History Main / EvilDiva

There is this one pop singer, who recently became the biggest thing since television. She's beautiful and came out of nowhere all of a sudden. Oh, and her voice is so wonderful and clear and great and, and, and...Ah, let's just listen to her new single! ...Oh wait, how come I'm so tired suddenly? Why are the words "[[MassHypnosis OBEY ME]]" stuck in my head? I don't remem...OhCrap

* Miku Izayoi from ''LightNovel/DateALive'' made her debut as this, being a mysterious, nationwide popular idol who broke into stardom with her captivating voice without appearing in person. She turns out to be a Spirit that DoesNotLikeMen with a sociopathic personality who uses MindControlMusic to enslave the girls that she takes fancy on, and she spent the latter half of the second season as Evil Diva before she mellows out from her newfound trust in Shidou. Late in her arc, Miku revealed that she was a rising idol who had her career ruined by a false scandal which turned her former (male-majority) fans against her and lost her voice when she needs it the most. Though she managed to regain her voice (courtesy of Phantom), her opinion on men were rock bottom until she encountered Shidou who genuinely cares about Tohka and is willing to risk his life to fulfill his DeclarationOfProtection.

* Subverted in ''Anime/SevenMortalSins''. The Demon Lord of Melancholy, Astaroth, is living on earth and using the internet to become an IdolSinger. Lucifer immediately guesses she's doing it to claim more human souls, but this turns out to be a false assumption. Astaroth is a TokenGoodTeammate who just loves singing and doesn't care about gaining [[DealWithTheDevil Followers]]. She's more than happy to give up her throne in Hell, to focus on her music.

* Utau Hoshina from ''Manga/ShugoChara'' rips out the Egg of Dreams from the hearts of her fans. [[spoiler:Until she has her HeelFaceTurn, that is.]]
* While not ''evil'' per se, Onpu Segawa from ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' was an IdolSinger who used her magic for her own selfish desires, such as using MindControl to make herself look even better than she already was. Not only that, she could use forbidden magic without the negative side-effects thanks to a magical charm from her mentor. [[spoiler:She eventually does a HeelFaceTurn and joins up with the main group when they save her from the punishment when said charm rots away from overuse]].

* Mimi Hanju (or, better said, the MonsterOfTheWeek that kidnapped and impersonated her) from ''Manga/SailorMoon''.
** In the manga and ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'', Mimete of the Witches 5 is an idol and uses her music as a method of brainwashing. It's pretty apt that her counterpart Senshi is wannabe idol Sailor Venus. In the first anime, Mimete's a wannabe idol instead of an actual one and eventually ends up on television. [[FateWorseThanDeath Forever]].
** One of Mimete's minions in the anime is U-Tahime, who even looks like an opera singer.
** They were a common opponent in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV''.
* Miku Izayoi from ''LightNovel/DateALive'' made her debut as this, being a mysterious, nationwide popular idol who broke into stardom with her captivating voice without appearing in person. She turns out to be a Spirit that DoesNotLikeMen with a sociopathic personality who uses MindControlMusic to enslave the girls that she takes fancy on, and she spent the latter half of the second season as Evil Diva before she mellows out from her newfound trust in Shidou.
** Late in her arc, Miku revealed that she was a rising idol who had her career ruined by a false scandal which turned her former (male-majority) fans against her and lost her voice when she needs it the most. Though she managed to regain her voice (courtesy of Phantom), her opinion on men were rock bottom until she encountered Shidou who genuinely cares about Tohka and is willing to risk his life to fulfill his DeclarationOfProtection.
* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Diva]] from ''Anime/BloodPlus''. Her voice could activate "Chiropterans"; a chiropteran is created by a human ingesting a chemical substance made by the series' NebulousEvilOrganisation. This is a downplayed version as Diva's voice is "merely" used to ''activate'' the evil component in people who ingested it (ice cream bars handed out at an air force base during a tour segment of Diva, as a test case, followed by a '''world-wide''' distribution of the chemical, it being included in dozens of popular and generic food items). She is also less interested in the EvilPlan than her [[TheDragon primary chevalier]].
* Aya Asia from ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro''. She's not exactly evil, but she can blow your brain with her song.
* Misa Amane from ''Manga/DeathNote'' is an Evil Diva by the second arc. She's a model and actress by day, and by night, she's the Second Kira. Not to mention her room is full of Gothic ornaments and she hangs out with occultist friends.
** She does get to sing in the anime, but that may have something to do with her being voiced by Creator/AyaHirano...
* ''Anime/{{Megazone 23}}'''s Eve was a not-so-evil version of this; she was the VirtualCelebrity public face of the master computer that maintained the {{Masquerade}} for the titular CityInABottle. A military junta eventually manages to take control of enough of Eve's systems to make her circulate propaganda for the new world order.

* ''Manga/{{EL}}'': the masked terrorist "Gimmick", who is revealed early on to be Reiko, the purple-haired idol singer/assassin seen in the opening of the anime.
* Glitter from ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'' is not powerful or magical, though she is incredibly bitchy and possessive (also doubles as NiceCharacterMeanActor) - going as far as to drive Laura away from Travis, who she has fallen in love with.
* Corona from ''Manga/DestinyOfTheShrineMaiden'', who joins the Orochi after she loses her fame. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she already had [[RapeAsBackstory very severe issues]] before that. In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, however, Corona's life is retconned and she's able to be a successful IdolSinger without either being raped or having to resort to prostitution, presumably because either she managed to do things in another way, or the fans are more appreciative to her. Or the guy that suggested prostitution to boost her fame even for a bit no longer existed.]]

* Subverted in ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness''. [[spoiler:Maria Wong seems to fit this at first... but it turns out she was a [[BrokenBird mentally-destroyed]] IdolSinger, who was turned into [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a sort-of vampire]] by Muraki after she was DrivenToSuicide to escape from her abusive mother/manager. In reality, Maria is FAR closer to WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds than this trope.]]
* Subverted in ''Anime/SevenMortalSins''. The Demon Lord of Melancholy, Astaroth, is living on earth and using the internet to become an IdolSinger. Lucifer immediately guesses she's doing it to claim more human souls, but this turns out to be a false assumption. Astaroth is a TokenGoodTeammate who just loves singing and doesn't care about gaining [[DealWithTheDevil Followers]]. She's more than happy to give up her throne in Hell, to focus on her music.

* One of Adam Warren's ''ComicBook/{{Gen 13}}'' stories had a twist on this: although the song "Happy to Be Happy" caused most of the effects of this trope, it turns out that the singer wasn't responsible. The song itself was a hyper-advanced EarWorm that was trying to spread itself to gain extra brainpower.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' has the D-List villain, The Hypno-Hustler.
* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' has Envy Adams, one of Scott's exes who found massive success in the music world and has transitioned from cute geek girl into full-on AlphaBitch. That said she isn't so much evil as a JerkAss with hints of JerkAssWoobie.

%%* One of the many suggested plots in ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds''.

* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'': The "[[Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin Pied Piper]]" DJ Hamlyn is an [[ItsAllAboutMe egotistical]], [[TheHedonist hedonistic]] [[ThePornomancer Pornomancer]] who feeds -- [[EmotionEater literally]] -- on the adoration of his audience and enhances his performances with {{Glamour}} and EmotionControl. He also kidnaps people to trade to TheFairFolk for the FantasticDrug to which he's addicted.

* [[TheDragon Courtney Gears]] of ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' could mind control fellow robots with her songs, though the theming was fairly obvious. Unlike most of the other examples, she's a {{sadist}} [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who tortures people for fun and has no qualms about using {{Loony Fan}}s (such as Skidd) as test subjects. When Ratchet discovers [[FinalSolution her true agenda]] and a video recording of her MoralEventHorizon, she pulls him into her dance lair and fights him with a BossRemix of her only known song.

* {{One hit wonder}} [[TheEighties '80s]] pop star Bibi Love in ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'', although she's not so much the "{{take over the world}}" variety as she is the "[[AxCrazy go crazy]] and kidnap people during a ZombieApocalypse" variety. [[spoiler:Unlike the game's other psychopaths, she [[HeelFaceTurn snaps out of it and can be rescued]].]]

* Vita Clotilde of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel''. A famous opera singer with numerous fans, she also moonlights as "Misty," host of a radio show in the town of Trista where most of the first game takes place. And as an extraordinarily powerful witch nicknamed "the Azure Abyss" whose songs can project images over long distances, mind control her enemies, and cause large-scale destruction. She's also a higher-up in [[SecretCircleOfSecrets Ouroboros]], helps mastermind the assassination of the chancellor and the course of the Erebonian civil war, and [[BigBadDuumvirate serves alongside Crow and Duke Cayenne as co-big bad]] in the second game.
* "The Trickster" Ji-Woon Hak in ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' is a male example, a vain [[KoreanPopMusic K-pop]] idol who let the rest of the BoyBand he was part of die in a fire so he could embark on a solo career and have all their fame for himself, all while telling the press afterwards that he tried to save them. After that, he became a SerialKiller who kidnapped and murdered people and then [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming incorporated their screams into his songs]]. As [[MadArtist murder replaced music as his primary artistic outlet]], the quality of the latter began to slip, and his fed-up producers and label executives responded by restricting his creative freedom. He responded in turn by torturing them all to death during a "private performance", leaving as the SoleSurvivor the producer Yun-Jin Lee who made him a star in the first place (and who was starting to suspect that Ji-Woon was responsible for the mysterious murders that followed him at every concert) as a reward for her efforts to give him the fame he deserved. It was here that [[EldritchAbomination the Entity]] claimed both him and Yun-Jin.

* ''Webcomic/{{Superidol}}'' is all about a Music/{{Vocaloid}}-esque Japanese IdolSinger named Rei Rei, who becomes an international obsession. So many people want to be like her that they get surgery to look like her and act like her regardless of gender, slowly leading to an AssimilationPlot.

* Dr. Doofensmirtz from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' tries to be the [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]] to this trope in "Bubble Boys". He wears a cowboy hat that makes his voice hypnotic, making whoever is listening to his song want to obey him.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' has the Brain taking on the persona of "Bubba Bo Bob Brain", who has "calculated every ingredient necessary to become a country music superstar".
* Pizzazz from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' qualifies. Vain and egotistical, she wants the whole world to know who she is and half the songs the Misfits sing are either about how great she is or what a bitch she is. Arguably, though, Pizzazz is something of a deconstruction, as her desire for fame stems from a largely loveless childhood and a father who spoiled her rotten.
* Sour Grapes from ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' is a parody of this with her trademark ear-splitting vocalize she uses when she's excited or when she wants to annoy people.
* Vaingloria in ''WesternAnimation/{{Phantom 2040}}'' is a singer employed by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Rebecca Madison]] to brainwash the masses. While she loves the fame, she's something of a PunchClockVillain when it comes to the brainwashing. Voiced by [[Music/{{Blondie}} Debbie Harry]].

* The title characters in the ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'' movie become like this, albeit unwittingly. Josie herself winds up getting {{brainwashed}} with [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages]] in order to turn her into ThePrimaDonna who will break up the band and pursue a solo career, since [=MegaRecords=] was getting annoyed with Melody and Valerie and felt that Josie could sell more records on her own. This was all masterminded by Fiona, the diva-ish CEO of [=MegaRecords=] and a more conventional example of this trope. While not a singer herself, she was the one responsible for putting subliminal messages into her label's music in order to [[SubliminalAdvertising sell consumer products to teenagers]]. [[spoiler:Her ''real'' goal, however, was to use the messages to [[RevengeOfTheNerd get people to like her and look up to her as a fashion idol]], having never gotten over the brutal humiliation she suffered in high school for her bad teeth and her lisp.]]

* The title characters in the ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'' movie become like this, albeit unwittingly. Josie herself winds up getting {{brainwashed}} with [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages]] in order to turn her into ThePrimaDonna who will break up the band and pursue a solo career, since [=MegaRecords=] was getting annoyed with Melody and Valerie and felt that Josie could sell more records on her own. This was all masterminded by Fiona, the diva-ish CEO of [=MegaRecords=] and a more conventional example of this trope. While not a singer herself, she was the one responsible for putting subliminal messages into her label's music in order to [[SubliminalAdvertising sell consumer products to teenagers]]. [[spoiler:Her ''real'' goal, however, was to use the messages to [{RevengeOfTheNerd get people to like her and look up to her as a fashion idol]], having never gotten over the brutal humiliation she suffered in high school for her bad teeth and her lisp.]]

* The title characters in the ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'' movie become like this, albeit unwittingly. Josie herself winds up getting {{brainwashed}} with [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages]] in order to turn her into ThePrimaDonna who will break up the band and pursue a solo career, since [=MegaRecords=] was getting annoyed with Melody and Valerie and felt that Josie could sell more records on her own. This was all masterminded by Fiona, the diva-ish CEO of [=MegaRecords=] and a more conventional example of this trope. While not a singer herself, she was the one responsible for putting subliminal messages into her label's music in order to [[SubliminalAdvertising sell consumer products to teenagers]]. [[spoiler:Her ''real'' goal, however, was to use the messages to get people to like her and look up to her as a fashion idol, having never gotten over the brutal humiliation she suffered in high school for her bad teeth and her lisp.]]

* The third episode of ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' introduces the [[HornyDevils succubus]] pop star Verosika Mayday. Part of her work is to travel to Earth during Spring Break in a HumanDisguise, where she performs on stage while using her succubus power as a CharmPerson to enflame the entire crowd's lust until they dissolve into a sinful orgy.

[[caption-width-right:353:You ''will'' [[MindControlMusic remember her name]].]]

* Dr. Doofensmirtz from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' tries to be the [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]] to this trope in "Bubble Boys". He wears a [[NiceHat cowboy hat]] that makes his voice hypnotic, making whoever is listening to his song want to obey him.

Congratulations, you encountered the Evil Diva! With her magical voice, microphone, instrument, etc, the Evil Diva becomes a rising star and draws all of the world's attention to herself and her "talent". Her songs may seem better to you than they actually are, [[MindControlMusic hypnotizing you]], turning you into TheHeartless, stealing your soul, or the like. She's also always female and usually a poster-child example of EvilIsSexy. In an UrbanFantasy setting, you can expect her to be a magical creature in disguise, usually a [[EnthrallingSiren siren]] or a [[HotAsHell demoness]]. She's a subtrope of the IdolSinger and may or may not overlap with the DarkMagicalGirl. As such, she has a tendency to pull a HeelFaceTurn.

* Mio Kuroki from ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', an IdolSinger whose popularity rivals Minako Aino's. She is also a perfect example of UncannyValleyGirl since she has a facade of a sweet caring wholesome girl -Fitting in the classical image of an IdolSinger- but is nothing but pure evil and [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]]

** One of Mimete's minion in the anime is U-Tahime, who even looks like an opera singer.

* Miku Izayoi from ''LightNovel/DateALive'' made her debut as this, being a mysterious, nation-wide popular idol who broke into stardom with her captivating voice without appearing in person. She turns out to be a Spirit that DoesNotLikeMen with a sociopathic personality who uses MindControlMusic to enslave the girls that she takes fancy on, and she spent the latter half of the second season as Evil Diva before she mellows out from her newfound trust on Shidou.

* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Diva]] from ''Anime/BloodPlus''. Her voice could activate "Chiropterans"; a chiropteran is created by a human ingesting a chemical substance made by the series' NebulousEvilOrganisation. This is a downplayed version as Diva's voice is "merely" used to ''activate'' the evil component in people who ingested it (ice cream bars handed out at an air force base during a tour segment of Diva, as a test case, followed by a '''world-wide''' distribution of the chemical, it being included in dozens of popular and generic food items).She is also less interested in the EvilPlan than her [[TheDragon primary chevalier]].

* Lunar of ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid''. She's not straight up ''evil'', per se, but she certainly acts like a bitch most of the time.

* "The Trickster" Ji-Woon Hak in ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' is a male example, a vain [[KoreanPopMusic K-pop]] idol who let the rest of the BoyBand he was part of die in a fire so he could embark on a solo career and have all their fame for himself, all while telling the press afterwards that he tried to save them. After that, he became a SerialKiller who kidnapped and murdered people and then [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming incorporated their screams into his songs]]. As [[MadArtist murder replaced music as his primary artistic outlet]], the quality of the latter began to slip, and his fed-up producers and label executives responded by restricting his creative freedom. He responded in turn by torturing them all to death, leaving as the SoleSurvivor the producer Yun-Jin Lee who made him a star in the first place (and who was starting to suspect that Ji-Woon was responsible for the mysterious murders that followed him at every concert) as a reward for her efforts to give him the fame he deserved. It was here that [[EldritchAbomination the Entity]] claimed both him and Yun-Jin.

* Ji-Woon Hak in ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' is a male example, a vain [[KoreanPopMusic K-pop]] idol who let the rest of the BoyBand he was part of die in a fire so he could embark on a solo career and have all their fame for himself, all while telling the press afterwards that he tried to save them. After that, he became a SerialKiller who kidnapped and murdered people and then [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming incorporated their screams into his songs]]. As murder replaced music as his primary artistic outlet, the quality of the latter began to slip, and his fed-up producers and label executives responded by restricting his creative freedom. He responded in turn by torturing them all to death, leaving as the SoleSurvivor the producer Yun-Jin Lee who made him a star in the first place (and who was starting to suspect that Ji-Woon was responsible for the mysterious murders that followed him at every concert) as a reward for her efforts to give him the fame he deserved. It was here that [[EldritchAbomination the Entity]] claimed both him and Yun-Jin.

* The title characters in the ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'' movie become like this, albeit unwittingly. Josie herself winds up getting {{brainwashed}} with [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages]] in order to turn her into a bitchy diva who will break up the band and pursue a solo career, since [=MegaRecords=] was getting annoyed with Melody and Valerie and felt that Josie could sell more records on her own. This was all masterminded by Fiona, the diva-ish CEO of [=MegaRecords=] and a more conventional example of this trope. While not a singer herself, she was the one responsible for putting subliminal messages into her label's music in order to [[SubliminalAdvertising sell consumer products to teenagers]]. [[spoiler:Her ''real'' goal, however, was to use the messages to get people to like her and look up to her as a fashion idol, having never gotten over the brutal humiliation she suffered in high school for her bad teeth and her lisp.]]
* HotWitch Alisa in ''Film/NightWatch''. She's played by Russian pop star Creator/ZhannaFriske.

Congratulations, you encountered the Evil Diva! With her magical voice, microphone, instrument, etc, the Evil Diva becomes a rising star and draws all of the world's attention to herself and her "talent". Her songs may seem better to you than they actually are, [[MindControlMusic hypnotizing you]], turning you into TheHeartless, stealing your soul, or the like. She's also always female and usually a poster-child example of EvilIsSexy. She's a subtrope of the IdolSinger and may or may not overlap with the DarkMagicalGirl. As such, she has a tendency to pull a HeelFaceTurn.

* Mimi Hanju (or, better said, the MonsterOfTheWeek that kidnapped and impersonated her) from ''Manga/SailorMoon''

* ''EL'': the masked terrorist "Gimmick", who is revealed early on to be Reiko, the purple-haired idol singer/assassin seen in the opening of the anime.

* Corona from ''Manga/KannazukiNoMiko'', who joins the Orochi after she loses her fame. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she already had [[RapeAsBackstory very severe issues]] before that. In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, however, Corona's life is retconned and she's able to be a successful IdolSinger without either being raped or having to resort to prostitution, presumably because either she managed to do things in another way, or the fans are more appreciative to her. Or the guy that suggested prostitution to boost her fame even for a bit no longer existed.]]

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The Bard CharacterClass relies on tons of {{Charisma}} and grants MagicMusic and plenty of mind-affecting powers, which makes for a dangerous combination in an Evil-[[CharacterAlignment aligned]] Bard with no moral qualms about using them on hapless citizens.

* HotWitch Alisa in the movie adaptation of ''Literature/NightWatch''. She's played by Russian pop star Zhanna Friske, by the way.

* The title characters in the ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'' movie become like this, albeit unwittingly. Josie herself winds up getting {{brainwashed}} with [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages]] in order to turn her into a bitchy diva who will break up the band and pursue a solo career (the record company was getting annoyed with Melody and Valerie, and felt that Josie could sell more records on her own). A more conventionally evil example would be Fiona, the diva-ish CEO of [=MegaRecords=], who, while not a singer herself, was the one responsible for putting subliminal messages into her label's music in order to [[SubliminalAdvertising sell consumer products to teenagers]]. [[spoiler:Her ''real'' goal, however, was to use the messages to get people to like her and look up to her as a fashion idol, having never gotten over the brutal humiliation she suffered in high school for her bad teeth and her lisp.]]

Not to be confused with the webcomic ''Webcomic/EvilDiva''. Or with an evil DramaQueen or all-female examples of EvilIsHammy, though both generally do apply to an EvilDiva.

* Miku Izayoi from ''LightNovel/DateALive'' made her debut as this, being a mysterious, nation-wide popular idol who broke into stardom with her captivating voice without appearing in person. She turns out to be a Spirit that DoesNotLikeMen with a sociopathic personality who uses MindControlMusic to enslave the girls that she takes fancy on, and she spent the latter half of the second season as EvilDiva before she mellows out from her newfound trust on Shidou.

* [[TheDragon Courtney Gears]] of ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' could mind control fellow robots with her songs, though the CrushKillDestroy theming was fairly obvious. Unlike most of the other examples, she's a {{sadist}} [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who tortures people for fun and has no qualms about using {{Loony Fan}}s (such as Skidd) as test subjects. When Ratchet discovers [[FinalSolution her true agenda]] and a video recording of her MoralEventHorizon, she pulls him into her dance lair and fights him with a BossRemix of her only known song.

* Vita Clotilde of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel''. A famous opera singer with numerous fans, she also moonlights as "Misty," host of a radio show in the town of Trista where most of the first game takes place. And as an extraordinarily powerful witch nicknamed "the Azure Abyss," a higher-up in [[SecretCircleOfSecrets Ouroboros]] who helps mastermind the assassination of the chancellor and the rest of the Erebonian civil war, and [[BigBadDuumvirate serves alongside Crow and Duke Cayenne as co-big bad]] in the second game.

There is this one pop singer, who recently became the biggest thing since television. She's beautiful and came out of nowhere all of the sudden. Oh, and her voice is so wonderful and clear and great and, and, and...Ah, let's just listen to her new single! ...Oh wait, how come I'm so tired suddenly? Why are the words "[[MassHypnosis OBEY ME]]" stuck in my head? I don't remem...OhCrap

Not to be confused with the webcomic ''Webcomic/EvilDiva''. Or with an evil DramaQueen or all female examples of EvilIsHammy, though both generally do apply to an EvilDiva.

** In the manga and ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'', Mimete of the Witches 5 is an idol and uses her music as a method of brainwashing. It's pretty apt that her counterpart Senshi is wannabe idol Sailor Venus. In the first anime, Mimete's a wannabe idol instead of an actual one, and eventually ends up on television. [[FateWorseThanDeath Forever]].

** Late in her arc Miku revealed that she was a rising idol who had her career ruined by a false scandal which turned her former (male-majority) fans against her and lost her voice when she need it the most. Though she managed to regain her voice (courtesy of Phantom), her opinion on men were rock bottom until she encountered Shidou who genuinely cares about Tohka and is willing to risk his live to fulfill his DeclarationOfProtection.

* Subverted in ''Anime/SevenMortalSins''. The Demon Lord of Melancholy, Astaroth, is living on earth and using the internet to become an IdolSinger. Lucifer immediately guesses she's doing it to claim more human souls, but this turns out to be a false assumption. Astaroth is a TokenGoodTeammate who just loves singing, and doesn't care about gaining [[DealWithTheDevil Followers]]. She's more than happy to give up her throne in Hell, to focus on her music.

* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' has Envy Adams, one of Scott's exes who found massive success in the music world and has transitioned from cute geek girl into full on AlphaBitch. That said she isn't so much evil as a JerkAss with hints of JerkAssWoobie.

* [[TheDragon Courtney Gears]] of ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' could mind control fellow robots with her songs, though the CrushKillDestroy theming was fairly obvious. Unlike most of the other examples, she's a {{sadist}} [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who tortures people for fun, and has no qualms about using {{Loony Fan}}s (such as Skidd) as test subjects. When Ratchet discovers [[FinalSolution her true agenda]] and a video recording of her MoralEventHorizon, she pulls him into her dance lair and fights him with a BossRemix of her only known song.

* Clyostra Direfin in ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'' was a Bretonnian opera singer who, on her way to the High Elves to give a performance, steered her ship into a storm rather then be delayed and subsequently drowned. However, her rage at being denied was so great that she became a [[OurBansheesAreLouder banshee]] GhostPirate who wants to sink Ulthuan beneath the waves so she can finally give her performance.

* Tiffany Javelins, a.k.a. the Sinister Songstress, was this in her first appearance (before her HeelFaceTurn) in ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo''.

* As seen in the picture above, we have Ember [=McLain=] from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. She's a ghost in a rock band whose [[PopularityPower powers]] get stronger when people [[SayMyName say her name]]. While most of her fans are brainwashed, she does have genuine fans (with good reason as "Remember" is a huge EarWorm and one of the most remembered parts of the series). Ember has one of the most extensive backstories out of the ghosts, as her VillainSong is all about it and WordOfGod later confirmed it. Her FreudianExcuse is that she was an unpopular girl who was asked out as a prank. She waited all night but the boy didn't come. When she went home she was too exhausted to wake up when a fire broke out and died in her sleep. Her backstory makes her need to be remembered more understandable and only helped her EnsembleDarkhorse status.