- After Ayato Naoi joins the SSS in Angel Beats!, he still retains his snarky, Jerkass personality, regularly insults the entire SSS ("except you, Otonashi!"), and uses hypnosis on the other members mostly For the Lulz.
- Nguyen from the Area 88 manga and OVA. Even by mercenary standards, he's an unhinged sadist.
- Karma from Assassination Classroom is one. Quite a few of his fellow students are afraid of him and for good reason, he's a Blood Knight and a Sociopathic Hero with a sadistic streak, he even enjoys torturing his victims once they're down. As an added bonus, he's on occasion represented as a demon or devil of sorts.
- Eren Yeager from Attack on Titan is this to the Survey Corps. While he wasn't wicked, he was the only one who took pleasure in slaying his foes with sadistic relish and felt no remorse, regarding them as animals who needed to be put down. As of the Time-Skip, he ends up playing this trope straight, being significantly more willing to commit evil acts if it means achieving his people's liberation from the rest of the world.
- Levi Ackerman used to be this for the Survey Corps before his eventual Heel–Face Turn. Which makes the way he carries out his heroics in the present day make that much more sense.
- Floch is also this to the Survey Corp as he represents a more blood-thirsty aspect of Paradis, calling for revenge and the unrestrained slaughter of those outside the Walls.
- Darius Zackly is this for the revolutionaries since he is not actually out to save humanity or anything, but rather joins up with the good guys for his own reasons. He also has a penchant for Cold-Blooded Torture, so turns out he's not quite as benevolent as he first appeared, either.
- Bleach
- Mayuri Kurotsuchi's moral code is non-existent if it means obtaining scientific breakthroughs. He turned his subordinates into human bombs without their knowledge. He conducted Quincy experiments by torturing them to death. He'll even kill 28,000 people in the name of world soul-balance. His results are undeniably useful, but his methods are completely evil. Word of God stated that Mayuri is his exploration of the concept of "necessary evil."
- Kenpachi Zaraki is an Ax-Crazy Blood Knight who has no problem physically assaulting his own underlings. He doesn't care whether people are friends or enemies. All he cares about is finding the strongest fighters so that he can enjoy fighting to the death. If he finds a Worthy Opponent, such as Ichigo, he'll go all out to arrange circumstances to ensure he gets the chance to fight that person, even if it means turning on his own people to achieve that goal.
- In Brave10, Kamanosuke is an amoral, hedonistic Ax Crazy Jealous Guy who nobody likes or understands but they keep around because he's not bad in a fight other than that Leeroy Jenkins habit of his. Although in the sequel, even he manages to get showed up here by the late addition of former Big Bad Hattori Hanzo to the team, who assaulted and severely traumatized several members of the Braves.
- Broken Blade has Girge. He is more than a little insane, the best pilot of the whole team and a real badass. He is also not above killing teammates if he feels like it.
- Buso Renkin: With his love of violence and General Ripper tendencies, Warrior Chief Hiwatari is the most antagonistic of all the Alchemist Warriors in the series. Having said this, his friendship with Bravo is genuine, and when the decision is made to abandon the orders to terminate Kazuki in favor of focusing on Victor, he ultimately follows orders and abandons the hunt.
- Cardcaptor Sakura: Ruby Moon is perhaps the closest to being genuinely antagonistic out of Eriol's posse; she intentionally interferes with Touya and Yukito so she could steal Touya's power for herself and let Yue, and Yukito by extension, fade and die. When she realizes the futility of her efforts, however, she backs off and limits herself to aiding Eriol.
- Played for Laughs in Chainsaw Man with Power, a Psychopathic Manchild Devil who enjoys human pain and suffering, although this doesn't extend past bullying Kobeni. She betrays Denji when they first meet, but after he saves her life she becomes a surrogate little sister to him.
- Chaos Dragon: Lou Chenfa is an assassin wielding Evil Weapon, who plans to kill Ibuki and Swallow. Even after she starts speaking openly about this and kills Ulrica, Ibuki still considers her a friend.
- Code Geass: Technically, they're all villains to some extent, but among the Knights of the Round, you have a conflicted ex-idealist, an amiable Ace Pilot, a Martial Pacifist, a Rei Ayanami Expy, three lady knights we don't know much about but seem nice enough... and then there's Luciano Bradley, aka the Vampire of Britannia, aka the Homicide Genius, who specifically joined in order to kill people.
- Diethard and Rolo are this for The Black Knights.
- Diethard once again is this along the leader himself when he joins Schneizel. He's the one who justified sacrificing their official leader claiming that baits are not allowed to talk.
- Diethard and Rolo are this for The Black Knights.
- Faye Valentine of Cowboy Bebop occasionally is this. There are times when she seems to genuinely care about the crew, while other times she's a Jerkass Femme Fatale to everybody and seems to only care about herself. She has also stolen bounties that rightfully belonged to another crew-member at least a couple of times as well. Though, honestly, she isn't that much worse than them. Also, she's barely a team member in the strict sense. For most of the earlier episodes while she's on the Bebop, she's restrained while they check her belongings. Worth noting Faye does mellow out by the end, her jerkiness comes from the fact she was betrayed by a man she fell for first thing after waking up from being a Human Popsicle and subsequently has deep attachment issues. By the final episode she can admit she loves being on Bebop and has no where else to go even begging Spike to stay at gun point.
- Darker than Black: Milder example, but November 11 plays the Best Evil Friend Variety when working with police officer Kirihara who is one of the few people he'd risk his life for and go out of his way to help. In general, Contractors are supposed to be the Token Evil Teammates of the intelligence agencies which use them for their powers and ability to kill without remorse. The main character of the series, Hei, is a downplayed example. Contractor-hating human Huang is Hei's Handler and frequently berates him for having qualms about missions and not acting as evil as a Contractor is supposed to be.
- Among the exorcists in D.Gray-Man we have Winters Socalo, a former death-row inmate. He was spared thanks to being an accommodator for the innocence and kept by the Black Order. The guy has showed no concern for his disciple who died in battle and even outright mocks them in front of their coffins.
- Dragon Ball:
- Vegeta became this after his Enemy Mine with the good guys against Frieza. Until the last part of DBZ, the only reason he helps the heroes is because no one else can kill Goku.
- That, and the fact that he has no interest in letting a villain destroy the Earth since, you know, he lives there now with his family. It's even lampshaded at one point that he's done more damage than the supposedly evil Androids.
- Launch qualified in the pre-Z portion of the series. Well, half the time.
- In Dragon Ball Super, as a result of Majin Buu falling asleep before the Tournament of Power during the Universe Survival arc, Universe 7's all-hero team ends up replacing him with, of all people, Frieza. Being killed twice hasn't changed his attitude any; he only joins up on the condition the heroes wish him back permanently with the Dragon Balls. Come the end of the arc, they make good on their promise.
- Vegeta became this after his Enemy Mine with the good guys against Frieza. Until the last part of DBZ, the only reason he helps the heroes is because no one else can kill Goku.
- Dr. STONE:
- Downplayed with Gen. While not outright malicious, whenever Senku is facing an obstacle that requires less than ethical means to solve, Gen can usually be expected to back it if he didn't suggest it to Senku himself.
- Magma, after he has a Heel–Face Turn, is Reformed, but Not Tamed, and is the first one to suggest that Murder Is the Best Solution. When he, Gen and Chrome come across a large number of petrified people Tsukasa is planning to revive and recruit for his army, Magma bluntly states they could simply smash the statues or hack off their limbs. Chrome and Gen then lampshade that Magma is similar to Tsukasa in this regard, and they're glad that he's on their side.Magma: "Huh? What do I care about this buncha strangers?"
- Diana, one of the Selacao from Eden of the East is introduced as a Serial Killer known as the "Johnny Hunter", who has been killing men by emasculating them with a cigar cutter. She turns out to be a Serial-Killer Killer of sorts, only targeting rapists. In the film, The King of Eden, she's become considerably nicer and is a loyal ally to the heroes, but notwithstanding this and her selectivity of victims, she's still a mass murderer.
- Eyeshield 21:
- Yoichi Hiruma is the scheming, trigger-happy, demon-faced captain of the Deimon Devil Bats, and he's one of the main characters.
- Agon Kongo becomes this in the World Youth Cup arc; he only joined Team Japan because he wanted to win the three million dollars, and isn't above threatening his own teammates to do so.
- Laxus and his Raijinshuu are this for Fairy Tail until the end of the "Battle of Fairy Tail" arc. Character Development then sets in.
- In Flame of Recca, Recca has control over 7 dragons, all of them are more or less amiable (One of them is his Bumbling Dad), except one certain dragon named Setsuna. He hates Recca, wants nothing more than to kill him and be free, and resume his old life... as a sociopath mass-murderer. Recca still beats him down to submission.
- Barry the Chopper in Fullmetal Alchemist. While most of the cast are trying to do what's best for the country, Barry just wants to get rid of the Homunculi so he can be free to start killing again. Although his true intentions for wanting to hunt down his own body are mostly unknown. Also later, Greed to a lesser extent.
- There have been several Token Evil Teammates throughout the various Gantz rosters, but the two that stick out the most are Nishi and Izumi. Nishi is an extremely nihilistic jerkass whose actions are on occasion at least somewhat understandable, whereas Izumi is far more damaging.
- Nezumi Otoko (Rat Man) from GeGeGe no Kitarō is the only member of the Kitaro Family who frequently does whatever he can to make quick cash by tricking people, humans and yokai. He also sides with the villains to betray Kitaro and his companions whenever the opportunity shows itself. Regardless of how much he does it, Kitaro still allows him to stay with the group.
- Great Teacher Onizuka: Urumi after she comes over to Onizuka's side. She crosses the Moral Event Horizon when she sells three of her classmates' virginities to rich perverts without batting an eye, but she gets off scot-free. Her other classmates and Onizuka are glad to have her on their side rather than working against them as she used to.
- Kikuri of Hell Girl is this to the rest of Ai's minions. Where the other minions are a fairly nice bunch aside from their job and sometimes sympathize with the clients, Kikuri is rude, malicious and hyperactive. She's even directly responsible for the Downer Endings of a few episodes. The spider sent her to keep tabs on Ai and he can possess Kikuri if he decides to intervene directly.
- Russia from Hetalia: Axis Powers, based on Real Life. With a Freudian Excuse, to boot. On the other hand, the rest of the Allies aren't much better.
- Comedic example in Igano Kabamaru where Shizune Meijiro, the Student Council President, manipulates Kabamaru in his schemes against his rival Shuu Maejima and the Ōgyoku school, knowing the boy's Ninja skills are his lightning in the bottle.
- Inuyasha: A stretch, but the title character himself was kind of this to his group at the beginning of the series, making it clear on multiple occasions that he was only helping Kagome track down the scattered shards of the Shikon Jewel so he could use them to become a full-fledged youkai. Of course, he gets better.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
- Rudolf von Stroheim from Battle Tendency may be trying to help Joseph in defeating the Pillar Men, but he's still a completely unrepentant Nazi officer with no compunctions about murdering innocent civilians. Though this is more of a downplayed example, as Stroheim lacks most of the traits the Nazis were known to have, and seems to do what he does not because of the Nazi ideology, but out of a fanatical love for Germany.
- Narciso Anasui from Stone Ocean. He may be one of the heroes, but he's still an Ax-Crazy Sociopath whose crush on Jolyne can get insanely creepy at times. However, as time goes on and Anasui receives Character Development, he slowly becomes a better person and loses this trope.
- Kaguya-sama: Love Is War has the titular character, whose friends scream "I knew it!" when they're led to believe that she's murdered someone. (She didn't do it in that particular instance, but she says she's not above murder in general.) However, Kaguya is genuinely trying to become a better person, and the student council is really understaffed, so...
- The "VIPs" of Shuuchin Academy are sort of a group example of the trope. Shuuchin's students are rich kids of questionable morals who don't like getting adults involved in their business, so the VIPs handle whatever bullying and crime endangers their peers. Usually by shipping the culprit off to Cambodia. To put this in perspective, Kaguya has not joined the VIPs because she is too soft.
- Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple: The Shinpaku Alliance has one as the leader, Nijima. Various other characters in their orbit could also be considered as such depending on how strictly you ascribe the term "teammate" to them. These can include three members of YOMI; Tanimoto Natsu, Rachael Stanley and Kushinada Chikage. All of them have friendly dealings with Kenichi and the rest of the Shinpaku Alliance even if they have yet to renounce their ties to YOMI.
- Kingdom: Kanki. An ex-bandit, and so utterly talented at warfare that he serves as a high-ranking General in the Qin military. This, despite never really abandoning his banditry - his men are brutal, violent thugs who pillage and rape as they go; he has no qualms with attacking civilians, and in one notable moment even fashions an archway of civilian corpses to get a psychological edge on an enemy general, who was a chivalrous, kind-hearted man who cared about his people.
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes has the utterly amoral Paul von Oberstein, one of the most extreme Well-Intentioned Extremists in animation. All of Reinhard's allies hate him, but tolerate his presence because his methods work.
- Yulia Tymoshenko in The Legend of Koizumi. She frightens Vladimir Putin.
- In Magical Girl Apocalypse, Akuta is a corrupt cop who doesn't care about anybody and is constantly sexually harassing girls. The survivors have no choice but to tolerate him and let him join them because he's a total badass who can slay zombies and magical girls with ease.
- Mob Psycho 100 has Dimple. Initially introduced as an Arc Villain, he eventually joins the titular protagonist as part of his inner circle of friends who often help him when dealing with bigger threats, but still retains a some of his less pleasant qualities and leaves in clear that the only reason he's helping Mob is in hopes of someday brainwashing him to further his goals. He gets better though.
- Hallelujah from Mobile Suit Gundam 00. An odd version in that he's just Allelujah's Superpowered Evil Side.
- Evangeline of Negima! Magister Negi Magi. Since she plays the role of the Old Master in the protagonist team, she makes token attempts to bring The Hero over to The Dark Side. (Which seems to have worked.)
- And Haruna, who displays some sadistic tendencies and is apparently determined to Take Over The Magic World. She's not malicious, but she's extremely ambitious and manipulative, to the point that she's mostly on the good side out of convenience.
- Since Rousseau Was Right in this series, it actually manages an evil example in Tsukuyomi.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: While the Eva pilots all have their faults, Asuka is the most aggressive and has a rather callous disposition towards those around her.
- One Piece:
- The main crew has a couple of members who can count for this; their roster includes a ruthless bounty hunter, a cruel and avaricious thief, a professional assassin, and an underworld crime boss. Yes, they're still as kind and quirky as you'd expect any Straw Hat to be. Just... don't give them a reason to show off.
- At Sabaody, The Supernovas Eustass Kid and Trafalgar Law briefly teamed up with Luffy. Kid seemed to be this at the time, with his evil apparently nothing more than an Informed Ability. It wasn't. Law then made a return as an ally and is a minor version of this, being a much colder character than any of the Straw Hats, and acting as a foil for their playfulness. But, to his chagrin, he's found that spending too much time with them opens him to their quirks.
- During the Impel Down arc, we had Crocodile, who, in a textbook example of Teeth-Clenched Teamwork, didn't get along well with Luffy at all. Or with Jimbei for that matter.
- Arlong was this in the Sun Pirates. While there were other unsavory characters in that group, Arlong would be the first one to suggest violent terrorism towards humans. He even wanted to kill a slave just for being human.
- The Dressrosa and Whole Cake arcs had Caesar Clown. Though he had little choice in the matter, going from being captured and taken advantage of in Dressrosa to teaming up with the Straw Hats due to necessity in the Whole Cake Island arc since the alternative was being killed by Big Mom for stealing money from her. Played for Laughs when he is finally allowed to leave. He expects a tear-filled farewell and everyone to have come to see him as a comrade...they don't.
- Most Marines are ordinary people who believe in protecting the public from pirates, but there are some notable hardliners that push the cause to Knight Templar levels. By "notable", we mean "Vice Admirals and up" — which means they're likely to assert the overbearing "Absolute Justice" idea to the lower ranks, thus making them look worse than they actually are.
- Ouran High School Host Club: Kyoya is a downplayed version. It is commonly accepted amongst the group that everything he does is for the sake of personal gain and profit, but Haruhi manages to prove otherwise on occasion.
- The Prince of Tennis:
- Hiyoshi Wakashi is kind of the Hyoutei team's token evil teammate (his not-so-secret aim is to "overthrow" the captain, and he tends to be quite cynical). Also a Sixth Ranger.
- Initially even more so, Akutsu Jin for the Yamabuki team (serves rocks at people, is rude to his mom, prone to violence), although it's safe to say he's revealed to be not that bad, deep down. Especially in the presence of one Takashi Kawamura or one Taichi Dan.
- Reborn! (2004): Mukuro Rokudo has explicitly stated that the only reason he is working with Tsuna and his group is so that he can eventually steal Tsuna's body. In a similar vein, Mukuro's counterpart from the first generation of Guardians, Daemon Spade, was stated to be a backstabber.
- Despite what some fangirls will tell you and despite the fact he's almost always accompanied by an adorable bird pet, Kyoya Hibari isn't a much better person than Mukuro and Daemon. However, the first Cloud Guardian, Alaude, was said to be similar to him in his younger days but he got better (despite remaining cold and aloof), so it's possible Hibari might grow up as a decent person. As it stands, however, Kyoya is not one.
- Rebuild World: Nelia, a Cyber Ninja who declares that she wants the protagonist Akira to be her lover for the seconds it will take her to kill him (which he never lets her live down saying), ends up teaming up with him on multiple occasions as part of larger battles against monsters. Akira is an Unscrupulous Hero in the first place, and it turns out that with Nelia, Badass Minds Think Alike and they each have the Commonality Connection of similar Blue-and-Orange Morality revolving around the concepts of I Gave My Word and being a Consummate Professional. She told him what she did because she wouldn’t let her feelings get in the way of her promise. In their first team up, Akira and Nelia coordinate perfectly without words as a Short Range Girl Long Range Guy duo, and their second time, she uses her Brain/Computer Interface to be Akira’s Badass Driver while he fights off enemies.
- Record of Ragnarok: The Einherjar's darkest member so far is Jack the Ripper, who's just as much of a sadistic maniac as you'd expect the world's most infamous Serial Killer would be. He's so widely reviled by humanity that some of the humans in the crowd like his opponent Heracles more than him, who, while the Token Good Teammate of the gods, is still fighting for mankind's extinction.
- Re:CREATORS has this done on both the good guy and bad guy side. On the side of the heroes, Yuuya is The Rival accused of murdering his friend's sister and mentor and only joined the good guys just so he can fight a member of the villain faction. Meanwhile, the Military Uniform Princess' forces comprise entirely of heroes save for Magane, who is introduced murdering a person and later butting heads with the most honorable member before becoming the Wild Card.
- Ikki from Saint Seiya is a milder version of the Aloof Big Brother and Loners Are Freaks variety. While he was purged of much of his evil in the first tournament arc, his involvement in the service of Athena is usually restricted to making sure his younger brother is safe... and killing off his attackers in brutal ways.
- The Gold Saints, in the meantime, have Deathmask, who decorates his house with the souls of his victims turned into wailing faces. He's still a defender of mankind.
- Another (sort of) milder version is Mugen from Samurai Champloo. He has no restraints and is more of a Wild Card than his chivalrous companions.
- Sgt. Frog:
- The Keroro Platoon has Sergeant Major Kururu, a Jerkass Mad Scientist with a fondness for tormenting his teammates, and pretty much everyone he comes in contact with. One of the earliest excuses for the frogs not making progress is that Kururu won't invent anything useful unless it strikes him as interesting at the time.
- And the frogs themselves are, at least in theory, a Token Evil Team to the Hinata household, seeing as they're supposed to be taking over the world. They don't really ever make much progress, though.
- Xellos from Slayers. Calling him a teammate is a bit of a stretch but he does hang around the heroes and they often work together, and he's a Monster (Mazoku) who in turn works for more powerful monsters. Considering how powerful he is (one step or two steps below Big Bad depending on the season), it would be hard and dangerous to make him leave. Most of the time he's Affably Evil and dicking around with them for the lolz so they tolerate him. Case in point, in Slayers TRY when Xellos actually did betray Lina in order to recruit Valgaav. When Lina found out, she merely hit him on the head a few times.Lina: Xellos is a monster, so we expect that of him.
- Dr. Stein in Soul Eater. Most of the time he's more of a sociopathic Cloudcuckoolander than truly "evil", but he is much more morally-ambiguous and prone to insanity than the rest of the characters. In the anime, he even has a temporary Face–Heel Turn, but he was not fully in control of himself at the time. Ragnarok, following Crona Heel–Face Turn, can also be viewed as this.
- SERN Rounders, FB and Moeka in Steins;Gate 0. They were the main villain on the original series. However since SERN is way weaker in the Beta Timeline they helped Okabe save Suzuha and Mayuri from the Mêlée à Trois between DURPA, Stratfor and Russia. FB also beat down the Stratfor/DURPA agent that stormed the future gadget lab earlier in the series. They're still loyal to SERN though.
- Chizuru in Student Council's Discretion her main role being The Gadfly. Unless you happen to be Kurimu.
- Tsukiyama becomes this to Kaneki's group in Tokyo Ghoul, after his pseudo Heel–Face Turn. The rest of the group definitely don't trust him, and he's excluded from living with the rest of the group as a direct result. He's only there because of his obsession with Kaneki, and allowed to stick around because Kaneki relies on him to help do the dirty work. When the others in the group ask him to delay going to help Kaneki and attempt to use The Power of Friendship to convince him.....he responds that he'll simply kill them and blame their enemies for it.
- Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: There’s Jilk. In the game the protagonist transmigrated into, Jilk was supposed to be a Beware the Quiet Ones Psycho Supporter of Julius as this. As events turn out, after Marie becomes The Lancer to Leon, with Jilk being a member of her reverse-harem, he still is. Jilk has the In-Series Nickname as The Black Hearted, and while he’s a Cold Sniper and Demolitions Expert, and probably the most useful in conflict out of Marie’s five boyfriends, he’s also the biggest trouble maker. This is hinted to be Mischief for Punishment since Jilk is a masochist.
- Wolfwood, while not an "evil" character, actually serves as this in Trigun Maximum. Although in the anime the revelation that he was working with the Gung-Ho Guns was saved until late in its run to make it a surprise twist, the manga on the other hand revealed this almost immediately after his first appearance. Although he is helping Vash against the other GHG members, he is actually following orders to keep him alive no matter what the cost (even if it involves killing the rest of the GHG). It's only much later (after most of the other 'Guns have been killed) does he completely abandon the antagonists' side and fully start working with Vash.
- Yu-Gi-Oh!:
- Dark Bakura, in the manga at least, thanks to his Superpowered Evil Side.
- Haga/Weevil and Ryuzaki/Rex served as this in the first third of the anime's Doma arc, up until joining Doma.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL: Vector is this to the Seven Barian Emperors, which is saying something, considering they all are the main antagonists of the story. The other six are Anti-Villains at best who fight for the survival of the Barians, but Vector is solely motivated by his desire for power and continues to do so even after learning that he and the Barians were manipulated by the Big Bad. And he takes pleasure of inflicting pain on others and he has no loyalty for others, going so far as to betray his fellow Barian Emperors for his own sake.
- Hiei in YuYu Hakusho. The way he shows off his ruthlessness makes him almost just Even Evil Has Standards, at least until later on.
