despite having a world-renowned inventing company and having the best scientists in the world working for him, instead of asking Flint Lockwood to build another FLDSDMFR to make his food bars, he sent many of his employees to Swallow Falls Island to retrieve the original machine, all of whom end up getting killed by the mutant food wildlife. Then he betrays Flint after he found the FLDSMDFR, which in turn causes Flint, his friends and the food wildlife to turn against him for wanting to kill them and exploit them for his food bars .His pet orangutan Barb also turned against him after Sam made her realize that Chester doesn't care about her. Lastly he thought he would be saved by his holograms but they didn't; as he tried to make his escape, a cheesepider ate him.

* Scar from ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 The Lion King]]'' wanted to become king due to not wanting to live in his brother Mufasa's shadow. But what he absolutely refuses to consider is that being a king isn't just a prize, it's a ''job''- one with real consequences if he doesn't do it right. He runs the Pridelands into the ground by letting the hyenas overhunt because he just wanted to satisfy his grudge against Mufasa and didn't care about the consequences. By the time Simba has grown up, even the hyenas themselves are starting to resent him because he's no longer living up to his promises. And when he finally fights Simba in the finale, he nearly kills the young lion but just ''has'' to give Simba a HeroicSecondWind by confessing to murdering Mufasa. [[spoiler: Eventually, the hyenas eat him, having overheard him blaming them for his actions and becoming sick of being used]].

* In ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'', Dmitri's ''[[AlliterationAndAdventurers Dungeons & Discourse]]'' character is a Stupid Evil "Dark Kantian" as a parody of Kantian philosophy.
-->'''Dmitri:''' I am compelled to do evil, regardless of its utility.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' gives us Bangladesh Dupree. Her attempts to follow orders inevitably add a lot of "kill people" between the lines. On a more specific note, she has to be beaten unconscious so she stops trying to kill the guy trying to keep the airship they're on from being destroyed. In all fairness, she was dazed, delirious, and barely awake, and he had recently broken her jaw. And he did ''that'' because she attacked him when she saw him dragging her unconscious boss through the halls. Bang also (surprise) [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120118 sees Klaus]] as some sort of a [[ParentalSubstitute father figure]], so she might have been trying to protect him. In her case, it's sometimes hard to tell motivated violence from [[AxCrazy unmotivated]]. She's the girl who [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061101 complains]] about orders to not burn any towns and then adds "even if a town really ''[[ZombieApocalypse needed]]'' burning".
-->'''Klaus:''' Dupree. When I say the words "''alive and unharmed''", do ''any'' neurons actually ''fire'' in that brain of yours?\\
'''Dupree:''' Um -- [[BluntNo no sir!]]\\
'''Klaus:''' I thought not.

* [[TheCaligula Schlatt]] from ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'' engages in pointless sadism and cruelty for absolutely no reason, which can range from [[BadBoss bullying his subordinates]] to [[WouldHurtAChild ordering the public execution of a teenager]]. His allies all wind up abandoning him because Schlatt refuses to stop [[KickTheDog kicking every dog in sight]] regardless of how much it alienates them.

* Insofar as lying is "evil", then the knaves in Raymond Smullyan's logic puzzles count; they ''always'' lie, even if they would [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain give away their being knaves]] (eg, if you ask them "Is the Pope Catholic?", they will say "No"). The most famous and widely imitated such puzzle is described under KnightsAndKnaves. In that one and its variants, puzzle solvers are limited in the number of questions they can ask, and there is often a more conventional "Normal" character hidden among the Stupid Evil knaves, who can usually imitate a knight or knave whenever convenient.

* The director in ''WesternAnimation/{{Nimona}}'' killed the queen and framed Sir Ballister because of her prejudges for the peasant class, despite that Ballister worked hard to earn that title and there were dumber knights like Todd. She also allowed people to be blinded with fear from supposed monsters outside the city walls, despite that there was no evidence of such monsters and there was none after the walls were destroyed. She was going to use the lasers to kill Nimona thinking that is for the greater good to kill some civilians to protect the survivors from the supposed monsters, despite now everyone sees that Nimona wasn't a monster but a girl that was hurt and psychologically tortured by everyone else. The director did shot at Nimona but died when Nimona crashed at the canon, but Nimona would survive the blast, if The director had shot the laser at the city, she would've killed many civilians for nothing, and she'd be executed for that and her betrayal.

An {{exaggerated|Trope}} form of ForTheEvulz, where a character feels the need to do evil things even at times when such actions are ''clearly'' not in their best interests, sometimes to the point where it goes against basic self-preservation. Such characters will [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betray allies]], [[TeamKiller kill team-mates]], [[ThrewMyBikeOnTheRoof threaten or harm people who were previously willing to give them what they wanted]], [[EvilIsPetty be petty]], [[BullyingADragon piss off]] all [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant the wrong people]], [[EvilVersusEvil attack fellow villains]] to [[EvilerThanThou prove they're eviler]], [[TheStarscream sabotage their leaders]], [[BadBoss abuse and exploit underlings]], [[TheBully throw their weight around at every opportunity]], [[{{Sadist}} engage in utterly pointless acts of cruelty]], [[TheFarmerAndTheViper reward kindness with cruelty]], [[LeeroyJenkins spurn plans and start fights that they absolutely should not have started]], [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat rub salt in the wound even when it would destroy an already-present advantage]], and generally be [[TooDumbToLive suicidally stupid]] simply [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat because it's eeeevil]].