History Main / TokenEvilTeammate

If they do betray their teammates, expect TheCaptain to tighten the MoralityChain or RestrainingBolt and use various threats like {{Death Glare}}s to bring them back in line. Why don't they kill him or at least kick him out? Because sometimes you just need the firepower, and they can "do more good than harm" (or at least less harm) on the good guys' side than dead or cut loose. Kind of like controlling a brushfire to good ends.

* Major Winchester of ''[[{{MASH}} M* A* S* H]]''. He's not above trying to get something out of his forced residence at the 4077th (especially if it's at the expense of his tentmates), but he does do his best to take care of the patients. Turns into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold later in the series.

* ''StargateUniverse'''s Dr. Rush is the only person smart enough to help out his crewmates most of the time. Which he stranded them on in the first place. He also is arrogant, doesn't care about what happens to anyone else on the ship and by now ''completely insane''.

* Being an [[LampShaded Expy]] of Dr Smith, Brad Spitfire from French-Canadian science-fiction comedy ''[[DansUneGalaxiePresDeChezVous Dans une galaxie près de chez vous]]'' fits this trope completly: cowardly, greedy, power-hungry, Nazi-loving and all-in-all hated by every other members, the only reason hasn't been ThrownOutTheAirLock by now is because he is the only one scientist on board, and his skill are greatly needed.

* [[GenderBlenderName Jayne]] Cobb from ''{{Firefly}}'' fits the bill in an "in it for the money" way. He's crude and obnoxious, he's not trusted by roughly half the crew, he's gotten it in his head to try to take over the ship on at least one occasion, and he's perhaps the staunchest proponent of getting rid of Simon and River.
** The reason he is not trusted by only "roughly half the crew" because the other half (apart than Kaylee, who is everyone's friend on the crew) trusts him to know unpleasant information about wrenches and [[ThrownOutTheAirlock airlocks]].
** To be fair to Jayne, he only really wanted to get rid of River after she slashed him across the chest with a butcher's knife and told him he looked better in red.

** Dr. Hix's presence at all is explained as by having an official department, they have an excuse deal with the competition. With Fireballs.

** Althought he quitted the party after his FaceHeelTurn.

* [[TroubledButCute Duncan]] and [[TheLibby Heather]] on ''TotalDramaIsland'' (the former being more childishly destructive, the latter being more of a ManipulativeBastard). Justin in ''TotalDramaAction'' (as a SmugSnake). Alejandro in ''TotalDramaWorldTour'' as a [[ManipulativeBastard Heather]]-[[SmugSnake Justin]] hybrid.

* [[TroubledButCute Duncan]] and [[TheLibby Heather]] on ''TotalDramaIsland'' (the former being more childishly destructive, the latter being more of a ManipulativeBastard). Justin in ''TotalDramaAction'' (as a SmugSnake).

** And let's not forget the most successful villain-turned-X-Man: Rogue.

** Lelouch could be considered this trope for the [[LaResistance Black Knights]], a rare case where the evil teammate is the LEADER of the group.

* Even though he's technically an AntiHero, {{Deadpool}} sort of ended up as this in ''{{Cable and Deadpool}}'', at least when "good" (usually ''{{X-Men}}''-related) mutants showed up to work with Cable because of his lack of morals and insanity.

* As of the true ending for ''{{BlazBlue}}: Continuum Shift'', the main group of heroes have two of these in the cases of [[spoiler:Jin and Kokonoe. Though to be fair, they're not so much evil as "[[JerkAss total prick]]" and "amoral MadScientist", respectively.]]

* ''[=~8-Bit Theater~=]'': Black Mage still counts as a token evil character, despite the rest of the group being pretty evil already (except Fighter). Stealing everything in sight and killing indiscriminately for experience is still an {{Omnicidal Maniac}} wanting to wipe out all living things.

* ''[=~8-Bit Theater~=]'': Black Mage still counts as a token evil character, despite the rest of the group being pretty evil already (except Fighter). Stealing everything in sight and killing indiscriminately for experience is still a fair distance away from {{OmnicidalManiac wanting to wipe out all living things}}.

* Although nearly every protagonist in ''BlackLagoon'' could be seen as [[AffablyEvil evil]], [[HeroicSociopath Revy]] personifies this trope.

* A lot of the hirable mercs in the JaggedAlliance games are either AxeCrazy, massive {{Jerkass}}es, or both. They'll ignore orders if they're busy trying to kill a baddy, annoy other team members so much that they quit, or (in some instances) murder teammates that they dislike between missions.