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->''Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it! You know... I just do things.''
-->-- '''The Joker''', ''TheDarkKnight''


-> ''Why not?''
-->-- '''Johan Liebert''' on his reasons for killing people, ''{{Monster}}''

If ChaoticNeutral indicates the truly free spirit, Chaotic Evil is the truly evil free spirit. They do whatever they feel like doing, and what they feel like doing is evil. Nowadays, too much emphasis is often put on the Chaotic. It's not hard to see this slip into [[LawfulStupidChaoticStupid Chaotic Stupid]], resulting in an insane character who does evil things for the sheer hell of it, without the slightest consideration of the consequences for himself.

A NeutralEvil character will slaughter a village if it gets in his way, without the slightest remorse. But a ChaoticEvil character will slaughter a village [[ForTheEvulz just because he feels like it]], and probably enjoys it at the same time. Neutral Evil will cover his tracks for the good of his evil plan. Chaotic Evil will only cover his tracks if he feels like it, plan or no plan. The Chaotic Evil character will do whatever he can get away with - many times the only thing keeping him in check is a bigger fish in the pond that can stop his psychotic deeds or enact retribution for them.

Chaotic Evil characters might intentionally help the heroes save the world by doing terribly evil things. Being Chaotic Evil does not mean one can not be CrazyPrepared, or have a complicated XanatosGambit plan leading to completion of a plan that kills people for no reason.

Chaotic Evil characters are incredibly self-centered and evil, but can get along with good guys by being eerily charming at times. They are often crazy, but they don't ''have'' to be. Only Chaotic Stupid characters will trek a thousand kilometers to slaughter a random village for no reason. Chaotic Evil's goals may well make no sense to anybody but himself, but he does have goals. He may "want to watch the world burn", or prove that he's the best, or the most feared, or get the most attention. Chaotic Evil rarely wants to rule anything (that's way too much responsibility), and when he does "rule", he prefers kicking down the sandcastle to building it. He'll frequently end up with a ZeroPercentApprovalRating, and may even actively aim for it.


The ReligionOfEvil is more likely to be Chaotic Evil than Neutral Evil. Not to be confused with AlwaysChaoticEvil, which is about entire races falling under ''any'' Bad Guy [[CharacterAlignment alignment]].

Common ChaoticEvil characters:
* Most AxCrazy characters
* BigBad
* TheCaligula
* TheHeartless
* HeroicSociopath characters if they're not NeutralEvil.
* NietzscheWannabe
* PsychoForHire
* OmnicidalManiac
* WellIntentionedExtremist (ChaoticEvil that thinks it's ChaoticGood)
* Usually a major or the main character's SuperpoweredEvilSide
* EvilClown


'''It should be clarified Chaotic Evil does not mean the most evil or [[LawfulStupidChaoticStupid stupid]]. Do not simply put a character here with the logic he's really evil. '''
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When dealing with the examples of specific characters, remember that assigning an alignment to a character who doesn't come with one is pretty [[SubjectiveTropes subjective]]. If you've got a problem with a character being listed here, it probably belongs on the discussion page.

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Johan Liebert from ''{{Monster}}'', who is set upon meticulously [[DrivenToSuicide breaking]] and killing ''every'' person he comes in contact with, just because he can.
* Akatsuki leader Pain from ''{{Naruto}}'' is of the WellIntentionedExtremist brand of Chaotic Evil.
** [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Gaara]] was ChaoticEvil prior to his HeelFaceTurn, killing everyone who provoked him in the slightest way and seeing his existence as revolving around the act of killing other people.
*** Also Hidan who's a member of a ReligionOfEvil dedicated to total slaughter. He massacred the ninja of his village for being pacifists, and even broke off of the ReligionOfEvil after getting the forbidden jutsu that enables him to be immortal as long as he kills people.
* The diabolically evil Katejina Loos from ''VictoryGundam''. She thinks nothing of betraying her nation for petty revenge against perceived -and nonexistent- wrongs, takes part in [[spoiler:an act of all-out genocide]], she has no respect for human life... and, in the final episodes, she does not even care which side her targets are on. In fact, the vast majority of Zanscare soldiers and officers conforms to this alignment...
**PsychoForHire Yazan Gable in ''ZetaGundam'' is Chaotic Evil as well: he may work for the LawfulEvil Titans, but he does so because this gives him an excuse to kill as many Spacenoids supporters as he likes. He fights for the thrill of the hunt and kill, rather than ideological reasons.
** Ali Al-Saachez from ''{{Gundam 00}}'' is a highly skilled mercenary and terrorist who admits that he [[BloodKnight lives solely for war and conflict]], and while he occasionally finds ways to using intelligence, he feels much more at home on the battlefield, where he gets to kill without restraint.
*** From the same series is Nena Trinity, who is introduced as a ChaoticNeutral GenkiGirl but then kills all but one person at a wedding (leaving that one person maimed) in a flying leap off the MoralEventHorizon just because she was bored and was annoyed that they were having fun. She tried to take a dip to NeutralEvil in the second season, following her NeutralEvil boss Liu Mei. [[spoiler:That plan got shot to hell when she dies]].
*** Also Hallelujah, NeutralGood Allelujah's SuperpoweredEvilSide. He really enjoys fighting violently and brutalizing his opponents[[spoiler:, even after the two had a SplitPersonalityMerge.]]
** Rau Le Crueset from ''GundamSEED'', whose goal was nothing less than [[spoiler:the extinction of mankind]] is perfect example of intelligent Chaotic Evil. Calculating and ruthless, he was able to perfectly mask his ever-advancing insanity, gain Patrick Zala's trust to manipulate him and [[spoiler:play both ZAFT and the Earth Forces against each other, further escalating the war. He almost got [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what he wanted]], too..]].
** Lord Djibril from ''GundamSEEDDestiny'' is both [[LawfulStupidChaoticStupid Chaotic Stupid and Stupid Evil]].
* Mori Kouran, one of the main antagonists of ''FlameOfRecca'' is very much this alignment. He raises his adoptive son Kurei to become an emotionless killing machine, and held his wife under house arrest to get Kurei to comply with him. Kouran's sole motive is to achieve immortality so that he can [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney live forever with his vast fortune]], regardless of the consequences suffered by those he manipulates.
* Vamdemon/Myotismon from the [[DigimonAdventure first]] [[DigimonAdventure02 two seasons]] of ''{{Digimon}}''.
**And how; he's the only villain we see actually kill a human being in both seasons (or at least render into critical condition), and he was about ten seconds away from ''murdering a six year old girl'' before the final battle. In a ''kid's'' show.
* Naraku in ''{{Inuyasha}}''.
* The Dark Kingdom, Black Moon Clan, Death Busters, Dead Moon Circus and Shadow Galactica of the ''{{Sailor Moon}}'' series.
* RanmaOneHalf has Happōsai, whose acts of evil seem to have no motivation other than [[ForTheEvulz the lulz gained from it]]. Generally, his deeds are petty- groping women, voyeurism, stealing women's underwear, petty theft, ducking bills, making others (particularly his [[FairWeatherMentor students]]) take the blame for his crimes, and general trickery. When he decides to get serious about something, however, he can be amongst the worst individuals in the series. Some of his more notable deeds have included (and this is by no means a definitive list):
** Crippling Ranma for interfering with his [[PantyThief underwear raids]] and alerting Ranma's enemies to this state so that they will beat him up for him. And is totally unconcerned with the very real possibility that they might kill him.
** Trying to blow up a baby that he believes will grow up to become an even more successful PantyThief then himself (admittedly because of a hypnosis-induced dream) rather then change the EmbarrassingFirstName he gave it.
** Mocking aforementioned teen beforehand after hearing that he alone can change his name and taunting him that he would bear it to his grave.
** Starving his students by chaining them up hand and foot, then eating food in front of them and mocking them all the while.
** Nabiki Tendo walks the edge between this and NeutralEvil. Selfish, fickle, utterly amoral, willing to do pretty much anything for money and completely uncaring who she hurts or how badly she hurts them in pursuit of it. Some of her more notable tricks have included selling Ranma off as a slave, bankrupting her family to satisfy her own pride (or just buy some stuff she wants), pushing a guy out of a plane to win a bet, becoming a willing accomplice in a gambling house that's swindling children, selling out anyone stupid enough to hire her, and threatening Ranma's life so she can extort money from him. What makes things worse is that the actual cash she steals pretty much amounts to pocket change, and she's the biggest KarmaHoudini in the series.
* Cell and Majin Buu from ''{{Dragonball Z}}''.
* Shinobu Sensui from ''YuYuHakusho''.
** Not too sure, since [[spoiler: Sensui has ''seven'' different [[SplitPersonality split personalities]]. So far, only ''one'' of them would strictly fit as 100% ChaoticEvil: Kazuya, the foul-mouthed gangster with an ArmCannon who shoots people (re: Yusuke) for sexual pleasure. The other two we see in canon, Minoru (the one we see first, preceding Kazuya) and Shinobu (the original, which was shattered and/or hidden under the influence of the others after Sensui [[GoMadFromTheRevelation completely lost it]]), seem to gravitate more towards LawfulEvil and NeutralEvil, respectively.]] [[FridgeBrilliance Which makes quite sense]], considering that [[spoiler: Yusuke is ChaoticGood to the core, and Sensui is supposed to be his EvilCounterpart in pretty much everything.]]
** Hiei was also initially is this alignment, as he enjoys killing people, and for a time, wore his mother's tear stone to entice people to attack him. After meeting and being defeated by Yusuke, he undergoes an alignment shift to ChaoticNeutral.
* MadScientist and PsychoElectro Precia Testarossa of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. Whips her DarkMagicalGirl daughter [[LoveMartyr Fate]] when she doesn't do well, whips [[TheWoobie Fate]] when she ''does'' do well, [[CallingTheOldManOut cannot be reasoned with]], and is willing to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy a dimension or two]] to get what she wants. All the kindness and sanity she ''did'' possess died before the series started, [[spoiler:[[{{Necromantic}} along with]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil her beloved daughter, Alicia, whose death made her the psycho bitch we all know]]. ]]
** There have been many [[FlameWar arguments]] across the Internet over whether Precia truly fits here, or if her goals (self-serving in nature, not purposefully/actively geared toward causing death/destruction) and principles (likes discipline, which implies a slight respect for order and rules) place her in Neutral Evil; on the flip side, many feel that Jail Scaglietti's actions show a man who seeks to cause chaos and destruction, who just wants to watch the world burn, which places him as a more Chaotic Evil character.
*** Jail is very much able to play by the rules, if it is benefitial. Textbook NeutralEvil character.
** Toredia Graze of StrikerS Sound Stage X plans on using the Mariage to attack several capital cities to teach people pain like the kind he felt while fighting on Orussia (similar to Pain from Naruto, but unlike him, he doesn't have any plan for a new political order). [[spoiler:After his death, Runessa carries on this plan and takes on this alignment]].
* Most villains in the ''[[FutariWaPrettyCure Pretty Cure]]'' series. They just want to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy everything and everyone]]. Just to give an example from the ''[[FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Splash Star]]'' series:
-->'''Shitataare''':"I heard you two gave life back to the Source of the Sky. Good for me. It will be fun to destroy it again."
-->'''Saki''': So ''you'' are the one who destroyed it!\\
'''Shitataare''': Yes, and I'm ''proud'' of it!
* Kyoko from ''BlackCat''. Her stated motivation in working for the BigBad is so she can fight and kill people who annoy her. [[spoiler:She becomes ChaoticNeutral after her HeelFaceTurn]].
* The Millennium organization from ''{{Hellsing}}''. Their only real goals are to wage endless destructive war and to kill Alucard. Rather unusual for [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]], who usually tend towards LawfulEvil.
** Best illustrated when Integra asks the Major what Millenium's purpose is, and he replies "Our purpose is a total '''absence''' of purpose".
* Makoto Shishio from ''RurouniKenshin''. He despises the peace and order of the Meji Era and longs to reignite the violence of the revolution. He then plans to [[{{Darwinist}} conquer Japan and turn it into hell on earth where only the strongest survive]].
* Gates, the villain of ''FullMetalPanic: The Second Raid'' is so thouroughly random in how he goes about causing civil wars and kidnapping diplomats that he becomes utterly hilarious.
* [[CreepyTwins Hansel and Gretel]] of ''BlackLagoon'', whose personal philosophy is basically a distillation of "kill or be killed" and "us or them", with 'them' being everyone else on the planet. Their murder-and-mayhem-filled visit to Roanapur, a city populated entirely by LawfulEvil, NeutralEvil and the (very) occasional ChaoticNeutral, is an excellent example of why it isn't only Good aligned characters that will work to stop Chaotic Evil, as almost everyone scrambles to prevent them from causing any more damage.
* Grimmjow Jeaguerjacques and Nnoitra Jiruga from ''{{Bleach}}'', who have little regard for anything but their violent impulses, and frequently disobey orders. Most Hollows act this way, and Shrieker, being a serial killer, was also like this when he was alive. Szyael Aporro Grantz also leans toward this in his acting independently ForScience.
* Dilandau from ''VisionOfEscaflowne''.
* Million Knives and Legato Bluesummers from ''{{Trigun}}''
* Ark of ''MuhyoAndRoji'' has no ideology besides unlocking the secrets of forbidden magical law and gaining eternal life. Most of its members run the gamut from evil but still sane, like Enchu, who wants Muhyo to suffer, and the enigmatic and dangerous Teeki, to almost AxCrazy {{CompleteMonster}}s like Tomas and Mick. The ghosts tend to vary in alignment, depending on who they were in life, but most of the ones that went insane are of this alignment.
* Yami Malik and Yami Bakura from {{Yu-Gi-Oh}}, are willing to kill or torture anyone with their Dark Games, even if it isn't necessary for their goals.
* Tsukuyomi of ''MahouSenseiNegima''. She currently has two goals in her life: [[PsychoForHire To kill as many people as she can]] and [[PsychoLesbian to rape Setsuna]].
* ''CodeGeass'' has Luciano Bradley, the Knight of Ten. Rather like the PsychoForHire types in Gundam (produced by the same company; see above), he serves a LawfulEvil [[TheEmpire empire]] solely because it gives him opportunities to kill without consequences.
* Toshiya and Mon (collectively [[FanNickname Toshi-Mon]]) from ''TheWorldIsMine''. Interestingly, they seem to be switching: Mon, a WildChild of pure Id, has become reluctant to murder people (he's okay with rape) since an encounter with [[EverythingsWorseWithBears "Hakumadon"]] while Toshiya, formerly Mon's bitch (complete with [[VillainousCrossdresser girl disguise]]) has grown a spine and become a very dangerous ManipulativeBastard.
** Hakumadon itself would qualify, but [[spoiler: it's just a literally berserk weapon]].
* [[PsychoLesbian Phantom Daughter]] from ''ZettaiKarenChildren'' can't even follow her own decision to ''be'' Chaotic Evil, but knows she wants to be free of her "father" Black Phantom and play with Kaoru forever. [[spoiler: It appears that she's an alternate personality who's kept in check by a LawfulEvil side, both of whom reside in a relatively normal school girl they refer to as the "Doll", which is par for course for ManipulativeBastard Black Phantom.]]
* Punie, the Main Character of DaiMahouTouge is an example of a Chaotic Evil MagicalGirl. Her {{Incantation}}, ''Lyrical Tokarev, [[KillEmAll Kill Them All]]'' should be an indicator of things to come.
* Ladd Russo from ''{{Baccano}}!''. As thoroughly entertaining as he may be, one has to remember that this is a man who casually ignores an opportunity to make a quick $200,000 in favor of blowing off the head of a ten-year-old for shits and giggles.
* Zolf J. Kimblee of FullmetalAlchemist. He goes along with the military's genocide in Ishbal, but chooses to keep the Philosopher's stone they lend him to test it out, killing the people who know he has it. His loyalty to the homunculi is questionable at best, given that his primary motivation is to see whether they or humanity survive. He personally admits his views are at odds with society, and says that because he knows they are, he's gotten by through pretending to be normal.
*Despite his [[AffablyEvil calm, cheerful and friendly]] personality, Xellos from {{Slayers}} wants to cause death and destruction as much as any other Mazoku.
*Most of the pirate crews in OnePiece follow this alignment; their captains tend to control them through fear, and there's little they won't do to get money. Eneru is also of this alignment, as he kills on a whim, and ultimately plans on leaving anyone- even his own followers- behind to be destroyed along with the island if they don't prove worthy to go to the Endless Vearth with him.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* [[{{Comicbook/Batman}} The Joker]]. [[DependingOnTheWriter Depends on the writer]] of course, but The Joker is almost quintessentially ChaoticEvil, literally insane and indiscriminately destructive. He puts the emphasis on Chaotic - he may not be as likely to jump off a bridge as cross it, but he's almost as likely to blow it up. The only indication we get that he has any restraint at all is in the [[AlternateContinuity storyline]] where he has terminal cancer, and we find out what he's like when he has even less to lose.
-->"They could put me in a helicopter and fly me up into the air and line up the bodies head to toe on the ground in delightful geometric patterns like an endless June Taylor dancers routine—and it would never be enough. No, I don’t keep count. But [[{{Comicbook/Batman}} you]] do. And [[FoeYay I love you for it]]."
** He also once put it this way in WhateverHappenedToTheCapedCrusader: after asking a young homeless man to watch his car as he attends Batman's funeral, the man fearfully refuses, saying he'll kill him:
-->"I only kill when it's funny. What could ''possibly'' be funny about killing you?"
** The movie (''[[DarkKnightTrilogy The Dark Knight]]'') Joker was written in a way that demonstrates what lengths you have to go to to get a genuinely ChaoticEvil character; the several different writers of the movie all had their own ideas of the Joker's motivation, character and backstory, but they decided ''not'' to discuss them with each other, and instead produced a script where different parts of the script are written with different character interpretations in mind, so that the Joker's actions seem genuinely disordered and unpredictable. He also exhibits an idealistic devotion to chaos, which he spends the movie "promoting" to the world.
* SpiderMan's foe Carnage, a sadistic serial killer who sees violence, bloodshed, and mayhem as the ultimate freedom.
* The Red Skull, CaptainAmerica's arch-nemesis, is another example of intelligent Chaotic Evil. While he originally started as LawfulEvil, he eventually moved to ChaoticEvil. Not content to seize control of a country from within, he and his close friends in HYDRA actively seek to cause mayhem and destruction, undermining the governments of the world in both subtle and openly vicious ways. He's so nasty, in fact, that even most of the other {{Big Bad}}s of the Marvel Universe [[EvenEvilhasStandards dislike him]].
** This dislike is partly fuelled by the fact that the Skull used to be Hitler's right-hand man. The other {{Big Bad}}s include [[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Magneto]] (Jewish, or possibly a Gypsy), [[FantasticFour Doctor Doom]] (Gypsy), the Kingpin (all-American Evil Capitalism) and, if you go back to the older comics, a whole lot of DirtyCommunists. None of these are exactly likely to get on with a self-professed Nazi.
*** Hitler himself didn't like the Red Skull, although the main cause of this was "this guy is too powerful" rather than "he's the scum of the Earth and deserves to die a thousand horrible deaths for what he's done".
* Most often, Apocalypse, one of the ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'''s more dangerous foes, is this, although he does not seem to be bound by anything approaching the morality of mortals. His envisioned victory involves endless direct Darwinist competition between the strongest creatures on Earth, with himself as the projected ultimate victor. It's telling that in many future dystopias, his only servants are beings who have been forcibly transmuted into his slaves or robots.
* Prometheus, Grant Morrison's penultimate 'Anti-Batman' definitely fits into this trope. He's got Batman's eye for discerning weakness but none of his restraint - in his first appearance, he very nearly murdered the entire JLA.
* Ultron, archenemy of the {{The Avengers}}.
* [[MeaningfulName Willy Pete]] from ''{{Empowered}}'' is a [[CompleteMonster sociopathic]] [[PyroManiac fire-elemental]] with a more-or-less human mind that lives to indulge human appitites such as food and sex in the [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel least socially acceptable manner possible]].
*Seems to be the alignment of choice for most of Norman Osborn's "Dark Avengers". Bullseye, Venom, and Daken would all qualify, as would the usually [[LawfulEvil LE]] Norman himself when his Green Goblin persona shows itself.
** Its always a bad sign when Ares, God of War, is the least evil member of your team.
***To be fair, Sentry isn't evil at all, just easily manipulated by those who are. (I.E. Norman.)
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[[folder:Film]]
* Arthur Burns from ''TheProposition''. Although he does love his friends, he is a monstrous monstrous man.
* Darth Maul, of ''StarWars'' Episode 1, seems to exist as a vessel of pure fury, hate, and bloodlust... and occasional sadistic glee when he hurts or kills someone.
** Maul shows some lawful traits, but they always have a rider: loyalty (because, based on later films, he knows Sidious would smack him around if he rebelled), patience (because it is Sidious's watchword and he appears to have beaten it into Maul's head), and fantastic skill (to facilitate easier killing).
** While we're on the ''Star Wars'' track, this troper considers most Sith this way. Their affinity for stabbing each other in the back over the smallest of slights, or indeed, just because they can, makes me wonder why anyone expects to live live long enough to reach tyrant level when they join them.
*** They expect to reach that level by stabbing everyone else in the back before they get stabbed themselves, which in more than one instance almost drove them to extinction. Eventually they decided to only have two at a time, a master training an apprentice until the latter inevitably murdered the former and took an apprentice themselves. Yes, they actually organised themselves on a foundation of betrayal. The Sith are a glorious example of why being Chaotic Evil is incredibly detrimental in the long term.
**** Granted, some Sith act a bit differently, but a few of them take the view that the Sith teachings are tools for them to exploit for their own gain, not beliefs to be taken to heart (like most of the Chaotic Evil Sith do). Darth Bane took no pleasure in destruction itself, but used it to advance his own goals in a Magnificent Bastard fashion. Several times, he actually spared potential victims specifically because they fit with his goals. A lot of the best Sith are Neutral Evil (Bane, Traya, Revan). Some, like Vader, even have a distinct Lawful Evil lean (Vader wanted to overthrow Sidious, yes, but mainly so he could set up his own powerful regime in its place). Chaotic Sith tend to be specifically trained that way by their masters, and don't usually last too long unless the master slipped up somewhere.
* Even though he sees himself as being ChaoticGood, most of [[{{Saw}} John Kramer's]] victims would beg to differ.
* Sigfried from the ''GetSmart'' movie is an unusually calm ChaoticEvil character, which is not too surprising, given that he is the leader of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin KAOS]].
* Lord John Whorfin from ''BuckarooBanzai''. "He's a vicious psychopath, Tommy. Just as soon kill ya as go fishin'..."
* ''SweeneyTodd'' as a VillainProtagonist is a Chaotic Evil SerialKiller who manages to retain our sympathy mainly due to his revenge motivation and being pitted against the Lawful Evil Judge Turpin. Mrs. Lovett completes the trifecta as Neutral Evil, turning Sweeney's murders into a vehicle for profit for her restaurant in [[ImAHumanitarian quite the ghoulish fashion]].
* The ''{{Gremlins}}'', bordering on both [[LawfulStupidChaoticStupid Chaotic Stupid and Stupid Evil.]]
* [[NoCountryForOldMen Anton]]. [[CompleteMonster Fucking]]. [[PsychoForHire Chigurh]].
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Alex, of ''AClockworkOrange''. ''Real'' horrorshow, my droogs.
** In the last chapter of the book, it's implied that he's given up this alignment due to lack of interest, and become more lawful and [[strike:more good]] less evil (though to what degree is unclear).
* Mr. Jonathan Teatime (pronounced Teh-ah-tim-ah) in the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Hogfather.'' Other Guild Assassins take professional pride in inhuming the target with no collateral damage to bystanders, whenever possible; but to Teatime, killing is art for art's sake.
** Carcer of ''Night Watch'' is this, too - if anything, he's even ''more'' chaotic than Teatime, although in a fight Teatime would likely take him to school.
* Bellatrix Lestrange of ''{{Harry Potter}}''. She seems to have absolutely no compunctions about torturing, murdering, or taunting the heroes, depending on her mood. Her only loyalty is to Voldemort, in some twisted combination of sexual desire and admiration, but their relationship, if any, is clearly abusive.
* Anton Chigurh from ''NoCountryForOldMen''. You don't get much more Chaotic Evil than deciding to kill a complete stranger based on the toss of a coin.
* ''FateZero'''s Caster (Gilles de Rais). Just look at how he does things in the Holy Grail War! If that doesn't define him as ChaoticEvil, I don't know what else.
* Morgoth from ''TheSilmarillion'': according to WordOfGod, his ultimate goal is simply to smash creation down into dust, into the primal darkness from which it came. By contrast, his lieutenant (and occasional {{Dragon}}) Sauron is more LawfulEvil to start with, though by the time of TheLordOfTheRings he has suffered from ''canon'' VillainDecay and MotiveDecay towards ChaoticEvil.
** As noted in the LawfulEvil article, Sauron having decayed into Chaotic Evil by Lord of the Rings is debatable, at best. I will not quote it all here, but check the article itself for more information on the issue.
* ''ASongOfIceAndFire'': Vargo Hoat and The Brave Companions, better known as the Bloody Mummers; the most vile, depraved, sickening mercenary troop in all the known lands. Yes, probably worse than [[CompleteMonster Gregor Clegane's]] band of evil thugs even.
* Acheron Hades of the ''ThursdayNext'' series is this. Like the Joker, he's the type who depending on his whim of the moment, can vary between laughable, cartoonish villainy and brutal evil. For instance, although his plot to destroy great works of literature is more of the former, he's also depicted slaughtering an entire room of police officers for the fun of it.
* CTHULHU. Enough said.
** Although, in a sense, [[http://urbinek.cba.pl/motiv/images/lawful_good.jpg some would disagree]]
* [[ReservoirDogs Mr. Blonde]] is either this or Neutral evil, really, he's [[IncrediblyLamePun stuck in the middle.]]
* Lord Foul, the BigBad of ''The ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant''. His ultimate goal is to [[SealedEvilInACan break out of his Sealed Evil Can]], but that can just happens to be ''an entire planet.'' It is heavily implied that even if he had no chance of breaking out, he would still kill and/or torture everyone on the planet just for the Hell of it.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* Though internally, [[StarTrek the Borg]] seem to act with perfect logic and consistency, from outside most species ''see them'' as Chaotic Evil: destroying all who oppose them, ignoring laws of species they would subjugate, breaking what few promises they make, violating restricted space, enslaving species to "perfect" them... about the only thing keeping them from being truly villainous, as opposed to just monstrous, is that they will not destroy a species they find unsuitable - unintelligent, not advanced, or physically weak - but will instead overlook them... until they're ready for assimilation.
** The same goes for the Replicators in ''StargateSG1''. However, the team also states that the Replicators are not more evil than a computer-virus. After the Replicators achieved human form, this could again be debatable, as they don't act like mere computers anymore, from that point on, and also lie and deceive.
* The Reavers from ''{{Firefly}}''. If given half a chance, they'll rape you to death, eat your flesh, and sew your skin into their clothing. And if you're very. ''very'' lucky, they'll do it in that order. What's especially ironic about them is that [[spoiler:they were created by a group of [[LawfulStupidChaoticStupid Lawful Stupid]] scientists in a botched attempt to find a drug that would render mankind completely good, peaceful and law-abiding.]]
* Davros of ''DoctorWho'', MadScientist creator of the AlwaysChaoticEvil Daleks. Anything that isn't Dalek is on his "[[OmnicidalManiac to kill]]" list, including his own species, immune to any reason or attempts at negotiation, and completely batshit insane.
** The Master too, particularly in the new series, who's motives seem to be an odd blend of revenge against the Doctor, and just because he can and it's a bit of a laugh. This would explain why he dances to pop music while his minions slaughter over half a billion people - Evil is Fun.
*** More often than not he qualifies as NeutralEvil instead, using whatever methods necessary to achieve his goals... but once that's done he falls headfirst into this, killing billions ForTheEvulz (while dancing).
* Spike of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', before his CharacterDevelopment.
** However, not even Spike before his CharacterDevelopment is at Angelus' level in ChaoticEvil.
*** And neither of them can top Drusilla's Chaotic nature or Caleb's pure Evil. Or for that matter, the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Evil.
* Sylar of ''Series/{{Heroes}}''.
* Takeshi Asakura/Kamen Rider Ouja from ''KamenRiderRyuki''. There's nothing [[DracoInLeatherPants romantic]] or [[BlackAndGrayMorality grey]] about his character: he's an [[AxCrazy insane serial killer]] with an [[BloodKnight uncontrollable compulsion for violence]].
* The Ice Truck Killer from Season One of {{Dexter}}.
* Anubis of ''StargateSG1''. The Goa'uld themselves are already as evil, if not worse than Hitler. Now imagine that Anubis was banished by the Goa'uld because he was too evil even for them. Ultimately, his goal was to erase all life in the galaxy.
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* [[{{WWE}} Kane]] is not motivated by any of the standard pro wrestling goals -- he doesn't care at all about [[ToBeAMaster being a champion]], being famous, making lots of money, the thrill of competition, DoingItForTheArt, or anything along those lines. No, he's a wrestler for one reason and one reason only -- to inflict pain. Lots of it, to whomever he can get his hands on. And he smiles and cackles maniacally the entire time he's doing it. Other than that, he's a singularly unmotivated individual.
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* ''{{Warhammer}}'' and ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' provide some of the most brutally straightforward, [[ObviouslyEvil Obviously]], [[CardCarryingVillain Card Carryingly]], [[AxCrazy Ax Crazily]], and otherwise gleefully and horrendously evil examples of the alignment in all of fiction. Where to start? Chaos. The name says it all. Though the Dark Elves/Eldar and Skaven are no slouches in the department, either.
** '''BURN! MAIM! KILL! BURN! MAIM! KILL!'''
* ''{{Dungeons and Dragons}}'' has the Demons, who have literally defined Chaotic Evil since the game's beginnings. Their plane of origin, the Abyss, embodies ChaoticEvil concept to an extent, as it possesses infinite layers, each more horribly evil than the last--think of it as Hell, only messier.
** Even when they aren't ''[[AlwaysChaoticEvil Always]]'' Chaotic Evil, [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]] in ''D&D'' are usually portrayed with a ChaoticEvil culture that rewards backstabbing, vicious shows of strength, and no compassion whatsoever to the weak or other races. This is also true for [[TheOgre ogres]], [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]], [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent bugbears]], several (but not all) [[OurGiantsAreBigger giant subraces]], and various other humanoids. Note that prior to 3rd Edition, orcs were actually listed as LawfulEvil and portrayed with a rigid social structure; this was later dropped to make them more barbaric, and the Lawful Evil alignement became a more distinctive trait of the Hobgoblins.
** Tharizdun is an OmnicidalManiac EldritchAbomination who was NeutralEvil until 4th edition, for some reason (See his entry in Neutral Evil for the explanation). Basically, in 4e, he ''created the Abyss'', and as a result of his madness, his angels have turned into giant cyclopean monsters which roam through the Astral Sea eating things. If he ever breaks his chains, most of the universe is screwed.
* In ''MagicTheGathering'', any pairing of Red (chaos) and Black ("evil") gives us this trope. Of particular note is Ravnica block's Cult of Rakdos, an entire guild of red-black ne'er-do-wells who, like most guys on this page, are only looking for a good time. The problem is, their idea of a "good time" typically involves a ''[[ForTheEvulz body count.]]'' And that Rakdos guy? The one in the name of the cult? [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=107438 He's a demon.]]
* Every willing member of the Rapine Storm in ''{{Cthulhutech}}''. As has been said before, the Lovecraftian horrors in that force [[CompleteMonster are nowhere near as bad as the actual humans]], and they seem to have no goals besides killing, maiming, raping and burning their way across the world.
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* Eventually, everyone who plays a GTA gets powerful and bored/pissed off enough that they become this. Ditto Saints Row, and any other crime sandbox game.
* Kefka of ''FinalFantasyVI'', patron saint of [[Pantheon/{{Emotion}} Madness and Hate]].
* Exdeath from ''FinalFantasyV''.
*Ashnard from FireEmblem is a great example of this. He's a BloodKnight who killed his own family to take the throne. He doesn't believe in tradition, and his sole desire is to rule through strength. He finds the idea of loyalty to the dead ridiculous. His only real positive quality is he will accept anyone regardless of class and race if they are strong.
* Luca Blight from ''SuikodenII''.
** And his SpiritualSuccessor in ''SuikodenV'', Childerich.
* A chaotic evil character alignment is possible in ''{{Infamous}}'', just like in all sandbox games. ''Infamous'' is made distinct by the fact that the player has the option to choose their character alignment through their actions, and character alignment is actually a major element in the way that the game plays out. If you choose to be chaotic evil, then people will hate you, the city will descend deeper into crime and anarchy, and you will gain powers exclusive to evil characters.
* Albedo Piazolla from the ''{{Xenosaga}}'' series.
* HK-47 from ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' cheerfully asks to kill every living thing he sees; he only has his master's metaphorical leash stopping him from becoming a literal non-stop killing machine.
** Not to mention the ammo and droid body upkeep issues his master takes care of.
* Ulrik Svensgaard of the Pirates from ''[[SidMeiersAlphaCentauri Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire]]'', whose agenda boils down to good ol' pillage and burn. The Data Angels might count to some degree, but their whole-hearted belief in free information makes them more ChaoticGood than Chaotic Evil.
* Albert [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] Wesker. By ''ResidentEvil 5'', he basically hates everyone in the world and seeks to genocide the human race. Not to mention half the things he did beforehand, from taking a preteen outbreak survivor prisoner to [[spoiler: injecting Jill with viruses and forcing her to aid him just so she can suffer]].
** Although one can clearly make an arguement that he was NeutralEvil in earlier games, working under various organizations as long as they served his purpose, and his agenda being more than simply revenge and manslaughter.
* Caim from ''{{Drakengard}}'' is [[HeroicSociopath a disturbed, bloodthirsty fellow]] who enjoys slaughtering his enemies. True, he can show love and affection towards people like Furiae or the red dragon [[spoiler:Angelus]], but for the most part, he's just happy to kill as many Empire soldiers or monsters as possible.
** Arioch, the [[AxCrazy insane]] female elf fighter, is probably Chaotic Evil herself; and so was Manah [[EnfanteTerrible as a child]]... and, of course, the [[EldritchAbomination Grotesquieries]].
* The {{Big Bad}}s in ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate]]'' and ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate II:]] [[ExpansionPack Throne of Bhaal]]'' (the one in ''Shadows Of Amn'' is NeutralEvil) are both good examples of intelligent, patient ChaoticEvil.
** Korgan [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bloodaxe]] is pretty much everything you could ask for from an ChaoticEvil AxCrazy PsychoForHire. And he's on your side.
* Gig from ''SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters''; brash, deceptive, impulsive, crude, attempts to solve all his long-term problems (mainly the one that there's people still alive on the same plane of existence as he) with simple short-term solutions (mainly killing everything in sight) and turned the protagonist's homeworld into a slowly dying dustbowl because he thinks wanton slaughter of mortals is ''fun''. Oh yeah, and he's on ''your'' side, which turns the game into a rather interesting case of being the KidWithTheLeash.
** Of course, let's not forget the one guy who's worse than that: [[spoiler:You, in the Demon Path, who decides to just go kill everyone because he or she felt like it. Oh, and Gig in that storyline? Eventually, you [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness absorb him instead of the other way around]] if you win the final battle. Fun stuff.]]
** The other World Eaters also fit into here save for Feinne, who is barely sentient. Thuris could also be considered neutral evil.
** The characters who join you in [[spoiler:The Demon Path]] can end up this way, notably [[spoiler: [[FallenHero Thorndyke]]]].
* [[http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/CHAOTICEVIL.jpg Mannoroth the Destructor]] from ''{{Warcraft}}''. He was pretty much nothing more than an engine of destruction who would be released on the enemies of [[DemonicInvaders the Burning Legion]] to slaughter all he could reach. Sure, he contributed to the ordered corruption of the orcs, but that was under the plans of LawfulEvil demons and warlocks.
** [[http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/CHAOTICEVIL-1.jpg Deathwing the Destroyer]]. Even though he does do a lot of villainous planning, in the end he's a freaking lunatic whose entire soul is broken. He seems to abandon his own dragonflight around the point of ''Warcraft II'' so he can continue without them.
* Kartikeya from ''{{Wild ARMs 5}}''. Complete lunatic; who knows why the other members of the villainous five keep him around?
* Kerrigan from ''[[StarCraft StarCraft]]'' once the ExpansionPack ''Brood War'' rolls around. [[spoiler:She plays TheChessmaster to get into power, and once there does whatever she feels like while massacring her remaining competition. She leaves Zeratul alive after forcing him to kill his Matriarch in order to free her, so that his "every waking moment will be torture." She also [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by calling herself the "Queen Bitch of the universe."]]
* Hell is depicted this way in the ''{{Diablo}}'' mythos, whose denizens enjoy slaughtering and corrupting mortals and who hold chaos as a cosmic ideal to which all reality should bend. It should be noted, however, that besides the Three Prime Evils who rule Hell, most of the forces of Hell seem to in fact be [[LawfulStupidChaoticStupid stupid evil,]] and are perfectly willing to simply slaughter each other for all eternity.
* Tira, Cervantes, and Nightmare in ''SoulCalibur''. Soul Edge has rendered them all insane killing machines with little regard for who's on the other side of the blade.
* Most Daedra of ''TheElderScrolls''. Sheogorath is the quintessential and [[AffablyEvil charming]] example, extremely powerful and more likely to send flaming pets raining down on a village as provide useful advice. The only rule he follows is that he won't make things more sane [[spoiler: ...except when his curse de-activates]].
** Sheogorath is more like a pendulum that swings between ChaoticEvil, ChaoticNeutral and ChaoticGood (He is the prince of madness after all). On one hand, he's a psychopath and AxCrazy, on the other hand he helped the Chimer (who later became the dark elves) move from Summerset Isle and form their pre-tribunal culture. He's also very keen on punishing those that deserve it, or teaching lessons to people. And he invented music.
* The Umgah from ''StarControl II'' are a race of practical jokers who seem to have little to no loyalty to anyone or anything, even attacking the player after he saves their entire race, just for kicks and giggles. The fact that the Umgah's pranks are implied to cause the death of thousands, if not millions of sentient beings puts them squarely in the "evil" category.
* Giygas from ''{{Earthbound}}'' literally embodies the trope, as does his subordinate Pokey/Porky.
** [[spoiler:Until [[{{Mother3}} the sequel]], in which Porky becomes a LawfulEvil EvilOverlord.]]
* Deathjester from ''[[WorldOfMana Seiken Densetsu 3]]'' qualifies. He brainwashes two best friends of the main characters into attacking them and helps [[BigBad the Dark Lich]] gain control of the Mana Sword just for giggles.
* The Edel Bernal, the BigBad and TrueFinalBoss of ''SuperRobotWarsZ'' is a perfect example of this alignment. He lives only for the pleasure of death and destruction and cause the dimensional collapse which resulted in the countless conflicts of the game for fun.
* ''SilentHill'' provides an example of a Chaotic Evil GeniusLoci, with the eponymous town doing horrible, horrible things to anyone it chooses (and some who simply arrived accidentally) with no structure or purpose other than, apparently, ForTheEvulz.
** In ''SilentHill2'' and ''[[SilentHillHomecoming Homecoming]]'', at least. In all of the other games, the town is controlled by a human being; usually ChaoticEvil in their own right, but in one case, ChaoticGood.
* Melissa and Meria, [[spoiler: the evil sides of the archangel Marietta]], from KnightsInTheNightmare fit the bill nicely. They cause massive bloodshed and chaos throughout the game for no reason other than ForTheEvulz. In fact, in Meria's route, if the player chooses, [[RageAgainstTheHeavens Meria can take her campaign of destruction all the way to the heaven]].
* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Erol/Errol]] becomes this in ''[[JakAndDaxter Jak 3]]''.
* Omega from MegamanZero series fits here. His creator, Dr. Weil, is a tough call between this and NeutralEvil.
* Leon the Black Knight from ''YggdraUnion'' is a bloodthirsty, batshit insane warrior who thinks nothing of slaughtering ''anyone'' who crosses him. He's probably the most evil character along with the LawfulEvil [[CorruptChurch Mardym]].
* Mother from ''WildArms1''. Unlike [[LawfulEvil Ziekfried]], who wanted to conquer and subjugate Filgaia, Mother craves only destruction and death, and even goes so far as to claim that once she destroys Filgaia, she intends to devour Ziek and the other Quarter Knights as well. [[spoiler:Is it any wonder Ziekfried backstabs her and becomes the new BigBad?]]
* From his background, actions and {{Dying Speech}}, it's clear that [[MetalGearSolid Psycho Mantis]] can be classified as Chaotic Evil. While the other FOXHOUND members have reasonable motives, Mantis openly admits he only joined the rebellion to kill as many people as possible - being an extreme misanthrope, and during his fight - instead of merely focusing his {{Psychic Powers}} to hit Snake with a full whammy of Telekinesis/Precognition/Mind-Control, he chose to try to make Meryl commit {{Psychic Assisted Suicide}} just because it'll hurt more emotionally. It's stated he probably got his way from diving into the minds of too many serial killers.
* Jeremy from ''WildArms4'' arguablly started out as NeutralEvil. However, when you face him for the last time, he's definatly descended into this alignment, [[spoiler:mainly because becoming part-ARM made him completly AxCrazy.]]
* Kratos of ''GodOfWar'' is an AxCrazy berserker whose primary motivation is the death of anyone who pisses him off, and many people who ''don't''.
* Judecca from ''WildArms2''. Another PsychoForHire who completely revels in the pain of those weaker than him and chuckles at their suffering until his glasses start to slip off.
** Also, Lord Blazer, who spends almost the entire game bragging to Ashley about how he nearly destroyed Filgaia and mocking him for his idealism.
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* Belkar Bitterleaf from ''OrderOfTheStick''. WordOfGod [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0489.html has his alignment written down pat]]. Once got in the middle of a barroom brawl between old friends (offscreen) - and ''stabbed fifteen people to death''. He later gets visited [[VisionQuest in a dream]] by Shojo, who tells him that rather than trying to actively act outside of society's rules (which would make others kill him eventually), he should instead try to play by the rules and cheat whenever he can, making others believe he's playing by the rules. Belkar sums this up as faking CharacterDevelopment.
** Xykon, the BigBad from the same series also very much fits in here. Killing for the fact that it's the only thing that he can enjoy since undeath, he has since stopped caring about anything save for [[ForTheEvulz his own amusement]], which usually results in [[MoralEventHorizon horrible atrocities for others]]. He revels in being as much of a CompleteMonster as he can, and sees either [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]] or [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans justification]] for evil actions as merely cowardice.
* Black Mage from ''[[EightBitTheater 8-Bit Theater]]''. His most powerful spell is literally [[ThePowerOfLove powered by love]] - in the same way that an automobile engine is powered by gasoline. It burns away a small part of the total amount of love in the universe each time he uses it, which he says manifests as a small increase in divorce rates.
** Not to mention he sacrificed children to get the spell, and always chooses to kill stuff just because. It should be noted that he used to try to hide the evidence for his acts... but, he's seemed to have pretty much given up on that. Thankfully, he's ''EightBitTheater'''s universe's ButtMonkey.
** Another example would be King Steve, TheCaligula of Corneria who is all too happy to start wars on a whim and has babies killed to make shoes. Holding an election for his throne with the option of him or a sword to the head, he kills off 52% of his own people.
* Likewise, Richard from ''LookingForGroup'', as he often puts it, is traveling with the party for the opportunity to destroy things. And because he was bored.
-->'''Cale:''' Richard! Wait!
-->'''Richard:''' I'm tired of all this. [...] There is nothing you can say that will make me come with you.
-->'''Cale:''' I need you to blow up a mountain.
-->'''Richard:''' ''(hugs Cale)'' I retract my previous statement and look forward to our new adventure.
* [[PsychoForHire Bangladesh Dupree]] from ''GirlGenius'', a former pirate who works with Baron Wulfenbach because he gives her lots of opportunities to kill and torture people.
* Not to mention a ton of other Sparks, like most of Agatha Heterodyne's deceased ancestors, [[spoiler: probably Agatha's mother]], ...
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Zim of ''InvaderZim'' sees himself as a LawfulEvil minion of [[EvilOverlord The Almighty Tallests]] and is utterly loyal to [[TheEmpire The Irken Empire]], a PlanetOfHats of Lawful Evils. However he is also utterly insane and his actions always ends up [[SpannerInTheWorks hurting his side more than his enemies]] (including slaughtering countless individuals in his planet by going nuts with a HumongousMecha on his home planet), something he's rather proud of as he believes that wanton destruction itself counts as success no matter who is on the receiving end.
-->'''Zim:''' *End of flashback of him destroying Irk* ...I put the fires out.\\
'''Tallest Red:''' ...You made them ''worse''!\\
'''Zim:''' Worse... or BETTER?
** His inherent chaos is not only a product of his insanity [[ChaoticStupid but also his stupidity]], as he rarely, if ever, considers the consequences of his actions and what to him seems a perfectly reasonable plan will inevitably destroy everything in a several hundred kilometre radius.
** Zim's a psychopath/narcissist. That's all that can be said, really.
* Galvatron from ''{{Transformers}}''. [[LawfulEvil Megatron's evil]] with the added flavor of damaged sanity chips thanks to a prolonged plasma bath he took in the planet he crash landed in after the events of ''TransformersTheMovie''. He's prone to shooting his own troops just for the heck of it and is as much a detriment to his own plans as the Autobots are due to his psychosis. It reached the point where an episode had his loyal second-in-command sending him to a sentient [[PlanetOfHats Therapy Planet]] by force in hopes of curing him. Not only did it fail, but when the planet interfaced with him in an attempt to lobotomize him, he drove it insane with his madness before killing it then razing its entire civilization to the point where it will take centuries to rebuild.
** ''BeastWars'': [[CompleteMonster Rampage]].
* Girkek the Planet-Killer from MegasXLR.
--> Girkek: My only remorse is that I can't destroy your planets again!
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* [[spoiler:Tez On Toast]] of ''{{KateModern}}''. \ His earlier personas are slightly more open to debate, but from mid-season 2 onwards, he is a drug-crazed homicidal lunatic who switches motives in the blink of an eye, and takes great pleasure out of killing and torturing.
* Several supervillains in the WhateleyUniverse, including The Necromancer, and Don Sebastiano. Don Sebastiano has a couple helpless mindslaves... so he [[KickTheDog mistreats and violates them for fun.]]
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* [[SerialKiller Serial killers]] are usually a textbook example of ChaoticEvil behaviour - with the possible exception of "mission-oriented" serial killers, who might be considered LawfulEvil.
* [[MorallyAmbiguousDucktorate Swans.]]
* [[TheColbertReport Bears]].
** They're not ChaoticEvil, they're [[TrueNeutral Neutral Hungry]].
*** It takes a Lore check to determine which.
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