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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.
Why not?
— Johan Liebert on his reasons for killing people, Monster
If Chaotic Neutral 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 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 Neutral Evil character will slaughter a village if it gets in his way, without the slightest remorse. But a Chaotic Evil character will slaughter a village 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 Crazy Prepared, or have a complicated Xanatos Gambit 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 Zero Percent Approval Rating, and may even actively aim for it.
The Religion Of Evil is more likely to be Chaotic Evil than Neutral Evil. Not to be confused with Always Chaotic Evil, which is about entire races falling under any Bad Guy alignment.
Common Chaotic Evil characters:
It should be clarified Chaotic Evil does not mean the most evil or stupid. Do not simply put a character here with the logic he's really evil.
Examples
When dealing with the examples of specific characters, remember that assigning an alignment to a character who doesn't come with one is pretty subjective. If you've got a problem with a character being listed here, it probably belongs on the discussion page.
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Anime and Manga
- Johan Liebert from Monster, who is set upon meticulously breaking and killing every person he comes in contact with, just because he can.
- Akatsuki leader Pain from Naruto is of the Well Intentioned Extremist brand of Chaotic Evil.
- 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.
- Also Hidan who's a member of a Religion Of Evil dedicated to total slaughter. He massacred the ninja of his village for being pacifists, and even broke off of the Religion Of Evil after getting the forbidden jutsu that enables him to be immortal as long as he kills people.
- The diabolically evil Katejina Loos from Victory Gundam. She thinks nothing of betraying her nation for petty revenge against perceived -and nonexistent- wrongs, takes part in 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...
- Psycho For Hire Yazan Gable in Zeta Gundam is Chaotic Evil as well: he may work for the Lawful Evil 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 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.
- Rau Le Crueset from Gundam SEED, whose goal was nothing less than 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 play both ZAFT and the Earth Forces against each other, further escalating the war. He almost got what he wanted, too...
- Lord Djibril from Gundam SEED Destiny is both Chaotic Stupid and Stupid Evil.
- Mori Kouran, one of the main antagonists of Flame Of Recca 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 live forever with his vast fortune, regardless of the consequences suffered by those he manipulates.
- Vamdemon/Myotismon from the first 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.
- Ranma One Half has Happōsai, whose acts of evil seem to have no motivation other than 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 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 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 Panty Thief then himself (admittedly because of a hypnosis-induced dream) rather then change the Embarrassing First Name 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 Neutral Evil. 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 Karma Houdini in the series.
- Cell and Majin Buu from Dragonball Z.
- Shinobu Sensui from Yu Yu Hakusho.
- Not too sure, since Sensui has seven different split personalities. So far, only one of them would strictly fit as 100% Chaotic Evil: Kazuya, the foul-mouthed gangster with an Arm Cannon 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 completely lost it), seem to gravitate more towards Lawful Evil and Neutral Evil, respectively. Which makes quite sense, considering that Yusuke is Chaotic Good to the core, and Sensui is supposed to be his Evil Counterpart 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 Chaotic Neutral.
- Mad Scientist and Psycho Electro Precia Testarossa of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Whips her Dark Magical Girl daughter Fate when she doesn't do well, whips Fate when she does do well, cannot be reasoned with, and is willing to destroy a dimension or two to get what she wants. All the kindness and sanity she did possess died before the series started, along with her beloved daughter, Alicia, whose death made her the psycho bitch we all know.
- There have been many 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 Neutral Evil character.
- Toredia Graze of Striker S 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.
- 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!
- Kyoko from Black Cat. Her stated motivation in working for the Big Bad is so she can fight and kill people who annoy her. She becomes Chaotic Neutral after her Heel Face Turn.
- The Millennium organization from Hellsing. Their only real goals are to wage endless destructive war and to kill Alucard. Rather unusual for Nazis, who usually tend towards Lawful Evil.
- 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 Rurouni Kenshin. He despises the peace and order of the Meji Era and longs to reignite the violence of the revolution. He then plans to conquer Japan and turn it into hell on earth where only the strongest survive.
- Gates, the villain of Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid is so thouroughly 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 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 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.
- 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 For Science.
- Dilandau from Vision Of Escaflowne.
- Million Knives and Legato Bluesummers from Trigun
- 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 CompleteMonsters 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 Mahou Sensei Negima. She currently has two goals in her life: To kill as many people as she can and to rape Setsuna.
- Code Geass has Luciano Bradley, the Knight of Ten. Rather like the Psycho For Hire types in Gundam (produced by the same company; see above), he serves a Lawful Evil empire solely because it gives him opportunities to kill without consequences.
- Toshiya and Mon (collectively Toshi-Mon) from The World Is Mine. Interestingly, they seem to be switching: Mon, a Wild Child of pure Id, has become reluctant to murder people (he's okay with rape) since an encounter with "Hakumadon" while Toshiya, formerly Mon's bitch (complete with girl disguise) has grown a spine and become a very dangerous Manipulative Bastard.
- Hakumadon itself would qualify, but it's just a literally berserk weapon.
- Phantom Daughter from Zettai Karen Children 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 course for Manipulative Bastard Black Phantom.
- Punie, the Main Character of Dai Mahou Touge is an example of a Chaotic Evil Magical Girl. Her Incantation, Lyrical Tokarev, 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 Fullmetal Alchemist. 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 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 One Piece 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.
Comic Books
Film
- Arthur Burns from The Proposition. Although he does love his friends, he is a monstrous monstrous man.
- Darth Maul, of Star Wars 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 Chaotic Good, most of John Kramer's victims would beg to differ.
- Sigfried from the Get Smart movie is an unusually calm Chaotic Evil character, which is not too surprising, given that he is the leader of KAOS.
- Lord John Whorfin from Buckaroo Banzai. "He's a vicious psychopath, Tommy. Just as soon kill ya as go fishin'..."
- Sweeney Todd as a Villain Protagonist is a Chaotic Evil Serial Killer 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 quite the ghoulish fashion.
- The Gremlins, bordering on both Chaotic Stupid and Stupid Evil.
- Anton. Fucking. Chigurh.
Literature
- Alex, of A Clockwork Orange. 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
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 No Country For Old Men. You don't get much more Chaotic Evil than deciding to kill a complete stranger based on the toss of a coin.
- Fate Zero's Caster (Gilles de Rais). Just look at how he does things in the Holy Grail War! If that doesn't define him as Chaotic Evil, I don't know what else.
- Morgoth from The Silmarillion: according to Word Of God, 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 Lawful Evil to start with, though by the time of The Lord Of The Rings he has suffered from canon Villain Decay and Motive Decay towards Chaotic Evil.
- As noted in the Lawful Evil 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.
- A Song Of Ice And Fire: 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 Gregor Clegane's band of evil thugs even.
- Acheron Hades of the Thursday Next 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, some would disagree
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- Nope. Beyond Good And Evil is a more accurate definition. One must remember that Cthulhu was the ruler of a powerful empire that controlled a major region of Earth for millions of years - there's nothing chaotic about that, nor necessarily evil, either. The current humanity-destroying activities are akin to spraying roaches that infect your home, from his point of view. After all, this was his home long before it was ours.
- Mr. Blonde is either this or Neutral evil, really, he's stuck in the middle.
- Lord Foul, the Big Bad of The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant. His ultimate goal is to 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.
Live Action TV
- Though internally, 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 Stargate SG 1. 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 they were created by a group of Lawful Stupid scientists in a botched attempt to find a drug that would render mankind completely good, peaceful and law-abiding.
- Davros of Doctor Who, Mad Scientist creator of the Always Chaotic Evil Daleks. Anything that isn't Dalek is on his "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 Neutral Evil instead, using whatever methods necessary to achieve his goals... but once that's done he falls headfirst into this, killing billions For The Evulz (while dancing).
- Spike of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, before his Character Development.
- Sylar of Heroes.
- Takeshi Asakura/Kamen Rider Ouja from Kamen Rider Ryuki. There's nothing romantic or grey about his character: he's an insane serial killer with an uncontrollable compulsion for violence.
- The Ice Truck Killer from Season One of Dexter.
- Anubis of Stargate SG 1. 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.
Professional Wrestling
- Kane is not motivated by any of the standard pro wrestling goals — he doesn't care at all about being a champion, being famous, making lots of money, the thrill of competition, Doing It For The Art, 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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Tabletop Games
- Warhammer and Warhammer 40000 provide some of the most brutally straightforward, Obviously, Card Carryingly, 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 Chaotic Evil 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 Always Chaotic Evil, orcs in D&D are usually portrayed with a Chaotic Evil culture that rewards backstabbing, vicious shows of strength, and no compassion whatsoever to the weak or other races. This is also true for ogres, trolls, bugbears, several (but not all) giant subraces, and various other humanoids. Note that prior to 3rd Edition, orcs were actually listed as Lawful Evil 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.
- In Pathfinder RPG, each of the Chaotic Evil humanoids is given their own different take on the alignment. Orcs are just stupid and barbaric, living lives of savagery because they can't imagine doing anything else. Ogres are a race of Psychopathic Manchildren who engage in all kinds of depravity to sate their lust and gluttony. Bugbears are perhaps the worst of all, committing mass murder not for the sake of killing, but instead to instill fear in the survivors—they are, in effect, a race of terrorists.
- Tharizdun is an Omnicidal Maniac Eldritch Abomination who was Neutral Evil 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 Magic The Gathering, 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 body count. And that Rakdos guy? The one in the name of the cult? He's a demon.
- Every willing member of the Rapine Storm in Cthulhutech. As has been said before, the Lovecraftian horrors in that force 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.
Video Games
- 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 Final Fantasy VI, patron saint of Madness and Hate.
- Exdeath from Final Fantasy V.
- Ashnard from Fire Emblem is a great example of this. He's a Blood Knight 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 Suikoden II.
- 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 Knights Of The Old Republic 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 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 Chaotic Good than Chaotic Evil.
- Albert fucking Wesker. By Resident Evil 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 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 Neutral Evil 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 a disturbed, bloodthirsty fellow who enjoys slaughtering his enemies. True, he can show love and affection towards people like Furiae or the red dragon Angelus, but for the most part, he's just happy to kill as many Empire soldiers or monsters as possible.
- The Big Bads in Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal (the one in Shadows Of Amn is Neutral Evil) are both good examples of intelligent, patient Chaotic Evil.
- Gig from Soul Nomad And The World Eaters; 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 Kid With The Leash.
- Of course, let's not forget the one guy who's worse than that: 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 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 The Demon Path can end up this way, notably Thorndyke.
- Mannoroth the Destructor◊ from Warcraft. He was pretty much nothing more than an engine of destruction who would be released on the enemies of 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 Lawful Evil demons and warlocks.
- 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 once the Expansion Pack Brood War rolls around. She plays The Chessmaster 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 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 stupid evil, and are perfectly willing to simply slaughter each other for all eternity.
- Tira, Cervantes, and Nightmare in Soul Calibur. 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 The Elder Scrolls. Sheogorath is the quintessential and 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 ...except when his curse de-activates.
- Sheogorath is more like a pendulum that swings between Chaotic Evil, Chaotic Neutral and Chaotic Good (He is the prince of madness after all). On one hand, he's a psychopath and Ax Crazy, 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 Star Control 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.
- Deathjester from Seiken Densetsu 3 qualifies. He brainwashes two best friends of the main characters into attacking them and helps the Dark Lich gain control of the Mana Sword just for giggles.
- The Edel Bernal, the Big Bad and True Final Boss of Super Robot Wars Z 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.
- Silent Hill provides an example of a Chaotic Evil Genius Loci, 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, For The Evulz.
- Melissa and Meria, the evil sides of the archangel Marietta, from Knights In The Nightmare fit the bill nicely. They cause massive bloodshed and chaos throughout the game for no reason other than For The Evulz. In fact, in Meria's route, if the player chooses, Meria can take her campaign of destruction all the way to the heaven.
- Erol/Errol becomes this in Jak 3.
- Omega from Megaman Zero series fits here. His creator, Dr. Weil, is a tough call between this and Neutral Evil.
- Leon the Black Knight from Yggdra Union 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 Lawful Evil Mardym.
- Mother from Wild Arms 1. Unlike 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. Is it any wonder Ziekfried backstabs her and becomes the new Big Bad?
- From his background, actions and Dying Speech, it's clear that 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 Wild Arms 4 arguablly started out as Neutral Evil. However, when you face him for the last time, he's definatly descended into this alignment, mainly because becoming part-ARM made him completly Ax Crazy.
- Kratos of God Of War is an Ax Crazy berserker whose primary motivation is the death of anyone who pisses him off, and many people who don't.
- Judecca from Wild Arms 2. Another Psycho For Hire 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 Order Of The Stick. Word Of God 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 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 Character Development.
- Black Mage from 8-Bit Theater. His most powerful spell is literally 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 Eight Bit Theater's universe's Butt Monkey.
- Another example would be King Steve, The Caligula 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 Looking For Group, 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.
- Bangladesh Dupree from Girl Genius, 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, probably Agatha's mother, ...
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- 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 Whateley Universe, including The Necromancer, and Don Sebastiano. Don Sebastiano has a couple helpless mindslaves... so he mistreats and violates them for fun.
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