Card Carrying Villain / Western Animation

Where being evil is not debated!

"Pain and regret and frustration and sadness
Misery, turmoil, and anger and madness
The smell of the garbage, the taste of despair
These simple things leave me walking on air
Toothache and heartburn and bad halitosis
Hay fever, bunions, and deep vein thrombosis
A trip to the dentist, the sound of the drill
These are the things that will give me a thrill
When the milk spills, when your dog's ill
When all hope takes flight
When everyone else feels incredibly sad, my world fills with pure delight
When you slip up, when you trip up
When you stub your toe
I point and I cackle
I clap and I laugh
And happiness starts to flow."

— Mrs. Robinson, The Amazing World of Gumball

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• Adventure Time:
  • Hunson Abadeer, a.k.a. the Dark Lord of Evil, describes himself as "completely evil". Kinda justified because he's a demon from the Nightosphere.
  • Downplayed with Magic Man. While he doesn't actually call himself evil, he proudly admits to being a big jerk.
  • Played straight with the Tree Witch from "To Cut A Woman's Hair".
    Tree Witch: Now, to use my hair for evil.
    Finn: What?!
    Tree Witch: 'Cause I'm evil! Whaddaya want from me?
  • Reconstructed with the Lich. Finn tries to give him a Shut Up, Hannibal! speech by accusing him of being this (You're basic evil!), only for the Lich to proudly embrace the accusation and, impressively, actually manages to spin it as a positive quality in a reasonable, intelligent manner; he knows, understands, and accepts himself for what he is, moving beyond self-doubt and living his (un)life devoted to a cause he truly believes in. Said cause is evil as can be, but he does not delude himself or demean others by pretending to be anything other than the monster he is.
  • Every antagonist from the Stakes arc plays this trope pretty straight. The only one close to avoiding this is the Vampire King, who in the current time wants to end the cycle of death his kind has brought and free himself from it. Even then, he still calls himself evil even if he wants an out from it.
• Rob from The Amazing World of Gumball became a villain simply because he had no other role to fulfill in Elmore. He went to the void for not having a defined personality until Gumball and Darwin literally suggest he become a villain.
• In The Angry Beavers, Norbert's costume supervillain persona: Baron Von Bad Beaver, later extended to Baron Von Once Bad Then Good Then Bad Again Beaver.
• From the Animaniacs short "Guardin' the Garden", where Slappy is told by the Man Upstairs to keep Adam and Eve away from the Tree of Knowledge:
  Narrator: Now in the Garden of Eden was a old wily Serpent. He was a snake all right, pure and evil.
  Serpent: You make it sound like a bad thing.
• Atomic Betty's Big Bad Maximus I.Q. literally refers to himself by the title of "Supreme Evil Overlord of the Galaxy" and believes himself to be the greatest evil genius in the universe. Hell, in one episode, he has a galactic politician kidnapped because the guy called him a villain and not a supervillain.
• Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender embraces the rest of the world's view that she's evil, unlike the other Fire Nation villains who believe to a greater or lesser extent that they're doing good. She even calls herself a monster in the later episodes, but that's actually her way of coping with the self-loathing brought on by those beliefs.
• In the "International Super Spy" special episode of The Backyardigans, Uniqua's character, the Lady in Pink, sings about how evil she is by listing all her horrible traits, including the fact that she doesn't "even like pie."
  "Who's the girl who never plays nice,
  and wishes that all rubber duckies would sink?"
• Nicholas Lucifer III from The Baskervilles, who coined the phrase "Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad".
• Derek Powers/Blight from Batman Beyond seems to take some pride in being a Corrupt Corporate Executive. This exchange from the 1st season finale "Ascension" says it all:
  Blight: Who are you?!
  Batman: ...You really want to know?
  Blight: Yes!
  Batman: [dramatically enters the scene] You Killed My Father.
  [Beat]
  Blight: [irritated] Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
• Beast Wars' Blackarachnia spends a lot of her first season or so repeatedly telling the heroes that she's evil, bad, evil, not to be trusted, and evil, occasionally even resorting to actual action to get her point across to particularly irritating non-believers.
  Silverbolt: Blackarachnia, I want you to return with me, to the Maximals.
  Blackarachnia: Get a clue, you canine cretin! I'm a Predacon! I'm evil! I'll shoot you—
  Silverbolt: No. My heart tell me that you will not.
  Blackarachnia: Oh yeah? * shoots him in the leg*
  Silverbolt: * shocked* You...SHOT me!
  Blackarachnia: No duh, Dog-Boy! I'm evil!! Now do you believe me?
  Silverbolt: And yet...you ensured the wound would not be mortal. Your inner Maximal goodness—
  Blackarachnia: SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UUUUUUUUPPP!!!
  • You can't say evil in that show without mentioning Tarantulas, whose outright villainy and treacherous attitude was something Megatron considered to be a viable asset.
  • In Beast Machines, Thrust and Jetstorm take on this role, while Megatron ironically believes he is doing good:
    Thrust: Nothin' noble 'bout us, boy!
    Jetstorm: But savage? That we can do!
• Parodied by The Boondocks. BET (Black Entertainment Television) actually stands for Black Evil Television, their corporate headquarters looks like something out of a James Bond movie, and the background music for their corporate meetings is the Dr. Evil theme song.
  "It's not good enough that our shows are bad, they have to be EVIL as well!"
• While, contrary to popular belief, Captain Planet's villains generally did have some kind of discernible motive (usually raw profit at the cost of the environment), causing damage to the planet for its own sake sometimes seemed to take a life of its own and supersede anything else. In particular, villains such as Verminous Skumm, Dr. Blight on a bad day, and the evil spirit Zarm tended toward the "Corruption/Destruction for its own sake" end of the scale since they were just completely evil and insane.
  • The phrase "Captain Planet villain" has become something of a shorthand on the Internet for a villain with poorly thought-out motivations — or a Corrupt Corporate Executive in Real Life whose unpopular decisions are of dubious benefit to them or their company — but on the next level you have the "Care Bears villain". With the Care Bears' entire schtick being spreading love and kindness and happiness and just plain pure goodness, naturally, their antagonists tended towards people who, for whatever reason, wanted nothing more than to do the exact opposite.
• In Codename: Kids Next Door, villains eventually evolve into this, having 'supervillain meetings' and a supermarket for villains only. This even goes so far as a 'Villain's Choice Award'...on public television!
  • On a character basis, Father calls himself the second most evil adult, then refering to his father as the 'World's Most Ultimate Evil' before reawakening him. Grandfather goes on to refer to himself as pure evil.
• A number of Danny Phantom villains refer to themselves as such (most notably Technus). Big Bad Vlad Plasmius initially averted this - for the first two seasons, being called a villain was almost a Berserk Button for him - but after Villain Decay began to set in he started acting more like a conventional card-carrying baddie.
• Darkwing Duck:
  • Negaduck just revels in his evilness, often notes what a rotten guy he is and his goal is to be Public Enemy #1. He was already the Evil Overlord dictator of the Mirror Universe, but "like death is never satisfied."
  • The newly galvanized Negaduck I introduces himself as "the most fiendish terror that blacks in the darkest knight". He is Made of Evil, after all.
• Dick Dastardly is a true, if ineffective, card-carrying villain, and probably the most popular bad guy in the Hanna-Barbera stable. The narrator of Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines calls him "the deadly, diabolical, despicable demon of the skyways." Want evidence? He has a villain trope named after him.
• All villains from The Davincibles. It's even in their group name: Society of Very Bad Villians.
• Dexter's Laboratory's Mandark, after going through a combination of Villain Decay and Flanderization.
• King K. Rool in the animated adaptation of Donkey Kong Country is as proudly fiendish as they come. His part in the Villain Song “Be Bad” mentions many of his evil deeds, from lying, cheating and stealing to never tipping, butting in line, and never cleaning the dishes.
• Both played for laughs and deconstructed by DuckTales (2017). The evil organization F.O.W.L. was founded by a villain who strongly believed in Pragmatic Villainy, wanting only to use subtle influence to rule the world from the shadows rather than take it over in ridiculous schemes. Unfortunately, almost every villain they recruited after the founding are this trope, resulting in the founder's endless annoyance at how his underlings will throw caution to the wind in order to be as theatric and evil as possible. Just to give an example, the organization was originally just called the Organization for World Larceny, or O.W.L., but their first recruit refused to join until they added Fiendish to the name. And while it's not the only reason Black Heron is deemed useless and killed by Bradford Buzzard in the Grand Finale, it did not made her any favors either.
• Eek! The Cat: Thugo, the leader of the skeletal Thugasaurs, prides himself on being an exemplary villain. He's constantly hatching up evil schemes to destroy the Dinosaurs, dresses in a black hood, and does the Evil Laugh every other episode.
• Same thing goes for the villains in El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera. They even have a villain quarterly magazine.
• Hector Con Carne of Evil Con Carne. The fact that he named his eponymous terrorist organization Evil Con Carne really says it all.
• Most, if not all the villains on The Fairly OddParents!. This includes Sadist Teacher Crocker, malicious babysitter Vicky (who wants to someday "share her hate with everyone"), Galactic Conqueror Dark Laser, the Always Chaotic Evil anti-fairies and pixies. Special mention goes to Foop, who was born with a single goal in mind: to be hated and feared.
• In Filmation's Ghostbusters, the Big Bad is named Prime Evil. Seriously, when a villain has the word "evil" in his name, he qualifies.
• Futurama:
  • Bender.
    It's not fair. Somewhere out there, there's a more evil Bender than me. I DO MY BEST, DAMMIT!
  • In "A Head In The Polls", Richard Nixon's Head tells Leela that if elected he's going to sell all of Earth's children's organs to zoos for meat, apparently for no reason other than to prove his own evilness.
  • The Robot Devil. Unsurprising, since he's programmed to act like Satan.
  • Professor Farnsworth tends towards this when in his crazier moods. He cheerfully nods along when Fry calls him an "amoral crackpot", and openly admits that he always expected to bring about the apocalypse some day.
• Played with in the Gargoyles "Coyote" by David Xanatos. While attempting to capture the titled Native American spirit, Xanatos puts the captured Goliath and Angela in a Death Trap that will also destroy a native sand carving dedicated to the same. When Goliath points out Angela has no part in their rivalry, Xanatos points out that, while he actually has no malice towards Goliath or the gargoyles, the trap has to be genuine or else Coyote won't show.
  Xanatos: It's my first real stab at cliched villainy. How am I doing?''
  • Played straight with Anton Sevarius and Thailog, who are very aware that they're evil and love every minute of it.
• G.I. Joe, with the vastly over-the-top COBRA Commander.
  • "...COBRA, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world"
  • Even he wasn't as blatant about it as Blackthorne Shore from Inhumanoids.
• The Devil in God, the Devil and Bob is the self-proclaimed "source of all evil in the universe".
• Green Eggs and Ham: Parodied. The BAD GUYS's business card is literally just the words "BAD GUYS"... on the front, but it turns out to be a Nonindicative Name once one actually flips the card around. It's actually an acronym for Bureau of Animal Defense, Glurfsberg, Upper Yipville Section. They're Good All Along.
• Many villains in the Rogues Gallery of Hamster & Gretel are unabashedly supervillains, with some making it part of their job description. Notable examples include the following:
  • Professor Exclamation, the first villain Hamster and Gretel have faced, has decided to become a supervillain after losing his elbows in an industrial accident, and he feels no shame for this decision. Hell, he tried raising his son Nordle into becoming evil as well!
  • When Lyle and Lauren have been bestowed with superpowers by the same aliens that gave Hamster and Gretel superpowers, but were tasked to do evil instead, the siblings don't question it more than once and immediately accept it, even enjoy it, as they promptly change into their supervillain selves: FistPuncher and The Destructress, respectively.
  • El Luchador's introduction as the luchador-themed supervillain in "Recipe for Disaster" comes with an announcer, a logo, and an overly long disclaimer... right in front of Gretel's face.
  • When Gretel tells Rodney Thunderpants that he could've called himself "Lightning Rod", the electrokinetic cowboy feels stupid that he couldn't come up with that name before printing the business cards, which most likely advertise him as a supervillain as well.
  • When Van Dyke, after transforming into sentient facial hair, realizes he could control people when attaching himself to their faces, he realizes he could take over the world using Gretel as his puppet. He shows glee when announcing to Gretel that he's evil after all while still controlling Mr. Chabner.
  • CopyCat is entirely inspired by an In-Universe comic book villain, to the letter; nearly everything is copied from Man-Cat.
  • Neighslayer unashamedly takes apples from a vendor (even clarifying that he's stealing them illegally to get his point across) for his evil horse party, which is also explicitly advertised on the internet.
• Harley Quinn (2019): The show focuses on DC supervillains with organizations like the Legion of Doom serving as a way to become a literal card-carrying villain. Poison Ivy's annoyance at being labeled a villain and preference for "Ecoterrorist" makes her stand out in comparison.
• After He-Man explains that Christmas makes people "feel good," Skeletor responds, "I don't want to feel good! I want to feel evil!"
• Invader Zim: The title character. And this is despite the distance between his life goals and reality that is what makes it amusing for the audience, he ends up as a Big Bad Wannabe.
  "With this, I can bring The Tallest here to witness my ingeeeeeenious eeeeeeeevil! AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! I said evil!
• Jackie Chan Adventures had one episode with a literal Card-Carrying Villain. Complete with bad puns ("We have the upper hand," etc., etc.).
  • Jade also references this trope when referring to the Dark Hand as "Card Carrying Members of the Forces of Darkness."
• Jade Armor: Except for Xinyan, the villains are fully aware they are villains and proud of it.
• Lucius on Jimmy Two-Shoes, along with all the rest of his family (except Beezy) are basically different generations of Satan and the owners of Misery Inc., a MegaCorp that's sole purpose is to make the citizens of Miseryville, well, miserable.
  • Heloise could count too, being the one who creates all the misery-causing products for Lucius' company ("I aim to displease"). She even gets flattered whenever Jimmy and Beezy call her out on doing something horrible.
• Every single villain on Johnny Test. Even those who start out as Well-Intentioned Extremists will inexplicably start openly calling themselves evil and doing things For the Evulz by the time of their second or third appearance.'
• Justice League lampshades it when an evil race of snake spirits want to possess the League.
  General (under possession from the spirits): How would one contact this "Just-Us League?"
  Sergeant: I don't know, sir. Wear a gaudy costume and threaten a bunch of people?
  General: Thank you Sergeant, you've been quite a help.
  • Lampshaded yet again in Unlimited by Flash, during his "Freaky Friday" Flip with Lex Luthor:
    "Luthor": *Walking out of the bathroom* What?
    Polaris: You gonna wash your hands?
    "Luthor": No...cause I'm EVIL.
• Kaeloo: Mr. Cat openly calls himself evil, cruel and sneaky, and takes being called "evil, sadistic, cruel, hypocritical, egoistical and psychopathic" in one episode as a compliment.
• Kim Possible's Rogues Gallery not only self-identify as evil without exception (there are no Well Intentioned Extremists in this world), but most try very hard to prove it. Shego, in particular, is a good example. She's clearly in it as Drakken's Dragon for the money, but also tries to beef up her evil credibility on her own time; maybe because she used to be a superhero. One time, she was even manipulated into helping Kim Possible herself, when the heroine threatened to tell the world that Shego used to be a good guy.
  • Evil is a whole lifestyle in Kim Possible, with its own magazines (Shego reads Villainess while not listening to Drakken's Evil Plans), supervillain conventions and trade shows, and a corporation that supplies equipment and henchmen ("HenchCo"). Though a Disney-produced show, they aren't above taking potshots at the corporate lifestyle and how nicely it dovetails with being a villain.
  • It even has its own TV show: Evil Eye for the Bad Guy.
  • The villain culture has a whole set of traditions, to which the bad guys generally adhere, even when they clearly give the heroes a chance to escape or turn the tables.
• The Really Rottens from Laff-A-Lympics revel in being underhanded finks and can't resist cheating to win. In "France and Australia", Daisy Mayhem is even personally offended when Mildew Wolf congratulates her team for winning without cheating.
• The League of Super Evil is based around a group of Card-Carrying Villains. If they didn't tell you so themselves, you'd find it hard to believe they're really villains.
  • Other villains in the series tend to also be quite open with the fact that they're evil, and there's even a company making devices just for supervillains and a special driving test for them. Heck, they even have their own evil version of Santa Claus who rewards them for being evil!
• A bit of a plot point in the Legion of Super Heroes (2006) episode "Phantoms". Phantom Zone escapee Drax hears the voices of his still-imprisoned parents in his head, constantly reminding him that he's evil and always will be. Supervillains really do make Abusive Parents.
  • In the Grand Finale, despite never having self-identified as evil before (quite the opposite, in fact), the still-alive villain says to...no one in particular, "Evil does not die. It evolves," in an ill-fated Sequel Hook.
• Dr. Jumba Jookiba from Lilo & Stitch: The Series wanted so badly to be one of these for a while...but he was really more of a Mad Scientist and mischief-maker with a heart of gold in the end.
  • You doubt he wanted to be evil at first? When he was turned into a baby for one episode (don't ask), he spent his entire time breaking things to the (adorably) malevolent chant of "Evil! Evil!"
  • Also from Lilo & Stitch: The Series, 627 was designed by Jumba to be pure evil and unable to be turned good. The only thing it can say is "Evil!".
• Jack the Ripper not only fits the Trope when he appears in Celebrity Deathmatch, he's a literal Card-Carrying Villain (He has business cards with "Jack T. Ripper" printed on them.)
• In M.A.S.K., the main villain, Miles Mayhem, founded and led the Vicious Evil Network Of Mayhem. Though, really, when your last name is "Mayhem", you have to be evil.
• Skullmaster, main antagonist of Mighty Max absolutly qualifies. He once gave a speech to some of his brainwashed followers about how they had given their minds and bodies to evil, but that evil is ever hungry and they now had to give up their souls, as he ordereed them to sacrifice their souls to power his new Crystal of Souls.
• In-universe version in Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, since the main plot is a Show Within a Show telling of A Christmas Carol: the people who rob Ebenezer Scrooge after he's dead (as well as their fence) sing about how much they like robbing and mocking people in a song called "We're Despicable".
• Killgore from My Life as a Teenage Robot. Look at his tag! It says "villain"!
• My Little Pony 'n Friends: Recurring villains Hydia, Reeka, and Draggle had a twisted sense of morality, indulging in destruction and chaos simply because they were evil, and not because they expected to gain anything like money or a power boost out of it. In fact, their mother outright scolds and punishes them for not being evil enough! It's heavily implied their whole extended family acted this way, too.
• Princess Luna in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic may have originally been motivated by jealousy and loneliness, but by the time she returns as Nightmare Moon in the season one opener, she has reached full-on Evil Is Hammy mode — complete with Evil Laugh and a vocal performance clearly inspired by Maleficent — and has nothing on her mind but pure, ironic revenge against her sister and the subjects who once ignored her. All the other antagonists who were ultimately reformed were won over by kindness, but not Nightmare; she had to take a direct blast from a rainbow summoned by the same magical artifacts that had sealed her in the moon 1000 years ago.
  • Cozy Glow gets a song in the final season "A Better Way to Be Bad" of which she gets Queen Chrysalis and Tirek to join in. Also in the "Ending of the End", when the trio ultimately betrays "Grogar" to take his power, Cozy responds to their victim's Et Tu, Brute? with this: "We're villains. Duh!"
    • Weirdly, Chrysalis and Tirek in their debuts weren't so much card-carriers as they were merely characterized as self-centered, wannabe-conquerers who were driven by obtaining power (as was Tirek's original goal). This could be attributed due to the changes in the writing staff over the course of the show's nine-year run.
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons: In the short "Thatta Boy", Ravenrant complains that he shouldn't have to obey traffic laws because he's a supervillain.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Practically every villain describes themselves as such. The villains can even have their own collectible "pow cards" showing off their stats, distinguished from the heroes by their negative power levels. The main villain, Lord Boxman owns his own Killer Robot factory and has other self-declared villains as regular customers and investors.
  Galgarion seems to be an exception. Despite having Obviously Evil aesthetics and a villain Pow Card, when his enemy Hero told him that he forgot why they are fighting, he says that he thought that they're long lost brothers and Hero is the evil one.
  Some of the characters aligned as heroes, such as Elodie, Wally the White, and Foxtail, have done moral questionable things or have purely selfish motivations. Apparently, being a self-declared villain is the only thing that guarantees a negative Hero Level.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • Harmless Villain Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. He calls himself evil and has a company called "Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated", complete with jingle. In several episodes, he has a Villain Song where he declares how evil he is. It comes to the point he'd erase the media just to prevent his fellow villains from finding out he (accidentally) saved a kitty. In the Christmas Special, he is depressed because he can't ruin Christmas with proper villainous zeal, since he doesn't actually hate the holiday. The finale ultimately averts this for Doofenshmirtz when his daughter, Vanessa, points out that he's actually a nice guy who pretends to be evil out of obligation to his backstory, and that it hasn't made him happy. Further averted in Milo Murphy's Law, when it's revealed that Heinz Doofenshmirtz was actually the "Professor Time" who invented the time travel system used by the Time Agents. He's also the leader of a Nebulous Evil Organisation full of evil geniuses who all pride themselves on being evil.
  • In the episode "The Temple of Juatchadoon," Isabella parodies this. When accused of being a dirty double crosser, she produces yet another card from inside her outfit. "Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, Dirty Double-Crosser."
  • Buford van Stomm is a parody/subversion of the stock Barbaric Bully type. At heart, he's a decent, intelligent guy who cares about his friends, but he treats the bully role as a job descriptor and follows "The Bully Code" (which indicates eternal servitude to anyone who might save his life) to the letter.
• PJ Masks: All night-time villains have this to a certain degree, but the Wolfy Kids take the cake. They repeatedly acknowledge that they are bad wolves, and what they do is evil.
• The Powerpuff Girls is full of these guys. Mojo Jojo is the most notable. Subverted when he actually manages to take over the world, and turns out to be a benevolent ruler who makes the world a much nicer place to live. Double subverted when he quickly realizes that Victory Is Boring, so he gives up his power and returns to causing mayhem purely for the fun of it.
• The Ren & Stimpy Show had a "professional bully," Victor, who showed Stimpy his Bully Union membership card.
• In Rocky and Bullwinkle, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale are this trope, as is their nation of Pottsylvania. When Boris swears, he uses words like 'decency', 'honor', and 'joy'. He is occasionally awarded the "Order of the Double-Cross" by Fearless Leader, and when Natasha calls him a "sneaky, fiendish, rotten, no-good snake in the grass", she means it as a compliment. For a taste of Pottsylvanian culture, listen to their National Anthem;
  "Hail, Pottsylvania, Hail to the Black and Blue!
  Hail, Pottsylvania, sneaky and fiendish through and through!
  Down with the good guys, up with the boss,
  Under the sign of the Triple-Cross!
  Hail Pottsylvania, Hail, Hail, Hail!"
  • In the movie, when Natasha starts musing about what a wonderful life they could have together if they could only stop moose and squirrel, she mentions about how they could have children that they raise to be "little monsters". This is mentioned in the same breath as them living a peaceful life in a house by the sea.
• Aku, the Big Bad of Samurai Jack, identifies himself as "Master of Masters, The Deliverer of Darkness, and the Shogun of Sorrow." His name even means evil in Japanese. Justified, since he is a demon and is literally Made of Evil.
  • Although he does occasionally try to trick people into thinking he's a force for good, like when he told the children a bunch of stories that painted him as the hero and Jack as the villain, or the indoctrination that was given to the Cult of Aku.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Subverted for the most of the cast, who have complex reasons or some kind of justification for their actions. Played straight with Double Trouble, though while they never call themself 'evil', they meddle in the war, causing massive destruction across Etheria and loving every minute of it, never making an attempt to apologize or explain themself. They have no personal stake in the war either, participating only because they wanted to get paid and cause chaos. Not even Horde Prime's invasion could make them regret anything.
  Double Trouble: Remember, this is supposed to be fun.
  Catra: This is war.
  Double Trouble: No reason it can't be both.
• Mr. Burns from The Simpsons sometimes introduces himself with the Imperial March music from Star Wars. He also once made an offhanded reference to Yale's Department of Applied Evil.
  • Moe the bartender had literal villain business cards printed up.
  • Mr. Black in "Kamp Krusty" holds a banquet in honor of his and the bullies' mistreatment of the attending kids, making a toast to evil.
  • The Republican Party as a whole in the Simpsons universe. There's a scene where they're having a convention with banners proudly proclaiming "WE WANT WHAT'S WORST FOR EVERYBODY" and "WE'RE JUST PLAIN EVIL". The Springfield chapter headquarters is a freaking castle that wouldn't look out of place in a Hammer Horror movie and every member within has had some pretty strong moments of corruption at one point of the series or another (and Mr. Burns is its oldest member).
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive the Rich Texan not only doesn't feel ashamed for any his actions no matter how vile they are (celebrating driving a little girl to tears with the same zeal as tearing down a forest) "Lisa The Tree Hugger" shows that his car's Vanity License Plate is "NO SHAME".
• Gargamel of The Smurfs is seen singing about his evilness in a couple episodes such as "Sassette". In addition, in "Gargamel the Generous" when he was pretending to be nice, he stated that he hated the feeling of being nice. In "Heavenly Smurfs", when the Smurfs trick him into thinking he has to be nice to them to avoid going to Hell, after Gargamel thinks he has returned from the afterlife, he says "Thank bad, I mean good". In the Smurfs Christmas special, he says that he hates Christmas because of the happiness people feel from it.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Doctor Robotnik in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog regularly brags about how evil he is; in "Over The Hill Hero" he describes himself as "the baron of badness, the knight of nastiosity".
  • The Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) version of Doctor Robotnik, ...his "pretend to be good when it's practical" moments are a bit longer and more pronounced. However, he's inclined to boast about his evilness as though it was something to be proud of, especially when in the company of those he believes are similarly evil and cruel. And unlike with his AoStH counterpart, it makes him more frightening than silly.
    Robotnik: I want the location of Lazar's lair. Name your prize.
    Lazar's guardian: You intend harm to my master.
    Robotnik: Oh, you wound me dear guardian! I merely want to wake the grand wizard and honour his evilness! We have much in common.
    Lazar's guardian: ...yes. I can see that.
• In SpacePOP, Evil Empress Geela is proud of her evilness and hates anything good.
• The Spectacular Spider-Man: You can tell that Doc Ock has fully become one by the mug he drinks out of that has "Evil Genius" written on it.
• SpongeBob SquarePants parodied this with the bad-guy group E.V.I.L. (Every Villain Is Lemons)
  • There's also Plankton, who frequently describes himself as evil, and whose version of SpongeBob's "FUN Song" is a song where he cheerfully brags about how there'll be no survivors when his uranium bombs burn down Bikini Bottom.
• This trope is played to (arguably) humorous effect with Darth Maul in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, when Maul inquires whether there would be any jailed former political figures suitable to replace Pre Vizsla as a puppet prime minister of Mandalore.
  Duchess Satine: There's nobody left but Almec and I, but he is as corrupt and vile as you!
  Darth Maul: [genuinely intrigued] Really? Thank you for being so cooperative!
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • King Koopa, Bowser's animated counterpart in all three of the animated series, plus his seven Koopalings in the latter two series. The Koopalings are an interesting example because each has his own branch of nastiness and are proud of it specifically (like Cheatsy being proud of being underhanded).
  • Really, just about every villain in the Super Mario cartoons counts as this. A prominent example: Wizenheimer in the Super Mario World episode "Ghosts 'R' Us." When asked why he does what he does, his answer is:
    Wizenheimer: Because I'm an evil Koopa Wizard! I don't need a reason to be mean and nasty. It's my nature!
• In the 1980s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Shredder says "It feels so good to be so bad."
  • Krang also has been known to say this more than once and being even more evil or cruel than Shredder, OR towards Shredder when Shredder's plans sometimes backfire on him big time.
• In the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Karai casually agrees with Raph's statement that she is "bad news."
• Several in Teen Titans (2003).
  • Trigon is a card-carrying member of this trope, but that's understandable, given that he's an eight-story tall red demon.
  • Early on, the writers couldn't even come up with a goal for main villain Slade. Few villains even got origin stories, so most seemed to just be causing havoc for the fun of it. Downplayed with Slade: he probably knows that he's in the wrong, but he doesn't care. Of course, that Creepy Monotone can make it hard to figure out exactly what he feels.
  • Better examples are Brother Blood, who teaches a supervillain school that includes courses on doomsday threats and "Theory of Mayhem", and the Brain, who actually puts the word "evil" in his organization's name!
  • Possibly the funniest example of this is Control Freak: A fat expy of an overly-obsessed fan-boy whose only motivation is being seen as the Titan's nemesis by the Titans themselves! He's rarely a threat because of this, but because of his reality-warping powers he'd probably be their most dangerous foe if he just got serious and had a firm goal in mind rather than just getting the Titan's attention.
• In the Looney Tunes cartoon "Water, Water, Every Hare", Bugs Bunny finds himself in the castle of an Evil Scientist. The guy's castle even has a lit sign with the words "Evil Scientist" out front, and after his monster Rudolph (called Gossamer in other shorts) fails to catch Bugs, he grumbles, "never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist."
• Mumm-Ra from ThunderCats (1985) is a particularly notable example. He gloats about his evil nature so much that he puts other villains of this kind to shame. His counterpart from the 2011 reboot counts as a Card-Carrying Villain as well. Albeit less overtly than in the original series.
• Max from Total Drama Pahkitew Island is a self-professed Evil Genius. He's a parody of the show's need to have a villainous contestant every season (previously filled by Heather, Courtney, Alejandro, Scott, and Mal), but lacks the Manipulative Bastard part of the role, which was assigned to Scarlett.
  • The previous season, Revenge of the Island, has Scott whose label is "The Devious" before being changed to "The Troublemaker". Subverted in All-Stars where he Took a Level in Kindness.
    • Generally most antagonistic characters on the show give themselves a title that reflects this: "Heather, the Queen Bee", Duncan, the Delinquent", "Eva, the Female Bully", "Alejandro, the Arch Villain", "Jo, the Take-No-Prisoners Jock-ette", "Mal, the Malevolent One", "Amy, the Evil Cheerleader Twin", "Topher, the Chris Wannabe", "Julia, the Influencer and Evil in Human Form", "Ripper, the Bad Boy" and "Scary Girl, A.K.A. Lauren". It seems they're all pretty proud of who they are. There's also "Noah, the Schemer" which is pretty much an Informed Attribute and "Izzy, the Psycho House Beast" who is Creepy Good. In All-Stars there was a whole team called the Villainous Vultures which every member was pretty happy to be in except Gwen, Cameron and Courtney^note Not that she liked being on the other team that much. Duncan on the other hand was dismayed to be traded to the Heroic Hamsters.
• Tromaville's corrupt mayor Max Grody from Toxic Crusaders would frequently make boastful claims about how despicable he was. For instance, he happily admits that he kicked his own mother out of her home in "Club Fred".
• Emperor Zurg in Toy Story 2 and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is a true Large Ham of a Disney villain and proud of it.
• Megatron in most of the earlier Transformers incarnations had a rather grating tendency to laugh and say how evil he was, or how evil his plan was, just so that the kids knew who to root for.
  • "The Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons!"
  • In Dreamwave's comic book series, Starscream responds to a question as to their appointed task with "Who cares? With Megatron, you know it's going to be evil...and evil is always fun!"
  • Beast Wars, twelve years into the franchise, inherited some measure of this, too.
    Megatron: Say goodbye to the universe, Maximals! The future has changed, yessssss. The Autobots LOSE! Evil TRIUMPHS! And YOU...! YOU! NO! LONGER! EXIST!
• Simon from Trollz is proud of his evilness and once comments that there's so much evil to do and so little time to do it.
• Captain Zero from TUGS — he's not so much outright evil as sort of a shyster, but it's touched on in the first episode.
  Captain Zero: You're a team! The best, the better-looking, more powerful, and, dare I say? More devious!
  Zip: What is devious?
  Captain Zero: What's devious is what's necessary to make an honest living in these days of corruption and bad business ethics!
  Zip: ...Oh.
• The evil gnomes in the Van Beuren Studios short "The Sunshine Makers", who openly call themselves nasty, mean and sad, and hate anything sunny or happy.
• The Venture Bros.: Every SINGLE villain in the series is a card-carrying villain belonging to the aptly-named Guild of Calamitous Intent. Which, ironically, is depicted as having an important honor code and being an accepted facet of society. The protagonist, however, is a complete and total asshole.
• Three out of four characters in the main cast of Villainous, that being Flug, Demencia, and Black Hat. The entire show is about the three of them running Black Hat Inc., selling evil goods and services to fellow villains, both in their dimension and across the Cartoon Network universe, that allow anyone who's willing to pay (and sign away their soul to Black Hat) to kill those pesky heroes. The only non-evil member of the team is 5.0.5., a giant genetically-engineered bear created by Flug who is referred to as a "happy accident"; he's a Beary Friendly Gentle Giant and would never intentionally do harm to anyone or anything. They keep him around because Flug dotes on him like a loving father and Black Hat likes to treat him as The Chew Toy, since he has a Healing Factor that keeps him immortal.
• The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald:
  • Professor Pinchworm in "Birthday World" is constantly cackling maniacally and had to cut himself off when he nearly informed Hamburglar that he is an evil scientist. After he's successfully de-aged Ronald McDonald and his friends into toddlers, he dispenses with his thinly veiled efforts at deception and openly gloats that his intentions are to use his Babe-O-Matic Ray to take over the world by de-aging everyone else on the planet so he'd be the only remaining adult and therefore the only one allowed to do whatever he wants.
  • Stiles, the villain of the final video "The Monster O'McDonaldland Loch", openly states that he's the bad guy when alone with his incompetent assistant Pip, to the point that he gets angry at Pip whenever the latter tries to interrupt him while he's laughing maniacally, clasping his hands together conspiratoringly or plotting his future villainy.
• In Wacky Races and its various incarnations, Dick Dastardly is a proud and unfettered cheater. His car, the Mean Machine, is by far the fastest and most technologically advanced vehicle in the race and he could easily win far and square... but he's the villain and villains cheat so he often uses the time he's gained from his vast lead ahead of the other races to lay traps. One episode had him stop feet from the finish line and actually let the others win because he'd gotten that far without cheating and wouldn't let himself win fair and square, and the unaired pilot of Wacky Races Forever has him going so far as to outright reject the possibility of winning fairly rather than cheating by telling Muttley that, as villains, they simply have to win by foul play.
• Wander over Yonder has Lord Dominator, a bully who destroys other worlds for the fun of it and gets her own song about being the bad guy. To the point of throwing her minions into the vacuum of space for letting her down.
  • Every single bad guy in the galaxy is this; "villain" is treated as a glamorous career option like "rock star." By Season 2, there's even a "Galactic Villain Leaderboard" that measures rankings based on the amount of planets conquered and/or destroyed.
• Xiaolin Showdown has both examples of this: most of the Big Bads are Black Cloaks and Jack Spicer desperately wants to join their club and get respect. One Big Bad comments that Jack tries so hard to be evil because of his insecurities. Jack refers to himself several times as an "Evil Boy Genius". He also has club jackets with his face and "evil" on it and, of course, he has an evil trademark laugh.He didn't just trademark his laugh, he stated he was adding evil and other such words to his devices to "create a brand".
• In Yin Yang Yo!, every single villain is a Card-Carrying Villain and Large Ham, like Carl the EVIL Cockroach Wizard or his tyrant brother, Herman. They're the biggest suspects, but there are a lot of runners-up. These include everyone who's evil. The Night Master is the worst, as he's the embodiment of EVIL until his defeat. There are evil restaurants and everything.
• Averted for The Light in Young Justice (2010); the only time they ever do stuff like this is using it as a distraction to their real plan. They also have a benign name instead of the Legion of Doom or the Secret Society of Super Villains.

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