History Main / ForTheEvulz

* Richard from ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' is a delightfully evil character who will happily slaughter entire villages out of sheer boredom. He takes great joy in seeing the hero of the comic, Cale, slowly become less innocent, more violent, and more cynical. His motivations are largely unknown for most of the story [[spoiler:until it's revealed that his immortality is literally powered by destruction]], but after each of the other characters had explained their reasons behind the main quest, he simply states "'''I like to kill things.''' How do you not get that by now?"

** ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has Kirei Kotomine, playing this trope straight in the "Fate" route but [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructing]] it in the "Heaven's Feel" route. He ultimately aims to [[spoiler: empty the contents of the Holy Grail, an ArtifactOfDoom containing a tangible form of all of man's evil upon the world]]. This would have unleashed horrific amounts of death and destruction upon humanity. When the AllLovingHero confronts him about his motives, this is Kotomines's summed up answer: "Just as some people find music or art entertaining, [[{{Sadist}} I can only find amusement in watching other people suffer]]". In "Heaven's Feel", Kirei's backstory shows that [[spoiler: he is perfectly capable of understanding the nuances of right and wrong and has, in fact, on several occasions tried to live a good life (becoming a priest, specializing in healing, trying to have a family)]]. However, time and time again he was unable to get any pleasure from life. This is ultimately subverted, seeing he's [[spoiler: pissed for having been born evil while being fully aware of how deviant he is]]. Turning this something closer to a RageAgainstTheHeavens. ''LightNovel/FateZero'' explores Kotomine's slow realization that EvilFeelsGood, aided by [[spoiler: Gilgamesh]].

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* ''Fanfic/BoilingIslesAndBeyond''

** Boscha is confirmed to have no AbusiveParents who pressure or abuse her, she, as Skara put it, was born bad and embraced it.
* ''Fanfic/CodePrime''

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Why else would [[NoNameGiven the bully]] have jumped out of nowhere donned in a grotesque to terrify Italy, a guy who had been brutally beaten just earlier ''with bruises all over his body'' to prove it?
* In ''Fanfic/ATriangleInTheStars'', Chapter Fourteen and Chapter Twenty-Two flesh out the events at the school of Chapter Six, which Bill instigated because he was [[ItAmusedMe bored]] and itching to cause a grander scale of chaos. [[spoiler: More specifically, he messes up the school on a Sunday despite Sadie watching him and gets a lot of people hurt and/or traumatized, much to then unknowledgeable/ignorant Steven's chagrin and to Bill's own hidden amusement as they watch the results on the news in Chapter Fourteen. As for Chapter Twenty-Two, that's a witness account of the horrors.]]
* ''Fanfic/BatmanBeyondRevisited'': A lot of what Chainsaw does seems to be purely sadistic pleasure.

* ''Fanfic/NewTamaran'': [[spoiler:Blackfire was only sent to Earth to find the Anti-Life Equation; everything she does to her sister and her native people is all for fun.]]
* ''Fanfic/UltimateSpiderWoman'': ''Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change With the Light'' features Jack O' Lantern, who starts out with bank robberies before graduating to hostage-takings, gassings, MindRape, and finally orchestrating a city-wide gang war. He implies that the reason he commits these increasingly ghastly crimes is, quite simply, because he knows it's wrong. Jack O' Lantern also brags about being so superior to people who in his mind [[AtLeastIAdmitIt hide their impulses behind their civilized facades]], and develops an almost insane hatred for Spider-Woman in part for defending those people and in part for interfering with his fun.
** [[AnIcePerson Blizzard]] is a less malevolent example, in that he and his entire family are a group of chronic jailbirds who are always in and out of prison for offenses ranging from drug dealing to armed robbery to car theft. They actually ''enjoy'' prison, which for them is an extended family reunion. On the other hand, EvenEvilHasStandards and Blizzard and draws the line at rape or murder. When an army of BrainwashedAndCrazy supervillains are invading New York, Blizzard actually helps Spider-Woman protect the people of the city, before sticking around for the police to take him back to Ryker's Island.
* Anything relating to [[Franchise/TouhouProject yukkuri abuse]] tends to revolve around monsters of humans who delight themselves in causing harm and death towards defenseless head-like creatures just because they can. Then there's the factory, which all yukkuri are naturally afraid of. They say it won't let them "take it easy", but it's way more sinister than that. There are even yukkuri shops people can go to select their "victim" on some works.
** The spiritual descendant of yukkuris, [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fluffy ponies]], are just as subject to this. "Fluffy abuse", in which humans torture and slaughter fluffy ponies, was at one point so rampant that not only did it drive the original creator of fluffy ponies out of the fandom, Derpibooru banned fluffy pony art and stories altogether. (The moderators eventually found a compromise.) Unlike yukkuri writers, some fluffy-abuse fans are ''viciously'' defensive of the practice.
* ''Fanfic/AceCombatEquestriaChronicles'': [[spoiler: Gilda]] breaks Medley's wings after a prolonged torture for no other reason than her own entertainment and (perhaps) driving Rainbow Dash into a HeroicBSOD.

* ''Fanfic/SonicEvilRebornZero'': The Serdist aristocrat Malfiore de Torquemada sets a dying apprentice on a ridiculously simple mission for her, then complicates it to nigh-unbelievable levels, sabotaging her own mission for this reason. Malfiore is also a {{Troll}} so it's in character.
* ''Fanfic/RubyAndNora'': Mercury’s only motivation is to kill as many people as possible.
* ''Fanfic/RWBYDark'' features a twisted take on [[AdaptationalVillainy Ruby Rose]], who wants to become the most evil being in existance by killing, torturing, and mutilating anyone and everyone she comes across.
%%* ''VideoGame/SCPContainmentBreach'': SCP-106 goes on a killing spree for the same reason he kills period.
* ''Fanfic/PlayTheGame'' has Bardot, a zoner who, due to his white chalk, red chalk combination, does not really care about what he does, and does it for no other reason other than sadistic pleasure.

* ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos'':
** Tsali has shades of this. Though he has actual reasons to want revenge against the Seedrians, he butchers entire worlds simply because he can, even if [[MisplacedRetribution they had nothing to do with his enemies]].
** Beelzebub [[spoiler: rapes Chris]] in Episode 67 not because he needed to run a demented experiment like he did on Cosmo, but because he thought it would be ''fun''.

* ''Fanfic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune'' has BigBad Argath, who has MindControl powers and toys around with people's heads just because he got bored and finds watching others react to it fun.

* Didier, the BigBad of the ''Anime/BloodPlus'' fic ''Fanfic/{{Nobility}}''. ''Everything'' he does is for the sole purpose of making [[CainAndAbel his brother]] Anjou suffer, even starting a war to this end. It's been noted that he's had several chances to kill Anjou, but passed them over in favor of MindRape.
* ''Fanfic/BoundDestiniesTrilogy'': In ''Wisdom and Courage'', Veran displays this trait to a T. Using the SinsOfOurFathers card as a poor excuse to mask her own immense bloodlust, she constantly goes above and beyond to [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans gather power]] so she can use/abuse said power to cause as much collateral damage and kill as many innocent people as she possibly can, simply ''because'' she can.
* ''Fanfic/TheTwoSidesOfDaringDo'' gives this as [[BigBad Ahuizotl's motivation.]] However, despite [[LargeHam Ahuizotl's character]] this is NOT PlayedForLaughs, as Ahuizotl is a {{Sadist}}ic psychopath who [[OmnicidalManiac considers the prospect of being the only living being still alive on a lifeless]] DeathWorld a thing of beauty. Yearling even admits he's more of a joke in the books because on paper this sounds a lot less horrific than it ''actually'' is.
* In ''Fanfic/HarmonyTheory'', Max Cash is a criminal mastermind with complex plans to seize ultimate power, which require the sacrifice of specific individuals. He also admits that he sets fire to schools and kills random people he runs into even if it is unnecessary because it is fun and makes him happy.
* ''Fanfic/{{Webwork}}'' has [[spoiler: Simon Leston]], the new Squid Khan General, who intends to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone on the planet]], partly because he [[MisanthropeSupreme hates people and thinks they deserve it]], but mostly simply because he now ''can''. [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] and [[FallenHero Jade]] are both [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusted by this]], with the former describing villains with this kind of motivation to be like viruses.

* In ''Fanfic/TheLastSon'', Franchise/{{Superman}} sums it up rather nicely about ComicBook/TheJoker:
--> "He's a completely different breed from anyone else; [[FantasticRacism Creed]], [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the F.O.H.]]… even [[TakeOverTheWorld Doom]]. I didn't understand it, the first time I came here… but Joker is true evil; the kind that doesn't exist for wealth, or for power, or for any goal; he's the kind of evil that exists simply because it ''wants'' to exist."
* ''Fanfic/QueenOfShadows'': Shendu's first appearance in the [[RewritingReality rewritten reality]] sees him [[KillItWithFire incinerate]] a slave dancer on the flimsy excuse that she'll probably never dance as well as she just did, so she's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness expendable]]. Judging by the reactions of his court, this is a regular occurrence.
* ''Fanfic/EquestriaAcrossTheMultiverse'':
** Lord Yomi and his minions from the Lighting the Darkness Arc, being demons and willing minions of demons, are pretty much defined by this trope.
** One of the major villains Ispita/Lady Babylon basically has this as her main motivation. It doesn't matter if she's screwing someone over in a small way or ruining an entire world, she gets a kick out of causing pain and suffering. PlayedForDrama, as she's one of the most dangerous beings in the multiverse and the heroes are currently no match at all for her to the point she barely acknowledges them.
* ''Fanfic/RoarOfTheLION'': A mix of this and ForScience is Inori's entire motivation. When she creates Virtue, her first [[KillerRobot Extermination Armor]], the very first thing she does is order it to go on a massacre and sends it to attack Vale General Hospital.
* In a sidestory of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Accentus, the oldest of the Seven Brothers of Orre is introduced wielding a sword and a machine gun before going on a rampage to kill every Pokémon in a forest sanctuary. At the same time, an evil shiny Aegislash named Dainsleif appears in a human village and mind-controls half the denizens and orders them to kill the other half. When asked why they're doing it, they both give the same answer: "Because I ''choose'' to".
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13167363/1/To-Undo-it-All To Undo it All]]'': In the BadFuture, Aizen did things like cutting off Uryu's arm and letting hollows eat Rukia's leg just to see if they could find a way to use their abilities without said limbs.
* ''Fanfic/SameDifference'': When April points out that the Kraang could just harvest her DNA by taking her hair rather than put a large needle in her head. The Kraang admits that she's right and could harvest her DNA painlessly, but they just find the painful and torturous way more entertaining for them.

--> '''Katakuri''': Where I'm from, my world has countless people like [[spoiler: Junko]] who desire chaos above all else. No money, no reason, no bargaining. Just wanting to see the world burn with everyone screaming is a demon's dream come true.

* Sid from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' spends most of his free time thinking up ways of torturing toys for a quick laugh, including, but not limited to, tearing them apart and switching their pieces together. Sid only seems this way to the audience and the toys—who are aware that he is doing this to sentient beings—but as far as he and any human in the movie is concerned, he just has a creepy hobby. He does wreck his sister's toys and delights in her horror at the monstrosities he creates, but bullying your sibling isn't exactly "evil".
* Gnorga, the Queen of Trolls in ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'', who likes to watch babies cry just for fun and goes so far as to sing [[VillainSong a song about]] this being her motivation.
* The Coachman from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', who actually kidnaps naughty young boys, brings them all to Pleasure Island, turns them all into donkeys, and locks them all up in crates headed either for the salt mines or the circus just for the fun of it! And to make matters worse, he's actually a KarmaHoudini![[note]]Though not in the LicensedGame[[/note]]

* ''Franchise/FateSeries'':
** ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has Kirei Kotomine, playing this trope straight in the "Fate" route but [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructing]] it in the "Heaven's Feel" route. He ultimately aims to [[spoiler: empty the contents of the Holy Grail, an ArtifactOfDoom containing a tangible form of all of man's evil upon the world]]. This would have unleashed horrific amounts of death and destruction upon humanity. When the AllLovingHero confronts him about his motives, this is Kotomines's summed up answer: "Just as some people find music or art entertaining, [[{{Sadist}} I can only find amusement in watching other people suffer]]". In "Heaven's Feel", Kirei's backstory shows that [[spoiler: he is perfectly capable of understanding the nuances of right and wrong and has, in fact, on several occasions tried to live a good life (becoming a priest, specializing in healing, trying to have a family)]]. However, time and time again he was unable to get any pleasure from life. This is ultimately subverted, seeing he's [[spoiler: pissed for having been born evil while being fully aware of how deviant he is]]. Turning this something closer to a RageAgainstTheHeavens. ''LightNovel/FateZero'' explores Kotomine's slow realization that EvilFeelsGood, aided by [[spoiler: Gilgamesh]].
** Zouken Matou is a straight example in ''Fate[=/=]Zero'' and even Kotomine is disgusted by him. Zouken only allowed his prodigal son (who despises him) to participate in the Fourth Holy Grail War in the place of Zouken's little granddaughter not because sending the girl would have been cruel beyond belief, but because [[AbusiveParents he enjoys making his son suffer more than anything]].
* Seems to be almost the entire motivation for the witches in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', [[spoiler:especially the Voyager witch Bernkastel]]. [[WhoWantsToLiveForever But when you live for a thousand years, your sources of entertainment eventually start to run out.]]

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'''s BigBad Monokuma (who is actually [[spoiler:[[StrawNihilist Junko Enoshima]]]]) is an intentional creation of this kind of character. Head scenario writer Kazutaka Kodaka [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2015-07-22/interview-danganronpa-creator-kazutaka-kodaka/.90760 feels that giving a villain]] a FreudianExcuse is "cheating," and so crafted the villain to be defined by a complete lack of purpose in creating the DeadlyGame that the series is based around. [[spoiler: Junko loves InsaneTrollLogic because she can't analyze it, and so her entire philosophy beyond 'more despair=good' is an intentionally contradictory mess.]]

* Jeff of ''Webcomic/RPGWorld'', Eikre's [[spoiler: former best friend]], essentially [[spoiler: killed Eikre's mother, neighbor, and burned down part his village simply to show everyone what true evil was and because he enjoyed it. By the end of the comic, he had ascended to [[TheDragon Dragon]] status.]]
* One Stolen Pixels strip has [[JerkAss Fran]][[VideoGame/Left4Dead cis]] trick Bill into thinking a pushbroom is the best weapon.
* [[CountryMatters Cuntons]] of ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'' hates wolves and likes to kill them because...who knows? She's an evil StrawMan and she does it just for shits and giggles apparently. Even her bio says no one knows why she's like this.
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** The lich Xykon, the BigBad, is simply out to be as evil as possible, and often goes out of his way to commit atrocities just 'cause it's fun. In fact, he's so direct about it he believes trying to have justifications and causes for one's evil is simple cowardice. The result is the bizarre twist of [[strike:AffablyEvil]] FauxAffablyEvil.
--> '''Xykon:''' ...sure, I could've just blasted you all from above with fire and lightning and such... But I've always felt that when it's really important, it's worth to go that extra mile. Don't you agree?
-->
** General Tarquin is a flamboyant case. He ''thinks'' he's AboveGoodAndEvil, but he keeps doing things in the most cruel and unusual (and often ObviouslyEvil) way possible. Often it's pragmatic, ruthless evil, but sometimes he's just in it for the drama. Basically, evil isn't good; it's dramatic awesome.
--> "But you can't make an omelette without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others."
** While Tarquin has at least the dubious benefit of seeking power and eternal fame, his son Nale seems to perform most of his monstrosities just because he's Lawful Evil. He even falls victim to the 'evil opposites' schema just because he thinks it's a thing he should ''do.'' This ultimately turns on him in the end, when he's just too unhinged for Tarquin to work with.
* Bun-bun of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' fame is sometimes this. A lot of the time, he's after something (money, strippers, alfalfa hay), but sometimes, he just wants a bit of a laugh. A sadistic one. Ka-CLICK.
** One of the clearest examples was in "The Island of Dr. Steve" right after he took control of Oasis, a mysterious brainwashed superhuman assassin, to use her for his own ends. By doing so, he coincidentally saved Torg from having his neck snapped by her... so he immediately gave her the order to do it anyway, just because. He would have got other main characters killed for fun more than once if they didn't have PlotArmor.
** In "Oceans Unmoving", he told another character: "I thought there was something about you that I liked. Now that I have the opportunity to [[BreakThemByTalking crush your soul]], I like you even more."
* In the second ''TabletopGame/{{Dungeons and D|ragons}}iscourse'', Dmitri's character in ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'' excuses stopping to eat the [[OurSoulsAreDifferent philosophical]] [[TheHeartless zombies]] with "[[StupidEvil Evil for Evil's sake]]." [[spoiler:Then he kills off the entire party with the [[ExclusiveEnemyEquipment Dungeon Boss]]'s [[{{BFS}} mega-weapon]].]] Again, For The Evulz. His character type, Dark Kantian, is based on this trope. His Categorical Imperative is that he must do evil regardless of its utility. (And all the Platonists have headaches now. Whee....)
* Richard from ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' is a delightfully evil character who will happily slaughter entire villages out of sheer boredom. He takes great joy in seeing the hero of the comic, Cale, slowly become less innocent, more violent, and more cynical. His motivations are largely unknown for most of the story [[spoiler:until it's revealed that his immortality is literally powered by destruction]], but after each of the other characters had explained their reasons behind the main quest, he simply states "'''I like to kill things.''' How do you not get that by now?"

'''Black Mage:''' Because it seemed excessively cruel! [''winks'']
* Cyndi of ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'' toys with others' lust for her, and manipulates people into abandoning their friends or into [[MoralEventHorizon eating disorders and suicide attempts]], simply because it amuses her: "I do like to play." Best summed up by Penny:
--> '''Penny''': She never tries to win. She just tries to make everyone '''else lose'''.
* ''Webcomic/{{Juathuur}}'' averts this trope, and explicitly evokes it [[http://oneway.juathuur.com/1/?strip_id=254 here]]. The comic, as a whole, makes a point that no one is evil 'just because', everyone has his reasons.

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', most of the old Heterodyne family's sadistic experiments were ForScience, but they left behind a [[AIIsACrapshoot Castle]] whose motivation for messing with prisoners is, aside from protecting heirs of the Heterodyne family, For The Evulz.

* The black hat guy in ''WebComic/{{xkcd}}'' enjoys [[http://xkcd.com/954/ inventive ways of being cruel]], and only sometimes as payback for someone being stupid.

* This seems to apply to bad guys in general in ''Webcomic/AxeCop''. Being a bad guy is almost like a medical condition, except that it makes you a free target for good guys to kill rather than excusing your actions. It can even be induced or cured; in "The Dogs", one bad guy who was given a good potion and turned into a good guy noticed that he "no longer wanted to hurt people." Before that he had just wanted to destroy the world for no particular reason.
* Entire basis of ''Webcomic/EvilFTW'', but not NEARLY so extreme.
* Dionne's impetus to do pretty much anything in ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}''. [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2010/01/26 Example.]] Not that the Gemstone Estates kids usually cite any ''other'' reason..
* Starfish in ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' is a fairly practical version. He does a lot of bad things for practical reasons, but when he does things purely for cruelty it's something he thinks won't come back to bite him. [[spoiler: He beats his already dying henchman to death rather than just letting him bleed out. After all, either way he's dead, but it's more fun. And he tries to make Matty watch his father die because he already intends to dispose of him too.]]
* Milkman Dan in ''Webcomic/RedMeat''. Anything is fair game to him. "I hate you Milkman Dan" indeed.

* In ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'', [[BlobMonster Master Belch]] of ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' is apparently given to doing disgusting things for their own sake. [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/292-seemasterbelch/ His response to a cat stuck in a tree]] is to lay a BearTrap.
-->"That is incorrect, Master Belch."

--> "I'm an evil deontologist. For example, I like finding situations in which I could save a life by telling a consequence-free lie, then refusing to do it on [[PrinciplesZealot principle]]."

* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'':
** WordOfGod states Blood Boy does have a motive, but it A) Doesn't make sense, and B) If it did, boils more or less down to this anyway.
** There's also the AlternativeCharacterInterpretation some handlers have that this is essentially why [[BigBad Danya]] is abducting American students and making them kill each other.
** Maxwell Lombardi is one of the few killers in v4 who genuinely enjoys killing, and often goes out of his way to kill people. He's... quite good at it.
* Don Sebastiano of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse. His idea of 'romance' is seducing a classmate, having sex with her until she's in love, then humiliating her in front of the whole school. And that's the least damaging side of him.
* Though a fair chunk of Literature/{{Worm}}'s truly despicable villains have developed motives or at least evidence of one being there, several of the worst are just in it for kicks. Jack Slash, the leader of the Slaughterhouse Nine, is the standout example. Upon finding out that [[spoiler:he will cause the end of the world]], he decides that sounds like a great idea.
* [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Dr. Horrible's]] sole motivation for trying to take over the world is so that he can qualify as a supervillain and get into the Evil League of Evil. Dr. Horrible is also a subversion; it's made a clear on a couple of occasions that he feels the world is corrupted, and the only way to "save" it [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans is to take control himself]]; most obviously in his opening spiel and during the song "My Eyes". Indeed, when it comes time to kill the "hero" of the piece, [[spoiler:he can't bring himself to do it until he's lost his chance.]]
* Dr. Heiter in ''WebVideo/HumanCentipedeTheMusical'', even more so than his film counterpart.
* Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses did a sketch about the Joker from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' trying to come up with an origin story. After several rather ridiculous attempts, he decides to forsake the attempt altogether.
-->'''Joker''': "Argh, that will never work! You know what? I'll just say I'm an asshole!"
* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''

* Veronica Carter of ''Roleplay/ShadowhunterPeril'', through a technicality, falls under this category. When she originally existed in Fan Fiction, Veronica was a psychotic vampire who had bullied her three siblings into working for her in her quest for total destruction of everything, murdered her rebellious little brother's best and only friend, killed and drained blood from the bodies of humans well after she was full satisfying her thirst, and went on a celebratory trek across of vandalism across the country after she killed her own army and attacked the opposing one (her idea of vandalism is burning everything she sees). Her reasoning for all this is because she "was just bored".
** Even in ''Shadowhunter Peril'', she will occasionally do something that could be slightly considered evil towards the Resistance, such as setting demonic, tentacled, man-eating pies on her friends (she commands them to eat Nicholas and Umbra); and [[MadBomber firing missiles at Oblivion.]] When asked why she does this, she just giggles. It goes without saying that Veronica is [[AxCrazy definitely insane.]]
* In ''WebVideo/TheCartoonMan'', Simon starts out with a plan to exploit transformative black ink for his own profit. After he consumes some of the ink himself, however, he becomes a DastardlyWhiplash type cartoon villain with a plan to take over the world. His reason: "Why not?"
* Smiffy is the TokenEvilTeammate of LetsPlay/HatFilms, and tends to commit evil actions either out of spite or to amuse himself, such as killing their tamed animals, setting things on fire and weaponising what the team create (up to and including building nuclear weapons).

* LetsPlay/SimonLane's more bizarre and irritating troll moves can largely be put down to this, such as frequently committing RDM (killing without evidence or good enough reason) in ''VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown'' or shooting LetsPlay/LewisBrindley in the head just because he can.
* This is nothing short of the motto for ''Podcast/KakosIndustries'' as commiting Evil acts is no different than everyday life. To "Do Evil Better" is simply a way of living with no real rhyme or reason necessary.

* The Ninja from ''WebVideo/AskANinja''. 99% of the time, he doesn't actually have anything against the people he kills. He just kills them because they're there.

->"Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."

->''"There was this boy I sent to the electric chair at Huntsville here awhile back, my arrest and my testimony. He killed a 14 year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been plannin' to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out, he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell, be there in about fifteen minutes. I don't know what to make of that."''
-->-- '''Sheriff Ed Tom Bell''', ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen''

* Invoked in the title track to ''Nebraska'' by Music/BruceSpringsteen

* Invoked in the title track to Music/{{BruceSpringsteen}}'s ''Nebraska''

->''" There was this boy I sent to the electric chair at Huntsville here awhile back, my arrest and my testimony. He killed a 14 year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been plannin' to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out, he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell, be there in about fifteen minutes. I don't know what to make of that."''

-->''They wanted to know why I did what I did

->''"Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."''
-->-- '''Alfred''', ''Film/TheDarkKnight''

* [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP-1481]] ''used'' to be a BenevolentGenie who would grant an unlimited number of wishes to his master, but now he is a hopelessly inept, [[TheStoner perpetually stoned]] loser who is much too out of it to grant wishes, usually just conjuring up food for himself to satisfy his munchies instead. At one point, during some drug-addled incoherent rambling, he reveals that a previous master of his used their first wish to put him in this state, their second wish to make the first wish irreversible, and then walked away without another word. Just to be a dick.

The name of the trope comes from a portmanteau of "evil" and the Internet phrase "for the lulz."

What keeps a villain going in the name of The Evulz (and The Evulz alone) is not [[VillainousValour strength of character]], however, but rather a fundamental ''lack'' of personality. The quintessential For the Evulz villain's [[VillainousValour suicidal bravery]] actually stems from their non-existent sense of self (beyond 'I love doing and being evil for no reason') and, by extension, lack of a self-preservation instinct. They probably don't actively [[DeathSeeker want to die]] or be tortured, but they really don't (and psychologically can't) care about it either.

This may be because EvilFeelsGood while GoodIsBoring [[GoodIsDumb and dumb]], but The Evulz is different from ItAmusedMe in that the Evulz-seeker need not find any pleasure in their evil acts -- in some cases, [[BeingEvilSucks they themselves (also) suffer]] as a consequence of the [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans crapsack world they inflict upon themselves and others]]. In other words, while many villains who follow this trope enjoy what they're doing, their actions also possess an underlying sense of indifference. Note that [[ItAmusedMe self-centered and immoral types merely seeking amusement]] wouldn't bother doing something bad [[PragmaticVillainy if it harmed them too]].

** When contemplating what to do after he becomes immortal, Freeza decides that for the first century or so he'll take it easy on his subjects, [[YankTheDogsChain lull them into a false sense of security]], before becoming a full on bloody tyrant for another few centuries. After that, he'll disappear for a millennium or so, until they come to believe the old stories were false and Freeza never actually existed... at which point he'll return and KillEmAll.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': [[spoiler:Felix]] is a sadistic sociopath who gets his kicks from killing and manipulating people. While he admits that the money is good and likes it a lot, he makes it perfectly clear that the feeling of overpowering others and besting them is better than anything money can buy.

* Wrestling/SethRollins once took Wrestling/{{Edge}} hostage and threatened to NeckSnap him. After Wrestling/JohnCena gave in to all his demands, Seth decided to stomp on Edge's neck anyway. Fortunately, Cena was fast enough to stop him.

*** It also should be noted that any association with Chaos tend to corrupt a person. More often than not it reaches ForTheEvulz status even if his original intentions were [[WellIntentionedExtremist noble and pure]].

** From ''Justice for All'' we've got [[spoiler:Matt Engarde]]. Sure, [[spoiler:Engarde]] does have a motive for [[spoiler:paying an assassin to kill Juan Corrida (to keep Juan from exposing a dirty secret that would ruin his reputation)]], but pulls a ForTheEvulz when [[spoiler:he asks Phoenix to feed his cat]]. Why? Because [[spoiler:he's plotted to abduct Maya Fey and is holding her hostage in his wine cellar, and the assassin he paid is there guarding Maya and posing as Matt's butler. He's sending Phoenix to his house essentially just to enjoy the fact that Phoenix can't solve his case or escape his blackmail plot even when the killer and Maya are literally right in front of him]].

* Sid from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' spends most of his free time thinking up ways of torturing toys for a quick laugh, including, but not limited to, tearing them apart and switching their pieces together. Sid only seems this way to the audience and the toys—who are aware that he is doing this to sentient beings—but as far as he and any human in the movie is concerned, he just has a creepy hobby. He does wreck his sister's toys and delights in her horror at the monstrosities he creates, but bullying your sibling isn't exactly "evil".

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'''s BigBad Monokuma (who is actually [[spoiler:[[StrawNihilist Junko Enoshima]]]]) is an intentional creation of this kind of character. Head scenario writer Kazutaka Kodaka [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2015-07-22/interview-danganronpa-creator-kazutaka-kodaka/.90760 feels that giving a villain]] a FreudianExcuse is "cheating," and so crafted the villain to be defined by a complete lack of purpose in creating the DeadlyGame that the series is based around.

* ''Fanfic/CodePrime''
** One of the biggest differences between Britannia and the Decepticons is that the Decepticons don’t pretend to be righteous, and revel in the evil that they commit, whereas the Britannians have at least something resembling a code of honor, and do genuinely care for their people, while the Decepticons will throw away [[WeHaveReserves as many of their numbers as it takes]] to accomplish their goals.
** Airachnid is the most vile of all of the Decepticons. While most of the other Cons follow Megatron because they believe in his cause, Airachnid only joined the Cons because it allowed her to indulge in her [[{{Sadist}} sadism]].
** While Megatron himself is not above committing evil for the sake of it, he only does it if it’ll benefit him, and will not indulge in committing evil if it doesn’t bring him closer to his goals.
** Luciano Bradley only joined the Britannian military because it would allow him to kill other people without getting punished. He’s also the only Britannian who has no illusions to the evil that Britannia commits, and absolutely relishes in it.

* ''ComicBook/AWalkThroughHell'': [[spoiler: While Carnahan does have an actual purpose and plan as the Anti-Christ, most of how he actually goes about doing this is purely this, as well as what he decided to do to Shaw and the others purely out of spite for catching him the first time, even though it was all part of the plan to begin with.]]

* ''ComicBook/AvengersBackToBasics'': When Kamala tearfully asks Kang why he manipulated events to [[spoiler:kill her mother's past self and thus doom Kamala to nonexistence]], the latter callously replies that he did it simply because he felt like it. However, this is later subverted with the reveal that [[spoiler:Kamala's future self will go on to become one of Kang's most formidable foes, and that Kang's actual motive had been to try to remove her from history to prevent this]].
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': Nearly all depictions of the Joker depict his as being motivated by either sadism or a deliberate drive towards evil.
** ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'': In one issue, [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Harvey Dent]] has reformed and is starting a romance with his lawyer Grace Lamont. Joker hints to Harvey that Lamont is dating Harvey's friend Bruce Wayne, and is just seeing Harvey out of pity. Then he gets his assistant Harley Quinn to leak to a newspaper that Lamont is planning to marry Bruce and delivers the newspaper to Harvey. One breakdown, jailbreak, attempted murder and broken heart later, Batman asks the Joker why he caused such a horrible disaster. His response?
--->'''Joker:''' ''[[ButForMeItWasTuesday Because it was]] [[{{Pun}} Tuesday]]. ([[PutTheLaughterInSlaughter maniacal laughter]]) ''
** Even when he is out for money, he only really wants it to fund his sadistic plans. One of the first things he does in Brian Azzarello's ''ComicBook/{{Joker}}'' is to rob a bank. While he does get a decent of amount of cash, he considers the robbery itself to be ho-hum at best, due to a lack of carnage.
** ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'': In an alternate version of the DCU, the Joker's main reason to nuke Metropolis, link the trigger to Superman's wife Lois, and trick the Man of Steel into killing him was that since he was getting tired of losing to Batman, he decided to go on "easy mode" by preying on an even more vulnerable target. Joker even thinks it was as good as "beating a puppy to death with a kitten". [[TheBadGuyWins It's so effective]] that the Clown Prince of Crime managed to psychologically break Superman after giving him a [[BreakingSpeech nasty lecture]]. To him, [[StrawNihilist it doesn't matter at all if he was killed as a consequence]], as the fact that he is laughing maniacally as Superman kills him says it all. On top of that, Joker's death becomes the catalyst for the ''Injustice''-verse becoming a CrapsackWorld.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Some other members of the RoguesGallery have played this card:
** Victor Zsasz, a foe who, even more than the Joker, just likes to kill people. That's it. Unlike the Joker he does not have schemes, plans or esoteric motivations, he just likes to kill. When Black Mask, the criminal mastermind who managed to take control of ''all'' crime in Gotham City after the ''War Games'' crossover, tells him he has potential for greater evil as a part of Mask's criminal empire, he asks Zsasz what he would like to do. Zsasz's reply is simple: "I like to hurt people."
** Some versions of The Riddler. Sometimes he steals purely for the financial gain and only leaves riddles because of a psychological compulsion that he cannot defeat. However, in other stories he just wants to see if he can leave a clue and still get away with his crimes.
** The Scarecrow. While he claims he's exposing people to his fear gas for scientific interests, it's pretty generously implied that [[MadScientist he just likes watching his concoction's effects.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'': One of the trope that introduced the Devil (known here as The First of the Fallen) perfectly in the celebrated ''Dangerous Habits'' storyline. Being the sole personification of evil himself, John is surprised to discover the First of the Fallen and his friend Brendan had made a deal to give the latter the biggest wine collection, seeing that Brendan was just a simple pathetic drunkard. The First of course, responds by saying he finds Brendan amusing, and wanted to see him fail as he try to cheat the Devil. This of course, triggers John to try and save his friend. The rest was history.
* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s villain Fatalist started a twisted, sick game of emotional manipulation in ''ComicBook/ManyHappyReturns'' that messed with God's Plan and could have destroyed the whole multiverse… just because he could.
* Averted in ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan''. Franchise/{{Superman}} accuses ComicBook/LexLuthor from devastating half a city for the sake of a simple theft. Lex replies that his crimes are always methodical and with purpose.
%% * In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', this is [[spoiler: Fiona Fox]]'s reasoning for [[spoiler: turning traitor and joining Scourge, Sonic's anti-universe counterpart.]]
* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
** ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Dredd's enemies the Angel Gang, are described as "never committing a murder when a vile atrocity would do."
** ''ComicBook/{{Aquila}}'': Most of what Nero does is strictly for his own amusement. He even refers to torturing Christians with knives as 'playing' to Locusta.
** Blackblood from ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'' ran a weapon shop where you didn't pay with money or goods, but with videotapes of the weapons being used on orphanages and such.
* A ''Franchise/StarWars'' Boba Fett comic featured a Mengele-analogue who has given up any pretense of being scientific. He openly admits that he's butchering entire alien races because it's fun.

* In ''Thanos Annual'' #1, the ComicBook/GhostRider talks about various evil acts committed by ComicBook/{{Thanos}} for no reason in particular. He stalked a man for his entire life and inflicted various misfortunes on him every year on his birthday (including murdering his father, breaking him up with his girlfriend, burning down his grad school, etc.), stopped [[ButterflyEffect a chain of events that would have led to a woman curing all diseases and ending hunger]], and murdered an alien species' "god" and destroyed their afterlife because he "was curious".
* ComicBook/{{Carnage}}, of ''Franchise/SpiderMan''. Blood. Just 'cause he can. It isn't the symbiote's influence on Cletus either. He was a [[SerialKiller murdering]] [[AxCrazy psychopath]] before he ever bonded with the Carnage symbiote.
* ComicBook/NormanOsborn. Green Goblin's motivation in ''all'' of the situations is just for evil fun. That's just his Goblin persona. [[SubvertedTrope Osborn himself is usually out to extend his power and influence.]] Sometimes the Goblin's lulz [[DeconstructedTrope actually bite him in the ass.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'''s Bullseye. It's the reason why ComicBook/TheKingpin and other crime lords hire him. The cops have a hard time figuring out when he kills because he was hired to and when he kills because he felt like it. He even claimed he probably has more money than ''Norman Osborn'' yet doesn't feel the need to spend it and continues killing "because it's fun". Sometimes, he'll even kill his client's own mooks just to entertain himself when he's bored, as lampshaded in [[Film/{{Daredevil}} the film version]] when the Kingpin finds Bullseye sitting in his office with the still warm corpse of his security guard.
-->'''Kingpin''' ''(motioning at the body)'': Was that really necessary?
-->'''Bullseye''': Necessary? No, it was fun.
* Whenever ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} isn't [[PsychoForHire carrying out a job]], he's either tormenting ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} or slaughtering random innocents. Sometimes he does those things anyways even when he is on a job.
** One comic had Wolverine running into a group who videotapes themselves hunting and murdering innocent mutants; when confronted, they readily admit that they're just doing it for kicks and that they don't have a specific agenda in targeting mutants; as Logan put it, "It could have been anyone -- blacks, or gays, or Jews".
* This was the only visible motivation of Antonio Prohías' ''[[ElHombreSinestro Sinister Man]]'' and Sinister Woman.
* In the original ''ComicBook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'' comics, this trope was explicitly stated to be the motivation behind Baxter Stockman's plan to blackmail the city with his mousers. He was using the Mousers to rob banks as well. When April O' Neil tries to explain that [[CutLexLuthorACheck he could have made millions of dollars legally]], Baxter says he just did it because "it was FUN!"
* When The Hobgoblin was asked why he framed Flash Thompson for his crimes, he answered "Why not?" That being said, this in fact turns out to be a subversion, since there was a reason the Hobgoblin decided to frame ''him''. At the time of Tom [=DeFalco=]'s story where The Hobgoblin frames Flash, Ned Leeds (whom [=DeFalco=] was using at his Hobgoblin RedHerring) had discovered Flash had been sleeping with his wife. This would be a "clue" to the readers, as Leeds would be understandably pissed. Years later, Roger Stern wrote a retcon in which the ''true'' Hobgoblin was actually Roderick Kingsley (his original choice when he created the Hobgoblin). Kingsley also had a reason to single out Flash, however; Flash had been on TV calling the Hobgoblin a "creep and a coward", among other things.
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': Doctor Destiny's Diner of Death. A supervillain armed with the King of Dreams's ruby wandered into a diner full of perfectly ordinary people, and spent an issue just ''breaking'' them. When he briefly freed his victims from his control, one of them demanded to know why he was tormenting them this way. His answer? "Because I can."
* ''ComicBook/SupremePower'' villain Redstone's reasons for killing: "Because I can, because I'm good at it, and because I like it." He was once a "normal" serial killer, motivated by misogyny and feelings of powerlessness... But once he got his powers, he became inhumanly vicious and ruthless.
* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'': Willy Pete. What else is there to say about a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] who doesn't even need to eat at all, but just happens to like the taste? (Plenty, actually, but the {{squick}} doesn't need to be mentioned here.)
* Sid Fernwilter of ''ComicStrip/PiranhaClub'' (formerly known as ''Ernie''), who is vicious just because he can. Purely on principle, he refuses to spend money on anything useful or necessary. He would rather sit in the darkness and freeze than to pay the electricity bill - [[StupidEvil And he has]].
* Mr. Mxyzptlk in ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'' He explained that since [[WhoWantsToLiveForever immortality is boring]], he tries out different things to break the monotony. He spent 2,000 years not moving at all, another 2,000 years being purely good, and then the last 2,000 years being a mischievous prankster. Now he's going to be evil. Things gets ugly, ''fast''.
* The "Reaver-Cleaver" killer from ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' confesses to one of the protagonists that he only does what he does because it's fun; amused at having gotten away clean with killing a man in a drunken hit-and-run, he just kept on killing to see how far he could push his luck.
* Cletus from ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'':
-->'''President:''' I didn't get involved in this because I'm some cackling super-villain who gets off on hurting people or anything.\\
'''Cletus:''' Hell, ''I'' did.
** Kaizen Gamorra from the very first Creator/WarrenEllis arc. When asked why he orders his armies to invade major cities, he answers that Gamorra-nation is built on terrorism, because ''Terror is its own reward''. In addition, just before his KarmicDeath thanks to Midnighter, he whines: ''I just wanted to have some fun.''
* Prometheus has this exchange with [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] during "World War III", the last arc of Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/JLA1997''.
-->'''Lex Luthor''': [[CutLexLuthorACheck You could make yourself very wealthy patenting some of this equipment, Prometheus]].\\
'''Prometheus:''' Money isn't what motivates me. If I want something, I just take it. I'm in this for the buzz.
* In the third ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2009}}'' series, the final arc dealt with the Reapers, a semi-cult of college students with advanced combat armor who had been running around Gotham for a few weeks. In their final battle, after Batgirl had foiled their individual schemes for money and power, Batgirl asked them why they were doing any of this in the first place. The response was the simple "because we ''can''."
* Gary "[[StepfordSmiler The Smiler]]" Callahan, the PresidentEvil of ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}''. He flatly tells protagonist Spider Jerusalem that he ran for President simply because he likes to hurt people and wants to do it on as grand a scale as possible. By the time he's done, Spider is almost nostalgic for Callahan's predecessor, a thinly-veiled UsefulNotes/RichardNixon {{Expy}} dubbed "The Beast."
* The ComicBook/RedSkull. As a teenager, he tried to woo a Jewish girl and murdered her after she rejected his creepy advances. He realized that he enjoyed it more than anything else. Everything he's done since are attempts to relive that moment of dark bliss. Conquering the world with the Cosmic Cube, abusing his lovers and his daughter, eating an apple in front of a starving child… as long as he's hurting or killing someone, he's happy.
* Though they're not as frequent or as memorable as his Gotham counterpart, ComicBook/LexLuthor has his moments. He once killed a person he was sparring against and framed a janitor for it, and another time he cured his invalid sister's disease, and then undid it. His reasons for both: simply to prove he could. And if there's one thing that can be said of Lex, it's that, despite generally preferring to profit in some way off of his villainy, if he's in a really bad mood (or a really good one) he doesn't need much.
* ''ComicBook/WynonnaEarp'': Boone Helm admits that he commits his crimes (which usually involve a massive body count) for no reason other than to spread chaos.
* Dev-Em the Daxamite creates all sorts of chaos and mayhem on the Earth's moon for his own sick pleasure in the 30th century during the ''ComicBook/TimeAndTimeAgain'' story arc in the Franchise/{{Superman}} comic book titles in 1991, culminating in activating bombs that would destroy the moon. Superman and the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes arrive on the scene to stop Dev-Em, but although they manage to do so, they only postpone the moon's destruction until the Linear Man shows up to resume the countdown to send Superman back home to his own time.
* Loki in ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'':

* ''Folsom Prison Blues'' by Music/JohnnyCash:
-->"But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die."

-->And it's so easy when you're evil
-->This is the life, you see
-->The Devil tips his hat to me
-->I do it all because I'm evil
-->And I do it all for free
-->Your tears are all the pay I'll ever need
* Music/MyChemicalRomance's "I Never Told You What I Do For A Living"
-->It ain't the money
-->And it sure as hell ain't just for the fame
-->It's for the bodies I claim
-->And those only go so far
* "Only a Lad" by Music/OingoBoingo discusses Johnny, who appears to have been born this way, despite society's attempts to suggest otherwise (Primarily as an excuse not to deal with it.)
-->His teachers didn't understand,
-->They kicked him out of school at a tender, early age just because
-->He didn't want to learn things,
-->Had other interests…
-->He liked to burn things!
** Johnny ''does'' have motives occasionally, but they are so absurd that they hardly count. (He once shot a neighbor in the leg ''just so he could steal her radio''.)
* Such Horrible Things by Music/CreatureFeature:
--> I'm not a bad man
--> Even though I do bad things, very bad things, such horrible things
--> But it's not quite what it seems, not quite what I seem
--> Ah hell, I'm exactly what I seem.

--> I need a victim to do things sickening, I just want to make you bleed
--> I'm going to kill you just because I want to
* French by [[Music/{{OFWGKTA}} Tyler, the Creator]]:
--> I'm openin' a church to sell coke and Led Zeppelin
--> And fuck Mary in her ass.. ha-ha.. yo
--> I'm fuckin' Goldilocks up in the forest
--> In the three bear house eatin' their muthafuckin' porridge
--> I tell her it's my house, give her a tour
--> In my basement, and keep that bitch locked up in my storage
--> Rape her and record it, then edit it with more shit
* ''The Bright Young Things'' by Music/MarilynManson is this meets TheHedonist, referencing the titular "Bright Young People" of 1920s London.
--> We set fashion, not follow
--> Spit vitriol, not swallow
--> Good for nothing but being
--> Everything that's bad

-->I keep telling them they're out to get me
-->They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer, why of
-->Course!
-->There is so much more I could have done if they'd let
-->Me!
* "Sinner" by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzNqHgBCItU a) Judas Priest]] doesn't seem to give a motive to the subject of the song beyond enjoyment of his (or her) own sin (evulz), the same can be said of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlTupfMZP1Q b) Drowning Pool]] song of the same name. No particular preference is given to any one [[SevenDeadlySins sin]] in particular over the others.

* Music/BlueOysterCult's version of a song penned by Music/PattiSmith, ''Career of Evil'':
-->And then I'd spend your ransom money, but still I'd keep your sheik;
-->I'd peel the mask you're wearing, and then rob you of your sleep, rob you of your sleep!
-->I choose to steal what you chose to show -
-->And you know, I will not apologize!
-->You're mine for the taking -
-->I'm making a career of evil!
* ''Music/KidsPraise'': Risky Rat's motivations seem to decay into this over time; while he still describes himself as a ConMan in later albums, he seems to want to keep kids from knowing or praising God...simply ''because''.
* "Music/HoldingOutForAHero" by Bonnie Tyler: These {{outlaw}} {{cowboy}}s burn down Bonnie's house and attack her just for fun in the music video.

* Doing this in pro wrestling is generally called garnering "CheapHeat"; being booed by the fans, not for doing something legitimately vile, but for doing something [[EvilIsPetty simply for the sake of being jeered]]. Interrupting someone's well-deserved title match to spoil their opportunity at glory is a truly nefarious act, and being booed for this is well-earned. Reminding the town you're in that their local football team just lost to [some other city] is done For The Evulz. Sometimes, cheap heat really adds to a wrestler's charisma (it's a great way to show how arrogant their character can be), but done sloppily, the facade is easily lost and the obviousness that it's a swing at just being bad for bad's sake is made evident.

A non-comedic character whose personality is ''defined'' by this trope can be a CompleteMonster, the Complete Monster being defined as, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin completely monstrous]] -- needing no justifications for doing evil and having no humanizing or sympathetic elements (e.g., [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intent]] or [[AntiVillain self-doubt]]) whatsoever. Note, however, that the reverse is not true -- the Monster, after all, is a character defined by their boundless heinousness, not by having reasonless evil as their only possible motivation; some may be PragmaticEvil types who want to TakeOverTheWorld. Other villainous personality types associated with For The Evulz include the PsychoForHire (who is very likely to be AxCrazy), the StrawNihilist, TheSociopath, the more extreme and hedonistic kinds of {{sadist}}, and variants of the ChaoticEvil character alignment. A MagificentBastard, in the other hand will always avoid this since they will never commit heinous acts for the sake of, no matter how monstrous they are.

A non-comedic character whose personality is ''defined'' by this trope can be a CompleteMonster, the Complete Monster being defined as, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin completely monstrous]] -- needing no justifications for doing evil and having no humanizing or sympathetic elements (e.g., [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intent]] or [[AntiVillain self-doubt]]) whatsoever. Note, however, that the reverse is not true -- the Monster, after all, is a character defined by their boundless heinousness, not by having reasonless evil as their only possible motivation; some may be PragmaticEvil types who want to TakeOverTheWorld. Other villainous personality types associated with For The Evulz include the PsychoForHire (who is very likely to be AxCrazy), the StrawNihilist, TheSociopath, the more extreme and hedonistic kinds of {{sadist}}, and variants of the ChaoticEvil character alignment.

This may be because EvilFeelsGood while GoodIsBoring [[GoodIsDumb and dumb]], but The Evulz is different from ItAmusedMe in that the Evulz-seeker need not find any pleasure in their evil acts -- in some cases, they themselves (also) suffer as a consequence of the [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans crapsack world they inflict upon themselves and others]]. In other words, while many villains who follow this trope enjoy what they're doing, their actions also possess an underlying sense of indifference. Note that [[ItAmusedMe self-centered and immoral types merely seeking amusement]] wouldn't bother doing something bad [[PragmaticVillainy if it harmed them too]].

* In ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'', [[BlobMonster Master Belch]] of ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' is apparently given to doing disgusting things for their own sake. [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/292-seemasterbelch/ His response to a cat stuck in a tree]] is to lay a BearTrap.

-'''Prometheus:''' Money isn't what motivates me. If I want something, I just take it. I'm in this for the buzz.