Chaotic Evil in Anime & Manga.
- Johan Liebert from Monster, a criminal mastermind who is set upon meticulously breaking and killing every person he comes in contact with, or turning them into murderers themselves, just because he can. It's not even clear that he enjoys it; many times he just does it.
- Michio Yuki from MW also kills people just For the Evulz.
- Akakabuto from Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin is an example of a monster with limited intelligence, who enjoys the act of killing just for the sake of killing. He will kill anyone and anything that crosses his path, for the sole reason of crossing his path; if you didn't want to be brutally slaughtered, you should have stayed away from his territory.
- In Magical Project S, Pixy Misa is always given specific orders to defeat Sammy, yet she always ends up doing whatever she wants instead (while still being evil and dangerous to Sammy and her friends). For instance, she usually ends up doing things for her own enjoyment like eating a cake while torturing Sammy For the Evulz or trapping kids in a manga. This is no surprise as Pixy Misa actually is Misao ID, as opposed to her
Lawful Good alter ego Misao Amano; the difference is very apparent. - Digimon Adventure has Puppetmon, an Ax-Crazy, impulsive and immature Living Toy; easily the most obvious example of this alignment in the Digimon anime.
- Gosterro from Blue Comet SPT Layzner. A psychopathic and obnoxious SPT pilot obsessed with killing the main character Eiji and he's quick to turn against his fellow gradodian soldiers and superiors if they won't help him get his prey or prevent him from killing in general.
- While many of the villains of Dragon Ball may qualify, special mention goes to King Piccolo and the final form of Majin Buu, called Kid Buu in Dragon Ball Z.
- Piccolo desires to take over the world, but states his sole law would be to abolish laws to throw the world into mindless destruction.
- Kid Buu, on the other hand, gleefully destroys everything in his path, to the point where he's more of a force of nature than a character. The first thing he does after regressing to Kid form is blow up Earth because it happens to be there.
- Majin Buu's master Babidi is a high-functioning Chaotic Evil. His goals seem to be to take over the universe, but he accomplishes this by sending Majin Buu to world after world and killing the entire population and destroying the planet itself. He also eliminates any of his minions the instant that they are no longer useful to him.
- Same could be said with Broly from all three of his movies, who wants nothing more than to destroy everything out of sadism and insanity. Completely averted for his canon counterpart.
- Vegeta (if not Neutral Evil), for his part, revels in violence and murder (something he doesn't grow out of even a little until the very end of the series). What he doesn't revel in is being under Freeza's thumb, to the point where he teams up with the Z-Fighters to overthrow him. His desire to prove his superiority by defeating Goku in combat keeps him focused and nominally on the side of good, but there's always a risk that he'll go rogue.
- Baby from Dragon Ball GT may speak of high goals like restoring the Tuffle race and enacting justice on the Sayians who wiped them out, he will perform any atrocity or sacrifice anyone to increase his own power. He clearly sees bringing back the Tuffle race just so that they can serve him, and help him to conquer the galaxy in his name. As he becomes more powerful and Goku's survival continutes to frustrate him, he also increasingly unhinged to the point where he even revels in the destruction of his own resurrected people, and would destroy the Earth in an Earth-Shattering Kaboom just to see the look of shock on Goku's face. He even attempts to murder his own minions who was trying to help him just because those attempts were annoying him.
- Goku Black from Dragon Ball Super. He is sadistic, psychopathic, massacred the gods so that they do not interfere in his plan and enjoys creating suffering, chaos and destruction wherever he goes, only to sadistically observe the suffering of all his victims before murdering them and remaking the universes to his image and likeness. And do we even need to mention his monologue to Goku?
- Doma from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. He is Nihilistic, Psychopathic. Basically, we think human life means nothing, and we say we're going to save human beings, but in fact, this is nonsense, and Doma has done evil for fun and ruined many people's lives. Even the leader of Demons, Muzan, is reluctant to do so, describing him as Chaotic Evil. And Doma is an empty Demon that means nothing to life.
- Most of the Demons are nothing more than murderous killing machines. Remarkably despite their feral natures and grotesque appearances, they are still capable of intelligence. Some even regret becoming what they are. However the innocent Demons are few-and-far between the ones that revel in their monstrocity.
- Naruto:
- Orochimaru is Naruto's best example of Chaotic Evil. His primary goal is to become "the perfect being", and he gleefully defies social conventions (like, say, not killing babies) in pursuit of it, even clearly enjoying how horrified everyone else is when he is caught doing it. He really nails his mast to this trope, however, in his early appearances when he tries to destroy Konoha and start a war because he thought peace was boring.
- By the time of Boruto however he leans more towards True Neutral. Perhaps one of the more surprising changes of heart? Orochimaru had seemingly strayed away from his clear-cut insidious ways. To the point where even the White Snake Sage, believed he had gone soft.
- By the time of Boruto however he leans more towards
- Gaara was Chaotic Evil prior to his Heel–Face Turn, killing everyone who provoked him in the slightest way and seeing his existence as revolving around the act of killing other people. Now he is either Neutral Good or Lawful Good.
- Deidara also falls squarely into this alignment, given that before he was recruited, he was selling his bombs to terrorist groups For the Evulz, and as a member of Akatuski tends towards extremely impulsive behavior and gives his reason for fighting as "just because". Even his decision to kill himself rather than lose to Sasuke is presented in a chaotic light, given that rather than the more lawful simple suicide he turns himself into a nuke to try and take Sasuke with him, laughing maniacally at the idea of becoming one of the explosions he loves so much.
- Orochimaru is Naruto's best example of Chaotic Evil. His primary goal is to become "the perfect being", and he gleefully defies social conventions (like, say, not killing babies) in pursuit of it, even clearly enjoying how horrified everyone else is when he is caught doing it. He really nails his mast to this trope, however, in his early appearances when he tries to destroy Konoha and start a war because he thought peace was boring.
- Some characters from the Gundam franchise are considered this:
- Yazan Gable of Zeta Gundam, the supposed progenitor of most of the franchise's Ax-Crazy characters. An uneducated but cunning Sociopathic Soldier Who doesn't care about the Lawful Evil ideas of the Titans and fights because he enjoys fighting and killing.
- ∀ Gundam's Big Bad Gym Ghingnham is a psychotic Blood Knight who wants to plunge the world into eternal war in order to cull humanity and leave only those strong enough to survive, whom he considers "true" humans.
- Rau Le Creuset from Gundam SEED, whose goal was nothing less than the extinction of mankind, is a perfect example of intelligent, high-functioning Chaotic Evil. Calculating and ruthless, he was able to perfectly mask his ever-advancing insanity, gaining Lawful Evil Zala and Neutral Evil Murata Azrael's trust to manipulate them, successfully playing both ZAFT and the Earth Forces against each other, escalating the war to the point where weapons of mass destruction were viable options. He almost got what he wanted, too...
- Lord Djibril of Gundam SEED Destiny is interesting in that he's originally a Neutral Evil Fantastic Racist, not too terribly dissimilar from his predecessor, Azrael. As the series progresses, however, setbacks and his own stupidity push him further and further towards Chaotic Evil, as he lashes out with every weapon he's got, regardless of the impact it will have on the overall strategy of the war. Convinced that his own survival is everything, he throws away his side's chance of winning the war, taking thousands of people with him in the process.
- Ali Al-Saachez from Gundam 00 is a highly skilled mercenary and terrorist who admits that he lives solely for war and conflict, and while he occasionally finds ways to use his intelligence, he feels much more at home on the battlefield, where he gets to kill without restraint.
- Gundam 00 also has Nena Trinity when she's at her worst. Most of the times she's Chaotic Neutral but in the wrong mood she can be exceptionally evil. Well showcased when she blows up a wedding because she was angry they were having fun. She tried to take a dip into Neutral Evil in the second season to fool Ribbons and kill the Innovators when they least expect it. That plan got shot to hell when she dies.
- Allelujah Haptism's Superpowered Evil Side Hallelujah really enjoys fighting violently and brutalizing his opponents. Even after the two had a Split-Personality Merge.
- Then there's Gundam AGE's Enfante Terrible (and Ali's in-universe expy) Desil Galette — a concrete Type 2. He considers every war as a big game and the soldiers as mere playthings. This was made evident during the series' second arc when he used his MS's special ability to control some of his allies' MS to stop the protagonist pursuing him. And let's not even delve into how he used the protagonist's love interest during the first arc...
- Yazan Gable of Zeta Gundam, the supposed progenitor of most of the franchise's Ax-Crazy characters. An uneducated but cunning Sociopathic Soldier Who doesn't care about the
- Hao Asakura from Shaman King. The Manga version is the Well-Intentioned Extremist version of Chaotic Evil, while the Anime incarnation is an Ax-Crazy Psychopath.
- All the villain groups from Sailor Moon, mostly because they are led by incarnations of Chaos itself who seek to ruin everything in the universe.
- Shinobu Sensui from YuYu Hakusho. Then again, considering that he has seven Split Personalities, this isn't exactly easy to pinpoint. Though Kazuya, the Ax-Crazy one with an Arm Cannon and a Hair-Trigger Temper, is Chaotic Evil through and through.
- Many feel that Jail Scaglietti's actions in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS 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.
- 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). After his death, Runessa carries on this plan and takes on this alignment.
- A large portion of Eclipse infectees from the Force manga fall into this category as well. The virus turns them into absolute jerkasses, they kill masses wantonly, and most seem to make no effort to even contain themselves with the exception of Touma. Special mention goes to the Grendel for establishing that they have very short-sighted goals and the Huckebein for having no known motive aside from causing more destruction.
- Most villains in the Pretty Cure series. They just want to destroy everything and everyone. Just to give an example from the 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! - Hellsing:
- The Millennium organization. Their only real goals are to wage endless destructive war and to kill Alucard. Rather unusual for Nazis, who usually tend towards Lawful Evil.
- The Millennium organization. Their only real goals are to wage endless destructive war and to kill Alucard. Rather unusual for Nazis, who usually tend towards
- Makoto Shishio from Rurouni Kenshin spends about 50% of the time here, the other 50% as Lawful Evil. He despises the Meiji Era Japan, a pushover in the face of foreign superpowers, and longs to conquer the country and turn it into a hell on earth where only the strongest survive — his creed is "The flesh of the weak is the food of the strong."
- Full Metal Panic!:
- Gauron. He does whatever he damn well pleases... and whatever he damn well pleases is always evil. Sure, he has many goals — but most of them are completely insane. He wants to kill (and rape the dead body of) the beautiful Assassin Saint he met once upon a time... but he also wants to die a sensational death together with aforementioned Assassin Saint. So yes, his goals completely conflict and make no sense. But one thing you have to give to the guy: he's definitely very "free-spirited."
- Gates, the villain of Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid is so thoroughly random in how he goes about causing civil wars and kidnapping diplomats that he becomes utterly hilarious.
- Hansel and Gretel of Black Lagoon, whose personal philosophy is 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 by Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil and the (very) occasional Chaotic Neutral, 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.
- Nnoitra Gilga from Bleach, who has little regard for anything but his violent impulses, and frequently disobeys orders. Most Hollows act this way, and Shrieker, being a serial killer, was also like this when he was alive. Szyaelaporro Granz also leans toward this in his acting independently For Science!.
- While he presents himself as either Lawful Neutral or Lawful Evil, this is where Yhwach's true alignment lies. While he claims to hate violence and preaches about peace, he's actually an Ax-Crazy Blood Knight who will kill his own subordinates if he can benefit from it. He is introduced blasting off the arm of one of his Arrancar soldiers just to gain his attention and later kills him for speculating about the future. It's later revealed that he absorbs the souls of any person that has touched his soul to prolong his life. If he doesn't continuously do this he will revert to a sense-deprived vegetative state. That doesn't change the fact that he's clearly enjoying himself, delights in hurting others and believes that everything in the world exists for his taking.
- While he presents himself as either
- Tetsuo from AKIRA is a psychopath who chafes at being the motorcycle gang's underdog and relishes violence. He goes on a city-destroying rampage as soon as he gets superpowers, mostly because he can.
- Ark of Muhyo and Roji 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 Ax-Crazy 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.
- Phantom Daughter from Psychic Squad 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. It appears that she's an alternate personality who's kept in check by a Lawful Evil side, both of whom reside in a relatively normal school girl they refer to as the "Doll", which is par for the course for Manipulative Bastard Black Phantom.
- Punie, the main character of Magical Witch Punie-chan is an example of a Chaotic Evil Magical Girl. Her incantation, Lyrical Tokarev, Kill Them All should be an indicator of things to come.
- Most of the pirate crews in One Piece follow this alignment with a twist of Neutral Evil; their captains tend to control them through fear, and there's little they won't do to get money. Although not a pirate, 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.
- Berserk:
- The Hellhound, Guts's personal Heartless, Enemy Within and Superpowered Evil Side is very much this. It's every negative emotion that Guts has had since the Eclipse made sentient, and worked in concert with him during the Retribution arc, where he was completely focused on his Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Griffith and the Godhand. Now that Guts has something other than that in his life, the Hellhound is devoting all of its efforts to making him destroy it all so he has nothing in his life other than mindless slaughter.
- Many of the minor/unnamed Apostles the Guts faces are this as well, partially due to their evil nature, but also because the only commandment they have is "Do as thou wilt".
- The Snake Baron of Koka in the first chapter is a good example. After hearing about the Black Swordsman, he commands his men to Rape, Pillage, and Burn the innocent village because he can. When he fights Guts, he gloats about how Apostles are free to hurt, torture, and kill humans whenever they wish.
- Another monster is the ape-like depraved hedonist Wyald, who values his own enjoyment, sexual and otherwise, over even the lives of his own men, and couldn't give two craps about serving the God Hand, something that ultimately gets him killed by Nosferatu Zodd.
- When Emperor Gahnishka underwent a ritual to turn himself into a god to rival Griffith, he succeeded... in the worst way conceivable. He body became bloated with evil energy, his shape ballooning up with dark magic and towering over all other beings, blotting out the sun. He became a massive legged monolith covered in hideous mockeries of his faces, with the ability to spit fire and spawn smaller minions. However, there were several consequences to this ritual. Gahnishka may have obtained godlike power, his ego and mind could not, and he could not tell his own men from insects and flowers on the ground. Thus he mindlessly destroyed his remaining army and caused devastation inn his wake. Daiba, Gahnishka's Dragon, realized that Gahnishka no longer remained, and was now Shiva, the destroyer.
- Tsukuyomi is probably the only villain of Negima! Magister Negi Magi who qualifies for this."There is no reason in this world. I seek naught but blood and carnage."
- Accelerator of A Certain Magical Index originally began as this, being an Ax-Crazy who took part on the Level 6 project where he brutally killed over 10,000 MISAKA. Character Development shifts him into Neutral Good.
- Jagi from Fist of the North Star, as well as many mooks serving him and other bad guys.
- Death Note: Kyosuke Higuchi, seeing that he uses the death note for personal gain and enjoys what he does.
- Hajime no Ippo:
- Bryan Hawk the savage man from the slums of New York who fights in a erratic way and became a boxer just so he could hurt people.
- Ryuuhei Sawamura is a complete bastard who has no problems with cheating, doesn't obey anyone or anything, boxes solely to torture his opponents and probably isn't above killing people, either. He's even called 'evil' multiple times. Which is odd, considering that never occurred with Bryan Hawk, who somehow manages to be even worse than Sawamura. Unlike Bryan Hawk, Sawamura does have a sort-of Heel–Face Turn and settles on Chaotic Neutral. Too bad it's because of a huge accident he was involved in.
- Eua, from Higurashi: When They Cry, grants Satoko looping powers as a means of enjoying all the chaos it would cause so she could stave off her boredom.
- Takasugi Shinsuke from Gintama belongs here. While he leads the terrorist group Kihetai, all he wants is the complete destruction of Japan. In the chapter that introduces him, Takasugi even tells his former compatriot Katsura that he will destroy everything until there is nothing else to destroy.
- Ladd Russo and probably his whole gang in Baccano! He's a barely restrained psychopath and his only standard is that he loves killing people who don't expect to die, but will spare people who are ok with the thought of being killed by him. During the series, he and his gang plan to kill everyone on a train just for the fun of it, and none of them show any real effort at planning other than that.
- Yami Bakura and especially Yami Marik from Yu-Gi-Oh! are willing to kill or torture anyone with their Dark Games, even if it isn't necessary for their goals.
- Villain Protagonist, Yandere and Ax-Crazy Yuno (Specifically her first world incarnation) of Future Diary also fits into this alignment. She would be Neutral Evil if not for the sheer rate that she killed people- she can barely go a few chapters without causing violence that would invariably leave at least some people dead, regardless of if they were trying to harm Yukiteru, and she generally kills, dismembers, schemes, plots, manipulates and does a lot of shit to people on a whim with little to no regard about them or her being caught (not that the average cop would survive trying to catch her anyway).
- Minene Uryu originally began as this, being a Straw Nihilist Nay-Theist Mad Bomber who wanted to destroy religion as revenge. Character Development shifts her to Chaotic Neutral.
- Fairy Tail: Zero, who just wants to destroy anything with a form, and Zancrow: "What you retreated, BURN."
- The titular Chargeman Ken! is an unintentional example. He goes around, nonchalantly committing mass genocide. His more specific (and considerably egregious) crimes include:
- The prologue of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has been retconned to depict a Bad End where Simon became addicted to his own power, becoming Chaotic Evil, and sought to maximize it all costs, causing a massive war that triggered the Spiral Nemesis, destroying the universe. In the canon timeline he is Chaotic Good.
- Attila from Dreamland has no ulterior motives or ideology; all he wants is to instil terror in the hearts of people and, on occasions, contemplate "the poetry of ashes" (i.e. burn entire cities for his own pleasure). And he's a Juggernaut who could very well destroy a good part of Dreamland on a whim if he felt like it, but if he did he would have nothing left to destroy and that wouldn't be fun.
- Reborn! (2004) gives us Hibari Kyoya, who fits very neatly into the Type 1 category; while he's not a sociopath, he's both ruthless and bloodthirsty, and has absolutely no qualms about killing whatsoever — in the Future Arc he even initially claimed that he would kill Tsuna if he failed to entertain him.
- Subverted with Monster Clown Hisoka of Hunter × Hunter. He is, at first blush, a solid Type 1, but he's actually a very violent Chaotic Neutral instead of outright evil. His actions are very often purely out of self-interest (even when he does help people, it's more for him than them) and they usually revolve around finding, cultivating, fighting and killing strong, very entertainingly ''interesting'' opponents to possibly satisfy his sexual appetite (or something like it), whether the opponents are good, neutral, evil or anything else. However, he's so dedicated to this, and filters so much through his Blood Knight goggles, he goes beyond even self-interested Chaos or Evil and hits a very weird Blue-and-Orange Morality in which he has rules and standards he refuses to relent on. If it ain't attractive, it's a either a roach to squash or a reason to ignore it, tolerate it or, rarely, fear it. How he views other characters varies over time, and he can switch from "interested" to "not interested: boring, you are dead now" or visa versa at a very confusing moment's notice.
- Black Butler: The anime-only Big Bad Angela/Ash is perhaps a unique case where the Chaotic Evil villain thinks that it's Lawful Good. This Fallen Angel believes that most if not all humans are "Impure", and is therefore out to cleanse all this impurity from the world. Said angel has gone on to define anyone who is sexually active, overly passive, weak or driven by murderous hatred as impure. Ordinarily this would put they in a totally different camp... if not for the fact that they arecompletely unaware that they are guilty of all the above even moreso than the so-called impure victims ever were. Then there's the fact that while s/he spoils his/her own genocidal goals multiple times when a key Unwitting Pawn suddenly proves itself to be "impure" — and therefore expendable — long before their intended role was finished...
- Kill la Kill has Nui Harime, the Ax-Crazy sadistic cutie who enjoys pissing everyone off and is also the one responsible for killing Ryuko's father.
- Dark Schneider, the protagonist of Bastard!! (1988), is explicitly described as "chaotic evil (with neutral tendencies)." He's a type 1, as his motive for world domination is more about getting what he believes should be his (all of the women) than oppressing anyone.
- The overall Big Bad of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Dio Brando, fits this with a bit of Neutral Evil mixed in. His quest to Take Over the World is driven solely by ambition and egotism, and he will gladly force people to help him do so, despite his penchant for offing them. He also has no limits in what atrocities he'll do, and gleefully commits needlessly cruel acts. Why? Because he's a dick, that's why.
- The Remnants of Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children are Chaotic Evil in a manner fitting superpowered teenagers. Each of them is more or less a Psychopathic Manchild in a different kind of way. They run around making trouble without a clear plan but seeking obsessively to fulfill the goal that Sephiroth has set for them but that for them is an emotional necessity. Kadaj is the leader and reportedly represents Sephiroth's insanity, and is both vaguely sadistic and vaguely unstable. Loz (representing Sephiroth's strength) is a big baby who beats up people for fun. Yazoo ("allure") doesn't have a lot of personality but goes along with the general theme. Of the three, he's probably the closest to Sephiroth's dispassionate and total Neutral Evil.
- Barry the Chopper of Fullmetal Alchemist is an Ax-Crazy Serial Killer with a particular obsession with cutting up women. In the 2003 anime, he tells Ed he kills people because it's fun; in the manga and Brotherhood, he openly fantasises about the prospect of killing his own body, which he's no longer connected to. Either way, he's violent, murderous and basically incapable of dealing with the world in non-murderous ways; the closest he gets to a Heel–Face Turn is being pointed at Mustang's enemies instead of his allies.
- Keyaru, the protagonist of Redo of Healer, is dedicated to his revenge, and to this end he has raped and killed tons of people. The only thing that allows him to still qualify as a hero of sorts is that the people he does this to are usually much worse than he is, often being responsible for many problems around the kingdom.
- Himiko Toga from My Hero Academia has major psychotic vibes, that makes her largely less stable, than most members of the League of Villains. This "sweet" little schoolgirl, revels in torturing and stabbing her victims, sadistically and gleefully. Her obsession with Izuku Midoriya, only adds further incentive towards her madness.
- Most of the Cursed Spirits from Jujutsu Kaisen fall under this category, being monsters born out of humanity's negative emotions and attacking them with malice, but Hanami is an especially interesting case who arrives at this alignment because he's genuinely concerned about humanity's ongoing abuse of Mother Nature; he's just willing to slaughter a whole lot of people to provide her relief.
- Attack on Titan: The protagonist Eren Yeager has always been a little... off. Even as a child, he immediately moved to kill the slave traders trying to abduct Mikasa. By the end of the series, his growing insanity and complete lack of hope in humanity leads him to unleash the Rumbling, with the end goal of killing every single human being outside the Walls, all in the name of the freedom that he so cherished as a child.
